Bigbang Monster Teaser Photos

Big bang's teaser photos for Monster MY, which will be released on June 03, 2012

Daseung

Woah, topless again Dae?! You will be the death of me. Lmao.

Last, but definitely NOT the least.

Seungri

It would've been better if Panda was focused. I can't even see his face. Gaaah!

Taeyang

I was looking for any sign of "fire" or "sunlight" which I think is the theme of the teaser photos, then I realized, that Taeyang...literally means Sol/Solar=Sun. (Sana. nakatopless na lang din sya. Bonus)

TOP (my love)

My first reaction when I saw this: YG, you trolling me or what?! What the heck. His face isn't focused, and he isn't even facing the camera. For goodness sake. Trolol. Papa YG really knows how to tease eh?

Goth-ish and Vampire-ish for Tabi?! 

G Dragon

Can anything get any fiercer than this?! Sorry Tabi, but this IS my favorite among the five. Phew. Credits ti GD's hair. LOLs.

Originally posted at YG LIFE

Romeo and Juliet - William Shakespeare (The Quote Book 5)

 After a strong urge to just dump this book and forget that I ever started reading it...I've finally finished it! I was battling with myself  because half of me wants to stop punishing myself by reading it since I don't even understand some of the words, and the other half of me which screams, "that for the LOVE of Shakespeare, please finish the book!" I guess the good angel won, so here I am...saying what I think about Romeo and Juliet, one of the greatest love stories of all time.

To be honest, I was disappointed. Scratch that. VERY disappointed. And at the same time, I was IMPRESSED. Okay, go figure that one. 

Disappointed, because of the plot. Seriously, at 14 years old (if I understood the story right, please, correct me if I'm wrong) Juliet fell madly IN LOVE with Romeo?! (PBB Teens lang ang peg). I mean, Hello?! In our generation, that is called PUPPY LOVE. And here comes Romeo, which fell in love the first time he saw Juliet...considering the fact that during that time..he was currently "in love" with Rosaline. What the heck! Love at first sight?! Even if you felt strongly attached to someone. No. Not plausible for me. Or maybe. I'm just cynical when it comes to these things. Since I have this belief, that teenagers don't fall in love just like that. For me, romantic love develops in a span of years and not in the mere three seconds that you held your eyes together for the first time. Tsk. But, enough of that. Who am I to judge Romeo and Juliet if they really fell in love that fast?! Duh! It's just a story. A fiction. (Affected ako. Bakit?LOL)

IMPRESSED. Yes! Very much. As I've told you earlier, I don't understand half of what the book is saying. It's hard to explain, but even if I don't understand it, I feel what it supposed to mean. I know. It's weird that instead of understanding it, I'm feeling it. But maybe, that made Shakespeare a great writer. 

Quotes (yeah, I found some)

"Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, Too rude, too boist'rous, and it pricks like thorn"

"True, I talk of dreams; Which are the children of an idle brain, Begot of nothing but vain fantasy; Which is as thin of substance as the air, And more inconstant than the wind, who wooes..."

"...Come, gentle night; come, loving, black-brow'd night; Give me my Romeo; and, when he shall die, Take him and cut him out in little stars, And he will make the face of heaven so fine. That all the world will be in love with night, And pay no worship to the garish sun..."

Photo credits: Goodreads

Persuasion - Jane Austen (The Quote Book 4)

After reading Wuthering Heights and got a little bit disappointed, I decided to stick with Austen (for now) since I liked Pride and Prejudice. I chose Persuasion because I got curious after reading its plot summary on Goodreads. I wouldn't write a review for this. Just want to share some "passages" from the book.

"No, it was not regret which made Anne's heart beat in spite of herself, and brought the colour into her cheeks when she thought of Captain Wentworth unshackled and free. She had some feelings which she was ashamed to investigate. They were too much like joy, senseless joy!"

"For the first time, since their renewed acquaintance, she felt that she was betraying the least sensibility of the two. She had the advantage of him in the preparation of the last few moments. All the overpowering, blinding, bewildering, first effects of strong surprise were over with her. Still, however, she had enough to feel! It was agitation, pain, pleasure, a something between delight and misery."

"..Yes, I do. Your countenance perfectly informs me that you were in company last night with the person whom you think the most agreeable in the world, the person who interests you at this present time more than all the rest of the world put together."

