Novel Madness

In 2009, many of my friends are into novels, Last year a handful of my classmates had HSM novels while I brought along my Star Wars novels... Ratz!!! I heared 2 or 3 times someone comes up to me and says "Are you reading Twilight?" What's so nice about it... It's a girl's book... A more tough-ish and brut-ish novel will do good for me...

Now it got bigger... I brought in my first set of "non science fiction" novels... Yeah because all this while I was a Star Wars freak as my bro loved the Narnia, Harry Potter and LOTR novels... I purchased two of Mario Puzo's novels from KL during CNY and borrowed another from my grandmas house... I developed a liking for Puzo's novels after watching Godfather movies... And by dad also brought in "The Untouchables" VCD which is about Al Capone with a significantly fatter Robert DeNiro as Al Capone...


I recently finished The Godfather: The Lost Years at least 3 weeks ago... But now I just belek-belek only... Talks about Michael Corleone as Don during the events in between The Godfather and The Godfather Part II movies... The novel's background was written by Mario Puzo but he died before he could finish it... The author was Mike Winegardner who didn't put in Puzo's "christian" elements(The Sicilian talks a little bit about Jesus and the Catholic Faith). Instead, Winegardner used lots of 4 letter words and swearing... Tarnishing a good story... The book also has flashbacks of Michael's broken relationship with his father Vito Corleone... If it were without the profanity, I would read it over again 10 times...


This novel, The Sicilian is written 100% by Mario Puzo but has minimal input from Vito Corleone... Even Michael Corleone's role was only a supporting role along with Corleone caporegime Pete Clemenza... The story focuses more on a real life "Robin Hood" bandit from Sicily, Italy named Salvatore "Turi" Gulliano who steals from the oppresive Sicilian mafia and gives to the poor... And this Robin Hood is Christian... Yeah, talks about Turi Gulliano's conflicts of if he's a real robber or just a man doing a good deed by returning money to their rightful owner... Michael on the other hand, was given orders by his daddy Vito to return to America with Gulliano... Vito must need Gulliano so badly because his favourite son can't come back without a bandit. Pete Clemenza also arrives in the later parts to assist Michael... No profanity in this book but the story is really boring and draggy maybe because the Corleone's are not in it... Like Star wars without the Skywalkers... Anyway, haven't finished reading yet...


Fool's Die is also written by Puzo although it is not part of the Godfather saga... A seperate story about Italian-American immigrants trying to make a living in New York... Although not part of the Godfather, It incorporates the themes of typical Mario Puzo novels... Corruption, loyalty and crime... Haven't started reading this one yet... Not sure if it talks about mafia???

I hope to get the remaining two Godfather novels on my next trip to KL... But one will do, I won't want Winegardener's The Godfather's Revenge since I know there's gonna be lots of profanity... I just want Puzo's original The Godfather or maybe Omerta or The Last Don...

The Open House

To all my friends who came that day, Thank You... To those who went to Wirayut's farewell and to Wirayut, I'm sorry I couldn't be there...

Okay so the form 4 non-malays are all booked for Wirayut's but there was plan B... The HG dudes... Andy, Jeff, Kent, Ah San and Choon Khai... Luckily Choon Khai bring his Nintendo Wii or else my house sipek boring... Everybody play, including Pastor himself LOL... Also got a lot of makan here makan there(typical open house)... Wii sport very easy but Call Of Duty soooo difficult to control...

Kent trying to play boxing... One of thevery easy games besides tennis...

Me getting into jalan mati on Call Of Duty... Only Choon Khai know how to control the game...

Jeffery wants to watch The Academy Is videos and Chin San watched some Tom and Jerry...LOL

Thanks guys, I had a great time...

Never Mess With Wild Animals Part II

Ok... Heres another dash of dangerous accidents that happen when people mess with animals...

The Cowboy gets his butt owned by the bull and gets thrown25 feet in the air... Nyaknye!!!



We all know that cages are meant to protect divers from sharks... What happens if the shark is inside the cage, kinda like Tom stuck with a bulldog in a small room...LOL


This is what happens when you try to put your cat into the water...

