455 - 2017 book list.

Aha! My routine end of year book list.

This year, I have not been reading much. Mostly comics/manga to be honest. I should just add them into the list too...


January

20/01 - [Superman Earth One: Volume 3] -J. Michael Straczynski
29/01 - [Lucifer Volume 1: Cold Heaven] -Holly Black
31/01 - [Lucifer Book 1] -Mike Carey
-/01 - [Batman/Superman Vol.1: Cross World] -Greg Pak
-/01 - [Batman/Superman Vol.2: Game Over] -Greg Pak


February

03/02 - [Hellblazer: Devil's Trenchcoat] -Peter Milligan
03/02 - [Hellblazer: City of Demons] -Si Spencer
04/02 - [Batman/Superman Vol.4: Siege] -Greg Pak
-/02 - [Batman/Superman Vol.3: Second Chance] -Greg Pak


March

04/03 [Rogue One: A Star War's Story] -Alexander Freed


April
-


May
-


June

10/06 - [Lucifer Volume 2: Father Lucifer] -Holly Black


July
-


August
-


September
-


October

17/10 - [Fantastic Mr Fox] -Roald Dahl
21/10 - [Wonder Woman Volume 3: The Truth] -Greg Rucka


November

10/11 - [Witches] -Roald Dahl
26/11 - [Heroes of Olympus #3: The Mark of Athena] -Rick Riordan
27/11 - [Olympians #4: Hades: Lord of the Dead] -George O'Connor
29/11 - [Earth 2 Vol.6: Collision] -Marguerite Bennett


December

02/12 - [Heroes of Olympus #4: The House of Hades] -Rick Riordan
06/12 - [Heroes of Olympus #5: The Blood of Olympus] - Rick Riordan
08/12 - [Camp Half-Blood Confidential] -Rick Riordan
10/12 - [Olympians #1: Zeus: King of the Gods] -George O'Connor
10/12 - [Olympians #2: Athena: Grey-Eyed Goddess] -George O'Connor
10/12 - [Olympians #3: Hera: The Goddess and Her Glory] -George O'Connor
12/12 - [Olympians #7: Ares: Bringer of War] -George O'Connor
13/12 - [Olympians #8: Apollo: The Brilliant One] -George O'Connor
22/12 - [The Trials of Apollo #1: The Hidden Oracle] -Rick Riordan
31/12 - [07-Ghost Volume 2] -Yuki Amemiya


Well! Apparently I read tons in December. XDD I supposed because I have more free time? My shifts were not that packed. And from the looks of it, I am so into Greek mythos. Greek Gods especially. Hahahaha

All these pretty books from the library. Thank God there are librarieS here!!

443 - Mid-Autumn and fast reading

Happy Belated Mid-Autumn Day everyone!

That sounds weird.

Let's try it again.


中秋节快乐！！


That sounds better.

This year, we had dinner at our house. :) Well, we have been eating at our house for a few times now since Sis and I were back in town.

Anyway, the kids wanted Jap curry the previous dinner but I was not the one cooking :P. So this time round, I took the initiative to cook it for them.

Bought the beef and ingredients a day ago and boy did they cost me some. It's fresh beef... because! The frozen ones look really awful in the fridges... No price tags too!

blah blah blah

beefy meat. Cost me quite a lot.

While cooking, brother kept coming into the kitchen to look at the progress XDD Oh my. He's keen of the curry. He had been talking about it since morning. He did pester me about wanting to eat curry since... some time ago. Said that he hadn't eaten before etc etc. I don't think that's true. I did cook it once during one of the dinners, and I highly doubt that he wasn't there. Uncle wouldn't let him miss any of family dinners.

After cooking, I took a shower and together with sis and bro went down to fetch Grandmother. Initially I wasn't responsible for that... meh.

By the time we came back, auntie and cousins had arrived, bringing a bowl of FRUITS. Interesting. Grandmother had brought along butter prawns, soup and salad. Hmmm.... OK.

At around 8:15pm, Uncle and Auntie had arrived, running late from a meeting. They brought chicken wing and roast half duck. OK. That's it. So my curry and ended up became a main. HAHAHAHAHA.

Everything was sparkling clean at the end. Lol. And I thought my curry was too much. XD We even cooked the rice twice!

After dinner, we, the kids, continued on with BVS. And you know what, we didn't even get to finish it before it was time for them to leave. OHMYGOD. That was the second time already. Still couldn't finish. It's at the climax! Supes had pushed Doomsday into the space and nukes had reached them. And then PAUSE. Lol

I had the urged to continue on, but then, I would have to fast forward to this specific scene when they are here again the next time. Nah.. I don't want to do that.

A nice evening overall. Pity that youngest cousin was not here with us. She's having dinner with her grandparents.


Moving on....

I finished The Son of Neptune this ....midnight! Yippee!! As stated, I read everything in a wind. Couldn't stop myself.


#2 The Son of Neptune

I love the colour palette of the cover!!

As the book title suggested, this book is about Neptune's children. Yessss. Not child.

My Rome history is not that good. I didn't know that the Romes are afraid of Neptune, the sea God.

The book started off with Percy on the run from two ugly gorgon sisters. He had slept for a long time and woke up with no memories, except his name and the name Annabeth. And Lupa the she-wolf was there with him when he woke up. We learnt in the previous book that Lupa is sort of the couterpart of Chiron, but for Romans. Anyway, Percy trained under Lupa for some time before he was sent to Camp Jupiter.

He knows that he's more calm and powerful around the sea and so on. And he knows how to handle his sword. He found out that the entrance to the camp is tunnel guarded by the campers in Roman battle armour, Frank and Hazel. For some reasons, he had to carry this old lady, Hera in disguise, into the camp, whose weight increased rapidly when he got nearer to the camp. Hazel unable to hold off the gorgons for long and came crashing after Percy and Frank towards the camp.

