"Covero Tubero!"

Okay. Let's do this blog challenge that I took and posted months ago:

01. Your middle name and how you feel about it:

Hmm.. middle name is the maiden name of your mother, right? Well, Filipinos refers the middle name as the abbreviated name between the given first name and last name or surname like my mine, Lara Melissa C. Eraña, letter C is abbreviated for Covero, my mother's maiden lastname. I heard some countries they refer middle name as the second or the third name on the given first name like Shane Steven Filan, Steven is the referred middle name. Shane Steven Filan by the way is the most beautiful man in the world.

So to my middle name... well how do I feel about it? there's nothing actually. I've never felt insecure about my name, well aside it's too girl for me but I don't see any name that I would want to change to. The only time that I felt ashamed about having it is when I was in 2nd grade. My classmate asked what my letter C stands for and I answered "Covero" then he burst  out laughing, saying "Aah.. Tubero! Tubero pala nanay mo eh!" Translation: he called my mother a plumber, as my middle name and the Tagalog word for plumber are sound alike. Could you just imagine that? I'm already bullied because of me being an ugly duckling let alone having funny sound attached on my name. I was scared. I don't wanna be a laughing subject anymore. Thank God he got over it moments later and didn't tell a co-bully about it. Maybe because it's forgettable, they don't always see  the name as I always put the first initial of it like we does, unless it's required.

Well my middle name completes the person that I am. It's my grandfather's name that my mother took and used until she married my father. Now, I both used those last names. It doesn't matter how funny they sound,  but it's my parents names. 'Nuff said.

Kindle Problem

It's been nearly two months since my ate gave me this Kindle Keyboard 3g and I fell inlove with it. Well you can actually see it on my previous post. I have finished reading some books there and I was nearly half way through The Time Traveller's Wife then one day, it got stuck on its screen saver which is Amazon advertisement. I held the OK button which is supposed to do and nothing happened. I assumed it's battery low so I charged it and left for hours but no development. Then I searched on the internet regarding the problem and it seems like I'm not the only one having this dilemma. Lately, I can now explore through my book on Kindle, can read few pages but minutes, or seconds later.. it stuck again. You know you lose your interest reading cos you can't flip another page all of a sudden then it reboots itself and sometimes you lose your bookmarks. This is really frustrating for me. I still have so many books to read there and to download and I'm excited to finish those. My ate says it's brand new, her boyfriend actually bought it this year and definitely still covered by the warranty.

I really love my Kindle. Please come back to normal :(

This happens every 2 minutes. It reboot itself.

It's been a year

Woah. It feels like just yesterday when I went to Smart Araneta Coliseum to see my ever beloved Westlife in concert. I remember I was nervous minutes before the show started. Seeing the coliseum getting packed of people from the general admission section down to the ground. The stage with closed curtain, any minute now, Westlife will be behind that huge cloth. I'll be seeing Shane. Surely, it was a night to remember.

Up to this minute, I still dunno why I wasn't in the fangirl mode that time. I scream whenever I see them on tv but I too starstruck I guess... seeing them in flesh. Upclose. That's something else.

Seriously... I'm kidding by Ellen Degeneres

It's fun to read.  It's full of life advice and hilarious jokes. I'm not done reading this though but its highly recommended. Okay, I'm out of words... not in the mood for blogging now.

Sorry for a lame post but I assure you this book is not lame to read. I promise. I have been reading this and I get chuckle every now and then. Ellen is really a cool person.

And sorry for stealing this photo. I just googled this, I don't have the book to take a photo cos I'm just reading it from my Kindle.

Ciao for now :)

Amazon Kindle

My sister just got back from her cruise ship job last month. Yeah... happy. She got me some shirts, perfumes and Swatch watch that I asked her prior to her arrival schedule. And an Amazon Kindle D00901. I never asked for this one but she told me that this was given to her by a 'friend' and she thought giving me this thing to me cos she doesnt read and she knew I have started buying and reading second hand book novels two years ago.

Cool stuff. I always thought book is always better than electronic version ones, that's my one of my philosophies before when I was reading Westlife ebook, I was reading it straight from my laptop.  It's one of the reason why I have 2.5 eyeglasses grade now. I thought e-book could destroy your eyesight. Well, it's still is... depends on the kind of device where you're reading ebook straight from. 

This one changed my perception though because honestly, I didn't know there is such thing as an ebook reader device. Of course. Electronic book. People have invented things that would make everything instant. Why this one never crossed my mind? Yes, I know ebook, all I know about it is you can read it from your pc or laptop and from your mobile phone or pc tablet. I didn't know e-book reader device.

One of things I like about this Kindle is the built-in WiFi. It connects me to the internet wherever there is a wifi connection. This one surprises me because even though the wifi connection is password protected, my browser still get to load internet. It's like it bypasses all the wireless internet connection's password. Sweet. 4gb memory, I could put thousands of books in my library. I could also store and play music from this device while reading books. Okay, with this unique screen that makes the content really look like a book because this isn't with a backlit lcd that would make your eyesight worsen, huge favor to me. This isn't like a computer screen just like what you think when you first see this tablet device. Drawback: I couldn't read this one in the dark.

Right now, I'm busy downloading ebooks. And oh, I always need this site to convert my downloaded .epub files to .mobi. At first, I had a hard time figuring out what's best fit to this reading device cos psd files is no good. 

Argh, where to find free Cecelia Ahern e-book?