Harry Potter

I thought that the new harry potter 5 in the movies wasn't really that exciting.. mebbe bcos Transformers was so much better hehe =p However, despite my suggestions, my brother went to watch harry potter and not transformers.. he's a harry potter fan haha.. These couple of days he's been talking about buying the new harry potter 7.. the very last book: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Wasn't really thinking much about that myself since I've yet to finish reading harry potter 5 =X only the first chapter to be specific haha.. but since i've just watched the movie.. guess i kinda know the gist of the book already =p

Anyway, today my work in lab only took 10mins.. spending 1.5hrs to travel to school and another 1.5hrs back home just for that dumb 10mins in lab to change the cell media solution is NOT very fun.. so i decided that since i was already out, i must well make a trip down town to shop a little haha.. While on the bus 95 out from school, i was musing about what present to buy for my brother's birthday when i overheard 2 girls behind me talking about harry potter.. i wasn't really listening to their conversation la but it instinctly reminded me that my brother wanted that book hehe.. Soooo... i went down to buy the book for him lah! lol.. I went to kinokuniya at ngee ann city there to see.. At the entrance there, there was like a small box shelf with a few of the new harry potter 7 left.. and only 1 of them was the adult version =X i was still thinking to myself.. sian.. only 1 book left.. dunno good condition or not when suddenly 1 of the staff there walked over with a couple more books to put on the paper shelf.. then i was like YAY.. can pick liao haha..

but when i looked over to where the direction which the staff came from, i realized there was like huge stacks of the book rofl... so i went there to pick 1 book.. when i was satisfied with the condition of the book i went to the nearest cashier to pay up and realized that the queue was simply crazy.. spanning like 20 meters -.-" darn.. it's saturday today... so i decided to go to another cashier lah.. hoping that the queues will be shorter.. as i delved deeper into kino.. it was then i realized that the whole store is stocked full of harry potter 7... every corner, cust serv counter, special promotion sections, well simply just everywhere is stocked full of the book.. it feels like kino is selling 50% HP7 and 50% of any other books rofl.. and yeah.. every cashier had long queues T_T so bo bian i queued to pay up for the book lor..

finally when i reached the cashier where i was next in line, i saw this poster displayed there.... HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS will be officially released on 21 July at 7.01am... and i was like.. OMG!! THAT'S TODAY!!! hahaha... damn.. now i look like a crazy harry potter fan.. buying the book on the very day that it's released lol... but it's a good thing.. cos they having a promotion.. they giving 10% off on the book, a free $10 gift voucher and a contest ticket for a trip for 2 to britain..

and now for the real reason for blogging this post.... i love the 1st 2 promotions.. but for the contest ticket......... it most prob is a hoax... actually i'm pretty certain it is... the contest form only states the closing date which is 20th Aug, there is no mention of when the draw date will be, or where it will be held.. winners will be notified by post.. ie.. the results will not be published anywhere.. only the winners will know they won the trip.. and last but not least, all contestants will be automatically subscribed to the agency sponsoring this trip.. and they gave the website http://www.visitbritain.sg/ well... there is not a single mention of the draw or anything to do with harry potter on the webbie.. looks just like any typical travel agency web portal.. using common sense.. if this was real, the marketing people would most likely want to reap the full advertising opportunity to market their agency, to make it a public event for people to know their company.. but they are not.. just asking people to sign up for this "contest" and get everyone onto their database as a member so that they can spam us with advertisements.. it's all too easy to spot a hoax lol.. i'm never trusting VisitBritain agency.. If i ever were to go to britain, they would not even be on the last of my list ^_^

sorry.. i simply hate all this kinda companies who just like to LIE so blatantly.. to me they are just stupid people..

ANYWAY... guess my brother is happy with the present! His birthday is on 26th July, but i gave him the present in advance to satisfy his hunger and let him be 1 of the first on Earth to read the book.. afterall the book is officially released WORLDWIDE today which means that everyone will only get to read it today! (other than some cheaters who may have gotten to read it 1st b4 it's released) XD

As for me.. I'm happy with the $10 voucher haha.. will go buy some magazines to read next month =p