Ok. Stop there for a while. From what Percy had described about Camp Jupiter, it could easily be mistaken for a highly functional city. I mean, it could be a city, but the population didnt meet the requirements I suppose. With mountains, polished Roman buildings, roads, barracks, fields, temples, and a freaking CITY about a few miles away from the tunnel end.

And then Percy went on Demigod mode and squash the gorgons to dust, using the river.

Everyone in camp regarded Percy wearily. Because as a matter of fact, the Romans hated and are afraid of Neptune and everything related to him. Percy learnt that hard on when he reach his father's suppose temple.

Everything in Camp Jupiter is well discipline. The don't have cabins but cohorts. And everybody in a cohort mingled with each other, nevermind who their parents or ancestors were. Oh ya, different from Camp Half-Blood, not all campers are a child of the gods. Some were grandchildren or further generations. The Demigods lived on in this place, so there's a City in the camp.

And Hazel had explained to Percy, all the campers lived together, instead of being separated by their godly parents. Lol. Camp Half-Blood seems cruel now.

Anyway, they went on a quest to free Death from the Giant, who is born as the bane of Neptune. Along the story, we learnt that Hazel was in fact not a person from this era but way back and Frank was from a family of a special gift, bestowed by the god Neptune. And yep, Frank could be considered the children of Neptune, not directly but related.

Frank's life is literally on a short stick. I mean, when the stick burnt off, he would be dead. He really likes his arrows and quiver and hoped that Apollo would claimed him. But instead, Mars came do Camp Jupiter and claimed him right in front of all the campers. Surprisingly, he didn't really portrayed much of his father's tempers, as Percy observe. Maybe Mars is more of a calm person than Ares.

Hazel on the other hand, is a daughter of Pluto, Nico's half sister. Awwww. Nico apparently is an ambassador of Pluto in the camp. XD He comes and goes as he wishes. While looking for Bianca's soul in Hades, he stumbled across Hazel, who was just sitting there contemplating about her life. Nico brought her back to life and sent her to Camp Jupiter. Pluto is the god of hell and riches. Hazel inherited the riches part from her father. She could summon any form of precious things from anywhere, and she could also go anywhere when she's underground. She could pop up anywhere she wanted. Cool!

Percy regained his memories bits by bits. After he drank the gorgon blood, his memory started to return fully. I kind of like to see him fighting while he had not regain full memory. I mean, it's like he fought like a seasoned warrior but he didn't know how he could do that. Lol.

I especially like what Hazel had said about Percy, in compare with Jason, during his amnesia.

They had the same aura of quiet power, plus a kind of sadness, like they'd seen their destiny and knew it was only a matter of time before they met a monster they couldn't beat.

When Percy's memory was fully recovered, his sass and everything are to the max. XD You could literally see it in his speech. Or I am just imagining things.

Love the book!! Because there's Percy in it. :)

Next one, Annabeth and Argo II are coming!!

442 - IFINISHEDTHELOSTHEROWOOHOOOOO!!

As the title stated, I finished reading The Lost Hero, on Tuesday 7th of September. The first book of the Heroes of Olympus series. Yipeee :)

#1 The Lost Hero

This book introduced us to 3 new characters: one lost demigod and two new heroes. Jason, Piper and Leo.
The Last Olympian has included the first chapter of this book as a bonus, so I kinda just glance through the first chapter and straight to the second chapter.

Ok. So, Jason is the son of...Lord of the Sky, but for some reason, he referred his Father as Jupiter, Zeus's Roman form. And the terms he used were of Romans. e.g. faun (satyr in Greek). That got everyone confused and weird out when the trio reached Camp Half-Blood. But Chiron was tad bit shocked to see him, saying that he should be dead.

At first I thought, okay, maybe Jason was like, I don't know, a Jason that lived many, many years ago, and then somehow stopped in time and magically reappeared again (see Nico and Bianca's story). But later on, it was revealed that he was in fact born at the current time, and the presumed dead brother to Thalia. Wow. That's interesting.

I'm not going into the plot line, you should just read the book. Anyway, I find Jason's way of handling his sword so damn cooooooool. I mean, he flipped his coin and grabbed a sword out of it. I forgot what the other side of the coin came out with, a spear? Along the story, you could actually see how well he handled himself in battles. I am lost of words in how to describe the way he moves in battles. Percy's a pen to Riptide, Jason's a coin to sword... Did it have a name?? I might have missed it.

And HE.CAN.FRICKIN.FLY. Thalia was shooooooooook when she learnt that. A big contrast on her dislikes of heights. I wonder whether Thalia could do that, flying and controlling the wind. Did she ever summon lightning before? Can't remember...

I like Thalia's Hunter wardrobe. Silvery. All of the Hunters make me think of Elves from Middle Earth. Light travelers.

I didn't really like Piper in the beginning of the story. I mean, I normally don't read stories in a girl's POV. Initially, reading Piper's chapters is a bit hard for me. Well, it is just the way it is FOR ME. Don't judge. I didn't say that it is not good, it is just not for me, OK?

Anyway, towards the end, her character growth is there to be seen, and her confidence started to build up, that's where her character turned interesting. Confident Piper is the best Piper.

And Leo, all he wants is a place to feel at home. Poor boy. and he found a connection with the bronze dragon. :)

Anyway, the book ended with a lead to where Percy might be. And as you could tell, Percy didn't appear in this book. XD But his presence is a ever there. LOL. Because of mentions, because of photos.

In the next book, Annabeth's Seaweed Brain PERCY IS BACK.


