Scripta Manent

...the insults of men
having been bitten
in the nipple
by their toothless gums.
-Daisy Laing

My favorite quote for Mother's Day this year. Hee.

I had a summer without water play (not counting sweat). ( There had been lunch, a sleepover and a picnic instead )


( too big photo over here of me and my brujas and my goddaughter Carmela )

In my two-month deadjournal sojourn, I have:

~written 2 fictions, 1 non-fiction and 1 fiction-ish non-fiction and read 20 books. Meg Cabot and Jodi Picoult.

~broken in and broken my new phone (I plonked it in the sink while I finished business in the throne. I always did that. But this time, there was water in the sink).

~dabbled and have done with someone's flirting (not sure yet what he's up to. Either he's callously moving on from me to another or perhaps have been jealous and is trying to make me jealous in turn. All he's succeeding to do is piss off my friends, hehe)

~hugged my dad goodbye and welcome and goodbye again (he got his job back, but he was late for his first flight, so he came back home and then left again a week later. It was funny, that evening we found him right there with Mom taking off his shoes when we kids thought he'd be on the way to Bahrain already)

This post dedicated to my darling twin, jenny_b, also to Chiara, who is partly to blame for my deadjournal, since she has been and is my very own magic diary (she replies!), hehe.

Yes, there is a blog day in my sched, Mark. If this goes on, I think I'll make it Tuesday now, though, instead of Monday. ^_^

Dusting the entertainment center, I bumped my forehead on the corner. Hence the 'L'. Ow.

Oh, and *facepalm* I realize how I sounded with my last post on complaining about one of The Red Room's ads. It's just, with their impressive roster of authors, you wonder why they'd try to catch our attention with that 'How To'. Do you get what I'm saying? There are a lot of better How To's.

And it's annoying having that ad because when I surf the Internet, my mom and minor sibs are in the same room. Hmpf.

The Rules of the Meme:
Take a picture of yourself right now.
Don't change your clothes, don't fix your hair...just take a picture.
Post that picture with NO editing.
Post these instructions with your picture.



I need a haircut.

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A Twilight AU/AH fan fic that ruined all other fics for me:

A World Without Sound

I've been wary of All Human fan fics because... well, what's the point? Meyer's saving grace is her fresh vampire lore, remove that and you get a Mills and Boon/Harlequin. And if the fan fic author adapts Meyer's writing style, which is often the case, that's a Suish/Stuish Mills and Boon, too.

So far, I've read mostly profession-centred AH fan fics. None of them special.

A World Without Sound features a unique alternate love story, the way Bella and Edward's is unique. It's so jampacked with emotions, too. I laugh in this chapter, I cry in the next, I squee in the next. Never dull, never silly. I'm still reeling.

I love it when I discover such treasures in the fandom!

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Happy birthday, Charles, Cynthia, Megan! :)

~In case I don't log on tomorrow and Sunday.

... you light up the dark
Try as I may, I could never explain what I hear when you don't say a thing...

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Ahhh, happy.

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We were supposed to go to Manila Ocean Park last Saturday, but a family luau was arranged for Sunday, so we stayed home to conserve energy for the next day. As if we were able to do more than eat and talk and watch movies, what with the rain. Well, I had to do the dishes. And then I trimmed my cousins' eyebrows with this dangerous wand:



It's called 'personal trimmer'. Among all those other impulse buys at the cashier in Duty Free. You might have already seen it, girls. That dark line is the pair of toothy little blades that scissor when you turn the thing on. When I first used it, I mowed my eyelashes a bit. It still needs some tweaks in its design before the patent should be granted. Heh.

Anyway, Camille liked it. Jobelle begged off.

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Disney's Meet the Robinsons is... awesome. Most of you guys and gals in my f-list will/must love it. Science fiction, time travel, and the kind of plot chock-full of significant little details reminiscent of HP and the Prisoner of Azkaban.

The funny thing is when Dad copied the DVD, some jinx or other removed the sound and disabled the subtitles. So while we watched this film, we were all on the same page. What's good about Disney animations is I can lip-read the characters. That's how precisely each picture is crafted.

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Dad and I will have a date on Monday! Because it's Monday and Josh will be at school, Dad will be my escort cum bodyguard when Sherly and I get our copies of Breaking Dawn.

Oh, and of course August is the month-long sale of the two big bookstore chains here.

I can already see the look on Dad's face. *giggles*

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Before I was able to compose this post, I had to wade through and delete 360-something LJ notifications in my hotmail and then delete all the messages in my inbox here. Phew. Never again will I track an entry in the Twilight fandom. (Stupid me. I just wanted to be updated if someone replies to my post. But no, my rational and indulgent side was ignored. They prefer whinging.)

