Tuesday, May 21, 2013

Top Ten Tuesdays: Favorite Book Covers Of Books I've Read

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature hosted by the Broke and Bookish.

If you couldn't tell, I don't really have a theme for pretty covers. Some covers are so pretty in real life in a more subtle way while some covers are so sassy and speak volumes of what the book is about that makes me love it even more. And I have a thing for pretty color combinations and awesome fonts because of graphic design, lol. 

Top Ten Favorite Book Covers Of Books I've Read:




Monday, May 20, 2013

Best Summer Job Ever

Okay, I'm kind of exaggerating since the only other summer job I've ever had was babysitting my cousins and little brother, but still, my job this summer is pretty easy and interesting.

Because of Cam, I got a job with him on campus rebuilding the computer labs and moving the old computers around the engineering buildings since we're getting new computers for most of the labs. It's really easy, and we get to make our own hours. What's not to love? :P

What sucks is that we can only work 15 hours every week, and it's only 10 weeks long, which was shorter than I expected. Plus, we started two weeks ago, but because of the STC conference and staying at my grandma's house for a day, I only got to work one day the first week which only lasted a couple of hours. On the bright side, we can work how many hours we want to a week; we just have to spread them out on our time cards so that we only work 15 hours a week. However, since I already turned mine in for this week (we mark our hours every two weeks since we get paid bi-weekly), I can't really add any more time to my time card. :\

Since most of the new computers haven't come in yet, we've been tearing down the old labs and fixing the wiring so that they're not all over the place. And we sometimes have odd jobs to do like setting up the tables for commencement or for a professor and doing paperwork for them, too, just because we have nothing else to do.

We also had to clean out an old lab that's going to get new towers. Jeremy told us that we could throw away all of the papers and books in there, and being the students who have been going to school for 13 years, we thought that it would be a great idea to finally burn some textbooks like we've always said we would. XD So we set aside some books and pamphlets that we're going to burn. Not exactly sure yet where we're going to burn them, but we will. Eventually. XD


What's also great is the fact that our supervisor, Jeremy, trusts us to get the job done, so he doesn't bother us about what to do. We go to him when we have finished our jobs and want to know what to do next or just for tools, and he let's us go afterwords.

It's the most chill job ever. We can take as much time as we want working since there isn't much to do, and we go on an hour and a half lunch breaks just because we can.

Cam and I decided that we were going to eat out at all of the places we haven't eaten before after going out to eat lunch together the first time, lol. Now that Charles is working with us, he's going to be joining us too, I guess. :P

It's cool though. I finally ate at Roly Poly the first day I worked, which was a place Shelle was supposed to take me to forever ago. Cam and I went to the Greek Deli Corner shop the next time since we were driving around downtown Macon, trying to find parking, although we were originally planning on going to the Rook, lol. Although we both went to Francar's before, we went there the next time because Shelle had a coupon that she wanted to use before it expired. Then, yesterday, we went to the original Fountain of Juice (we have one on campus that's never open any time I'm around -__-") since it was my first time eating there.


Wonder where we'll eat at next week since Cam isn't going to be here since he'll be out of town on vacation with his family. Man, what are we gonna do since Cam became our unofficial leader since he knows his way around the buildings and what to do since he's done this before? D:

And when am I finally going to start working out again like I said I would over the summer? -__-" I'll get around to it eventually. ...right? XD

Sunday, May 19, 2013

Dusty Reads: Fury of the Phoenix by Cindy Pon

Dusty Reads is a weekly post featuring a book that has been sitting unread on my home shelf for some time.