I bought the next two books on Wednesday, after watching Mechanic in MBO. Just to  make it reach RM50 to get a chance to win the Grand Prize, a proton Suprima S. I just want a car that's fuel efficiency. RAV 4 is too... much.

Mechanic: Resurrection was all right. Not so much on the story plot, but Bishop is good. I like to see him planned his kill. His sketches!!! I want that notebook!! Sketches are beautiful! And since the first target is in Malaysia, I find myself lucky to be watching it here in Kuching. :) Well, it's always funny to hear a bit of Malay and see exchange of Malaysian ringgits as a change to American places and money. I mean, they even used Malaysian prison. I don't know whether it's real or not, but still, it's refreshing to see different prisons.

And Mr.Bishop's agility. Man, he swam here and there. LOL. And he travels light. Not much pockets for stuffs. Just a gun or two, and silencer. Overall it is all right. Not high rating, but I enjoyed the fightings. XD


Mother's 观察日记
hmm... Mother's back pain is going on and off. And recently, it is happening at unexpected time. Well, at least she has longer time of not having the pains after taking stronger doses, and there's no more headaches. That makes her appetite better.


Stay well everyone. If there's in fact a one, reading this.

:)

441 - mid-book update

I am just so ....eager aren't I.

I'm halfway through the book on the right, yet, I went and bought the book on the right. It's not even next on the series. It's the last book on the series, the 5th book in the series to be exact.

The size cost RM10. ...

I want to get this... bigger edition. Because sometimes I like my books in odd sizes, despite giving me a headache when I'm arranging them on the shelves.

Hahahaha

The Lost Hero is the first book of the Heroes of Olympus series. :) Yep, I've stopped reading Greek Heroes and started on the new series.

It took me quite some time to get into the book, because of the different point of views, and also, it's not Percy's narrative view. Anyway, the new heroes and demigod is still coooooool. Although alternating among 3 different POVs is still a bit difficult. For you see, you would develop a skew. You might prefer this POV over the other ones and such, and make reading the POVs other than that person a bit hard.

LOL. Choices make experience difficult to endure.

The Church's Parish Sale is this Saturday. I'm there to help out my younger brother (my cousin) selling...soya bean drink. XD

440 - some books I read recently

Hullo there.

Anyway, I just want to update about the books I read, recently. There are a few....

I have been into Percy Jackson series lately. I started with The Lightning Thief somewhere mid-year last year. And then hit on full throttle just recently.


Percy Jackson books are written by Rick Riordan.

#4 Percy Jackson and The Battle of The Labyrinth

In this book, we started to see Nico's power developed. You know, rising the dead is a big deal, no matter what situation you are, or when. I find it both eerie and exciting to see a kid this small performed that, the same as I first saw/read Percy went on demi-god mode.

I like the maze, kinda. You wouldn't know who or what you might run into (that's the whole point of a maze, duh). The automatons are so cool!!! I kept picturing them as golden robots walking around...

...I should be doing this right after I finished book, not days and books later.


#5 Percy Jackson and The Last Olympian

The last book of the series. I kinda dreaded it, because it is the last, but continued on anyway. I just lovveee Percy's narrative view. I will practically read anything as long as it's in  Percy's narration and written by Rick the author himself.

Ok, back to the book. Hmmm... Oh ya, the battle got into the climax stage. I mean, they are going along with the prophecy. Fighting, plotting, and stuffs. And man the Titans are strong!!! And the Hope in the box thing.

Centaurs in Percy's worlds are crazy, most of them. I realised that once again. XD Partying, partying and partying.

Arrgh.... I really should have done this days ago!!! I can't even formed accurate facts from the book right now!!! Geez... what memory I have. Goldfish.


Percy Jackson and The Greek Gods

This is interesting! I didn't realise until yesterday that the book was published after the Heroes of Olympus saga. Yet I read it before starting that series. Urgh.

Anyway, this book tells the stories of the 12 Greek Gods, in Percy's view. Yay! Personally, like Percy, I really think Poseidon's a cool guy. Hahaha... I find it living in the sea kind of cool. I mean, the whole domain is practically his. Zeus, living in the Sky, has to like share the space with the other Gods, even if they are not there 24/7. But Poseidon has his own ... world-like domain. It's different when you are in the Sky than in the Sea. .. Hades is the same too! In fact, Hades is so much different!

Next would be Hephaestus, the Greek God of blacksmiths, craftsmen etc. He has the means to stay cool, and people can't just go and mess with him and leave unharmed. Despite all this, he rather tend to his works than go around starting a war with any of the gods. He can be mean if wants to.

That's that.


The Demigod Files

My copy is a film-tied in edition, meaning Logan Lerman is on the cover. It includes small size posters of Percy, Annabeth, Grover, Hades and Zeus. I wonder where the hell is POSEIDON.

Inside included a map of Camp Half-Blood and three short stories. Anyway, I just don't want to miss anything with Percy in it.

• Percy Jackson and the Stolen Chariot
• Percy Jackson and the Bronze Dragon
• Percy Jackson and the Sword of Hades

Spoilers! Not much. Just skip it if you are planning to read it, I just don't want to ruin the fun, though it's not much.

Anyway, Stolen Chariot is centered around the Children of Ares. It shows the relationship between a Demigod child of Ares and the Immortal children of Ares. The brothers Phobos and Deimos (fear and terror) chariot-jacked Clarrise while she was taking their Father's chariot for a ride. ...

Bronze Dragon is centered around Beckendorf, demigod sired by Hephaestus. While playing capturing the flag, Percy and Beckendorf accidentally came across some huge ants moving bronze dragon body parts into their ant nest. Beckendorf realised that it was the legendary dragon that the Hephaestus cabin built to guard the Camp many, many years ago. ...

