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Cellular Frustration

For some strange reason, my phone can’t pick up a signal. Noticed it around lunch time. I now wonder if it has anything to do with using my cellphone while I was microwaving my lunch. Maybe the microwaves melted some circuit in my phone. Maybe it’s because I dropped my phone several times already. So, I brought my phone to Semicon who said that it would take a week to just check what’s wrong with it. I called up one of the Nokia Care Centers and they said it would take three days. Of course, I could take this to Greenhills can get it repaired in a couple of minutes but that would void my warrantee. Bummer.

I haven’t been able to text or receive text since lunch. Very frustrating. Frustrating how we’ve become dependent on this device. So, it’s back to my 3210 until I get my phone fixed.



My Happy Pill

I finally got a copy of Neil Gaiman’s CORALINE. Found it in T.B.F.K.P.O. (The Bookstore Formerly Known as Page One). Only P800++. And that made me happy and not think about my signal-less phone, my meeting with client, and my getting embarrassed in front of cute VJ.

Also at the store was Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials trilogy. I read a review about it in the latest issue of Vanity Fair and was already planning to get the Golden Compass, but then I saw Coraline and got that instead.

Michael Chabon’s “The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay” is once again available. Saw copies in Powerbooks, A Different Bookstore, and Ink and Stone(Podium). This one has the “pulp comic book” cover. Comic book creators and readers should give this amazing novel a read. There’s even a cameo appearance by Stan Lee—talk about a Marvel cross-over.

Last night I got DARK VICTORY from Comic Quest, Jeff Loeb and Tim Sale’s sequel to THE LONG HALLOWEEN. I read it as soon as I got home and ended up finishing it at 2am. I’m such a sucker for murder mysteries and serial killers. Too bad Loeb and Sale’s stories for Marvel are not as good as their DC stories. They’ve already done DAREDEVIL:YELLOW, SPIDER-MAN:BLUE, and are now working on HULK:GREY. Which makes me wonder if they’re going to do WOLVERINE:BROWN or SILVER SURFER:SILVER.

Hope to get a copy of J.Torres’ COPYBOOK TALES this weekend.

By the way, Filipino comic book writer/artist Arthur dela Cruz’s KISSING CHAOS can now be downloaded for free at the Oni Press site. I haven’t had the chance to read it. Hoping the TPB finds its way here.

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