March 31, 2009
Virgo (8/23-9/22)
You can change the minds of some very important people today and get what you want -- all it will require is some quick reasoning and cold logic. So it's a good thing that you have tons of both to spare! You can enlighten these people about the facts of the situation without sounding like you're lecturing them. These folks like your style and they want to hear what you have to say. Once you start talking, they will start listening. Raptly!
i like!!!
my stars
March 30, 2009
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Virgo (8/23-9/22)Nothing is for certain today, even the things you take for granted (like noon time hunger pangs). And while this uncertainty could be uncomfortable, you could choose to see it as an opportunity. Today can be a good day or a bad day -- depending on what you choose to make of it. Missed that killer parking spot by three seconds? Wonderful! You get to enjoy a little more fresh air as you walk from the spot that's farther away. Your creativity enables you to make lemonade out of any lemons.
HK Writer to Filipinos: "Don't flex your muscles at your 'Master'"
a friend of mine posted this article in her blog. i read through it and i just had to repost it here. is it a satire, as he probably meant it to be, or is it an insult to the Filipino? you be the judge.
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The War At Home
March 27th, 2009The Russians sank a Hong Kong freighter last month, killing the seven Chinese seamen on board. We can live with that—Lenin and Stalin were once the ideological mentors of all Chinese people. The Japanese planted a flag on Diàoyú Island. That’s no big problem—we Hong Kong Chinese love Japanese cartoons, Hello Kitty, and shopping in Shinjuku, let alone our round-the-clock obsession with karaoke.
But hold on—even the Filipinos? Manila has just claimed sovereignty over the scattered rocks in the South China Sea called the Spratly Islands, complete with a blatant threat from its congress to send gunboats to the South China Sea to defend the islands from China if necessary. This is beyond reproach. The reason: there are more than 130,000 Filipina maids working as $3,580-a-month cheap labor in Hong Kong. As a nation of servants, you don’t flex your muscles at your master, from whom you earn most of your bread and butter.
As a patriotic Chinese man, the news has made my blood boil. I summoned Louisa, my domestic assistant who holds a degree in international politics from the University of Manila, hung a map on the wall, and gave her a harsh lecture. I sternly warned her that if she wants her wages increased next year, she had better tell every one of her compatriots in Statue Square on Sunday that the entirety of the Spratly Islands belongs to China.
Grimly, I told her that if war breaks out between the Philippines and China, I would have to end her employment and send her straight home, because I would not risk the crime of treason for sponsoring an enemy of the state by paying her to wash my toilet and clean my windows 16 hours a day. With that money, she would pay taxes to her government, and they would fund a navy to invade our motherland and deeply hurt my feelings.
Oh yes. The government of the Philippines would certainly be wrong if they think we Chinese are prepared to swallow their insult and sit back and lose a Falkland Islands War in the Far East. They may have Barack Obama and the hawkish American military behind them, but we have a hostage in each of our homes in the Mid-Levels or higher. Some of my friends told me they have already declared a state of emergency at home. Their maids have been made to shout “China, Madam/Sir” loudly whenever they hear the word “Spratly.” They say the indoctrination is working as wonderfully as when we used to shout, “Long live Chairman Mao!” at the sight of a portrait of our Great Leader during the Cultural Revolution. I’m not sure if that’s going a bit too far, at least for the time being.
Chip Tsao is a best-selling author and columnist. A former reporter for the BBC, his columns have also appeared in Apple Daily, Next Magazine and CUP Magazine, among others.
from herword.com
my stars, from herword.com
march 23-29, 2009
Virgo
Ending something important is likely. You will be asked by circumstances to do something new. Change what is necessary and learn to go with the flow of things. Circumstances beyond your control are working now in your life. Important lessons can be learned if you will be more humble. Do not be hasty with your actions and decisions. Avoid being affected by anger.
is this timely or what? so prophetic i feel like it was written for me and me alone.
march 23-29, 2009
Virgo
Ending something important is likely. You will be asked by circumstances to do something new. Change what is necessary and learn to go with the flow of things. Circumstances beyond your control are working now in your life. Important lessons can be learned if you will be more humble. Do not be hasty with your actions and decisions. Avoid being affected by anger.
is this timely or what? so prophetic i feel like it was written for me and me alone.
my stars
March 28, 2009
Virgo (8/23-9/22)
An opportunity for a long journey or some other sort of geographical change could be coming your way very soon. And if you already have a trip planned, you can expect it to go incredibly well -- an upgrade might even be involved, especially if you unleash your twinkling self on the smiling flight attendant. Prepare yourself for unexpected luxury. A big payoff is due today on the financial front as well, and it's one you should share with the people you love.
huWEEEEEEEEE!!!
Virgo (8/23-9/22)
An opportunity for a long journey or some other sort of geographical change could be coming your way very soon. And if you already have a trip planned, you can expect it to go incredibly well -- an upgrade might even be involved, especially if you unleash your twinkling self on the smiling flight attendant. Prepare yourself for unexpected luxury. A big payoff is due today on the financial front as well, and it's one you should share with the people you love.
huWEEEEEEEEE!!!
graduation day
when i entered the school campus this afternoon, the elementary department was having its commencement exercises. the honor graduates, together with their proud parents, marched on stage to sir edward william elgar's "pomp and circumstance" to receive their medals.
hearing this march brings back memories of graduations i have attended, either as a graduate or a proud sister. they played pomp and circumstance during my high school and grade school graduations, and then for our graduation day in law school. i don't think they played this for my BA graduation -- UP probably had their own graduation march. they played it during my sister's grade school and high school graduation (she and i went to the same school), and for my brother's grade school graduation. i didn't attend his high school graduation because it was held on the same day as my sister's grade school ceremony, so we had to divide the family, with mom going to my brother's school, and me and dad going to my sister's.
graduation has always been said as the transitioning from one phase of our lives to another. from grade school, those who graduated this afternoon will now transition to high school, a bigger world with bigger responsibilities. high school graduates will transition to college and young adulthood, which means more responsibility, since this is for most people the last stage of their education and the preparation for their future. graduating from college is the end of a life of dependence on one's parents or guardians, and the start of dependence on oneself, applying everything learned from school to living a full life.
for those whose penchant for studying is never quenched (like me), they may graduate again and again from their master's, doctorate, law and medicine degrees. they will keep on hearing the graduation march, each time more meaningful. i guess i felt that way when i marched to it seven years ago, during my graduation from law school. i added another degree to my resume, another feather to my cap.
i'm looking forward to finishing my MBA next year (God willing!) and marching to that tune again, in the glow of the setting sun. it's another milestone in my life, still another feather to my cap.
hearing this march brings back memories of graduations i have attended, either as a graduate or a proud sister. they played pomp and circumstance during my high school and grade school graduations, and then for our graduation day in law school. i don't think they played this for my BA graduation -- UP probably had their own graduation march. they played it during my sister's grade school and high school graduation (she and i went to the same school), and for my brother's grade school graduation. i didn't attend his high school graduation because it was held on the same day as my sister's grade school ceremony, so we had to divide the family, with mom going to my brother's school, and me and dad going to my sister's.
graduation has always been said as the transitioning from one phase of our lives to another. from grade school, those who graduated this afternoon will now transition to high school, a bigger world with bigger responsibilities. high school graduates will transition to college and young adulthood, which means more responsibility, since this is for most people the last stage of their education and the preparation for their future. graduating from college is the end of a life of dependence on one's parents or guardians, and the start of dependence on oneself, applying everything learned from school to living a full life.
for those whose penchant for studying is never quenched (like me), they may graduate again and again from their master's, doctorate, law and medicine degrees. they will keep on hearing the graduation march, each time more meaningful. i guess i felt that way when i marched to it seven years ago, during my graduation from law school. i added another degree to my resume, another feather to my cap.
i'm looking forward to finishing my MBA next year (God willing!) and marching to that tune again, in the glow of the setting sun. it's another milestone in my life, still another feather to my cap.
i found it!
my glamorous journal, i mean. i'm going to bring it with me everywhere i go so i can jot down my thoughts when i need to.
it's been a week of exams for me. let's not get started on that. suffice to say that i used up a whole pen for 2 exams.
*****
March 27, 2009
Virgo (8/23-9/22)
Today you will step into a leadership position, and you will be responsible for getting everyone on the same page at the same time. Luckily, this will easy and enjoyable for you. You've got the confident charm, a high-spirited attitude, and all the patience you need to keep things moving in the right direction today. Whether you are coordinating everyone for a work project or potluck supper, you will have a ball talking with people and checking things off the list.
i'm not sure if this refers to school or to a job opportunity for me. whatever. i'm just biding my time, waiting in the wings, until my time comes.
it's been a week of exams for me. let's not get started on that. suffice to say that i used up a whole pen for 2 exams.
*****
March 27, 2009
Virgo (8/23-9/22)
Today you will step into a leadership position, and you will be responsible for getting everyone on the same page at the same time. Luckily, this will easy and enjoyable for you. You've got the confident charm, a high-spirited attitude, and all the patience you need to keep things moving in the right direction today. Whether you are coordinating everyone for a work project or potluck supper, you will have a ball talking with people and checking things off the list.
i'm not sure if this refers to school or to a job opportunity for me. whatever. i'm just biding my time, waiting in the wings, until my time comes.
my stars
March 26, 2009
Virgo (8/23-9/22)
Are you ready to take on a more involved role at work? A huge opportunity is coming, and you need to make sure that you know what your answer will be before it's offered. So take time to evaluate the situation thoroughly. If you take on a higher profile, will it create problems with coworkers? And does that even matter? At a certain point, you have to choose advancement over popularity. Before the end of the day, you will have a clearer idea whether or not that time has arrived.
