~ Twilight: Eclipse and Breaking Dawn ~

Like I predicted, I didn't sleep at all during my 16 hour flight to Hong Kong. How can I sleep when I have Edward and Jacob fighting over Bella?

Eclipse is an awesome book. I just couldn't put it down. Parts of it was so funny! I was smiling to myself when Bella broke her hand when she tried to punch Jacob.

And of course there were all those mushy scenes with Edward and Bella. I felt totally like I was Bella when she opened her window to wait for Edward even after they were fighting. Yeah, that would be me. Even if I am mad at my fiance, I don't want to spend the night without him :)

Near the end, it was pretty exciting. There were moments when I thought Bella would give up Edward to be with Jacob. Good thing she didn't. I would've ripped the book apart if she did. I do think that Eclipse and Twilight are the best out of the series.

Breaking Dawn was very good too. Who doesn't want to go to a private island for honeymoon? But, it dragged a little bit during Jacob parts of the book. Perhaps, it's just that I don't care for Jacob.

But the story ended well, and everything fell into place. Edward and Bella are now vampires and Jacob found the love of his life. Yay! The end was a little boring though. A lot of tension and not a lot of action. That's not going to make a good movie.

It's been over a month and I still think about Bella and Edward and the whole Twilight world. I just want to be a vampire! I already have the fangs, just need the immortality, the golden eyes and radiating beauty. I also feel like Bella right now, thinking about how if I am to be a vampire, I need to become one soon! I am getting old! Ok, I guess you can say I am a little too immersed in the Twilight world. Hmm...but I am not the only one right?

~ Why I Read New Moon in 1 Day ~

Let me warn you, there are spoilers about New Moon here. Stop reading now if you plan on reading the book.

A lot of people told me that New Moon isn't that good. And after the part when Edward left and Bella is just being crazy, I lost interest. I don't care for Jacob. One of my personal rule is that I don't date younger guys. So, I am not interested in seeing Bella with him.

Then, how did I end up staying up till 8am reading New Moon? Honestly, I was waiting for Edward to come back. I wonder if Ms Meyer expected this reaction from her readers. She makes it seem like Edward didn't really leave. He's still there, taking care of Bella through his voice. So, I read page after page, waiting for Bella to realize that it's really him or for him to come back.

Near the end of the book, when Bella jumped off the cliff and saw the "flame" in the ocean, I was fully expecting a big fight between Victoria, the evil vampire, and Jacob. And, I also expected Jacob to actually get to kiss Bella. I was sad, but I thought that would be how the story goes. I thought Edward won't be coming back till much later in the book.

I was actually pleasantly surprised that Edward reappeared sooner than I expected. It was exciting to read about the events in Italy, though it turned out to be a lot milder than I thought it would be. No fighting?? Come on! I feel like this book's climax is more like a plateau. Just dragged on and on, but not really peaking anywhere.

My favorite scene is when Bella was waking up and thinking that she's dreaming because Edward was right beside her. I am a sucker for the "sleeping" scenes because I love waking up next to my fiance every day. But, I don't get the whole marriage proposal and rejection thing. Why would she not want to marry him, but want to spend the rest of eternity with him. That doesn't make sense to me at all. It makes me feel like Ms Meyer is just doing it to prolong the series.

Anyway, I am not going to start on the next book till I get on the plane. I don't have time to pull any more all nighters :) But, I think this is going to be one of my most enjoyable 20-hour plane ride to Hong Kong. Not only do I have my fiance with me, I will have Edward. Ok, and Jacob too.

~ Why Every Girl and I Love Edward Cullen ~

I stayed up till 6am reading Twilight last night. I am on page 212. Yes, I know I am a little behind on this Twilight madness. I wanted to be cool and not swoon over Edward Cullen like every other female in America. In the books and movies, the cool girls who doesn't go gaga over the hot guys are the ones that usually end up with the hot guy right? As much as I don't want to like Edward just because everyone loves him, I find myself falling for him. Not only because he looks like a Greek god, but because he is a Byronic hero aka the bad ass who's good inside.

In a lot of ways, Twilight is like every other chick flick/book. You have this girl with insecurities who is a little bit different and thinks that she doesn't fit in. Which girl doesn't think that? And you have this guy who's awesome and perfect except he has a flaw. In this case, he's a dangerous vampire with a temper. Then, he meets this girl and he can't help but fall in love with her because she's so special. Who doesn't want to feel special?

