Currently...

We've got some catching up to do, so I figured I'd do this "currently" thing, just in case you still wanna keep up with me and know that...well...this blog and this blogger are still alive. Haha!

Currently reading...
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
I've seen the movie a lot of times before (it's one of my favourites - I even have the DVD), but I've never read the book! I've read Khaled Hosseini's "A Thousand Splendid Suns" before, and it was pure genius! Halfway through The Kite Runner, I would say the same.

Currently tuned in to...
Violetta (TV Show)
My new guilty pleasure. I'm not a fan of Martina Stoessel (she's actually the object of hate when my Argentine friend, Selene, and I chat), but Violetta reminds me of my childhood afternoons when everyone would tune into Mexican telenovelas - only, Violetta is not a Mexican show. It originally came from Argentina.

I also watch it because of this guy:

Pablo Espinosa ♥

Currently preparing for...
Another internship
My stint at Juice.ph ended last week and I'm going to start at Manila Bulletin next Monday, which means I'll be away from blogging. Again.

Currently fan-girling over...
Evan Peters as Quicksilver in X-Men Days of Future Past
Man, he stole the show!

If that little girl is Scarlet Witch, OMG. Too cute to handle!

Currently counting the days down to...
The TFIOS Philippine release!
I'll have my little infinity soon enough!

♥Andy

I got the job. Now, I drink!

Yesterday was all sorts of celebration.

1. I finally made it to Juice.ph as an intern! Sure, only 80 hours (out of 200) will be credited from my stay with them, but that's a good start!

2. One of my mum's younger friends is getting married, and her barkada joined us for a midnight snack.

3. The next day (today) is a holiday! Happy labor day!

To celebrate, we dined at the San Mig Pub in Alabang Town Center. I really missed the pub feel. It may not be like the pubs in London or in Brno, but it was fun nonetheless. There was live music, people were singing and dancing. And, I really enjoyed my sweet time with my family and their friends. I also had a couple of glasses of beer! (Gosh, if only my friends in the Czech Republic knew how much I could take now, they'd be proud! :D)

♥Andz

Book Review: Attachments

I was pretty disappointed when Eleanor & Park didn't blow me away as much as I expected it to (not that I'm saying it's bad, because it wasn't. It was actually nice, but not as nice as I thought it would be). However, I believe in Rainbow Rowell as a writer, so I gave her another shot and picked up Attachments.

I loved it!

So, Attachments is about Lincoln O'Neill, an intelligent 28-year-old, who couldn't quite figure out what to do with his life, and ends up in the IT department of a newspaper company as an"Internet security officer". But instead of building firewalls and crushing hackers, he's left to read other people's email in the dead of the night, and report those who have been sending messages containing flagged words.

Lincoln hated his job until the exchanges between friends Beth Fremont and Jennifer Scribner-Snyder added some spice to his work. He knew he had to turn them in for using their work email to talk about their personal lives, but he can't help being entertained by their stories, and soon enough, he falls for Beth...

Although the book started slow, it easily picked up on momentum, and the laughs never stopped coming since then. Yep, this book is effortlessly funny! And, even if the twists were a bit predictable, they didn't annoy me when I found out that my assumptions were true.

This would make me sound a bit biased, but Attachments probably won me over, because it shows so much about the life of journalists in the newsroom even for a book that's supposed to be about romance (romance and journalism - who knew, right?!). 

I could highly relate to the characters Beth and Jennifer, who are pretty much me or who I want to be, minus their life dramas. Beth is a review writer, while Jennifer is a features copy editor. Sure, I'm not quite in their level yet, but I could  feel them already. 

And, there's Lincoln... He's perfectly imperfect, and holy shit, I could use someone like him in my life! One who could be My Cute Guy. 

♥Andz