Right then. The awaited book. After much drama about the price war between book stores and hypermarts...the 21st of July 2007 trotted along. The anticipation was just too much to bear. After all, it has been TEN years since the appearance of the first book and the end was near. Does JK Rowling kill off Harry...or was this meant to be the end of Hermione...or even Ron. Someone 'central' in this book had a death sentence upon his/her head and I could not wait a moment more to find out who the victim was. So being the crazy and impulsive person that I am...and blessed with many likewise friends and family members...that Saturday saw the four (Jess, Azlan, Manju and yours truly) of us tripsing downtown to Kinnokuniya in the wee hours of the morning in hopes of landing one of three special edition books offered free to the first three eager beavers. The next ten peeps not fast enough will however receive the books for free. Now, my brother had already promised to line up at his local Tesco, buy the book and post it back to me the very next morning (it's released in the UK at 12:01 am). I think that he gets it for a ridiculous price of FIVE POUNDS. So there wasn't really a need to not sleep and line up with three hundred other crazy people at 4 am. Hah, guess again! This is after all me you are talking about...and since when did I need a good (or sane) reason to do anything fun (though many would disagree about this expedition being fun). No siree...the crazier the better. However, there was a limit to my 'will try anything once' attitude. The crowd in front of Kinnokuniya was unbelievable. I was very much willing to admit defeat...there was NO WAY we'd be the first three...much less the next ten lucky lads or laddies to walk away with free books. I did not even want to be the next two hundred to rush up the escalator and risk getting trampled on just to get a 30% discount. It turned out to be a good decision to not join in the crowd. As the doors opened...the crowd frantically pushed their way into the two doors and ran towards the escalators. Part of the crowd unfortunately rushed into the automatic doors that automatically did not open up. People were hurt. I just could not bear to see how 'desperate' we could all be when allowed to. So we walked back to our cars and headed to Tesco where I am proud to announce that the waiting folks were lining up in single file. Anyhow...we finally managed to buy the books (bought two; Ratha's birthday and the other for Lauren) and the anticipation of the ending took us to McDonalds where we purchased our breakfast and proceeded in an anti-social manner to read our books. There we were, four adults...four Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.
Saturday, July 28, 2007
Potty For Potter
Right then. The awaited book. After much drama about the price war between book stores and hypermarts...the 21st of July 2007 trotted along. The anticipation was just too much to bear. After all, it has been TEN years since the appearance of the first book and the end was near. Does JK Rowling kill off Harry...or was this meant to be the end of Hermione...or even Ron. Someone 'central' in this book had a death sentence upon his/her head and I could not wait a moment more to find out who the victim was. So being the crazy and impulsive person that I am...and blessed with many likewise friends and family members...that Saturday saw the four (Jess, Azlan, Manju and yours truly) of us tripsing downtown to Kinnokuniya in the wee hours of the morning in hopes of landing one of three special edition books offered free to the first three eager beavers. The next ten peeps not fast enough will however receive the books for free. Now, my brother had already promised to line up at his local Tesco, buy the book and post it back to me the very next morning (it's released in the UK at 12:01 am). I think that he gets it for a ridiculous price of FIVE POUNDS. So there wasn't really a need to not sleep and line up with three hundred other crazy people at 4 am. Hah, guess again! This is after all me you are talking about...and since when did I need a good (or sane) reason to do anything fun (though many would disagree about this expedition being fun). No siree...the crazier the better. However, there was a limit to my 'will try anything once' attitude. The crowd in front of Kinnokuniya was unbelievable. I was very much willing to admit defeat...there was NO WAY we'd be the first three...much less the next ten lucky lads or laddies to walk away with free books. I did not even want to be the next two hundred to rush up the escalator and risk getting trampled on just to get a 30% discount. It turned out to be a good decision to not join in the crowd. As the doors opened...the crowd frantically pushed their way into the two doors and ran towards the escalators. Part of the crowd unfortunately rushed into the automatic doors that automatically did not open up. People were hurt. I just could not bear to see how 'desperate' we could all be when allowed to. So we walked back to our cars and headed to Tesco where I am proud to announce that the waiting folks were lining up in single file. Anyhow...we finally managed to buy the books (bought two; Ratha's birthday and the other for Lauren) and the anticipation of the ending took us to McDonalds where we purchased our breakfast and proceeded in an anti-social manner to read our books. There we were, four adults...four Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.
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