The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel Collection

YAY for my book collection of Flamel! I bought The Necromancer the other day and finished reading it last night and I had a total blast. Although I feel really bad for some of the characters because they had a terrible fate, I know in the end everything will be well.

So in the photo above, you can see the first four installments of the series which I have read already. I've read The Alchemyst and The Magician last December and The Sorceress around February this year. It just so happens that I got so busy since March up to August that I haven't had a time to buy and read the fourth book. The other day, we went to the bookstore and bought The Necromancer, which I have been eyeing on since May, together with the Do-It-Yourself Diary of a Wimpy kid for my cousin in the Philippines, 'cause I'm flying back home in a week!

All I can say about the fourth installment of the series is that among all the books from the series that I've read, this book is by far has the most excitement, thrill and romance in it. Well, not really romance but I got to discover that Elders also fall in love. I once thought they don't find these kinds of emotions useful and productive but yes, I found out that they can fall in love. In this book, a sudden turn of events also occured. I won't give away much of it, but I think it broke my heart when Aoife, twin sister of Scathach, had gone into a distant Shadowrealm just to pull the monster Archon, Coatlicue, with her and is gone forever. What makes it more sad is that she did it for her sister.

WHEW. I won't talk anymore. I tend to give out spoilers so, I'm zipping my mouth. Haha. That's just about it.

Pinoy KPOP Star 2011

I auditioned for Pinoy KPOP Star 2011 and some of the other contestants are against me because:

1. My video is a year old.

2. I have decent recording equipment.

WHAT THE HECK? SERIOUSLY? Let me give you my answers.

One, my video may be a year old but to tell you the truth I STILL SING THE SAME WAY I DID IN THE VIDEO. I sing the song almost every time. You don't know how much I loved the song. And if your concern is the views, it isn't the basis of the Popularity Award. According to the Facebook Page, the finalists' entries will be posted on the page, and the one who gets the most number of LIKES, as in FACEBOOK LIKES, will be awarded. And to clear things, I AM NOT AIMING FOR THE AWARD GUYS. If you want it, it's all yours. I'm not even aiming to win this competition. I just wanna try something new. I've been joining a LOT of singing competitions lately and this will be the first competition that I'm gonna join with a Korean song. So this is new for me.

Two, is it my fault that my dad tried his best to support my singing and provided me with the equipment I need? Seriously, guys. Even though it's not a live recording, THERE WERE NO EFFECTS USED. Yes, I did some overlays but it IS STILL ME. It is STILL MY VOICE. The back ups you hear? It's still me. And if you think it's unfair for those who don't have the equipment, it's not. They don't judge us by our equipment, they judge us by our voice quality, style and pronunciation. This is a singing competition, not a recording equipment competition for goodness' sake.

Why does everybody sees me as a cheater and an unfair contender? WHAT'S WRONG WITH YOU GUYS? Why don't you just be happy for me? I'm a Filipino. We're all Filipinos. This freaking crab mentality is messing with us.

Twitter Followers.

For the past few days, I've been followed by a lot of unknown people from different places randomly and I've no idea HOW they found me. Eventually, I guessed that it's because Matt Rivera, a buddy of Devon Bostick, has been tweeting me and has been retweeting some of my tweets to him, including my cover of Super Bass. I don't actually have THAT MUCH of followers but I guess there are secrets in getting a lot of them. I only have like 350 and I love the feeling when I get an email saying, "ASDFGHJKL (@asdfghjkl) is now following you on Twitter!" I don't follow back right away of course. Well, it depends in some way. If they're some sort of fans of someone I'm fanning over then that's an immediate follow back.

Anyway, there are a lot of spammers on twitter at the moment. They just randomly follow you without any valid reasons. Well, others follow you for advertisement reasons ONLY and some are just typical spammers. You know, like, they have porno default photo and it annoys me a lot. So the best you can do is just block them and never tweet them back. Because base on my experience, once you tweet them back, MORE SPAMMERS LIKE THEM are gonna start to tweet you too.

