94 - Lost in Translation

Spent a post birthday time off with Steph at bookstores, when the rest of the island was getting ready for Sinulog and already partying in the streets.

This year it was only Steph and I since the usual suspects were absent, more like lost in bloody no where. (You know who you are. You guys are currently on my shit list for even forgetting my birthday. Bitter? Yes and very much vindictive. Give me a bloody year to get over this. Or maybe two.)

Anyways, it was a combination of Japanese food and book-overdose day.

Starting at Cafe Aklatan, with Japanese food and manga in Japanese. LOL 
Makes me want to review my Nihon-go just so I could borrow some of the books.

We stopped over Taiyaki Tokyo so I could buy Taiyaki, which the monsters loved by the way.

And then we headed to Nihon Mono so we could check out some second hand bikes. I'm not sure my sister will get one since she has always been wanting to buy a bike.

(Notice the trend?)

La Belle Aurore Bookshop at Hernan Cortes is a really awesome place. Love the venue. Love the sight of all those books. Wall to wall little worlds.

Despite my lack of paperbacks these days, I try to visit bookshops like Book Sale, National Bookstore and Fully Booked. Nothing beats La Belle though. The place is just awesome. Plus the books are cheap.

I haven't checked out their new branch though. We'll see if I can do so this month.

I still read often. Despite the lack of new paperback purchase. In this time and age, there's a number of books in different file formats that I can view on my laptop and even on my phone. However since I don't have a huge-ass phone, I'll stick to my laptop.

However, despite the too many options with ebooks, nothing beats an actual paperback.

So far, with what I've read from ebooks, editing with paperbacks must be quite strict. Usually, no matter how interesting the synopsis of the book is, if there are too many typographical errors or blase dialogues, I don't finish the darn book. It's just too painful to continue.

I could be wrong though. But so far, with the books I've read in paperback editions, they did not have the typographical errors or wrongly punctuated words I've seen so far on ebooks.

Will probably buy a book sometime this month for something to read and a break from ebooks. This would be a good time to check out La Belle's new branch, which I'm sure is going to be another awesome photo shoot.

I mean: books + camera. Do I even want to resist?