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| Three-Year Old Balbal |
Al Francis B. Verbal,17, is a second year
college student who writes on and hosts blogs to pass time. He is based in
Davao City, Philippines. However odd may it sound, he likes to be addressed as
"Balbal". He is currently earning Bachelor's Degree on Secondary
Education Major in English. Not that he has a heart to educate the world nor any corny advocate, but because salary really fills in an empty pocket. It's insincere. Yes, he
knows that. But it is also practical. And mind you, practicality these days
waters more plants than sincerity does. He works as an English Literary Editor
for a college publication. This is his second blog, you can visit his youngest
by clicking this. But please, not now. You still have
to read this mini-biography away.
Balbal, aside from blogging, also takes
pictures occasionally. Frustrated Photographer. Yes, that's the term. His
photos are of random themes. Streets. People. Nature. Whatever-he-likes-to-shoot. Whenever he
carries a camera and chances upon something melancholic, colorful, of complex
patterns or of awesome textures, expect him to squat, lay, crawl or do any
imaginable and unimaginable positions he can just to shoot it from a very good
angle. Talk about obsession!
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| Balbal, feeling pro with a Digital SLR that his journalism professor loaned their class to cover an event. |
He frequently wanders barefoot around the
world through books and movies. He loves to dive into fictional pieces. Mainly
because powers, incantations, divination, necromancy, magic, human flight and
earth benders are non-existent in the boring real world. He is obsessed with
reads penned by Rick Riordan. Rick’s smartness and creativity always captivate
him in any way he can be. Few of the incredible stories he has in his recesses
come from his (Riordan) books. Currently, he is journeying around Egypt,
Brooklyn, Russia and Duat with Carter and Sadie Kane to discover and bind the
Shadow of Apophis, the Chaos god through the Kane Chronicles Book Three: The Serpent’s Shadow. His list of
marvelous authors also includes Michael Scott (Author of the Secrets of The Immortal Nicholas Flammel
Series), Keira Class (Author of the Selection
Series), Suzanne Collins (Author of the Hunger
Games Trilogy), John Green, John Grisham and Danielle Steel (though he
loathes love stories). He finds books that are shelved in young-adult and
middle-child section the most appealing among others in a bookstore. Whenever
his sensory nerves stretch to perceive new releases under those sections, he is
likely to run toward it baby-like with starry eyes. On the other hand, he, if
not always, most of the time refuses to venture reading love story books.
Nicholas Parks? Message in a Bottle? Dear
John? A Walk to Remember? Ah, certainly not his thing.
He doesn’t like to read novels set on
eBooks. He, without doubt, cannot sustain reading without eventually sniffing
the brownish or yellowish pages.
Whenever he finishes reading a novel, he
likes to blab about part or parts of the story that stunned him most, the
downsides of reading it, the characters he would love to remain in a sequel,
his commentaries about the ending, events that should have happened instead of
what has actually happened, criticisms on the plot and anything he can blab
about the book.
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