I remember once, I tweeted about Justin Bieber. I said, I dreamed about making a hate song for him and I enjoyed it a lot, well, at least in my dream. And then there came these spamming beliebers saying, hey help me get this blah blah trending. Like what in the world? I don't know if they're like robots programmed to tweet users who tweet about certain topics or people and force them to visit a site or just ask them to do something else.

My Twitter is not in the private mode and I like it that way since I don't wanna be annoyed with notifications from people who want to view my tweets. And I don't even tweet things that I don't want people to see. It's my twitter, and I wanted every follower of mine to know what kind of a person I really am. And it also annoys me whenever a follower's like, hey follow back, and then when I'm already on their twitter, they're in private. Who are they kidding? It's bad enough to ask for a follow back. Asking for a follow back when you're in a private mode? That's worse.

Basically, Twitter is a great place for celebrities and fans. Celebs get to interact with their fans in the easiest way while their fans just stalk them whenever they post updates on what they're up to at the moment. "Stalking" is too harsh. Maybe "intense research on an individual"? LOL. Just kidding.

I'm on Twitter for, like, everyday and I never get tired of it. Well sometimes I do, when there's not much updates from people I follow. But when everybody is online, I couldn't help it. My medium on twitter is English, btw. Because I lost followers some months ago when I kept tweeting in my native language. I guess they got annoyed they couldn't understand a thing I said.

I love Twitter. If you don't have a twitter, you better make one, like, now.

My 17th Birthday!

So I woke up this morning and got my Facebook exploding because of wall posts, comments and messages from my friends and relatives greeting and wishing me a happy birthday. I saw this coming, really. This happens every year if you have a Facebook account. Haha. It's very heart warming to know that there are a lot of people who would spend a few seconds of their lives just to stop by and post something on your wall. Some posted a simple happy birthday and some wished me good luck in life and in my career. Oh, and some also said they missed me. I missed them too, if they only knew.

Anyway, I am very happy right now because not only my friends and relatives greeted me a happy birthday, but also Devon Bostick, my favorite actor of all time.

My birthday is totally complete. :') This is a chance I get once in a while. It's not every time you get a reply from a Canadian celebrity. And not just a reply, it's more special since it's a birthday greeting. He is the first ever most famous celebrity who replied to me. And I love him because he tweets his fans and make them feel special in special occasions like this. Not the "love" for a boyfriend or whatever. It's the "love" for, like, a friend. I'm not dreaming of having him as, you know, a boyfriend. I'm a FAN. That's just it. Nothing more, nothing less. Just trying to clear things up because some fan girls tend to dream about being Dev's girl but pffft, not gonna happen. And I'm not one of them. I just thought he's the kind of dude I should be making friends with. I'm sort of a Rodrick Heffley at times. Haha.

And now I'm thinking, my cousin, Sid, will be so happy about this. I told him I have a contact with Devon via Twitter, and he's such a big fan of the wimpy movies. He couldn't believe the power of Twitter. Haha.

Anyway, THANK YOU SO MUCH TO ALL THE PEOPLE WHO GREETED ME A HAPPY BIRTHDAY! This is my 17th birthday, which marks my 17 years of existence (does that even made sense?). Thank you, God, for giving me another year in my life. I'm gonna prove to you that I'm your child. :)

I can't believe I'm already THIS old btw. It seems only yesterday when I entered high school, and I was 12. Dang, now I'm 17. That was 5 years ago! Time flies so fast. I have to stop and take a look around. I don't wanna miss it.

Super Bass by Nicki Minaj Cover

So when I was in Los Angeles, Super Bass was ALL OVER the radio stations and I think it was on repeat and I decided to try the rap part ONLY but then I ended up singing the whole song. When I got back here in Saudi, I chilled for a bit and then continued practicing the rap parts since my tongue gets a little bit twisted in the 2nd verse of the song but I did it pretty well in this cover. :)

This song is for the friends I've made in the World Championships of Performing Arts. Glee, Hariette, Princess, Joshua Davis, Joshua Pineda and kuya Joseph the Sand Artist, this is for all of you. I miss you guys. :(

Anyway, for everyone's information, I don't really have a thing for American guys so I changed the lyric into "You know I really got a thing for Canadian guys." For the past few days I've been a fan of Devon Bostick, a Canadian Actor. That's why.

