I...must... write... this....

Warning! Spoilers of HP 7 ahead!

FYI, I was one of those smart-alecks (I am, after all, Librainy) who went to pre-order the book at 109.90 (got discount, so the price was actually 98 ringgit) and was pretty mad when the others went into a shopping frenzy at Tesco & Carrefour! *mutters angrily under her (good smelling) breath*

But if you have still not read the book, Tesco Shah Alam still has a cupboard full of them... WHY oh WHY???

Anyway like plenty of you out there who have read the book, or THE book, I think it was pretty much worth the wait, with tragic deaths to some of the characters. However, though, I think some characters who died weren't given much credit, e.g. Hedwig. How could she, like, just drop dead after being alive alongside the most pursued-after character in the book, Harry Potter? JK Rowling's way of "eliminating" her, in my opinion, was rather harsh, abrupt and unappreciative. (Dobby's death, however, was done with great respect. *sob* I loved Dobby! I mean, in a muggle-to-house-elf way, if you know what I mean)

Besides, Mad-Eye Moody also disappeared without a trace, so was Sirius Black (in the 5th book)... So some fans (like me) still linger to a strand of hope that they are alive, when in fact they are gone forever. But I must say that I simply lurrrved the idea of the deathly hallows, as its intrigue managed to keep readers (like me) suspenseful, craving for more as the story slowly unfold. (I don't really understand how the resurrection stone got him to get back from the dead, though. Enlighten me, please? someone...?)

Some parts were probably predictable, e.g. the part where Harry was a horcrux. I don't know 'bout you, but after finishing the 6th book, my elder sister had already "prophesised" that Voldemort (oops! the Taboo!) had to kill Harry to destroy a Horcrux, since

..........Neither can live if one survives..........

and there was a scar left on Harry, which is pretty suspicious since it's supposed to be there for a reason, right?

Surprisingly, the part where I started to get bleary-eyed while reading was not the Fred dying part nor the Lupin and Tonks dying part, but the part where Gryffindor, Hufflepuff and even Ravenclaw students stood up for Harry and trusted that he could bring down Mr. V... I was also touched when Dumbledore's Army stood up for Harry (who was thought to be dead) when Mr. V gave the usual villian's let-me-brag-before-I-kill-you monologue at the edge of the forbidden forest...

Sigh.

It's mentally exhausting writing about HP 7, you know... But this is the last and only HP book that i'll be reviewing on so...

thanks, JK Rowling!

for weaving these amazing stories and bringing them to life! May the wizarding world live on in our hearts till the end of days...

Never in a Thousand years...

would I have thought that we could win the Law Olympiad Competition held in HELP Uni College today! (*We= Me+Tiffy+Mei Qi+Zhi Yuan+Lee Kiong)


~*The site of the Law Olympiad held 3 years ago--but looks almost the same*~

Usually I don't really mention stuff going on in my daily (and pretty mundane) life, but this is really really unexpected--a truly pleasant surprise! Reasons that I thought we could not win:

1. There were 41 teams who participated around Selangor (or throughout the country, I don't know), each school sending 2 / 3 teams, including premier schools like Catholic High and Assunta and Damansara Jaya etc. (who some of them may not even know that SMJK Kwang Hua Klang exists)

2. We did not have the past year papers, so we couldn't make much preparation (which some other schools had, but not all)

3. We didn't really know each of the team mates well (some from a different class)

4. Our general knowledge was pretty limited (but we did do some research--which all of them weren't asked)

5. Our school has never won for the past 7 yrs (this is the 8th yr it is being held)

Yes, undeniably my ego and complacency has inflated to a jumbo-sized balloon today but you can't blame me us for winning, right?

Thanks to all the team members for their wonderful work (I personally think I was the weakest link, but we won anyway) and Thank God for this golden opportunity!

This post can be simply summarized into 4 words: bragging about Librainy's victory.

So, what? Sue us!

p.s. sorry for being mean today... The Hyde side of me is running beserk today! It must be power hungry....

Tempted... by the devil? Nah. More like commercialism

With the advancement of "brainotechnology" (is there such word?) or something, psychologists and retailers have gotten into the root of our minds, dug deep and found our deepest desires... (don't think dirty, guys!) to feel rich and spend rich!


That's why whenever my sis and I go shopping together, we sort of feel inexorably drawn to shops with the 4-letter word--SALE (which is practically on every shop) in hopes for a good buy, but it seems the only place where you can get really affordable stuff is the pasar malam (or pagi, depending on when u go)

At the tender age of 15++, I don't really know much about shopping, but to me, a blouse priced at RM 49.90 is really too much to bear (unless it's really cute or it says Hail Librany, our Queen! or something) whereas you can easily get a RM 15 T-shirt at the night market.

I just went to Lot 10 and Sungei Wang Plaza last week, and some of the clothes and shoes there are really glamorous (i guess i've not been out that often!! but at LEAST i was not hiding under a tempurung) but sooo pricey! You can say I'm an inexperienced buyer but you would have to go through lots of shopping "mishaps" to gain more experience I guess!

At the end of the day, my sis (who works and earns money) bought BAGS of clothes and shoes back while I (who gets money by pulling the puss-in-boots-pitiful-face stunt) bought a pair of shoes from Vincci...