Virgo (8/23-9/22)
Are you ready to take on a more involved role at work? A huge opportunity is coming, and you need to make sure that you know what your answer will be before it's offered. So take time to evaluate the situation thoroughly. If you take on a higher profile, will it create problems with coworkers? And does that even matter? At a certain point, you have to choose advancement over popularity. Before the end of the day, you will have a clearer idea whether or not that time has arrived.
my journal
a long time ago, no, not really a long time ago. maybe a couple of months ago, i thought of starting a new paper and pen journal, much like i used to when i was in high school and college. it served as a record of all the things that happened in my life, from the most mundane (ruined school shoes) to the serious (passing UP, and UP law). my old journals are still at home, tied together with green satin ribbon, a testament to that part of my life which i recorded for future posterity.
note: i cringe every time i open one of those and read out a random entry.
i stopped writing in journals when i was in law school in UP, perhaps because i didn't have much time for anything other than studying. or maybe because there wasn't anything interesting to write about. no, wait, i actually stopped writing in the year 2001, when i was in 3rd year law at UE. there. because...i don't know. i was busy? or maybe i was...busy?
when i went to the states in december 2001, i bought a journal at disneyworld in anaheim. it wasn't exactly a journal, more of an autograph book which the kids normally bought together with a disney pen with the mickey mouse ears. i wrote in that journal a lot during my 3 week stay, even recording the temperature every single day, and loving it because it was wintertime and i was experiencing a california winter, which was so different from the winter in july i spent in melbourne in 1995 (i wrote about that, too).
in 2004 i started an electronic diary, harking back to the days when i watched doogie howser MD writing in his electronic journal at the end of each episode. my first online diary was in diaryland, then tabulas. i still have the tabulas account (http://wandergirl.tabulas.com), but i don't write in it much. it was a record of my days as an agent with peoplesupport, when the site was not yet blocked, and i could write entries after every shift.
my tabulas weblog also has the details of my second trip to the US for my brother's wedding in 2005, as well as my travails and other extra things (read: sundry stuff) while reviewing for the 2006 bar. i think it also has some stuff about my current employer. my last entry was on february 6th, and since then i haven't written anything there since i have this new one.
so, when am i going to do the paper and pen journal? i don't know. maybe later? i have a spiral notebook in my bag that i bring along everywhere, but it is still blank. i tried keeping a journal, the pen and paper one, with a glamorous journal i bought in the states in 2005, with a pink and orange satiny cover and gold sequins and thread all around. i started in 2006 with that journal, then took it up again in 2007 or 2008. the last entry i have there, if i remember, was the one i tried to write while on the ferry to bohol during our holy week trip last year. since then i haven't opened that journal, or even completed that last entry. i think i should, if only for the sake of memories.
now if i can only remember which bin i put that journal in....
note: i cringe every time i open one of those and read out a random entry.
i stopped writing in journals when i was in law school in UP, perhaps because i didn't have much time for anything other than studying. or maybe because there wasn't anything interesting to write about. no, wait, i actually stopped writing in the year 2001, when i was in 3rd year law at UE. there. because...i don't know. i was busy? or maybe i was...busy?
when i went to the states in december 2001, i bought a journal at disneyworld in anaheim. it wasn't exactly a journal, more of an autograph book which the kids normally bought together with a disney pen with the mickey mouse ears. i wrote in that journal a lot during my 3 week stay, even recording the temperature every single day, and loving it because it was wintertime and i was experiencing a california winter, which was so different from the winter in july i spent in melbourne in 1995 (i wrote about that, too).
in 2004 i started an electronic diary, harking back to the days when i watched doogie howser MD writing in his electronic journal at the end of each episode. my first online diary was in diaryland, then tabulas. i still have the tabulas account (http://wandergirl.tabulas.com), but i don't write in it much. it was a record of my days as an agent with peoplesupport, when the site was not yet blocked, and i could write entries after every shift.
my tabulas weblog also has the details of my second trip to the US for my brother's wedding in 2005, as well as my travails and other extra things (read: sundry stuff) while reviewing for the 2006 bar. i think it also has some stuff about my current employer. my last entry was on february 6th, and since then i haven't written anything there since i have this new one.
so, when am i going to do the paper and pen journal? i don't know. maybe later? i have a spiral notebook in my bag that i bring along everywhere, but it is still blank. i tried keeping a journal, the pen and paper one, with a glamorous journal i bought in the states in 2005, with a pink and orange satiny cover and gold sequins and thread all around. i started in 2006 with that journal, then took it up again in 2007 or 2008. the last entry i have there, if i remember, was the one i tried to write while on the ferry to bohol during our holy week trip last year. since then i haven't opened that journal, or even completed that last entry. i think i should, if only for the sake of memories.
now if i can only remember which bin i put that journal in....
the cat in the parking area
recently i discovered that there's a cat that lives in the parking area of our building. it's a white tabby cat, of the pusakal variety. it stays mostly under the BMW parked on the second level, beside the service elevator.
i haven't had the chance to get too close to it. the closest i've gotten to it was when i was walking toward the door to the building from the parking area, and there she was, under the BMW, meowing loudly. maybe not from hunger, but because this is mating season for cats. i know this is so because our pet cat kittehr also meowls that way during mating season.
my sister's adopting kittehr made me a cat liker. not lover, that's too much, because i can't carry kittehr around. but i get concerned enough to buy kittehr her own can of cat chow whenever i do the groceries. i got worried when kittehr wasn't being her usual frisky self and brought her to the vet. i worried when she was pregnant and didn't know how to give birth. and i still worry now. i ask where she is if she's not in the house. i make sure she's at the back of the house with her kittens before i take down the car or park the car in the garage. when she scratches at the screen door i let her in.
this is the same concern that led me to noticing the cat in the parking area. my sister said to try and feed it, but i'm not sure how i'm going to do that. suffice to say that i know the "kuyas" feed her, and she can do a bit of scavenging here and there, but i'll make sure to avoid hitting her when i drive up and down the parking area.
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i haven't had the chance to get too close to it. the closest i've gotten to it was when i was walking toward the door to the building from the parking area, and there she was, under the BMW, meowing loudly. maybe not from hunger, but because this is mating season for cats. i know this is so because our pet cat kittehr also meowls that way during mating season.
my sister's adopting kittehr made me a cat liker. not lover, that's too much, because i can't carry kittehr around. but i get concerned enough to buy kittehr her own can of cat chow whenever i do the groceries. i got worried when kittehr wasn't being her usual frisky self and brought her to the vet. i worried when she was pregnant and didn't know how to give birth. and i still worry now. i ask where she is if she's not in the house. i make sure she's at the back of the house with her kittens before i take down the car or park the car in the garage. when she scratches at the screen door i let her in.
this is the same concern that led me to noticing the cat in the parking area. my sister said to try and feed it, but i'm not sure how i'm going to do that. suffice to say that i know the "kuyas" feed her, and she can do a bit of scavenging here and there, but i'll make sure to avoid hitting her when i drive up and down the parking area.
*****
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Virgo
August 23 - September 22
Too much is on your mind right now, dear Virgo, and therefore you could well have trouble sleeping. When you do manage to drop off, you could find yourself experiencing bizarre dreams. This is the only downside to your present situation, however. Everything else should be going very well. It might help to take a walk at night before you go to bed. This clears your head, gets the endorphins going, and works off excess energy.
August 23 - September 22
Too much is on your mind right now, dear Virgo, and therefore you could well have trouble sleeping. When you do manage to drop off, you could find yourself experiencing bizarre dreams. This is the only downside to your present situation, however. Everything else should be going very well. It might help to take a walk at night before you go to bed. This clears your head, gets the endorphins going, and works off excess energy.
my stars.
Virgo
August 23 - September 22
It will be as though you're in a new and hopeful world today, dear Virgo. The people you meet will be cordial and caring, and the future will seem like a bright, attractive place to live. In other words, you feel as though you're living in a fabulous dream. Alas, the alarm clock is bound to wake you up soon. So, while it lasts, enjoy the sweet reality of the day ahead.
life is but a dream. better make it a good one as long as it lasts.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). Eve if you’re not exactly enthusiastic about an endeavor, venture forward anyhow. Your low expectations contribute to the magical quality of this day. Everything unfolds to delight you.
August 23 - September 22
It will be as though you're in a new and hopeful world today, dear Virgo. The people you meet will be cordial and caring, and the future will seem like a bright, attractive place to live. In other words, you feel as though you're living in a fabulous dream. Alas, the alarm clock is bound to wake you up soon. So, while it lasts, enjoy the sweet reality of the day ahead.
life is but a dream. better make it a good one as long as it lasts.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). Eve if you’re not exactly enthusiastic about an endeavor, venture forward anyhow. Your low expectations contribute to the magical quality of this day. Everything unfolds to delight you.
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March 19, 2009
Virgo (8/23-9/22)
You're on a quest today, but do you know what you are looking for? Clues are everywhere, but they will useless to you if you're not clear about your objectives. So go slowly and make sure you've got everything you need to get things done today. If you just shoot right out of the gate, you might go farther faster, but you might be going in the wrong direction. There is no need to hurry right now -- you won't impress anyone, and you won't achieve your goals.
i do want to take things slowly, and i'm looking all around me, trying to judge whether a particular incident, decision, email, phone call, is a clue as to what i want to be and to do.
the interview i went to last friday did not get me the position i applied for. although i felt bad about it when i first read the email, i figured that this must be a sign. of what, i don't really know, much like i still don't have any idea what my rejection email from the other call center meant, even through i thought i got the position down pat.
during the mass last sunday, the gospel reading was about how Christ knew about human nature. i prayed a little prayer that He lead me to what i should be doing. i've prayed the same prayer for years now, but i still went my own way. this time, i'm letting Him lead me. i won't be in a hurry; everything will fall into place, in His time, not mine.
Virgo (8/23-9/22)
You're on a quest today, but do you know what you are looking for? Clues are everywhere, but they will useless to you if you're not clear about your objectives. So go slowly and make sure you've got everything you need to get things done today. If you just shoot right out of the gate, you might go farther faster, but you might be going in the wrong direction. There is no need to hurry right now -- you won't impress anyone, and you won't achieve your goals.
i do want to take things slowly, and i'm looking all around me, trying to judge whether a particular incident, decision, email, phone call, is a clue as to what i want to be and to do.
the interview i went to last friday did not get me the position i applied for. although i felt bad about it when i first read the email, i figured that this must be a sign. of what, i don't really know, much like i still don't have any idea what my rejection email from the other call center meant, even through i thought i got the position down pat.
during the mass last sunday, the gospel reading was about how Christ knew about human nature. i prayed a little prayer that He lead me to what i should be doing. i've prayed the same prayer for years now, but i still went my own way. this time, i'm letting Him lead me. i won't be in a hurry; everything will fall into place, in His time, not mine.
jollibee woodside new york....
the new york times critiqued the food choices at jollibee queens, the first store to open on the east coast. here's the review.
Jollibee
62-29 Roosevelt Avenue
(63rd Street)
Queens, NY
Phone (718) 426-4445
Jollibee is a Filipino fast-food chain, with 600-plus outlets there, across Asia and on our own West Coast. The Woodside branch is New York's first, and since its mid-February opening, expatriates have lined up for a taste of home, on weekends waiting as much as an hour just to get in the door. Jollibee is known as the McDonald's of the Philippines, and its menu will be familiar to anyone who's passed under the golden arches. Chickenjoy, Jollibee's specialty, is straightforward fried chicken, with moist meat, a crispy but not too thick batter and, when ordered spicy, a dusting of potent chili powder. After a passel of forgettable burgers, the menu heads for odder territory. Spaghetti is topped with a sweet, hot-dog-and-ham-studded tomato sauce, and is frighteningly addictive. Palabok Fiesta is the only recognizably Asian dish: rice noodles in a gummy-but-yummy sauce of fish flakes, pork, shrimp, egg and crumbled chicharron. The signature deep-fried peach-mango pie is crusty, intensely fruity and worth the wait. -- Matt Gross
-The New York Times
» Read Full Restaurant Review of Jollibee
Meals Breakfast,Brunch,Lunch,Dinner
Alcohol Served No
Price $ Inexpensive
Reservations Not Available
Handicap Access Yes
IMHO, only pinoys can do jollibee justice.
