thanks for the memories

a novel by cecelia ahern…

how is it possible to know someone you’re never met?

i have been reading this book for weeks. sabi nga ni ya, “hindi ka pa rin tapos dyan? minememorize mo ba yan?”, hehehe. maybe. this is the first book of cecilia ahern i have read. i have my doubts with her. after this book, i will read another one by her she has a way with words and capturing inner feelings in writing.

here are some quotes i have listed.

and still my heart pumps on. even when broken it still works.

people never truly tire of playing games and dressing up, no matter how many years pass.

i don’t want anybody around me… i want to be on my own to grieve. i want to feel sorry for myself without symphatheticwords and clinical explanations. i want to be illogical, self pitying, self examining, bitter and lost for just a few more days, please, world, and i want to do it alone.

when something tragic happened, you’ll find out that you, the tragicee, become the person that has to make everything comfortable for everyone else.

but more often than not, the easy decisions are the wrong decisions.

be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you.

it’s nice to be important. but it’s more important to be nice.

you have to take your moments. don’t just go head first into everything, like a bull seeing red.

everything grows. including love.

everything builds, including our ability to cope with it. that’s how we keep going.

what was considered bizarre has now a possibility.

it is during troubled times like this that people see straight… because when you’re in trouble you look harder for answers than those who aren’t, and it’s those answers that help you through.

what do you say to someone whose life you saved?

how extraordinary the ordinaryreally is, a tool we all keep going, a template for sanity.

you have tp be careful with moving, Gracie. too much shock causes a serious, possibly a grave decline.

why do i like this book? because at one point in my life, i can relate to the grieving and longing. and then later on moving on

sweet teen memories…

dear daileen,

christine, lala and i had an impromptu trip to cubao’s shoe expo last saturday to check out the little stores where they sell second hand items at really low prices. there were lots of books stacked in the stores and as my habit i asked the “bantay” of the store if they have any sweet dreams books. like some very few things i adored in childhood, these books i can not get over with!

i remembered in highschool how i would save just to buy these books and how we would swap books and collect them and share insights on why we think this story is better. i lost several books along the way, but i gained friends and then later on in college they just stopped publishing the series… kaya siguro i’m obsessed in buying them from second hand bookstores. most of the books now are on sale in ebay…

image from ebay

i have planned to purchase some of them for my personal collection. and i will continue to hunt for more

back to my kwento… i was delighted when manang told me she has several sweet dreams available pero i have to dig in, and so we did! kaya siguro ako na-allergy attack na naman. i saw 2 treasures at P10 each only! imagine that?! but that’s not the real true treasure find that afternoon… i saw this book and i was truly, truly glad i did!

remember???

while most of us girls in our highschool pack were all deep into the sweet dreams craze, you had own world and i would always think how matured and sofisticated you are. kaya siguro ako dumidikit sa yo nun, i was hoping your influence would rub on me and i will be the lady that you are starting to be when we were still young. then one day, you lent me this book – among friends and told me this has more depth. i was hesitant because i don’t think i’m prepared to venture into anything deeper than sweet dreams. but i did read it and i liked it! so thanks to you! you made me take a leap from sweet dreams with this book! and i never stopped reading more and more books.

i bought it for P10 as well! what a price to pay for something that brought back a priceless memory

thanks dai and belated happy birthday!

love, Anne

i miss…

reading a really good book.

long walks.

meaningless, long and loud phone conversations with my old friends.

writing letters to friends, cousins and my parents.

homemade hamburgers and halohalo.

my old room in our old house.

dinner with my complete family.

afternoon talks with papa when we were still young everytime we wait for dinner to be ready.

cooking with mama.

the feeling of peace and calm after a long and good prayer.

lovely audrey

audrey hepburn is my icon ever since i got to watch her in always where she plays an angel. she is so graceful and peaceful. fit for her role in the movie. and i loved her right there and then wrinkles, husky voice and all…

i bought this book… a compilation of quotes by the lovely miss hepburn compiled by melissa helstern.. the book is full of her photos and her quotes to live by… one of my favorites

a sure stress reliever

i found this site dedicated to miss hepburn — myfairlady.

I believe laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing; kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day, and I believe in miracles.
Audrey Hepburn

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random nice thing today : a break from office stress eating this yummy chocolate cupcakes

yummmmmmmm!

top 5 things to do when your home internet connection is down…

in this time of virtual networking, internet is a must! so, nevermind kung hindi na kayo nag uusap sa bahay dahil kanya kanya kayong gamit ng laptop at mobile phone using wifi… nevermind na sa facebook nyo nalang nababasa ang comment nila sa mga pictures mo… nevermind na dati bonding moment nyo ang dinnertime, pero ngayon cut short na ang eating time nyo na dating 1 to 2 hours to 30mins kasi atat na kayong mag internet…

so what happens when internet is down??? what to do? what to do?

