I know am going crazy with the succubus things as it seems like it.
Anyway, I just bumped into a new series called Lost Girl. The series is about a woman who discovers she is a succubus and how the fae world is. She discovers friends from human to werewolves, to a siren, to a bartender and the Dark and the Light.
But this is not the time to talk about Lost Girl… Not yet.
One thing I love in Lost Girl is that whoever the genius is behind the plot is a oh yeah a genius! Though they have just messed up the whole thing that a succubus is a fairy, the introduction of different lore is so interesting and fun!
Yes, I’m a dork. You have banshee (Scottish), Baba Yaga (Slavic), sirens, silkie, Peri (Persian) and many more.
This week’s episode really impressed me though. They have introduced “Maganda”, which means “beautiful” in Filipino, who seems like a homeless lady. She is actually a batibat, “nightmare” in one of the provinces in the Philippines.
Only thing that I wasn’t so crazy about though is… they just presented her as part of Bali and the person who played as Maganda made her name sound a bit African.
I like picking things at random. That’s what makes a trip to a bookstore so interesting – just unobligated browsing, serendipity. So checking out an online store plus Amazon’s awesome user experience in suggesting other similar books while I hunted down Eve Silver’s last book, I bumped into Richelle Mead’s Georgina Kincaid Series.
Interesting. Something non-vampire, not so cliché, new and urban fantasy.
Succubus… we’ve seen them in different frames and cultures – from the Jew literature to the Hindu. They are women who take away the life force through dreams and sex.
Georgina Kincaid is one and unlike in how literature has depicted, she is real and she does take the life force away by luring in men and shape shifting and answering to Hell’s payroll system. As once human, she is haunted by her emotions of guilt, longing and sadness. Call her the melodramatic succubus. With friends such as two colorful vampires, an arch daemon, an imp, and an angel and the balancing act of living like a mortal, life couldn’t be more exciting.
All seems ordinary to Georgina not until she met Seth Mortensen, an author who visits the bookstore where she works at for a book signing. Things become interesting for Georgina as she falls and smashes on the reality that she can kill him.
When I was in Kuala Lumpur (KL) with my flatmate for a work/holiday thing, we took a break and went to the movies at KLCC. Unfortunately, I was too nice and I let her pick the movie to watch.
Well if it weren’t the over laughing movie goer a couple of rows back from us, I’d say you would’ve heard me grabbing a wooden chopping board and hitting it either on my overly protruding forehead or at my flatmate’s face.
What’s your number? is the focus of Anna Darling’s life as she gets hit by this sad reality by a well researched article that women who have had more than 20 sexual partners end up not getting married. Taking into note that most women would love to walk down the isle in their own wedding gown, her suddenly reaching to the 20th guy of her sexy time after her sister’s bachelorette party, she starts hunting down her exes in hopes that she falls within the expectation that she doesn’t go over 20 and she finds true love similar to her sister who got back together with an ex. Read the rest of this entry »
So after having to spend about a month with my Mom and Dad’s iPad (sshhhh I’m having an affair), I could not stop but ponder on this one thing they did.
Why are there dimples on the keyboard? Then again it might be a good training for users really that hey touch typing is there. But on iPad?
I give credit where credit is due. I don’t usually rant but this just merits a damn good post on how crappy Hide My IP is.
Hide My IP is a tool that masks your IP when browsing. I know it may sound a little bit sneaky but for those who are paranoid about their information and is into testing websites especially if it’s part of their job description, this is essential.
I like picking things at random. That’s what makes a trip to a bookstore so interesting – just unobligated browsing, serendipity. So checking out an online store plus 
