argh stress! belum dapat box set twilight saga dah ini plak! grr! mana duit ni....
December 20, 2009
December 16, 2009
Weird Cravings
First off, I wanna make clear, TAK MUNGKIN aku preggy.
But i've been havent this weird weird cravings. A couple of nights ago when everybody has gone to bed, I was scavenging d kitchen for sumthing spicy and crispy and I ended up goreng keropok n makan kruk krak kruk krak sengsorang dalam gelap. D last time I did that, I had Kyra in my womb.
Last nite, as I posted in twitter n FB, i craved for ABC. Sampai ke arini aku mencarik ABC tuh....
But i've been havent this weird weird cravings. A couple of nights ago when everybody has gone to bed, I was scavenging d kitchen for sumthing spicy and crispy and I ended up goreng keropok n makan kruk krak kruk krak sengsorang dalam gelap. D last time I did that, I had Kyra in my womb.
Last nite, as I posted in twitter n FB, i craved for ABC. Sampai ke arini aku mencarik ABC tuh....
dan inilah hasilnya... hehe.
Adar n Sham joined lunch at velodrom. Padahal arini bawak sup n kankung belacan lebih malam tadi. Makan siap-siap kat opis, dah kenyang gi makan ABC. yang berdua tu melantak ayam kampung. pergh, best!
December 10, 2009
We Won LCD TV 42"???
Korang baca post post sebelum ni? nampak aku tido kol baper? so pagi ni aku serious weng.
Tiba tib a dapat call aku menang LCD TC 42" kat TM, kena gi prize giving ceremony kat TMPoint Kelana jaya 17th ni.
Aku yang ting tong ini, dapat news gila camni. Aku tanya dia, ha? serious? dia leh gelak serious ni cik. adui.
Wat a ting tong day!
[11:34:29 AM] binxz.hj.zulkifle: WAIT
[11:34:34 AM] binxz.hj.zulkifle: KITA MENANG lcd
[11:34:40 AM] Neo Soul Movement: how u now?
[11:34:54 AM] Neo Soul Movement: ada email
[11:34:55 AM] Neo Soul Movement: !
[11:35:01 AM] binxz.hj.zulkifle: CALL NOW
[11:35:06 AM] Neo Soul Movement: OK
[11:35:09 AM] Neo Soul Movement: wheres the email
[11:35:12 AM] Neo Soul Movement: i need to see the email
[11:35:12 AM] Neo Soul Movement: they send email
[11:35:16 AM] Neo Soul Movement: open the outlook
[11:36:26 AM] Neo Soul Movement: i dont see it on the website
[11:36:32 AM] Neo Soul Movement: http://tmpoint.tm.com.my/streamyx/contest/
[11:36:48 AM] Neo Soul Movement: *
Winner will be informed by Telephone, e-Mail and Streamyx Contest official Website
[11:37:49 AM] binxz.hj.zulkifle: NOW THEY JUST INFRM
[11:37:53 AM] binxz.hj.zulkifle: EMAIL SOON
[11:37:56 AM] Neo Soul Movement: SERIOUS?
[11:38:01 AM] Neo Soul Movement: BERAPA INCH !?
[11:38:04 AM] binxz.hj.zulkifle: TAPI KENA GI TMPOINT KELANA JAYA 16 OR 17
[11:38:04 AM] Neo Soul Movement: 32? or 40?
[11:38:07 AM] binxz.hj.zulkifle: 42
[11:38:13 AM] Neo Soul Movement: BIAR BETUL
[11:38:15 AM] Neo Soul Movement: PEGI BILA !!!?
[11:38:24 AM] Neo Soul Movement: NAK KUTIP !!!!
[11:38:55 AM] binxz.hj.zulkifle: kita kena gi proze giving ceremony tuh
[11:39:03 AM] binxz.hj.zulkifle: nmasalahnya hari bekerja
[11:39:05 AM] Neo Soul Movement: confirm boleh pegi
[11:39:08 AM] Neo Soul Movement: no problem
[11:39:11 AM] binxz.hj.zulkifle: gila
[11:39:13 AM] Neo Soul Movement: KITA AMIK CUTI !!!
[11:39:13 AM] binxz.hj.zulkifle: biar benar
[11:39:15 AM] binxz.hj.zulkifle: :P
[11:39:22 AM] Neo Soul Movement: I DONT CARE WE GO !!!
[11:39:29 AM] Neo Soul Movement: AKU PENAT MENGARANG TU
[11:40:49 AM] Neo Soul Movement: slogan dia kalau tak silap: Layanan Mesra: Penjelasan Di berikan, Perkhidmatan di jelaskan, Kepuasan pelanggan di utamakan !
[11:40:53 AM] binxz.hj.zulkifle: dia kata tak kesah me or u gi tapi preferabbly me sebab nak amik gambar reramai meriahkan
[11:41:02 AM] Neo Soul Movement: yes BABY YES
[11:41:07 AM] Neo Soul Movement: I DREAM OF IT !!!!
[11:41:08 AM] Neo Soul Movement: WHEN?
[11:41:11 AM] Neo Soul Movement: WHEN CAN WE GO
[11:41:16 AM] Neo Soul Movement: I TAKE U THERE NOW NOW NOW
[11:41:57 AM] binxz.hj.zulkifle: aku dah la cam mamai n weng
[11:42:03 AM] Neo Soul Movement: thats the slogan i wrote
[11:42:05 AM] binxz.hj.zulkifle: lambat gila aku nak proses info nih
[11:42:07 AM] Neo Soul Movement: malam takbir raya tu !
[11:42:16 AM] Neo Soul Movement: they call u ek just now?
[11:42:18 AM] Neo Soul Movement: nanti check email u
[11:42:20 AM] Neo Soul Movement: bukak outlook tu
[11:43:14 AM] Neo Soul Movement: i tengah excited ni
[11:43:16 AM] Neo Soul Movement: hahaha
[11:43:24 AM] binxz.hj.zulkifle: nama dia kris
[11:43:26 AM] Neo Soul Movement: i mmg tengah dpt ilham malam tu buat slogan tu
[11:43:40 AM] Neo Soul Movement: u ada minta no telefon dia?
