Over my 40+ days stay here in Quezon city I've learned how to budget my allowance the wrong way and indulge in a new interest that brings a smile on my face and a frown on my wallet. Though I still keep gaming close to my heart I don't recommend buying any new games for now since I've stacked up a pile of unfinished games and a few other things I should be doing...
So far so good if I do say so myself.
Anyway I wouldn't really say it's a hobby already. It might just be a one off thing like what happened when I tried to fold 1000 paper cranes stopping at 327, or break the dimensional barriers with my neglected guitar. But for the moment I'm displaying the same type of addiction to reading graphic novels as when I first watched a Filipino-dubbed episode of Dragon Ball. I've talked about this here and here already so I think I've made my point about it being too early for a hobby but maybe too late to be just a mere addiction.
My trips to Fully Booked weren't limited to graphic novels, though. I started with the Adventure Time Encyclopaedia. It was just as how I imagined it after reading all the wackiness on the back cover. For an encyclopedia of a wacky show, though, the contents were limited to just the main characters and how everything else revolved around them. It would've been nice if it covered more details not just with the characters but also the far-before's and afters of The Land of Ooo...or y'know there's always the AT Wiki.
Next one was Allie Brosh's Hyperbole and a Half. DEAR.LORD.THIS.BOOK. Ms. Brosh couldn't have worded every single chapter about situations in her life any better. Whether it's about being humorous, cute, dark, horrific (I'm now afraid of ducks), or finding yourself in the confusion of growing up, she offers incredible insights right from her own experiences. Read it. READ.IT.
Sun Tzu's Art of War followed the following week after I purchased Hyperbole and a Half. Here's a funny story though, Fully Booked has a section called "War" and sure enough it has books ranging from a compilation of all the Front Pages of a certain newspaper (was it New York Times, I forgot) to the weapons used in Word War II. But do you know what I didn't find? Sun Tzu's Art of War. And do you know where I found various editions of Sun Tzu's Art of War? In the damn Management section. Management? How? Why? It has friggin' WAR on the damn cover!
There were a lot of versions up in the shelves. There were the Art of War in business, the Art of War in being a boss, the Art of War in the workplace, the Art of War in economics, but where is the actual Art of War, y'know the teachings. I don't expect a direct translation of course, god knows how far people would go for that if a direct translation of the original text actually existed, but most of the books that credit Sun Tzu and has War on the cover often talks about, well, management. I finally got a copy that's not related to taking care of employees and the workplace: Sun Tzu's Art of War: The Modern Interpretation.
The book is pretty condensed and each chapter offers a few insights on strategies in actual wars, thank the golden goddesses, but it's not that very informative either. The core concept is there nothing more. I guess the publishers and the author liked it straight to the point.
The next series of books I bought were all graphic novels. It all started with the mask my mom told me about and the book (literally) behind it: Batman: Death of the Family. I was immediately hooked. Like damn why did I only do this now? Look at all those sealed comic books waiting to be opened. I followed Death of the Family with Hush by Loeb, Lee, and Williams which I read on one sitting. It was that interesting. Next was Batman The Long Halloween also by Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale which I bought just this afternoon.
The manga series that I bought in between was I am Alice - Body Swap in Wonderland. It's another take on the story of Alice in Wonderland this time with one of my favorite sub genres: Body Swap. The main male protagonist of the story gets sucked up inside the storybook and swap bodies with Alice at the beginning of the manga. Together, with other re-imagined characters of Alice in Wonderland, they travel to meet the King of Hearts who, hopefully, can bring things to normal...only the King of Hearts is this series' antagonist. It's just a three volume series. The first two chapters are available online but the rest are either not going to be scanned, or still queued for scanning. But if that's the case then it's taking a long time since chapter 2 was released last year.
My stack:
Anyway I wouldn't really say it's a hobby already. It might just be a one off thing like what happened when I tried to fold 1000 paper cranes stopping at 327, or break the dimensional barriers with my neglected guitar. But for the moment I'm displaying the same type of addiction to reading graphic novels as when I first watched a Filipino-dubbed episode of Dragon Ball. I've talked about this here and here already so I think I've made my point about it being too early for a hobby but maybe too late to be just a mere addiction.
Next one was Allie Brosh's Hyperbole and a Half. DEAR.LORD.THIS.BOOK. Ms. Brosh couldn't have worded every single chapter about situations in her life any better. Whether it's about being humorous, cute, dark, horrific (I'm now afraid of ducks), or finding yourself in the confusion of growing up, she offers incredible insights right from her own experiences. Read it. READ.IT.
Sun Tzu's Art of War followed the following week after I purchased Hyperbole and a Half. Here's a funny story though, Fully Booked has a section called "War" and sure enough it has books ranging from a compilation of all the Front Pages of a certain newspaper (was it New York Times, I forgot) to the weapons used in Word War II. But do you know what I didn't find? Sun Tzu's Art of War. And do you know where I found various editions of Sun Tzu's Art of War? In the damn Management section. Management? How? Why? It has friggin' WAR on the damn cover!
There were a lot of versions up in the shelves. There were the Art of War in business, the Art of War in being a boss, the Art of War in the workplace, the Art of War in economics, but where is the actual Art of War, y'know the teachings. I don't expect a direct translation of course, god knows how far people would go for that if a direct translation of the original text actually existed, but most of the books that credit Sun Tzu and has War on the cover often talks about, well, management. I finally got a copy that's not related to taking care of employees and the workplace: Sun Tzu's Art of War: The Modern Interpretation.
The book is pretty condensed and each chapter offers a few insights on strategies in actual wars, thank the golden goddesses, but it's not that very informative either. The core concept is there nothing more. I guess the publishers and the author liked it straight to the point.
The next series of books I bought were all graphic novels. It all started with the mask my mom told me about and the book (literally) behind it: Batman: Death of the Family. I was immediately hooked. Like damn why did I only do this now? Look at all those sealed comic books waiting to be opened. I followed Death of the Family with Hush by Loeb, Lee, and Williams which I read on one sitting. It was that interesting. Next was Batman The Long Halloween also by Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale which I bought just this afternoon.
The manga series that I bought in between was I am Alice - Body Swap in Wonderland. It's another take on the story of Alice in Wonderland this time with one of my favorite sub genres: Body Swap. The main male protagonist of the story gets sucked up inside the storybook and swap bodies with Alice at the beginning of the manga. Together, with other re-imagined characters of Alice in Wonderland, they travel to meet the King of Hearts who, hopefully, can bring things to normal...only the King of Hearts is this series' antagonist. It's just a three volume series. The first two chapters are available online but the rest are either not going to be scanned, or still queued for scanning. But if that's the case then it's taking a long time since chapter 2 was released last year.
My stack:
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