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Finally, I got a copy of Sophie Kinsella’s Can you Keep a Secret? and thank God for e-books, I can bring it anywhere, anytime on my pda or my phone. I’ve just started it and already I can say it’s as hilarious as the Shopaholic Series. Anyway, it’s about this lady who hasn’t quite found her career path yet. Here’s a quick plot from Amazon:

• Things are suddenly starting to look up for the hapless but optimistic Emma Corrigan. She has kept her job at Panther Cola for nearly a year, has the perfect boyfriend and hopes for a promotion to marketing executive should her first opportunity to strut her stuff and land a business deal be successful. Unfortunately, things don't go quite as planned, and on her unusually turbulent return flight from a disappointing client meeting, in a terrified state, she confesses her innermost secrets to the good-looking stranger sitting beside her. When she shows up at work the next morning, she is horrified to discover that her mystery man is none other than the revered and brilliant Jack Harper, American CEO of Panther Cola, on a weeklong visit to the company's U.K. branch. Thus begins a series of chaotic, emotionally exhausting and funny episodes that thrust Emma, with her workaholic best friend, Lissy, and their awful flat mate Jemima, into a world of fairy tales, secrets and deceit.

It’s ironic that Kinsella’s books are always best-sellers even if her main heroine is usually the annoying, unempowered, doesn’t-know-what-she-wants-in-life-yet woman. But it makes sense, I guess, because the truth is a lot of women (and men) are still like that in real life. When I read the reviews from the Shopaholic series, a lot of people were really annoyed and even hated Becky Bloomwood, the main character. But even so, at the end of their reviews, they still loved the book. Simply, because it’s sooo relatable.

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It made me think of the reasons why some people, even at the age of 25 above still don’t know where to go in life. One prominent factor I can point at is how they were brought up by their parents. More specifically how the parents dictate what they think is good for their children. You know the kid is going to get screwed up in college if it’s the parents who chose which course the kid will take.

I think, in real life, it’s not about the degree that will take you to your dreams anyway. Is there an actual college course for website designing? Jewelry making? Car graphics and body kit enhancements? Not all successful photographers were Fine Arts students in college to begin with. A friend of Princess Leah’s who’s also a Physical Therapy graduate isn’t doing anything related to her course but her job allows her to travel all around Asia! Let’s not bring Bill Gates in.

Diskarte yan sa buhay. How do you say that in English? But anyway, I believe it’s really about knowing what you want from the start even though if square one won’t pay any money. A photographer’s assistant, for example, isn’t paid anything. But that’s where our famous photographer clients started out from.

(To be continued)
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By the way, Hollywood is making a movie adaptation for Can You Keep A Secret starring Kate Hudson. Production is still ongoing.

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