[11:43:47 AM] binxz.hj.zulkifle: ada no tel dia ni
[11:43:51 AM] binxz.hj.zulkifle: adoi aku dah la mamai
[11:43:54 AM] binxz.hj.zulkifle: aperkah ini
[11:44:47 AM] Neo Soul Movement: ok sweet
[11:45:04 AM] Neo Soul Movement: i buat slogan tu tiru slogan 1malaysia
[11:45:05 AM] Neo Soul Movement: haha
[11:45:36 AM] binxz.hj.zulkifle: aku siap tanya dia serius ke
[11:45:41 AM] binxz.hj.zulkifle: dia leh gelak serious cik
[11:45:55 AM] Neo Soul Movement: dia ni dari marketing department ke?
[11:46:03 AM] binxz.hj.zulkifle: ha kau tatau aku weng
[11:46:06 AM] binxz.hj.zulkifle: aku cam ha?
[11:46:08 AM] binxz.hj.zulkifle: apa??
[11:46:12 AM] binxz.hj.zulkifle: ha yeke?
[11:47:05 AM] Neo Soul Movement: apa lagi dia cakap
[11:47:09 AM] Neo Soul Movement: bila nak amik hadiah tu
[11:47:30 AM] Neo Soul Movement: http://tmpoint.tm.com.my/streamyx/contest/oct09/photo53.htm
[11:47:54 AM] Neo Soul Movement: nanti kita anak beranak pi amik gambar !
[11:49:25 AM] binxz.hj.zulkifle: abah apasal aku cam slow je arini adui
[11:51:01 AM] Neo Soul Movement: dia bagi toshiba tu !
[11:51:03 AM] Neo Soul Movement: http://tmpoint.tm.com.my/streamyx/contest/oct09/photo48.htm
[11:51:03 AM] Neo Soul Movement: hahaha
[11:51:08 AM] Neo Soul Movement: hope full HD !!!
[11:51:19 AM] binxz.hj.zulkifle: i dah confirmkan
[11:51:22 AM] binxz.hj.zulkifle: 17hb
[11:51:24 AM] binxz.hj.zulkifle: pagi
[11:51:27 AM] binxz.hj.zulkifle: dia call again
[11:51:31 AM] binxz.hj.zulkifle: dia nak i datang jugak no reps
[11:51:32 AM] Neo Soul Movement: SWEET !!!
[11:51:43 AM] Neo Soul Movement: TAKPE WE GO !
I TAKE LEAVE !!!
[11:52:59 AM] Neo Soul Movement: TAKPE WE TAKE HALFDAY LEAVELAH
[11:53:00 AM] Neo Soul Movement: WE GO
[11:53:04 AM] Neo Soul Movement: WE WEAR NICE CLOTHES !
[11:54:21 AM] binxz.hj.zulkifle: ya ya...
[11:54:24 AM] binxz.hj.zulkifle: but right now
[11:54:27 AM] binxz.hj.zulkifle: i tak cukup tido
[11:54:32 AM] binxz.hj.zulkifle: and need to go to d office
[11:54:45 AM] Neo Soul Movement: ok
[11:54:47 AM] Neo Soul Movement: sweet
[11:55:04 AM] binxz.hj.zulkifle: shit y myy fon takleh sms
[11:55:24 AM] Neo Soul Movement: mana i tau
[11:55:24 AM] binxz.hj.zulkifle: call bolhe
[11:56:59 AM] Neo Soul Movement: i dah mmg terdetik pasal contest tu sebab i rasa slogan dia mmg menarik !
[11:57:08 AM] Neo Soul Movement: kan lama i karang tu dekat 2 jam
[11:57:12 AM] binxz.hj.zulkifle: ok ok get over urselve, let me go to ofis first
[11:57:21 AM] Neo Soul Movement: ok
[11:57:21 AM] binxz.hj.zulkifle: mama dahla tgh membebel suruh i brenti
[11:57:25 AM] Neo Soul Movement: safe driving
[11:57:31 AM] Neo Soul Movement: i need u for the 42 LCD !
[11:57:32 AM] binxz.hj.zulkifle: yeah i need dat
Tiba tib a dapat call aku menang LCD TC 42" kat TM, kena gi prize giving ceremony kat TMPoint Kelana jaya 17th ni.
Aku yang ting tong ini, dapat news gila camni. Aku tanya dia, ha? serious? dia leh gelak serious ni cik. adui.
Wat a ting tong day!
[11:34:29 AM] binxz.hj.zulkifle: WAIT
[11:34:34 AM] binxz.hj.zulkifle: KITA MENANG lcd
[11:34:40 AM] Neo Soul Movement: how u now?
[11:34:54 AM] Neo Soul Movement: ada email
[11:34:55 AM] Neo Soul Movement: !
[11:35:01 AM] binxz.hj.zulkifle: CALL NOW
[11:35:06 AM] Neo Soul Movement: OK
[11:35:09 AM] Neo Soul Movement: wheres the email
[11:35:12 AM] Neo Soul Movement: i need to see the email
[11:35:12 AM] Neo Soul Movement: they send email
[11:35:16 AM] Neo Soul Movement: open the outlook
[11:36:26 AM] Neo Soul Movement: i dont see it on the website
[11:36:32 AM] Neo Soul Movement: http://tmpoint.tm.com.my/streamyx/contest/
[11:36:48 AM] Neo Soul Movement: *
Winner will be informed by Telephone, e-Mail and Streamyx Contest official Website
[11:37:49 AM] binxz.hj.zulkifle: NOW THEY JUST INFRM
[11:37:53 AM] binxz.hj.zulkifle: EMAIL SOON
[11:37:56 AM] Neo Soul Movement: SERIOUS?
[11:38:01 AM] Neo Soul Movement: BERAPA INCH !?
[11:38:04 AM] binxz.hj.zulkifle: TAPI KENA GI TMPOINT KELANA JAYA 16 OR 17
[11:38:04 AM] Neo Soul Movement: 32? or 40?
[11:38:07 AM] binxz.hj.zulkifle: 42
[11:38:13 AM] Neo Soul Movement: BIAR BETUL
[11:38:15 AM] Neo Soul Movement: PEGI BILA !!!?
[11:38:24 AM] Neo Soul Movement: NAK KUTIP !!!!
[11:38:55 AM] binxz.hj.zulkifle: kita kena gi proze giving ceremony tuh
[11:39:03 AM] binxz.hj.zulkifle: nmasalahnya hari bekerja
[11:39:05 AM] Neo Soul Movement: confirm boleh pegi
[11:39:08 AM] Neo Soul Movement: no problem
[11:39:11 AM] binxz.hj.zulkifle: gila
[11:39:13 AM] Neo Soul Movement: KITA AMIK CUTI !!!