Matt Rivera on Twitter

Okay so I've been freaking out a while ago because Matt Rivera greeted me an Advance Happy Birthday on Twitter!

AAAAND I promoted him and we talked like close buddies do. I am so freaking out. I mean, he's such a nice guy, replying to his mentions on Twitter. I hope I make friends with him. He's got swag.

Different time zones suck big time.

Don't you think having different time zones with your friends and family sucks so much?

I live here in Saudi Arabia, which is GMT+3, and almost all of my friends left for the Philippines. Most of my relatives live there too and some of my friends are in the US and Europe.

I was chatting with my girl best friend a while ago and I really did suck at math. She asked me if I'm gonna be online for the whole day today and I told her no, I'll be off by 3pm here, or 6pm there. I added only 3 freaking hours to the local time here. I was stupid I didn't notice it should be PLUS 5, not 3. Time difference blows my mind.

And just last August 22, a boy best friend of mine left for England, which is 2 hours earlier than the local time. He hasn't tweeted me since 23. Do you think it's the time difference or something else?

Plus, my friends in Delano, California have been sending me text messages via Viber and I'm not receiving them at the right time. It's always delayed. And it's almost the total opposite. When I wake up in the morning, they're getting ready for bed. When I'm getting ready for bed, they're just about to start their day. What sucks more than that?

Lastly, this mental relationship with Devon Bostick is getting harder and harder every minute. He tweets early in the morning, while I sleep soundly. And when I'm awake, he stops tweeting and starts filming Diary of a Wimpy Kid 3: Dog Days in Vancouver. Just the other day, he tweeted A LOT of his fans. And you know what I hate about it? I wasn't online. I wasn't on twitter. I was even sleeping. He tweeted them at 8am, I woke up at 11am. Geez this is heavy.



Basically, time difference sucks more than anything.

Writing stories.

I get frustrated. A LOT.

I've been blogging for years and been writing a lot of different stories since I was 7. Now I'm 16, I always get this frustrated feeling of not finishing a single story line. It's either I get a writer's block, I get lazy or I'm out of words. Every time a good story line comes up, I start writing and eventually get stuck in the middle of the story, clueless of what would I wanna write next. I hate it so much. At this moment, that feeling is coming back at me again. The feeling that I wanna write a story. A story about my dream last night. It was actually an awesome dream to base a story from. I never would have thought of anything like it at all. Only I don't know how to start it off, or how should the story go beyond what I dreamt of.

Oh well, I guess I better try writing about it anyway. It might end the way I never would've expected.

Chocolate topped Biscuits!

Made these yesterday because I was bored. And hungry. And bored.

Ingredients:

Butter (like 2 teaspoons. idk I just eyed on it.)

1 bar of Cadbury milk chocolate or any chocolate

Biscuits

Procedure:

1. Put the chocolate and butter in a small bowl (make sure the chocolate is chopped to pieces so it'll melt fast) and put it it in the microwave. Let it melt for 1 minute and stir it every 15 seconds to avoid burning, 'cause burnt chocolate sucks. It smells so bad, trust me.

2. Get the melted chocolate from the microwave (be careful 'cause it's gonna be hot) and stir it again to achieve the consistency you wanted.

3. Top it on your biscuits, and if you fancy, put on some sprinkles or small marshmallows or whatever you like. You can also put it in the refrigerator to harden the chocolate (it tastes better).

It's easy. Easy as 1-2-3. ;)

My Los Angeles cap. :(

Lost this cap in Bakersfield in California. :( I loved this cap so much. I bought it in a store in Macy's in Los Angeles for $10. And I lost it for some serious reason: my fingers were shut stuck in the car door by my friend in Delano. It was epic. It hurt, but it was a funny remembrance from them. Haha. I still can't get over this cap however.