Title: Fury of the Phoenix (Kingdom of Xia #2)
Author: Cindy Pon
Pages: 362Publication: March 29, 2011
Publisher: Greenwillo Books
Summary taken from goodreads:
The Gods have abandoned Ai Ling. 
Her mysterious power haunts her day and night, and she leaves home--with just the moon as her guide--overwhelmed by her memories and visions and an unbearable sense of dread. For Ai Ling knows that Chen Yong is vulnerable to corrupt enchantments from the under-world. How can she do nothing when she has the skill and power to fight at his side? A dream has told her where he is, the name of the ship he is traveling on, his destination. So she steals off and stows away on board. 
The ocean voyage brings with it brutal danger, haunting revelations, and new friendships, but also the premonition of a very real and terrifying threat. Zhong Ye--the powerful sorcerer whom Ai Ling believed she had vanquished in the Palace of Fragrant Dreams--is trapped in Hell, neither alive nor dead. Can he reach from beyond the grave to reunite with Silver Phoenix and destroy Chen Yong? And destroy whatever chance Ai Ling has at happiness, at love? 
In this sequel to the acclaimed novel Silver Phoenix, four lives are woven together and four destinies become one, now and forever.
So I won this book and another book a while back in a giveaway. I entered it thinking that my chances of winning were slim, so I wasn't too worried that I had yet to read the first book since I had read the first book of the other book that I had won.

But I actually won, and both books have been sitting on my TBR shelf for the past couple of years... I've really wanted to read SILVER PHOENIX, which is the first book in the series, for a long time. There aren't many POC fantasy young adult books out, so it really stood out to me. Plus, the series sounds like my type of adventure. :D

One of these days, I will buy the first book and finally get around to reading FURY OF THE PHOENIX. Hopefully by then, the next book will also have come out so that I won't have to wait around some more before finally being able to read them all. :P

Saturday, May 18, 2013

Hanging with friends~

Today's the first day where I haven't been so busy all week, lol. And even then, I still got up this morning to help my sis pack up her car to move up to our grandma's house today for her internship that's in Atlanta. I won't be seeing her much this summer. :\

But yeah, I hung out with my close friends from high school on Thursday, and then hung out with my sis and some of our college friends yesterday, which was really fun.


Since I had only seen my high school friends once or twice briefly since we started college, it was really nice catching up with everyone, telling roommate stories and gossiping about what's been happening with other people in our graduating class, lol. And of course, not to mention, talking about everything that's been happening in our personal lives, too. :P 

It's just so crazy and a little bit sad because we've all got summer jobs--or are trying to get one--and most of us are taking summer classes, too, so I don't know how much time we'll have seeing each other this summer. 

And yesterday, Shelle and I hung out with Madeline and Tapas after running around and doing errands all day. We tried to watch Star Trek before they came to pick us up to go out to eat dinner before going to one of the Star Trek Into Darkness showings at the movie theater nearby because I hadn't watched Star Trek yet and Shelle forgot what happened in it anyway and wanted to rewatch it to remember, but we didn't have enough time to watch it all. We ended up watching the first 15 minutes and last 15 minutes of the movie, lol.

I ended up finishing watching Star Trek after we got home from the movies though. They were both really awesome! Super action-packed and hilarious and touching. I might write some movie reviews of them if I find the motivation, lol. :P

However, because of work and socializing, I haven't been able to read much, which makes me sad since I had planned on really focusing on doing this challenge all of this week. -__-" There's still a few days left until it's over, but I still don't have the motivation to read...

I just want to read a couple of quick fanfics and start watching a bunch of tv shows that I've been interested but haven't had time to watch during the school year. And I can't tell if it's because of talking to Shanice about all of the tv shows that I want to watch, or because I'm yet again overwhelmed by the amount of books that I have yet to read. :\


Anyway, I will dwell on that later (or maybe not :P). For now, I should do something more productive like catching up on my YouTube subscriptions while unpacking the crate of stuff that I brought home today from the apartment. 

Ciao! 


pointy.star

Wednesday, May 15, 2013

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Done working for the week and am getting to see my friends tomorrow to finally catch up! 

Life is good. :D















Tuesday, May 14, 2013

Top Ten Tuesday: Books Dealing With Tough Subjects

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature hosted by the Broke and Bookish.

These are all of the books that hit me hard in the gut, either for the writing, the characterization, or the situation. They're all so good. 

