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Feeling much better today! Barely any pain in the morning but I went to see World War Z and now I'm back to feeling pain again. Darn.

I bots my book from lulu and...

Its huge. As far as I'm concern its as big as the princeton prep book BUT so freaking thicker and heavier. EFF!!!!
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TXTBOOKS, TEXTBOOKS!

Since my class schedule for next year sucks, I guess I'd try to make it less suck...y by looking up textbooks early. Turned out, I didn't have too hard a time with it.

Some of the sites that I have looked at are: campusbookrentals.com, half.com, smartcourse.com. Among these three, I think I love campusbookrentals the most since it has a pretty good customer service and a 30 day full refund period just in case I drop the class. Half.com seems to be the one that's the most expensive among the three, but then, some of the textbooks listed by half.com are actually new and they're 30% less than the actually price so really... I can't complain about that. Smartcourse.... well, if I have to buy NEW textbook, I'd go for smartcourse. I saw a brand new textbook for Spy (either that, or music, I can't remember) at smartcourse that's only 7 dollars more than the used one at campusbook! That's great! Plus, I think it has free shipping. Sorry, for the uncertainties but apparently, I had just spent only 20 mins for all the sites.

Oh, half way through my research/quest, or whatever you call it, for cheap txtbooks, I came across this website: bigwords.com. It's BIG, alright. This site lets you compare the prices from various websites which includes the three sites above and a few more, but I can only remember chegg.com now. So it's very effective. Plus, it lets you have the option of viewing, new/used textbooks. It's a great site. If you're a rising college student and you are totally clueless about textbooks (like me), those are great places to start.

Lastly, not sure if this still works but here's a coupon for campusbook for 7 bucks off: resolution2010

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THIS IS WHAT I GOT FOR A WEEK :-)


All of the romance books this week are by Gaelen Folly because she is just that good!!!

Of the hard cover ones, I think I like Anxious Hearts by Tucker Shaw the most... Cover wise, that is. We'll see how it turns out.

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UPDATES ON MY LIFE

So I haven't been able to do any reviews for the last three days. That doesn't mean that I haven't read any good books. I have. In fact, I'm in the middle of another romance novel. Well, I need to finish it first before I will tell you the title. Ha!

But anyway, I've been CRAZY busy about my schedule. I hate picking out classes from 65 pages of classes that I have to choose from. That's not freedom, people! That's TORTURE! But anyway, I'm so not happy that they don't offer Chem class in fall. Instead they have chem LAB in the fall. What the heck? I don't understand the notion of butchering chem in weird parts. What were they thinking???

But anyway, right now, my schedule is pretty messed up. I have like, 5 classes on Monday. My third and fourth classes are 10 mins from each other, which is virtually impossible. I don't even know when I'll be able to grab some food with that kind of schedule. Plus I'm stuck with JANE EYRE for ENWR, which is even SUCKIER. I hate Jane Eyre. That book is just boring!

Talking about book, I FINALLY FINALLY FINALLY finished writing the my story that I started I guess two years ago. I officially finished with it yesterday morning, but I spent the rest of the day trying to figure out how to embed the fonts in the pdf file, which was a HORRIBLE HORRIBLE experience. I spent 4 consecutive hours downloading, installing, reinstalling apps that supposedly help to embed fonts. Well, they didn't work. Word 2007 and Adobe Distiller are the two most common app to do that but apparently for some god knew what reason, they didn't. They kept giving me these weird-ass symbol instead of the fonts. I tried and tried and tried. At least Word got SOME of my fonts embed. Distiller did naught! Nothing! The application itself didn't even work!

I finally came across this website that names a few freeware with similar function as Distiller. The first one, well, SUCK SUCK SUCKED! I spent a HOUR on that thing trying to eliminate the weird symbol on the front page. It was so frustrating because I had to use my laptop AND desktop since the desktop isn't mine so I don't have the permission to install stuff in there. Urgh. Don't get me started on that miserable piece of metal. It can't even open .zip files!

I stayed up 'til 2:30 and finally finally cutePDF worked! I was sooo happy! Gotta love that free app!! It practically saved my life!

But that's not all. That's just half the battle. And my friend, that is the EASY part of the battle. Wanna know the hard part?

BOOK COVER!

@%$#! that's what I felt when I realized I don't even have a book cover! I wanted to paint everything black and just put the title in white and to hell with everything but since this is my VERY OWN VERY FIRST book, I painstakingly made a freaking bookcover.

It was a nightmare. I'm so glad I got it over with. Can't wait for lulu.com to ship my order. I'm leaving for college on the 21 so hopefully it will get here before then. Please get here before 21st.

But yeah, that's all I did for the last 3 days. Editing my story and trying to make a decent book cover. Now I won't tell you what it's about or what it's called because obviously nobody cares. I just want to throw this out here just because I finished my biggest project after 2 long years and it feels so awesome.

