The 25 Book Challenge

Hello, people! I am back again with blogging, YAY! Two more days until the "Torture Week" is finally done. I am extremely happy. I can't wait for the holiday :)

Today, I stumbled upon this video. I'm thinking about doing the challenge too. But instead of 50 books, I'm going to do 25 books. Why? Because I'm not that fast of a reader and I still have school, so I think 25 is enough. And she starts in the beginning of the year, but I'm going to start on December 25, which is Christmas day. 25 books, December 25, awesome, eh?

Anyway, there is no specific "rule" for this challenge. It's basically just reading at least 25 books in a year. No big deal. But I kind of make my own "rule" in this challenge. So, my rule is "I can start reading before Christmas day but I have to finish it after Christmas. If I'm finished before Christmas, it doesn't count." That is my rule. And I found out that I can read manga/comic book too. But 2 manga/comic books is counted as 1, but that's alright. I can read like 5 manga in a day. Just saying...

So, anyone want to join me? Well, I'm gonna do it anyway, even if no one's joining me. But, yeah. Everybody can join me :)

That's it, I think. Bye!

xoxo,

Rizka

ADDITION: You can't re-read a book. The book that is included to the challenge is the book that you've never read before.

Books and Stuff

Finally, My exam week is done! Yay! But I have to go through the remedial week which gonna start on December 13 and will end on December 20. Sucks, I know. After all that mad exams you did and followed by another exam, well, literally.

It's almost semester break and I'm gonna be FREE!!! So, I am now craving some books to read. I LOVE reading. And I found some interesting books to read that I saw in the bookstore but have no chance to buy it because of the exams and stuff.

Well, I'm not the kind of person who reads "romance" stuff, either it's an adult or even a young adult romance, because it could get kind of cheesy and weird. I mean, it's okay if a book have some kind of romance touch in it but it must not mainly telling story about love stuff, you know what I mean? Like the Harry Potter series. It has some kind of "love story" of Harry and Ginny or Ron and Hermione, BUT the main plot of the series is about the adventure of Harry and friends to defeat The Dark Lord. Not all lovey-dovey stuff. So, no for romance. I mean, I'm a kid. I'm not ready for this kind of thing :/

Then the "Teenlit", as people say it. I don't know how I feel about this kind of book. I mean, some of them are quite good, like the Gallagher Girls series, and some of them are just plain weird. I don't really buy "teenlit" ever, other than the Gallagher Girls series. I usually borrow it from my friends or my cousin. In my cousin's case, every time we go to the bookstore, she always go to the teenlit section. I mean, really? There's so many good books just behind that section.

Next, I LOVE series. I mean, when you're finished reading a stand-alone or one shot book, it was like, okay, it's done. Series, on the other hand, whether you like it or not, you'll have a bond with the characters. It's like, you live there, you know them, you know what they're going through. Like when I read the Harry Potter series, I cried when Dumbledore died, because I have a bond with him. Losing him is like losing my other grandfather. It's so sad. The way he helped Harry throughout the years is so... ah, I couldn't even explain it in words.

So, I get a list of books that I want right now and let's get to it!

New Obsession

Warning: This post contains a lot of pictures that's gonna make your eyes wanna burst out of its pocket. Don't say I didn't warn you...

Hey! I'm back! I'm so sorry I haven't updated in like, forever. I've been busy with school stuff and choir. Yes, I'm actually in a choir. How cool is that? And I'll be singing in our independence day, which is on August 17th, in front of like, I don't know, A THOUSAND PEOPLE?! (sorry, I tend to be hyper when I'm excited.) It's the best thing ever. And our choir coach, Kang Deden AZ, he's a great, great teacher. And he's such an amazing person with crazy but awesome ideas.

Now let me get to the point before I'm rambling too much....

So, I have this little obsession lately. I don't why, but I've been taking random pictures just for the heck of it. When I started doing this, everyone was like "okay, cool. I don't care what you're doing with your camera." and then I suddenly taking pictures of every inch of view I could see, you know what I mean? And my mom was like, "what in the world are you doing?" and she was looking at me like I'm some kind of weird person (well, I am.) Alright, I'm sorry for rambling...

Here's the pictures that I randomly took!

Dance

Hello, folks! I'm back. So, let's just get to the point because I don't know what to say.

Today, I was practicing with my friends. We were practicing the dance that we're going to perform in our farewell party. It's about two weeks from now and we have to work really hard to make it perfect (well, not perfect, but maybe close to it...) and our practice today was pretty good. We got the movements right and all we have to do is make our body move at the same time. Trust me, it's hard. We did some mistakes, though, but, hey, at least we have improved. I'm not going to tell you what song we are dancing to. We're going to keep it a surprise until our performance day. I'll give you a hint: we're dancing to Korean song. That's it. I'll keep you guessing. Hehe, I'm evil.

So, we were practicing in my place. And we took some videos too. I actually wanted to show you, but the video's size was to big and I couldn't upload it to my YouTube account. I honestly wanted to show you. Even a little bit of our rehearsal. But, yeah, I couldn't upload it. So, If you live in Banjarmasin and going to my school, then you could see it. But if you're not, I can't promise anything. I'm sorry.

We've been through a lot today. From a wrong positioned camera, Playing the wrong song, Repeating the wrong song, the on-again-off-again light, the crash, everything. We were tired, well, at least I was, but it was so much fun. And I'm sure we're going to rehearse again soon and I'm really looking forward to it.

Well, that all I got. My O is having issues right now and it sucks. So, see ya!