Conspiracy!

"Let me tell you how the story ends...."

Now Playing : "Dance of the Hours" - Ponchielli

It's a conspiracy, I tell ya!!

With reference to the previous blog post, I found out today from Jules that it's not just us students who are dying (heh, pun!) to know how the Harry Potter story ends, but apparently, one of our lecturers this morning let slip the ending of the HP saga!

Fate!

Good thing I had stayed home from going to class (had a major headache) or else I would have been totally and utterly pissed at finding out how it ends before finishing the book!

And yesyesyes, I know I've been over-blogging Harry Potter related posts. So sue me!

I'm Not Listening!!

Sue would've put her face there instead of an otter

 but she's suffering from zit-itis.

Now Playing : "Don't Look Back in Anger" - Oasis

"Lalalalala I'm not listeniiiiiiiing!!!!!"

Now try saying that repeatedly out loud at least another 10,000 times in one morning.

*Ick!*

I swear, everyone was sabotaging me today! 

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Everyone wanted to know how the new Harry Potter book ends!! OKOK, I don't blame them for wanting to know but come on people, can you wait until I flee from hearing range? And please don't elevate your voices in glee when I beg you not to spoil it for me because that's just cruel!! Jules, you weren't helping either--fuelling people's need to know the ending immediately by showing them the end of the book! Boo! :P

Pottermania

Now Playing : "The Kindness of Strangers" - American Analog Set

I got my Harry Potter book!!!!!

5:00AM
Tititititititititititititit!!!! *Slams alarm clock* Groan...gotta leave by 5:30am to go line up for my Harry Potter book...*looks at Jules still snoring*...okay, 5 minutes more lah...

10 minutes....

15 minutes....

Aiyah! I'm late! We're late!

5:40AM
Out of the house, me speeding like devil woman to Carrefour Subang. Still very dark, thank god for streetlights and headlights. 80kph and not much cars around...wah, might just make it!

5:58AM
Wah liao! Almost nobody also...so lepaked in parked car for 15 minutes. See more people semi-running to the entrance. Eh, cannot--I must go too!

6:15AM

6:15AM
Wah liao, suddenly got a line! See picture? Still dark, but very glad I'm like person no.30-something in the line.

6:35AM

6:35AM
Hear someone scream "Eh, the line is at the other entrance lah!!!" Suddenly see people run very, very fast. So I run fast fast too. Cilaka, by the time I got there, I'm no more person no.30!! At least no.100 liao. Aiseh!

7AM
Wooooooot! First Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows book sold to sisters!! One old man clapped kuat kuat. See more and more people walking away with their books with big big smiles.

7:15AM

7:15AM
Line moves very fast, making me lagi more excited. Wah, can see the book stock already! Shiok lah I'm getting my copy so fast! No need to line up under the hot sun later. Walked back to car with book in hands, shiokness only got so many people looking at my book. Cheh, don't want to look at me ah? :P

7:50AM

7:50AM
Drove off to McDonald's for breakfast. Waved at all the poor people still lining up with an evil grin.*Mwuahahah!* Maybe should faster read the last page and then wind down the window and scream out who dies!

Better not...after my car kena stone.

Brought along bag of Harry Potter books to McDonald's. Not trying to show off lah!! Just don't want people tengok inside my car and then steal them. Made a little girl excited. :P

8:30AM

8:30AM
See my beautiful new book? Got the children's version but since I take off the paper sleeve each time and all the words in the book are the same anyway, it doesn't matter lah! Also got a free poster along with the book...but cacat one. Why should I put up a poster of the book when I can just stare at my book? I wanna look at my book, not look at a picture of the book! Cacat!

Must blog!! Must blog!!

I got my Harry Potter book!!!!!

Ooops...I said that before hor!

Cacat poster. My feet nice hor? :P

So now dear friends, I'm gonna go read the book! Screw the homework I haven't done yet!!

*Mwuahahahah!!*

Hypermarkets shoving wands up bookstores' *bleep!*

Excerpt from www.thestar.com.my

Now Playing : "You and Me Song" - The Wannadies

That complicates things, since I was going to go to MPH 1Utama tomorrow morning to buy my own copy of JK Rowling's final installment; Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (did anyone notice how the article got the name of the book wrong? Some reporting!). 

