Top 100 Books (That I Like To Have and Read!)

1. The Book Thief – Markus Zusak
2. The Son of Neptune – Rick Riordan
3. The Lightning Thief
4. The Sea of Monsters
5. Battle of the Labyrinth
6. The Last Olympian
7. Pilgrim’s Progress – John Bunyan
8. The Divine Comedy – Dante Aleghieri
9. Perfume – Patrick Suskind
10. Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger
11. Norweigan Wood – Haruki Murakami
12. 1Q84
13. New Spring – Robert Jordan
14. The Eye of the World
15. The Great Hunt
16. The Dragon Reborn
17. The Shadow Rising
18. The Fires of Heaven
19. Lord of Chaos
20. A Crown of Swords
21. The Path of Daggers
22. Winter’s Heart
23. Crossroads of Twilight
24. Knife of Dreams
25. The Gathering Storm
26. Towers of Midnight
27. A Memory of Light
28. The Radical Cross – AW Tozer
29. The Attributes of God
30. The Pursuit of God
31. Whatever Happened to Worship
32. Worship and Entertainment
33. Amazing Grace: 366 Inspiring Hymn Stories – Kenneth W. Osbeck
34. A Game of Thrones – George R. R. Martin
35. A Clash of Kings
36. A Storm of Swords
37. A Feast for Crows
38. A Dance with Dragons
39. The Winds of Winter
40. A Dream of Spring
41. The Twelfth Imam – Joel Rosenberg
42. The Tehran Initiative
43. Ezekiel Option
44. Stargirl – Jerry Spinelli
45. Love, Stargirl
46. Piercing the Darkness – Frank Peretti
47. Tilly
48. The Life of Pi – Yann Martel
49. Don’t Waste Your Life- John Piper
50. A Godward Life
51. History’s Most Spectacular Sin
52. Just The Way I Am: God’s Good Design in Disability
53. The Power of Words and the Wonder of God
54. Stand
55. A Sweet and Bitter Providence
56. When I Don’t Desire God
57. Contending for our All
58. Worship Matters – Bob Kauflin
59. Unbroken: A WWII Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption – Laura Hillenbrand
60. The Cross-Centerd Life – CJ Mahaney
61. Humility: True Greatness
62. 1,000 Places to Go to Before You Die – Patricia Schultz
63. The Mysterious Benedict Society: Mr. Benedict's Book of Perplexing Puzzles, Elusive Enigmas, and Curious Conundrums – Trenton Lee Stewart  in addition, I was able to read The Extraordinary Education of Nicholas Benedict!!!
64. The Tales of Beedle the Bard – JK Rowling
65. I Am Number Four – Pittacus Lore
66. On Ugliness – Umberto Eco
67. The Name of the Rose
68. The Hostile Hospital – Lemony Snicket
69. The Carnivorous Carnival
70. The Slippery Slope
71. The Grim Grotto
72. The Penultimate Peril
73. The End
74. A Grief Observed – CS Lewis
75. Screwtape Proposes a Toast
76. Out of the Silent Planet
77. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
78. The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
79. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
80. Love In The Time Of Cholera
81. A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
82. The Godfather – Mario Puzo
83. The Godfather Returns – Mark Winegardner
84. The Godfather’s Revenge
85. The Adventures of Sherlock Homes – Arthur Conan Doyle
86. Obsessed – Ted Dekker
87. Skin
88. Adam
89. Boneman’s Daughters
90. Bride Collector
91. The Priest’s Graveyard
92. Forbidden
93. Appointment with Death – Agatha Christie
94. Out of Oz – Gregory Maguire
95. The Forever War – Joe Haldeman
96. The Night Circus – Erin Morgenstern
97. Wired – Douglas E. Richards
98. Right as Rain – Derek Strange & Terry Quinn
99. Kill Alex Cross – James Patterson
100. Zero Day – David Baldacci

In making this very long list, I discovered that I am leaning towards the SciFi, Mystery/Thriller, Fantasy, and Christian Lit genre. Amazing. HAHAHA :D

BLESSINGS :)

Before I go to sleep, I'd like to enumerate the blessings I had the past weeks...