[11:39:13 AM] binxz.hj.zulkifle: biar benar
[11:39:15 AM] binxz.hj.zulkifle: :P
[11:39:22 AM] Neo Soul Movement: I DONT CARE WE GO !!!
[11:39:29 AM] Neo Soul Movement: AKU PENAT MENGARANG TU
[11:40:49 AM] Neo Soul Movement: slogan dia kalau tak silap: Layanan Mesra: Penjelasan Di berikan, Perkhidmatan di jelaskan, Kepuasan pelanggan di utamakan !
[11:40:53 AM] binxz.hj.zulkifle: dia kata tak kesah me or u gi tapi preferabbly me sebab nak amik gambar reramai meriahkan
[11:41:02 AM] Neo Soul Movement: yes BABY YES
[11:41:07 AM] Neo Soul Movement: I DREAM OF IT !!!!
[11:41:08 AM] Neo Soul Movement: WHEN?
[11:41:11 AM] Neo Soul Movement: WHEN CAN WE GO
[11:41:16 AM] Neo Soul Movement: I TAKE U THERE NOW NOW NOW
[11:41:57 AM] binxz.hj.zulkifle: aku dah la cam mamai n weng
[11:42:03 AM] Neo Soul Movement: thats the slogan i wrote
[11:42:05 AM] binxz.hj.zulkifle: lambat gila aku nak proses info nih
[11:42:07 AM] Neo Soul Movement: malam takbir raya tu !
[11:42:16 AM] Neo Soul Movement: they call u ek just now?
[11:42:18 AM] Neo Soul Movement: nanti check email u
[11:42:20 AM] Neo Soul Movement: bukak outlook tu
[11:43:14 AM] Neo Soul Movement: i tengah excited ni
[11:43:16 AM] Neo Soul Movement: hahaha
[11:43:24 AM] binxz.hj.zulkifle: nama dia kris
[11:43:26 AM] Neo Soul Movement: i mmg tengah dpt ilham malam tu buat slogan tu
[11:43:40 AM] Neo Soul Movement: u ada minta no telefon dia?
[11:43:47 AM] binxz.hj.zulkifle: ada no tel dia ni
[11:43:51 AM] binxz.hj.zulkifle: adoi aku dah la mamai
[11:43:54 AM] binxz.hj.zulkifle: aperkah ini
[11:44:47 AM] Neo Soul Movement: ok sweet
[11:45:04 AM] Neo Soul Movement: i buat slogan tu tiru slogan 1malaysia
[11:45:05 AM] Neo Soul Movement: haha
[11:45:36 AM] binxz.hj.zulkifle: aku siap tanya dia serius ke
[11:45:41 AM] binxz.hj.zulkifle: dia leh gelak serious cik
[11:45:55 AM] Neo Soul Movement: dia ni dari marketing department ke?
[11:46:03 AM] binxz.hj.zulkifle: ha kau tatau aku weng
[11:46:06 AM] binxz.hj.zulkifle: aku cam ha?
[11:46:08 AM] binxz.hj.zulkifle: apa??
[11:46:12 AM] binxz.hj.zulkifle: ha yeke?
[11:47:05 AM] Neo Soul Movement: apa lagi dia cakap
[11:47:09 AM] Neo Soul Movement: bila nak amik hadiah tu
[11:47:30 AM] Neo Soul Movement: http://tmpoint.tm.com.my/streamyx/contest/oct09/photo53.htm
[11:47:54 AM] Neo Soul Movement: nanti kita anak beranak pi amik gambar !
[11:49:25 AM] binxz.hj.zulkifle: abah apasal aku cam slow je arini adui
[11:51:01 AM] Neo Soul Movement: dia bagi toshiba tu !
[11:51:03 AM] Neo Soul Movement: http://tmpoint.tm.com.my/streamyx/contest/oct09/photo48.htm
[11:51:03 AM] Neo Soul Movement: hahaha
[11:51:08 AM] Neo Soul Movement: hope full HD !!!
[11:51:19 AM] binxz.hj.zulkifle: i dah confirmkan
[11:51:22 AM] binxz.hj.zulkifle: 17hb
[11:51:24 AM] binxz.hj.zulkifle: pagi
[11:51:27 AM] binxz.hj.zulkifle: dia call again
[11:51:31 AM] binxz.hj.zulkifle: dia nak i datang jugak no reps
[11:51:32 AM] Neo Soul Movement: SWEET !!!
[11:51:43 AM] Neo Soul Movement: TAKPE WE GO !
I TAKE LEAVE !!!
[11:52:59 AM] Neo Soul Movement: TAKPE WE TAKE HALFDAY LEAVELAH
[11:53:00 AM] Neo Soul Movement: WE GO
[11:53:04 AM] Neo Soul Movement: WE WEAR NICE CLOTHES !
[11:54:21 AM] binxz.hj.zulkifle: ya ya...
[11:54:24 AM] binxz.hj.zulkifle: but right now
[11:54:27 AM] binxz.hj.zulkifle: i tak cukup tido
[11:54:32 AM] binxz.hj.zulkifle: and need to go to d office
[11:54:45 AM] Neo Soul Movement: ok
[11:54:47 AM] Neo Soul Movement: sweet
[11:55:04 AM] binxz.hj.zulkifle: shit y myy fon takleh sms
[11:55:24 AM] Neo Soul Movement: mana i tau
[11:55:24 AM] binxz.hj.zulkifle: call bolhe
[11:56:59 AM] Neo Soul Movement: i dah mmg terdetik pasal contest tu sebab i rasa slogan dia mmg menarik !
[11:57:08 AM] Neo Soul Movement: kan lama i karang tu dekat 2 jam
[11:57:12 AM] binxz.hj.zulkifle: ok ok get over urselve, let me go to ofis first
[11:57:21 AM] Neo Soul Movement: ok
[11:57:21 AM] binxz.hj.zulkifle: mama dahla tgh membebel suruh i brenti
[11:57:25 AM] Neo Soul Movement: safe driving
[11:57:31 AM] Neo Soul Movement: i need u for the 42 LCD !
[11:57:32 AM] binxz.hj.zulkifle: yeah i need dat
Next Non-Gadget Target
Print Screen from MPH webbie
Since there's been discussion on getting preggy again, I want to haf this box set [kalo tak mampu... kenala kumpul se-satu...] before the bulge. I love reading during pregnancy. Reading a vampire-y book will surely be great! ngahaha~!
note 01 :: am freakin mengantuk and buku ko-ku ni berjuta page lagi lom edit. sila maafkan posting posting ngharuts ini.
note 02 :: yes, this is a hint.
