Pounding The Keyboard

     I was rewatching the movie Life Of Pi yesterday on cable TV when I remembered that I gave its book version as a gift eons ago. I heard that my prospective recipient loved books so the first gift I thought of giving was a book.   When I saw a copy of Life of Pi , I had no idea what it was about, but I remembered that its movie version was about to be shown in cinemas, so I figured it would be a nice book to give. Watching the movie and then reading the book to see if the film was faithful to the book, some people I know love doing that. So I   picked up the book,   paid for it, went out of the bookstore and after a few days, gave it away.      I didn’t buy myself a copy of Life Of Pi so I still haven’t read the book but I have watched the movie thrice. And it’s quite brilliant and mesmerizing, the effects are good and there’s some fantastic imagery. In the movie, an Indian (and a very religious) young man named Pi and his family (parents and a brother) and their anim

“But I didn't touch her. She was my dream; and if you touch a dream it vanishes, like a soap bubble.”                                         Looking For The Girl, Smoke And Mirrors      It was the 40th edition of Manila International Book Fair at   MOA and he was inside the National Bookstore, browsing through a pile of Neil Gaiman books.       “Neil Gaiman books are nice,” the lady beside him said in a pretty and happy-sounding voice while he held Smoke And Mirrors in his hand. The blurb said it contained short fictions and illusions.   He glanced at her and saw that she was pretty: long black wavy hair, fair skin, playful eyes, Duchess nose and Goldilocks lips; he was certain she would brighten up any room she entered. She wore eyeglasses   and he always had his bias towards bespectacled ladies.       He nodded. “I often give them as gifts,” he told her.       Her eyes widened a bit. “I often receive them as gifts," she said, her mouth shaping beautiful

     Today, September 11, 2019, is the start of the 40 th edition of Manila International Book Fair at the SMX Convention Center at Mall Of Asia Complex at Pasay City. It will end on Sunday, 15 th of September. Books and the cerebral joys they bring will be available from 10 AM to 8 PM.      I’m planning to go, as usual, I just don’t know if it will push through, lol. The first time I went to MIBF, I think was in 2011, the second was in 2012, then in 2013 and the last time I was there was in 2014, I think. I tried to enter the venue last 2017 but failed, the queue outside was longer than the Great Wall Of China and was barely moving. One or two of the few personalities whose Facebook account I visit once in a while will be at the event this year selling books. Personalities who share my political beliefs, who are intellectual, witty and have fantastic sense of humor, who incidentally are also writers. I love reading their political, oftentimes witty, opinions.  I’m a bit