Happy March

First day of March! Another month has ended and another will start. I haven't really posted anything in a while but i promise to read some new books or watch some new dramas or movies and put my review here. Just let this month finish and I'll be back to being an active blogger. Yup that's right our vacation is coming and it's getting hot in here well literally! cause I'm feeling the summer breeze. What to expect in my incoming reviews? I will write reviews about some classic best sellers and i think some new korean dramas. I'm  trying to review books and movies as much as i can cause besides having an outlet to complain or praise others work. It gives me more ideas and insights about things.

Enjoy this month!

Well i'm not really inactive in the blogging world I have recently decided to tweet! So for more snippets of my crazy, funny and sometimes witty thoughts just follow me @nerizarts . Don't worry i follow back everyone who follows me! Thanks..^_^

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God's Promises for Girls--Review

As i told in my other post i receive the book from booksneeze

and this is my review..

Rating: 4.5/5

 By Jack Countryman and Amy Parker

On the inside:

The book contains compilation of bible verses that talks about 

what God promises to little girls for every trouble and doubts 

they will encounter in their lives. Despite being a children's 

book i believe that the things written on the book can be applied

to any adult situation. So why not let your little girl read this book
and at the same time learn from it too. Let her know how important
and special she is because someone up there a king treats her like a
princess. Who believes that what makes a person beautiful is the
inner being and that there is someone who will always look after
her and love her unconditionally.

    an excerpt (one of my favorite verses) 

     " You Need Comfort

    Jesus said, "Don't let your hearts be troubled.
           Trust in God. And trust in me."

           John 14:1 "

This is a promise that up to this day i keep and believe in.

On the outer appearance of the book: 

For me it's brings back good memories of my childhood. The 

cover is really pleasing to eyes. The art of the book catches the

essence of what is the written in a way that children will enjoy 

especially little girls. Really cute!


A complimentary copy was sent by Thomas Nelson

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Memoirs of a Geisha

this was a book ive wanted to read way back
and now finished just a couple of days ago..

it's really a good book it shows the rich culture
of Japan. Ive always like Japanese art no..not just the anime..
but others the way their kimonos where designed the vibrant color they use..

the intricate and simplistic design they use, attract me a lot but
of course every cultures have it's own fault and it was also discussed
over the booked..

in a monogamy system rule over my country, it's really quit unethical to
go with different beautiful girls behind your wife's back.

and also theres a controversy going around the book saying it was all fictional
and some things mentioned about geishas were just made up!

so the book Geisha of Gion was made by Mineko Iwasaki to contradict all the
mistakes made by Arthur Golden's Memoirs of a Geisha

and that's the next book I'm gonna look for and read!!

heres some additional info about that:

here

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Twilight

At first i was hesitant to read the books because
of all the hype it gets...

i mean a lot of my schoolmates are carrying the book(twilight books)
while walking around the campus like they were book freaks but
they're not.....i don't really like that idea.

So i really felt that it was so overrated...

but when i watch the movie i was kinda not satisfied even though
i haven't really read the book i felt a lot of part was missing
i don't know why maybe because i often read books that I'm use to
hearing the story in full detail..

and the friend of my sister send the PDF file of the 4 four books
so i decided to give it a try...

i can't really be in my addict mode in reading books because exams
are past approaching...

i started reading last tuesday or wednesday and im still in the book
2 new moon..so i have a long way to go..

for those who are interested in the PDF FILE of The Four Twilight Books
just leave a comment with your email add ill be glad to send you the copy..

ill just give my review after i finish the 4 books...

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A & D review part 2

it's sad that Vatican did'nt allow it to be shot
in that place..

here's the article

The Vatican has banned the makers of a prequel to The Da Vinci Code from filming in its grounds or any church in Rome, describing the work as “an offence against God”.

Angels and Demons, the latest Dan Brown thriller to be turned into a film, includes key episodes that take place in the Vatican and Rome’s churches. Archbishop Velasio De Paolis, the head of the Vatican’s Prefecture for Economic Affairs, said that Brown had “turned the gospels upside down to poison the faith”.

“It would be unacceptable to transform churches into film sets so that his blasphemous novels can be made into films in the name of business,” he said, adding that Brown’s work “wounds common religious feelings”.

Father Marco Fibbi, a spokesman for the Diocese of Rome, said: “Normally we read the script but this time it was not necessary. The name Dan Brown was enough.”

The Vatican fiercely condemned The Da Vinci Code novel and its film version, which starred Tom Hanks as the Harvard professor Robert Langdon. Hanks is also starring in Angels and Demons, which like The Da Vinci Code, is directed by Ron Howard.

Published before The Da Vinci Code, which suggested that Jesus Christ married Mary Magdalene and had children, Angels and Demons revolves around a plot by a sinister elite known as the Illuminati to install their candidate as Pope and blow up the Vatican. Crucial scenes are set in the Vatican and two Rome churches — Santa Maria del Popolo and Santa Maria della Vittoria. In both churches, cardinals are murdered and mutilated with mysterious marks and symbols. Father Antonio Truda, parish priest at Santa Maria del Popolo, said that there was no question of allowing scenes to be shot there. “It’s bad enough having to put up with tour guides explaining the scene to tourists,” he said.

The production team is set to recreate on a set in Hollywood the interiors of the Rome churches from which they are banned.

Vatican officials said they had been unable to prevent the film-makers from shooting exterior shots of St Peter’s and the surrounding medieval streets of the Borgo, with the permission of the borough council.

However, the film-makers are having to use the marble halls and staircases of the former royal palace at Caserta, near Naples, to double for Vatican interiors.

“When a film is about the saints or about stories regarding the Church’s artistic values, then we give permission without any doubts,” Father Fibbi told the TV listings magazine Sorrisi e Canzoni (Smiles and Songs). “But when it is a question of content which does not relate to traditional religious criteria, then our doors are closed.”

that's so sad if i were Dan Brown i would rather not
make it into a movie cause the whole story revolves
around Rome,Vatican,churches... how could they portray
the movie without that. You cannot replace the pieces
of artworks mentioned in the story with artificial ones.
One of the things that makes the story interesting are
the places itself..

how's that??

for sure another book will not be justified by the movie.

as they say "Don't judge the book by it's movie!"

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Angels and Demons

Dan Brown's work..



Never really read the "The Vinci Code"
since i don't want to have any doubts
about my faith upon reading it... but
ive watched the movie though not the
whole movie i just watch the latter part
of it,so i can't really make a comment
about that book/movie.

But Ive read Angels and Demons and i have
to admit Dan Brown is a genius!

He so good that thou it's a fiction book you
will think it might have happened in real
life..

I really liked the solid fussion of FICTION and
FACT

i also like other informations i got about the
art history, science and the church

it took me to a lot of places in ROME

The informations were so precise and detailed
that you will believe it.

another thing about the book i like is thorough
discussion of the centuries fight over who's
right the CHURCH or SCIENCE?

it gave both sides view...

i wanted to put up some excerpts
of the part were the chamberlain/
Camerlengo set a press conference to admit that
in deed theres a threat against the Church
which is a science society called Illuminati but it's
to long.

It's really good overall this book does not condemn
the church nor science instead makes us aware that
still the fight continues over who's right?!?
the CHURCH OR SCIENCE?

The symbols used in the book were so good it's seems
really true..

and take note for a person to write this kind of
book and to now all those things about Rome it must've
been a hell research..

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