Sword of Hades, surprise, is about things happening down under. This time the children of the big three teamed up to find this sword which happened to be a dangerous weapon that could wield the dead to rise. ...

I like the Hades story. Well, actually I like to see the interactions going on between the 3. It is tad bit different from the way they interact outside the three of them. That's just my opinion anyway.

James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl

I watched the film adaptation when I was just a small......... when I was young. I couldn't really remember how old I was, but I still vaguely remember how I felt towards the film.

I couldn't recall much, I didn't know what it was but I do now. It has a stop-motion animation! I mean, ya, initially it was live action, and then while Henry was crawling into the peach, he gradually changed into a stop-motion animation character! And suddenly everything in the peach has turned stop-mo animation and it is just normal. It's interesting that they used this changed to show that Henry had entered a peculiar place, and peculiar things were happening to him, like changing into clay.

I used to be afraid of the sea-monster lurking in the sea. It has huge scissor-sharp teeth in its circular month. And the peach was gonna dropped right in the middle of it. Something like that, or I am just making this up I can't remember. After I read the book, there's nothing like that(?). I remember the seagulls! I love that scene. And the rainbow-men. That's new to me. 

I tried to understand what Mr.Dahl is trying to convey in the story, but I just can't get my head around it. Maybe I need more time to think over it, OR, I am just overthinking it and it is just a story.


Yeah~

439 - See how this turns out

Ok.

My first post since a long time....ago.

Now, let's see how this post turn out.

Should I add in a photo???

Should I?
To make it tad bit more interesting?

Well, it's not the least interesting to begin with. A photo wouldn't harm much anyway.



Ok. This was dinner, last night's.



So....Ciao.



Sent from my Sony Xperia™ smartphone

435 Happy Birthday Father!!

Haiyaaaaaa

Yepp. Happy Birthday Father!

...

I finally finished the last book of Narnia.

THE LAST BATTLE.

My very own copy. Kind of ... not that new anymore. Wuuwaaaaa... Even the pages are yellow. I've been wondering whether to buy the illustrated version, besides it's hardcover. As a token of reading the whole series ^^ ...

Wohoooo After all these time. I've been holding this book for tooooo long. Didn't really break the record of longest reading time, but still, too long for my liking, especially...erm.. this genre and targeted audience. No offence, but I expected myself to finish this book much earlier.

I don't have much to say about the book. I roughly know what the end would be beforehand. But I didn't know there's so much big ... "renovations". Hahahahahaha

I like that, from the authors description, everything seems beautiful. No matter what he described, in my opinion, they are beautiful. Be it describing hilltops, swamp or anything. Besides that, I like narrative stories.

Anyway, I finished yet another Classic. Yeah!

Annnnnnddd!! My Q mug has arrived!!! Straight from Britain!!! It's beautiful!!!!

看到的时候已经语无伦次了 呀呀呀呀呀呀  我还战战兢兢不知道何时会到来，因为啊，完全不寄来什么发货邮件啊！！！！ 然后收据也给弄丢了 囧

美死了。舍不得用啊。虽然在Skyfall里只出现一下下，但是真的很喜欢啊~~！！！！ 大部分原因是Q在用然后杯子上有Q吧 噗

432

This blog is still breathing!!

Just really, really, really, shallow.

Barely there. = =

Well, I just can't seem to find the right timing, right mood to do some updates.

Ok...

I'll update something...

about what?

Oh ya, I am really into online shopping recently. Hahahahaha I've been buying lots of comics via the Internet XD from Taiwan and Japan.

I've gone a bit...mental. No restriction....

These are those that arrived today. It's been a month since the senders sent these. They're from China (Taobao). My first Taobao XD Their customs took quite some time to clear. It's just some postcards, phone covers etc.

Concert goods.~~~~ The bags are really nice~~~~~ 

my anime stuffs~~~~~~~~~ 两位都好帅~ 小静好帅~~~ 鬼灯大人也是~

手机壳，终于有了~~ 一次性买了三款。

Also, the How to train your dragon's 12 book is out in the bookstores!!!! Since they release the art cover of the book, I have wanted the hardback, just because. It's the last book!! But I can't seem to find any of it in Chch. I think I will just buy it online. Hehehehehehehehehehehehe

 

I was surprised that the latest volume was much taller than the others. I remember my friend saying that the latest book was a bit "special" and different from the others. I didn't think that it would be taller than the others XD I didn't know that it would reach Chch this fast. I expect it to arrive like at the end of September. 

I WANT HARDCOVER! I WANT HARDCOVER! I WANT HARDCOVER!

hmmm.... about life in Uni. I'm in my last semester now, hopefully. Currently taking only 2 courses. I hope, I don't give myself any lame excuses for poor results at the end.

425 - another book, yeah.

I finished another book. Oh yeah~ This time, it's still a children book~

<Odd and the Frost Giants> by Neil Gaiman. LOL

Recently I've been collecting his books from the libraries. I still have another 3 of his books to finish~ For some reason, I'm excited about <The Graveyard Book>. But I'm gonna read it after <M is for magic>.

I'm halfway through <M is for magic>. It's a book full of short stories. Personally, I like the Troll Bridge, Don't Ask Jack, October in the Chair and The Price. That's my current progress. I like how the stories were told. I'm terrible at describing things, so I wouldnt say much about the stories.

Anyway, life is good, I think, so far. But I'm coming down with a small fever, I suspect. I feel pain all over my body, my ears are really sensitive and painful sometimes, my fingers and legs are cold. Plus, I can't breath properly. aih... my throat hurts few days ago...

Sick.

All I can do now is that I better get better. There's final exam of course coming this Wednesday and I have a revised report due that Friday and another 2 reports due the following week. So, yeah, kind of busy.

This is 300 level, what did you expect???

