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I can't believe I just spent almost two hours doing nonsensical things when I could've continue finishing those 50 journal entries. *dying*

I shouldn't even be on this blog. The temptation is killing me....

I actually just finished dinner at almost 11 and its now 12.30. It seems that only 1 and a half hour had past.

At first, all I did was took this pictures

It was supposed to be inspirational to me, to keep doing those journal. There's about 41 to go. So, I wanted to post it on this blog. However, I stumbled upon Nina's entry. *drumrole please...*
She talked about how she have better things to do, yada yada, and one of it is to install an Arabic keyboard to her lappy. I just couldn't resist. I googled and learned how to properly use the keyboard for both Arabic and Japanese. I didn't really pay much attention to the Arabic since they use a completely different set on the keyboard. I have to relabel my keyboard if I want to properly type in Arabic or Jawi.

For the Japanese, I learn how to write for katakana and hiragana. I learned about the toggle keys to switch between the two, and also to switch between languages. Like so..。にほんご　I actually just wrote Nihon-go. ~^O^~

I'm quite happy even though I may have to pull an all nighter tonight. This is all just a late night musing. Sorry for all of you who have to put up with my crap all the time. I wanna post more reviews for books, but i just either keep jumping from one unfinished book to another or I don't have any idea (yet) to tell you how I feel about a particular book.

This week might not be possible with the amount of exam and workload that I have. Urgghh, new year or not, the show must go on. Typical.

Well, おやすみ　みな　さん

#14 Wild Ones

Title: Arakure
Author: Kiyo Fujiwara
Publisher: VIZ Media LLC
No. of Volumes: 10

I have just finished this series. I'm waiting for dawn so let's just do a recap.

This story is about a girl who had just lost her mother. Since her father had passed away a long time ago, there was noone who can take care of her. Then, out of nowhere,a man suddenly came claiming to be her grandfather. He was also a yakuza. Since her grandfather realized that she would be uncomfortable with the new environment he appointed a caretaker who's near her age to be with her.

The story revolves around Sachie and the caretaker, Rakuto. It turns out that they have known each other since they were young. This is because, her grandfather loves to check up on her (but, from afar), so he always brings Rakuto along.

This puppy love began to bloom and flourish even after ten years.... Of course, there were rivals, hardships and other things to make them waver but they didn't. Oh, and they hook up at the 9 or 10th book because achie is kinda slow. Besides, Rakuto also have this inner demons and fear of his past.

Nevertheless, it is a sweet and sometimes funny story. It was worth wasting hours reading this ten books. I don't feel like ranting because I'm happy enough with the way the story goes. There wasn't even any character worth hating because everything turns out okay.

Moral of the stories are everywhere but I'm too lazy to think of it. I know that this book is unavailable in our country, so here's the link if you're interested. Click Me

#13 Unsticky by Sarra Manning

Title: Unsticky
Author: Sarra Manning
Page Count: 562
Publisher: Headline Publishing Group

This book has taken me approximately seven hour and 40 minutes to finish. The author has written the story beautifully making me love and hate the characters at the same time.

However, there's a little too much x-rated seen so it kind off annoying because I wasn't aiming for a smutty novel.

This book deals about the imperfection in all of us. To err is human. During the course of the book, I see the main character Grace, grow up and take charge of her life. Although, it's kind of an exact replica of Shopaholic, I was still amused.

The downside is, the guy is quite old. There's an 18 years difference. He's very rich but he's to wallowed up in self hate that he didn't realize that she loved him because of him, not his money. Sometimes I feel like strangling him and shake him out of his senses.

The best friend character wasn't really important here. I don't see the function of her. I much rather read a bout her boss. She's like the boss in The Devil Wears Prada.

This book talks a lot about arts, fashion and loads of other stuff that I don't know. At times, I feel like an idiot not knowing this stuff. Oh, and he offered him to be his mistress for lack of proper words. In my not so humble opinion, I think he has  fear of commitment.

In the end, it just shows that everyone deserve love and we're all fucked up in some way. Not forgetting that this book make me shed a tear or two. there's always the situation or sentence that might hit rather close to home.

Oh, and I realised that reading is my coping mechanism and it's not a very good thing for me. I'm not saying no to the knowledge and benefits. It's just that I tend to read when I'm stressed out or I have an important exam or class tomorrow.

