reading is fun ;p

I am currently reading ...

...THE HUNGER GAMES...

Love the movie...but heard the books are superb....well of course....obviously...

I havent finish reading this book yet....but my brother is also reading this book....so guys...dont worry...especially those self proclaim real man....its very safe for you to read this book, u wont look sissy...this is not 'twilight' :p

One day David Nicholls (feedback)

Remember about the book I started reading back in October 2011? One Day by David Nicholls

Just like the other books...I didnt finish it.....again.....

what happened? apparently Ive watched the movie before I finish the book~a major mistake while reading the book~....and get very very shocked and dissapointed!!! No im not saying the linestory is sucks....its just that I really have no clue that it will be like that....

They got alot of special moments...but the girl just messed up alot....and let the moment passed.......i want to knock her head e-ve-ry time....

moral of the story...if u know it and u want it....go get it....

but....its easier said than done, i know that too....hu hu...

Julie Powell

Speaking about cooking....

mmm....I have this love and loathe relationship with cooking...I love doing it...but I just hatee it when I have to do it everyday especially when I have to do it like a daily chore....but cooking is what I love to do....to challenge myself....to create wonderful meal and know that I succeed...great or not....thats another story...ha ha...

and that also includes watching whatever cooking shows....moviess and all that....I love the story about Julie Powell...watched the movie 'Julia and julie'- story about Julia and Julie how they venture into cooking and becoming successful.....Julia Child....trying her best to write and sell 'Mastering the art of french cooking'....while Julie, become famous blogger and author by blogging about her attempt to cook all the recipes in Julia Child's Cookbook....

So here's her Official Blog....Too bad I cannot find her Original blog anymore....Must have been deactivated or something...what a waste...just in case if its still in the WWW...would you be kind enough to share...but I doubt that....

Breaking Dawn

Watched the breaking dawn....its not the best movie ever...but still at least i did something else besides just sitting in front of the computer all day long........duhh...

I love the wedding part....but its abit quiet dont you think? abit gloomy despite the beautiful decoration and the crowd.....and i love esme isle.....and the sea + the moon...but i dont really like how they describe how bella felt after the first night...and i cant wait to meet renesme...such a beautiful lady....guess Jacob was imprinted to Renesme...:) yeay i knew....and shes more beautiful then bella....:p I wonder how they describe bella's and renesme's superpower...hahaa....

Guess...another half part to go....and the movie will end....arr just like Harry potter...everything has its end....I hate goodbyee....always hate goodbyes....

Is now reading....

Did I tell u that its been a long time since i really3 read a book and enjoy it.....hmmm....most of the time I force myself to read, which is not fun at all...Whatever book I started reading...it will only half-read....and the 1st book of Harry Potter that i bought last July..not a single page flip open...still looking new as ever...and months after....my so called motivation gone again......Nowadays...DSLR Mag is what I read....err not really...more like looking at the marvelous and wonderful pictures taken....but not reading it...ha haa....

but hey....this book could be my saviour....the movie will be coming out soon....and I've watched the trailer....love it!....and so I decided to read this book before watching it....

I dont know what really made me buy this book...believe me, I never really buy a book unless I can relate to it or if it reallly5 interesting....becausee there are lotsss of books that I havent read here...maybe neverr....but stilll there is really no need for me to buy.....but I reallly3 can relate to this book i almost cried..how sweet and stupid...but i dont know...I would probably write about this again later for the review....

Until then peeps..

Here I come world of wild imagination...muaahaha...

Books E-store....

was just checking around for nothing in particular in fb....and then i found this...

Books4Charity Facebook

and then i found another one....

Book Xcess Facebook

Or you can visit the Bookxcess Blog

Yeay for cheaper bookss!!!

Though I can just read online, which is FOC...nothing can beat the smell of a book when u are reading it....or better yet just steal some from my sister's library.....and of course return later...maybe i can find if there's any double....then i can just waris and sign my name...muahaha....jk.....

But anyhow...I'm sure there are some books that I want to collect for myself....