"I can listen no longer on silence. I must speak to you by such means as are within my reach. You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone for ever. I offer myself to you again with a heart even more your own than when you broke it, eight years and a half ago. Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, than his love has an earlier death. I have loved none but you.  Unjust I may have been, weak and resentful I have been, but never inconstant.....For you alone, I think and plan. Have you not seen this? Can you fail to have understood my wishes?...."

"I was six weeks with Edward, (said he,) and saw him happy. I could have no other pleasure. I deserved none. He enquired after you very particularly; asked even if you were personally altered, little suspecting that to my eye you could never alter"

Photo credits: Goodreads

30 Days Book Challenge - Day 10

Day 10 - A book that you haven't read but is on your "will read" list.

Chares Dickens' Great Expectations



Because i'm taking the classics after my YA binge lately, and i heard that this is Dickens' greatest work. La lang. Para FC na mi. LMAO

30 Days Book Challenge - Day 09

Day 09 - A book you've read more than once

A lot, but I guess the most number was:



this was the first Christie I've read...

30 Days Book Challenge - Day 8

Day 08 - Name five absolutely great film adaptations of book.

The Harry Potter Series.

That's SEVEN books and EIGHT movies (Yeah, Alam ko. SOBRA!).

I have seen all the movies except the last one, because I have this crazy notion that if I'd watch it, I'd lost Harry Potter forever. I guess, I want the feeling that there is still something out there that I haven't seen. Something to always look forward too. As to the movies, I think each and everyone of them is GREAT. Considering the fact the you have to create another realm, I think the production staff and the actors did one heck of a good job doing it. 

30 Days Book Challenge - Day 7

Day 07 - A book's that hard to read



I haven't even finished this one. HaHa. I gave up!
The characters were such drama queens and kings.
Beside, I got bored. LMAO.

Photo credits: goodreads.com

Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte

I decided to take on the classics after reading Austen's Pride and Prejudice. I decided on Wuthering Heights after reading its plot summary on Goodreads. Phew, it was a long read. I cannot endure to read the book for a long time since I'm afraid I'd suffer from intellectual indigestion. Maybe the book was too much for my cute little brain. (LOL). Anyways, I hated Catherine Earnshaw...and so Mr. Heathcliff. They were both conceited and selfish. They made hell out of the lives of everyone surrounding them. Another character which I couldn't help but despise was Isabel's (and Heathcliff's) son, Linton. Boy, I never met someone as coward and as selfish as Linton. Good thing there were characters I loved like Catherine Linton (the daughter) and Hareton. I felt really happy that they ended up together. I just felt sorry for Edgar and Isabel Linton for being caught in the middle of Heathcliff and Cathy's emotional dilemmas.

The Quote Book 3

Oooh, and by the way, let me share some of my favorite quotes from the book. (yes, surprisingly I did find some quotes worth posting. HaHa):

"It would degrade me to marry Heathcliff now; so he shall never know how I love him: and that, not because he's handsome Nelly, but because he's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same; and Linton's is as different as a moonbeam from lightning, or frost from fire."

"You teach me now how cruel you've been-cruel and false. Why did you despise me? Why did you betray your own heart, Cathy? I have not one word of comfort. You deserve this. You have killed yourself. Yes, you may kiss me, and cry; and wring out my kisses and tears; they'll blight you--they'll damn you. You loved me--then what right you had to leave me? What right -answer me- for the poor fancy you felt for Linton? Because misery and degradation, and death, and nothing that God or Satan could inflict would have parted us, you, of your own will, did it. I have not broken your heart--you have broken it; and in breaking it, you have broken mine. So much the worse for me that I am strong. Do I want to live? What kind of living will it be when you - Oh, God! would you like to live with your soul in the grave?"

"May she wake in torment...Why, she's a liar to the end! Where is she? Not there - not in heaven- not perished-where? Oh! You said you cared nothing for my sufferings! And I pray one prayer--I repeat it till my tongue stiffens--Catherine Earnshaw, may you not rest as long as I am living; you said I killed you-haunt me, then! The murdered do haunt their murderes, I believe. I know that ghosts have wandered on earth. Be with me always--take any form--drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you! Oh, God! it is unutterable! I cannot live without my life! I cannot leave without my soul!"

