Marley & Me : Book vs Movie

I generaly love the book better because it allows me to imagine what things would look, sound, smell like, on my own and it goes so much more in depth than you can even in the best of movies. But, the movie still brings things to life in a way that simply reading can not. It makes things seem more real sometimes.

Big Bad Wolf Books Sales

Sweating... *Phew* ~ Catching my breath...

Just got back from an amazing warehouse book sale. Took me 30+mins to get my books paid… hehehe… its pretty common. I don’t have much time to browse thru books at all. I just go hunt around for Kristen’s & my sister's shopping-book-list.

After 1 round that took me around 20 minutes searching for their books, I failed to find them. So, I went back to th only corner that attracted me upon my entrance in the first time; that was the long table with books stacked-up quite high with John Grisham, Stephen’s King & Barbara Taylor that are familiar to me. To my surprised, when I returned, the books stacked high is very low and some of the authors that are not familiar to me are finished! This author; Jodi Picoult was grabbed like hot-cakes and I managed to grab all the last 3 books of her. Sister said she read once her book but she don't like 'em. After reading each of the book's synopsis, I find it alright so I hope I won't regret grabbing them all. Hahaha!!

I couldn't find any Danielle Steel nor the other new popular authors … and just on my way to the cashier, I saw the "Marley & Me" book that I was planning to look for today. Since the book attracted my attention in KK's airport last month, I had wanted to get it. Once again the book just "called out" to me so I grabbed it. I'm very sure the book was not there earlier, someone must have put them back because there are some "dog-ears" on the cover and a few pages. Definitely not too good a quality but I don't mind.

Lucky I managed to get back into office by 2pm. Actually, I wasted around 15 mins looking for the location of the building and indeed I had wasted quite some precious time. If the map given would have mentioned Xerox; where I used to work, I would have not taken the other side of the road and make a big-circle from behind. Would have just gone straight passed Jaya 33 and take a right-turning. Also since I have quite forgotten the area after so many years, also my own fault too but it's an adventure to learn them back again... It's also pretty normal for me to get "lost" sometimes at unfamiliar places; as long as I willing to learn and remember them the next time, that's nothing wrong about it.

Big Bad Wolf Books rented a floor from this vacant building next to Kodak. After trying to look for a parking along the road, nothing available. Without wanting to waste more of my time, I decided to check with the Guard of the building because I could see from the road, there are ample parking spaces inside the building compound. And Pak-Cik Guard said need to pay him RM3 and I was like, "huh?" and I think the Guard "masuk" into his own pocket wan... Because, I actually parked at the Kodak's visitor's space.

Quickly make my way up to 2nd-floor, already see lots of people coming out with plastic bags full of books & magazines. Some even carting big boxes!! And it’s with air-cond. It’s quite nice to browse thru if you have the whole day. I saw people pushing their market-cart and books are pilling up in them. Even saw 2 people carrying the "guni-sack" type of bag; huge!! when I was lining up to pay for my books.

WwooHhoo!!! I’m satisfied with my purchase!! I bought 5 books for myself and 1 book for my sister. Just dissapointed that I couldn't get anything for Kristen.

I love the wolf-paw-print on the plastic-bag!!! Oh yea, anyone who reads my Blog and interested to borrow the books in my collection, you're welcome to let me know. You can have 'em anytime.

"Sharing is Caring, Caring is Loving."

Note: I'm not promoting for Big Bad Wolf Books but if you're book-lover or even magazine-craze, go check them out! From 14 (Thu) to 18 (Mon) May 2009 : 10am-9pm. Big Bad Wolf Books is brought to you by the people behind BookXcess as they truly believe in helping people read more for less.

Dinner @ Manhattan Fish Market

Dinner with Jaime, Alan, Siau Wei & Yoong Han after a tiring Monday...

Everyone were tired & exhausted after the first day of the week kick starts...
I, on the other hand was all-up & non-Monday-blues when I got up this morning...
Decided to dressed-up and had been feeling all-positive and looking forward to the evening...

We departed and says our goodbyes...
And, I'm left with my own thoughts... once again...

I'm three-zero...

As the title describe...
I can't believe that I'm 30...
Not to say that I'm boasting about it...

It has been just another day at work today...
With the past few days being the long weekend...
Nobody did anything for me... as Dad is away to KK too...
Mom treated me to Sushi King last night but I wasn't in much mood to eat...
Even today at lunch, nobody suggested lunch but I decided that I want to have lunch outside of the Company and decided to head out for the famous char-siu rice... *yummie* and I returned back to office with a very full stomach... *chuckled* and in a sleepy-mode after the meal.
Just had dinner, Mom cooked my favourite "tomatoes stew porky" and since I'm still full from lunch... I had very little of it...

I'm not sure what will the years be install for me...
Joining the club of 30 with 3 of my closest friends, our last birthday-meal for Siau Wei already discussed about the "signs of aging". Hehehe...
I don't think we need to wait exactly for us to be on-the-dot-three-zeros to feel and experienced the differences that is/was going on in our life... It's obvious and indeed very obvious!

Looking back to a year ago... I can't help feeling that "awesome loneliness" lingering in my heart today. I guessed that's also the reason why I decided to blog... just to keep my feelings recorded and written out; one day... flipping thru the pages of my blog... I will know how I feel today...

Many women out day will die to get the youthfulness-look when they reach 40s and above. But, someone just think that I should "grow up" and "make up" and don't look like I'm a 20s. I don't think its a sin to have a youthful-look and I should give thanks to God for it!!

