Last Day of 2008

It's the last day of 2008. What will you be doing?
I've decided to post 1 last time before 2008 comes to a close.
So, next year, I hope to start it on a positive note.
As the holidays come to an end, the blackest Sunday of the year approaches, the Sunday before school reopens. But, luckily I believe that we will adapt and change oour modes from Holiday to School:D
Btw, next year is my last year in school. I'm so happy and so sad. I can't believe all the years passed by so quickly. It was like almost yesterday (no lah, jk jk) I was at my first day at school. Pn Sharifahwati our class teacher..see I remember!! Haha..all the years have passed by so fast..Especially the Secondary ones..wow...in a blink of an eye I'm in Form 5. SPM year!
Let's leave that for another day.
But for today, enjoy your last few hours of 2008.
Happy 2009!!

SNOWWW

I installed this Yahoo! Widgets recently, you should all check it out.
There's this widget, Yahoo Weather which I really love, I don't know why. I mainly like looking at foreign weather. Malaysian weather is sooo boring, all the time scattered thunderstorms, bla bla bla. So I look at foreign weather. Did you know, in Iqaluit, Canada, the maximum temp, I've ever seen is -32 degrees Celcius. Yeah, I know.. SO COOL :D..

And it's snowing everywhere, New York, Detroit, Moscow. Wow, people say winter is depressing, I say I WANNA SEE SOME SNOW. I really do want to see snow, not fake one in Genting. But real snow falling from the sky. They say, after a while, it's boring, you don't want it, you'll hate it. But let me see it first laaa, then only hate it :)

So, I hope someday, I will get to experience winter...*sigh

Last year I said " I don't care if I die as long as I can read Deathly Hallows first!" now I'm saying " I don't care if I die, I wanna see some snow falling from the sky first!"

So, to any rich people out there, wasting money on cars and shoes, please sponsor me to go to New York. I want to celebrate New Years at Times Square, with snow falling everywhere...wowwww..wonderful bliss..

Maybe after that, I'll say I never wanna see snow again. But now, just take me..I don't care what you think, I wanna see it to believe it...

P/s New York is always negative temperatures right now, with light snow fall.
P/ss Ulan Bator in Mongolia is -35 degrees celcius. It's not snowing, but man is it cold!
P/sss Kuala Lumpur is soooo boring, I wanna go for a holiday to New York. ( Maybe then, I'll apreciate Malaysian weather ;) )

J.K. Rowling Rules the Roost

Ola conquistadores (:

For reference please turn to page 20 of StarMag on Sunday, 21st December 2008.

This article finally gave me a cure for writer's block, which is extremely cruelllll....I guess everything goes on alternately like in November it was MegaBlog-buster but writer's block struck in December.

So as you all know The Tales of Beedle the Bard was released on December 4th worldwide. And me, trusting Wikipedia too much again, thought that it wouldn't be released here in Malaysia. But then, after chatting with Aisy(thanken yousa) she said she wanted to read it badly, and so I checked out MPH and Popular and Borders. Finally, they called back and said it was available. And I was feeling so stupid to wait for 2 days before getting it :( Anyway, I rushed to Popular and got it for a discounted RM34! See Aisy, just 3 hours after chatting with you...

Beedle the Bard was okay,I guess. Definitely not up to HP standards, but what can you expect. It was a good read especially the parts of Dumbledore's footnotes..so perasannn..

I could've finished it in 1 hour, but instead I took my time stalling here and there. So after 3 days I finally finished it.

This brings me back to the article in The Star. It was written by a Potterhead ( that's what she called herself) and some of the things struck me about it. JKR is so influential that she managed to auction a book for RM10.5 million!!!!! I mean, who else would write something so highly demanded? And thankfully, JKR had sense to release it to the public.

Let me quote from the article ;
" Truth be told, I am in awe of Rowling's sense of timing and marketing-savvy; After all the new teen obsession with Stephanie Meyer's Twilight " :O

" When TTBB was released on Dec 4 this year, it immediately booted Meyer's Breaking Dawn of the No. 1 spot. ( Sold more than 2.6 million copies in 2 weeks)"

I know, IN YOUR face...muhahahaha...

No, wait there's more. TTBB is the fastest selling book in 2008! And Deathly Hallows IS THE FASTEST SELLING BOOK OF ALL TIME!!!" Beat the Meyer freaks..

Me, Myself and a Whole Lot of Other Things

* Trumpet blows in the distance..
I'm back! After 2 weeks, I know some of you guys were wondering if I was still alive or what? lol
Where exactly have I been..? Lol... sooo many places..

Beginning 1st December, I started swimming lessons in PADE, near Tesco somewhere...
Swimming is soomething I have always wanted to do. But alas, since young, I was deprived of the chance to learn how to swim. Back in the days, when I was 6 or 7, I was too short and small to learn in the big pool in KRTU, so my brother learned while I..umm actually I forgot what I did then..haha

So, here was my big chance to learn. I joined in with Ker and Sayana (unexpectedly) in level 2 ( Seahorse :} ) So day after day, intensive training left me exhausted... Too tired to post any blogs, for a certain period of time I didn't even go online :O But later on, I got used to the fatigue, but I had many places to go as my grandma's sister came down from India, and we took her to many many places in KL and SA in PJ and etc etc... Pics down there somewhere...

Back to topic, so after 7 lessons, I found that I could, little bit swim freestyle la.. But on last Friday I flunked the test,accompanied by Ker and Sayana. :D That left me devastated for a moment.. I thought I did okay..but no..Marilyn Monroe thought else. So today I retook the test and thank you, Azam, he passed me. And now I'm in level 3! I'm an Octopus..hahaha..So hopefully, I'll be able to learn backstroke and learn it well this time.. Thank you, bubbye..

P/s Too lazy to post pics, just read it la, it's not like ya'll are from pre-school right? ;)