Oh please, oh please...

I'm actually kinda "prohibited" from posting in any of my blogs, probably coz of some work backlogs that mysteriously stacked up. I had no idea. But I'll tell you a better idea, THE 35th MANILA INTERNATIONAL BOOK FAIR! YEAAAAAAAAAAH!!!

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Also known as MIBF, it's one of the biggest and most popular in the handful of book fairs in the country, I know, so sad. Anyway, it's technically the first (and quite depressingly so, also the last) book fair I've been to, that being at age four. My parents did not buy me books, even though I specifically pointed at some Harry Potters at the time. Ended up going home with a huge dinosaur jigsaw puzzle and some rubber dinosaur figures. Not that bad, quite a fair trade really, but imagine if I've started reading back then. Things would've been different, well up to a degree maybe.

I would've been weirder, more secluded, and much and much more condescending than I am perfectly quite able to right now. Probably have a substantially greater amount of books that's obvious. Don't know I just feel like I've started late on reading or some of my other interests than what is considered necessary or normal. I became a bibliophile at 12, but reading other media like encyclopedias and stuff came earlier at three or four.

No, I didn't read alone at three, I got my parents or siblings read me the words and letters. Four however, I already started with school, so I was quite able to read some of the simpler parts, though indefinitely still can't pronounce Archaeopteryx at the time. In short, I just think it was a missed opportunity, but I don't blame anybody, not me nor my parents.

And this is one of the things I love musing, if it didn't happen then, it sure is horrendously straining my bookshelves now. I guess things just work their way around no matter how you try to stop or suppress them.

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Among other things, MIBF is one of the greater points in my Subsidiary Bucket List (I have plenty of lists). Being quite far from the metro and being too lazy to go there and more than always being broke, things came topping one after the other, just like my articles. Hehehe.