December 09, 2009
Lolz~ keeping me awake in times i NEED to be awake haha
note:: u guys need to know, I prefer Edward Cullen than Rob Pattinson. I just haf a *thang* on vampires since I was young. My fav author was RL Stine, go figure :oP~ Twilight Saga novels was published in my *busy* years... I only had d chance to read *Twilight* once, itupun not mine.
December 08, 2009
NewGadget in da house~!
Welcoming Lappy Zappy ~ ur new family member. Acer Aspire 4736G. 4GB DDR3 RAM. Lovin' d fast-ness~!
Made possible by Emas Sutera. It was part of d *contract* hehe. Mekaceh mama & papa.
December 07, 2009
The Story Behind Twilight ~ by the writer herself
Sharing this with all Twilight fans, taken from :: Stephanie Meyers's Official Webbie
I get a ton of questions about how I came up with the story of Twilight and how I got it published. I may be killing my FAQ page by doing this, but here is the whole story:
(Warning: there are Twilight spoilers contained in the following; if you don't want to ruin the suspense, stop reading.....now. Warning #2: As you might have guessed from the length of my book, I can't tell a short story—this is going to take a while. You have been warned.)
The Writing
I know the exact date that I began writing Twilight, because it was also the first day of swim lessons for my kids. So I can say with certainty that it all started on June 2, 2003. Up to this point, I had not written anything besides a few chapters (of other stories) that I never got very far on, and nothing at all since the birth of my first son, six years earlier.
I woke up (on that June 2nd) from a very vivid dream. In my dream, two people were having an intense conversation in a meadow in the woods. One of these people was just your average girl. The other person was fantastically beautiful, sparkly, and a vampire. They were discussing the difficulties inherent in the facts that A) they were falling in love with each other while B) the vampire was particularly attracted to the scent of her blood, and was having a difficult time restraining himself from killing her immediately. For what is essentially a transcript of my dream, please see Chapter 13 ("Confessions") of the book.
Though I had a million things to do (i.e. making breakfast for hungry children, dressing and changing the diapers of said children, finding the swimsuits that no one ever puts away in the right place, etc.), I stayed in bed, thinking about the dream. I was so intrigued by the nameless couple's story that I hated the idea of forgetting it; it was the kind of dream that makes you want to call your friend and bore her with a detailed description. (Also, the vampire was just so darned good-looking, that I didn't want to lose the mental image.) Unwillingly, I eventually got up and did the immediate necessities, and then put everything that I possibly could on the back burner and sat down at the computer to write—something I hadn't done in so long that I wondered why I was bothering. But I didn't want to lose the dream, so I typed out as much as I could remember, calling the characters "he" and "she."
From that point on, not one day passed that I did not write something. On bad days, I would only type out a page or two; on good days, I would finish a chapter and then some. I mostly wrote at night, after the kids were asleep so that I could concentrate for longer than five minutes without being interrupted. I started from the scene in the meadow and wrote through to the end. Then I went back to the beginning and wrote until the pieces matched up. I drove the "golden spike" that connected them in late August, three months later.
It took me a while to find names for my anonymous duo. For my vampire (who I was in love with from day one) I decided to use a name that had once been considered romantic, but had fallen out of popularity for decades. Charlotte Bronte's Mr. Rochester and Jane Austen's Mr. Ferrars were the characters that led me to the name Edward. I tried it on for size, and found that it fit well. My female lead was harder. Nothing I named her seemed just right. After spending so much time with her, I loved her like a daughter, and no name was good enough. Finally, inspired by that love, I gave her the name I was saving for my daughter, who had never shown up and was unlikely to put in an appearance at this point: Isabella. Huzzah! Edward and Bella were named. For the rest of the characters, I did a lot of searching in old census records, looking for popular names in the times that they'd been born. Some trivia: Rosalie was originally "Carol" and Jasper was first "Ronald." I like the new names much better, but every now and then I will slip up and type Carol or Ron by accident. It really confuses the people who read my rough drafts.
For my setting, I knew I needed someplace ridiculously rainy. I turned to Google, as I do for all my research needs, and looked for the place with the most rainfall in the U.S. This turned out to be the Olympic Peninsula in Washington State. I pulled up maps of the area and studied them, looking for something small, out of the way, surrounded by forest... And there, right where I wanted it to be, was a tiny town called "Forks." It couldn't have been more perfect if I had named it myself. I did a Google image search on the area, and if the name hadn't sold me, the gorgeous photographs would have done the trick. (Images like these of the Hoh Rainforest (a short drive from Forks). Also see forks-web.com ). In researching Forks, I discovered the La Push Reservation, home to the Quileute Tribe. The Quileute story is fascinating, and a few fictional members of the tribe quickly became intrinsic to my story.
All this time, Bella and Edward were, quite literally, voices in my head. They simply wouldn't shut up. I'd stay up as late as I could stand trying to get all the stuff in my mind typed out, and then crawl, exhausted, into bed (my baby still wasn't sleeping through the night, yet) only to have another conversation start in my head. I hated to lose anything by forgetting, so I'd get up and head back down to the computer. Eventually, I got a pen and notebook for beside my bed to jot notes down so I could get some freakin' sleep. It was always an exciting challenge in the morning to try to decipher the stuff I'd scrawled across the page in the dark.
During the day, I couldn't stay away from the computer, either. When I was stuck at swim lessons, out in 115 degrees of Phoenix sunshine, I would plot and scheme and come home with so much new stuff that I couldn't type fast enough. It was your typical Arizona summer, hot, sunny, hot, and hot, but when I think back to those three months, I remember rain and cool green things, like I really spent the summer in the Olympic Rainforest.
When I'd finished the body of the novel, I started writing epilogues...lots of epilogues. This eventually clued me in to the fact that I wasn't ready to let go of my characters, and I started working on the sequel. Meanwhile, I continued to edit Twilight in a very obsessive-compulsive way.
My older sister, Emily, was the only one who really knew what I was up to. In June, I'd started sending her chapters as I finished them, and she soon became my cheerleading section. She was always checking in to see if I had something new for her. It was Emily who first suggested, after I'd finished, that I should try to get Twilight published. I was so stunned by the fact that I'd actually finished a whole, entire book, that I decided to look into it.