Jollibee
62-29 Roosevelt Avenue
(63rd Street)
Queens, NY
Phone (718) 426-4445
Jollibee is a Filipino fast-food chain, with 600-plus outlets there, across Asia and on our own West Coast. The Woodside branch is New York's first, and since its mid-February opening, expatriates have lined up for a taste of home, on weekends waiting as much as an hour just to get in the door. Jollibee is known as the McDonald's of the Philippines, and its menu will be familiar to anyone who's passed under the golden arches. Chickenjoy, Jollibee's specialty, is straightforward fried chicken, with moist meat, a crispy but not too thick batter and, when ordered spicy, a dusting of potent chili powder. After a passel of forgettable burgers, the menu heads for odder territory. Spaghetti is topped with a sweet, hot-dog-and-ham-studded tomato sauce, and is frighteningly addictive. Palabok Fiesta is the only recognizably Asian dish: rice noodles in a gummy-but-yummy sauce of fish flakes, pork, shrimp, egg and crumbled chicharron. The signature deep-fried peach-mango pie is crusty, intensely fruity and worth the wait. -- Matt Gross
-The New York Times
» Read Full Restaurant Review of Jollibee
Meals Breakfast,Brunch,Lunch,Dinner
Alcohol Served No
Price $ Inexpensive
Reservations Not Available
Handicap Access Yes
IMHO, only pinoys can do jollibee justice.
march 17, 2009
Virgo (8/23-9/22)
Put your personal life goals first, today. Free yourself from having to deal with the dramas in other people's lives. Not only is it boring to hear about the trials and tribulations of your friends all of the time, it can be a bit depressing! So concentrate on creating your own dramas today -- the good kind, of course. If you want to get out and go, do it -- don't feel guilty that you're having fun if a friend is going through troubles. Live your life.
Put your personal life goals first, today. Free yourself from having to deal with the dramas in other people's lives. Not only is it boring to hear about the trials and tribulations of your friends all of the time, it can be a bit depressing! So concentrate on creating your own dramas today -- the good kind, of course. If you want to get out and go, do it -- don't feel guilty that you're having fun if a friend is going through troubles. Live your life.
The Top Ten Riddles
tabbygirl says -- how did this become the top 10 when there's, like, 39? anyway, it was forwarded to me by D, taken from chico garcia's website. chico garcia, in case you don't know him, is half of the popular DJ duo chico and delamar, heard in the mornings on RX93.1.
- Ana - Q: Anong hayop na ang paa niya, nasa ulo? A: Kuto.
- Doorknob - Q: What’s the difference between a joke and rice-planting? A: Ang magtanim ay di biro…
- Powpot - Q: Ano ito - mabuhok, matigas, pasok-labas sa madilim na butas? A: TOOTHBRUSH.
- Louise - Q: 2 fathers and 2 sons had dinner together. They were composed of 3 men. How is this possible? A: 1 is the grandfather, 1 is the father, 1 is the son.
- Choomag - Q: Sino ang asawa ni Mr. Bean? A: Eh di si Avrila Bean!
- Hookworm/Menard/Maximo - Q: Dinilaan ko’t pinatigas, bago ko ipas0k. Ano ito? A: Sinulid, bago ipasok sa karayom.
- Duday - Q: Sinundot ni malambot ang puwet ni matigas. Sino sila? A: Karay0m at sinulid.
- Cleng/Mr. Perk - Q: Ang nawalan ay natawa, ang nakakuha ay nasuka. Ano ito? A: Utot.
- Emz - Q: Bumaril ako sa baba, sa taas tumama. Ano ako? A: Utot.
- Jose de vengenge - Q: What’s 68? A: You do me & I owe you one.
- Jose de vengenge - Q: Pinasok ko matigas pa, nang inilabas ko’y malambot na. A: Chewing gum.
- Jose de vengenge - Q: What’s the difference between oooh & aaah? A: About 3 inches.
- Jose de vengenge - Q: Patpat kong matigas labas-masok sa butas, pag iyong idiniin langit ang mararating. A: Cotton buds.
- Marcus - Q: Anong “Pu” ang napapaligiran ng buhok? A: Puyo.
- His Airness - Q: Why did Meryl Streep? A: Because Michael J. Fox.
- Marcus - Q: Ano ang tawag sa hipon na laging nasasakuna? A: Accident Prawn.
- Chinese Cowboy - Q: What do you call a cross between a bulldog and a shih tzu? A: Bull-sh*t.
- Disenchanted - Q: What is the one thing that has to be broken before it is used? A: An egg.
- Yñaki - Q: Iisa ang pinasukan, tatlo ang linabasan. Ano ito? A: T-shirt.
- Specialist - Q: No sooner spoken than broken. What is it? A: Silence.
- Specialist - Q: The maker doesn’t want it. The buyer doesn’t use it. The user doesn’t see it. What is it? A: Coffin.
- Dru - Q: What opens up when you put your fingers through its holes? A: Scissors!
- Mr. Perk - Q: What is the other tagalog word for sex that starts with a “k” and ends with an “n”? A: Kasarian.
- Kemosabe - Q: Ano ang tawag sa pantalon ng kabayo? A: Paa.
- Boomshakala - Q: When I go forward I am heavy, but when I go backwards I am not. What ami I? A: TON.
- Gerver - Q: Anong hayop ang hindi nalalaos? A: BEAR. Kasi lagi siyang OSO!
- Rogie - Q: Andiyan na si kaka, bubuka-bukaka. Ano ito? A: Operadang bakla.
- Mcsupremy - Q: Why is it against the law for a man living in
- Mcsupremy - Q: There was an airplane crash. Every single pers0n died, but tw0 pe0ple survived. How is this possible? A: They were married.
- Geyp - Q: How many eggs can you eat on an empty stomach? A: One. After which your stomach would not be empty.
- Porkchop - Q: What gets wetter as it dries? A: A towel.
- Bluebloodedblue - Q: Kung gusto mo ako mabuhay ng matagal, patayin mo ako. Ano ako?A: Kandila.
- Curt Smith - Q: Kapag ito ay hinimas, ito ay tatayo ng mataas at matigas? Ano ito? A: Buntot ng pusa.
- Paolo - Q: What 4-letter word starts with an “F” and ends with a “K”, and if you can’t get one, you can always use your hands? A: Fork.
- Astroboy - Q: The pope has it but doesn’t use it. Your dad has it and your m0m uses it. Your lady friend’s husband has it and she uses it. What is it? A: Surname.
- Kemosabe - Q: What part of the body grows up to 3 times its size when excited? A: The pupils of the eyes.
- Lara - Q: How do you top a car? A: Tep on the brake, tupid!
- Boy 2tok - Q: Saang lugar maraming baka? A:
- Boy 2tok - Q: Ano ang tawag sa paniking mababa ang lipad? A: Low Bat.
march 16, 2009
Virgo
August 23 - September 22
Your financial situation looks particularly good right now. An increase in income might be coming your way, dear Virgo. The downside is likely to be that contracts might be involved, and you'll have to spend a lot of time perusing boring legal documents that need to be executed. A lot of visitors could come to your home tonight, probably to exchange ideas and information. Send them home before too late an hour, however. You'll want to get to sleep!
tabbygirl says -- woohoo!!! i can deal with the contracts, but i like! :)
tabbygirl says -- woohoo!!! i can deal with the contracts, but i like! :)
what my birthday says about me.
Christine took What does your birthday say about you? quiz and the result is September.
Suave and compromising. Careful, cautious and organized. Likes to point out people's mistakes. Likes to criticize. Stubborn. Quiet but able to talk well. Calm and cool. Kind and sympathetic. Concerned and detailed. Loyal but not always honest. Does work well. Very confident. Sensitive. Thinking generous. Good memory. Clever and knowledgeable. Loves to look for information. Must control oneself when criticizing. Able to motivate oneself. Understanding. Fun to be around. Secretive. Loves sports, leisure and traveling. Hardly shows emotions. Tends to bottle up feelings. Very choosy, especially in relationships. Systematic.
Suave and compromising. Careful, cautious and organized. Likes to point out people's mistakes. Likes to criticize. Stubborn. Quiet but able to talk well. Calm and cool. Kind and sympathetic. Concerned and detailed. Loyal but not always honest. Does work well. Very confident. Sensitive. Thinking generous. Good memory. Clever and knowledgeable. Loves to look for information. Must control oneself when criticizing. Able to motivate oneself. Understanding. Fun to be around. Secretive. Loves sports, leisure and traveling. Hardly shows emotions. Tends to bottle up feelings. Very choosy, especially in relationships. Systematic.
Top ten worst foods of 2009
1. Pepperidge Farm Roasted White Meat Chicken Premium Pot Pie - There are 510 calories and 9 grams of saturated fat in this baby. Oh wait - that’s just for half a pie. The whole thing has 1020 calories and 18 grams of saturated fat.
2. Romano’s Macaroni Grill Spaghetti and Meatballs with Meat Sauce - This dish will set you back a staggering 2,430 calories and nearly three days’ worth of saturated fat (57 grams) plus 5,290 milligrams of sodium - more calories and saturated fat than two Macaroni Grill Tuscan Rib-Eye steak dinners.
3. Progresso Traditional, Vegetable Classics, and Rich & Hearty soups - Half a can averages more than half of a person’s daily quota of salt. Instead, CSPI says try Progresso’s Health Favorites reduced-sodium soups with up to 50 percent less salt. Also, see: Hidden sodium in foods you wouldn't think to check.
4. Dove Ice Cream - A half cup has about 300 calories and an average of 11 grams of saturated fat - that’s half-a-day’s worth of the bad stuff. You may be better off with these 5 frozen treats under 100 calories.
5. The Cheesecake Factory Chris’ Outrageous Chocolate Cake - It’s layers of chocolate cake, brownie, toasted coconut pecan filling, and chocolate chip coconut cheesecake. CSPI found each five-inch-high slice weighs three-fourths of a pound and has 1,380 calories, 32 teaspoons of sugar, 33 grams of saturated fat and 5 grams of trans fat. Yikes!
6. Smoothie King’s Grape Expectations II - It’s one of Smoothie King’s “Snack Rights” with 550 calories in the 20-ounce size and 1,100 calories in the 40-ouncer. Proof that not all smoothies are good for you (but these are).