-o- sleepy...

Forever Trilogy...

I downloaded calibre a month ago when i was in KK....but I have no idea how to use it...Looking forward for Christmas so I can read lottsa books...but i doubt that....since my interest for reading this year is extremely low...most of the time i spent most of my money to dslr magazine...which have no use for me since i dont have a dslr of my own...but one thing....it burns my desire to have one (i can harldly breath most of the time)....

back to romance....Ive read like thousands of romance...haha...no....not really...but i lose count...and Jude Devaraux -Knight in shining armour...that was my very first romance....which i love so much...but if i read it now....i will only roll my eyes to every part of it....because after reading a bunch of her books it can be abit predictable....ha ha

but this book is still one of my favorite..Read the excerpt here

But for my opinion...the best of Jude Devaraux are these 3 books....Forever, Always & Forever and always...a trilogy series by JD...which is a combination of romance and horror...with a pinch of magic....err not really magic like magic in harry potter...more like 6th sense and witchcraft....errr...

something like that laa

Read Forever Excerpt

Read Forever & Always Excerpt

Read Always Excerpt

I forget which is which first....but the first book is forever....and err forever&always ... always....or otherwise....u can ask for assistant from the bookstore keeper....;p

go on ...get started...

Trudi Canavan - The Black Magician Trilogy

Finally,after a months of sleepless nighttss...

I've read these books...and love them...

So I recommend u to add these 3 books in your collection...



...excerpt from the first book...

"We should expect this young woman to be more powerful than our average novice, possibly even more powerful than the average magician."

This year, like every other, the magicians of Imardin gather to purge the city of undesirables. Cloaked in the protection of their sorcery, they move with no fear of the vagrants and miscreants who despise them and their work until one enraged girl, barely more than a child, hurls a stone at the hated invaders . . . and effortlessly penetrates their magical shield."

Well, i feel like i have to commend further about this books...but later guys...so much to say here...

till then peeps...

The Angel Inside #II

By Chris Widener
Well u hv to be in a situation where u are desperately seeking for answers to all your questions...otherwise this book will only be a waste of time...

Take a journey to a modern day Florence, Italy where a despondent thirty year old American, Tom Cook, goes to "find himself." On the last day of his trip, a mysterious old man approaches Tom on a park bench and begins to lead Tom on a tour of Art, the life of Michelangelo, the history of David, and a deeper look at Tom's own life. This book will inspire you to take your life to the next level and beyond. It will encourage you and challenge you to create a life of power and beauty.

***

*The importance of planning and preparation
"Planning helps you do it right the first time."
"You can always erase and start over a drawings. Once you separate a piece of marble you can't go back. You need to do it right the first time. Sometimes in life you can go back, but it is better to get it rigt the first time because of good planning and preparation . Always do the the sketching and drawing first."
"Your mind and heart will be free to pursue whatever you desire. You will want to move very fast because of the excitement you feel. This is all very well and good. Yet the lesson is to not move too fast. Fast enough to get where you want to be, but slow enough so as to do it right the first time.

*All accomplishment starts with one swift action
Why most people dont start?

"They never give it enough thought to actually bring themselves to a place of action."
"They do not plan and lay out a strategy."

"They are engrossed or tied into what they are currently doing that they cannot start on their dreams."
"Fear, fear of anything.Fear of everything."

*Embracing the stages of chipping, sculpting, sanding and polishing
"Supreme artist chips away at us, other times when he is sculpting us, other times when he is sanding, and then times when he is polishing. All of these are needed to create a beautiful life, just as they are needed to create a beautiful sculptures."

The thing is whethere you can accept it and embrace it.

C H I P P I N G
"Every person has parts of them that simply must go. If those part stay, you might never see the Angel Inside. If we are going to create a life of power and beauty, we must allow ourselves to go through the processes that chip away at all of the peripheral parts of us that hide our true selves."
S C U L P T I N G
"The fine art of slowly and delicately revealing the form and beauty of the piece."

