Where’s Willy?

And who is Willy by the way?

A friend gave me this book, initially I thought it was a children’s book with the drawings and such until I saw the title! Still I was skeptical and checked the content itself, and to my horror and amazement it was definitely not a children’s book. We had fun finding Willy and his buddies though.

Full title of the book is Where’s Willy, Have you spotted Dick?

Here’s the instruction and a sample page. Have fun! Let the sausage hunt begin!

I saw willy and 2 of his friends on this page. Have you? Click to enlarge the page.

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Bargain Hunt: Sweet Dreams Pocketbooks

Those were the popular pocketbook series during my HS years. I remember owning around 20+ copies but didn’t know where are those now. I happen to remember Sweet Dreams when one of my friends shared to me her latest collection of Sweet Dreams pocketbooks. She asked me to help her search for copies and so we landed on Amazon (that’s also how I learned of Amazon’s affiliate program). There were dozens new and used copies but her problem is the shipping cost which will be more than the cost of the book itself.

First option is to order thru Amazon and deliver it to her sister’s address and let her sister send it to her.

Second option is to go to second hand bookstores, which I also tried but found too ragged copies.

Third option is to ask friends for copies, which I am also doing for her now. I am asking my blogger friends if you have any old Sweet Dreams pocketbooks which you can share to us for a minimal fee.

So there goes our Sweet Dreams pocketbooks Bargain Hunt.

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WBFC #23: FB Like

Head now to Weekend Blog Follower Caravan if you are in need of FB likes. I just made this FB page, upon checking with Mommy Rubz if I can join more than once. And obviously the answer was yes, so here’s another FB page of mine (more to follow jejeje).

Pls like busy reading…manga, books, magazine

Here are the complete list of tasks:

1. Make a blog post with our WBFC Badge to welcome all our participants. Make sure your blog post has links to this week’s sponsors: Pink Memoirs and Postcard Enthusiast.
2. Within your blog post, place a LINK to your Facebook Fan Page. One Fan Page per Blog Post.
3. Submit your blog post to our linky tool below. Not your homepage URL.
4. Visit other participating blogs and leave a comment at our fellow participants’ welcome post that you have liked their Facebook Pages by mentioning your Facebook Profile Name.
5. Again, like all participants thru their Facebook Fan Pages!!
6. Please a leave a comment here if you have done so.

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Curious About Before Ever After

There was an article on Yahoo News about a Filipina writer Samantha Sotto who wrote the  bestseller Before Ever After. It was said there that if one hadn’t heard of her (Sam) or the book (Before Ever After), s/he must been living under a rock.

Well sorry, I must be really living under a rock because I haven’t heard any about it.

Now I’m curious!

A review from the author’s website, samanthasotto.com

From Anne Fortier, New York Times bestselling author of Juliet:

“Strap on your time-jumping goggles and fasten the seatbelt of your favorite armchair … Samantha Sotto is going to take you on a rollercoaster ride that will leave your teacup hanging in mid-air. I was floored by the gutsy scope of this highly unusual love tragicomedy, and loved the spunky writing that strings together the rambunctious plot. Before Ever After is one of those books that challenges the natural laws of fiction writing, but in a frisky and highly entertaining way.”

The problem is where to find one?

Here!

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Jaz Parks Series by Jennifer Rardin

A new kick ass novel, Jaz Parks is part Assassin part Assistant to a Vampire boss. I have the first 5 books but never got the chance to read it yet. I just kept those books on stand-by mode if ever 

  1. I am stranded to a remote place without electricity, nope make it without internet access, let me have the electricity.
  2. I got to wait for hours in queue on some business thingy.
  3. I read a really awesome review for this series.
  4. I heard that this series will be made into a movie or tv series.

I usually bring the book with me but something always comes before I could open the first page. Not just feeling it yet.

 

Jaz Parks series

Once Bitten, Twice Shy

Another One Bites The Dusk

Biting The Bullet

Bitten To Death

One More Bite

Bite Marks

 

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William & Catherine: The Royal Wedding Album

Inspired by my Barbie & Ken post at Charming Junkie.

