May Reads

Since I don’t have anything better to do, I thought I might as well make use of my time ~wisely~ and well, do a little review of some books I’ve read for this month. This could help me a lot in.. recalling, just in case I wanted to someday. (Maybe I could do this every month, or every 3 books or so? Hmm?)

Note: Chick lit girl here!:)

1. Sixteenth Summer (Michelle Dalton)

I’m a sucker for Summer novels and I don’t even know why. I know each almost has the same story — boy meets girl, they spend summer together, but by the end of summer one has to go back somewhere and all that usual summer love jazz and this book is no different. But somehow, I really enjoyed it. (Oh gosh, I so hate that I didn’t do this right after reading it! Note to self: Do a review thing right after reading something, especially if you liked/loved it!)

~ OH FINE! This is would no longer a REVIEW like, real review thing. This is going to be what I remember about the book and what I felt and all that. HAHAHA! Like, why is WILL such a nice name for a summer lover boy? (The Last Song — Liam Hemsworth!!) HAHAHA!

Loved this book! I would deffo suggest reading it. I liked the ending too, since Anna’s being realistic yet still hopeful at the same time. :)

2. Remember Me (Sophie Kinsella)

Got this at Book Sale some years (or last year, not sure :P) back and I just thought of reading it now. To tell you honestly, I’d go for books in a high school set-up over ones with adults with real jobs in a grown up world. ;-) But I kinda hated myself for not reading earlier, though — because it was actually okay :)

Anyway, it was fun to read since it’s all twisty and very scheme-y… and I like twisty and ‘scheme-y’ — although some were pretty predictable (duh?). However, it was kind of the same as other amnesiac stories where it proves that the mind might forget but the heart never will yadadida — you know what I’m talking about. (And I don’t know what to say anymore since I read it earlier this month. HAHAHA! This is really becoming pointless! :P)

I don’t know if the amnesia (forgot what the case is called in the book! It’s similar to The Vow’s) thing is possible in real life, but I like to imagine what it would be like if that was me in Lexi’s place. Wouldn’t that be awesome or annoying or what? HAHAHA

3. Before I Fall (Lauren Oliver)

It took me sooo loooong to decide to read it (bought this at Fully Booked, Feb or March I think) as well as to actually finish reading it — maybe because I’ve always been afraid of death and I don’t like having these weird thoughts and all so.. yeah.

The reason I got this book is because it has soo many good ‘reviews’ in the book itself — the front and back cover, that is — and judging from that, I thought it was a very moving and inspiring read. One of the ‘review’ even said “If you only read one book this year, it should be this one” so I had high expectations. My sister read this before I did (always) and said it’s not so good and I decided not to believe her since she’s black and I’m white (HAHAHAHA I don’t mean that literally :P) aka we don’t have the same taste in books — but I guess she’s right. 

Unfortunately, it didn’t meet my expectations. :( I was expecting Nicholas-Sparks-Novel level of weeping! Don’t get me wrong though.Got teary-eyed and inspired and touched with some part, too.It was still a good book, but not the kind that I’d remember for a long time.

4. The Mosts (Melissa Senate)

Since I missed reading my usual (hahaha), I went for this one. I remember reading something Melissa Senate before and not liking it, but then again, everyone deserves a second chance (What I learned from the previous book :P) HAHA!

It was yet again another a book on groupies in high school and how the ‘losers’ aka the NOTS in the book no longer wants to be what other people label them as. So they ask help (more like ‘professional’ service haha since they paid for it) from a not-turned-most Madeline who is in dire need of cash for a plane ticket to California to be with her boyfriend of two years Thom who just moved there and her Dad’s wedding as well. Of course Madeline’s friends-but-not-really-REAL-friends didn’t like her being with the nots. So to make my story telling short (HAHA), Madeline realizes what she really wants and where she really belongs just being her self-est self ;)

I love books for 14-year-olds like this one so much I could live in them forever!!! :P

Long pointless post is what this is! HAHAHA!

ohcarmel asked: Hi there, Hannah. :"> I've been following your blog and reading your posts for years already. Seriously. You inspire me so much. You are also one of the reasons why I took up Dentistry. I really wanna make friends with you. God bless! :)

OMG!!! :) That means SOOO MUCH to me and you just made my day!! :) Never thought I could be an inspiration to anyone! Hehe :”> Good luck with Dentistry! Yay for future dentists!:) God Bless you, too!:)

Enrolled myself to school today! So yes, I am officially going back to the torture chamber that is the Dentistry Building (plus everything in it) this coming semester.

Unfortunately, it took us the entire day to enroll. Talk about super hassle! I mean, I had plans for the afternoon for crying out loud! Usually, it wouldn’t even take us an hour to finish everything, but it’s quite different today. Aside from the fact that the Dentistry Family Population is starting to grow — hence, an actual queue when normally it’s just me and a couple of friends waiting for each other, there was also some error with our tuition and billing and whatsits. So of course they had to re-do it and stuff and we had to wait forever! :\

Oh well. At least now I’m enrolled and Yes, yes yes triple yes, I’m a CLINICIAN already! I’m equally nervous and excited! :) Haha!

Is there such thing as a PRE-quarterlife crisis? Or maybe a still-can’t-accept-you’re- already-20-year-old-you-just-wanna-be-16-forever sort of thing?

If there is, then I reckon it (whatever on earth it is!!!) is what’s happening to me. RIGHT NOW.

Had a date with my grade school BFF, Pauline <3 We’re a trio actually, but Anna’s million miles away, so it’s just us two.

It was soo nice to see her again! If I’m not mistaken, the last time we spent time together was Summer of 2010 and that’s 2 looong years ago! Haha!

Actually, it is indeed a typical “date”. That means a movie plus (early) dinner. :P And since there’s no other decent movie showing, we went for Every breath U Take. Yes, Papa Piolo and Angelica P! And while I’m watching, I kept on thinking — oh no, scratch that — I kept wishing Piolo isn’t gay. I mean, hello? He’s just soo.. well, what’s the right term? Yummy? Hot? —okay let’s go for Yummy!! HAHAHAHAHA :P

The movie was okay, not exactly something I’d bother watching on a movie theater, if I had the choice. But I’m giving it the credit for being genuinely hilarious. There was even one point Pau and I dropped our bucket of popcorn (it was still  1/3 full!!) because of too much laughing! I guess that justifies how funny the movie is!

Right after the movie, we had our (very early) dinner. Chatted while eating, and of course, took pictures (Instagram! Yay! Lol)! It was nice to catch up. :)

Had a happy day today! Yay! :)

(All Instagram photos! Haha! it’s @hannarte btw! :P)