Week 4: Girl Meets World

"From the author of No Boyfriend Since Birth comes another modern-day romance that’s sure to tickle your funny bone—and touch your heart. Mia Tupas is your typical shy girl daunted by the idea of talking to strangers and content with a humdrum routine of shuttling between work and home. But right after a fortuneteller spies a man in her future, Mia meets Leo, and the two hit it off immediately. There’s just one problem: Leo lives in Bangkok, and Mia balks at the mere thought of getting on a plane—she’s never even been around the country!

Still, the possibility of romance is tantalizing, and Mia manages to keep in touch with Leo through e-mail. But when she finally works up the courage to fly to Bangkok and find out where she stands, she discovers that Leo has left for Bali on the very same day.

Will Mia get her much-awaited chance at love? Join her on this entertaining, cross-country quest through Bangkok, Bali, and Vietnam for the man who just might be The One."

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This book was written by a Filipino author, that’s why you’ll unquestionably appreciate the setting of the story since we’re all familiar in Manila. Also, it was a light read since the author used few characters and less transition of the story.

 Mia Tupas is a 27 year old single woman who’s into her job. But Madame Jam, a fortune-teller, grabs her hand and asks her if she wants to know about her future (work, family or relationship). I was not surprised nor startle that Mia also wants to know her love life since she’s already 27 and that’s how I comprehend that this story will go around with this random man and Mia.

So, Madame Jam concludes that there was a man who’ll just a glance in her life for a short time. And she also added that Mia was afraid of her unknown fear. Then here it goes that Mia Tupas met this man named Leo by his friend, Alvik. He was working in Bangkok and just staying for one night to buy some goodies for his colleagues. Mia was hoping that this man is the one.

Okay, let me absorbed this… I’m confused that Mia was eager to meet “the one” and then the whole story goes with with travelling around three countries (Vietnam, Bali & Bangkok) just to meet Leo, *sighs* what makes her feel so desperate to search for it when you just can wait for the right time? Then she realizes that maybe it’s not Leo since at the last chapters she’ll meet new man named Nick.

 It was a test for her life to realize the things that she wants to carry out and that was answered, that her fear for herself was meeting “the one” since her character factually seeks for her uncertainties and reach for her life purpose.