My Scholastic Book Fair Experience

The Books I Ended Up Buying In My Book Fair:

Story:

Scholastic Book Fair came to our school! I didn't have any money with me, just a P100 bill so I just peeked in. Many books were stacked up properly from junior novels to graphic comics. I looked a one book that reminded me of one Scholastic book I wanted to buy. I asked the staff saying it wasn't available. I went upstairs, slumpy and not knowing what else to buy. During English class, I saw more books I could afford with just P100. But, the book was a survival guide about totally embarassing moments called "Just My Luck", the hippest and latest survival guide in our classroom for P95. But it wasn't the one I really felt like buying the most. The paper smelled of old, expired mangoes and it was very brown. The next day, I got my The Down-to-Earth Guide to Global Warming for P595. It got wet so I asked for a refund but they won't accept it. I wept and they just gave me a 10% off on a new book since my mom gave me a 500 left. The next day, I brought the new book and refunded it. I bought two other books. Here are all the summaries of the books I bought:

Just My Luck

By Robin Wasserman

This brings advice that makes you avoid all your embarassing moments. This says throw it all away. The four best friends in this book will help you! For Girls Only but I avoided reading it because I already know how to avoid embarassing moments.

The Down-to-Earth Guide to Global Warming
By Laurie David and Cambria Gordon

This taught me how important stopping global warming is. This destroys our world. Why is it important now? Earth is the only home we have now. Read on to find the effects of global warming.

The Wedding Planner's Daughter
By: Coleen Murtagh Paratore

12 year-old Willafred Clancy Havisham is a classics reader, a cherry cordial eater and the world's worst wisher. But when she moves to Bramble, Cape Cod with her glamorous widow mother, Stella, all her wishes are coming true. She has her first-ever best friend, Tina Belle, she bonds with her hip, candy-making Nana and her widow mother falls for Willa's English teacher, Sam. All Willa wants is the perfect father. Sam is perfect dad material who had enough experience! But, before her mother says I do, disaster strikes! Will Willa be able to undo the damage and make the wedding a success?

Nancy Drew and the Clue Crew: Sleepover Sleuths

By: Carolyn Keene

8 year-old Nancy Drew and her friends, Bess and George have been invited to Deirdre, the most popular girl in school's sleepover party. The theme is City Girls Dolls so everyone is assigned to bring their City Girls dolls. But when Deirdre's doll, Hollywood Heather, dissapears from her room, will her sleepover continue or there is a sleuth in the room to clear things up!

Splash Island Adventure

It was Tito Mike's birthday in Splash Island in Laguna. I woke up in delight. Mom gasped and told Dad, who was half sleeping" Excited na excited ang anak mo!" Daddy just groaned and turned over. I stripped myself naked and took a shower. After 15 minutes, I stepped out, dripping wet. I grabbed my towel and wiped myself dry. Mom said" The dress is on the bed!" I rushed to the room and dressed up. Mom entered and grabbed the brush and let me bow my head. She brushed my hair. I did as well and then, I was ready. We made sure that we had everything. Shower kit check, present, check! Excitement, double check!. Dad was going to his officemate's children's party since he promised. It was a bit humiliating for him. First, we stopped by McDonalds so my parents could eat, I did in the house anyway. We drove to Las Pinas since Tito Mike and Tita Chinkie were going to drive us. So as we were almost there, Mom told Dad" Nasa subdivision na tayo! Nasaan ang bahay nila?" I just sat there, reading the Junior Inquirer. It was very boring just sitting down while waiting for the most memorable adventure ever. Mom called Lola Conch and asked" Nasaan ang bahay ni Chinkie?" Then after Dad got the instructions, we arrived in the house. I brought down the present and gave it to Tito Mike. As I went in their house, I was surprised. The house was completely furnished....and neat! Dad and Mom ate a quick breakfast. I went upstairs to see the bedrooms. How clean! I told myself. The rooms were completely clean. The shoe cases were completely alligned. The TV matched the bed's color. I told myself again" They sure know the meaning of taste!" Lola called me down and she said" Angel! Ito ang aking BFF! Si Lola Violy! Mare, ito si Angel!" She gasped and as she was going to come in, Miguel shut the door closed. I waved hi to her and as I came out, I kissed her on the cheek while Miguel was making funny but insulting faces. Tita Chinkie walked up to me and gave me tons of movies to watch. I thanked her. Getting the full season 2 of Hannah Montana, Horton, A 40 in 1 DVD and more was absolutely awesome and expensive for a person. It cost about 250 pesos per DVD. Imagine that! It was a real long drive to Splash Island. As we arrived, we claimed our tickets. I was of course General Admission so my entry is free! ( I think). Then, we found a tent and chairs to sit on. It was by the water waves. Mom applied tons of sunblock on me. I begged her to let me go already but she said it wasn't okay without adult supervision. I waited and waited because they need sunblock too. Afterwards, I went off to the waves with Lola. It was exciting! We then went to the kiddie pool a.k.a Water Wahoo. I swam and swam. Lola then told me that I had to switch guardians. So we went there. I exchanged with Tita Chinx. After that, we rested for a while. Then, Tita Chinkie and I played in the waves. She taught me how to fight the waves using the Jump High technique and the Karate Kick technique. I didn't like the Karate Kick since I would sink underwater. Tito Mike and Miguel joined in and then Mom did and we transferred to the Balsa River. It was so fun! Afterwards, it was lunch. We gobbled so much. We just rested then. Tita Chinkie then forced us to go in the slide that is on top of the entire Laguna. I thought it wasn't that until Mom said so. We rode on top and my eyes were shut the entire time. I would almost tilt and fall off the raft but I would tug on Mom's shirt. We went off to take care of our stuff and Tita Chinkie, Tito Mike and I went back to the waves. Miguel then had a time out because he was a naughty boy. I spent 3 hours in the pool. I tried all the slides until we had to shower. Then, we left. That was the best Splash Island adventure ever!

