If anyone would pay attention to my book collection, it would be easy to conclude that I dig World War II genres.  I find that era fascinating, heart wrenching and exciting all at the same time.  My term paper back in high school, if I remember it right, was about the cruelties of that war.  Although I get horrified in reading holocaust tales, my interest and curiosity progresses exponentially.  I even got my self a hard copy of Hitler's Mein Kampf just to pick his brain.  

Not to make this post longer than it would be, I present my minuscule but fairly filling collection written in my ghastly handwriting! 

The Secret Garden - Frances Hudson Burnett

The Problem of Pain - C.S. Lewis

The Reader - Bernhard Schlink

The Prince - Niccolo Machiavelli

The House of the Spirits - Isabel Allende

My French Whore - Gene Wilder

The Art of War - Sun Tzu

One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen

The New Reich - Michael Schmidt

Getting In Touch With Your Inner Bitch - Elizabeth Hilts

The True Stella Awards - Randy Cassingham

Angela's Ashes - Frank McCourt

Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

The Real McCoy - Darin Strauss

The Woman Who Rode Away - D.H. Lawrence

The Devils Advocate - Morris West

Primary Colors - Anonymous

I Love You, Ronnie - The Letters of Ronald Reagan to Nancy Reagan

Mein Kampf - Adolf Hitler

Wall Street - Kenneth Lipper

Katharine Hepburn - Sheridan Morley

A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens

Major Works of William Wadsworth

Rich Dad, Poor Dad - Robert Kiyosaki

Japan Against the World - Russel Braddon

Tao Teh Ching - Lao Tzu

Hamlet - William Shakespeare

Virgin Suicides - Jefferey Eugenides

Cannery Row - John Steinbeck

I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings - Maya Angelou

Frankenstein - Mary Shelley

Rage of Angels - Sidney Sheldon

Gullivers Travels and Other Writings - Jonathan Swift

This Boy's Life - Tobias Wolff

Memories of My Melancholy Whores - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte

The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne

Veronika Decides to Die - Paolo Coelho

The Aryan Myth - Leon Poliakov

The Five People You Meet in Heaven - Mitch Albom

The Woman Who Had Two Navels - Nick Joaquin

Like The Flowing River - Paolo Coelho

Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte

Chronicles of a Death Foretold - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Paboritong Libro ni Judas - Bob Ong

The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera

Love in the Time of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The Poison Wood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver

Always a Reckoning - Jimmy Carter

The Pilot's Wife - Anita Shreve

Satan's Underground - Lauren Stratford

By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept - Paolo Coelho

Moby Dick - Herman Melville

The Politics of Law - David Kairys

The Love Spell - Phyllis Curott

Introduction to Critical Thinking - Bruce Reichenbach

The Purpose Driven Life - Rick Warren

  Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience:  this is the ideal life.  ~Mark Twain

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"Feet, what do I need you for when I have wings to fly?" -Frida Kahlo 

Whew! What a feat! I think I deserve a pat on the back for teaching myself how to go about domain registration.    Im talking about almost 8 hours of figuring out how this alien thing works!  It also helps when you have IT friends (ehem! J-A-N-E) whom you can pester 24/7.  But for someone who had just encountered cryptic terms like DNS and CNAME eklavoos, I have all the reason and right to be ecstatic.  I dare anyone to burst my bubble! 

Bleh!

I registered my domain with 1and1 simply because I can afford it and I have a handful of friends who work for this company too.  They do need a verified Paypal account or a credit card as a payment method so thank God I'm friends with the most trusting and thoughtful girl I know!  Sweet I owe you heaps for the big big help!

So what happens next?  I have big plans for MY site of course!  Plans I commit myself to actualize.  Here's a tentative To-Do list:

1. Blog roll - I've been an avid follower of various blog and news sites that are just so fun yet informative to read.  I'd love to share with you what feeds my brain these days!  Im going to organize it well just you wait and see.  ^^
2. Book list - Some of you may know that I love shopping for thrift books more than I love digging into a pile of used clothes ( going ukay-ukay).  The list will include a reflection of what I read about.  Note: reflection and not a review because Im no literary critique.  
3. More beauty reviews - I will let you in on my recent hauls that fuel my "slight" narcissism.  Im keeping this real as in student budget real.
4. Fashion pitches - Expect wearable styles.  Not too shabby not high street fashion either.  Think: Character and Attitude.
5. Lookbook - I love Lookbook because it feeds my covetousness!  A girl has got to have an envious bone somewhere inside her to arouse motivation and inspiration.  I know it gets my ass working!
6. Guest bloggers - I will commission a few people to write here for variety.  I too get sick of myself sometimes so this move hopefully would make you realize Im worth missing. ;)  My brother has shown interest in filling in this role.  Imagine my worry.

This blog has always been my tool for self affirmation.  As I re-read my previous posts I relish in the thought that despite my flaws and failures this is the one thing Im sure to be good at.  When I write I fly, who needs feet?  It is in The ViXeN's LaiR that I have wings to fly!  Rising like a phoenix!

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Honor, is that intangible and very valuable perception we have for ourselves that keeps our heads unbowed.  Simply put, it is pride and selfrespect rolled into one.  In the course of our life time, people around us will, once in a while, recognize our achievements as honors.  However, it is knowing that you deserve the recognition that makes it truly an honor.  Because honor, though how very little you may have of it for yourself, can never be taken away from you.  

What do you call a person who gets something not rightfully his? A thief, and he hoards on honor.  He intoxicates himself with the instant gratification he derives from fooling himself to believe that what he have are truly his.  His coveteousness is insatiable that is why in order to continuously feed that want, they operate in numbers, in an intricate conspiracy of deception.  It is a system that works so well until one of them will want some more.

And just like that, the honors a thief treasure most are snatched from his hands, leaving him empty instantaneously.  He finds himself exposed and eventually will either rob his robber back or slump to self distruct.  

We all have price tags.  It may or may not be capable of pecuniary estimation.  The fact is, we can be bought.  When we do decide to trade, stop and think if the price we set for ourselves is the price we truly deserve.  I believe that there is no honor in discounting ourselves, and that we become thieves when we bite off more than we ought to chew.

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