what i love here: library

time to rave.

the winnipeg millenium library

one of the things i like here is the library! yey for library, yey! books for aquim, books for me, for free! they have dvds, audio cd, cds for kids, magazines. we can borrow the actual books (hard cover!) or the ebook online. please take a look at their catalogue, click http://wpl.winnipeg.ca/library/ and http://elm.lib.overdrive.com/.

searching is easy, borrowing is easy. you can either search it online and reserve it online. choose where you would like to pick it up (there's a lot of libraries). if it's an audio book or ebook, you can check it out and read in instantly.

picking up is easy, just give your library card and voila, your books are ready. if you would like to borrow additional books, checking out is done thru a lib staff or you can do it all by yourselves using this computer.

of course there would be fines if you forget to return the items on time. returning is easy also, you can return it to any branch and you just have to put the books on the counter, that's it!

they also some have computers there and they have wi-fi. they have mini museum and they have this ascending terrace where one can actually read, surf or just ... stare. hehe i was not able to take a picture, but i'm sure it would be great just sitting there hehehe.

they have some paintings on display, like this one:

and this one:

and this one:

which is actually, this just big (or small?)

i'd like to do that in our house. hehehe .

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funny story...

last time, i asked jason to pick up some books that i borrowed, just 3 titles. when the lib staff gave him the books, he was shocked! what the.. they were giving him 12 books! he called me and asked "what are the books that you borrowed? they were giving me 12 books. they told me you borrowed the book club kit and it contains 10 books!"

me: hehehe! oh, i didn't realize that book club kit means there would be 10 books. i just thought it just comes with a special binding. because the actual book is checked out and i was like the 7th person on the wait list. and i saw that book club kits have several units left (3 actually). so i thought this is just a book binded differently. hehe i didn't know that it will be 10 books hehehe.

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david

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also want to start reading sedaris' essays and short stories. i'm maybe a decade or so late but who cares, he only came here in the philippines a couple of years back (was it not?).
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he has already published 7 books and i am still not sure if i am going to buy all of those. the famous ones (as far as i know) are the naked, me talk pretty one day and dress your family in corduroy and denim.
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still not sure... still not sure. maarte pa naman ako. i just don't feel like reading books printed on not so nice papers or with too small fonts. i've checked a couple of bookstores and so far, i only liked naked's printing. the others are too small. if there'd be hardbound books, costly masiyado. hehehe ka arte!
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and i don't like reading ebooks. it strains my eyes more and nakakatamad, the effort to turn on the machine and it resrtricts my position. not unlike pag real book, i can read it anywhere, anyhow. i know, kawawa naman ang mga puno. bawi na lang ako sa iba.
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clues

i want these books. i first heard about this book (yes, i thought there is only one book) back in 2007 when i was with metrobank. chernille told me about it and i was clueless. i got book 1 and made it as my reading book to LA (together with benjamin button and p.s. i love you). and then i was hooked. haha..

pang bata na kung pang bata basta gusto ko sila. i have the first 2 books. hopefully, ma-finish ko yung 6 books before the year ends. books 7 to 10 are going to be released come 2010.

and i read today na magiging movie na rin pala siya, by 2011. hmmm...

i thought nga there would be 39 books since there are 39 clues and so far, 1 clue is being revealed on each book.

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http://www.whitbylibrary.on.ca/

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potter wrap around cover

FROM YAHOO!NEWS

NEW YORK - What picture shows a dramatic gold and orange sky and a teenage boy in glasses reaching upward?

It's the cover to the seventh and final Harry Potter book, "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows," coming out July 21. As always, the cover was designed by illustrator Mary GrandPre, U.S. publisher Scholastic, Inc., announced Wednesday.

"The structures around Harry show evident destruction and in the shadows behind him, we see outlines of other people," David Saylor, Scholastic's art director, said in a statement.

"For the first time, the cover is a wraparound. On the back cover spidery hands are outstretched toward Harry. Only when the book is opened does one see a powerful image of He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named, his glowing red eyes peering out from his hood."

J.K. Rowling's fantasy series has sold more than 325 million copies worldwide. "Deathly Hallows" has an announced first printing of 12 million in the United States alone.

The cover for the children's edition released by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, Rowling's British publisher, shows an adult-looking Harry, Hermione and Ron. The adult edition has a photograph of a locket bearing a serpentine "S" — believed to be the "horcrux" in which Lord Voldemort keeps a fragment of his soul.

about the pic: According to Yahoo!News, this image supplied by Scholastic on Wednesday March 28, 2007, shows the cover of the U.S. edition of the highly anticipated 'Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, 'J.K. Rowling?s seventh and final Harry Potter book due in stores just after midnight on July 21, 2007.(AP Photo/Scholastic)

countdown

for harry potter has begun. hehehe. lapit na ipalabas ang order of the phoenix! excited na ko. eto kasi favorite ko, so far, sa 6 books. tapos... tapos...lapit na din irelease ang book 7! yahoo! nagpareserve na nga ako eh, last month.



excited na ko makita ang kina-endingan ng harry potter. kayo ba?



the image is captured from J.K. Rowling official site (http://www.jkrowling.com/)