Cleo...

Cleo, in short for Cleopetra Guo Benjamin, a.k.a savage, crocroch, kitty and many more. This is the newest addition to 'the zoo' i have at home, most of all, she is Ted's new pet. Who could ever imagine this would ever happen in ted's lifetime??? Her milestones in pictures...

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@ 1209, 18062009, 2nd post in an hour, to kill boredom...

Book review...

Finally i had the time to actually read whatever i liked after 5 long grueling years. Whatever review below is what i have been up to for the past few months... All of these are just MY opinions, none of which should be taken seriously. Seriously...

I begun with this...

Did not buy this book. In fact, i got it for free when i bought "The five people you meet in heaven" by Mitch Albom. This title (The kite runner) was kindda new at that time, guess they were trying to promote it before it got popular, and i did try to read it. It was SO SO BORING in the begining. After the first few pages, i just lef this book lying somewhere i my room. It was just an ordinary August night, where i was bored and had nothing to do, found this book in some corner of my cupboard, picked it up, decided that i should give it another chance. HOLY COW! After i finished the first chapter, i DID NOT lay it down anymore! I started it at midnight, finished it at 7 in the morning. The adrenaline from the excitement i got just pump me on and on through the WHOLE ENTIRE NIGHT! I still remembered the next day i met up with my best friends for dim sum, but my mind was still in the story. Its about this war that they have in the middle east, some kid from a weathy family growing up under these circumstances. Its about friendship, between a rich kid and a servant's son, about sacrifices friends make, about the cruelty and the traumatic effect you get in warzones. Throughout the entire story, prepare to expect the unepected...

Verdict : A really good read.

After this, i went hunting for the second book penned by Khaled Hosseini.

The setting is similiar to 'The Kite Runner', also about friendship, but, this time round its all about the women there. How they are treated, what is their social strata, their roles as daughters and wifes. The entire book is about 3 women and their lives, but in some way or rather, all these three women are inter-related, not genetically, but socially. It gives an entirely different picture as this author's other book, as the other book's main characters were male. Not a bad read, but after reading, it could be boring at first since the setting of the story is almost the same as the other, but the storyline is entirely different.

Verdict : A good read, but only if you are free as it could get quite boring towards the end.

Decided to get the old ones out of the closet to read them once more.

One of the books that i'll never get bored with. Read it 3 times in total, even watched the movie (which was touching, but did not really enjoy it), yet, i still get the excitement reading through it once more. I guess its just because im a dog person, and any books about dog would simply "WOW" me. Maybe its the way John Grogan penned it, the way he described Marley the dog, his antics , his attitude towards us human, his moods... not forgetting his NEVER ENDING adventures with the Grogans... Humanlike.

Verdict : A wonderful light read, for entertainment purposes, but the ending is as expected. Every dog/human has his day...

Continued with this...

Read this book once before after i finished 'The Da Vinci Code' a long time ago. Im the kidda person interested in maths and physics, and this was one of by favourites. Although its fiction, but the continous puzzles and mystery to be solved kept me going on and on once more till the end. Its about some kind of 'passerkey' that must be cracked within 24 hours, and this program could give one the ultimate gift of being able to send anything online without ever being traced. A combination of murder, romance and adventure, all in a single book.

Vertict : Would be intresting if you are the inquitive mind kidda person.

Went to kinokuniya one of the Mondays, came home with this book...

Had no idea what it was about, only knew that it had something to do with a dog. This was indeed an enjoyable read, as it was from an entirely different prespective. The entire story was from ENZO's prespetive. I shall not tell you who Enzo is, so you gotta read this to find out. Its about marriage, family,death, the-in-laws, the custody battles, car racing, and mostly about a little girl growing up under these circumstances.

Verdict : Really enjoyed it, since it was entirely from a different prespective...

More reviews to come, as im having trouble adding the pictures to this post...

@ 1136, 18062009...