I have been searching for some heavy reading these past few days because I have been plagued by this insane sense of being way behind on my reading, due to absence of books in my humble abode of a rented room owned by a Chinese family. All I could find to read was a bunch of nursing journals that I couldn’t simply comprehend, except for atrioventricular ( heart related), atopic ( something to do with allergies), sphygmomanometer ( bp apparatus, as we normal beings call it) , asymptomatic ( when you have something and you didn’t know because there weren’t any symptoms that said your dying of something), laceration, malaise, asphyxiation and some, ( I learned those from a semester as a pre-med student and from watching a lot of CSI, Criminal Minds, Justice and a lot of other crime series).

When I was a college student, I felt really deprived. I didn’t even know that the Harry Potter movies are based on Harry Potter books, so when I finally did learn about it, boy, didn’t I went all berserk. Dough just went a-missing. In two weeks of sembreak, I was driven into a -what my father called-  temporary psychotic fit.

We all know what public schools in remote areas are subjected into, no classrooms, no books, and sometimes, educators who are inadequately trained. Some of the teachers aren’t even board passers, some of them couldnt even spell correctly, some of them teach wrong things. Some of the newer teachers couldn’t just match up to the calibre of old teachers. That’s the sad part. It’s just so sad that the education of future generations is deteriorating before our very own eyes.

I’m just so fortunate to have a father who loves hoarding books and my mom teaches English, that’s why I get by, despite all this. It also helps a lot that I’m such a bookworm; I love to read about anything, from newspapers that are used as wrappers in sari-sari stores or to wrap delicate kitchen ware, to comics and komiks, to transcripts of my favourite shows on the internet. I’m also a TV addict, my brain acts like a sponge, absorbing anything that comes out of an animated box.

But right now, I just feel so deprived of information. I felt like I should really brush up on the works of my literary heroes and do some heavy duty reading. That’s why I’m happy when I found this site where they have online books , poems and short stories of my favourites such as Dante Alighiere, jane austen, Charlotte Bronte, Agatha Christie, Guy de Maupassant, George Orwell, Edgar Allan Poe. Ok , now I need to stop. Im hyperventilating. Oh, this is just pure bliss. Now I can immerse myself in literature whenever my boss isn’t looking. Har har har… Now I gotta go, I have to catch up on my reading. See yáll!