Some thoughts for my first post of the year:

Having an item exchanged at Landmark is like watching a snail crawl–it’s painfully slow to watch and sometimes you feel like just stepping on the damn thing out of frustration. I needed to have the socks I bought my dad exchanged for other socks of the same price and it took more than two clerks to process it. No wonder Landmark is cheap; everything is still by hand.

There are some benefits to having 2pm-10pm work hours–I get to do my errands in peace while everyone else is at work. This morning I had to go to Landmark, Glorietta and SM to exchange and purchase more items for the new apartment we’re moving into on the 10th. Everything was a breeze and I was done in about an hour and a half (took me a while to decide on which cooking utensils to purchase). The same activity probably would have taken me longer had I done it at 6pm. 

The bad part? I have to go home late.

Finally got a chance to watch Twilight last night.

First impressions first:

I love Jasper. He’s like a very pretty wooden doll with a bad hair day. 

Edward in Wayfarers. Still makes me laugh. I don’t know why.

I expected Rosalie to be prettier.

Well, that’s been taken care of.

Anywho, the movie was, at its finest, quite cheesy. A bit cringe-inducing at times, but fun nonetheless. Movie Bella wasn’t as annoying as book version Bella. Edward–still so annoyingly the martyr. Not enough of Alice here, either. Or Emmett, for that matter. I guess you can tell the characters I like.

Was the movie fun? It was! 

Does it merit an after-movie discussion over coffee? Not really. But for a few hours afterward I couldn’t get P to shut up quoting some of his favorite Edward lines from the movie. 

Will I watch it again? Of course! When it comes out on cable. =P

*Images stolen from here.

Wow, this must be how it feels like to work for a company that isn’t about to go down the drain at any second…

It feels great!

I love visiting the website ICanHasCheezburger, a website where funny pictures of cats are made even funnier with captions. Visit it. ^^

They even have a section where you can make your own LOLs, and caption photos your own way. I have a ton of hilarious photos I took of my cats and dogs, but I decided to try out a couple of photos first:

Going to make more as soon as I get all my photos uploaded. Hehehe.

I am quite ashamed to say that I bought the book Twilight yesterday. Ashamed because, well, that’s not normally the kind of stuff I read. I mean, I’m not above reading love stories, or vampires (hello, Anne Rice!), but Christ, this book was light. 

I was first made aware of it after seeing the books so prominently displayed in bookstore shelves under the Bestselling tag, and seeing young girls going ga-ga over it (should’ve been a warning right there). But I was bored yesterday, and too tired from carrying my laptop to bother going off someplace else to look for my usual authors. 

I had gotten off work early and decided to wait for P at High Street in Global City. Fully Booked is always a great place to hang out in, so I entered and looked about for a book to read. Twilight was there, so tantalizingly close, and so tantalizingly close to a chair. So I thought, what the heck, might as well see what everyone’s so hung up on. 

The book was pretty entertaining in the beginning, but really dragging, what with all the description about the beautiful vampires (thank you, I get it. THEY’RE BEAUTIFUL). Who doesn’t like reading about vampires? Especially vampires who don’t melt in the sun and drive fast cars? 

I was so engrossed in the book that when P finally arrived, I couldn’t bear to put it down and just had to buy it. I regretted my decision when we got home and I got to the middle of the book. AND I BOUGHT THE HARDBOUND VERSION. Just thought I’d say that to punish myself more. Also, because it was relatively cheap for a hardbound book.

*SPOILERS!*

The love story is blah, the vampires weren’t as mysterious or interesting as they were made out to be, and the whole thing with them being beautiful and all was starting to get on my nerves. 

*ENDSPOILERS*

I’m reminded of the other vampire novels I’ve read over the years. There was Anne Rice with her beautiful and murderous vampires, and Poppy Z. Brite’s Lost Souls novel, a book I had read a few years ago and liked. A bit. If not for all the gothic emo crap thrown in. 

Which do you prefer: emo vampires, or pretty ones?

Then there was the movie 30 Days of Night, a film that scared the shit out of me and kept me up at night for nearly a week. Heck, I like their vampires better. At least they can be killed. Haha. 

So, where was I… 

I’m not really sure. It’s been a while since I last ranted, and I have no definite ending for this one. Let’s just say that I am quite scared for this generation’s reading habits if a book like Twilight made it into a bestseller list and is now a widely anticipated movie.

AND I JUST ADDED TO THE LIST. OMG. 

Let’s just let that sink in for a while.