Trip, and More Trip~

The last week burned a lot of holes on my wallet T.T

We went for the movie 2012 last thursday. The whole cinema was full and luckily my friend asked his brother bought the ticket for us first.

The movie was...ok. It was more of CG Feast. The plot is ridiculous to a certain extent and hard to take the movie seriously. But those destruction of various places were done pretty nice....really great to look at. But I certainly hope end of the world won't come so soon :P

And then friday, we had a liquor party again cause Astley brought his younger brother along. The little guy definitely has the potential of a great tanker ^^

We played poker too. Man, the game was really addicting. It's like you can't stop once you start losing and try to win some back...scary. Luckily we didn't play big XD

Saturday was rather uneventful.

But Sunday? Another story. I don't know what's up with my housemates as they suddenly came out with the idea to go to Cameron Highland. It was raining so then we changed last minute to Ipoh (again).

Nothing much to do, just eating at the "Dong Gu Teng", a food court with lots of stuffs....

Speaking of rain, it has been raining everyday these few weeks. A pain to dry my clothes. And I think I'm getting the flue...sigh. Sometimes raining too often is quite troublesome....

The Graveyard Book

It's raining nonstop today. There's nothing much to do except siting in front of my pc and surfing the net. And now I'm running out of web page to surf...so, why don't I update my blog? I've been planning to update with a review of this novel I've finished reading recently. It's just that I got sidetracked a lot. Heh.

Anyway, this is the book and its title is The Graveyard Book.


It was, I think 3 weeks or more ago when I visited Borders Book Store. I actually had other book in mind to purchase (ahemspider-manahem), but the novel caught my attention, somehow. It was cheaper (35.90) and the title plus synopsis attracted to me. Also, the novel is written by a guy called Neil Gaiman, whom I know is a fantastic writer and happened to write Whatever Happened To The Caped Crusader, one of my favorite Batman stories.

So I picked the book to the counter.

The official synopsis goes something like this...
Nobody Owens, known to his friends as Bod, is a normal boy. He would be completely normal if he didn't live in a sprawling graveyard, being raised and educated by ghosts, with a solitary guardian who belongs to neither the world of the living nor of the dead. There are dangers and adventures in the graveyard for a boy. But if Bod leaves the graveyard, then he will come under attack from the man Jack—who has already killed Bod's family . . .

Sounds interesting right?

I finished reading the novel in 2 weeks time (could have been shorter if I want). The story is broken into 8 parts, each a stand alone story and linked to create a bigger one. The characters are fascinating. The main boy Bod (short for Nobody) is one interesting fellow. The whole book is on his growth into a young man and you can see his change from a adventurous rebellious boy into a thoughtful young man who finally able to stand on his own.

There's a range of nice support characters too. There's Silas the caretaker, who is a badass vampire. A pair of kind ghosts acting as his parents. A werewolf. Ghost of a Witch. Death itself. That's a lot right? Each is unique and drives the story in own way....

I think there's some metaphor for life and death somewhere in the story, or so I heard from the reviews. I think it's a nice coming of age story, with the main character growing from a toodle into a young man. The ending is particularly bittersweet....yeap, so read it and find out.

Oh...the rain has stopped but the night still feels cold. So I think I better call it a night. Sweet dreams!

Selfish People

Think I should write these down when I still feel the anger.

It's really annoying you know? There's this little thing called PPStream where you can stream live video. People say it's the best thing EVA!!!!1111!!!

It's the best thing ever if you're the one using. But when you are sharing one internet connection with multiple housemates...pls be more considerate la.

PPStream eats away most of our connection and we are left with extremely weak internet speed. Facebooking, youtube, check mail and everything become a pain. You are building you happiness on our pain!

I dunno why after we told you on and on again and you still din listen. Stop looking for new shows!!!

It's all right if you are currently 'chasing' 2 or 3 shows and watch like 2 hours per day. But stop looking for new shows and some unrelated shows when you are too free. Pls be more considerate lah!!!!!

Really really annoying

My Lonely Corner

Well, it just occurs to me that I still feel left out sometimes.

Not so bad actually...just feel so hopeless about it.

And there's lots of things...sometimes there's a lot of things you have done, but people never seem to appreciate and recognize it. It's like they turn a blind eye to it.

I guess it can't be helped. I guess I'm already get over it. I just have to survive by myself.

I am strong now.