*See how emotionally exhausting it is?

photo credits: Goodreads.com

New Background

Thanks Hannah! Gusto ko sana header eh, kaso wala palang image header, kaya ginawa ko na lang BG. Lols. Cuteness. Super random. <3 <3 <3

30 Days Challenge - Day 6

Day 06 - A book that makes you cry

The Notebook - Nicholas Sparks



The first (and probably the last) Nicholas Sparks book I've read. I had a headache after reading this due to crying buckets of tears (I am NOT exaggerating, well, maybe I am, on the bucket part). The story was bittersweet and I think the movie didn't gave justice to the book. The book was pure emotional torture. (LOL)

Photo credits: Goodreads.com

30 Days Book Challenge - Day 5

Day 5 - If you were stranded on a desert island, what five books would you take with you? Include one reason each.

Since I'm supposed to be stranded on a desert island, I would definitely stay away from mystery/suspense/thrillers even though that is my favorite genre. I wouldn't want to scare myself right?

Book 1. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen



For me, this is the greatest love story of all time. Yes, not Romeo and Juliet, not Titanic, but THIS! Simply because, it has a happy ending (I'm a sucker for Happy Endings, most of the time). When I read this book, I never really paid attention to it. I was just reading for the sake of reading. Then come the realization of how great the book is, so I would love to read it over and over again and to pay attention this time.

Book 2. Graffiti Moon - Cath Crowley



I want to go over Leo's poems over and over again.

Book 3. The Night Circus - Erin Morgenstern



I haven't really paid attention to the dates while reading this, so I want to read it again to set my mind on the proper chronological order of the events. Besides, I can't get enough of the scenes involving the two protagonists. There were very few scenes which featured the two of them and I want to savor every moment of that.

Book 4. Paboritong Libro ni Hudas - Bob Ong



I need some humor right?! To keep my sanity. LOL

Book 5. Ready Player One - Ernest Cline



To educate myself in the world of video games.

WHO'S THAT GIRL???

Can't stop watching the video.
My current favorite track + bad-ass dancing.
#YGNewGirlGroup HWAITING!

30 Days Book Challenge - Day 4

Day 04 - Characters you hate and which book they are from.

Two Characters. All female.

First. Isabella Swan from the Twilight Saga.



Second. Catherine Linton from Wuthering Heights.




Both are conceited. LMAO.

Photo credits. Goodreads.com

30 Days Book Challenge - Day 3

Day 03-Your favorite characters and which books they’re from.

Favorite male fictional character:

Yes darling, it's Sherlock Holmes from the Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
I love him. PERIOD.

Favorite female fictional character:

Hermione Granger from the Harry Potter series.

What's not to love with this girl, eh?

*All photos are not mine. Credit to the owners.  

30 Days Book Challenge - Day 2

Day 02 - Least favorite book


Meaning, it's one of my favorite but it's the least that I like, right?!
Confusing kasi eh. 


Mockingjay (The Hunger Games #3)





Yes. I do love the series. I just hate the ending.
Lots of people will probably disagree with me on this, so I'd state my reasons.

1st. Prim died. What the h*ck! In the first place, the reason why Katniss volunteered herself to be a tribute is to save Prim, right?! So why does Prim have to die in the end?! Ack!

2nd. Katniss killed President Coin...in front of President Snow. That was stupid. Somehow, Katniss showed that President Snow still has this influence over her.

3rd. She was estranged from her Mom and Gale. As far as I can remember, the reason why she (Katniss) joined the Quarter Quell is to protect her family and Gale. So, why did they have to be so far away from each other in the end?! I don't think it is right to blame Gale for what happened with Prim, and wouldn't it be nice if Katniss still has her Mom and that they are trying to patch up their differences?!

4th. Katniss ended up with Peeta. They got married and had kids. After reading the epilogue, I felt that i've read a fairy tale disguised as a bad-ass thriller.

Peace yo!

The Average Adult has only read 6 of the following books...

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien ~ not finished
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare - 
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien ~ started but never finished
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky 
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe 
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell 
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins 
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy. 
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert 
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen 
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth. 
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold 
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville 
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome 
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession - AS Byatt. 
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery 
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare 
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo 


Books in bold: READ!
That's like 10 and a half. LOL
Way to go...


*Had to post this to remind myself what books I need to read. 

30 Days Book Challenge - Day 1

Day 1: Your favorite book.

This is hard. Super hard.
So I'd justify why the heck I've chosen this book to be my favorite.




It is the first novel of an excellent Filipino writer.
The tag-line is perfect.
The book cover, and even the title seems to be especially made for me. (Nyaks!)
And of course, the contents. The stories were full of wit, humor and drama.
I've experienced a roller coaster of emotions while reading this book.