To the readers, FYI, I'm gonna have my first OSPE tomorrow.
It's an exam than I sure will screw up. Now, I'm hoping for the best and start studying. I'm not going to end up like the main character who dropped out of her university 2 weeks before final because she can't cope with reality.

Trust. Truth. Lies.

I'm actually in the middle of drawing the anatomy of a human body but I just finished reading an article by Obefiend. In the article, he talks about how Hitler shouldn't be viewed as a hero in the Muslim world as he kills the Jews. He was severely bashed in the comment section. Malaysian truly can't keep their opinion to themselves. Calm down people, it's his blog. You don't like what you read? Buzz off. I don't think you can write any article that is worth reading.

Anyways, history is written by those who won. If you don't believe this, let's look at our own history shall we. We say that all those unsung heroes like Tok Janggut and the gang are in fact heroes. The saviour of our country, brave, brave people.They all deserve a pat in the back. Unfortunately, I don't think the British viewed them as such. If I remember correctly, they were all insistent on putting their heads at the gallows, saying that those 'heroes' disturb their charity work of making Tanah Melayu as a civilised country.

As a Malaysian, I would obviously sided with my other comrades that British is definitely wrong. i would say that at the time, we already have our own system. They say we are incompetent but they're forgetting that we have the best ports at the time and great rulers. We were rich enough. They say we were uncivilised because we did not practice the same religion ad system that they have. This shows that opinions that people have about something is different. we can't know for sure what happens because there's no such thing as an unbiased writer. we are human, so we would always side with someone. Sometimes it's beneficial, sometimes we were influenced by them. We cannot just dismissed something because we say that is untrue.

What I'm saying here is just try to respect people's opinion. I know truth is not a democracy but people kept debating on little stuff. I can't help it that I'm too liberal. I often questioned religion and history. Nothings absolute and things are mostly man-made. I mean, they can alter the bible easily, what makes you think they won't do the same to history. Some says faith is believing something without proof.

A hilarious thing about human:
When we say that there's God, people easily said they believe Him.
When we say the paint is wet, they'll have to touch it first to be sure.

Click Here to go to the article that I've read earlier. It's the misconception on how Hitler killing Jews will benefit the Arabs. Take it with a pinch of salt. :3

#12 An Abundance of Katherine

Title: An Abundance of Katherines
Author: John Green

Look at the cover will you, it doesn't look much right. They This book has a lot of recommendations but I don't think I like it much. (I like it, but not love it, get what I mean?)

The characters are interesting but not developed much. They say Hassan is interesting, and I agree quite a bit. He is exactly like a Muslim who don't really go by the Muslim rules, well much like other people with different religion. Youngsters nowadays really care less about their belief. Mind you, I'm not exactly above him since I'm almost as bad as him.

However, my opinion on Colin is just that he want to be someone in the world. he felt like he is a nobody even if he's a prodigy. He is a prodigy just not a genius. He knows a lot of facts and trivia but I see that he just remembers them but not using them in real life. If he can connect between the stories he read and his life, he could avoid all the teen angst and bullying. I suppose, that might have been the writers intention. I mean, people read but they simply ingest the word but not digesting them. It is like when we are studying, we can not simply read, we must understand.

It is quite absurd of him to date nineteen different Katherine and was dumped by most of them. It could be because he likes being different. Different is good but it is best not to be whole other dimension of weird.

What I can say is, this story is too simple but long. In the end he got a girl who is not called Katherine (what a shocker, note the sarcasm), his friend who stubbornly refuse to attend college finally did, and he somewhat learn how to make friends. I think this is suitable for leisure reading as it does not require much thinking and it'll amuse you with never-ending facts.

Here are the other covers... told you the book is famous. 

Sadly, I don't think all of these covers are published.

There are more, so if you're interested, just google the book cover, Adios chickas.

 

#11 Wake Trilogy

Title:1. Wake 2. Fade 3. Gone
Author: Lisa McMann

These books are quite interesting as it shows the heroine is both blessed and cursed. We have been spoon-fed stories that super powers are good but in this story, I only see it as a curse. Since she was a kid, she's been suck into people's dream and that always left her tired and hungry. There's more, it seems that the more she dream-walk, she'll be losing her life force. In twenty to thirty years, she'll be left blind and crippled. She did think of isolation throughout the book and almost go through with it if she did not meet her father. Ooops, you must not know the details yet.

