I'm feeling very ill, and have been for the past few days, but my brother has been going on and on about the new J.K Rowling book,
Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince. So I went and pre-ordered it two weeks ago, just to be safe.
Woke up at 6.00, very slowly, the meds you see.
We reached to a darkened parking lot at about 6.30 and proceeded to Kino. As we were coming up on the escalator, I contemptously told Navin (my brother), how few people there were waiting at the entrance.
WAS I WRONG.For the initiated mall rats, the lines went past the side entrance of Kino, past Madam Kwans, past Gengki and past Spring Garden. It was awful! And people were having all these strange conversations:
Boy:
"There's this new Darth Vader kit they are selling. It has a helmet, and a light sabre, but there's no cape, so I think I'm making my own." (insert gleeful smile)
Girl:
"Do you think that J.K Rowling might know of wizards ah? 'Cos she writes about all these things so well. I'm pretty sure she knows a wizard or two la...."I quietly told Navin to line up and went off to look casual in the corner with my pda while playing Jawbreaker to wile the time away. Surprisingly, it went quite fast, the line that is, not the game. The first 6 people who came at 5.20 (official start time for the que) got the books for
FREE. The rest of us not so bright-eyed and bushy tailed got free wands, and a RM 25 gift voucher which is not valid for Harry Potter books and merchandise ;)
Inside, it was pandemonium. I've never seen the usually quietly dignified Kino staff screaming and yelling, but today was definitely an exception. The line for those people who were purchasing the book today and hadn't gotten a pre-order was immensely long (SUCKERS! ahem.) We pre-order people chortled quietly and presented our tickets with a smug little smile. We also got another RM 25 voucher to get more books.
Naturally, at such a huge event, there was bound to be members of the
illustrious Malaysian press. I was edging away 'cos they were all standing around taking pictures on the bannister near the Customer Service counter like a pack of hungry wolves. Edging away? Yes, because I hadn't washed my hair, I had swollen eyes from lack of sleep, a football of a nose from sneezing and phlegm infested cough. And sure enough, my poncy brother was
posing maut there, with hand under chin all to look intelligent, or so he thinks la!
Bloody hell, then one guy said to me: "Can we take your picture Miss?"
I was freaking out man ! My brother and his stupid posing. I swear to God he's so bloody vain. We got into the whole mess because of him. So one guy asks and the whole world starts to snap. The Kino manager lady throws a couple of books into my hand and makes us pose again and again. Then the journalist dude gets us to write our names and ages. I told the truth about my age. I am sad now.
:(
Don't blame me if the newspapers has my unkempt face in it tommorow. It's all their bloody fault. Damnit. The horror. Might as well tell you before I get phone calls and funny smses. It would be by the grace of God if his film gets exposed.....
*sigh*
So I'm off to read the book now, I sincerely hope there will be no distractions today so I can be done by tommorow. Ahhhhh.
SPOILER
SPOILER
SPOILER
SPOILER
NOT ANY LOWER THAN THIS!NOT ANY LOWER THAN THIS!
NOT ANY LOWER THAN THIS!WARNING!
Fudge gets sacked!