A few days back after slaving my life away in Transcab, I got home and the first thing my Dad told me when he saw me was (loosely translated from Chinese):
Dad: Your sis bought a new book today. Check it out.
Me(glanced towards the Popular plastic bag): Oh. So what?
Dad: With her own money. For once.
Me: Now that's a surprise. (This was just a thought, I didn't exactly say it out)
I didn't check out the book she bought immediately though, for my attention was fixated on watching Rafael Nadal getting walloped by Del Potro and actually enjoying it. I hated Nadal ever since he made Federer cry.
He didn't hit the sweet spotPity the Great Man himself got defeated by this Del Potro guy too. And to think he's only 20 years old, he should be enlisting into army with me instead!
We could be commandos togetherLife's unfair that way sometimes.
After witnessing Nadal got steam rolled over, I took out the book my sister bought with apprehension and this is what I had in my hand.
WTF! was my first reaction, frankly speaking. The title, the design, the colour and even the author's name looks stupid. And guess what came to my mind moments later?
Hint: Vivocity has it. Orchard Ion has it. But Eastpoint Mall only has one of them unfortunately.
And they are none other than the...
"Are you thinking what I'm thinking, B1?""I think I am, B2!".
You know what I'm thinking? I'm definitely not gonna read a book about how this boy travels with this two fucking bananas on their journey to the west and about their trials and tribulations that probably involves a lot of monkeys trying to gobble them up.
Omg, what is Letty King Kong doing here?
Omg, what is Wanting to not judge a book by its cover, literally, I checked out the back of the book, hoping to find a blurp for a rough idea of what the book is about. And surprisingly, there was nothing. What were the publishers thinking? Only idiots will buy such a book.
Oops. My sister did.
Nevertheless, I flipped the cover over and there it was, the synopsis which read:
"The story of "The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas" is very difficult to describe. Usually we give some clues about the book on the cover, but in this case we think that would spoil the reading of the book. We think it is important that you start to read without knowing what it is about. If you do start to read this book, you will go on a journey with a nine-year-old boy called Bruno. (Though this isn't a book for nine-year-olds.) And sooner or later you will arrive with Bruno at a fence. We hope you never have to cross such a fence."
Wow. How intriguing. How mysterious. And how unorthodox. How can I not read the book now? Though for a split second, this creepy person's image came to my mind.
This is the other Bruno. The gay one.
It's quite an experience really. Reading a book with absolutely no idea what the book is about. Although the journey thingy in the synopsis sounds like it may be what I feared about the bananas earlier. Thankfully it wasn't.
I'm not gonna provide spoilers here I guess. But this book is definitely was one hell of an adventure, albeit from the perspective of a 9 year old boy. And the ending was ... not a happily-ever-after. Oops, I guessed I just gave some spoilers.
But if you insist on getting spoilers out of me, check out the movie trailer of the adapted film.
Riveting stuff huh?
Like The Time Traveler's Wife, I was also initially skeptical about the film, whether it will be able to capture, in this case, the irony of the boy's naiveness and ignorance as to what's happening to the world.
But it did. I've watched the film and all I have got to say that it's a must-watch. 4.5 ikan bilis out of 5 ikan bilis.
Besides you know the movie is good when 90% of the trailer's comments in YouTube are like "OMG.. This is the saddest movie I've ever watched... *sobs*", "I just can't stop crying... the ending is so saaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaad!!" and "I can't believe the group of commandos beside us were crying like a bunch of pussies after the movie! It's THAT good!"
9% are vulgarity-laced comments such as "FUCK YOU HITLER!", "I swear if Hitler is alive today, I'm gonna be the one who kills him" and "HIT YOUR LAMPA LAH, SI HITLER"
And the 1% are those from intelligent creatures who can only come up with, "Yessssss! First to comment! Hehe!" and simply repeating this till... say around the 5th or 6th comment.
Someone give these guys a trophy or something.
Oops. My sister did.
Nevertheless, I flipped the cover over and there it was, the synopsis which read:
"The story of "The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas" is very difficult to describe. Usually we give some clues about the book on the cover, but in this case we think that would spoil the reading of the book. We think it is important that you start to read without knowing what it is about. If you do start to read this book, you will go on a journey with a nine-year-old boy called Bruno. (Though this isn't a book for nine-year-olds.) And sooner or later you will arrive with Bruno at a fence. We hope you never have to cross such a fence."
Wow. How intriguing. How mysterious. And how unorthodox. How can I not read the book now? Though for a split second, this creepy person's image came to my mind.
This is the other Bruno. The gay one. I'm not gonna provide spoilers here I guess. But this book is definitely was one hell of an adventure, albeit from the perspective of a 9 year old boy. And the ending was ... not a happily-ever-after. Oops, I guessed I just gave some spoilers.
But if you insist on getting spoilers out of me, check out the movie trailer of the adapted film.
Riveting stuff huh?
Like The Time Traveler's Wife, I was also initially skeptical about the film, whether it will be able to capture, in this case, the irony of the boy's naiveness and ignorance as to what's happening to the world.
But it did. I've watched the film and all I have got to say that it's a must-watch. 4.5 ikan bilis out of 5 ikan bilis.
Besides you know the movie is good when 90% of the trailer's comments in YouTube are like "OMG.. This is the saddest movie I've ever watched... *sobs*", "I just can't stop crying... the ending is so saaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaad!!" and "I can't believe the group of commandos beside us were crying like a bunch of pussies after the movie! It's THAT good!"
9% are vulgarity-laced comments such as "FUCK YOU HITLER!", "I swear if Hitler is alive today, I'm gonna be the one who kills him" and "HIT YOUR LAMPA LAH, SI HITLER"
And the 1% are those from intelligent creatures who can only come up with, "Yessssss! First to comment! Hehe!" and simply repeating this till... say around the 5th or 6th comment.
Someone give these guys a trophy or something.
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