Day: August 21, 2011

the walking dead (comics)

I saw the TV series first and loved it, but having read the 87 issues (so far) of the original comic, I now fully understand why it got so big. Robert Kirkman has the (sometimes exasperating) tendency of filling panels with walls of text, but even then the series is a very compelling read. It’s definitely more violent than the TV series. I breezed through the 80+ issues because I couldn’t stop. I just had to find out what happens next.

Now I’m excited to see how the rest of the series will be translated to TV. Bet it’s going to be a pain.

The Mighty Reading List!

Feast for Crows

The Kobayashi Maru of Love

Showbiz Lengua

PGS Horror issue

Floating Dragon

El Bimbo Variations

The Tesseract

Faithful Place

Moxyland

Zoo City

Our Story Begins

Glass Soup

Here on Earth

The Pull of the Moon

Little Bee

Story Quarterly Issue 44

The Bell Jar

Philippine Speculative Fiction 6

Pacific Rims

The Name of the Wind

The Wise Man’s Fear

Pretty Monsters

A Dance with Dragons

Ang Mga Kaibigan ni Mama Susan

 

big toys for the big boys

When J got his iPad I knew at once that I’d like my own tablet- for reading comics and books, for surfing the Net, for playing Fieldrunners HD. Noble needs. The iPad is too big for me and I have a hatred for iTunes (I don’t understand why updating your files has to be so goddamn complicated), so I got a Galaxy Tab. Smaller and simpler to use. You can plug it in as a USB device, or you can buy a card reader and a microSD and put stuff in there – no need to sync to just one computer. Cheaper, too. J found it on Amazon, for $339 (Wi-Fi only).

Also loving the free camera apps. This one’s made via ActionSnap and temporary insanity.

For more app recos, go visit Kate’s geekgasmic entry. In addition to her list, I recommend:

  • Yahoo! (The Tab comes with the Gmail app, but I also have a Yahoo account)
  • eBuddy Messenger (Again, the gadgets comes with the GTalk app, but I use eBuddy for YM)
  • For games: Robotek HD and Glow Hockey and your usual Angry Birds
  • PDI Digital (because the pages look so good on the screen, and I need my daily news)
  • Facebook
  • Aldiko and FBReader (for your ebook needs! FBReader can read mobipocket)

J also got a new laptop, refurbished and marked down to around P30K. The same model, brand-new, goes for P50K, so this is a pretty sweet deal.

Our thanks to J’s mom and sisters for letting us use their credit cards to buy things online! :)

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Oh! And finally bought some nice lotion. Leyende I’ve been looking for you for forever!


Bought a dress for the awarding in September. Too short and doesn’t look at all “semi-formal”, ha. I’ll wear it with the (gray?) boots I already have. I will probably look like I’m going to a bar. (And I don’t even go to bars.) Oh dear, how to make it work. Maybe I’ll wear a damn blazer over it. Ang chaka na lang, haha!