I’ve been very addicted to this website called Shelfari lately. Yes I have an account on LibraryThing and GoodReads, but there’s just something about seeing bookjackets on a shelf that makes me fall in love with it.

Throughout my life, I’ve been surrounded by libraries (in fact, I work in one) and this website just makes me feel right at home. Not only that, it also encourages me to read more so I can continue adding books to my shelf. Most will go on my to-read or wishlist.

I recently finished the Twilight Saga series; I had no idea it was so good! I’m now starting Harry Potter Book 6; hoping to finish it before seeing the movie.

Please add me on your Shelfari list so we can share books and reviews.

Day 1 at the Google I/O Conference will always be very memorable to me. I shall never forget it. I arrived at Moscone Center West with my friends and a huge Google Map pin awaited us outside the front steps. How super geeky and cool. :)

Registration was super fast. We got our spiffy Google I/O badge that was all decked out with a QR code with all of our contact info on it. They keynote started a little after 9am and everyone rushed to the third floor.

Many things were said in the keynote about new products, but the most exciting part was when Vic Gundotra said we’d each get a box with a URL in it. In addition to that box, we’d also get a Google phone. The crowd of 4.000+ attendees went wild at this point!

Demos of HTML 5 were quite impressive and quite exciting. I can’t wait to start implementing with this. The rest of the afternoon, I went to sessions about all sorts of stuff, from Map APIs to HTML 5, to App Engine and GWT. See my Tweets from Google I/O!

Now, the Afterhours Playground was AMAZING. After a long day of information overload, we got to relax at a wild party thrown by google. Wild as in your geekiest dreams! There were video arcade games in the center of the room, robot wars further in, and Lego robots, funky bikes to ride, the Google Maps trike, buffet food on both sides, ice cream, open bar, and so much more.

Photographs from the today’s event were in the slideshow on huge screens in the back. And Mike Relm was dj-ing the night away. It was just a wild and geeky party, I loved it!

And that’s a recap of Day 1 at Google I/O. Can’t wait to hear what surprises Google has for us tomorrow..

You can also see more photos from Google I/O here.

I love the new themes in Gmail! My favorite one to look at is the Candy theme. But I find reading my emails with it distracting. I’m currently using BubbleGum for my mail. ;) What about you?

You can view the themes by going to Settings and then Themes.