Lots of reason for this book to be my all-time favorite, but the simplest is: TAGALOG ang wikang ginamit ng librong ito. xD

30 Days Book Challenge

Yes. My Customized 30 Days Challenge. Lmao.

Day 01-Your favorite Book
Day 02-Least Favorite Book
Day 03-Your favorite characters and which books they’re from.
Day 04-Characters you hate and which books they’re from.
Day 05-If you were stranded on a desert island, what five books would you take with you? Include one reason for each.
Day 06- A Book that makes you cry
Day 07- A Book that’s hard to read
Day 08- Name five absolutely great film adaptations of books
Day 09- A Book you’ve read more than once
Day 10-A book you haven’t read but is on your “will read” list.
Day 11- Your favorite authors.
Day 12- A book so emotionally draining you couldn’t complete it or had to set aside for a bit
Day 13- Favorite childhood book
Day 14- Book that should be on hs/college required reading list
Day 15- A book that you think is highly overrated.
Day 16- A book you want to like, but can’t get into for whatever reason. Why can’t you get into it?
Day 17-The nerdiest book you’ve ever read
Day 18- Your favorite genre
Day 19- Best Thriller/Mystery
Day 20-Best Twist
Day 21-Best Contemporary
Day 22-Favorite Series
Day 23- Favorite Romance Novel
Day 24 - Favorite book of your favorite series
Day 25- Favorite title
Day 26-Favorite book of your favorite writer
Day 27- Favorite Book in Young Adult Fiction
Day 28- A Book you wish you never read
Day 29- An Author that you completely avoid/hate wont read
Day 30 - An Author that you will read whatever they put out

Sources: BookLuv, HeckYeahTumblrChallenges, FanPop

BIGBANG ALIVE TOUR 2012 - Official Trailer

Philippines please?!
And where the hell would I get 30,000 Php.
Time to sell my soul to the devil. (Kidding!)

The Quote Book 2

Secrets, Lies and Algebra - Wendy Lichtman

"Zero seems all round and sweet and 'oh, nothing" but really, it can be very powerful. First of all, zero is an identity thief..."

Masque of the Red Death - Bethany Griffin

"Life is sacred. Death is even more so"

"And I'm falling in love with you," he whispers. "But I would throw you in the water and watch crocodiles tear you to bits, if I thought that doing so would accomplish my goals. Do. Not. Trust. Anyone. Especially me."

"Grief is warm, but guilt is very very cold."

Graffiti Moon - Cath Crowley

"Let me make it in time. Let me meet Shadow. Let me meet Poet, too, but mainly Shadow. The guy who paints in the dark. Paints birds trapped on brick walls and people lost in ghost forests. Paint guys with grass growing from their hearts and girls with buzzing lawn mowers. A guy who paints things like that is a guy I could fall for. Really fall for."

"And like Dad says, love and romance are things worth waiting for."

"Train's coming and you have to go to a party to look for a guy you'll never find. A guy who exists in your head not the guy who did that piece. Not the guy who's me."

"About how love is harder to solve that sudoku puzzle."

Dash and Lily's Book of Dares - Rachel Cohn, David Levithan

"Are you going to be playing for the pure thrill of unreluctant desire" (Seriously, I don't even know why I "bookmarked" this one)

The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight - Jennifer Smith

"Marriage for when everything sucks"

"Love is the strangest, most illogical thing in the world"

"He's still her dad. The rest is just geography."

The Quote Book 1

Looking for Alaska - John Green

"You just use the future to escape the present."

"So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was a drizzle and she was a hurricane."

The fault in our stars - John Green 

"Flirting was new to me, but i liked it"

"That's the thing about pain, It demands to be felt"

"But I believe in true love, you know? I don't believe that everybody gets to keep their eyes or not get sick or whatever, but everybody should have true love, and it should last at least as long as your life does."

"The dead are visible only in the terrible lidless eye of memory. The living, thank heaven, retain the ability to surprise and disappoint."

"I'm in love with you, and I'm not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things. I'm in love with you, and I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is inevitable, and that we're all doomed and that there will come a day when all our labor has been returned to dust, and I know the sun will swallow the only earth we'll ever have, and I am in love with you." (Own thoughts: How sweet of you Augustus Waters)

"Oh, I wouldn't mind Hazel Grace. It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you."

"But I will say this: When the scientists of the future show up my house with robot eyes and they tell me to try them on, I will tell the scientists to screw off, because I do not want to see a world without him."

*More quotes to come. =)