Of Pinay Best-Seller and Sugar-Coated Pastries

It is hard to muster any strength or inspiration to do anything else other than crash on the couch after a 12-hour workday. It was sheer miracle (or disgust that usually goes with a fat day) that made me hit the treadmill at the gym and pound 45 minute long of run/walk on it today. We could only stay an hour at the gym since it was already 9 pm and the kids were starving, so right after sweating, we went eating! Suffice to say that whatever calories I slowly burned were promptly replaced by the two masaladas I inhaled like crack. These yummy Hawaiaan but Portuguese-inspired donuts - coated in granulated sugar and clearly deep fried- took me out for the night. I am so hopeless!

To help digest the food, we went browsing at Borders Books where my attention was caught by a Filipino-sounding author's name on the bestseller's list. True enough, upon closer inspection, the woman was a Pinay. Her book Love Walked In - her first, mind you - made it to the New York's best seller lists and many bookstores' fave lists. In my subsequent research - right after coming home - I found that the book already has movie rights and no less than Sarah Jessica Parker is to star in it. Also, I found out that the book has been translated to about 7 languages - no Tagalog though -! Needless to say, I am deathly jealous!

I tried to read the first few pages of the book waiting to be completely enamored, but.... There were simply too many information even in all 6 pages of the first chapter. She managed to insert everything she knew and liked in the opening pages while describing how the girl met the guy. I was bored despite the eager prattle. I think it was just not my genre - can't read love stories. It'll probably be better in the movies, although, I heard that Nanny Diaries was tore up by the critics.