7. Pop Secret Movie Theater Butter Popcorn Snack Size Bags - Just one snack-size bag has 11 grams of bad fat, 7 of which are trans fats. Instead, CSPI says choose Orville Redenbacher’s Smart Pop or Smart Balance Smart ’N Healthy - both are made with no partially hydrogenated oils. Also, see this review of microwave popcorns from Consumer Reports.
8. The Starbucks Venti (20 oz.) Caffè Mocha with whole milk and whipped cream has 450 calories and 13 grams of bad fat - more like a Quarter Pounder with Cheese in a cup. But you can lose all the bad fat and all but 170 calories if you order a tall (12 oz.) with nonfat milk and no whipped cream.
9. Chipotle Chicken Burrito - With rice, pinto beans, cheese, chicken, sour cream, and salsa, you get 1,040 calories and 16-1/2 grams of saturated fat - the same as three Subway Steak and Cheese 6-inch Subs. Plus the burrito comes with 2,500 milligrams of sodium! Ordering it without cheese or sour cream cuts the saturated fat to 3-1/2 grams, but you still end up with 810 calories and 2,300 milligrams of sodium. Ay Caramba! Here's another burrito that will shock you.
10. Cold Stone Creamery’s Gotta Have It Founder’s Favorite - 12-ounces of ice cream, pecans, brownie pieces, fudge, and caramel adds up to a whopping 1,600 calories and 42 grams of saturated fat. That’s about the same as five single-scoop ice cream cones. And watch out before you have this frozen concoction.
Any surprises? And tell me… have you had any of these
friday the 13th
for the second time, friday the 13th came and went.
the day started out pretty fine for me. i came home at 10am, missed on gym sessions because i felt woozy from lack of sleep. checked my email and filed a couple more applications through jobstreet. went to sleep at 1pm, as always, after the noontime news. woke up at around 6:30pm. waited for dad so we can have dinner together. checked my email again to see if the HR person sent an updated meeting maker for my job interview with another project, and there was one.
dinner last night was nothing spectacular -- fried bangus and tomatoes in soy sauce, it being the lenten season. i watched a bit of "may bukas pa," currently my favorite telenovela. then i showed dad the most recent pictures of mikee and meller. then i prepared to go to the job interview, and then for shift.
as i was about to leave, there was a courier delivery van outside the house that dropped off a package. the driver was telling dad that they were being asked to pay Php100.oo before retrieving their license at the main gate. my dad said they were not aware of any such policy, so he asked me to talk to the main gate to waive the payment.
at the main gate, i argued with the guard, who told me that it was a new policy. after maybe 20 minutes of wrangling and speaking with the homeowners' federation secretary, i paid under protest and informed her that i would be filing a complaint with the federation AND our association president, who was dumb enough not to tell us about this update.
so started my friday the 13th.
i drove around in circles looking for parking in makati, since the job interview was going to be at the GT tower along ayala. i almost gave up, then i found parking at valero, a couple of blocks away. after a longish walk (maybe 10-15 minutes, worked up a sweat), i got to GT, then to the 30th floor.
the interview was scheduled at 11pm, but i was there at 10:20pm, so i just sat in the (hot) reception area listening to the receptionist giggling on the phone while talking to someone. i plurked and played a bit of quadrapop on my phone, then at 11pm the interviewer arrived and we proceeded to the interview room.
after about an hour, the interview was over. i walked back to the parking area, left the place and went to work. arrived at around 12:30am, missing out on the midnight sale at forum. like i could buy anything.
that's how friday the 13th was for me.
the day started out pretty fine for me. i came home at 10am, missed on gym sessions because i felt woozy from lack of sleep. checked my email and filed a couple more applications through jobstreet. went to sleep at 1pm, as always, after the noontime news. woke up at around 6:30pm. waited for dad so we can have dinner together. checked my email again to see if the HR person sent an updated meeting maker for my job interview with another project, and there was one.
dinner last night was nothing spectacular -- fried bangus and tomatoes in soy sauce, it being the lenten season. i watched a bit of "may bukas pa," currently my favorite telenovela. then i showed dad the most recent pictures of mikee and meller. then i prepared to go to the job interview, and then for shift.
as i was about to leave, there was a courier delivery van outside the house that dropped off a package. the driver was telling dad that they were being asked to pay Php100.oo before retrieving their license at the main gate. my dad said they were not aware of any such policy, so he asked me to talk to the main gate to waive the payment.
at the main gate, i argued with the guard, who told me that it was a new policy. after maybe 20 minutes of wrangling and speaking with the homeowners' federation secretary, i paid under protest and informed her that i would be filing a complaint with the federation AND our association president, who was dumb enough not to tell us about this update.
so started my friday the 13th.
i drove around in circles looking for parking in makati, since the job interview was going to be at the GT tower along ayala. i almost gave up, then i found parking at valero, a couple of blocks away. after a longish walk (maybe 10-15 minutes, worked up a sweat), i got to GT, then to the 30th floor.
the interview was scheduled at 11pm, but i was there at 10:20pm, so i just sat in the (hot) reception area listening to the receptionist giggling on the phone while talking to someone. i plurked and played a bit of quadrapop on my phone, then at 11pm the interviewer arrived and we proceeded to the interview room.
after about an hour, the interview was over. i walked back to the parking area, left the place and went to work. arrived at around 12:30am, missing out on the midnight sale at forum. like i could buy anything.
that's how friday the 13th was for me.
kittens become cats, puppies become dogs
this is the long-delayed blog i promised my sister, dedicated to their cats lucas and catchet, who died within a month of each other. lucas was about one and a half years old, and catchet would have been a year old today. catchet, in particular, was well loved by my sister because he was born one day before she arrived in the US last year. this meant that today marked one year since my sister left us to live with her then-fiance-now husband john.
lucas was a big cat. big, as in fat and heavy, and orange, like garfield. catchet was, well, cute in a feline sort of way. he had a narrowing urethra, which made his toilet habits difficult, and he had to be operated on to relieve his pain. but he needed a follow up operation, which was not possible since it was expensive, so my sister and her husband made the painful decision to put him to sleep. lucas, on the other hand, died of natural causes, maybe a heart attack, because he was such a fat cat.
now there's only one cat left to them, cheska, catchet's mom. before my sister left for the states she was taking care of a kitten here, whom she affectionately called kitteh. when she left, kitteh became kittehr, my pet cat. recently, kittehr gave birth to 2 kittens, who i named K1 and K2.
kittens become cats. they touch our lives and when they go, it's like something in us goes with them. same with all our other pets, dogs, cats, fish, birds -- all of them became part of our lives because we took care of them, and we feel sad when they have to leave us for the Great Beyond.
there is a belief that pets die because they took the blow for their humans. it could be a physical blow, like a serious sickness, or it could be something psychological, emotional, or financial. i wish i didn't believe in that, because it makes me feel guilty that someone had to take the blow in my place. but then again, maybe that's how the cosmos works. that's how nature works.
*****
lucas was a big cat. big, as in fat and heavy, and orange, like garfield. catchet was, well, cute in a feline sort of way. he had a narrowing urethra, which made his toilet habits difficult, and he had to be operated on to relieve his pain. but he needed a follow up operation, which was not possible since it was expensive, so my sister and her husband made the painful decision to put him to sleep. lucas, on the other hand, died of natural causes, maybe a heart attack, because he was such a fat cat.
now there's only one cat left to them, cheska, catchet's mom. before my sister left for the states she was taking care of a kitten here, whom she affectionately called kitteh. when she left, kitteh became kittehr, my pet cat. recently, kittehr gave birth to 2 kittens, who i named K1 and K2.
kittens become cats. they touch our lives and when they go, it's like something in us goes with them. same with all our other pets, dogs, cats, fish, birds -- all of them became part of our lives because we took care of them, and we feel sad when they have to leave us for the Great Beyond.
there is a belief that pets die because they took the blow for their humans. it could be a physical blow, like a serious sickness, or it could be something psychological, emotional, or financial. i wish i didn't believe in that, because it makes me feel guilty that someone had to take the blow in my place. but then again, maybe that's how the cosmos works. that's how nature works.
*****
i'm way beyond it
yesterday i felt numb because i didn't know how to react to whatever was going on around me. too many things were happening, too many people were affected, and too much negative energy abounded that my defense mechanism was to just be numb to it.
i felt the negativity so badly i failed to wake up early to go to school yesterday. i missed a class in statistics and a quiz, as well as submitting an assignment. but it afforded me more time to sleep, to rest, and to relax before the daily grind that is work.
maybe things happen for a good reason. the turmoil happened to spare me the added agony of working with someone i don't really like. maybe i worked too hard before, but now i won't because, as my workmates put it, what's the point of working too hard when all you get would be a cursory glance and a big headache.
yes. what's the point. i'm way beyond angry, sad, depressed about the situation. i'm numb, accepting, and strangely enough, happy that all of this is happening.
i felt the negativity so badly i failed to wake up early to go to school yesterday. i missed a class in statistics and a quiz, as well as submitting an assignment. but it afforded me more time to sleep, to rest, and to relax before the daily grind that is work.
maybe things happen for a good reason. the turmoil happened to spare me the added agony of working with someone i don't really like. maybe i worked too hard before, but now i won't because, as my workmates put it, what's the point of working too hard when all you get would be a cursory glance and a big headache.
yes. what's the point. i'm way beyond angry, sad, depressed about the situation. i'm numb, accepting, and strangely enough, happy that all of this is happening.
this numbness is unnatural
i came to work today with a major attitude problem. oh, i know. i have an attitude problem, but today i was hardly in the mood to smile. i couldn't hide my sarcasm and irritation, me, miss smiley. i could not even be civil to his evidence, to ateng, to tita annabelle. in short, to everyone.
it's not that i have anything against them. how could i, when i didn't see them all weekend and the last i remember, we parted last saturday morning with good cheer.
i guess it's me. i felt like i was going to drag my ass through another week of work. another week of reports, monitoring, calibration, team meetings...everything as normal. it's another week in my life.
oh, and i haven't done my stat assignment yet. i plan to go home early today, hit the gym, and then rush through my assignment like crazy. then go to sleep, and then go to school. and i remembered, we have a quiz later. haha.
anyway, let me go back to working so i can finish all this.
it's not that i have anything against them. how could i, when i didn't see them all weekend and the last i remember, we parted last saturday morning with good cheer.
i guess it's me. i felt like i was going to drag my ass through another week of work. another week of reports, monitoring, calibration, team meetings...everything as normal. it's another week in my life.
oh, and i haven't done my stat assignment yet. i plan to go home early today, hit the gym, and then rush through my assignment like crazy. then go to sleep, and then go to school. and i remembered, we have a quiz later. haha.
anyway, let me go back to working so i can finish all this.
i wish i had time to read all these
1000 novels everyone must read: the definitive list
Selected by the Guardian's Review team and a panel of expert judges, this list includes only novels – no memoirs, no short stories, no long poems – from any decade and in any language. Originally published in thematic supplements – love, crime, comedy, family and self, state of the nation, science fiction and fantasy, war and travel – they appear here for the first time in a single list.Feel we've left off a crucial book? Email to us with your nomination and an explanation in no more than 150 words at review@guardian.co.uk, or post your submission to The Guardian, Kings Place, 90 York Way, London N1 9GU, by 4 February.
Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis
Money by Martin Amis
The Information by Martin Amis
The Bottle Factory Outing by Beryl Bainbridge
According to Queeney by Beryl Bainbridge
Flaubert's Parrot by Julian Barnes
A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters by Julian Barnes
Augustus Carp, Esq. by Himself: Being the Autobiography of a Really Good Man by Henry Howarth Bashford
Molloy by Samuel Beckett
Zuleika Dobson by Max Beerbohm
The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow
The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett
Queen Lucia by EF Benson
The Ascent of Rum Doodle by WE Bowman
A Good Man in Africa by William Boyd
The History Man by Malcolm Bradbury
No Bed for Bacon by Caryl Brahms and SJ Simon
Illywhacker by Peter Carey
A Season in Sinji by JL Carr
The Harpole Report by JL Carr
The Hearing Trumpet by Leonora Carrington
Mister Johnson by Joyce Cary
The Horse's Mouth by Joyce Cary
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
The Case of the Gilded Fly by Edmund Crispin
Just William by Richmal Crompton
The Provincial Lady by EM Delafield
Slouching Towards Kalamazoo by Peter De Vries
The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens
Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens
Jacques the Fatalist and his Master by Denis Diderot
A Fairy Tale of New York by JP Donleavy
The Commitments by Roddy Doyle
Ennui by Maria Edgeworth
Cheese by Willem Elsschot
Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding
Joseph Andrews by Henry Fielding
Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
Caprice by Ronald Firbank
Bouvard et Pécuchet by Gustave Flaubert
Towards the End of the Morning by Michael Frayn
The Polygots by William Gerhardie
Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol
Oblomov by Ivan Goncharov
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
Brewster's Millions by Richard Greaves (George Barr McCutcheon)
Squire Haggard's Journal by Michael Green
Our Man in Havana by Graham Greene
Travels with My Aunt by Graham Greene
Diary of a Nobody by George Grossmith
The Little World of Don Camillo by Giovanni Guareschi
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Mr Blandings Builds His Dream House by Eric Hodgkins
High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
I Served the King of England by Bohumil Hrabal
The Lecturer's Tale by James Hynes
Mr Norris Changes Trains by Christopher Isherwood
The Mighty Walzer Howard by Jacobson
Pictures from an Institution by Randall Jarrell
Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K Jerome
Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
The Castle by Franz Kafka
Lake Wobegon Days by Garrison Keillor
Death and the Penguin by Andrey Kurkov
The Debt to Pleasure by John Lanchester
L'Histoire de Gil Blas de Santillane (Gil Blas) Alain-René Lesage
Changing Places by David Lodge
Nice Work by David Lodge
The Towers of Trebizond by Rose Macaulay
England, Their England by AG Macdonell
Whisky Galore by Compton Mackenzie
Memoirs of a Gnostic Dwarf by David Madsen
Cakes and Ale - Or, the Skeleton in the Cupboard by W Somerset Maugham
Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin
Bright Lights, Big City by Jay McInerney
Puckoon by Spike Milligan
The Restraint of Beasts by Magnus Mills
Charade by John Mortimer
Titmuss Regained by John Mortimer
Under the Net by Iris Murdoch
Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov
Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
Fireflies by Shiva Naipaul
The Sacred Book of the Werewolf by Victor Pelevin
La Disparition by Georges Perec
Les Revenentes by Georges Perec
La Vie Mode d'Emploi by Georges Perec
My Search for Warren Harding by Robert Plunkett
A Dance to the Music of Time by Anthony Powell
A Time to be Born by Dawn Powell
Excellent Women by Barbara Pym
Less Than Angels by Barbara Pym
Zazie in the Metro by Raymond Queneau
Solomon Gursky Was Here by Mordecai Richler
Alms for Oblivion by Simon Raven
Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth
The Westminster Alice by Saki
The Unbearable Bassington by Saki
Hurrah for St Trinian's by Ronald Searle
Great Apes by Will Self
Porterhouse Blue by Tom Sharpe
Blott on the Landscape by Tom Sharpe
Office Politics by Wilfrid Sheed
Belles Lettres Papers: A Novel by Charles Simmons
Moo by Jane Smiley
Topper Takes a Trip by Thorne Smith
The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom by Tobias Smollett
The Adventures of Roderick Random by Tobias Smollett
The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle by Tobias Smollett
The Expedition of Humphry Clinker by Tobias Smollett
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
The Girls of Slender Means by Muriel Spark
The Driver's Seat by Muriel Spark
Loitering with Intent by Muriel Spark
A Far Cry from Kensington by Muriel Spark
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne
White Man Falling by Mike Stocks
Handley Cross by RS Surtees
A Tale of a Tub by Jonathan Swift
Penrod by Booth Tarkington
The Luck of Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray
Before Lunch by Angela Thirkell
Tropic of Ruislip by Leslie Thomas
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope
Venus on the Half-Shell by Kilgore Trout
The Mysterious Stranger by Mark Twain
The Witches of Eastwick by John Updike
Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut
Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
Decline and Fall by Evelyn Waugh
Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh
Black Mischief by Evelyn Waugh
Scoop by Evelyn Waugh
The Loved One by Evelyn Waugh
A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh
The Life and Loves of a She-Devil by Fay Weldon
Tono Bungay by HG Wells
Molesworth by Geoffrey Willans and Ronald Searle
The Wimbledon Poisoner by Nigel Williams
Anglo-Saxon Attitudes by Angus Wilson
Something Fresh by PG Wodehouse
Piccadilly Jim by PG Wodehouse
Thank You Jeeves by PG Wodehouse
Heavy Weather by PG Wodehouse
The Code of the Woosters by PG Wodehouse
Joy in the Morning by PG Wodehouse
The Man with the Golden Arm by Nelson Algren
Fantomas by Marcel Allain and Pierre Souvestre
The Mask of Dimitrios by Eric Ambler
Epitaph for a Spy by Eric Ambler
Journey into Fear by Eric Ambler
The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster
Trent's Last Case by EC Bentley
The Poisoned Chocolates Case by Anthony Berkeley
The Beast Must Die by Nicholas Blake
Lady Audley's Secret by Mary E Braddon
The Neon Rain by James Lee Burke
The Tin Roof Blowdown by James Lee Burke
The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan
Greenmantle by John Buchan
The Asphalt Jungle by WR Burnett
The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M Cain
Double Indemnity by James M Cain
True History of the Ned Kelly Gang by Peter Carey
The Hollow Man by John Dickson Carr
The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler
No Orchids for Miss Blandish by James Hadley Chase
The Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers
And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie
The Murder at the Vicarage by Agatha Christie
The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle
The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle
The Sign of Four by Arthur Conan Doyle
The Manchurian Candidate by Richard Condon
The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad
Under Western Eyes by Joseph Conrad
Postmortem by Patricia Cornwell
The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton
Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton
Poetic Justice by Amanda Cross
The Ipcress File by Len Deighton
Last Seen Wearing by Colin Dexter
The Remorseful Day by Colin Dexter
Ratking by Michael Dibdin
Dead Lagoon by Michael Dibdin
Dirty Tricks by Michael Dibdin
A Rich Full Death by Michael Dibdin
Vendetta by Michael Dibdin
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
My Cousin Rachel by Daphne du Maurier
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
The Pledge by Friedrich Durrenmatt
The Crime of Father Amado by José Maria de Eça de Queiroz
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
LA Confidential by James Ellroy
The Big Nowhere by James Ellroy
A Quiet Belief in Angels by RJ Ellory
Sanctuary by William Faulkner
Casino Royale by Ian Fleming
Goldfinger by Ian Fleming
You Only Live Twice by Ian Fleming
The Day of the Jackal by Frederick Forsyth
Brighton Rock by Graham Greene
A Gun for Sale by Graham Greene
The Ministry of Fear by Graham Greene
The Third Man by Graham Greene
A Time to Kill by John Grisham
The King of Torts by John Grisham
Hangover Square by Patrick Hamilton
The Glass Key by Dashiell Hammett
The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett
The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett
Fatherland by Robert Harris
Black Sunday by Thomas Harris
Red Dragon by Thomas Harris
Tourist Season by Carl Hiaasen
The Friends of Eddie Coyle by George V Higgins
Strangers on a Train by Patricia Highsmith
The Talented Mr Ripley by Patricia Highsmith
Bones and Silence by Reginald Hill
A Rage in Harlem by Chester Himes
Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow by Peter Hoeg
Rogue Male by Geoffrey Household
Malice Aforethought by Francis Iles
Silence of the Grave by Arnadur Indridason
Death at the President's Lodging by Michael Innes
Cover Her Face by PD James
A Taste for Death by PD James
Friday the Rabbi Slept Late by Harry Kemelman
Misery by Stephen King
Dolores Claiborne by Stephen King
Kim by Rudyard Kipling
The Constant Gardener by John le Carre
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John le Carre
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John le Carre
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
52 Pick-up by Elmore Leonard
Get Shorty by Elmore Leonard
Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem
The Bourne Identity by Robert Ludlum
Cop Hater by Ed McBain
No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
Enduring Love by Ian McEwan
Sidetracked by Henning Mankell
Devil in a Blue Dress by Walter Mosley
The Great Impersonation by E Phillips Oppenheim
The Strange Borders of Palace Crescent by E Phillips Oppenheim
My Name is Red by Orhan Pamuk
Toxic Shock by Sara Paretsky
Blacklist by Sara Paretsky
Nineteen Seventy Four by David Peace
Nineteen Seventy Seven by David Peace
The Big Blowdown by George Pelecanos
Hard Revolution by George Pelecanos
Lush Life by Richard Price
The Godfather by Mario Puzo
V by Thomas Pynchon
The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon
Black and Blue by Ian Rankin
The Hanging Gardens by Ian Rankin
Exit Music by Ian Rankin
Judgment in Stone by Ruth Rendell
Live Flesh by Ruth Rendell
Dissolution by CJ Sansom
Whose Body? by Dorothy L Sayers
Murder Must Advertise by Dorothy Le Sayers
The Madman of Bergerac by Georges Simenon
The Blue Room by Georges Simenon
The Laughing Policeman by Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo
Gorky Park by Martin Cruz Smith
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
The League of Frightened Men by Rex Stout
Perfume by Patrick Suskind
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey
The Getaway by Jim Thompson
Pudd'nhead Wilson by Mark Twain
A Dark-Adapted Eye by Barbara Vine
A Fatal inversion by Barbara Vine
King Solomon's Carpet by Barbara Vine
The Four Just Men by Edgar Wallace
Fingersmith by Sarah Waters
Native Son by Richard Wright
Therese Raquin by Emile Zola
The Face of Another by Kobo Abe
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Behind the Scenes at the Museum by Kate Atkinson
Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood
Epileptic by David B
Room Temperature by Nicholson Baker
Eugenie Grandet by Honore de Balzac
Le Pere Goriot by Honore de Balzac
The Crow Road by Iain Banks
The L Shaped Room by Lynne Reid Banks
Fun Home by Alison Bechdel
Malone Dies by Samuel Beckett
A Legacy by Sybille Bedford
Herzog by Saul Bellow
Humboldt's Gift by Saul Bellow
The Old Wives' Tale by Arnold Bennett
G by John Berger
Extinction by Thomas Bernhard
Two Serious Ladies by Jane Bowles
Any Human Heart by William Boyd
The Death of Virgil by Hermann Broch
Evelina by Fanny Burney
The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler
The Sound of my Voice by Ron Butlin
The Outsider by Albert Camus
Wise Children by Angela Carter
The Professor's House by Willa Cather
The Wapshot Chronicle by John Cheever
The Awakening by Kate Chopin
Les Enfants Terrible by Jean Cocteau
The Vagabond by Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette
Manservant and Maidservant by Ivy Compton-Burnett
