confession of bookaholic

I'm going to BBW again this weekend. Yes, again! But this time only me and my sister.

But actually my aim to go to KL this time is to go to Jemari Seni bookshop as they're having booksale up to 40%.

This morning I received another 2 complimentary books.

However, this month I haven't finish any book. How bad I am...

And the most important thing right now is I really need a new bookshelf!

Jualan Amal Durian Crepe

Projek Jualan Amal Durian Crepe untuk Ghaza ni dah dibuat hari Ahad minggu lepas 9.12.2012, lepas aku balik dari Big Bad Wolf kat The Mines. 

Projek ni idea my senior colleague, Kak Ita. Aku dan 2 orang kawan lagi cuma tolong apa yang mampu je dari segi tenaga. Kami dapat tempahan durian crepe untuk lebih kurang 80 kotak. 1 kotak ada 4 biji durian crepe yang dijual dengan harga RM10.00. Semua duit jualan yang kami dapat didermakan terus ke tabung untuk Ghaza. 

Durian crepe yang telah siap dibungkus dan ditagging

Mungkin aku orang yang paling cemas dengan projek ni. Maklum la aku memang takde bakat dalam hal buat kuih, baking dan seumpamanya. Aku hanya suka memasak jenis makanan lauk pauk, nasi atau mee/bihun/kuayteow/spaghetti. Jadi aku siap2 dah bagitau kat Kak Ita yang aku memang tak reti nak tolong lipat buat durian crepe. Aku nak buat kerja2 packing dan tagging kotak atau lebih kepada 'tugas2 khas'. 

Percubaan pertama melipat durian crepe pun aku dah gagal. Percubaan 'melenggang' membuat kulit durian crepe juga gagal. Cubaan buat cream durian crepe lagi la aku tak nak! Kesimpulannya, aku hanya ditugaskan memasukkan durian crepe yang telah siap ke dalam kotak. Lepas tu kira berapa kotak yang dah siap. Masukkan kotak2 durian crepe dalam freeze. Tagging kotak durian crepe. Dan yang paling utama, tugas aku adalah memproses mengasingkan isi durian daripada bijinya. Inilah 'tugas2 khas' yang aku buat untuk projek jualan amal durian crepe.  

Masing2 fokus menjalankan tugas..hoho

Mar memang boleh tolong Kak Ita buat cream durian crepe. Maklum la Mar memang selalu baking kek dan jual kuih raya. Jadi kalau setakat buat cream durian crepe tu memang takdak hal la. Sementara Mar sibuk buat cream durian crepe dan Kak Ita sibuk melenggang kulit durian crepe, Fafa sibuk melipat durian crepe. Dan aku sibuk melakukan 'tugas2 khas'. It's fun actually. Sambil dok buat durian crepe ni macam2 la jugak tips memasak yang aku dapat. 

Durian crepe yang tak lepas quality control, memang aku reject. (Dan masuk ke dalam perut aku! hoho). Seharian jugak la kami semua dok buat durian crepe ni.  

Sebahagian daripada durian crepe yang telah siap

Terima kasih kepada semua rakan-rakan sekerja yang sudi membeli durian crepe sambil beramal. Semoga amalan kita semua diterima dan diberkati oleh Allah S.W.T. Dan juga semoga saudara2 kita di Ghaza, Palestin sentiasa diberkati dan dilindungi oleh Allah S.W.T. 

  

Big Bad Wolf 2012

This time the biggest booksale in the world is held at Mines International Exhibition & Convention Centre (MIECC), Serdang Selangor. They got 3 million books and for the first three days, they open it non stop 63 hours! To me it is crazy sale..you can go book shopping even at 3 o'clock in the morning!

I went on the first day, 7.12.2012. My ETS train from Ipoh arrived at KL Sentral at 7.30 p.m. My sister pick me up. We went back to her house first to pick up her children. We only bought pizza hut and had our dinner in her car while she drove to MIECC. 

We arrived at MIECC around 10.30 p.m. I'm so excited as this is the first time I went for book shopping at night! This time no need to queue to enter the exhibition hall.

My sister and her children

Me and my niece & nephew

Yeah.. definitely a lot of people. The challenge is to make sure I didn't lose my niece while busy searching for books! I cannot really search books at fiction section as I have to 'drag' along my niece whenever I moved from table to table, section to section....each time I have to call her name so that I didn't lose her. Plus she keep asking me when we were going to the children section. So, I just grabbed whatever books I saw and quickly moved to the children section. 

only these for me... 

At the children section I managed to grab one book for my friend's daughter. And at the Malay books section I grabbed 2 books for my niece. This is the first time ever BBW have Malay books. 

Near 12 midnight. I proceed to payment counter to pay all the books. It's really tiring and exhausted. The night before I didn't sleep just to finish my work and straight away after arrived at KL Sentral I came to MIECC for book hunting. 

I thought after midnight it would be less people coming in but surprisingly, a lot of people coming in when we went out from MIECC. 

I think I have to go again BBW and of course without my niece!

p/s: And now I really need a new bookshelf....

 

 

hello monday!

isnin yang penat dan mengantuk sebenarnya. weekend yang penuh dengan aktiviti dan penat. tak cukup rehat dan tidur aku rasa.



p/s: banyak cerita nak tulis pasal Big Bd Wolf 2012 & Projek Jualan Amal Durian Crepe. tapi nanti. sekarang otak aku tak berfungsi dengan baik...

63 hours crazy sale!!

hati aku memang dah takdak di ipoh. dalam kepala asyik dok fikir Big Bad Wolf (BBW) kat MIECC tu ja. keja menimbun di ofis nak kena siapkan sebelum pi KL this friday. tiket ets dah beli.

kakak aku kat sana dah ready nak ambik hari jumaat nanti. lepas tu terus pi BBW. maklum la depa buat booksale non stop 63 hours for the first 3 days they open. crazy man!! 3 million books. mana boleh tak pegi kan...teruja weh