Wala Lang

that's the title of the book i was browsing through earlier. i was wandering aimlessly around the mall, whiling away my 3-hour wait. after eating lunch by my lonesome (pathetic), i marched on to the bookstore to hide from the rest of coupledom, save myself from further humiliation, and to check out the new chick lit selections that i will not be able to buy for myself... well at least for the next four months while we're doing our feasib. nothing really grabbed my attention there so i went to the rack behind it, the one that housed local books (bob ong, jessica zafra to f. sionil jose). and this is where i found... wala lang.

it was a lot like bob ong's "abnkkbsnplako" but it wasn't really a laugh-a-minute. there were parts that cracked me up, and then there were entries that were very sentimental. parang blog.

then i read the blurb at the back of the book, the entries were from an online journal the writer (bud thomas) kept before. i enjoyed reading it so much because he was just reminiscing his life as a child, as a student, as a young adult. some of his stories made me think of my own stories, my friends' stories. like the tricks they played on the teachers. the way they defied authority, how he coped with school. how friendships formed. how he went into the adult world. it was fun reading it because someone my age could relate to it. well... he is a lot older now, but what he had there was pretty much universal. hindi po ako pro book critic pero nagustuhan ko siya...

and i found this quote that he excerpted from somewhere else, it captured the essence of blogging... and my other favorite thing to do... dwelling on nothingness (hehe):

"if you can't impress them with ability, dazzle them with bullshit!"

hahahaha!!

it's not a thick book so it's not tiring to read, large fonts din. just as big as the jessica zafra books, a bit thinner maybe, but when i looked at the tag, my jaw dropped.

360 pesos!!!!

that's the same as some of the imported chick books!!!

(now you know what to get me.... heehee c",)

aiun lang... my sister jeni practically has me in a strangle hold... she'll be blaming me for the break up of her "thang" for the rest of my life if i don't get off the net now.