Harry Potter and The Order of The Phoenix(The movie)

Been busy lately. Have not managed to get time to update this blog.

Finally managed to catch "Harry Potter & The Order of The Phoenix" after it had been in the cinema for a month. Been looking forward to watching this movie since earlier of this year.

Hm...what to say...disappointed. Though there are some fancy flying and some "battle", still the show have lost some essence. Many things from the book have been omitted. They could have shown the country of the giants, the mirror that Sirius gave to Harry, Harry asking the Nearly Headless Ghost about the world after death and etc.

Hopefully the next movie "Harry Potter & The Half Blood Prince" would be better.

Chicken Rice in Seri Kembangan

Seri Kembangan is another food heaven if you know how to find your way around the village. Along the main road of Seri Kembangan there are quite a number of very good chicken rice shop/restaurant.



Less than 200 metres from Public Bank, Jalan Kolej, next to an old folks home is Weng Seng Chicken Rice shop. Or better known by the people there as "Fei Low Kai Fan". Address : 259 Jalan Kolej, 43300 Seri Kembangan. Tel : 03-89489724.




There is nothing fancy about this shop. Just your semi concrete and wood "kampung" restaurant". However, the owner had installed air-conditioners at the back portion of the restaurant/shop.

The restaurant have a variety of chicken and pork. Looks yummy.

This small kucing ordered one of its famous dish, steamed "choy yin kai". Normally when you order chicken rice, they will give you some slices of fresh cucumber to go. This shop is special. They give pickled cucumber, which makes the meal more appetising.

The mother cat does not feel like eating rice. She ordered a bowl of mussel with ground nuts porridge. Well, this bowl of porridge definitely taste much better than the Petaling Street porridge.

Apart from that, the shop also offers a variety of soup.

Delicious coconut black chicken soup.

Black Chicken with ginseng root soup

Pork tail soup

Total damage for this meal for 3 person is less than RM40. A very reasonable price.

Famous Hon Kee Porridge

Saw in a television programme some time ago that there is a stall selling delicious porridge at Petaling Street. The stall name is Hon Kee Famous Porridge.

The other day decided to try it out. It was a shot day. This small kucing decided to "tapau" (take away) the porridge back to the comfy of home to eat.

Ordered one Chicken porridge and one mixed Pork porridge with the "spare parts"(intestine) to go. The service is very fast. In two minutes, I got two packets of porridge. Each packet is RM4 and if you want "Yau Char Kwai", it's cost you RM0-50 (small) packet and RM1(big) packet.

Was looking forward to eating the porridge. This is what the chicken porridge looks like. It was really disappointing. It was not at good as advertised. It's a bit too salty and not much ingredients. Only chicken meat with a sprinkle of spring onion. Don't have ginger, sesame oil nor peanuts.

The mixed pork porridge also has very small portion of pork. However, the friend intestine taste good and crunchy.

Overall, I feel that it's a rip-off at the price of RM4.

PAYLESSBOOKS WAREHOUSE SALE AT 3K

Yayay! It's Back! It's baCk! Paylessbooks sales it's back! I love their sales at 3K coz PLB normally bring a lot of books there.

Hopefully this round the section for "RM12 for 5" will have larger selection. Previous sale at The Weld, there was only 1 table of RM12 for 5.

No matter what, it's still fun to go. Apart from grabbing books, there are chance to meet up with fellow bookworms.

Pesta Buku Selangor 2007

Pesta Buku Selangor 2007 will be held at PKNS, Shah Alam starting from tomorrow. Well, I don't know where exactly is PKNS Shah Alam but I do know Paylessbooks will be joining the fair.

I wonder whether the fair will be a big scale fair or "kecil-mayung" type of fair. ....

Finish reading Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows

Wow! finally completed reading THE book. This is really THE BOOK OF THE YEAR. Just like Siti Nurhaliza, wedding of the year...hehehe.

Been trying to read it real slow in order to enjoy the book to the very last word. All loose end were tidy-up quite nicely.

Rather sad to see that this is the final book. Hopefully Ms Rowling would consider writing another HP on the next generation of Hogwarts students?

My Two Cents on HP7 Price War

I feel bad when I first saw the news that Tesco and Carrefour are selling the book at RM69-90. Afterall, I pre-order the book from Kinokuniya at RM109-90 and after discount RM76-93.

Now I dont feel so bad anymore. Especially after I read that those hypermarket are actually selling the books at a loss. In fact, I feel ANGRY at those hypermarkets for stealling the bookshops thunder.

Those bookstore have been working very hard promoting Harry Potter & The Deathy Hallows for more than a year. They have invested a lot of monies on the advertisement and others stuffs. Then out of the blue, hypermarkets declare that they are selling at a lower price. Hypermarket don't even have to fork-out much for advertising as it has been done by the booksstores from them months earlier.

If by selling HP7 at RM69-90 is at a loss. Then I don't think the bookstores are earning much profit as I got mine for RM76-93. The most they earn is less than RM7-03 per book.

How can consumers expect bookstore whose core business is selling books to sell HP7 at loss to compete with the hypemarket price? What's the motive for hypermarket to sell it at a loss? Is it really so "kind hearted" as in to give the cheapest price to consumer in order to encourage more people to read? Or is it so that more people will visit the hypermarket and end up buying a lot of other ordinary priced stuffs while they are at the hyper market?

Some consumers complain that at Britain, HP7 goes as low as RM35. But bear in mind, the books are printed there. There are no high shipping cost, holding cost and etc involved as exporting the books to Malaysia.

Some people may think that I am stupid for defending the bookstores. Why buy at a higher price while you can get at a lower price? I think it's ethically wrong to under cut like that.