The Internet: Tips to be ISafe and ISmart!

Who doesn't know the Internet? I so do! I love every flashy thing you see there from the Monopoly game in monkeybartv.com to the blog I'm writing now to YouTube! Here are tips on how to be ISafe and ISmart:

Chat Rooms

You don't know some people there so do not give away your personal details. If it's a stranger in a chatroom, how could it be any different from a stranger in the street?

Do not participate in mean chatrooms. Be friendly. If they are older than you, you may ask politely to change the topic if they may want to.

Do not gossip. You may not know that maybe the person you're talking about is there with just a different user name.

E-mail

Do not give your friends your e-mail address and password. They may invade your privacy like look into your love letters to a special someone or maybe snoop in your spam and pretend to be you subscribing to a lot of website promos.

Do not subscribe to spam. You may be subscribing to a website with a virus or it sends you many e-mails telling you to subscribe to other promos in partnership with them.

Pop-Ups

Those annoying pop-ups that tell you that you've won a prize or you are the 154,000th person to see this pop-up, do not click on it. A virus may occur and will destroy your computer programs and leave a bug inside making it useless or it may also collect information about you. They may ask you for your e-mail address and contact details so they'll bombard you with spam. Remember: if you didn't join anything, you have not won anything.

Hard Words In A Letter

Who doesn't know Joey? Friends is a very popular TV show and my mom has told me about an episode in Friends. Joey wanted to impress his boss so he could earn a job. Of course, since Joey is dumb, he didn't understand any specific words. He grabbed up a thesaurus. Since he researched his name at the end of the letter with lots of specific words, he replaced his name with baby kangaroo. As his boss saw it, he wondered why he didn't get the job.

The Bands I Adore

I absolutely adore the work of other bands but I picked my most favorite for these reasons:

1. Their songs are absolutely amazing.
2. They look at the eye while performing in videos.
3. They are hits of course!
4. They are absolutely wonderful and their songs are WONDERFUL!

So I have them arranged from the 70's (check my entry about my secret obssession if you want to ask me why I have from the 70's),

1. Bee Gees
2. Baltimora
3. Till Tuesday
4. Bananarama
5. Maroon 5

So that's it! Yes, unfortunately that's it!

How Great The Philippines Is!

Americans, you have Disneyland and Universal but the Filipinos have things as well! Have you ever been to the Manila Ocean Park? Yes, we do have that as well. We have teeny tiny fishes that remove your dead skin cells on your feet. What about the specialties? It has a restaurant and hotel but no massages. Loyola may be scary but it's perfect for a picnic. But not on the cemetery. Have you seen Glorietta? It's absolutely gorgeous! Look at the shops and stores to be found, not to mention FOOD! San Miguel Bay is just like Times Square because there are stores and eateries! Americans, do you have this?! Enchanted Kingdom with the cool rides. Star City with a Snow World that has a temperature of -15! Americans would be delighted to be here! OFW's, why don't you come back?

I May Love The Oldies: My Music Story

In my last post, I told you my secret obssession on Steve Perry, Gary Barlow and etc. so now I'm gonna tell the entire story. At 3, I started listening to Sergio Mendes, then 4, I listened to Lea Salonga, Mike Francis and Natalie Cole, 5, I adored High School Musical, at 6, it was back to the 70's 80's and 90's, this was Take That, Hajji Alejandro and Joey Albert and now I passed by the 60's, Engelbert Humperdinck, Tom Jones, Neil Sedaka and etc. Now I'm just happy with my playlist. Here are my recommended picks:

If You Leave
Tarzan Boy
Secret
Oh Sherrie
I Just Wanna Be Your Everything.