Earlier today, I did hear about these hypermarkets selling the highly anticipated books at these (cut-throat) prices but having to show up before 7am and face the highly possible masses turned me off and I would rather shell out RM109.90 to avoid all this. 

But now, it seems that I have no choice.

If I do decide to join the hordes of people during the ungodly hours of the morning to get my book, wish me luck that I don't get trampled on or happen to hear some over-enthusiastic and impatient fan flip through the book to read the end of the book first.

Will definitely post pics.

Order of the Phoenix

Now Playing : "Misread" - Kings of Convenience

It's been a very long day and I'm falling asleep as I'm clickety-clacking here. So this will be short and sweet. As usual, I will not be providing a detailed summary of Harry Potter and The Order of the Phoenix movie since you can find that in a million places all over the internet (plus, I don't wanna spoil it for you *wink) but I will tell you how I felt about the movie (without divulging much bits about it).

It was tough, deciding on whether I liked or disliked the movie.

If you have read the HP books, you'd know that as each book progresses, the story becomes darker--and the movie adheres to that. Very good! However, this caused the 2.5 hour movie to become a wee bit slowish in the first 2/3 out of the grand total. All the action was towards the end of the movie, which I think happened and finished too fast after being overshadowed by all that "slowness" or "seriousness"--whathaveyou. 

The dialogue was skimped on some characters which I would have liked to have heard from more, but acting as usual was brilliant and the actress who played Dolores Umbridge was excellent because she had effectively caused me to absolutely despise her character--even more than I did in the book! I also loved the Luna Lovegood character and speaking voice. Cho Chang (Katie Leung) as usual was quite the eye candy!

Overall, the movie isn't bad but I personally think that Mike Newell did a better job with his style of directing. Or maybe it had nothing to do with direction (*scoff* Alfonso Cuaron) and what caused this movie to be less ooomph! was simply because HP is no longer a child's movie but one that is getting darker and angrier. It is definitely a far cry from the first movie, Harry Potter and The Sorcerer's Stone but I think hardcore Potter fans would still watch the movie and all the others that are coming out anyway, whether it sucked balls or not.

I know I would. *wink*

I do have one pet peeve with this movie, though. I wish John Williams had done its score because it absolutely sucked and did not the fit the movie at all! There were *some* good and fitting parts fer sure, but on the whole, the music was really un-Potterlike...that is, when there was music playing which was barely for 2/3 of the movie.

Jane, fret not! You should still spend that RM9 to watch the movie because being a HP fan, you wouldn't want to miss one, would ya? :P

I am falling asleep every three seconds! I'm off to bed!

Hurrah!

Now Playing : "Fingers in the Factories" - Editors

Before you say anything--yes, yes I know that I've blogged about Transformers a couple of times already! (If you think I'm crazy about Transformers, just wait until you see my fanatic tendencies with Thundercats. Woooot!!) I hadn't planned on buying the Ultimate Guide to All Things Transformers but I had to do what Julius Caesar would do! I went, I saw, I bought!!

But that's not the main reason why I'm ecstatic! Let's face it, buying blockbuster movie tickets near, on or at least a week after opening day is hell. You stand in line for eons and when you get to the counter, they smile and say "too late!!!!" WELL! Today, I've had the most amazing luck and I owe it all to Aunt Irene! Me and mum were having lunch (ran into high school buddy Terence Tan, who I haven't seen in yonks) when A.Irene (geddit? A.I? *lol*) calls up and asks us to buy Transformers movie tickets for her since we're near the cinema. So when we got there, there was a very small and unobstructive sign pasted at the ticket counter's glass saying that they were now selling advance tickets to next week's opening day of the new Harry Potter and The Order of The Phoenix movie!! My eyes bulged! I couldn't believe it, especially since earlier this week another ticket seller at the same booth told us that they wouldn't start selling the tickets until Monday! My heart jumped--I must buy the tickets now before anyone else finds out and it's all run out!! So I did, and to my glee, absolutely no-one had bought any tickets yet! Freakin' lucky we are! Jules you should worship me for sparing us of a long, loooooong ticket line next week!! So now, since I've got tickets, I'm spreading the word. People!! Tickets for Wednesday's shows are for sale at TGV at 1Utama!!!

Don't you just love going to the cinema? :P