1. blame it on pldt – nagbayad naman tayo… bakit??? mmmm bakit nga ba?
2. watch the telenobelas
3. walk around the village
4. read a book
5. sleep early – like one i know

ikaw? what do u do when your internet at home is down?

kung isa kong housemate na certified tv-addict, syempre nag tv, yung isa namin kasama, na depress… natulog… ako, nagbasa ulit ng books :-)

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nice thing today : strawberries for dessert! yum!

hearts in atlantis ni Stephen King

hindi ako fan ni stephen king pero sabi nila one of the master story tellers sya. gusto ko naman ang movier versions ng mga libro nya like green mile at cujo (naalala ko tong cujo nung bata pa kami when we watched it. natakot kami bigla sa aso! tapos magkakatabi kaming magkakapatid sa sofa habang nanonood). i picked heart in atlantis kasi yung cover nya mukhang hindi naman complicated sci-fi.

nagustuhan ko ang libro and i was able to capture a lot of quotes. so eto sila, sini-share ko sa inyo….

Hearts in Atlantis

by: Stephen King

 

• Time and tide wait for no man.
• Time heals all wounds.
• Come to the book as you would come to an unexplored land. Come without a map. Explore it and draw your own map.
• A book is like a pump. It gives nothing unless first you give to it. You prime a pump with your own water, you work the handle with your own strength. You do this because you expect to get back more than you give.
• Good books are for consideration after, too.
• And this wasn’t lying, not really. It was leaving out.
• There are also books full of great writing that don’t have very good stories. Read sometimes for the story…
• Read sometimes for the words – the language.
• When you find a book that has both a great story and good words, treasure that book.
• You might question a winkle – a feeling that came to you right out of the blue – but you didn’t question knowing.
• A change is as good as a rest.
• There’s always someone who knows something.
• Friends don’t spy; true friendship is about privacy, too.
• What happens between the two groups satisfies the definition of tragedy: events tending toward an unhappy outcome which can not be avoided.
• What you don’t know, you can’t tell. Or made to tell.
• The less you knew, the more you believe.
• We almost always see where our best interest lies, I think, but sometimes what we see means very little compared to what we feel. Tough but true.
• Us class clowns aren’t wild about making friends – two or three are apt to do us for a lifetime – but we don’t react very well to the bum’s rush either. Our goal is vast numbers of acquaintances whom we can leave laughing.
• Anything with the power to make you laugh over thirty years later isn’t a waste of time. I think something like that is very close to immortality.
• War isn’t worth it, war was never worth it. Even when it was worth it, it wasn’t worth it.
• Hearts are tough. Most times they don’t break. Most times they only bend.
• Sometimes things come back to you, that’s all. Sometimes they come back.
• Hearts can break. Sometimes it would be better if we died when they did, but we don’t.
• You don’t always have the right to what you can afford.
• In life, as well as in cards, once it’s laid, it’s played.
• God is hard, but God is good.
• There’s a memory and then there’s what you actually see in your mind. Like when you read a book by a really good author and he describes a room and you see that room.
• But kids lose everything, kids have slippery fingers and holes in their pockets and they lose everything.
• War died one tiny piece at a time, each piece something that fell like a memory, each lost like an echo that fades in winding hills. In the end, even war ran up the white flag.
• You lost your innocence when you grew up, everyone knew that, but did you have to lose hope as well

mothers will like this book

Used to be when I have a lot of time in my hands (not so long ago) I would read the book and write down nice quotes. Oo, meron akong kabating notebook pag nagbabasa. I still wish magawa ko pa rin to. One nice book I recall writing about is Amy Tan’s The Bonesetter’s Daughter. Eto mga nakuha kong quotes dun. Galing ni Amy Tan.

 

 

The Bonesetter’s Daughter

By: Amy Tan

 

 

Did I lose it because I kept it a secret too long?

 

I hid those things for so long I almost forgot I had them.

 

Don’t wait too long.

 

Do not forget, or risk losing all.

 

The centrifugal force of argument: The farther you move from the core of the problem, the faster the situation spins out of control.

 

Writing what you wished for was the most dangerous form of wishful thinking.

 

When you write, you must gather the free-flowing of your heart.

 

The less you showed, the more you meant.

 

Don’t tell me what I think, ‘cause you don’t know.

 

A person should consider how things begin. A particular beginning results in a particular end.

 

But you push an ink stick along an ink stone, you take the first step to cleansing your mind and your heart. What are my intentions? What is in my heart that matches my mind?

 

Want less, regret less.

 

You can have pride in what you do each day, but not arrogance in what you were born with.

 

If a rich man loses his house, is that worse than if a poor man loses his?

 

Don’t fight differences of meaning. Find where you mean the same.

 

A superstition is a needless fear.

 

A mother is always the beginning. She is how things begin.