Being Dead by Jim Crace
Quarantine by Jim Crace
The Mandarins by Simone de Beauvoir
Roxana by Daniel Defoe
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
My New York Diary by Julie Doucet
The Millstone by Margaret Drabble
My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell
Silence by Shusaku Endo
The Gathering by Anne Enright
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
The Sportswriter by Richard Ford
Howards End by EM Forster
Spies by Michael Frayn
Hideous Kinky by Esther Freud
The Man of Property by John Galsworthy
Mary Barton by Elizabeth Gaskell
The Immoralist by Andre Gide
The Vatican Cellars by Andre Gide
The Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith
The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
Hunger by Knut Hamsun
The Shrimp and the Anemone by LP Hartley
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
Steppenwolf by Herman Hesse
Narziss and Goldmund by Hermann Hesse
The Three Paradoxes by Paul Hornschemeier
Tom Brown's Schooldays by Thomas Hughes
A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
The Ambassadors by Henry James
Washington Square by Henry James
The Tortoise and the Hare by Elizabeth Jenkins
The Unfortunates by BS Johnson
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
Ulysses by James Joyce
Good Behaviour by Molly Keane
Memet my Hawk by Yasar Kemal
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
The Buddha of Suburbia by Hanif Kureishi
Sons and Lovers by DH Lawrence
Cider with Rosie by Laurie Lee
Invitation to the Waltz by Rosamond Lehmann
The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing
How Green was My Valley by Richard Llewellyn
Martin Eden by Jack London
Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry
The Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers
Palace Walk by Naguib Mahfouz
The Assistant by Bernard Malamud
Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann
The Chateau by William Maxwell
The Rector's Daughter by FM Mayor
The Ordeal of Richard Feverek by George Meredith
Family Matters by Rohinton Mistry
Sour Sweet by Timothy Mo
The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne by Brian Moore
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
Who Do You Think You Are? by Alice Munro
The Black Prince by Iris Murdoch
The Man Without Qualities by Robert Musil
A House for Mr Biswas by VS Naipaul
At-Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O'Brien
Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness by Kezaburo Oe
The Moviegoer by Walker Percy
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
My Name Is Asher Lev by Chaim Potok
The Good Companions by JB Priestley
The Shipping News by E Annie Proulx
Remembrance of Things Past by Marcel Proust
A Married Man by Piers Paul Read
Pointed Roofs by Dorothy Richardson
The Fortunes of Richard Mahoney by Henry Handel Richardson
Call it Sleep by Henry Roth
Julie, ou la Nouvelle Heloise by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger
Alberta and Jacob by Cora Sandel
A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth
Unless by Carol Shields
We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver
The Three Sisters by May Sinclair
The Family Moskat or The Manor or The Estate by Isaac Bashevis Singer
A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley
On Beauty by Zadie Smith
The Man Who Loved Children by Christina Stead
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
Ballet Shoes by Noel Streatfield
Confessions of Zeno by Italo Svevo
The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington
Angel by Elizabeth Taylor
Lark Rise to Candleford by Flora Thompson
The Blackwater Lightship by Colm Toibin
The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4 by Sue Townsend
Death in Summer by William Trevor
Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev
Peace in War by Miguel de Unamuno
The Rabbit Omnibus by John Updike
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Jimmy Corrigan, The Smarest Kid on Earth by Chris Ware
Morvern Callar by Alan Warner
The History of Mr Polly by HG Wells
The Fountain Overflows by Rebecca West
Frost in May by Antonia White
The Tree of Man by Patrick White
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson
I'll Go to Bed at Noon by Gerard Woodward
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
Swiss Family Robinson by Johann David Wyss
Le Grand Meaulnes by Henri Alain-Fournier
Dom Casmurro Joaquim by Maria Machado de Assis
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
Emma by Jane Austen
Persuasion by Jane Austen
Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin
Nightwood by Djuna Barnes
The Garden of the Finzi-Cortinis by Giorgio Bassani
Love for Lydia by HE Bates
More Die of Heartbreak by Saul Bellow
Lorna Doone by RD Blackmore
The Death of the Heart by Elizabeth Bowen
The Heat of the Day by Elizabeth Bowen
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Vilette by Charlotte Bronte
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
Look At Me by Anita Brookner
Rubyfruit Jungle by Rita Mae Brown
Possession by AS Byatt
Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote
Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey
A Month in the Country by JL Carr
My Antonia by Willa Cather
A Lost Lady by Willa Cather
Claudine a l'ecole by Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette
Cheri by Sidonie-Gabrielle Collette
Victory: An Island Tale by Joseph Conrad
The Princess of Cleves by Madame de Lafayette
The Parasites by Daphne du Maurier
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
The Lover by Marguerite Duras
Adam Bede by George Eliot
Daniel Deronda by George Eliot
The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot
The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald
Tender is the Night by F Scott Fitzgerald
The Blue Flower by Penelope Fitzgerald
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford
A Room with a View by EM Forster
The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles
The Snow Goose by Paul Gallico
Ruth by Elizabeth Gaskell
Strait is the Gate by Andre Gide
Sunset Song by Lewis Grassic Gibbon
The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang Goethe
Living by Henry Green
The End of the Affair by Graham Greene
The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall
Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
The Woodlanders by Thomas Hardy
The Go-Between by LP Hartley
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Transit of Venus by Shirley Hazzard
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
The Infamous Army by Georgette Heyer
Regency Buck by Georgette Heyer
The Swimming-Pool Library by Alan Hollinghurst
Green Mansions: A Romance of the Tropical Forest by WH Hudson
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
Crome Yellow by Aldous Huxley
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
The Wings of the Dove by Henry James
The Piano Teacher by Elfriede Jelinek
Beauty and Saddness by Yasunari Kawabata
The Far Pavillions by Mary Margaret Kaye
Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis
Moon over Africa by Pamela Kent
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
Les Liaisons Dangereuses by Pierre-Ambroise-Francois Choderlos de Laclos
Lady Chatterley's Lover by DH Lawrence
The Rainbow by DH Lawrence
Women in Love by DH Lawrence
The Echoing Grove by Rosamond Lehmann
The Weather in the Streets by Rosamond Lehmann
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes by Anita Loos
Zami by Audre Lorde
Foreign Affairs by Alison Lurie
Samarkand by Amin Maalouf
Death in Venice by Thomas Mann
The Silent Duchess by Dacia Maraini
A Heart So White by Javier Marias
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Of Human Bondage by Somerset Maugham
So Long, See you Tomorrow by William Maxwell
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
Atonement by Ian McEwan
The Child in Time by Ian McEwan
The Egoist by George Meredith
Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
Patience and Sarah by Isabel Miller
Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford
Love in a Cold Climate by Nancy Mitford
Arturo's Island by Elsa Morante
Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
Lolita, or the Confessions of a White Widowed Male by Vladimir Nabokov
The Painter of Signs by RK Narayan
Delta of Venus by Anais Nin
All Souls Day by Cees Nooteboom
The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
Manon Lescaut by Abbe Prevost
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
Maurice Guest by Henry Handel Richardson
Pamela by Samuel Richardson
Clarissa by Samuel Richardson
Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
Bonjour Tristesse by Francoise Sagan
Ali and Nino by Kurban Said
Light Years by James Salter
A Sport and a Passtime by James Salter
The Reader by Benhardq Schlink
The Reluctant Orphan by Aara Seale
Love Story by Eric Segal
Enemies, a Love Story by Isaac Bashevis Singer
At Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept by Elizabeth Smart
I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
The Map of Love by Ahdaf Soueif
Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann
Waterland by Graham Swift
Diary of a Mad Old Man by Junichiro Tanizaki
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Music and Silence by Rose Tremain
First Love by Ivan Turgenev
Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler
The Accidental Tourist by Anne Tyler
The Night Watch by Sarah Waters
The Graduate by Charles Webb
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
The Passion by Jeanette Winterson
East Lynne by Ellen Wood
Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates
The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Non-Stop by Brian W Aldiss
Foundation by Isaac Asimov
The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
In the Country of Last Things by Paul Auster
The Drowned World by JG Ballard
Crash by JG Ballard
Millennium People by JG Ballard
The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks
Consider Phlebas by Iain M Banks
Weaveworld by Clive Barker
Darkmans by Nicola Barker
The Time Ships by Stephen Baxter
Darwin's Radio by Greg Bear
Vathek by William Beckford
The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Lost Souls by Poppy Z Brite
Wieland by Charles Brockden Brown
Rogue Moon by Algis Budrys
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
The Coming Race by EGEL Bulwer-Lytton
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
The End of the World News by Anthony Burgess
A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Naked Lunch by William Burroughs
Kindred by Octavia Butler
Erewhon by Samuel Butler
The Baron in the Trees by Italo Calvino
The Influence by Ramsey Campbell
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There by Lewis Carroll
Nights at the Circus by Angela Carter
The Passion of New Eve by Angela Carter
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon
The Man who was Thursday by GK Chesterton
Childhood's End by Arthur C Clarke
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
Hello Summer, Goodbye by Michael G Coney
Girlfriend in a Coma by Douglas Coupland
House of Leaves by Mark Danielewski
Pig Tales by Marie Darrieussecq
The Einstein Intersection by Samuel R Delaney
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K Dick
The Man in the High Castle by Philip K Dick
Camp Concentration by Thomas M Disch
Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco
Under the Skin by Michel Faber
The Magus by John Fowles
American Gods by Neil Gaiman
Red Shift by Alan Garner
Neuromancer by William Gibson
Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
The Forever War by Joe Haldeman
Light by M John Harrison
The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A Heinlein
Dune by Frank L Herbert
The Glass Bead Game by Herman Hesse
Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner by James Hogg
Atomised by Michel Houellebecq
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
The Unconsoled by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
The Children of Men by PD James
After London; or, Wild England by Richard Jefferies
Bold as Love by Gwyneth Jones
The Trial by Franz Kafka
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
The Shining by Stephen King
The Victorian Chaise-longue by Marghanita Laski
Uncle Silas by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
The Earthsea Series by Ursula Le Guin
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula Le Guin
