I never took the growing number of dengue cases in Manila seriously until now. Get well soon, dear sister.

JSYK, I generally stay away from the overrated Sci-Fi stuff. By that I mean Vampires and Werewolves and Aliens and Zombies. And etc. Generally. I mean, in bookstores, those racks are generally the ones I don’t even bother looking at. And in cinemas, those are the movies I generally don’t care about. Generally.

However, boredom gets to me sometimes, so I have my weird days. Like yesterday and today.

Yesterday was about zombies. (Or “differently biotic.” Whatever.) I got round to finishing Generation Dead (synopsis/reviews here). Waters is a pretty witty author, however I can’t say that the book is all that good. The whole dead-American-teens-becoming-undead thing wasn’t very believable. The pacing was also slower than I would’ve liked, hence I found the first three-fifths of the book boring. Eventually the book did become unputdownable, so I was up til 2 am reading. LOL. At that time, after just finishing the book, I thought it was epic, but after I got some good night’s sleep I realized the book wasn’t, not really.

Waters had some interesting (and brilliant) insights on the issue of social (or biotical) discrimination, esp the part about radical action, but I guess it wasn’t enough. The book didn’t give much of an impact, not to me. Even with that cliffhanger of an ending, I don’t think I’m buying the sequel. Although…my disappointment may have also stemmed from the fact that I rooted for the wrong guy. Haha. I liked Tommy better than Adam! I mean, writers > football players!!! Always! Phoebe must be insane. And I think the falling-for-your-best-friend thing is too cheesy. I go for falling-for-the-undead-hottie instead. :)

(And, in defense of Tommy ‘hesitating’ at the end, you couldn’t blame him! He already died once, and he and Phoebe didn’t know each other that much yet. Of course he would hesitate before taking the bullet! I mean, I would.)

Anyway. Good thing Tommy has a blog. *u*

My verdict? Worth reading, but not worth buying. Borrow from me if you’d like. Haha.

So okay. Moving on. Today, on the other hand, was about vampires. The Vampire Diaries, specifically. (The show, not the books.) I had no plans whatsoever to watch it, actually, but it’s pretty hard to ignore all the hype and the recommendations from different people. Season 2 started today, apparently, so I’m marathon-ing Season 1. So far I only watched until episode 2, but already things are heating up. Nina Dobrev is gorgeous and the Salvatore brothers aren’t any less attractive. ;) I think I’m gonna be hooked very soon, haha!

I’m rooting for Stefan though. So far. Damon is more good-looking, kind of, but idk, I’m still with Stefan. I hope I’m not rooting for the wrong guy again. LOL.

Right now I’m waiting for Episode 3 to finish downloading. And as I’m doing so, I’m also weheartiting to look at bright, perky, and girly pictures. Because I think the overload of zombies and vampires in just two days is taking its toll on my hyperactive brain. LOL.

Coming up next: I am Number Four by Pittacus Lore! Guess what it’s about? Aliens. :D

Well, no, this is not a post about Bruno Mars. This is a post about Ayesha, my best friend, who is (at the moment) totally nuts about Bruno Mars. She dedicated a song of his for me, actually, and it’s so sweet, I’d have to be a rock to say I don’t love it.

You can count on me, like one, two, three…and I know I can count on you, like four, three, two…..

Not such a big fan of Mr. Mars though. His songs are okay, but I dig songs that are more…lyrical. :D

Anyway, back to Yesh. I miss her so bad!!! It kind of sucks how we are studying in the same school, under the same course, yet we still never get to see each other. I keep seeing a lot of my previous classmates every now and then, but for some reason Yesh and I don’t bump into each other that often. It’s frustrating.

The bright side is, when we do see each other, it ends up being extra-special. And unplanned. Like yesterday afternoon. I was already on my way home when I decided to drop by National Bookstore, just because. And Yesh was there! By the Nicholas Sparks section. (LOL.) And you should know, Yesh isn’t the bookish type like me. So it was pretty surprising to see her there. Turns out she wasn’t planning to go to NBS too, but she just went. (Since her dad’s has been encouraging her to try and read books anyway.)

So yeah, we decided that our chance encounter there was, in fact, meant to be! *u*

We spent over an hour there. We went through some books, of course (she was asking me how I decide which books are good enough to buy) and as usual, talked about a ton of random stuff. (Her recent addiction to Bruno Mars included.) And…idk, it’s just that every time I get to see her, it always dawns on me how much I missed her. And how I can never smile/laugh/be my stupid self like that with anyone else. And how we probably won’t ever be classmates again, so chance encounters would always be the best we could hope for.

Sigh. ;n;

(As you probably figured out by now, we’re best friends, but we don’t like to text each other. Haha. Well, actually, I don’t like to text, period. My phone is basically nonexistent unless important matters are involved. :DDD)

Malapit na ang #sentisabado kaya siguro ako ganito. :3

…In other news, new read!! Generation Dead by Daniel Waters. Tell ya bout it later.