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SONGS THAT I'M CURRENT ADDICTED TO

Got this song stuck in my head the second time I heard it. I love the part that goes "girl you really got me bad, yeah, you really got me bad."





Now I know the lyric for this song is... disturbing to some of you. I agree. But I just the music and rhythm so much.




For this song, if you don't like it... I'm sorry, but you must be an alien. But seriously, this video doesn't get 2 million plus views for no reason.

Lenka - The Show



This song I'm pretty everyone knows about it. This is the first song I heard from Taylor Swift and is one of my favorite songs from her. Partly because of the music, but mostly because this is one of the songs that I can really, really relate to. Most of the songs glorifies about love, Taylor's White Horse is so right when she says "I'm not a princess, this aint a fairy tale. I'm not the one you sweep off her feet..." for some reason, I can't help but think, that is my life she's describing!



This one is one the radio all the time. It's got 2.5 million views on less than a week. Taio Cruz has some kick ass songs, especially this and "Break Your Heart." For some reason, the lyric for "Break Your Heart" is so meaningful and I can't help but think, if he warns her beforehand that he's a badass and that he's going to break her heart if she falls in love with him then he still has a heart and concience. He's not, after all, "bad to the bones." But anyway, I digress. I should have talked about Dynamite instead. But really, for some reason, I like like Dynamite... there isn't much to say about Dynamite... I just... like it. I guess. ;/



and that's it for now!

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SOMETHING WONDERFUL by JUDITH MCNAUGHT 5/5



SOMETHING WONDERFUL by JUDITH MCNAUGHT
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Adult
Date of Publication: January 2001
Summary:

The tempestuous marriage of Alexandra Lawrence, an innocent country girl, and Jordan Townsende, the rich and powerful Duke of Hawthorne, is about to face its ultimate test of tender loyalty. Swept into the endlessly fascinating world of London society, free-spirited Alexandra becomes ensnared in a tangled web of jealousy and revenge, stormy pride and overwhelming passion. But behind her husband's cold, arrogant mask, there lives a tender, vital, sensual man...the man Alexandra married. Now, she will fight for his very life...and the rapturous bond they alone can share.

Fact: I bought this book solely because of these words "one of her most beloved novels of all time!" and did not read until now because the summary sounds not very interesting. But boy, was I wrong.

The one thing I love the most about this book is the female character, Alexandra. There is just something about her innocent, honesty that is so very appealing.
Throughout this book, I kept laughing at their conversations and the unexpected witty comments from both Alex and Jordan. This is one of the rare books that I can feel the male's REAL affection towards the female. I know in all romance books, both characters are supposed to fall head over heels for each other. But sometimes the author... shall we say, got too caught up in creating the image of a cold, aloof hero that he/she makes him looks cold even to the female. The result is not enough romance/affection shown for the female and it leaves me wonder (and boy, I've been doing that for one of the books that I didn't finish days ago) why is she/he (most often "she") so in love with him? He doesn't even do anything for her! Why are they so attracted to each other?
But no, not this book. I can feel the love, the fear, the frantic in Jordan he even if he keeps maintaining his cold, brusque fascade.

And THAT, is what EVERY reader wants to see.

*****Spoiler Alert*****
The only thing I found a little upsetting is the tragedy that separates and nearly tears them apart and drives Alex to another man's arms forever. I literally skipped four or five pages just to reach to the end of that because I just can't stand the heartbreaking moment!

Another thing that I found VERY VERY VERY disturbing-- and that I shouldn't. I guess I"m just being overtly old tradition, but the fact that she kisses other men while Jordan is supposedly "dead" just doesn't stand well with me. I guess I only like the female kissing only the main male character. So I got MORE than just a little uncomfortable at that. But the consolation is that they are only small pecks and NOT ON THE LIPS. Gosh, I can't believe I'm saying this... but the author just makes her sound so sweet and innocent that I only want her to belong exclusively to Jordan! ANOTHER POINT FOR McNAUGHT's SKILL!!

*****End of Spoiler*****

The good:  the characters, the conversations, the way the author can get into the character's head and say EXACTLY what he/she would say if that person is real. I found out, I had similar thoughts with some of the characters in my life! And oh, let's not forget the sizzle romance between the couple. I think McNaught did a gorgeous job on this one with just a right amount of romance. The previous book I read from her, UNTIL YOU, left me a little unsatisfied...

It could have been better if you might have guessed already if you read the spoiler section. It could have been better if she didn't kiss others and the plot is a little less heartwrenching. I'm sorry I just can't get over the fact that other men kiss her! I'm not sure if these things that I'm mentioning are supposed to be "lowlights" but those are the only thing that I'm not happy about this book.

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