S A N D I N G
"represent those times in our lives when seemingly -ve circumstances surround us. It is when things grate against us. They can be irritable if we let them. Ppl...circumstancess...they all perform the act of sanding."
"Trials, adversity and suffering, sanding--are all significant process of shaping our lives...if we handle them correctly.

P O L I S H I N G "Final Step"
"represents the part of life that everyone wants to skip to."

*Being content: Sometimes success takes years
"You place too much pressure on yourself to succeed. You are telling yourself that you should be far more ahead of where you are. This just isn't true."

"The earlier we are in our lives the more we hope for the latter stages, and the later we get in life, the more we long for earlier times. The key is to enjoy each stage and understand that success takes time."

" If we focus on being grateful for our lives and what we have, our thoughts will tend to be thoughts of gratitude."



*No one starts with the Sistine chapel
"Many young people, and even anyone at the beginning stages of a new venture for that matter, pressure themselves to produce tremendous work as soon as they start."

"Most people cannot accomplish the great work that will be lasting until they have gone through the process of growing and learning from their experience."

Closing:

"Enjoy yourself now. Live your life with excellence. Become a person that others will be proud to know. Do the best you can at your work. And everything that is destined to come to pass will indeed come to pass."

The Angel Inside #I

By Chris Widener

Well u hv to be in a situation where u are desperately seeking for answers to all your questions...otherwise this book will only be a waste of time...

"Take a journey to a modern day Florence, Italy where a despondent thirty year old American, Tom Cook, goes to "find himself." On the last day of his trip, a mysterious old man approaches Tom on a park bench and begins to lead Tom on a tour of Art, the life of Michelangelo, the history of David, and a deeper look at Tom's own life. This book will inspire you to take your life to the next level and beyond. It will encourage you and challenge you to create a life of power and beauty."


*Finding the angel inside you
"Let us start with a story: One day, Michelangelo was working on this marble that would become David, and a young child came by where he was working. Michelangelo said to him, 'Young boy, there is an angel inside of this rock and I am setting him free'" Michelangelo saw the angel deep at rest within the rock, waiting to be set free to inspire Florence and the world!"

"There is an angel inside you. There is a person of beauty. There is a person of power. David represent both"

*The power of following your own passion
"The world is filled with ppl who do not do what they love. Most ppl drift through life like a feather in the wind. They do not have a purpose that comes from their passion, from their strength. These are the men and women who, as it is said, 'live lives of quiet desperation.' Time passes and they are near death and all they are left with is regret. Yet there is nothing they can do about it. Their lives are lost because they did not decide to do what they wanted."

"You will never be successful doing what you do not want to do. You will certainly sabotage yourself."

*Being confident in your strength
"If you are to be successful, you must find self-confidence in the things that you do well and then pursue them.As the David had done over the city of Florence for so many hundreds of years, the secret is that you too must stand confidently in whatever you do." "Begin to work in an area of your strength and talent. By doing so, you will feel and become more confident. The reason you have no confidence now is because you are not good at what you do. So you are reminded , both consciously and subconsciously, everyday, that you are not good at what you spend most of your day doing. This breed doubt, fear and ultimately, despair."

*Beauty through details
"The beauty is in the details"
"When we are working in areas that we have no passion for, it is natural for us, with no care for our work, to simply put in the time, to do whatever will get us by and produce work that is mediocre at best and with no pleasure attached to it. Michelangelo was passionate about his work. He wanted every statue and painting to look like as though it might suddenly spring to life."

*Your hand creates what your mind conceives
If you really looked at the David you will notice that The head and the hands of David are out of proportion. Michelangelo knew that the head of II Gigante would be some 20 feet off the ground. Of course, the further away an object is, the smaller it appears. He made the head large to provide context, so it could be seen in proper proportion to the rest of the body as people looked up from the foot of the statue. (The lesson here is:) Sometimes parts of your life must be bigger than others in order to bring balance."

"You can become anything you want in life. You can achieve whatever you desire. But you must make the connection between both the head and the hands."

