Sword Art Online is so addicting :o

In less than 24 hours, I finished watching Sword Art Online. -__-" 

When I jokingly tell my friends that I marathon shows, I originally didn't mean that I literally marathoned shows. I mean, it would usually take me a few days to finish a season because of classes and other obligations and stuff, but I stayed up until four this morning watching this anime and finished it when I woke up a couple of hours later. 

But man, that was a really good anime. No wonder everyone was watching it when it first came out. I'm just glad that Netflix added some new shows and Sword Art Online was one of them. XD

Actually, I blame Netflix for my marathoning sessions. If it wasn't so accessible, I would be less tempted to watch everything in one setting, lol. Yeah, I know. I have terrible impulse control. I already gave up on myself. :P

But I have so many feels because of that show! I don't know why I'm always surprised to become heavily invested in an anime, but I am, lol. The characters and the plot just sucked me in. Sword Art Online for sure broke a lot of my science fiction/action-adventure anime stereotypes, which also pleasantly surprised me.

I'll try to write a review soon, but I'm so distracted and busy for the majority of this week...

We'll see. :P Either way, I definitely recommend watching this anime! :3

Books I Want to Read This Month

Last month was a bust. Hopefully, with my new-found desire to read Divergent, I will actually read at least one book this month. :P

1. The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
2. Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas
3. The Girl of Fire and Thorns by Rae Carson
4. The Disenchantments by Nina LaCour
5. Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi
6. Vampire Academy by Richelle Mead
7. Frostbite by Richelle Mead
8. Ketchup Clouds by Annabel Pitcher
9. Lola and the Boy Next Door by Stephanie Perkins
10. Insignia by S.J. Kincaid
11. Fall for Anything by Courtney Summers
12. The Whole Stupid Way We Are by N. Griffin
13. Nevermore by James Patterson
14. Divergent by Veronica Roth
15. Insurgent by Veronica Roth

Omg, the internet has been down at my house for the past few days. It was terrible. I read a lot of fanfics, lol.

March in Retrospect

I totally failed at reading this month... I mean, I started a book over Spring Break, but I haven't felt inclined to finishing it any time soon... -__-"

Reviewed:

• Icons by Margaret Stohl

Watched:

• ABCD (Any Body Can Dance) (2013)
• White Collar Season 1 (2009)
• White Collar Season 2 (2010)
• White Collar Season 3 (2011)
• White Collar Season 4 (2012)
• White Collar Season 5 (2013)
• Divergent (2014)
• Kuroko no Basuke Season 2 (2013)

Yeah, instead of sleeping or doing things on time/ahead of time, I spent the majority of the month watching shows and reading their fanfics. -__-" Or cramming for tests and doing projects and research papers. ;___;

Top Ten Tuesday: "Gateway" Books/Authors In My Reading Journey

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

Basically "Gateway" books/authors are the books and authors that got you into reading (or back into reading) or reading a genre you never though you'd read.

Top Seven "Gateway" Books/Authors In My Reading Journey:

1. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling

I remember that I kind of stopped reading in fifth grade for a while. Then my sis forced me to read this book and I was like, OH YEAH, I LOVE READING and started getting back into reading, lol.

2. Taran Wanderer chronicles by Lloyd Alexander

This series really got me back into reading after I was done with Harry Potter. 

3. Anything by Lloyd Alexander

After I finished that chronicle, I basically devoured every book that he wrote that was in my school's library. I think he introduced me to the high fantasy genre. 

4. Twilight by Stephanie Meyers

I think Twilight was my first YA book. I mean, that book was basically what spawned the YA paranormal genre. 

5-6. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins and Graceling by Kristin Cashore

These two books were what really got me interested in book blogs. I was looking for some YA books to read online when I ran into a few book blogs, and their reviews for these two books had me really interested. After being blown away by them, I started getting really into book blogs, because I wanted to continue reading awesome books.

7. Vampire Knights by Matsuri Hino

This series was what got me into Shojo manga. I never looked back ever since. 

MViet Dinner, Holi, and Cramming

Dude, I was not kidding when I said that this was going to be a busy week. I literally had no time to do anything but practice, cram, and work on stuff this whole week. Look at my schedule!

But this week was also pretty fun, lol. I made a lot of new friends and had a good time in between being so busy. I don't know how people juggle having such a busy social life and still pass classes. :c

Monday, I had dance practice with everyone and ended up volunteering to help out with handing out food for the MViet dinner before and after we have our performance the next day. Basically, I was in charge of handing out banh xeo with Jake, lol.

We couldn't practice on the stage because another club had reserved the room for until 9, so we were practicing in the lobby area outside for an hour while everyone else in the club was working on stuff for the event, lol. We only had 20 minutes to practice onstage before I had to run out of there to go to Jackie's house to watch the season finale of Teen Wolf (which dude, that ending!) 