1. After 4.5 years, I finally finished my Diploma course in Music Education!!! :) and I am eligible to enroll in the Bachelor's degree program! so happy. ;)

2. My grades for the last semester was awesome! The Lord is soooo good!

3. I will be playing for ate Faye Villanueva and kuya Aria Chelabian's wedding on Saturday. My first wedding harang ever! I will be playing good music with Aj, Patrick, and Aie. So excited!! ;)

4. After 3 years of waiting and praying, I said yes to AJ Villanueva last Oct.25. Of course, we had the blessing of our parents. :) I will love him as much as I love God and my family. We plan not to change our Facebook status YET. Please give us also the privilege to tell THOSE WHO WOULD (DARE) ASK about our relationship (no unnecessry indulging. WAHAHA). We pray that God will be glorified and that others will be blessed with our relationship. ;D

HAPPY HAPPY JOY JOY ;D

Will I Base My Life on Theories?

In our EDSP 121:Creativity class, we studied about The Developmental Stage Theory by John Curtis Gowan. The central issues of this theory is as follows (Gowan, 1980):

1. Combination of the Cognitive Stages (Piaget) and the Affective Stages (Erikson) into unified form.
2. Extension of the five Piagetian stages into eight -- the three new ones being: creativity, psychedelia, and illumination
3. Periodicity of three in figure, which results in similarities between 1, 4, 7, etc.
4. Reinforcement of concept of discontinuity, succession emergence, differentiation and integration as components of escalation.
5. Significance of dysplasia (malformation in development) as splitting of cognitive and affective stage levels in malfunctioning individuals.
6. Emphasis on self-actualization as escalation into higher developmental stages.

In our class, we were asked to work on translating The Ekrikson-Piaget-Gowan periodic developmental stage chart into something simpler and creative. I, along with my Team EDGE groupmates JP and Jam, used drawings and cut-outs to do our chart.

That's JP, me, and Jam working on the simpler developmental stage chart.

We used 3 different colored papers to represent each affectional mode: latency, identity, and creativity. In each paper, we included the Child, Youth, and Adult Stages for each affectional mode.

The Individual and the World

The Individual and Others (Sorry, the picture is not clear!)

The Individual and the Self

We originally planned to string it together, but we weren't able to due to time constraints.

Team EDGE with our simplified Developmental Stage Theory Table!

In doing this, I wonder what stage I am presently in. I believe I am in the Industry vs. Inferiority stage. I am 19 years old and I am still wondering what I can do for the benefit of those around me. I already know who I am and what I want. I now have to determine my goals depending on who I am and what I want. Intimacy vs. Isolation? I think I am content as of now with regards to my relationships with people. Still, I will not let this theory box me as a person. I am basing my life not on theories but on the will of God. He has greater plans for me than these stages. Also, God's plan was in detail. I'd rather trust in Him to be a better and God-glorifying person. My God is not a theory, because He has proven Himself to me time and time again. :D

The Life of a Creative Person

Alexander John Villanueva is one of my college-mates in the UP College of Music. Let us together see his views about creativity. Click HERE to view the presentation on prezi.com :)

EDSP121_Creative Person on Prezi

Para Sa Ating Pagkabulag

humahampas sa mukha
hinihinuha ang bawat patak sa mala-sutlang balat
sa ulan mo lamang hinahambing
ang mga pagkakaibang
pare-pareho lang naman

sa isang patak na nagdudulot
ng matinding pagdadalamhati
sa mga namumutawing pag-iisip

ngunit gusto mo manatiling
kapiling ang kalangitan
mamarapatin mo na lamang mawala
bago mo maramdaman
ang gaspang ng semento
ang lambot ng tubig
o ang lamig ng isang naiwang lalagyang
tinanggalan ng kasarinlan

kasihan ka nawa ng mga dagat at ilog
na ibinuwis ang buong buhay
sa pagpapakalat ng biyayang
pilit mong sa kahon pinagkakasya
isang kaluluwang walang ginawa
kundi tumitig.
tumigil.

mas mabuti pang
alam ng ulan ang kanyang paroroonan
alam nyang ang dapat sa mga tulad mo
ay inaanod ng kanyang
malakas na kamay
at pinapasukob sa mga silong
na yari sa dugo't pawis
ng mga nagagalak sa patak ng ulan

____________________

30sept2011

~para sa komposisyon ni kuya Panggo Sarreal na mayrrong kaparehong pamagat

~ignorance of the self to the world

-ara.janelle