For the first time in my Iska life, I've found a book that cannot be found in the UP Library. ^o^ Forever by Judy Blume. This fact isn't exactly a good thing for me, I need it read and studied so that I can be guided in my young-adult writing under the same...*cough*...theme.

To those of you who know what Forever is about..Lemme just say that my professor referred me to it. :P


Which reminds me, I read this short story which was published back in the 50's about pedophilia. The amazing thing about it is that it was written subtly enough to have been accepted by the publishers. Pedophilia and anything sexual in the literature used to be (and still is) a very controversial topic, especially in the Philippines, since the biggest market for books in this country are schools, i.e., private schools. But if you read the story, you'd have only a vague idea about what's happening unless it was mentioned to you beforehand that there is something fishy going on in the story.

I need to learn how to write about a subject like that in the grace and style Alfon rendered it in. *.*

Anyway, I saw Stacy yesterday in Trinoma. It wasn't planned...I was supposed to study in Philcoa but the UPCAT traffic was bad so I went straight to the quickest mall I could get to. It just so happened that Stacy was consulting with a professor there, and so for a brief few hours, we were in the presence of each other (most of the time she was in the other table talking with her professor). The only time we were really able to chat was when we moved from Starbucks, where I was originally studying, to The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf, the place Stacy was having her consultation. I missed her. TuT Maybe over the sem break we can go to Trinoma again, this time for fun, and with Gen.

I got a sprain recently. The type my orgmates said would last two weeks the moment they laid eyes on the swelling. It's the rainy season together with the addiction to tennis that orchestrated my injury. And it's the addiction alone that lead to its surrender. It didn't even last a week (well, it hasn't really been a week since the sprain), and I wanted to play so bad that the sprain just retreated. Mwahahaha. It still stings sometimes but at least I can run now. Running after the ball is such a pleasure~ Hehehe..

The rain has been a tennis player's strongest adversary these past days. It's the only thing that has kept me from playing, acads excluded (the sprain didn't do the job). Bad time to get hooked. Tsktsk.

Anyway. The mother again tearing me away from asking to use the laptop..I'll have to once again cut my entry short.

Ehehe. August is hopefully a better month for couples who have survived July.