The next day, right after I got out of class, I went over to help them prepare and get ready for our performance since Shena wanted us to wear some makeup and have our hair curled so that the hats would stay on our heads better, so she had to do that for me since I don't even own a curling iron. Then she had to let Jasmin do her hair since the bathrooms didn't have outlets in them, and she couldn't do her own hair without looking in a mirror. 

Then it was five, and everyone was busy changing into their outfits, and Shena was doing everyone else's hair, and it was time to start serving food! The only thing that sucked was that I hadn't had lunch or anything to eat besides breakfast and a snack in class, so I was starving. In the end, Shena, Jake, and I ended up sneaking food when we weren't that busy, lol.

Then there was the performance, which we couldn't start until Shena's dad came because he was going to be so mad if he missed it, lol. Not gonna lie, I made a couple of mistakes, but people said that we were pretty good and looked like we were having fun. That's prolly because we couldn't stop laughing because Carina kept on whispering "smile guys!" at us throughout the whole performance. 

After the performance, we took a lot of pictures because Shena really likes taking pictures, lol. My Facebook feed is full of them. 

Eventually, it was seven, and we started cleaning up after everyone left. The guys had put up some of the tables and moved the rest to the center of the room so that they were all connected, and we had a feast of the billions of leftovers along with some Vietnamese karaoke. XD 

When we were done eating and actually really cleaning up, there was still so much leftovers, even after people boxed some up to take home. So many boxes, man. Luckily for me, there were still a lot of umbrella cookies left, so I grabbed a bag full, lol. 

But man, cleaning up took a lot longer than I thought it would. Shena and I didn't leave until 9-9:30, and they were almost done putting everything up. 

Then I went home to study for my Marketing test that has been pushed back twice already, lol. I didn't do that much studying, though, because I had to finish coming up with the front design for my club's t-shirt and send an email to my prof so that he could send it out to everyone. 

Kimberly had designed the back, and it looks awesome! Too bad the colors won't be the exact same since the online shop I'm ordering from it doesn't have that peach color. 

But yeah, after advising for summer classes and my regular classes were done on Wednesday, I was in the library, trying to study for my next test before I went to a guest speaker for extra credit for my Marketing class, when I ran into Shena. On the way to the library, I saw a lot of advertisements written in chalk around campus talking about Holi taking place from 5-7 that day and saw them setting up on Cruz Plaza, so I was on Facebook, looking up what exactly the event was about. 

I really wanted to go, but the guest speaker was at 5:30, so I was indecisive. But after running into Shena and talking to her about it and then surprising Alec, who was also in the library, we all decided to go. We ended up running into the girls from the dance performance there, too, lol.

Basically, Holi is an Indian tradition of celebrating the beginning of spring by throwing colored powder at each other, so that's what we did. We changed into the white shirts that they gave out and went to different tables that held bowls of different colored powders and threw them at each other. They also had water balloons, which was awesome. 

The only thing that sucked was the moment when I didn't close my mouth in time, so I ended up getting a mouthful of yellow powder. I couldn't stop spitting out yellow, lol. And my glasses, man! I could barely see after a while. 

The funny thing was that the event was supposed to last two hours, but it ended after 20 minutes because we ran out of colored powder. XD I totally could have made it to the guest speaker presentation if I wasn't covered in powdered, lol.

The cleanup was a pain though. Shena and I spent a lot of time in the library bathroom cleaning off our arms and faces. My sink was slightly stained green. -__-" I changed back into my black shirt and went to my car to change into a pair of shorts that I always keep just in case I work out at school, because I refused to drive home in my black seats wearing colored clothes. :P

But I ended up sticking around for the MacTown Breakers dance practice later that night with the gang from earlier, so I didn't go home until 10 anyway. On the bright side, I'm learning how to do a basic six-step and baby freeze, and we did some fun group exercises.

Like, we all laid in a row on the ground with one person laying diagonally on top of all of us that we were moving every time we rolled to the left or right across the room. Whenever the person at the end was free, they had to quickly run over to the other end so that the person at the top wouldn't fall flat on their face. It was great. We messed up the first few times, but we finally got it right when it was my turn at the top, and we moved Alec all the way to the end of the dance room when it was his turn.

Then we took a group picture where we were doing a pyramid. Shena and her friends really like taking pictures, man. But it did look really cool. XD

Thursday was busy because I had work after classes were over, and even though it wasn't strenuous--I had to learn how to use the big printer for the giant posters we were printing for the conference we were holding next week--I really needed to cram for my Media Law test on Friday because I have not had any time to study for that test, and he gave us 95 pages of notes to study for. 

So yeah, I stayed up until 2:30 studying and then woke up a couple of hours later at 6:30 to continue studying because I wasn't done reading over all of his notes. I even skipped Marketing to study, and I'm not sure how I did on the test. :/

After the test, I went to work on making labels and nametags and helping them with the tote bags afterwards. Then, Cam and I went to dinner because we were starving and haven't hung out in 5ever, lol. He showed me his new house he was living with his roommates, and his room is really nice! Just sucks that he doesn't really like his roommates anymore, lol.