Top Ten Books Dealing With Tough Subjects (abuse, suicide, grief etc or something personal hard for you):





Monday, May 13, 2013

Bout of Books 7.0 Goal Post

Time Devoted to Reading
I will be reading all week.

My Goals
Like last year, I want to read at least four books.

Books to Read

  • Wanderlove by Kirsten Hubbarb 
  • The Boyfriend List by E. Lockhart 
  • The Boy Book by E. Lockhart 
  • Lola and the Boy Next Door by Stephanie Perkins 
  • Arcadia Awakens by Kai Meyer 
  • Grave Mercy by Robin LaFever 
  • Tiger's Curse by Collen Houck 
  • Chime by Franny Billingsley 
  • Blood and Chocolate by Annette Curtis Klause 

Updates

Monday
Pages read today: 68
Currently reading: nothing
Total number of books read: 1
Books: Boy Nobody by Allen Zadoff

Tuesday
Pages read today: 0
Currently reading: nothing
Total number of books read: 0
Books: --

Wednesday
Pages read today: 264
Currently reading: nothing
Total number of books read: 1
Books: Blood and Chocolate by Annette Curtis Klause

Thursday
Pages read today: 78
Currently reading: Arcadia Awakens
Total number of books read: 0
Books: --

Friday
Pages read today: 0
Currently reading: Arcadia Awakens
Total number of books read: 0
Books: --

Saturday
Pages read today: 0
Currently reading: 
Arcadia Awakens
Total number of books read: 0
Books: --

Sunday
Pages read today: 256
Currently reading: 
Arcadia Awakens
Total number of books read: 0
Books: --

Sunday, May 12, 2013

Kpop Appreciation Post: SHINee and Super Junior

I haven't really been trying to catch up with Kpop lately since I've been so busy with the end of the semester projects and finals and going to the conference, but thanks to Lauren, who is a huge SHINee fan, I've mainly been up to date with them. And boy, there's so much that's been happening with SHINee!


I don't know if Onew is actually dating Jungah or if they really are just close friends like their companies are claiming; I'm just glad that maybe this will make fans realize that Onew is not some asexual goofball who has this obsession with fried chicken like how most people who portray him in fanfics.

However, I'm really disappointed that he's smoking even though it's just an electronic cigarette. I don't know if they have any bad health hazards like real cigarettes, but the fact that he is a singer who smokes is just... dumb. He's going to eventually ruin his voice, which I happen to really love because it's so smooth and awesome.

And I'm pretty sure that he was flicking Jonghyun off teasingly, but still. That was really surprising. I guess because I've always seen Onew as goofy and sincere and hilarious, it was a real shocker to hear all of these scandals about him since SHINee's always been so innocent ever since they debuted; you would never expect to hear anything like this from any of their members, especially the leader who is supposed to set an example for his members.

Some more bad news: Jonghyun had a car accident on April 1st (lol, I thought that it was a joke when I first heard it). He only suffered minor injuries, although he broke his nose, which was why he had surgery on it a week later. What sucked was the fact that he couldn't participate in the group's next promotion after they were done with "Dream Girl" because of all of this.

"Why So Serious?" is their new music video that I'm talking about. It was released a couple of weeks ago, and it's pretty good! :D



Even though Taemin got more parts to sing in this song because Jonghyun couldn't participate in promotions, I'm glad that Taemin gets more lines anyway. His singing has improved so much ever since he first debuted, so I'm happy that he's finally able to show his skills off. No, it won't ever sound as impressive as Jonghyun's, but his voice is still really nice to listen to.

Anyway, the music video definitely retained it's SHINee vibe, lol. No plot with lots of dance scenes. :P Their choreography was really good though! And I actually liked all of their outfits and hairstyles! :o And the song is pretty catchy! So all in all, a good SHINee music video. :3

Other awesome news: Heechul's being discharged from the military on August 31st! I can't wait for him to come back! He's so crazy, lol. Just look at him! XD


I started writing this post a two or three weeks ago in between procrastinating during finals, and I'm finally getting time to start catching up on my bazillion Youtube subscriptions, so hopefully I'll have another post up soon with more recent news, lol.