Quick Thoughts

I never thought that it would hurt to see pictures of a friend's gathering on Facebook when I wasn't invited.

Quick Thought

It hurts seeing how your guy friends plan on hitting on a girl to win her heart, while knowing that no one does that to you. 

Quick Thoughts

Quick toast on all those people that only talk to us when they need something. Cheers!

Quick Thoughts

Why are scientists so eager to find the so called "evil gene"? Because they refuse to admit that is Society the only variable that affects our behavior.

Quick Thoughts

I hate it when a great guy is boyfriend with a bad girl that he thinks she's a saint. Usually the great guy is my friend, and I feel the need to tell them what their shitty girlfriends do behind their back so they stop looking at her like a goddess. Some people deserve much more than what they have.

The Casual Vacancy by J.K. Rowling.

The Casual Vacancy is a book that you will start enjoying as soon as you stop hesitating when you read a name and trying to remember who the character is. In order to achieve that I felt the need to keep track of the character's names and relations to each other in my cellphone.

If you haven't started reading the book yet here are a couple of tips:

Don't expect magic, this is the most realistic book I have ever read.
Don't expect a murder-mystery. That was my mistake, and it wasn't until I finally gave up and realized that Barry had actually died of a natural cause that I started enjoying the book.
Keep a little piece of paper inside the book and a pencil to write all the names you encounter along the book.
Yes, Fats is the same person as Stu or Stuart.
And yes, Colin Wall is the same person as Cubby.
Don't expect the evolution of the novel to be like any other you've read before. It's not "introduction, main problem presented, climax, problem solved, happy ending". It's more of an "introduction" for the entire book because with each page you get to know each character even more and more.

I liked that it's an "adult novel" dealing with teenagers problems, a great way to target parents into realizing that yelling at their kid is not the best way to get to them.

Another thing I also enjoyed a lot was how highly self-conscious of their words and movement each character was. Personally I can relate to that because I feel that the basic principle behind the sentence "think before you talk" is foreseeing your listeners reaction, and being self-conscious of yourself and choosing your words carefully is very important. Based on that I enjoyed the scene where Colin, Tessa, Parmindr, and Kay are reunited discussing Bellchappel at the Collin's house.

Overall it's a very well written book. Nothing less to what we expect from J.K. rowling. 

P.S. I don't know about you, but I shipped Gaia and Andrew.

Social Media

Nowadays there are so many ways of noticing someone is ignoring you.

They can be online on Whatsapp and never answer you.

They can like Instagram pictures while ignoring yours.

Tweeting hints about the tension between both of you.

Posting pictures on Facebook while claiming they weren't going to do anything that night.