DAY TWELVE. I’m pretty sure that at one point in your adolescence, your mom or your lola told you to not read a book in the dark, or inside a moving vehicle, because it’s going to make you blind. I heard that warning many times, violated it many times over, and yet, my vision is still 20-20! But that doesn’t mean you can ignore your mom or lola’s warnings now, children, don’t follow my footsteps.
I guess what I’m really trying to say is, one can’t help it when the best times to get engrossed in a book are while in transit or in bed before she sleeps. How awesome is it that LightWedge actually thought of creating something to aid this form of rebellion?!
12/30. Reading a Book in the Dark
The LightWedge Book-Light is probably the greatest invention since toasted bread. (No wait, was it sliced bread?) Would you look at that:
Isn’t that the most awesome thing? :)
It’s another one of R‘s gifts. It still makes my heart flutter how he would be supportive of the things I’m obsessed about — like finding a typewriter, or collecting toy cameras, or sitting through a 3-hour movie not just once but twice — you know? ♥
Okay, I wasn’t blogging about him, although I think he’s awesome too. I was blogging about this awesome book-light that he *secretly* got and paid for while I was wandering around the area where the pretty notebooks are in one of our trips to Fully Booked.
(By the way, can I just say that Fully Booked is heaven?)
Since then, I’ve been carrying around my book and this lightsaber, er, book-light, to bed at night, and everywhere I go lest I get stuck in traffic somewhere — at least I get to spend the idle time doing something worthwhile.
I’m still reading The Virgin Suicides right now, but I like having a stack of books ready anytime I’m finished with the current one. I recently got a Murakami and a Nicholas Sparks, so I have a choice between something philosophical and something that doesn’t require too much thinking. And woot, I tell you, these books are much more interesting to read in the dark! Think Inkheart, minus the part where the characters come to life, of course, that part’s creepy in real life, not awesome.
Hi, Mom. Hi, Lola. Proud of me? :)
Okay. Enough of this. I go read now.
30 Days of Awesome, 12/30.
Nawala yata ang comment ko kanina huhu. Nalimutan ko na kung ano yun. I think sinabi ko lang na may month-long sale sa Fully Booked pag August tsaka weird ang Murakami books, hehe!
Gusto ko rin ng ilaw na yan!! “Ilaw” talaga eh haha
Haha muka ngang weird ung Murakami. Lol. Syempre nagfeeling naman akong maiintindihan ko haha. :)
MALUPET TONG ILAW NA TO JONI, BUY NA! :)
Oh, and you said something about SALE?? *big grin* :D
I WANT THIS!!!
omg that is an awesome invention. now why didn’t we ever think of that before? it could’ve made us rich! that’s really awesome though cuz i love to read at nite, in the dark… and thank God, i still have an almost 20-20. i think i have a 20-40. or whatever. lol
Haha yeah. Awesome people think of stuff we would’ve thought of ourselves, they just thought of it first! Blech. :) Reading in the dark and at night is C-O-O-L. B-)
OMG! i want one!!!! what i like about it is that its flat, it would be a lot easier to hold compared to the clip on night lamp thingo everyone usually uses. If you turn sideways or hold the book to close the lamp hits your forehead. lol
True, true.
The downside of this book light is, it’s glass! So, you can’t EVER EVER drop it. Or, you have to make sure it’s not in the bed when you fall asleep, otherwise, baka mahigaan mo, it’ll crack! Then again, if it’s not glass, you can’t really have a flat light di ba, so haha, I guess you’ll just have to handle it with care. :)