Getting Published
To put it mildly, I was naive about publishing. I thought it worked like this: you printed a copy of your novel, wrapped it up in brown paper, and sent it off to a publishing house. Ho ho ho, that's a good one. I started googling (naturally) and began to discover that this was not the way it is done. (Movies lie to us! Why?! A side note: you will not be able to enjoy the new Steve Martin version of Cheaper by the Dozen when you know how insanely impossible the publishing scenario it contains is.) The whole set up with query letters, literary agents, simultaneous submissions vs. exclusive submissions, synopsizes, etc., was extremely intimidating, and I almost quit there. It certainly wasn't belief in my fabulous talent that made me push forward; I think it was just that I loved my characters so much, and they were so real to me, that I wanted other people to know them, too.
I subscribed to WritersMarket.com and compiled a list of small publishers that accepted unsolicited submissions and a few literary agencies. It was around this time that my little sister, Heidi, mentioned Janet Evanovich's website to me. In her Q and A for writers section, Janet E. mentioned Writers House, among a few others, as "the real thing" in the world of literary agencies. Writers House went on my wish list as the most desirable and also least likely.
I sent out around fifteen queries (and I still get residual butterflies in my stomach when I drive by the mailbox I sent the letters from—mailing them was terrifying.). I will state, for the record, that my queries truly sucked, and I don't blame anyone who sent me a rejection (I did get seven or eight of those. I still have them all, too). The only rejection that really hurt was from a small agent who actually read the first chapter before she dropped the axe on me. The meanest rejection I got came after Little, Brown had picked me up for a three-book deal, so it didn't bother me at all. I'll admit that I considered sending back a copy of that rejection stapled to the write-up my deal got in Publisher's Weekly, but I took the higher road.
My big break came in the form of an assistant at Writers House named Genevieve. I didn't find out until much later just how lucky I was; it turns out that Gen didn't know that 130,000 words is a whole heck of a lot of words. If she'd known that 130K words would equal 500 pages, she probably wouldn't have asked to see it. But she didn't know (picture me wiping the sweat from my brow), and she did ask for the first three chapters. I was thrilled to get a positive response, but a little worried because I felt the beginning of the book wasn't the strongest part. I mailed off those three chapters and got a letter back a few weeks later (I could barely get it open, my hands were so weak with fear). It was a very nice letter. She'd gone back with a pen and twice underlined the part where she'd typed how much she enjoyed the first three chapters (I still have that letter, of course), and she asked for the whole manuscript. That was the exact moment when I realized that I might actually see Twilight in print, and really one of the happiest points in my whole life. I did a lot of screaming.
About a month after I sent in the manuscript, I got a call from Jodi Reamer, an honest to goodness literary agent, who wanted to represent my book. I tried really hard to sound like a professional and a grownup during that conversation, but I'm not sure if I fooled her. Again, my luck was tremendous (and I don't usually have good luck—I've never won anything in my life, and no one ever catches a fish when I'm in the boat) because Jodi is the uber-agent. I couldn't have ended up in better hands. She's part lawyer, part ninja (she's working on earning her black belt right now, no kidding), a pretty amazing editor in her own right, and a great friend.
Jodi and I worked for two weeks on getting Twilight into shape before sending it to editors. The first thing we worked on was the title, which started out as Forks (and I still have a teeny soft spot for that name). Then we polished up a few rough spots, and Jodi sent it out to nine different publishing houses. This really messed with my ability to sleep, but luckily I wasn't in suspense for long.
Megan Tingley, of Megan Tingley Books, of Little, Brown and Company, read Twilight on a cross-country flight and came back to Jodi the day after the Thanksgiving weekend with a preemptive deal so huge that I honestly thought Jodi was pulling my leg—especially the part where she turned the offer down and asked for more. The upshot was that, by the end of the day, I was trying to process the information that not only was my book going to be published by one of the biggest young adult publishers in the country, but that they were going topay me for it. For a very long time, I was convinced it was a really cruel practical joke, but I couldn't imagine who would go to these wild extremes to play a hoax on such an insignificant little hausfrau.
And that's how, in the course of six months, Twilight was dreamed, written, and accepted for publication.
Things keep getting crazier, what with the movie deal and all the pre-publication attention that Twilight continues to receive. Though I've gotten impatient from time to time, I'm glad I've had the last two years to try to come to terms with the situation. I'm greatly looking forward to finally having Twilight on the shelves, and more than a little frightened, too. Overall, it's been a true labor of love, love for Edward and Bella and all the rest of my imaginary friends, and I'm thrilled that other people get to meet them now.
I get a ton of questions about how I came up with the story of Twilight and how I got it published. I may be killing my FAQ page by doing this, but here is the whole story:
(Warning: there are Twilight spoilers contained in the following; if you don't want to ruin the suspense, stop reading.....now. Warning #2: As you might have guessed from the length of my book, I can't tell a short story—this is going to take a while. You have been warned.)
The Writing
I know the exact date that I began writing Twilight, because it was also the first day of swim lessons for my kids. So I can say with certainty that it all started on June 2, 2003. Up to this point, I had not written anything besides a few chapters (of other stories) that I never got very far on, and nothing at all since the birth of my first son, six years earlier.
I woke up (on that June 2nd) from a very vivid dream. In my dream, two people were having an intense conversation in a meadow in the woods. One of these people was just your average girl. The other person was fantastically beautiful, sparkly, and a vampire. They were discussing the difficulties inherent in the facts that A) they were falling in love with each other while B) the vampire was particularly attracted to the scent of her blood, and was having a difficult time restraining himself from killing her immediately. For what is essentially a transcript of my dream, please see Chapter 13 ("Confessions") of the book.
Though I had a million things to do (i.e. making breakfast for hungry children, dressing and changing the diapers of said children, finding the swimsuits that no one ever puts away in the right place, etc.), I stayed in bed, thinking about the dream. I was so intrigued by the nameless couple's story that I hated the idea of forgetting it; it was the kind of dream that makes you want to call your friend and bore her with a detailed description. (Also, the vampire was just so darned good-looking, that I didn't want to lose the mental image.) Unwillingly, I eventually got up and did the immediate necessities, and then put everything that I possibly could on the back burner and sat down at the computer to write—something I hadn't done in so long that I wondered why I was bothering. But I didn't want to lose the dream, so I typed out as much as I could remember, calling the characters "he" and "she."
From that point on, not one day passed that I did not write something. On bad days, I would only type out a page or two; on good days, I would finish a chapter and then some. I mostly wrote at night, after the kids were asleep so that I could concentrate for longer than five minutes without being interrupted. I started from the scene in the meadow and wrote through to the end. Then I went back to the beginning and wrote until the pieces matched up. I drove the "golden spike" that connected them in late August, three months later.
