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20 October 2014
Need I say more?
Yup, it's that time of the year again! The annual BBWB sale is back!!
This year I got a preview pass again! But just like last year, I could only take a half-day leave for the sale. This time though, a colleague will be joining me as she won a pass too.
I might be borrowing my mom's trolley. I never buy a lot of books at one time, but carrying a box around was just too tiring.
Can't wait to see what's in store!!
14 July 2014
Hooked (and for once, not by books)
I haven’t
played any video games for a long time. My first and last gaming
console was a PSX (Yup, that old!). But once a while, I do keep track
of some of the games that I like or played before, e.g. Medal of
Honor, Metal Gear, Tomb Raider and Resident Evil. When Tomb Raider
2013 was released, I was pretty excited and always checked online for some
photos and videos, but never excited enough to actually want play it,
mainly because I sucked at gaming. But when I heard about one amazing
game and watched the video, I was hooked and was for the first time in a long time
considering buying a console just to play that game. The culprit was “The
Last of Us”.
The Last
of Us is a post-apocalypse survival horror zombie game, but it’s
not just any post-apocalypse survival horror zombie game. The
storyline was absolutely amazing, it got players completely
connected to the characters, the gameplay was great, even the zombie
infection idea was more realistic compared to other zombie games and
movies. (Not going to bore you with my unprofessional details and definitely not going to spoil the game for you.)
I’ve
watched the “movie” version of the game on Youtube, downloaded it
and watched it again many times later. The story was that good. Even
though I’ve watch the video before playing the game (a serious
no-no for hardcore gamers), it’s because of having watched the whole
story that made me want to play the game even mor and experience it for
myself. True, I’m not a good gamer and most likely to die many
times even before getting a quarter-way through, I still want to try
playing it. The game has an easy difficulty setting, which is good
news for me, and from what I heard, the easy difficulty has an
auto-aim function, which is great for me.
The one
thing that is stopping me from playing the game right now is money. I
haven’t done my research yet, but I know that buying a console and
a game would set me back around RM1,000, maybe more. And to play the game, I need
to get a new TV too. The TV in my room is simply too small to play any
game, even the ones from my old PSX. So you can do the math on how
much the whole set-up would cost me.
Now you
see my predicament. I really, really want to play The Last of Us. But
the financial cost was just so high. Argh! What am I to do…
15 May 2014
Choked
Reading Together by Tom Sullivan with Betty White. The first few lines on the first page already left me choking a bit.
"It was noon -- when the sun was at its highest point and the dog was at his lowest moments. There was an aching in the black Labrador retriever's heart as he circled the area where his people had left him. If he could, he would be asking the question why. Why did you drive into this park, open the door, bring me out, hug me, pat me, and then leave me? But dogs never ask questions like that, and they never question if they should love us forever, because love is an absolute."
"It was noon -- when the sun was at its highest point and the dog was at his lowest moments. There was an aching in the black Labrador retriever's heart as he circled the area where his people had left him. If he could, he would be asking the question why. Why did you drive into this park, open the door, bring me out, hug me, pat me, and then leave me? But dogs never ask questions like that, and they never question if they should love us forever, because love is an absolute."
05 March 2014
Correction: Not so great start in the new year!
It wasn't how I imagined how my new year would start. While I didn't plan anything special, the idea of spending several days in a hospital was definitely not what I had in mind.
The story goes like this...
The story goes like this...
24 January 2014
A great start in the new year for book lovers
In case you haven't already know, Big Bad Wolf Books will be having a Fireball Book Sale this February!!
So remember to collect all the Ang Pows you can get your hands on from your friends and families to pay for the books you'll buy from this superhot sale!!
So remember to collect all the Ang Pows you can get your hands on from your friends and families to pay for the books you'll buy from this superhot sale!!
10 January 2014
02 January 2014
Happy 2014!!
A brand new year has finally arrived! It's almost surreal every time a new year came and the old year gone. One moment you think that time passes by slowly and the next moment it's gone before you realised it.
So what's for the new year?
So what's for the new year?
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