Oh ya, I havent put in form to rent the graduation gown. I saw the form, and prices, and damn. IT'S SO EXPENSIVE!!!! AND WE PAYING FOR 2! Why does it cost so much?! It's just a gown!! I bet tons of people rent it every year!!! Why do you still need to charge that much?! I know it's for some charity and bla, but....... sheeshhhhh!!! It's not like I'm buying it or anything! Hell! I have never bought a shirt or gown that expensive, period.


...................... Spring is coming! The trees have started to bloom. It's quite a beauty in school. 

423 - end of August

Hello there, this is the last day of the month, 31st of August. Which means, Happy Merdeka Day to Malaysia!!!

Get another day off because Merdeka day falls on Sunday. woohooo...

Not for me though, it's still the same. I'm on my term break anyway, 2 weeks. The 2nd week of the break starts tomorrow.

So ya... I'm going to finish my Psyc essay next week. Hopefully. It's due Monday, 8th of September. Also, I need peer-reviewed a reviewed article due that Thursday... and! I have one final exam on the following Friday, I think. A 3 hours test. hahahahahahaha...

I'm totally pushing everything to next week. XDDD And I HIGHLY DOUBT that I could finish everything. I would be sooooo happy that I could even finish the Psyc essay.

This Psyc essay.. I need to write a ..erm... an essay about one out of three topics. I haven't make my mind yet what to choose and I'm not sure about the details yet. I mean, the "requirements" of the essay, eg. word count, references, font etc.

I should be worried sick now, but NO.... I'm just starting to feel a littttle bit panic. Hahahaha. My response to the situation is so slow.

So... August is ending.

Jun-kun's birthday was yesterday! 
Happy 31st!!!! Please take care and be healthy in your 30s!!!

Next... Oh ya, New Zealand stopped showing How to train your dragon 2 (HTTYD2) this Wednesday. I mean, at least it's in my city here. I don't know about other parts of the country, but I think it's the same.

So, I know some of you guys realized that I've watched the movie... quite a few times, for the first few weeks. Later on, I stopped updating whether I've watched it still. So, for over 2 months, I broke my own record ( 3 times for 1 movie in the cinema). This time, my record is a double digit. I'm not going to say more. No one is really interested in it anyway. If you really are, just text me, friend.

Guys, did anyone go to the cinema for the movie?? Anyone?

If not, you really missed out the treat!!!!! I can't use any words to describe it. I think I've ranted enough in the previous post about the movie, so I'm not going to repeat that in this post.

Besides that, I watched Guardians of the Galaxy and Doctor Who: Deep Breath too!! Among my HTTYD2 trips. I watched this.. movie and drama between the time slots that were-not-airing-HTTYD2-but-I-was-free-at-the-moment time.

Guardians of the Galaxy was funny. I didn't know what ...vibe the movie would give out until the then Star-Prince started to put on his headphones and hit play on the player. LOL... The funny level went up when the movie title appeared. For some reasons, that was funny!!! Other then that, I've not much to comment on. Groot and Rocket were nice!! I like the scene where Groot brighten the space with small...firefly thingy. ^^ That was beautiful.

Next, Doctor Who: Deep Breath (DW). Since it only aired in one time slot for only one time, it was shown in the largest room in the cinema. And well, there were lots and lots of people. And I felt so comfortable sitting among adults. LOL. Because I've been watching HTTYD2 for so many times, all those times, kids were the majority. So, it's kinda noisy. In DW, it was quiet. With some occasional gasps and stuffs. Looking around, some were indeed excited when the theme song started playing. HAHAHA. I was so thrilled when the familiar-but-not-so-familiar theme song and scene played on the wide screen. Hahaha........... I felt... a bit proud actually. From the production in 2005 till today, where they can aired their first episode of the DRAMA SERIES in theaters WORLDWIDE (excluding some countries... I think), I felt so happy for them. OMG... I'm actually watching DW in the cinema! <- That was my mental thought.

And ya, 12th looked sooo cool!!! A bit cold and un-predictable actions as what I've expected, since watching 11th's behaviours and stuffs in the 6th series. Hmmmm. Overall, that was really nice! The cinematography was beautiful. I kept thinking back to the previous series and making comparisons XDDD I really shouldn't do that!!!!

Although it was suppose to be a one time thing, the cinema aired it again for another few slots on Friday and Saturday, "back by popular demand!" <—— that's what the poster in the cinema said.

413 - recently

Lecture started early today, at 9am in the cold windy morning. And then, I’m free for the whole day. How awesome is that!  = =

What a waste of my time.

Well, it’s because some of my classes and labs have not officially started yet. That’s why I have sooooo many free slots. One lab starts at the next following week on Tuesday. So, on Tuesday, I would have 3 academic hours…..>_> That doesn’t change much isn’t it. Hmm… Wait till the next term. There’s another course that only runs on the 2^nd term. Hope that ‘enrich’ my first semester timetable…..

Some side facts…. 现在正在听着《七里香》这专。噢噢噢~ 果然好喜欢他那时期的曲调歌词啊~~>.< 那样的听着，会想起中学时期的片段呢。。。。初中的时候。嘛，我不知道时代对不对，我确实是哪个时候才意识到我在听谁的歌。因为··那时候mp3机开始流行，我爸不知道在那给我买个中国货的mp3 player. 然后啊，下载技术没现在那么好，所以乱找一把，然后就都是他的歌和英文歌了。日文歌的话，就动画的主题曲之类的。那时我不怎么看歌词，这听歌。现在看歌词边听，感受加倍~ 这专里，大致上都喜欢，除了几首不那么听之外···

OK, back to daily life.

So, I’m taking 6 courses this year. One of them is a whole year course. That’s a 30 points course. I have another 30 points course which only runs 1 semester. Ooooo… So, that course is a bit heavier compare to other 15 points courses. More workload.

