Kaoru Autograph @ BookFest Malaysia 2012, KLCC

for me, there was only one reason to be at the Popular BookFest this year: Kaoru. i have always wanted to meet the creator of my favourite local manga artist of Helios Eclipse (and Maid Maiden too) and i did meet and spoke to her for the first time at Comic Fiesta 2011; conveniently arranged, i met her again for her autograph session at the same Gempak booth in the same convention hall.

it's sem break! day 3

i made it! yayness for my continuous blogging. haha~ i realised i have so much time in this semester break. as usual, the more free time, the more busy i get. not in a socialite schedule kind of busy, but other things. oh, you know. XD

last night i did not sleep at all. i was waiting until midnight for people to make payment, but in the end there was no payment coming in. so i end up sitting online throughout the night while browsing ebay. then i stumbled upon a really cheap auction for something i need for a future costume. i was looking for a really cheap one because i will not be using it frequently. plus, the other parts of the costume already cost me a bomb. everything  else will be on a tight budget.

come 7am, i still had not have any sleep, yet i went out with kilmenyanne to college. luckily i managed to squeeze in a quick shower (bad idea because i would not be able to sleep in college later). at the LRT station, i opt for the RM10 one-day EZpass that RapidKL offered. however, the staff who updated my TnG card screwed up, SLOWLY processed the problem, and gave me a small grey paper as my one-day pass. never mind that because it allowed me to walk past the special gates, avoiding all queues. yay for one day.

wrapping books again...

last fortnight, just a couple days before my final exam paper of the semester, i was getting bored of reading notes and decided to start wrapping some of my favourite books which i have left in the bookshelf unwrapped for around a year now.

among the titles you see here are Chobits (original japanese manga), the baby-sitters club, nancy drew (both series are the early prints, now rare), and a book each from Pseudonymous Bosch and Trenton Lee Stewart (who are authors of really interesting children's books). nope, nothing chic lit or intelligent literature from me.

i will always love children's books and collecting old (children's) books too.

january manga supplies!

okay, i recently found a very low price (slightly cheaper than at Kinokuniya) of a japanese manga which has been out of print for many years now. so old that Kinokuniya cannot help me order it. eventhough it is CLAMP. star names just will not do these days.

Chobits vol.8 is in my hands! it was flown in all the way from Japan (SAL shipping took almost a fortnight to arrive) and the seller kindly used three anime stamps (and bubble wrap my book)! *sigh happily*

it has been a long while since i last washed and dried a stamp to add in my stamp collection book. i'll be sure to order more from this seller in the future coz i want to collect more Japan anime stamps!

one Hello Kitty heart stamp and two Detective Conan stamps~

booksss!

on the fourth week of october, i went book-shopping~ it was great happiness. what can i say?

first i went to kinokuniya to get something off my wishlist as apparently, i had not realised that The Graveyard Book was written by the same infamous author, Neil Gaiman who wrote Stardust. so, when a local sunday paper came up with a review by daphne lee, instant 30% discount on the book alone! (with no prior purchase but must be accompanied by an original voucher cutout.)

next, there was this MPH warehouse sale going on in PJ on 22-28 october. kilmenyanne and friends went on wednesday, while i went on thursday. not much difference as most of the books started to fly out of the boxes (not shelves) on friday and mostly saturday. i know because i went there again on sunday with mum and mizuiro. have a look at the titles i grabbed:

1. it's not about the hair (debra jarvis) = rm20 (hardcover)
2. deltora shadowlands (emily rodda) = rm3
3. collins english-malay dictionary = rm5
4. artemis fowl: the opal deception = rm5 (slightly torn at the back)

the first book on the list is about debra going through cancer, and of course i dont want cancer but im reading it as umm, tribute to one of my favourite characters in sex and the city, samantha (as she battles cancer in the sixth season too). as for the dual-language dictionary, i am going to use it in translation class and exam. so there!