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Oh heck. Unlike Leggy we can't play about with alphabets that well :)

When the parents returned from their quick trip to Sporeland last week mum passed us something we've not seen for a long while - our The Devil Wears Prada book.

To start. We were on a trip to Sporeland for company orientation last year in October, and while at the airport in KLCC we realised something was wrong.

"Eh, shit. No book."

See, it's our normal tendency to buy a book whenever we're down at Sporeland. That's because we never had Borders open here yet, and Kino's a bit to far for us to go regularly. Oh heck, we'll admit it. It's just an excuse to spend money buying new books. Price-wise it isn't any different and would probably have been cheaper to just buy it locally, since given our selection of reading material we have yet to venture into more niched titles that aren't available locally (whether it's due to some blanket censorhip or whatever) so whatever we buy in Sporeland is readily available here too.

The problem while at KLIA was this - while we will be buying a books while at Sporeland, we weren't there yet, and we have nothing to read while on the plane/in the hotel/having dinner/while walking about until we have time to browse the bookstores the next day. And that was unacceptable. So in desperation we hunted the bookstore at KLIA, and found The Devil Wears Prada. Having watched the movie we happily snag the book. And it's a good simple read.

Only that once we'd finished the book, sis wanted to read it too and so we left it in Sporeland for her.

Now the book has finally found its way back home. And in time for a rereading. Only thing, while rereading the book it broke out a rash of wanting to watch the show again. Every time we pick up the book the rash got bigger and itchier. So we gave in today and headed down to Borders to pick up a copy.

Yay. Our own Devil.

And if that wasn't enough, we were also eyeing the Death Note manga - book 7 to be exact. We're rather curious as to how Light chumps L, see. Borders only put out Book 8 as the browsing copy, where Mellow and Near have already been introduced. And we've the impression that the episodes we've managed to catch on YouTube were the chapters in Book 6.

But an English copy of the manga isn't cheap. A book goes for about RM30-something, the price of a normal book. Then we realised something - we have a RM10 voucher that we got last week when we bought Guns, Germs and Steel (for a mere RM40!) at the Borders concourse sale in the Curve. So we could use that voucher to get that book next day. All we have to do is go home, find the voucher and buy it next time.

It was a good thing we didn't get the book, because while at Sun Comic in Cineleisure Damansara next door, they were selling those exact same books for RM8. Just too bad that they only have till book 5 for now. We gave up and caved in for this instead.

Our own Death Note. Yeah so it's not the book to kill people but the complete anime episodes on DVD. Comes with silly handphone strap thingy. Selling for only RM56. Why buy? Because we don't torrent. And we prefer to watch on telly in comfort than in front of a monitor.

Hurrah. More stuff to watch during supper, only to cause us to continue sleeping late.