Sleepy Raindrops

It rained this morning! ^^

I like how hard it is to wake up when its raining. Its like you couldn't care less that you have school or work or whatever and all you can think of is going back to sleep. There no sun to wake you up and all the sound you can hear is the silent unending drops of rain.

I like all the different sounds of rain ranging from silent *drip drip* to the thunderous roars of a storm.(you can get some here :)

I like how the rain cools everything down and everybody and everything starts moving slower and slower and slower...

I like how the droplets of rain collects on the windows. Sometimes one drop joins another and slowly starts falling down the glass, slowly joining with other droplets and it goes down... and down... and down...

I like going to sleep while its raining outside. I get to sleep much better than I usually do. I like how the rain hides all the different night time sounds and I get to listen to the rainfall as i go to sleep. And the rain falls down... and down... and down... and down... and down... and ....zZz

One more reason to conserve water o.0 ;;

We live on the top floor(3rd) of our building and as we all know, the water service in our country is like :P and the pressure can hardly even reach the second floor.

So like most people in buildings, we rely on a extra water cistern usually located on the rooftops. As fate would have it, our water pump (the ONE responsible for GETTING WATER UP to the cistern) broke recently. When the cistern went empty, we like had to practically haul water up to our floor :(

Even then, we had to save what water we hauled since we had to use it on a lot of different stuff i.e washing, bath, drinking etc..

I had to cut back on my bathing which is hard since I like taking a bath (especially since it's hot here in the philippines)

Imagine if this happened on some of the populated highrise apartments... (granted they have much bigger cisterns there, but eventually it will still go empty). We're lucky our building is only 3 floors high :)

This went on for three days (the pump was repaired finally). Honestly, I never missed water that hard before. Like most people, I just took it for granted that when I open a faucet, water comes out...

Now I know (partly) how hard it is for some people in Africa where they sometimes have to walk miles and miles to get water. I'm even more afraid now of the impending water crisis in my country.

Imagine yourself not being able to take a bath or wash hands or wash your face for even 2 days (or more if you like)*shudder*

Like I said, just one more reason to conserve water among other more important ones :)

WiL-B' S BooK NooK # 1

As promised, here's goes my book review for Dan Brown's "The Da Vinci Code".

Ok, my first thoughts about the book is that it was either painstakingly researched or painstakingly imagined. I'm not saying that either is bad though. The level of detailed historical discussions throughout the story, factual or otherwise, served not only to interest the reader more but also to clear up the previous ummm... mysteries/puzzles.

Speaking of mysteries, the novel is full of it, coupled with non-stop, fast paced action. Our protagonists hardly even stay in one place. Action thriller + mysterious treasure hunt that kind of makes you wish you were there too, if only for the puzzles, after all who wants to be man-hunted by the police :)

Concerning the identity of "The Teacher", Dan Brown, succesfully hid it by the damn french accent and the spying equipment. Otherwise, Sir Teabing would have been one of the more obvious suspect since he is one of the few people well versed in the Grail mystery.

I'd have wanted the story to be more longer(the more to read the better :) Maybe something like an "Around the World in Eigthy Days" adventure. Having Langdon and Sophie travel around the world solving a seemingly never-ending barrage of clues and puzzles, but oh well...

What I don't like is the profusion(well, not really profusion, not that much anyway, but still a lot) of french words, cypto terms and grail phraseology. Some are explained in the story but not all. I think the book needs a short glossary explaining the more obscure stuff in detail.

Overall, an entertaining mystery thriller. Certainly not a waste of time. The end game unexpectedly with the grail still a mystery, since nobody really got a look at it. The Priory is still a mystery, nobody really knew what happend afterwards to it. On a good note, everybody lived happily ever after, except for poor Silas, Sir Teabing and Bishop Aringarosa... Hee Hee

-Incidentally, a friend told me that i should have read "Angels and Demons" first, for the historical background on who is Vittoria, but since I dont have that book and since Vittoria isn't exactly a part of this story anyway... =P -

Ode to My Lost Privacy

Have you ever experienced a time when when you just want to be left alone? Well, I have but for some strange reason, it just never happens in my own house.
I mean, if you can't have privacy in your own house, where the heck else can you get it?

Picture this, you go to a room (seeing it empty) and think "finally some peace and quiet" and suddenly, everybody else in your house just happens to walk by and starts to colonize your privacy. Its like, you just want to start shouting at everybody to go away but of course... manners... courtesy... after all, its their house too. So all I can do is, silently glower at everybody. =P

Its not as if i want to hog the whole house for myself, but all i wanted to do was to find a nice quiet room, so that i can enjoy reading my book, but noooo...

Well, I wanted to quote something appropriate here, but i couldn't find a good one. =P

Speaking of books, i have started reading Dan Brown's "The Da Vinci Code". Better late than never =P .

I don't understand why there are a lot of people who don't find reading enjoyable, and IMHO a nice, thick fiction (fantasy preferably) novel is much more entertaining than the latest movies. Call me weird but it's either my brain is wired wrongly or their's are. Anyway, I'm almost halfway through (the book) and its really nice and intriguing. Maybe I can make a short review when I finish it. No, not maybe, I think I will :)

Hmm... My first one... i hope its good lol

Okay... lessee... i don't really know what to say... Actually i don't have anything to say, not that many people would be reading this anyway.

so much for the first post LOL