Edward is like every girl's dream guy:

1. He's powerful and he can and will protect you from everything this evil world till throw at you.
2. He is flawed, but he wants to and is becoming better just because of you.
3. He's hot.
4. He only has eyes for you and thinks you are the most special person in the world. He doesn't even look at other girls who you think are better than you.
5. He break rules for you and he will go against his closet friends and family for you. That means he'll pretty much do anything for you.
6. He can drive very well. Ok, maybe I am the only one who feels this way. A guy who drives well means he can multitask and has quick reflexes and he can take care of you.
7. He's a bad boy. Who doesn't love a bad boy? He's exciting!

Basically, he gives you fun, confidence, security, and power. Yes, power. Power to change him. That's something that is often misunderstood by guys. No, a girl doesn't want to change you because she thinks a guy suck. I think we all know that change is hard. And if a guy is willing to change for a girl, that is a very indicative that he really cares for her. Everyone has flaws and it feels good to inspire another person to become better. That's the reason behind girls wanting a guy to change. Maybe for some girls it's a control thing, but for me it's really about growing together and become better people together.

Anyways, I am digressing. Every woman, no matter how old, will remember her teenage years and the insecurities she has felt then and even now. It's so easy to relate to Bella and so easy to feel happy because there's a special guy who will do anything for her. I must admit that I was smiling to myself when I was reading Twilight. Am I the only one?

I have seen things about Camp Edward and Camp Jacob. I am not exactly sure what that's about, but I guess I am in Camp Edward for now? Though, I was in that camp even before I read the book. I love vampires!!

I haven't seen the movies and I don't think I want to. Right now, I see my fiance's face when I read about Edward. I don't want the movies to put another face in my head for him. {｡◕‿◕｡}

~ BBC Reading List ~

I saw this on my friend's Facebook notes, so I will give it a try. I used to be a book nerd :)

"The BBC believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books here. Instruction: Copy this into your notes and tag the books you have read with an X"

Ok...I am going to highlight the ones I have read in green and the ones I started to read in orange.

1. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2. The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien I m a big fan of fantasy books. I loved the movies. But I just keep falling asleep when I am reading this!
3. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4. Harry Potter series - JK Rowling One of my all time favorites!!!
5. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6. The Bible - Getting there
7. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte Read this when my English wasn't that great. Had to read it twice to kind of get what was going on...
8. Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9. His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman - It was good!!!
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 I read some....like Romeo and Juliet and MacBeth. I don't think you can get through the American education system without reading Shakespeare.
15. Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier It's kinda twisted!
16. The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
18. Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19. The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20. Middlemarch - George Eliot
21. Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22. Thee 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 Not only read, but analyzed and wrote papers about. You know how I am obsessed with yellow? I still remember writing a paper about how Dostoyevsky use color to set the mood of the book.
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 - CS Lewis
37. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden Another book that I couldn't putt down.
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 Another 13 page paper right here...
59. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night - 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 I have tried to read so many James Joyce books....just can't stomach it after a few chapters.
76. The Inferno – Dante
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
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

17 out of 100! Looks like I may need to spend some time reading...

~ Currently Reading: Mistborn - The Final Empire ~

I used to read a lot. From R.L. Stine's Goosebumps and Fear Street to VC Andrew's dirty novels to Dean Knootz's thrillers to Robin Hobb's fantasy series. I love to read!

I haven't had time to read for a while. I used to get books from the library, but they have been stacking up, unread, racking a late fees bill. And, I have stopped buying books because I simply have no place to put them. My fiance is itching to get rid of all my books.

But, I have renewed my love affair with books thanks to my friends who let me borrow the Mistborn series by Brandon Sanderson. I am almost done with the first book, The Final Empire. I read about a chapter to two a day depending on how tired I am by the time I get into bed.


Last night, I stayed up till 5am reading. I was really tired, but I just couldn't put it down! There's just enough romance and misunderstanding to entice my girly side and a lot of fighting and adventure. I am completely immersed in the world of the final empire. I must admit though, it took a few chapters for me to get into it. It's always hard to get into a completely new world though, specially for a fantasy book. There are so many names and cities to remember.

Ok, so basically, this book is about a poor girl, Vin, who has been abused all her life. Little did she know that she has special powers called allomancy and she's damn good at it. She met a man who realized her potential and mentored her and included her in his plan to overthrow the evil tyrannic Lord Ruler of the Final Empire, who made himself a god-king. It's kind of like a Cinderalla story, but more kick-s, if you know what I mean. She has to pretend to be a noble woman to infiltrate the court and of course, falls in love with a nobleman. He eventually finds out she's lying of course. But, does he love her enough to see through that? Can they overthrow the empire?

That's all I am going to say, read the book to find out more!!

I am almost at the end, but I have so much to do today!! Only my love for my beads keep me away from the book. But, this necklace would be good for Vin, a necklace to represent the metals she can ingest and use to increase her power.


Read anything good lately?