It took me a while to find names for my anonymous duo. For my vampire (who I was in love with from day one) I decided to use a name that had once been considered romantic, but had fallen out of popularity for decades. Charlotte Bronte's Mr. Rochester and Jane Austen's Mr. Ferrars were the characters that led me to the name Edward. I tried it on for size, and found that it fit well. My female lead was harder. Nothing I named her seemed just right. After spending so much time with her, I loved her like a daughter, and no name was good enough. Finally, inspired by that love, I gave her the name I was saving for my daughter, who had never shown up and was unlikely to put in an appearance at this point: Isabella. Huzzah! Edward and Bella were named. For the rest of the characters, I did a lot of searching in old census records, looking for popular names in the times that they'd been born. Some trivia: Rosalie was originally "Carol" and Jasper was first "Ronald." I like the new names much better, but every now and then I will slip up and type Carol or Ron by accident. It really confuses the people who read my rough drafts.
For my setting, I knew I needed someplace ridiculously rainy. I turned to Google, as I do for all my research needs, and looked for the place with the most rainfall in the U.S. This turned out to be the Olympic Peninsula in Washington State. I pulled up maps of the area and studied them, looking for something small, out of the way, surrounded by forest... And there, right where I wanted it to be, was a tiny town called "Forks." It couldn't have been more perfect if I had named it myself. I did a Google image search on the area, and if the name hadn't sold me, the gorgeous photographs would have done the trick. (Images like these of the Hoh Rainforest (a short drive from Forks). Also see forks-web.com ). In researching Forks, I discovered the La Push Reservation, home to the Quileute Tribe. The Quileute story is fascinating, and a few fictional members of the tribe quickly became intrinsic to my story.
All this time, Bella and Edward were, quite literally, voices in my head. They simply wouldn't shut up. I'd stay up as late as I could stand trying to get all the stuff in my mind typed out, and then crawl, exhausted, into bed (my baby still wasn't sleeping through the night, yet) only to have another conversation start in my head. I hated to lose anything by forgetting, so I'd get up and head back down to the computer. Eventually, I got a pen and notebook for beside my bed to jot notes down so I could get some freakin' sleep. It was always an exciting challenge in the morning to try to decipher the stuff I'd scrawled across the page in the dark.
During the day, I couldn't stay away from the computer, either. When I was stuck at swim lessons, out in 115 degrees of Phoenix sunshine, I would plot and scheme and come home with so much new stuff that I couldn't type fast enough. It was your typical Arizona summer, hot, sunny, hot, and hot, but when I think back to those three months, I remember rain and cool green things, like I really spent the summer in the Olympic Rainforest.
When I'd finished the body of the novel, I started writing epilogues...lots of epilogues. This eventually clued me in to the fact that I wasn't ready to let go of my characters, and I started working on the sequel. Meanwhile, I continued to edit Twilight in a very obsessive-compulsive way.
My older sister, Emily, was the only one who really knew what I was up to. In June, I'd started sending her chapters as I finished them, and she soon became my cheerleading section. She was always checking in to see if I had something new for her. It was Emily who first suggested, after I'd finished, that I should try to get Twilight published. I was so stunned by the fact that I'd actually finished a whole, entire book, that I decided to look into it.
Getting Published
To put it mildly, I was naive about publishing. I thought it worked like this: you printed a copy of your novel, wrapped it up in brown paper, and sent it off to a publishing house. Ho ho ho, that's a good one. I started googling (naturally) and began to discover that this was not the way it is done. (Movies lie to us! Why?! A side note: you will not be able to enjoy the new Steve Martin version of Cheaper by the Dozen when you know how insanely impossible the publishing scenario it contains is.) The whole set up with query letters, literary agents, simultaneous submissions vs. exclusive submissions, synopsizes, etc., was extremely intimidating, and I almost quit there. It certainly wasn't belief in my fabulous talent that made me push forward; I think it was just that I loved my characters so much, and they were so real to me, that I wanted other people to know them, too.
I subscribed to WritersMarket.com and compiled a list of small publishers that accepted unsolicited submissions and a few literary agencies. It was around this time that my little sister, Heidi, mentioned Janet Evanovich's website to me. In her Q and A for writers section, Janet E. mentioned Writers House, among a few others, as "the real thing" in the world of literary agencies. Writers House went on my wish list as the most desirable and also least likely.
I sent out around fifteen queries (and I still get residual butterflies in my stomach when I drive by the mailbox I sent the letters from—mailing them was terrifying.). I will state, for the record, that my queries truly sucked, and I don't blame anyone who sent me a rejection (I did get seven or eight of those. I still have them all, too). The only rejection that really hurt was from a small agent who actually read the first chapter before she dropped the axe on me. The meanest rejection I got came after Little, Brown had picked me up for a three-book deal, so it didn't bother me at all. I'll admit that I considered sending back a copy of that rejection stapled to the write-up my deal got in Publisher's Weekly, but I took the higher road.
My big break came in the form of an assistant at Writers House named Genevieve. I didn't find out until much later just how lucky I was; it turns out that Gen didn't know that 130,000 words is a whole heck of a lot of words. If she'd known that 130K words would equal 500 pages, she probably wouldn't have asked to see it. But she didn't know (picture me wiping the sweat from my brow), and she did ask for the first three chapters. I was thrilled to get a positive response, but a little worried because I felt the beginning of the book wasn't the strongest part. I mailed off those three chapters and got a letter back a few weeks later (I could barely get it open, my hands were so weak with fear). It was a very nice letter. She'd gone back with a pen and twice underlined the part where she'd typed how much she enjoyed the first three chapters (I still have that letter, of course), and she asked for the whole manuscript. That was the exact moment when I realized that I might actually see Twilight in print, and really one of the happiest points in my whole life. I did a lot of screaming.
About a month after I sent in the manuscript, I got a call from Jodi Reamer, an honest to goodness literary agent, who wanted to represent my book. I tried really hard to sound like a professional and a grownup during that conversation, but I'm not sure if I fooled her. Again, my luck was tremendous (and I don't usually have good luck—I've never won anything in my life, and no one ever catches a fish when I'm in the boat) because Jodi is the uber-agent. I couldn't have ended up in better hands. She's part lawyer, part ninja (she's working on earning her black belt right now, no kidding), a pretty amazing editor in her own right, and a great friend.
