Naaalala ko yung one time na nanood kami ng National Treasure 2. The company sponsored the movie night, and right after watching it, we were so amazed when April told me something like, “it would be better if it was a book”. Noong una medyo hindi ko pa gets, and then she told me about how things would look great if you were reading it instead of watching it. Though naiintindihan ko na kung bakit niya nasabi iyon, medyo blur pa rin yung idea sa akin. Bakit naging better ang pagbabasa kaysa panonood?
The worst thing about me is that tamad talaga ako magbasa. Hindi ako makahanap ng panahon para sa ganitong activity, since I am so into computer stuff. Whenever I am bored, hindi sumasagi sa utak ko na magbasa na lang ng libro or what. Laging computer ang nasa isip ko. Kaya siguro kapag nagfifill-up ako ng mga forms sa Facebook, I can’t think of anything that I can put on the “Favorite Books” section. Most of the titles na makikita mo diyan, hindi ko talaga favorite as in. Nabasa ko sila, pero not necessarily favorite. Poser alert! 
I never touched the creative mind of me, since I already made peace with myself that I can never do something visually creative. Sinubukan kong gumawa ng vector art ng picture ng someone close to me, but I failed. Sinubukan kong gumawa ng sarili kong web template para sa blog ko, and I ended up imitating other people’s style. Sinubukan ko ring mag-drawing at gumawa ng comics, and I don’t even know kung nasimulan ko nga ba o what. Kaya naisip ko, I am not capable of creating my own world using my imagination. Siguro dahil wala lang talaga akong tiyaga.
Well, sinubukan ko rin namang magbasa. Kaso hindi ata talaga ako masyado nagpepay attention sa mga small details like physical attributes. Naalala ko dati noong binasa ko yung Da Vinci Code and Angels and Demons. I never paid any attention to Langdon’s physical appearance as it was described in the book. Interesado lang ako sa mga trivia na sinasabi niya, pero other than that, why would I care? Kaya siguro hindi ko naramdaman doon sa book na iyon na andoon ako sa scene: ang naramdaman ko lang e para lang din akong nanonood ng movie. Less details, more action.
At dumating na nga ang Percy Jackson and the Olympians. Natapos ko na palang basahin yung five books by the way, but still, I wanted to read it over again. Just like the past books, I tend to skip some small details, na minsan nga e sobrang explicit na, pero naskip ko pa rin (biruin mo, how come I never realized that Annabeth was blonde?). Pero siguro I thought that maybe, just maybe, kung babasahin ko uli siya without any hurry, baka mas mabigyan ko nang atensyon yung mga small details.
I am sorry if I keep pestering you with Percy Jackson stuff. I hope you don’t feel alienated at all, pero I just love that damn series. Siguro this hallucination of mine would stick with me for quite some now until I watched the first movie (especially when I saw Annabeth. haayy). Ngayon ko pa lang ata naranasan na mastuck sa isang imaginary world, and to think na I was stuck while reading and not watching. Hindi ko alam kung gusto ko bang kumawala or not, since I am enjoying it. Ngayon sa tuwing idle ang utak ko, ang naiisip ko lang e yung mga nabasa ko sa book na iyon. Adik lang.
Ngayon naiintindihan ko na yung sabi ni April before. Reading stimulates the mind, it makes you create the world with your imagination. Watching a movie based on a book is just watching a world created by someone else’s imagination, and that his/her take on that world might not be as interesting as the one that you could create. Kaya siguro marami sa mga fans ng mga books na ginagawang movie e nadidisappoint kapag napapanood nila yung movie adaptation, kasi the way the director interprets it is different from the one the readers are thinking. Like sa Sherlock Holmes. Who would think that the director would interpret the famous sleuth as a young guy? I initially thought Sherlock as a guy in his 40s, or something older. Though I love the director’s interpretation of the character, others might say otherwise.
Ngayon, parang mas nasasabik na akong magbasa pa ng iba pang fiction novels. Pero hindi na muna ako pupunta doon sa mga pang-grown ups na books. I think I can settle with children’s books. Tingin ko kasi, since hindi ako masyadong nagbabasa ng mga books kahit noong bata ako (except for Tagalog pocketbooks, haha), yung level ng imagination ko e similar to that of a kid. Kapag nagbasa ata ako ng pang-grown up na book ngayon e baka mapatunganga lang ako. 
Hindi na ako makapaghintay. Gusto ko na mapanood yung movie adaptation ng Percy Jackson Book 1. And of course, I want to see Annabeth.
