Another reason why I'm sad I'm broke: CCHQ has restocked!
For starters, Fruits Basket #10 and Hunter x Hunter #15 has arrived. For the former, the events catch up one year later so everyone sports an "older" look (they're taller too). Yaoi, confessions, and cliffhangers abound.
They also restocked on Alichino but since Mich had the three volumes on reserve, only vol. 3 actually hit the shelf. There's a Saiyuki Vol. 1 and it's from another publisher so we don't know if it's a reissue of the regular one or it's the Saiyuki Gaiden.
There's also a really oversized Hikaru no Go artbook which costs a whopping P3500 as well as the other Backgammon artbooks retailing P2150 each. US shipments also arrived and noteworthy among them is Neil Gaiman's Christmas postcards (which narrate a story, I think) and Sandman: Preludes, which come with a special CD-ROM. There's also Darkness, Truth, Filth, and the paperback of Batman: Fugitive vol. 1.
Had to arrive at school early to find out where my ACP class was going to be held. I nearly came late but that shouldn't matter since the first thirty minutes was spent arranging the room. The volunteers were scrambling to find extension cords and adaptors for the projector and when they finally did, apparently the room was too bright for the picture to be clearly seen. Someone had to haul in those cabinet TVs with a VHS player. And then the OHP mysteriously turned itself off from time to time only to come back again.
The speaker was Mr. Alvin Yapan, Palanca winner and former Filipino teacher. Apparently, the ACP class I signed up for involved a talk about romance (which I only found out earlier that day when I ran into Ela and she asked me what my ACP class was). Anyway, in one hour and a half, I got a brief history of love, at least the marital kind and how love in marriage didn't exist until the Middle Ages (where the Christians learned it from the Muslims). Originally, marriage involved getting the girl in exchange for a dowry, and honeymoon actually meant kidnapping the girl and only returning her when she was pregnant with child. Anyway, further discussions on pop culture showcasing love relations between man and animal (Head over Heels), overcoming age boundaries (TV series Friends), interracial relationships (Road Trip), same sex (The Priest) and opposite sex intercourse (The English Patient), and finally, class differences (Pretty Woman, Moulan Rouge).
Of course before all this, had to keep Ela company as the proctor for her ACP class was late. Apparently, those who enlisted in Jazz dance were all female. Let's not even get into the P.E. of Jazz dance where there were only a few men and only one or two are heterosexual.
Amazingly enough, I have to censor this entry upon the insistence of Khristine. Which means a lot more happened...
P.S. Tin, what's your email? Please email it to me. ^^
For starters, Fruits Basket #10 and Hunter x Hunter #15 has arrived. For the former, the events catch up one year later so everyone sports an "older" look (they're taller too). Yaoi, confessions, and cliffhangers abound.
They also restocked on Alichino but since Mich had the three volumes on reserve, only vol. 3 actually hit the shelf. There's a Saiyuki Vol. 1 and it's from another publisher so we don't know if it's a reissue of the regular one or it's the Saiyuki Gaiden.
There's also a really oversized Hikaru no Go artbook which costs a whopping P3500 as well as the other Backgammon artbooks retailing P2150 each. US shipments also arrived and noteworthy among them is Neil Gaiman's Christmas postcards (which narrate a story, I think) and Sandman: Preludes, which come with a special CD-ROM. There's also Darkness, Truth, Filth, and the paperback of Batman: Fugitive vol. 1.
Had to arrive at school early to find out where my ACP class was going to be held. I nearly came late but that shouldn't matter since the first thirty minutes was spent arranging the room. The volunteers were scrambling to find extension cords and adaptors for the projector and when they finally did, apparently the room was too bright for the picture to be clearly seen. Someone had to haul in those cabinet TVs with a VHS player. And then the OHP mysteriously turned itself off from time to time only to come back again.
The speaker was Mr. Alvin Yapan, Palanca winner and former Filipino teacher. Apparently, the ACP class I signed up for involved a talk about romance (which I only found out earlier that day when I ran into Ela and she asked me what my ACP class was). Anyway, in one hour and a half, I got a brief history of love, at least the marital kind and how love in marriage didn't exist until the Middle Ages (where the Christians learned it from the Muslims). Originally, marriage involved getting the girl in exchange for a dowry, and honeymoon actually meant kidnapping the girl and only returning her when she was pregnant with child. Anyway, further discussions on pop culture showcasing love relations between man and animal (Head over Heels), overcoming age boundaries (TV series Friends), interracial relationships (Road Trip), same sex (The Priest) and opposite sex intercourse (The English Patient), and finally, class differences (Pretty Woman, Moulan Rouge).
Of course before all this, had to keep Ela company as the proctor for her ACP class was late. Apparently, those who enlisted in Jazz dance were all female. Let's not even get into the P.E. of Jazz dance where there were only a few men and only one or two are heterosexual.
Amazingly enough, I have to censor this entry upon the insistence of Khristine. Which means a lot more happened...
P.S. Tin, what's your email? Please email it to me. ^^
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