For the love of books – Big Bad Wolf Book Sale 2011 at MAEPS

As a child I grew up seeing adults around me read. My late Tok Yan (my grandfather, Al-Fatihah) rode his bicycle from home in Jalan Bharu to Pekan Kuala Kangsar for a quick lepak at his favourite roti canai shop and will bring home newspapers that he will spend hours reading.  I lived with him and my aunt until I was 12. Although my Tok was not highly educated but he loved reading and I guess that inculcated my passion for books.

During my primary school years, I was *cough* quite smart and won a lot of quizzes, competitions and I even played hockey and netball. For final exams  (except Darjah 2, I got number 9) I was a top scorer yang dapat no 1,2 atau 3 every year. 

Agak dasyat gak bila aku fikir-fikir balik. Sungguh bijak aku masa kecik tapi kenapa bila dah besar ni sungguh mangkuk hayun tingkat sekali? Like the bigger I get the more bimbo I become!  Ughhh…

Anyway, everytime I won competitions etc, the prize  that I got was Dewan Bahasa and Pustaka book store vouchers which I appreciated so very much. Me in a bookstore was just like a starving Somalian kid in Famous Amos. Tapi rupa aku memang ada macam budak Somalia pun! Huwaghhhh…

I remember when my kid sister and I was really small, we look forward to annual Pesta Buku Pulau Pinang, that if I am not mistaken held in Dewan Sri Pinang in December during the school holidays. 

I still remember vividly once, I cried buckets in the car because for some reason we couldnt go to the fair and on many other times, my sister and I bought more books than we could carry. Sweet childhood memories with Shanaz and my mom and dad….

Now, although I am older and reading more blogs than books compared to before, I am still addicted to books, book fairs, the sight of books even the smell of books. That’s why I was so tergedik-gedik to go to Big Bad Wolf Book Sale 2011 that is being held in MAEPS Serdang. They claim to be the biggest book sale in the world, I am not so sure about that but I sure did enjoy myself weeeee~~~~

I wanted to guling-guling on the mountains of fictions, swim in ocean of memoirs and biographies and lompat katak among the piles of cook books! Syoknyeeee…Even Miki was rambang mata but being prudent, we only bought these for our tiny library at home:-

I didn’t purchase any novels at all (can you believe that?) for I have several at home still unread. Those Campbell’s, Kraft Philadelphia, Jello and Hershey’s cans do not contain food but recipe cards that are so darn cute! So those cans are actually cookbooks ya.. I like! I like! God gimme the power and strength to try out the recipes ya! haha.. That Jamie Oliver’s was only RM25 *faints*

Looks like Miki and I have new books to read tonight. Happy reading everyone.

They say what you read becomes you! So adakah aku akan menjadi Jamie Oliver selepas ini? Atau jadi tin sup Cambell’s saja? *pengsan*