Jodi and I worked for two weeks on getting Twilight into shape before sending it to editors. The first thing we worked on was the title, which started out as Forks (and I still have a teeny soft spot for that name). Then we polished up a few rough spots, and Jodi sent it out to nine different publishing houses. This really messed with my ability to sleep, but luckily I wasn't in suspense for long.
Megan Tingley, of Megan Tingley Books, of Little, Brown and Company, read Twilight on a cross-country flight and came back to Jodi the day after the Thanksgiving weekend with a preemptive deal so huge that I honestly thought Jodi was pulling my leg—especially the part where she turned the offer down and asked for more. The upshot was that, by the end of the day, I was trying to process the information that not only was my book going to be published by one of the biggest young adult publishers in the country, but that they were going topay me for it. For a very long time, I was convinced it was a really cruel practical joke, but I couldn't imagine who would go to these wild extremes to play a hoax on such an insignificant little hausfrau.
And that's how, in the course of six months, Twilight was dreamed, written, and accepted for publication.
Things keep getting crazier, what with the movie deal and all the pre-publication attention that Twilight continues to receive. Though I've gotten impatient from time to time, I'm glad I've had the last two years to try to come to terms with the situation. I'm greatly looking forward to finally having Twilight on the shelves, and more than a little frightened, too. Overall, it's been a true labor of love, love for Edward and Bella and all the rest of my imaginary friends, and I'm thrilled that other people get to meet them now.
December 03, 2009
December 02, 2009
Today is a very interesting day :o)
First and foremost I'd like to remind myself, my siblings n peers that today is Nenda's 100th day. Let's recite her Al-Fatihah or better still Yasin tonight.
It was an early day at work, 1st to reach office @8.20 am, or maybe a bit late tagging in cus I took my time dilly-dallying walking from parking to the lobby :op~ Then as usual I'd take care of my FB's 3 accounts' [haha] kebun & restoran before beginning to indulge in my piles of work. An interviewee came moments earlier, nuthing much to handle, just borak sikit then pass her over to Big Boss.
12.50 pm My evil plan worked ~ I've planned to go shopping today it's JCard day in Jusco Maluri since Monday when I saw the announcement while buying my fav McFlurry Oreo whee~ and more evil-ly I succesfully made Ira n Kak Yun to tag along. Aritu they said takdek duit la broke lah, alah hampeh sudahlah balik tadi masing-masing ber-bag-bag hahah [yeah am a bit exaggerating here huhu]. What did I buy in Jusco? Despite every instinct to check out personal stuffs, as a lady of d house I went straight to Household area which was already filled with tonnes of Malaysian middle class mothers scavenging for good but cheap goods. My eyes stopped at this pile of Offer Luminarc products, some of em i've been keeping an eye and u can say terliur on. Congak-congak duit ... aduih. December is the birth month of Bibah and that means ROAD TAX & INSURANCE RENEWAL! argh~! The Black Carine Luminarc dish looked sooooo tempting, I bought six of it anyways. Dont ask me where did the money came from, u don't wanna know. Korang ingat senang Luminarc nak turun jadik beals belas ringgit? Kat forum aku tgk pun abeh abeh turun jadik 20+ hengget SEKEPING tau! Aritu siap terasa nak main kutu beli benda alah tuh, tapi tak sanggup. Ni dapat 6 keping pun jadiklah! Esok-esok tambahlah bila ada duit lebih... sikit-sikit lama-lama jadik bukit. Pther than the luminarc dishes, I bought 6 pretty porcelain bowls yg sangat comel berharga RM2.90 sahaja each, harap maklum. Pastu corkscrew yg mahal, beli yg murah manjang hancur and gunting dapur to replace yg dah tumpul, potong leher ayam pun tak lepas [haha kenapa agaknya aku nak GUNTING leher ayam? Bodoh ke haper]
On reading that passage just now, aku terasa i'm transforming bit by bit to be mama. Aiyoyo~! nasib baik belum ada pitih nak beli display cabinet kat Ikea yg sudah jatuh harga RM129 tu lagi, kalo tak sure aku dah start mengumpul kristal plak~!
Then... balik earlier a bit. 5.40 dah cabut from office, informed Kak Yun, she will inform Boss. Maybe she didn't hehe. Alah 15 minit je pun, aku datang punyalah awal 3-4 hari ni. Kenapa? Nak kejar appointment dentist Jazzy... 2nd tooth extraction! I'm proud of both my kids, they dun fear the dentist. Kyra pun dah pernah buat polishing, just to give her early exposure. Jazzy only cringed a bit when the tooth was extracted, as a reward, everybody got McDonalds treat from Babah and Jazzy specially got Sundae Choc. My kids, they're trained with strict disciplinary by Babah, they rarely get to eat these fast food. In fact, I get to eat em more often than they do hehe. Note: am mama's daughter, all 3 of us were born to be spoiled and i know how hard to catch up organizing my own life after being spoilt, I never want that to happen to my own kids.
Meanwhile, Kyra got a little treat too! Wait, little? Her weeks-long anticipated Bicycle has arrived home safely! While Kakak menahan sakit di dentist, Adik get to choose her own bicycle. We promised pink colored bike, but then the pink one was much too big for her, so she got herself Blue Colored bike we're waiting to name. Blue ~ exactly like Cik Bibah. hehe. Sampai umah dah malam... sudahnya sampai sekarang aku tgh menaip ni she's begging ehr father nak tgk basikal kat bawah. "Abah bacikal mana?" "Abah bacikal kat bawah tuu~!" Babah can only reply "Basikal tu sihat je kat bawah tu, takkan hilang punya" haha. wattodo. orang terlebih excited. dah berminggu-minggu she was threatened to behave well if she wants the bicycle. hard work to wei! hahaha. Picture... nanti upload kat blog Jazzy Bunch.
So now... after kenyang McD... everyone is happy, and Omie is yet to baca Yasin for arwah Nenda yang dirindui....
It was an early day at work, 1st to reach office @8.20 am, or maybe a bit late tagging in cus I took my time dilly-dallying walking from parking to the lobby :op~ Then as usual I'd take care of my FB's 3 accounts' [haha] kebun & restoran before beginning to indulge in my piles of work. An interviewee came moments earlier, nuthing much to handle, just borak sikit then pass her over to Big Boss.