"Most people live in one or the other. They either conceive of amazing things--they dream--but it never goes beyond that. They live only in their minds. Still others do just the opposite. They are filled with action, but not action that is thought out well. It is movement that takes them nowhere. The secret is this: Let your mind conceive it and then let your hand create it. True accomplishment requires both.

To be Continued >>

Twilight side effect

I am currently writing Breaking Dawn...
...the final book of My Twilight Saga...well thats what they call my story...

I assumed u have read Eclipse then, the 3rd book...

All 3 books are like diary to me, except that they are not personal anymore. i decided to tell the whole world , my story...Our Story from my side of the story...

At this point , u should have known about my feeling toward Jake...my best friend...

Oh how I love him...I love him to bits...and he have known that since the first day we met...
He was my sun when my day was impossibly dull and dark...
I loved him...but how could i hurt him by loving him yet not choosing him?
I loved him...but i loved Edward more...

Edward Edward....Edward is the love of my life ...the love of my existence...
Without him...how could i live?
I remember the day when he left me...
I never imagine myself get through that kind of nightmare again....
i could say it was like living in a vacuum...no sound no light no air no nothing....
except for me....but knowing he existed somewhere in this world, was enough....
enough to keep me sane and alive...

But now...I can't believe this!
he's being overly protective! i AM strong...maybe I'm not the strongest...
but still...
i am able to protect myself, for crying out loud...

I wondered why i choose him over Jake... Ha!
Jake would not shield me from any excitement...

Edward...he didn't even let me hunt for mountain lion...instead he brought me to Alaska and hunt for some penguin.....ooo cute penguin but there are my food after all..but i hated those stinky fishy smell... Besides I don't think I like hanging out with his fan, well you know who!

Okay, stop whining...
I think he's back....I'd better be going...
He still owes me something...
And before that,I have to call Jake and ask for updates...I miss her already...

P.S. I Love Edward...

Love Always
Bella

Read Eclipse, borrowed the book from LK, ba this is due to my lack of patient, couldn't wait any longer...abis stock...so i just borrowed LK's book, and lend her my Breaking Dawn as an exchange...
Now am reading Breaking Dawn...damn...how i hope this book will never end...

Oh ya sorry for my "wanna-be- bella" or "wanna-be-stephenie-meyers" behaviour...
I thought maybe i could get over this twilighters behaviour so that i can be normal twilight reader by writing that....ooo cukup la....

Sorry i dont have editor.....so u'll find a lot of hang kang english....buttt BIARRR....

So Long People....

Good and bad news...Twilight Saga....

Okay i am still reading 'New Moon' and yet i am ALREADY excited about the fifth book, 'Midnight Sun'...
And I really really REALLLYYY cannot wait for it to come out and be another of Stephenie's bestseller book....A VERY GOOD NEWS huh....

From what i've read, 'breaking dawn' is the last book of the twilight saga...yes its true(i guess, since i haven't read that far yet, i couldn't be so sure)...

I found the excerpt , Chapter 1 - First Sight( Midnight Sun)...If u have read the first book 'twilight' im sure u will notice that the title is the same as 1st chapter of Midnight Sun...'first sight'....

Midnight Sun is not the continuous of breaking dawn(which i haven't read yet) ...this book is Edward's perspective...Edward's point of view...Edward's story...
So knowing that alot of things that we couldn't quite figure out what edward was thinking...this book will surely tell everything whats going on in Edward's mind....what he actually thinks....his thoughts around bella...how exactly his capability works...and so on la....

Knowing Bella's side of the story is enough but only from her side...Sometimes we woman also need to know what the men actually feel about their beloved one...sometimes words are not enough to describe whatever feelings or thought ...semua la...in everything he does...any action or whatever that makes us women think of his action....why he didn t call, why he frowned...why he left...semua la...sot... dats y women kna cop complicated...kali...

So while waiting for the book..take sometime to read the excerpt....baca la....