I’m taking 4 bio courses and 2 psyc papers. …..

WHY IS IT SO DAMN COLD IN MARCH?!!! IT’S SUPPOSE TO BE AUTUMN! NOT WINTER!! Crazy weather. It shouldn’t be this cold in the beginning of March. STUPIAK WEATHER.

Hmmm…. Oh ya. Father and mother went back last week, on Saturday morning. To Kuching via Sydney to Singapore, then Singapore to KL and then finally Kuching. … MAS is not flying Singapore to Kuching at that time. Why’s that???????? I highly doubted that there’s no one flying that flight. Duh…..

With their departure, our life are back to normal. School and occasional stock takings. Since we are on that topic, we went stock taking last night. XD It’s a retail shop in a mall. What was the name….. “Bed Bath & Table” ?  Something like that. Is quite a small and compact shop. Quite nice. The shelves are sooo high. I can’t reach them of course. I could reach till the fourth level of the shelf. Ahaha……..

Shelves of bedsheets and towels… XD

Anyway, we finished job at around 9pm. Started at 6pm. Wow. That was fast. We bought BK for dinner on our way back. Cost me $10 for 2 burgers, a medium drink, a sundae, 2 small fries and 1 small onion rings. That’s quite cheap.You can’t really get that much thing for $10 from McD. Hehehe…… Recalling it, I’m hungry for fries again… = = No good. That’s too soon for fries.

Going to do some cooking tonight. It’s cold, really hope the cooking would make us warmer. I needed to finish the vegetables in the fridge anyway. Leftovers from mum. >_> She bought quite a lot and couldn’t finish them. On the last day, she even bought a mudcake!!! And she left without touching it. T^T

oh ya.... was going to shop this to you guys but then I kept forgetting.

This is a... welcoming pack I suppose, from the UCSA (University of Canterbury Student Association). I really wanted to get one because of the student planner and the whole year calendar. It's a whole year calendar. XD

…………….somanythingstofinishihopeyouguyswouldnotbuyanythingherethatyoucannotfinishthenexttimeyouarehere.

Nice day to you!

411 - How I spent my holidays weeks ago...

I didn't quite tell anyone... that I went to Singapore and Bali for holidays, between the end of November and beginning of December. ~

Actual date is 31st of November to 7th of December.

First 3 days, there's 5 of us ( me, sis, uncle, auntie and cousin) went to Singapore. On the third day, my father joined us and we went straight to Bali in the evening. We then spent 3 days 2 nights there and again, flew back to Singapore and had another 3 days there.

It's quite a long duration for us. Being away from home that long. We went to Singapore from Kuching without any check-in luggage. = = Only hand-carry. I didn't know how did I survive that. I didn't bring enough liquids ( shampoos, baths and lotions) and so, I spent some numbers on them both in Singapore and Bali.

Singapore. We went there quite lot of times already so there's not much things to say. Still the same. Busy place with lots of people. Crowds everywhere. The hotel we stayed, oooo.. small and packed. >.< The room was just right with only me and sis. But when we came back from Bali, it's 3 of us then: me, sis and dad. OMG. The space was too damn small!!!! Although we got used to the fact that there's no windows but big wide mirrors, it's still too crowded. ...

So, where we did we go in Singapore? The usuals. Takashimaya, Bugis Street, Bugis Junction, Marina Square, Vivo City and so on. The main thing was food I think, even though the food in Singapore kind of taste the same everywhere. I mean the hawkers.

Ok, in Bali. hahahaha... All I can say is that, it's really not my type of place. It's hot, dusty, hot, dirty(some places) and hot. Singapore is ok because of the air-conditionals and stuffs, but Bali is different. Lots of temples and statues, lots of sand. The shops and stalls are nice but they kept selling the same things. It's exciting the first time round but when you walked pass a few more shops later, it got boring.

We hired a tour guide. ^^ That's how we moved along to far places. The tour guide picked us up from the airport and sent us to the hotel/resort. If I'm not mistaken, it's a 4-star hotel. ooooo... The one thing I don't like about the hotel is that, the running water is not pure water. I thought it kind of taste like filtered sea water. Anyway, it's salty. Kind of. So everytime I brushed my teeth, it's... weird.

On the first day of our tour, we went...quite faraway. We went to see paddy fields. On the way, we saw monkeys and even saw someone washing pig's intestines. lol . It's sooooo white and long.

Oh ya, the only local food we ate in Bali is something call... Babi guling. The whole pork, I mean every part of the pork is being cooked and served. Other then that, we had mcdonalds, burger king and dominos. ~~

so.... what else...

hmmm.. Let's just head off to the photos. ^^

Hm.. it's the end of November and the beginning of December, so, Singapore has started its Christmas celebrations. Look at the Christmas trees~~~~ I personally like the white one, in the middle. It's in Marina Square. ^^ I like the red telephone booth. >.<  The last row of photos in the collage was from Changyi airport.


Next. These were taken in Bali. The first row was from the hotel/resort.

On the tour, we went and tried the .."kopi luak"..? I think that was the name. I forgot about it. Anyway, tea tasting. It's famous. The teas. The paddy fields. The last one is babi guling. ^^


Continue on.

Still in Bali. On the second day, we walked around the town. It's such a hottttt day!!! The best thing of the day was that we had lunch in a Japanese restaurant. My 14 year old cousin ordered shashimi set. ... He's treating the food with not much delicate. It's a cuisine... >_> Lots of the things on the plate he's not eating. What a waste... he should have just ordered the terriyaki chicken. I didn't ordered anything. I took some bits and pieces from my sis and father. After that, we walked slowly back to the hotel. aih... hot hot day. I went straight to shower upon reaching our room. ~ Uncle and cousin went for a swim in the hotel pool and then walked over to the beach. At around 16:40, father stopped by and we headed off to Burger King. ^^ It's buy 1 free 1 from 2pm to 5pm. Father really wanted to make use of that. We ended up buying 14 burgers. XD We took 8 and gave the other 6 to uncle and family. Spent the whole evening in the room and slept early.


