Oh My Janey

52 Books: May Books

May unconsciously became a Young Adult-themed reading month. I swear it was unintentional but circumstances and whims made me choose young adult novels to read next. I have no regrets! Last month allowed me to read lighter books (except for that one), just letting me enjoy other things. I also got too busy with “life” (e.g. TV dramas, summer outings, e.t.c.) so reading wasn’t on top of my list.

I intended to reread Harry Potter last month but I always end up picking something else. I guess my stack of unread books is way too high to be ignored. But I did read one HP and I will probably skip to the last book this June.

1. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling

I’m not going to lie. Chamber of Secrets is my least favorite book in the series. A lot of my most disliked characters are introduced in this book: Ginny Weasly, Gilderoy Lockhary, Malfoy on a broomstick (git!), and Colin Creevey. I eventually changed my mind about Colin but I still do not like Ginny and Gilderoy. But of course a lot of good things are introduced, too! Any chapter in the entire series devoted to Harry’s time in the Burrow is my favorite. The Weasleys is my favorite fictional family and I don’t think anyone will ever beat them.

After reading this book so many times, I somehow think my opinion of it improved a little. I now laugh at parts I used to not find funny simply because my comprehension of the English language  the first time I read t was still not that good. But I find questionable details that I’d really rather not focus on. Once I finished Chamber, I was tempted to read Prisoner of Azkaban (my favorite!) next but I opted not to. This is the first time I will read the series without reading everything. But I will try not to think too much about it or I will get depressed.

P.S. I also realized how lame Malfoy is. I mean, he is a good wizard but he really talks too much nonsense.

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Birthday Thoughts

  • That’s me making a very grown-up pose. I don’t feel 21 at all!
  • I don’t like celebrating my birthday. I am actually grumpier than usual during my birthday week. I don’t understand it at all. I do know that I don’t like getting attention. I get incredibly shy when people greet me. I just like celebrating my birthday with the people I love, people really close to me. WHY AM I SO WEIRD?
  • It’s okay when people I’m not that close to greets me bet I get a little bitter. I don’t know why! Maybe it’s because I know that some people who are supposed to remember my birthday, don’t.  So I hid my birthday on Facebook but I’m not exactly sure if it still showed? IDK.?
  • Why do I sound so ungrateful?
  • Don’t get me wrong, I do appreciate acquaintances greeting me, but I feel sad when really close friends don’t. HAHA. Also, I love you Facebook, but nothing beats receiving a text or a call from someone just to greet you a happy birthday. It makes my heart do little cartwheels. It just feels a lot better. More heartfelt, I think.
  • Expecting for the worst doesn’t make it any better when it actually happens. *shrugs*
  • But yesterday was still special! I was with my officemates, friends, Alex, and my family. That’s what matters, right? They made me feel special. They’re enough for me, really.
  • But it’s already June 3 and I’m already feeling like crap. I hope to feel better tomorrow, though.

Surviving Zambales: Anawangin

It has been two weeks since my Zambales trip, and I’m only blogging about it now. It’s really more because of my lousy internet connection (at home, at my office, at my dorm room) that I kept pushing this back. I was scared at first because my closest friends at work didn’t come. You know how I tend to be anti-social, right? But I still had a lot of fun and I think I wasn’t that awkward during the entire trip. My Zambales trip was really something I will never forget because of so many reasons:

  1. It was my first company outing;
  2. The trip was really a test of endurance and not a company outing;
  3. Zambales is just so beautiful.

We went to Pundakit on May 16. We didn’t stay there for long, though. The beach was really pretty. It was still early but the sun’s beating down on us already. After dropping off our luggage, we immediately rode the boat to Anawangin island. If Pundakit was beautiful, Anawangin was just breath-taking. I kind of wish I’m exaggerating. I have no photo to prove my point, though. There’s a river inside the island and even the scene there was gorgeous.

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The May Tradition

When I said that I started joining the Santacruzan since the summer I learned how to walk, I wasn’t joking. I learned to walk 2-km straight even before I learned how to drink milk from a glass. I cannot remember a summer from my childhood that I didn’t join the Santacruzan (a.k.a. Flores de Mayo a.k.a. Tapusan a.k.a. Sagala). There were times when I even joined the thing a couple of times during that same summer.

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Mommy’s Day

As I grow older, I realize how I am really like mother. I didn’t see it when I was a child. She hates how I “inherited” her social skills which basically means we both like keeping to ourselves and we don’t really like socializing that much. But I like how this similarity makes her understand me the way other people don’t. I don’t tell everything to my mother but it somehow becomes our bond. She understands the words I couldn’t even tell her. I love her more for it.

To the most beautiful woman in the world who loves me unconditionally. To the fiercest person I know who never lets anyone walk on her and the people she loves, Happy Mother’s Day Mommy! I may not be the sweetest and kindest daughter in the world but I do love you with all my heart. I love you!

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