A very Potter Q&A

I sometimes wish I have two boy best friends like Harry and Ron. I'll be frst to admit that while I'm not exactly as smart as Hermione, I get teased a lot for working extra hard in school, and trying to follow the rules just because. I'm so happy that I found a strong, witty girl character who didn't have to change who she was to be to have guy friends who appreciate (and need) her. image source

Because I currently have no idea how to properly express my feelings on the whole of the Harry Potter series, I'm going to do something like this instead. An update: I am now considering myself a Potterhead after years and years of living in the dark from the HP series (am sorry. am a late bloomer)

I just finished The Cursed Child script book. I just got a copy of it recently (thanks mum for being so supportive of your little bookworm) and while I told myself to take time reading it, I finished it in almost a week. I'll be posting about it sometime this month. But for now, here's a little something about my Harry Potter adventure. I can't wait to reread the books soon.

Count back to 10: High School Musical is 10 years old

Reading picture books, asking my mom to read me my books, watching films on a VHS player on a Friday and Saturday night, and playing with a gameboy were just some of the activities that made the heart of a four, five or six or ten year old Mic happy. Everything that involved a story, narratives that unfold the lives of characters that could be likened to a lot of us were things, were part of my childhood. I have a feeling that my parents exposing me to books, films and activities helped me become the writer and book lover that I am now.

That's why I want to look back at all those films, games and books that made me the 18 year old that I am now. I found myself missing these films,books and activities. Maybe it's all part of time-- missing the things that made you happy. 

I thought of writing about them here on this blog because hey, why not? Some of the books, films and activities in my childhood were part of my life and have influenced my art in different ways. 

Movie + book: Me + Earl + Dying Girl

"When you convert a good book to a film, stupid things happen." -Me and Earl and the Dying Girl, Jesse Andrews

YAS HOLIDAY SEASON IS HERE

Just kiddin' I still have a play to read in class, and a short story to revise befoe I can legitimately bid goodbye to the first semester and join the hype of the Holiday season. But since I have a bunch of time to write extra today, I decided to publish one post with my string of thoughts about a book that I read eons ago and its movie adaptation that got released ages ago.

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I'm talking about Me and Earl and The Dying Girl. Yes, that wonderful story.

Ella, the girl from the Cinders

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I was supposed to review House of Hades for this weekend, but since I haven’t finished the book yet, I’m reviewing something else. This time, I’ll be talking about a film!

I watched two films this week-long break so I’m sharing you my thoughts on the recent 2015 version of Cinderella.

Here's the trailer that caught my heart:

(Spoiler-iffic under this cut! Watch it before you read!)

Pages to Scenes

Just as the title suggests, this post is about 5 movies which are book adaptations.

Book-to-movie adaptations aren't the best thing there is in the whole of a book junkie's life. Most of the time, the sentence "the book was better" is the best way to describe one's feelings about a movie adaptation of a certain book. I've certainly had times I felt that way but here are 5 books to movies that I like talking about in 4 different categories.

Book = Movie (I loved the book, and I loved the movie just the same.)

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Pride and Prejudice(2005)

A lot of people have mentioned about the 1996 version being better than this. I have yet to watch that adaptation but this version has captured my heart just as the book. Keira Knightley and Matthew Macfayden melted me the moment they were portraying the timeless characters. Not only were the actors great and astounding in their portrayals, but the setting was very much captured properly. The scenes felt very Regency era, and I think to feel like being able to go back to that time is really a beautiful feeling to have.