The next day, we went back to Singapore.

We went to IKEA and had dinner there. The food will be in the next  next photo set.

hm... eat eat and eat. My cousin kept eating. 

The half of the second row and the whole third row were dinner in IKEA. Aren't they nice? :D

Last day in Singapore, we had bak kut teh for breakfast. We then had lunch in the airport. Not nice... expensive and ... low ratings. >_>

Oh yeah, I finally get to meet my youngest niece in real life!!!!!! She's sooooooo CUTE!! 

Her name is Hannah <- I don't know the correct spelling. She looks like her mom. :D We had dinner at Marina Square that night.

So, to conclude our trip:

Singapore is still the same. 

Bali is... not really what I've expected. 

And my cousin is really a 吃货。

Epilogue

Things I bought in Singapore. Comics. Japanese, Mandarin and English. Besides, I bought some figures. :D I finally get my hands on the Nightwing POP. >.< I can't find it in NZ. I found Batman I think and it costs around NZD22. There are lots of others in Singapore, S$ 17.70 each. XDDDDD

409 - Last exam for the year.

I finished all my exams on this nice day!!! 7-11.  XD

My last exam was BIOL 254 Principle of Plant Development. 2.30 hours. 10 short questions and 2 essays.

Once again, my hand went helplessly numb and painful after the exam. Since junior years, I realized that I'm grabbing  my pen/pencil too hard when I'm writing fast. And when I'm writing fast, I got nervous. I liked the feeling that I'm writing sentences straight out without much thought. It's like the words just flow naturally out. Unlike now, I'm lacking words. Typing this is not as smooth as I wanted it to be.

Exam. Ya. Last exam. That's mean I'm getting nearer to my home. >.<

Really can't wait to go home!!!!

All the food (kolo mee, kueh chap, LAKSA!!, chicken rice, bao...).

All the movies.... CINEMA!!! GSC!!!

All the dvds!!!

My room!!


aww........... I want to watch drama via tv!!! YES!!! I purposely stopped watching some of the dramas now so as to watch it on tv~~~~~~~~~~~ big screen!! Though the resolution is not as high as I wanted.

Actually, my sister and I did thought of buying a smart-tv for the house. The type then can watch movies from the usb or harddisk. hmmm......

That would be so convenient.

But, that would be not much use for my parents though. They don't surf internet as much as we do. As long as there are interesting programs and sports channels, normal tv well do. ...

Besides that, we thought of getting a new player. A Blu-ray player. lol. Thinking of it now, maybe there's no hurry for that. After all we still have the PS3. That is an effective blu-ray player.



Anyway, went to have a small----small celebration after that. We went to Hachi hachi for dinner. A Japanese restaurant. I know I have been eating Japanese food every Saturday, but this is different. I rarely eat this type.

The one on the left, ordered by my sis, toritama udon. <- It's just fried chicken with egg...something something udon. I odered ...teppan teriyaki chicken.

Wow~

The chicken was so tender >.< The sauce and everything was superb!!! When I first saw it, I didnt expect that the meat pieces were that few. But once I started eating, I understood why that put so. Just the sauce and mayo was enough to finish the whole bowl of rice ^^ The chicken portion was just right. ^^

My sis's udon was nice too!! The soup was ... delicate. ?

Anyway, I totally enjoyed the dinner. !!!



Today... weather was ok. Not very warm though.

407

哟~

大家好~

已经考完两科了 ^^

剩下两科~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

我没什么好update, 所以就谢谢我最近看完的书吧~

I'm reverting to English then...

SMOKE AND SHADOWS....

Well, this is the first book in the Smoke Trilogy. ^^ I read the 2^nd book first last year and really like it. Hell, I said so before, I like male antagonist! Hahaha… Even movies too. XD But not those genres with many gun shootings and bad languages all over the place. That just make the whole reading/watching process painful = =

What’s the point of using all those colourful words? Vocabulary shortages??? …

Anyway, about the book, I finished it… quite sometimes ago and I didn’t push myself to write down anything about it. I kinda regret about it now. I can’t recall any specific details in the book just that I really enjoyed it!!!! Besides that, I really liked the way the author describe some scenes. The way she described it, even if it’s just some simple scenes, gave me the full blast, amplified by the fact that I was reading it at night and the room was kinda quiet.

There's a part describing a person found dead in a dark room. 

He curled his fingers around the cheap aluminum doorknob, twisted, twisted harder, and yanked. 

With a rush of cool air, shadow spilled out onto the soundstage, pooling on the concrete, running into the tracks and dips in the floor.

A body followed. ...

A small bounce as the back of her head  impacted with concrete. ...

- Smoke and Shadows, Tanya Huff

How I like the creepiness. Hahahahaha!!! I know it's not as creepy as I said so. I felt that too, once I typed it out.