Then we went to dinner at Olive Gardens because I wanted Italian. Our waiter gave me the wrong pasta, so it took a while longer to eat, but my order was really good. The pasta they gave me had way too much onions, lol.

Then I hung out in the TCO lab for a while before picking Marc up at 10 to go to Midnight Movies. We ran into his roommate already in line, so we cut and stayed with them, and then Marc cut right to the front of the line because he knows everybody, so we got our tickets pretty early once they actually started accepting them at 11, lol. 

We were all watching Divergent, and dude, I'm so glad we got there early because the seats filled up fast. The theater was almost completely full, and I swear, almost everyone we talked to had already read the book, lol. But I guess it was a good thing Marc and I hadn't read it yet, because a lot of our friends were disappointed at the changes the movie made. 

But we thought the movie was pretty good. There was a lot more humor than I was expecting, and watching the movie with other college students definitely made it funner because of the comments and clapping and awws going through the crowd, lol. 

Now I really want to read the book, but there's so much to dooooo. :c

So yeah, this has been a very eventful week. Now I need to work on my schedule for next semester and my Marketing project before meeting up with my group tomorrow and study for my Management test on Tuesday this weekend. So much to do...and all I wanna do is watch YouTube videos and catch up on my shows. -__-"

Some more awesome "Let It Go" covers

"Let It Go" is such an awesome song and people's covers are just as awesome. Here's some more amazing covers of the song.

I've followed JunCurryAn on YouTube for a long time, nearly since the beginning of his YouTube career. His violin covers are really good, so it was no surprise that his "Let It Go" cover was also great.



Apparently this Africanized Tribal cover has been going viral for the since it was released, and I'm not surprised after listening to it. It's seriously amazing.



Also, here's a ukulele and guitar version by Sungha Jung, because he's just an amazing musician.





And my sis recently showed me a freaking amazing metal version of "Let It Go" that I just had to share. Listen to it, it's so good!

Shows I'm Currently Watching: Grimm, Criminal Minds, Suits, Lie to Me, Kuroko no Basket

In between watching the last episode of White Collar, I started watching three new tv shows. Yeah, I don't really know what I was thinking either. -__-" What with all of the recent shows I've been watching, it's no wonder the first two shows are in the police/crime genre.

I've only watched two or three episodes of each. Not totally sure if I want to continue watching all of them or not since it's nearing the last month of the semester, and I'm really not going to have time to watch anything what with projects and tests to worry about.

Currently Watching: 

Grimm

Not gonna lie, I was interested in Grimm because it seemed like a mix of Teen Wolf and Sleepy Hollow, both shows I'm a big fan of. So far, it's not bad. The show's slowly revealing its mystery and mythology, and Nick is an interesting character. I just really hope that his girlfriend doesn't die like how Sam's died in Supernatural, lol. Also, it was much gorier than I expected, which was totally fine with me.

Criminal Minds

My friends' recommendations usually never prove me wrong. For example, White Collar had been in my watched list on Netflix for a long time, but it wasn't until one of my friends told me about the show and praised it that I eventually started watching it. One of my other friends has been going on about how great Criminal Minds is that I decided to give it a shot since I seemed to be on a criminal kick after watching White Collar.

The first two episodes proved to be interesting, but I haven't exactly warmed up to any of the characters, which makes it hard for me to want to continue watching a show, so I dunno if I'm going to continue watching it. I'm gonna give it a couple of more episodes before I decide, since it took me a while to get into Supernatural, and wow, my last semester would have been so much more productive if I hadn't became addicted to that show. XD

Suits

Suits definitely reminds me of White Collar, except for dealing with cons and crimes, the show focuses on courts and laws. It's probably because both shows are from the same company that they both share just the right amount of humor and drama and smart characters to keep me hooked with every episode so far. I just love how arrogant and self-assured Harvey is compared to how out-of-his-league and clever Mike is. Of the three shows I started watching, this one is definitely my favorite so far.

Maybe Later: 

Lie to Me

I think I mentioned this in another post a while ago, but I started watching Lie to Me sometime last month because we were talking about nonverbal communication in one of my classes. I watched two episodes and kind of forgot about it. The show was definitely interesting, but I don't know. I wasn't inclined to marathon it like I usually do when I like a show. I feel like I'm just going to continuously watch the show randomly whenever I don't know what to watch on Netflix, lol.

Watching Soon: 

Kuroko no Basket

What with all of the basketball games lately, I remembered my love for this anime. :D I've been waiting for the second season to finish airing before marathoning it, and since the last episode airs next week, I think I'm going to start watching this soon! 

Top Ten Tuesday: Things On My Bookish Bucket List

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

Top Ten Things On My Bookish Bucket List: 

• Meet one of my favorite authors
• Have a wall-length bookshelf
• Create a poster with a favorite book quote on it
• Read at least 56 books every year
• Leave a lovely letter inside a library book for someone else to read
• Create a secret compartment inside of a book
• Meet a book blogger in real life
• Write a review consisting primarily of gifs
• Read all of the books in my TBR piles
• Create a book club