Lion Dance show in KT

So I was already back in KT, in fact the show happened on yesterday, Thursday... A troupe of lion dancers came to the neighbourhood specially for the residents of Ibai Jaya 3,4,5... Better than the Kemaman one... There were more "shoulder" stunts and they even entertained the spectators by making "the lion" throw oranges at us... It was more excitiong because there were a trio of lions fighting to reach the ang pow and vegetables hung 10-11 feet into the air...
Preparations........

Let the show begin!!!



Random pics...

Chinese New Year Post

I think it took way too long to bring up this post...

Here goes... At first we went to Kemaman where my mother's side of the family gathered... Of course we had lots of food, fizzy drinks, laughs, games and chatting... My cousin Ah Beng who is now working, gave us a ride in his new BMW car... Fuyooo, pickup sipek fast and although at 160 still very stable. No bumpy ride at all... We all got our ang pows on the morning of the 1st day and took family pictures but we were all in for a surprise...

Picture of the whole family

The surprise was a lion dance troupe meant for my grandma's neighbour... Preety entertaining but a bigger one came on back at KT...


Then it was off to Kuantan for the first visit of my dad's side of the family... My uncle lives there and we all ate dinner bla bla bla, chit chat and watched TV...
My uncle has a labrador puppy in his house... Only a few months already 3/4 the size of my dog... Still very playful and mouth very itchy...

The next morning we went to KL where another of my father's 7 brothers lives... We stayed there breifly but we were due to hit Seremban after dinner... We went to Seremban wher my aunt and grandmother currently lives and spent the night there...

A German shepard my late cousin owned in his Seremban house... But this dog in poor condition because lack of exercise cause a lot of leg problem and lack og grooming so hair not so handome and got flea problem...


Next destination would be Tanjung Sepat in Sepang... Another two of my aunts live there, one owned a pig farm so we dropped by...

A young suckling piglet... Eeee soooo cute but he's probably gonna be chopped up and served as a delicious slice of pork... YUM YUM
The juveniles that are due to be slaughtered and butchered soon... The reason why only juveniles face the gallows is because adult pigs have very very very tough meat, some say harder than beef...


Then we headed back to KL to spend the night there... We went to KLCC for some shopping and me and my sis went to watch YES MAN, first time go in cinema without Jim.. T.T ... Anyway, it was full of fun and laughter due to the acting of Jim "Rubber-faced" Carrey but it was a little dirty too... Not as good as Bruce Al, Liar Liar or The Mask but at least better than The Number 23... Our last day in KL, we went to Pavillion where my sis and mom did a loooooong lady stuff shopping while me and dad went to the DVD shop to look for older movies on original VCD... My dad bought Top Gun starring Tom Cruise in his 20's, Sum of All Fears which is one of the Jack Ryan adaptations of the Tom Clancy's novels starring Morgan Freeman and Ban Aflleck... Finally I suggested The Untouchables starring Kevin Costner, Robert De Niro and Sean Connery and the movie is about Al Capone... And I went to the bookstore and purchased two of the four novels in Mario Puzo's Godfather series...

The first book "The Sicilian" talks about Michael Corleone(played by Al Pacino in the Godfather movies) in his exile in Sicily, Italy... His father Vito Corleone orders him to bring Salvatore "Turi" Gulliano with him to America where the Sicillian mafia cheif Don Croce attempts to go against Vito Corleone's orders to kill Gulliano... the book also deals with some parts of Christianity and how the mafia rebuke God's word... This one is the less "mafia" type of novel and more on drama. Never finished reading it yet...

The second book "The Godfather: The Lost Years" which contain more sexual words, profanity and a lot of "Oh My God, Jesus Christ" type of words... At first I paid more attention to this book because it has my favourite formula of the Godfather movies... Michael Corleone who is now a Don running his affairs against his enemies... But after i got tired of the cursings, the progress slowed... The reason why the style of writing changed is because this is not written by Mario Puzo who is the author of the original "The Godfather" and "The Sicilian" but instead a new author who wanted to extend the saga...

The third which was borrowed from my late grandpa's collection of novels "Fools Die" is also written by Puzo although it is not part of the Godfather series... Haven read that one yet...

That's all folks...