For the record, I DO NOT support celebrities who CHOOSE their fans and who has NO RESPECT towards their fans. There is a difference between feeling uncomfortable with super-obsessed fan(girls) and disregarding the humility and support of the fans in general. I am talking about the latter.
Without fans, celebrities are nothing.
It’s more of like long time no post because I have been shopping around for a new host. Just as hope was lost1, I turned to pick-meNET and found a new host. Small key but better service and features with better, affordable prices.
There were plenty of entries and articles that I wanted to write here, but because of this huge delay of server shopping, they’re already as outdated as a rotten apple if you know what I mean. I even thought of how I can organize this entire website as I can see that there’s just too much clutter in here. It was seriously time for me to do some spring cleaning for this site and even the rest of my websites hosted in this account. Seriously.
I’ve got new ideas for this site. In addition, I’ve got another upcoming commentary blog site on the works also with a pretty nifty domain. I’ve also got new trips for me to get by while still living unemployed: PBB Teen Edition 42 and Tokimeki Memorial Girl’s Side 1st Love Plus.3
And that’s about it. Just a quick entry. Will write more later once I get things organized once again.
Union City Sports Center
Usually once or twice a week, I would hog my parents Wii just to work out through Wii Fit Plus. Though it’s still a fun way to work out without spending membership fees to get fit in a sports club, I guess you could say that it got boring a little bit. Not just that, but I realized that the exercises were quite hard (especially the yoga and the strength training exercises) to just do them on the Wii board that it made me wonder if I was actually getting my body sculpted the way I wanted1 or if I’m actually controlling my sugar level through exercise the right way, that kind of thing.
(First published as Book Review: The Observations by Jane Harris on Blogcritics.)
The Observations by Jane Harris
After reading and reviewing Jane Harris’ latest novel, Gillespie and I, I became interested in Harris’ fresh writing style that I also learned that she came to the literary limelight via a critically acclaimed debut novel, The Observations. I read the advanced praises and reviews to see what the fuss was about and became convinced to read the novel that made Jane Harris a familiar name in Victorian fiction.
The Observations, like Gillespie and I, also takes place in 19th Century Scotland, and it tells the story of a15-year-old Irish city girl going by the name of Bessy Buckley, who escaped her rather eccentric and dysfunctional family back in Glasgow to seek a new life in Edinburgh. She accepts a job as a maid in a lone house known as Castle Haivers despite the fact that she lacks basic housekeeping skills. Arabella Reid, the lady of Castle Haivers, simply hired Bessy to be the new maid because of her basic ability to read and write. At that time, Bessy realizes the rather strange behavior that the lady of the house displays, from being ecstatic to being angry from out of the blue, back to being ecstatic again. As part of Bessy’s tasks in her job, Arabella provides her rather odd tasks from sitting and standing up repeatedly to requiring her to record all of her daily tasks and personal thoughts with the empty journal and pen that was provided.
Quick status again. I have been busy working on moving servers, in addition to working on my new site project, Seiichi Ushimi Network.
Anyway, I’m on a new server now. 
Right. 
(first published as Local Church Vandalized with Satanic Messages on Ash Wednesday on Technorati)
Earlier today, my mom and I attended our local church, St. Anne Catholic Church, for the Ash Wednesday mass and to celebrate the beginning of the Lent season when we were both stunned at the wall facing the parking lot with disturbing graffitiand other forms of vandalism. What was more appalling were the messages being spray-painted on the walls: inverted pentagrams symbolizing Satanism, along with the message “Carpe Noctem” (seize the night) and “Satan” underneath the inverted pentagram. They were spray painted on the side of the wall near the entrance facing the parking lot and another one at the top side of the roof. That part isn’t really that disturbing to me.
(Article first published as Book Review: Gillespie and I by Jane Harris on Blogcritics.)
Set in Victorian Scotland, 35-year-old spinster Harriet Baxter is an independent Englishwoman who traveled from foggy London to the bright lights of Glasgow, in order to enjoy her newly earned independence from nursing her ailing aunt. An avid fan of art, she attended the International Exhibition to have a chance encounter with a young artist named Ned Gillespie, who at an early age destroyed his artwork and committed suicide. Through Ned and a chance rescue with Ned’s mother Elspeth, Harriet eventually became a trusted friend to the entire Gillespie Family, making herself a fixture in their lives. The accounts of her life and friendship with the Gillespies were written in a memoir account by the lone, elderly Harriet in her Bloomsbury home. Bearing that this is a Victorian mystery, you as a discriminating reader should be expecting the unexpected in this story, and Jane Harris’ Gillespie and Iexactly illustrates that fact.
To this very day, Valentine’s Day, my family and I immigrated to the Land of the Free a year after the Philippine People Power Revolution of 1986 ended. I personally don’t like Valentine’s Day altogether,1 but I do have a reason why I’m celebrating with my family.
Even my parents, though married and still very much in love with each other, also hate Valentine’s Day. Yeah.
(First published as Book Review: No Plot? No Problem!: A Low-Stress, High-Velocity Guide to Writing a Novel in 30 Days by Chris Baty on Blogcritics.)
No Plot? No Problem by Chris Baty (with its companion kit)
It’s the brand-new year, two months since the end of the novel-crunching event of NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month), and for all the NaNoWriMo writers participated, it is time to go through post-novel composition mode. For the writers who reached the 50,000 word count goal this year, congratulations. For those who didn’t, now is the right time to reflect and re-plan for next year’s NaNoWriMo. Maybe some of these writers decide to just stop at the last day of the challenge, but for those who want to improve their craft through revision of their first draft prose or for those who want to start a brand-new prose for next year’s event, The Office of Letters and Light, the organization behind literary challenge events such as NaNoWriMo and Script Frenzy, prepared and published a series of textbooks and tools to provide the writers and would-be writers a guide to preparing for NaNoWriMo and tips during the event itself.
The Office of Letters and Light presented so far two textbooks: No Plot? No Problem! (along with its optional companion writer’s kit) and Ready, Set, Novel! writer’s workbook. For this review, I am going to feature the first guide book and its companion novel-writing kit: No Plot? No Problem.
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