stephen king and ...muffins?

without knowing it, it's the start of the second week of my break.. been busy, think busier than during the term! haha..

managed to only finish one novel by stephen king: lisey's story.. i can shamelessly say that i'm a big fan of his stories.. ever since i started on his needful things - the first novel i read i think - i am just hooked on them.. and one after another i would borrowed from the library.. it, carrie, cujo, the dark tower series, nightmares and dreamscapes, the green mile, the girl who loved tom gordon, the stand, hearts in atlantis, midnight shift, the dark half, the list goes on.. then i went on a hiatus after polytechnic.. felt that i need to read other stuffs as well.. haha..

well, lisey's story is about a woman who lost her husband and that's when their love story is starting its next chapter - as the book put it that way - when she looks back at their times together, while at the same time a crazy man, a dark prince of the incunks, one of the freesia who wants to end all this ding-dong for her, demands her to hand over her dead husband's stuffs - his manuscripts - to a certain man or else he would do something nasty to her, and it's really nasty.. and you can count of the master of horror storytelling to add in all the supernatural and scary stuffs in between which is sometimes too familiar to us all at some times.. the fear of stuffs that appear momentarily at the side of the mirror at night.. fear of the unexplained..

what i really enjoyed about this story is how he intertwined stories of 3 different periods together and you can feel the relation between all of them.. and "the pool" he describes in it that we all can "go down and have a drink or cast a net", the "pool" which really means the places where we constantly learn from.. at least it seems to me.. it's really up to anyone's interpretation of that pool..

got my tickets to kl today at golden mile complex this noon and ate at the hawker nearby, which is the "army market" at the third level, and saw this interesting stall that sells nothing but fresh muffins, yep fresh from the oven just within the stall.. it's called SLII MUFFIN and it's located on the second level.. just on the left of the center staircase up.. got half-dozen of them.. and i must say they are really good..



it has quite a selection to choose from: chocolate chip, raisins, blueberries, durian(yep that too!), banana, strawberries, almonds.. etc. it's not very sweet, and it's very soft inside; not too hard or oily like the ones i've tried from delifrance.. reasonable price: $1.20 per muffin, and you get one free for every five you buy.. go try if possible and tell me what you think of them.. i give them a 4/5 rating..
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lotr and matrix

finally, the arrival of the matrix ultimate collection and the lord of the rings extended version collection..
my sister was going to the usa for her honeymoon, so i took the chance to get her help me buy these 2 sets of dvds..
my plan to get these 2 sets finally materialized, i had wanted to get them for years already, but it was still very expensive then to buy them..
but even so, i think i could have saved more if i had ordered them through amazon. i made the mistake of not checking the online price before asking me sister to buy them.. in total, i spent $40 more by not ordering from amazon..
oh well, a painful lesson for me to learn.. and if you guys ever wanted to get dvds, i mean original ones (haha), do get them from amazon.. i got my 300 from it with my colleagues last year.. we pre-ordered it before the release, so it was cheaper and its the code 1 version, so nothing was cut.. and there is also the insertion of some scenes not shown in the cinema..
for some dvds, i would get them from somewhere up north, you will be smiling if you understand what i meant.. but some i would get the real mccoy.. so if you ever want to find someone to buy dvds with from amazon, find me alright?
now, i'm just waititng for my break to come so i can start watching them.. i can smell it already.. cheers..
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