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Quarta-feira, Agosto 25, 2004

Chilly Breeze And Euphoria

My group mates are staying overnight at my place tomorrow. We actually contrived a name for our tropa -- The Mitochondria. We are called the 'power house' of BSN2-5 because we're just brilliant in our own ways. Plus we get our ATP from boneless bangus. I believe we're going to create earsplitting noises in our pocket garden because the Mitochondria is really a pack of noisy (but smart) people. What we intend to do in the house is more like an informal discussion session, brainstorming lots of insights for a more comprehensive view of our community diagnosis. That would be muito, muito fun... possibly more so, since Bren would be coming too to rock the entire boat.

Wednesday class got cancelled not so early this morning. Terrible typhoon happened to punish the whole metropolis. Ava got to the university ahead of time and thank God, she told me about the news immediately. The moment she messaged me, Pa and I were stuck under Pedro Gil Station along Taft Avenue for fifteen minutes, which actually seemed like fifteen long years.

This morning till afternoon, I nuzzled comfortably in bed, reading a very TWISTED novel. (Emphasis mine) The cool breeze, soft pillows, and the warm Ilocandia blanket over me -- they absolutely complement each other. And with that I think I have just attained a state of nirvana, my own version of it, of course. It's a small price to pay, and I'm happy about feeling thoroughly relaxed. No AnaPhy, Microbio or Pamela-wan can ever ruin this beautiful day.

Ate Pam stumbled upon another piece of Chevalier novel just yesterday in Booksale in UP Diliman. At a meager price of 110 pesos in exchange for a 500+ worth of paperback in other bookshops, she bought 'Falling Angels' for me (so I could buy it from her!) because she knows how much I adore Chevalier's colorful works.

On more personal matters, I also happen to run into Tracy Chevalier's other novel, The Lady and the Unicorn, some two weeks ago. Last July, in my previous post here, I also mentioned about the same book and about how I badly want to have a copy of it. I first saw its hardbound version for only 110 pesos during summer vacation within Booksale in Robinsons Place, Ermita. Comparing it to the SRP of the novel in other bookstores, it's 1180 pesos! It's absolutely a rare find... a treasure, to be more precise. Too bad, I didn't have dough the moment I accidentally unearthed it from the colossal pile of books. Coming back to the same bookshop a week later, I couldn't find it anymore, which really frustrated me for a very long time. So yeah, thanks so much to my dear Mama... she in fact frequents my weblog so she happened to read that post and bought me a costly paperback of The Lady and the Unicorn days later. Going back to the first sentence, I still visit Booksale shops, hoping I might see The Lady and the Unicorn. And indeed, I have found my lost treasure after long, crazy months. It's surprising that I found it not in Rob's Booksale but in SM Manila's. I have learned from the store's cashier that they pull out some of their books to be circulated to other Booksale branches. What surprised me even more was that it depreciated from 120 pesos to a staggering 25 bucks! I thought I'd died that very instant. But instead of feigning dead inside the cramped store, I bought the hardbound novel. Again, it's a small price to pay but it brought me to my own kind of fantastic bliss.


Carnaval took a nap at 10:46:00 PM

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