Well, the main character lives with her alcoholic mother and have to take care of her. Her father left her mother since birth, meaning her father did not even know she existed. Her father is actually a dream-catcher as well (a term for people who can get into other people's dream). He left because he knows he could not function well being with people because he will be constantly be drag into other people's dream.

The books revolved around the main character's choices, hopes and fears. Besides, a young adult fiction is never complete if there's not at least a bit of romance. So, insert a drool-worthy guy here and we got Cabel that accept her just the way she is. he is far from perfect and have his own past but together they overcome many difficulties that this sadistic author can think of.

These books discuss about drugs and sexual harassment as well. They don't really do drugs but they became undercover teenager who works for the police to bust the drug dealer who sell them to other high-schoolers. Plus, they also caught some teachers who spiked food and drinks at parties to have massive orgies with them. They also use drug (also known as date-rape drug) to make you forgot everything in the morning and think that it was only an innocent party. The teachers involve also played with the emotion of the teenagers, manipulating them into thinking that it was them the one who lusted after the teacher instead of the other way around.

Alcoholism is also potrayed in here. The main character take responsibility of her mother instead of the other way around. In the end, she went to see a group therapist so that she understand that her mother's drinking habit is not her fault nor should she blame herself for existing.

There's a mild theme of abuse because Cabel got an abusive father. Even when he was dead, he still haunts his dream. This shows that the bully live within us and we should learn to escape from that. Forgiveness might be hard but thinking about it just cut open old scars.

In short, these books are about teen problems and how the characters overcome them. People might say that youngsters are carefree but we're actually in the road to depression.

#10 Goodnight, Beautiful

Title: Goodnight, Beautiful
Author: Dorothy Koomson

You know how they always say that loves conquers all. Amen to that then.... For this review, I will refrain myself from swearing although I did when I'm live airing my thoughts about this book on twitter.

Firstly, let me just say that, I hate Stephanie from this book. To me, she is the evil character, the antagonist, the home-wrecker. Even if she was a legitimate wife, I still think she's horrid. An ugly turd. She has insecurities, suffer manic depression and leech of people. She is paranoid and destroy other people's healthy relationship. Even if she repent and become "good" in the end, nothing, I mean nothing can ever make me forgive her. I know we should all love each other, I mean Voldemort was forgiven since I pity him of not having a loving father and not having a nose. I hate her because she's in the way of true love. Mal should have left her.

Okay, enough hating on her, let's move on to the supposed hero of the story, Mal. He is by far the stupidest, spineless man ever. If a woman is having your baby, you're suppose to care for her. Especially if she is your childhood friend you love her since forever. Leave your manic wife behind. Who cares if she has nobody else in the world to take care of her. Is it because your friend had more people to support her, she can raise a son alone. you were the one who burden her in the first place asking her to be the surrogate mother. When suddenly your wife decides that she was afraid that she could lose you when the baby is born, you just left your friend since you were in diapers, you tell her you want nothing to do with her leaving her with the unborn baby. Then, suddenly when her son (which is his as well) was sick, he had the nerved to say that he care after all those years. You make me sick. And when she was suffering at the thought of her so dying, you of all people offer sex. I mean seriously? You said it would take her mind of things. Yeah, it did, it got her knocked up, that's what. thank God she has the audacity of leaving the country after her son's death and raise her new baby girl in Portugal.

Nova. Nova. Nova. Where should I start. She sees the good in everyone. Even in that old hag Steph who was in no way trying to make friends with her. I don't really wanna say much because I'm running out of steam because of all that hating on the above characters, It is sad that she has to suffer so much and being so alone. Overall, she got herself sorted out and live a god life. I feel bad for her for having to cross path with Steph.

Well people, don't be put out by my hating. I love how the writer weave the story, how she kept me reading the story until the end. yes, I despise the book for injecting reality in my normally unreal book. I hoped for a better ending where she would at least meet her prince charming. Since none of that is happening, I'll just have to use my imagination. To those who are planning to read this book, prepare lots of tissues and maybe emphatise so you won't be like me all hating on the antagonist. We can'yt judge people because what we know about people is only a mere fraction of what they truly are. We won't know any better unless we have been in their skin as them.....