Solaris by Stanislaw Lem
Memoirs of a Survivor by Doris Lessing
The Chronicles of Narnia by CS Lewis
The Monk by Matthew Lewis
A Voyage to Arcturus by David Lindsay
The Night Sessions by Ken Macleod
Beyond Black by Hilary Mantel
Only Forward by Michael Marshall Smith
I Am Legend by Richard Matheson
Melmoth the Wanderer by Charles Maturin
The Butcher Boy by Patrick McCabe
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Ascent by Jed Mercurio
The Scar by China Mieville
Ingenious Pain by Andrew Miller
A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M Miller Jr
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
Mother London by Michael Moorcock
News from Nowhere by William Morris
Beloved by Toni Morrison
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
Ada or Ardor by Vladimir Nabokov
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
Ringworld by Larry Niven
Vurt by Jeff Noon
The Third Policeman by Flann O'Brien
The Famished Road by Ben Okri
Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
Nightmare Abbey by Thomas Love Peacock
Titus Groan by Mervyn Peake
The Space Merchants by Frederik Pohl and CM Kornbluth
A Glastonbury Romance by John Cowper Powys
The Discworld Series by Terry Pratchett
The Prestige by Christopher Priest
His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman
Gargantua and Pantagruel by Francois Rabelais
The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe
Revelation Space by Alastair Reynolds
The Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by JK Rowling
Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
The Female Man by Joanna Russ
Air by Geoff Ryman
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Blindness by Jose Saramago
How the Dead Live by Will Self
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Hyperion by Dan Simmons
Star Maker by Olaf Stapledon
Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
Dracula by Bram Stoker
The Insult by Rupert Thomson
The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien
The Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain
Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut
The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole
Institute Benjamenta by Robert Walser
Lolly Willowes by Sylvia Townsend Warner
Affinity by Sarah Waters
The Time Machine by HG Wells
The War of the Worlds by HG Wells
The Sword in the Stone by TH White
The Old Men at the Zoo by Angus Wilson
The Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe
Orlando by Virginia Woolf
Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham
The Midwich Cuckoos by John Wyndham
We by Yevgeny Zamyatin
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
Anthills of the Savannah by Chinua Achebe
London Fields by Martin Amis
Untouchable by Mulk Raj Anand
Go Tell it on the Mountain by James Baldwin
La Comedie Humaine by Honore de Balzac
They Were Counted by Miklos Banffy
A Kind of Loving by Stan Barstow
Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Oroonoko, or The Royal Slave by Aphra Behn
Clayhanger by Arnold Bennett
The Last September by Elizabeth Bowen
Room at the Top by John Braine
A Dry White Season by Andre Brink
Shirley by Charlotte Bronte
Earthly Powers by Anthony Burgess
The Virgin in the Garden by AS Byatt
Tobacco Road by Erskine Caldwell
The Plague by Albert Camus
The Kingdom of this World by Alejo Carpentier
What a Carve Up! by Jonathan Coe
Disgrace by JM Coetzee
Waiting for the Barbarians by JM Coeztee
Microserfs by Douglas Coupland
Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
Underworld by Don DeLillo
White Noise by Don DeLillo
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
Bleak House by Charles Dickens
Dombey and Son by Charles Dickens
Hard Times by Charles Dickens
Little Dorritt by Charles Dickens
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
Play It As It Lays by Joan Didion
Sybil or The Two Nations by Benjamin Disraeli
Berlin Alexanderplatz by Alfred Döblin
The Book of Daniel by EL Doctorow
Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky
USA by John Dos Passos
Sister Carrie by Theodor Dreiser
Castle Rackrent by Maria Edgeworth
Middlemarch by George Eliot
Silas Marner by George Eliot
The Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Sentimental Education by Gustave Flaubert
Effi Briest by Theodore Fontane
Independence Day by Richard Ford
A Passage to India by EM Forster
The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
The Recognitions by William Gaddis
Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell
North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
The Counterfeiters by Andre Gide
The Odd Women by George Gissing
New Grub Street by George Gissing
July's People by Nadine Gordimer
Mother by Maxim Gorky
Lanark by Alastair Gray
Love on the Dole by Walter Greenwood
The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy
A Kestrel for a Knave by Barry Hines
The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst
South Riding by Winifred Holtby
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
Goodbye to Berlin by Christopher Isherwood
Chronicle in Stone by Ismael Kadare
How Late it Was, How Late by James Kelman
The Leopard by Giuseppi di Lampedusa
A Girl in Winter by Philip Larkin
Passing by Nella Larsen
The Grass is Singing by Doris Lessing
Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis
Elmer Gantry by Sinclair Lewis
Main Street by Sinclair Lewis
Absolute Beginners by Colin MacInnes
The Group by Mary McCarthy
Amongst Women by John McGahern
The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
Of Love & Hunger by Julian Maclaren-Ross
Remembering Babylon by David Malouf
The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
The Betrothed by Alessandro Manzoni
Bel-Ami by Guy de Maupassant
A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
The Time of Indifference by Alberto Moravia
A Bend in the River by VS Naipaul
McTeague by Frank Norris
Personality by Andrew O'Hagan
Animal Farm by George Orwell
The Ragazzi Pier by Paolo Pasolini
Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
The Moon and the Bonfire by Cesare Pavese
GB84 by David Peace
Headlong Hall by Thomas Love Peacock
Afternoon Men by Anthony Powell
Vineland by Thomas Pynchon
The Radetzky March by Joseph Roth
American Pastoral by Philip Roth
The Human Stain by Philip Roth
Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
Shame by Salman Rushdie
To Each his Own by Leonardo Sciascia
Staying On by Paul Scott
Last Exit to Brooklyn by Hubert Selby Jr
The Lonely Londoners by Samuel Selvon
God's Bit of Wood by Ousmane Sembene
The Case of Comrade Tulayev by Victor Serge
Richshaw Boy by Lao She
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning by Alan Sillitoe
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
Novel on Yellow Paper by Stevie Smith
White Teeth by Zadie Smith
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovtich by Alexandr Solzhenitsyn
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
The Red and the Black by Stendhal
This Sporting Life by David Storey
The Red Room by August Stringberg
The Home and the World by Rabindranath Tagore
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell
The Last Chronicle of Barset by Anthony Trollope
The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
Couples by John Updike
Z by Vassilis Vassilikos
Billy Liar by Keith Waterhouse
Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh
The Day of the Locust by Nathanael West
The Return of the Soldier by Rebecca West
The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe
Germinal by Emile Zola
La Bete Humaine by Emile Zola
Silver Stallion by Junghyo Ahn
Death of a Hero by Richard Aldington
Master Georgie by Beryl Bainbridge
Darkness Falls from the Air by Nigel Balchin
Empire of the Sun by JG Ballard
Regeneration by Pat Barker
A Long Long Way by Sebastian Barry
Fair Stood the Wind for France by HE Bates
Carrie's War by Nina Bawden
The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolano
The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles
An Ice-Cream War by William Boyd
When the Wind Blows by Raymond Briggs
Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
Auto-da-Fe by Elias Canetti
One of Ours by Willa Cather
Journey to the End of the Night by Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Monkey by Wu Ch'eng-en
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad
Nostromo by Joseph Conrad
Sharpe's Eagle by Bernard Cornwell
The History of Pompey the Little by Francis Coventry
The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
Bomber by Len Deighton
Deliverance by James Dickey
Three Soldiers by John Dos Passos
South Wind by Norman Douglas
The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
Justine by Lawrence Durrell
The Bamboo Bed by William Eastlake
The Siege of Krishnapur by JG Farrell
Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks
Parade's End by Ford Madox Ford
The African Queen by CS Forester
The Ship by CS Forester
Flashman by George MacDonald Fraser
Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
The Beach by Alex Garland
To The Ends of the Earth trilogy by William Golding
Asterix the Gaul by Rene Goscinny
The Tin Drum by Gunter Grass
Count Belisarius by Robert Graves
Life and Fate by Vassily Grossman
De Niro's Game by Rawi Hage
King Solomon's Mines by H Rider Haggard
She: A History of Adventure by H Rider Haggard
The Slaves of Solitude by Patrick Hamilton
Covenant with Death by John Harris
Enigma by Robert Harris
The Good Soldier Svejk by Jaroslav Hasek
For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
The Prisoner of Zenda by Anthony Hope
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
A High Wind in Jamaica by Richard Hughes
Rasselas by Samuel Johnson
From Here to Eternity by James Jones
Andersonville by MacKinlay Kantor
Confederates by Thomas Keneally
Schindler's Ark by Thomas Keneally
Day by AL Kennedy
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler
The Painted Bird by Jerzy Kosinski
If Not Now, When? by Primo Levi
The Call of the Wild by Jack London
The Guns of Navarone by Alistair MacLean
All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
The Mark of Zorro by Johnston McCulley
Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurty
The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer
La Condition Humaine by Andre Malraux
Fortunes of War by Olivia Manning
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Children of the New Forest by Frederick Marryat
Moby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman Melville
Tales of the South Pacific by James Michener
The Cruel Sea by Nicholas Monsarrat
History by Elsa Morante
Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky
The Sorrow of War by Bao Ninh
Master and Commander by Patrick O'Brian
The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Emmuska Orczy
Burmese Days by George Orwell
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig
The Valley of Bones by Anthony Powell
The Soldier's Art by Anthony Powell
The Military Philosophers by Anthony Powell
Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen by Rudolp Erich Raspe
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
The Crab with the Golden Claws by Georges Remi Herge
Tintin in Tibet by Georges Remi Herge
The Castafiore Emerald by Georges Remi Herge
The Devil to Pay in the Backlands by Joao Guimaraes Rosa
Sacaramouche by Rafael Sabatini
Captain Blood by Rafael Sabatini
Everything is Illuminated by Jonathon Safran Foer
The Hunters by James Salter
Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott
The Rings of Saturn by WG Sebald
Austerlitz by WG Sebald
Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
The Young Lions by Irwin Shaw
A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute
Maus by Art Spiegelman
The Charterhouse of Parma by Stendhal
Cryptonomicon by Neil Stephenson
A Sentimental Journey by Lawrence Sterne
Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
A Flag for Sunrise by Robert Stone
Sophie's Choice by William Styron
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne
Williwaw by Gore Vidal
Candide by Voltaire
Slaughter-House Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Put Out More Flags by Evelyn Waugh
Men at Arms by Evelyn Waugh
The Island of Dr Moreau by HG Wells
The Machine-Gunners by Robert Westall
Voss by Patrick White
The Virginian by Owen Wister
The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk
The Debacle by Emile Zola
desiderata
Go placidly amid the noise and haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence.