Filled with images from the early days of their courtship right through the big day itself, ITV New’s William & Catherine: The Royal Wedding Album is the perfect keepsake of this modern-day love story.

I got this book as a gift but if not I would really buy it for myself. I love fairy tales and happy ever after stories.

The book contains 6 chapters:

Chapter 1: Prince William (all about Prince William from birth to present)

Chapter 2: Catherine Middleton (all about Kate from birth to present)

Chapter 3: St Andrews (where the two met)

Chapter 4: A Low-Key Courtship (their on and off relationship)

Chapter 5: The Engagement (Prince William popped out the question somewhere in Kenya)

Chapter 6: The Wedding (The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge)

 

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Soduko a Day

Some newspapers publish daily soduko aside from the usual crossword puzzle. Beforehand I prefer the crossword but since I tried soduko I became addicted.

It’s a mathematical mind conditioning game, not really hardcore math per se because you only need to know your 1 to 9 numbers and a few rules. No addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, algebra, geometry or calculus.

The only rule in Soduko:

On a 3×3 box, you can only use the numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9 ONCE.

That’s all, simple right? What causes the complication is the number of 3×3 box, usually you have 9 sets.

Additional rule would be:

Use nos 1 to 9 ONCE vertically and horizontally.

I got this Soduko Compendium book from a pretty lady friend (who works in a printing press and is source of great books of various topics), the Soduko here has various difficulty from Very Easy, Easy, Medium, Difficult and Very Difficult. The rules are the same but the difficulty depends on the number of clues. I used to time myself while working on a Very Easy Soduko and it was 5 minutes max.

Try Soduko now, it’s addicting!

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Book Hunting

I just learned recently that the latest book of the Sookie Stackhouse aka True Blood series by Charlaine Harris is out since May 2011. I had the previous 10 books and so I need to have the 11th, Dead Reckoning.

Off we go book hunting. Unfortunately the nearest and my fave bookshop Magrudy’s closed its’ outlet in Diera City Center and so with Borders. There is one newly opened bookstore which I forgot the name in Al Ghurair Mall but they don’t have the stock. We also checked the Magrudy’s and one more bookstore in Dubai Festival City but also no stock.

Oh well, I placed an order and will be contacted once it arrived.

But I am worried with one bookstore closing after another. With the rise of ebook readers, would the paperback business be stumped and later on forced to close like Borders? I have ebook apps on my iPad called iBook and have 700+ books but still I prefer paperbacks, for reading and collection purposes.

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Manga: Boku no Hatsukoi wo Kimi ni Sasagu

I hope that our first love will be the fulfillment of that dream…

I was following this Manga for quite some time, the title something related to first love. Total of 12 Volumes and 67 Chapters, finally the ending was translated!

It is the love story of Takuma and Mayu which started when they were 8 yrs old. Takuma has a weak heart, always hospitalized while Mayu is the daughter of Takuma’s attending phycisian. Takuma’s condition worsened as years go by and was told that he can only live until 20. This burdened Takuma and set his mind not to let Mayu of his love so not to make her sad when he die. Thus the story became burdensome to me also, I skipped a lot of chapters because both knew their love for each other but have to hurt each other. So cliché.

In the end Mayu convinced Takuma that she is not that weak and she will stand by him through the end. Takuma agreed to have a heart transplant and based on the last slide, it showed him and Mayu with 2 kids.

I cried, fell in love, get pissed, laugh and fearful all in one manga. Love conquers everything.

I recommend this, if you have time and a knack for shoujo or romance type stories. Complete chapters can be seen at Mangafox.

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Manga: Suits no Kuni

Criteria for reading a Manga:

cute drawing – check!
cute storyline – check!

From Mangafox
Miyaji Rintaro is a normal salary man who visits the foreign country of Gladimar to seal a business contract to export a rare plant called Kapalu. Even with the contract signed and sealed, everything isn’t as it seems as Rintaro finds a beautiful chained girl who suddenly attacks him. Is there something more to this country and the Kapalu plant than meets the eye?

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