But the bad news is...
She decided to postponed Midnight Sun or did she said not to continue writing the midnight sun?....ARGGHHHHHH!!!! because the incomplete draft was already illegally posted online......DAMMNNNNN...who's the culprit!!!!OMG....I CANT BELIEVE THISSSS....It was like Edward was taken away from me while i am very much in love with him(and i couldn't quite live the way before he existed in my daily-routine-daydreaming-live), while i was still dancing with him on the stage and suddenly he was gone...pls S. M. I am your die-hard fan....pls do this for us....your fan....=(

Oh FYI...the news is dated Aug 28,08.
So maybe she changed her mind...but i didnt get the updates...
So update me ... so that i can stop worrying... maybe tu buku suda keluar ka....
Damn im so worried....

The Twilight Saga!!!!

"You Inspired this one..." Edward Cullen ..



I don't know which of these songs was actually hummed by Rdward to Bella to sleep... but i like all of them...I tried to find a movie scene that edward actually hummed the lullaby, but my effort failed....




and this one, w as taken i think from chp 15,16 or 17....The cullens or Carlisle...


I think Im in love with Edward...haha...The Twilight Saga will be my all time favorite books....and stephenie meyer will be one of my favorite author...


I suggest u go out now to the nearest bookstore and buy all of The Twilight Saga.....Unless if u dun like lRomance novel la...

*~ A PLACE CALLED HERE ~*

Taken from the book of ...

... Chapter 55 ...

Sometimes , people can go missing right before our
very eyes. Sometimes, people discover you, even
though they've been looking at you the entire time.
Sometimes, we lose sight of ourselves when we're
not paying enough attention.

We all get lost once in a while, sometimes by
choice, sometimes due to forces beyond our
control. When we learn what it is our soul needs
to learn, the path presents itself. Sometimes we see
the way out but wander further and deeper despite
ourselves; the fear, the anger or the sadness
preventing us returning. Sometimes we prefer to
be lost and wandering, sometimes it's easier.
Sometimes we find our way out. But regard-
less, always, we are found.

~ Beautifully written by Cecelia Ahern~

P.S. I LOVE YOU

Read...Watched...Lovedd it....

The movie based on The fiction novel "PS I LOVE YOU" written by Cecelia Ahern....

The first time I laid my hand on this book... couldnt let go of this book....I just couldnt wait what will happen next.... and whats the next mission is...

The movie was slightly different...but still get 2 thumbs up from me...

Its so damn romantic and sad that U just hate Gerry for dying so young and leaving her alone, it broke my heart seeing her losing her direction in life until she got a mail from GERRY...arghhh...surprise surprise....

Damn! Im so in love with Gerard Butler...I AM SOOO IN LOVE with Gerard Butler that I cannot imagine how much LOVE could Holly"Hilary Swank'had for him.....

WATCH THISSSS.....U SHOULDDDD.....
Though...sometimes ada juga part boring....well...somehow there are forgiven...overall i heart this movie ...

P.S. I LOVE YOU

XOX Maria

book books and bookss i <3

I am currently reading a book that i bought last month...and i already bought a few new books....and i really dun have time to read all of them...yet im planning to buy more...

currently im reading the smoke thief...but so far....i only have time to bring it wherever i go...but not to flip it open and start reading....and try to finish it off so that i can read another book that i bought yesterday...(a place called here by cecelia ahern..)cant wait to read this one...

And believe it or not...i bought 'new moon by stephanie meyer' last week...and i WELL know that ...i should buy her first book first in order to read this one...too bad 'twilight' was out of stock that time...and i cannot read new moon untiil i get my hand on twilight....shoottt...

and i would like to buy 'if only u could see me now' by cecelia ahern again... cant wait to have them all....anddd i know very well that....the ending of every of her books always doesnt make me happy and satisfied...i always think that she can end the story with a better ending....but no...it makes me sad and happy at the same time....

hmmm...next books that i want to buy ......twilight by stephanie meyer and the love of her life by harriet evans.....and this time i hope i dun forget my purse again like last time,,,,which caused me not to buy harriet evan book....which made me really sakit hati....