As far as possible without surrender be on good terms with all persons. Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others, even the dull and the ignorant; they too have their story.
Avoid loud and aggressive persons, they are vexations to the spirit.
If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain and bitter; for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself. Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans.
Keep interested in your own career, however humble; it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time. Exercise caution in your business affairs; for the world is full of trickery. But let this not blind you to what virtue there is. Many persons strive for high ideals; and everywhere life is full of heroism.
Be yourself.
Especially, do not feign affection. Neither be cynical about love; for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment it is as perennial as the grass.
Take kindly the counsel of the years, gracefully surrendering the things of youth. Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune. But do not distress yourself with dark imaginings. Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness.
Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself.
You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.
Therefore be at peace with God, whatever you conceive Him to be, and whatever your labors and aspirations, in the noisy confusion of life keep peace with your soul. With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world.
Be cheerful.
Strive to be happy.
Max Ehrmann
1952
The Top Foods People Love or Hate
reposting from ed levine's blog. with little comments from me. haha.
Certain foods are as polarizing as hometown sports teams and politics. Here at Serious Eats, we've put together a list of eleven love-or-hate foods. If you love them, be proud. We've included a recipe highlighting each controversial flavor.
1. White Chocolate: The "chocolate" part trips people up. It's really just a sweet confection (no cocoa involved). Moving on from terminology, when good, it's creamy and vanilla-y, but like "normal" chocolate, when bad, it's just waxy calories.
tabby says: it's still chocolate. chocolate is chocolate.
2. Cilantro: Soapy, rotten, or just plain vile are popular complaints from cilantro haters. Did you know Julia Child hated the leafy herb? But behavioral neuroscientists would argue that America's food darling had no control. It's all about genetics. Studies have linked liking cilantro to being able to detect the "pleasing" chemicals in the leaf.
3. Eggplant: For some, it's an old purple sponge and others, the soft-firm texture is what makes a veggie sandwich or an Italian pasta dish. Raw is never good, but fried, grilled, or roasted (always doused with gobs of olive oil), eggplant deserves another chance. Or, the vegetarian sponge will always make you nauseous -- and the roof of your mouth mysteriously itch.
tabby says: this is one vegetable i will not eat unless it's in chip form. and even that i eat with caution.
4. Coconut: The smell in shampoo and sunblock is one thing. But the sawdust-like shreds of real coconut can mean chewing and chewing forever until you eventually swallow the darn lump. Sprinkled on pies, cakes, and chicken, coconut either adds a mild tropical zing or a vile, never-ending chewing party. That's when it comes out that a lot of coconut haters don't even know about young fresh coconut which is as soft as a Hawaiian baby's bottom.
5. Tomato: This one really comes down to texture. Slimy and gritty is never good for the tomato world. The cooked, soft version brings in a few fans. Others are only in it for the vine-picked version during their peak season in August (cut to romantic images of Italian countrysides). Others can only bear them on pizza or completely masked inside ketchup.
tabby says: tomatoes have lycopene, which can help against cancer. for that, i will eat tomatoes. tomatos. whatever.
6. Anchovies: Cat food or human food? A small whiff can make you seasick or have you loading them on pizza and Caesar salads. Whether fresh or in flat metal cans, the salty little fish has some so obsessed, they'll eat the bones.
7. Black licorice: Even the red licorice-tolerant may draw the line here. Black licorice gum, jelly beans, tea, Good n' Plentys, and Jägermeister—get it out. Along with any herb, like anise or fennel, that resembles the flavor. Out. Lovers say it's an acquired taste, but I think the little kids have it straight here. Not a real candy.
8. Stinky cheeses: If this smell came from something else (a shoe or dog), I might take issue, but knowing it's from a dairy gob, growing moldy in a controlled environment, I'm fine with the pungent aroma. When others sniff Gorgonzola or Roquefort, they're convinced that feet or laundry were actually involved.
9. Mayo: Whether Hellmann's or even Miracle Whip, does the creamy off-white slime strip the taste off food or magically make anything better? Haters have been told to try it homemade, but for many, this won't make a tuna or egg salad look any less scary.
10. Bell Pepper: To some, all those colorful strips are a mouthful of crisp freshness. To others, they're the backseat driver of vegetables. On a pizza or in pasta, they're supposed to be one of many veggie passengers, but no. The bell pepper's always got to be the loud guy telling your taste buds where to go -- and green, he's the loudest. Green is actually unripened, picked from the vine before its more sweet (and edible) brethren.
11. Beets: Despite all my white T-shirts you have stained purple, I still love you, beets. People fear you from an early age, but roasted or pickled, you take on a whole new form. The other camp thinks that the beet smell is such a toss-up between ick and gross and that the beet taste is so much like a metallic vitamin that it's just not meant to be.
where are they now?
over lunch today we were discussing the defunct tv series "ang tv", which ran from 1992-1996. i don't know what started the discussion, but it was a lively one, and it gave me the idea for this entry.
who can forget the theme song of the tv series, the title of which is "Doo Wah Diddy"? dang. this is the first time i ever saw the title spelled out. i used to watch this show religiously (ok, so call me baduy, but i loved it too.). me, a senior high school student, watching something like this.
there was actually one member of the cast that drew me to the show. he looked like my crush at that time, and me, being the innocent teenager that i was then, watched this cast member and swooned over him like i swooned over his lookalike. (two years later, i would meet this castmember in person, and i was not that starstruck, because by then i had met and gone out with guys who were way cuter than him, or my crush.)
way back then, i really didn't like one of the girls in the cast because she was too "maarte". years later i would meet her while i was interning at abs-cbn, and by then she was already a "big" star (maybe, but not for me), and she could afford to have her nose fixed. the day i saw her, she just had the procedure, and the artificial whatever they stuck to her nose was still apparent.
there were 2 girls here who became sexy actresses when they graduated from the show. i didn't like them then, and i still don't like them now.
here's a list of the cast members, taken from the wikipedia entry on the show.
who can forget the theme song of the tv series, the title of which is "Doo Wah Diddy"? dang. this is the first time i ever saw the title spelled out. i used to watch this show religiously (ok, so call me baduy, but i loved it too.). me, a senior high school student, watching something like this.
there was actually one member of the cast that drew me to the show. he looked like my crush at that time, and me, being the innocent teenager that i was then, watched this cast member and swooned over him like i swooned over his lookalike. (two years later, i would meet this castmember in person, and i was not that starstruck, because by then i had met and gone out with guys who were way cuter than him, or my crush.)
way back then, i really didn't like one of the girls in the cast because she was too "maarte". years later i would meet her while i was interning at abs-cbn, and by then she was already a "big" star (maybe, but not for me), and she could afford to have her nose fixed. the day i saw her, she just had the procedure, and the artificial whatever they stuck to her nose was still apparent.
there were 2 girls here who became sexy actresses when they graduated from the show. i didn't like them then, and i still don't like them now.
here's a list of the cast members, taken from the wikipedia entry on the show.
Ang TV (First Season/Year)
(This is only a list of Ang TV "babies" who are still in the business.)
Kids
Nicole Borja
Paolo Contis
Rebecca Costales
Joey Delfin
Bodie Cruz
Maybelyn dela Cruz
Camille Dela Rosa
Abet Dolorfino
Jenny Felipe
Cheska Garcia
Patrick Garcia
Bernice Angela Lopez
Carlo Lorenzana
Alfonso Martinez
Alyanna Martinez
Stefano Mori
Camille Mortiz
Luigi (Igi Boy) Muhlach
Alfred Navarro
Camille Prats
Jose Konrado Amedo
John Prats
Vandolph Quizon
Katya Santos
Tristan Adrian Tayle
Teens
- Jan Marini Alano
- Gio Alvarez
- Guila Alvarez
- Marnie Arcilla
- Aldin Dodd
- Claudine Barretto
- Lindsay Custodio
- Angelu de Leon
- Ericka Fife
- Cheska Garcia
- Joymee Lim
- Jolina Magdangal
- Roselle Nava
- Lailani Navarro
- Victor Neri
- Christopher Roxas
- Sarji Ruiz
- Jason San Pedro
- Kevin Vernal
- Mark Vernal
- Paulie Yllana
- Jane Zaleta
- CJ Tolentino
Mid-Season Cast Member Additions
As the show ran, Ang TV added more talents to its roster:
- AJ Eigenmann
- Geoff Eigenmann
- Jay Manalo
- Rica Peralejo
- Manuel "Boy2" Quizon
- Antonnette Taus
- Tom Taus, Jr.
- Julia Kwong
- Elizabeth "Baby" Victor
Special Participation By...
- Joy Viado
- Winnie Cordero
- Joji Isla
- Giselle Sanchez
Ang TV (Reformatted)
After running on-air for two (2) years, Ang TV came back with a new theme song, a new logo, and the network added more talents to the show's list of bright stars.
Kids
- Joshua Ocampo
- Jaycee Tugade
- Alfred Manal
- Chris Vincent Rosal
- Bodie Cruz (son of Tirso Cruz III and brother of T.J. Cruz)
- Mix Garcia
- Thou Reyes (formerly known as Joseph Reyes)
- Anna Larrucea
- Allyson Lualhati
- Maxene Magalona (daughter of Francis Magalona)
- Kristoffer Peralta
- Angelica Panganiban
Teens
- Tony Lambino
- Farrah Florer
- Paula Peralejo
Ang TV2
After a couple more years, the Ang TV "fever" continued, with many youngsters still auditioning to be a part of the show.
Kids
- Andrea "Andi" Manzano (niece of Edu Manzano and cousin of Luis Manzano)
- CJ Ramos
- Carlo Aquino
- Empress Schuck (niece of Lorraine Schuck and sister of Princess Schuck)
- Khalil Kaimo
- Alwyn Uytinco
- Mico Aytona
- Sarah Geronimo
- Crizel De Leon
Teens
Adults
- Reanne Lopez
- Rayn Pit
- Cher de Guia
- Shileena Rodriguez
- Jerizza dela Fuente
- Russelle Reyes
- Arvie Anadia
- Ace Abdon
- Jeremy Limcauco
- Jj dela Cruz
- Ron Cruz
- Murphy Loresca
- Dennis Gonzales
- Ian Narciso
- Mac Narvaez
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