Confessions of a Shopaholic: D'Movie vs D'Book

Out of 5 Sophie Kinsella's Shopaholic series, I have completed reading 4 of her series books. And her 1st book was adapted into a movie; "Confessions of a Shopaholic" is screen in all the cinemas recently. Tonight, I decided to watch it and my initial intention was to have a face to all the characters in her writings. Of course, the genuinity still is the book characters and not the movie's characters. But to my shocked, the story line is so different as compare to the book!!

1) Becky actually got the £20 from Brandon in a conference and not in a hot-dog-stand.

2) Brandon is from Brandon Communication and not Successful Savings; and thus Becky never work for Brandon in the book.

3) Alicia supposed to be Brandon's personal assistant and not someone working in another Company and not Brandon's girlfriend in the book.

4) Tarquin already Suze's boyfriend in the movie. And I don't recall that Becky actually sold-off her bridesmaid dress after being taken away to be sold in the book? Further to that, Suze is never angry or upset with Becky ever in the book.

And the list goes on...

I think there are more differences from d'movie versus d'book. I do not understand how a movie can be adapted from a book with so much difference in the story lines... Just didn't expected this to come... The movie ended in a very funny way when Becky exchanges all her money from her auction into pennies and put them all in jars to leave them all in Derek Smeath's office. Of course, in the book, Becky actually did deposit her payment on a normal way.

I shall get back to my 5th series of her book...

Exhausted with Life

With the April month coming to an end...
I couldn't help feeling that it has been an exhausting month...
My KK trip kicked off at the very beginning of this month but upon returning from that... seems that things just took a turn in a few ways; friendship and relationship. It was not the same...
Despite that I tried to make an effort but I'm not sure what happened...

I'm quite surprised that being away for 4 days from office and all of sudden, this month I had so many "assignments" that I have to rush thru and look into. Well, I'm enjoying the shipping-task but as for the inventory-task, but till today, I couldn't meet my own-target-dateline. Oh... and I only left 4 days this month to tackle them.

Last week has be tremendously exhausted with me getting a motorbike knocked on my driver-side last Wednesday. So, I had to go around hunting for quatations to fix it. Finally, I surf up and "click", I found this website: Dent Repair and its in Puchong. And to cut the story short, the technician did a good job on my 3 dents but they could only recovered 70% of the serious-dent . After doing the polish myself, the scratches are invisible for the 2 dents but as for 1 dent; paint-touch-up is required. Thus, I have to go look around for paints... and Dad suggest to get a polish-machine-mechanism instead of sending it to a professional to work on.

I feel that... no matter how much rest/sleep I take, my body is not satisfied... And my brains will always have the auto-alarm to be awake at 6am every morning eventhough it's a Saturday & Sunday. What is wrong? Why being a human can be exhausted till like this.... ?? I know there is no happiness for eternity but sometimes, I wonder why things just can't be normal. I'm not asking too much, am I?

2 Moms' B-Day Celeb'

After the buffet-dinner, we adjourn to Phillip's parent's home for the birthday celebration for the two moms that are co-incidently have their birthdays in April. Times are bad, so celebration also combine. *chuckled* Aunty Ann even make the two cakes herself!! But, it's the celebration at the end that counts...

Halia @ Sime Darby CC, Bukit Kiara

First thing that caught my attention after we were brought to the table that my sister reserved, "ROAST LAMB"... oOhHH... poor little goat but it never failed to open my appetite. It was very "naked" by the table where we were seated.

This is the salad-corner, not much choices actually but nothing to complaint also. It's just "leavey-greens" and of course, tomatoes are my aim as usual. They have all kinds of "dressings", just take your pick at your personal taste, I have my Italian-dressing as usual.

This is actually like "chicken kebabs" but I have no idea where the name "sharwarma" origins. By right here, it goes with the "pita-bread" wrap but because I wasn't feeling like a-wrap today, so I just had the filling; of the chicken with the onions, cucumbers, tomatoes and some dressing-sauce. Taste delicious.

The "ikan bakar" corner but I'm disappointed because it doesn't have my favourite "ikan-bakar"; the string-rays. They had the name label on one of the fish as string-ray but it doesn't look at all like one. I'm not such an idiot to be fooled though so I did not bother to order. Hehehe...

Below pictures are the dessert-corner with the now, very common in buffet - the chocolate-fountain!! Then, they have a few varieties of cakes, kueh-mueh and of course you can choose to have your fruits juicy-fresh or with chocolate-toppings.

This is how they served all their charcoal-BBQ-meat; sausages, chicken-drumstick, salamy and others that I can't recall. Aunty Ann was complaining of them being too burned. True enough but then, BBQ is like that... not surprising, just slice off the burn-part when I eat. So, what is there to worry? Not that we had them every single day. I know it's cancerous.... but food is to be enjoyed!


Here are the 2 adorable kittens @ nieces with their noodles & chocolates!! Kristen can have 2 dinner-plates of noodles!! OMG. That's is so so much! But, she loves them and so is Elisa, you can see her figuring out how to eat noodles with a spoon instead of a fork.

...

Earth Hour : 60 Minutes

Simply supported this campaign that has been pre-adverstised on TV and radio. It was the talk-of the town for a bit regards to this and most people have million and one questions in their mind when the clock stirke 8.30pm. Eg. What about the traffic lights on the road? What about the shopping malls or the cinema?

I spend mine Earth Hour; 60 minutes...

Started with getting out all the candles & candles-holder that I have...

Lighted all the candles...

An idea strike me to grab my camera and...

Spend 20 minutes taking lots of pictures...

Different angles, different effects, different functions...

That's about 27 shots taken...

Then, I blew of the candles except for one that was good enough for me to read my book...

It's not much effort needed to support this Earth Hour, hope everyone out there could do the same...