12.50 pm My evil plan worked ~ I've planned to go shopping today it's JCard day in Jusco Maluri since Monday when I saw the announcement while buying my fav McFlurry Oreo whee~ and more evil-ly I succesfully made Ira n Kak Yun to tag along. Aritu they said takdek duit la broke lah, alah hampeh sudahlah balik tadi masing-masing ber-bag-bag hahah [yeah am a bit exaggerating here huhu]. What did I buy in Jusco? Despite every instinct to check out personal stuffs, as a lady of d house I went straight to Household area which was already filled with tonnes of Malaysian middle class mothers scavenging for good but cheap goods. My eyes stopped at this pile of Offer Luminarc products, some of em i've been keeping an eye and u can say terliur on. Congak-congak duit ... aduih. December is the birth month of Bibah and that means ROAD TAX & INSURANCE RENEWAL! argh~! The Black Carine Luminarc dish looked sooooo tempting, I bought six of it anyways. Dont ask me where did the money came from, u don't wanna know. Korang ingat senang Luminarc nak turun jadik beals belas ringgit? Kat forum aku tgk pun abeh abeh turun jadik 20+ hengget SEKEPING tau! Aritu siap terasa nak main kutu beli benda alah tuh, tapi tak sanggup. Ni dapat 6 keping pun jadiklah! Esok-esok tambahlah bila ada duit lebih... sikit-sikit lama-lama jadik bukit. Pther than the luminarc dishes, I bought 6 pretty porcelain bowls yg sangat comel berharga RM2.90 sahaja each, harap maklum. Pastu corkscrew yg mahal, beli yg murah manjang hancur and gunting dapur to replace yg dah tumpul, potong leher ayam pun tak lepas [haha kenapa agaknya aku nak GUNTING leher ayam? Bodoh ke haper]
On reading that passage just now, aku terasa i'm transforming bit by bit to be mama. Aiyoyo~! nasib baik belum ada pitih nak beli display cabinet kat Ikea yg sudah jatuh harga RM129 tu lagi, kalo tak sure aku dah start mengumpul kristal plak~!
Meanwhile, Kyra got a little treat too! Wait, little? Her weeks-long anticipated Bicycle has arrived home safely! While Kakak menahan sakit di dentist, Adik get to choose her own bicycle. We promised pink colored bike, but then the pink one was much too big for her, so she got herself Blue Colored bike we're waiting to name. Blue ~ exactly like Cik Bibah. hehe. Sampai umah dah malam... sudahnya sampai sekarang aku tgh menaip ni she's begging ehr father nak tgk basikal kat bawah. "Abah bacikal mana?" "Abah bacikal kat bawah tuu~!" Babah can only reply "Basikal tu sihat je kat bawah tu, takkan hilang punya" haha. wattodo. orang terlebih excited. dah berminggu-minggu she was threatened to behave well if she wants the bicycle. hard work to wei! hahaha. Picture... nanti upload kat blog Jazzy Bunch.
So now... after kenyang McD... everyone is happy, and Omie is yet to baca Yasin for arwah Nenda yang dirindui....
topics ::
kids,
life,
money,
tabiat,
what-me-like
December 01, 2009
ON being Generous & Peramah.
Finally, I have sumthing interesting to update. Erm, to me at least, it's interesting.
Have u guys ever considered urselves as generous and peramah? Well I hafto say, I kinda am, and sumtimes I overdo it. hehe. I think for those who live theirs lives around me would know that.
Sumtimes I hate being over-peramah, i just naturally be over-peramah sumtimes without realising or, too late realising it. For eg ~ I always spilled stupid sentences and talk without thinking first. Like ~ eventho I know the person I'm talking has problem conceiving, I go happily and extensively talk about babies. Lepas tgk muka masing-masing berubah baru perasan. Adoi~!
But... sumtimes I love the return I'd get on being peramah. Winny my ex-colleague in LUCT told me it made my rezeki murah and IceTea agreed to it so she loved going shopping or lunch with me. Why? Because I easily get freebies or discounts haha. I still remember I'd get free roti canai almost every morning in a week cus I made friends with pakcik roti canai Makanlah. Then one time I was with Winny in Jusco, I wanted to try bio-essence skin care [yes, I have this stupid idea on trying new stuffs] then the salesgirls not only gave me discount [maybe it was a promotional period] but also, I got tonnes of free testers so I gave em out to colleagues in d faculty, whoever was lucky enuff to be near me of course.
Now y i suddenly want to talk about this? Cus just now, in pasar malam Bdr Baru Bangi Fasa 1, I got 2 bungkus meehun sup for free after purchasing 5 bungkus, kami tengah kenyang giler anak beranak haha~!
Moral of d story ~ be peramah, to whoever. Unless u're suspicious of them, of course. Nanti murah rezeki... hehehe. And uh... lupa, it helped so many times while making sales in the Boutique too! I dun care if many customers yang BISU bila aku tanya "Ye puan... cari baju raya ke?" but that's only 5 outta 10, the rest, they're good buyers~!
Have u guys ever considered urselves as generous and peramah? Well I hafto say, I kinda am, and sumtimes I overdo it. hehe. I think for those who live theirs lives around me would know that.
Sumtimes I hate being over-peramah, i just naturally be over-peramah sumtimes without realising or, too late realising it. For eg ~ I always spilled stupid sentences and talk without thinking first. Like ~ eventho I know the person I'm talking has problem conceiving, I go happily and extensively talk about babies. Lepas tgk muka masing-masing berubah baru perasan. Adoi~!
But... sumtimes I love the return I'd get on being peramah. Winny my ex-colleague in LUCT told me it made my rezeki murah and IceTea agreed to it so she loved going shopping or lunch with me. Why? Because I easily get freebies or discounts haha. I still remember I'd get free roti canai almost every morning in a week cus I made friends with pakcik roti canai Makanlah. Then one time I was with Winny in Jusco, I wanted to try bio-essence skin care [yes, I have this stupid idea on trying new stuffs] then the salesgirls not only gave me discount [maybe it was a promotional period] but also, I got tonnes of free testers so I gave em out to colleagues in d faculty, whoever was lucky enuff to be near me of course.
Now y i suddenly want to talk about this? Cus just now, in pasar malam Bdr Baru Bangi Fasa 1, I got 2 bungkus meehun sup for free after purchasing 5 bungkus, kami tengah kenyang giler anak beranak haha~!
Moral of d story ~ be peramah, to whoever. Unless u're suspicious of them, of course. Nanti murah rezeki... hehehe. And uh... lupa, it helped so many times while making sales in the Boutique too! I dun care if many customers yang BISU bila aku tanya "Ye puan... cari baju raya ke?" but that's only 5 outta 10, the rest, they're good buyers~!
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