Actually the book made shadows even more scary and creepy. Lol. For example, in the book, the shadows came from another dimension/world and merged into the human shadows. Through this, the shadows were able to possessed the human and learn things about the human world which later on they brought back to their master when the time was up. Their master, behold, The Shadowlord, had an ambitious plan to take over the human world via the shadows. The antagonist, a production assistant, unluckily worked in a building right where the portal was, of which the Shadowlord used to send shadows to the human world. So, unsurprisingly, the first batch of victims being possessed was those working around the antagonist. Besides that, he also discovered he had a wizard among his colleagues. Hahaha. And there I realized that was where the antagonist got his wizard thingy from. Wowwww…. For this wizard, I think the antagonist did said or thought, why wizard was used on a woman… O.O Yup. The wizard was a woman. ^^

It turned out that, this wizard was running away from the Shadowlord and that this Shadowlord was looking for her. The future wizard got so angry when he realized that the portal was opened by the wizard in the first place to escape from the Shadowlord. Lol…

Also, there’s his vampire friend. Hm.. Vampires, from what we have learnt, are very possessive and territorialize <- can this word be used like that? Anyway, there his vampire friend helping him. By the way, the wizard seems to be somewhat terrified of the vampire, maybe because he’s not one of the living.

Lalalalaaa….. I don’t really want to go into the book. J So I’ll leave it there to those who are interested to explore to themselves ^^ though I highly doubt that anyone reading this blog would do so. 

by the way............

the album I ordered long time ago had finally arrived!!!! On 24th October, 2013, this Thursday!!!

wowwwwwwwwwwwwwww

Anyway, happy that it is now in my hands. ~~~~~~ wow. Limited edition~. It was officially on sale this... Wednesday. ^^ I chose the express mail, so.. that was why I got it in such a small amount of time. 

This time, the album include a dvd. ~~~ yeah~~~ But only for one pv. LOL...

The first day sales, according to oricon, was 327,985. wow~~ By the third day, it had reached 500,000++.

lol... Might be able to break their own record with 1,000,000 copies??? Hope so.~~~~~~~

Let's talk about the weather.

It sooo warm...>.< GOOOOD!!!!!!!!!!!

I could just leave my shoes at home and wear slippers. ^^  Besides, I wore 'longer shorts' to school ~~~~~~~ Jeans are just too stuffy and thick. ~~~~~~~~~

406· 还是很短的一篇~

哟~ 很久没来了~~~

大概半个月了吧~~~~ 我有食言了~什么一个星期至少更一次。哈！没可能啦~

学校到一段落了，这个星期开始就是study break了。顾名思义就要你们好好学校，冲刺冲刺。下星期就开始finals了。

我这学期修了四科，毫无意外的，finals也是四科。昨天晚上把lecture notes, supplementary readings 之类的整理了。嗯，好高的一叠纸= = 其实还有一堆在电脑里没整理没打印，真正整合起来岂不是很壮观？！

四科三个星期考完。第一个星期两科PSYC第二个星期Animal Behavioural, 第三个星期 Plant Developmental. 然后就。。。

回·家！~\(≧▽≦)/~

期待考PSYC statistics! 四科里最最最最容易学的。把应用公式的方法熟悉背好就没问题了 ^^ 而且前两次的‘中’考成绩不错，功课啥的都交上，能够得分的都弄好了，就看这次的末考了！！！ 有望拿A吧(=@__@=)。自去年就没考过A啊——————————我要！！！！！！

然后就是PSYC 207 – Developmental Psychology. 这科有趣~~~~~~ 而起这次考的课程不是全学期而是TERM 4 而已。四科以内最少的了。嗯···不过不容易。。虽然都是选择题···嘛，纸很多吧。而且额外的阅读也蛮多的。

再来，BIOL了。先说说 BIOL 272 – Animal Behavioural 吧。这科就如它名字，就读关于动物的行为。动物对自然、对家族、对自己、对食物、对猎物、对敌人。嗯。。。课程很多~~~~~~~ 四科内纸张最~~~~厚的一叠。课程有趣~~~~~不过，概括的东西好多啊啊啊啊啊。Case study 很多···考试的时候得把他们当example来写。嗯···

好奇我能记多少呢···我这种临时才读的人，而且上课没思考，一直听的人。听了还记不住 = = 

 一大部分原因是没思考啦。。。

。。。。

Study break 能不能好好学习呢？~ 好大——————的一个课题。嘿。

尽量吧。

  

很期待回家啊~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 感觉很难集中精神~~~ 只想玩想玩想玩~~~

怎办？

就放一张图。

前个星期日，崇拜后去了某位教友的家pot luck。顺便欢送这间教堂的牧师到新教会任职。

食物。。。我和妹妹啊····带水果了 = = 

我带什么食物去嘛 = =

食物看起来不错~~~~~吧。还有炒米粉的，其实。某位来自印尼的教友炒的tom yum米粉。酸酸辣辣而且是冷的，不错哟~

环视了一下，我们带水果来时真确的 =v= 健康嘛。

最近天气有点怪吧。

好好的大热天会瞬间下雨= =


++++++++++++ 15/10/2013 update +++++++++++++

对了~ 差点忘了~~~

我人生第一个正版BLURAY收到了！！ YEAH!!

早在几个月前就预定了~~ 然后9月26日发售~

现在终于收到了~

价钱我就不说了。我直接把它当成妹妹的生日礼物 XDD 虽然提前很多~

PLATINA DATA. <—— the spelling is correct.
Don't doubt me. It's the name of the movie.

早在3月多日本上映的时候，就很激动了 >.< 当时刚好爸妈去新加坡处理些事情，所以就顺便让他们到戏院里看看有没有海报之类的~ 结果时间还早。日本刚上映不久新加坡没那么快 = =

嘛，要是真的有海报，就要他们帮忙拍照 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

嗯，从事至今都不指望大马戏院会上映 >.>

前几年的GANTZ就只上映第一部，第二部就没了消息。而且只有GSC放，其他戏院一律无视掉 = =

喂，戏院只放本地戏么？！！！！

大部分只放韩戏，日戏就无视了？？？？ 要是放的话大部分还是鬼戏。囧。

所以在很多人印象中，日本戏 = 鬼戏。

去死啦。