And what's with these overly judgmental people? Even drafting disparaging letters to Mrs Meyer?

If the 'spoilers' are indeed spoilers, I like it.

And oh, they keep bashing DH's epilogue, too. What am I supposed to do with my six unfinished novels? Finish them and then hope my endings aren't deemed 'too cute'/'f*ckingly convenient'/'stupid'?

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Thanks to this_weirdness of start_writing for plugging this wonderful LJ: jimbutcher . I learned a lot. I unconsciously knew some of the stuff already through assimilation from stories, novels and fan fiction I read, but it helps when someone breaks them down (and into droll metaphors) and tells them again. As tried-and-tested guides.

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I reread my manuscripts last night. And there was this voice grating, 'leave your online distractions, fan fiction and forums, for goodness' sake, you stupid girl.'

I told that voice to shut up. Abstractedly.

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Happy 28th birthday, Harry!~

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And you must already know I love Illumination at the spewswap, Kelly! *hugs*

In his love notes, Mirmo advised 'Wallflower' to let her crush in on her secret. Or else her crush will never know.

Mirmo, I've been there. Haven't done that exactly, but when the crush finds out about the crush, they avoid you. And it's painful, losing the halfway (easy acquaintance) you have because you wanted (have been fantasizing) all-the-way (girlfriend/boyfriend). It isn't like with Ron Weasley, who snapped up Lavender Brown because of her obviousness.

So how do I write this kind of scenario/dilemma? The brave and decent male (who will ask you if it's true you have a crush on him and then tell you 'sorry' because he can't reciprocate, but remain friends) seems too good to be true.

I did say 'painful' and 'dilemma'. Add 'trauma'.
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I hope my mom finds that book I told her about. For my speculative writing aspirations. Witches galore.
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Ignore my ugly arrow. Look at that one munching cereal beside Ron. Alex Watson, Emma's brother.



He's... (alright, I'll say it!) cute.
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Wow, Joanna changed her userpic!
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"The novel is an art form and when you use it for anything other than art, you pervert it... If you manage to use it successfully for social, religious, or other purposes, it is because you make it art first."

~Flannery O' Connor
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Aah.

"What others say or think or do is part of their lives, not ours. When we let go of the things that don't belong to us, we will find our own treasures."
-Joan Walsh Anglund

Quite the bombshell for serenity. Especially for someone who gets ignored, belittled, backstabbed, snobbed (insert all synonyms/variants of being ill-treated here), etc.

I have experienced/am experiencing one or the other of the synonyms... The world is full of all sorts of characters, after all, not just the nice ones--although I'm lucky to be surrounded by the nice ones, too. But really, it's true nothing can hurt you unless you let it.

/ponder


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That's what I get for not checking my friends page before posting. Funny to discover you'd reposted the same thing another friend did (Haunted Legends' call for submissions). ^_^

I had the funniest April Fool's.

My friends (who I met and fell in love with in our local Harry Potter club) and I are not geographically close; we communicate through text messaging... And we get together about every two months when there's a slot in their busy college schedules, so the prank I came up with worked.

> I told them I'm getting married in June.
> that the guy and I only got carried away with not acknowledging the relationship and then keeping it a secret
> that I wasn't exactly hiding him, he just coincidentally had his own business whenever my friends and I met up or when they went to my house
> that we've been 'engaged' since May 8 2004-- the ring I have on my left ring finger is from him, not my dad
> that now we are suddenly almost eloping because he's leaving for a job in California in July
> that our parents knew of 'us' since just last year, and that only our parents know now, too, about the nuptials... the relatives are in for a surprise when they're given the invites not earlier than May...

These 'alibis' I didn't reveal in that exact order.

Funny how differently people react. Those who I thought would demand for details and explanations just congratulated me.

Twice, I've been frankly accused to be pregnant. Hehe.

I did this March 31st and 'revealed' on April 1, saying at first that I changed my mind because it feels like I boxed 'him' into proposing. LOL.

My friends alternately praised, cursed and threatened me of revenge on our coming picnic.

Oh, and I'm reading scripts in between writing. I love Elizabeth: The Golden Age, Big-Fish, Little Miss Sunshine, Maria Full of Grace, Casablanca... wow. Haven't seen these yet, but I've already got lines memorised.(copied from the Babble)

I love you, brus. Here's to us.



That's our traditional picture. We do it with our feet, too. The ring I fooled them with (which is really a 16th birthday present from my Dad) is visible. ^_^