Kembang sial

Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 25th, 2008, 10:16 am by yenjai

A couple of months ago, I saw this book in MPH.

Woohoo. A 3-in-1 edition of the original Shannara trilogy.

sword of shannara trilogy

Quickly I grabbed it.

One fine day, when I was reading through the book, there was some interruption. I left it on my nurses’ table.

That turned out to be a big mistake.

Someone had spilled a few drops of water onto the book!

You might say: So what? Just a few drops of water.

Oh miss / mister. Let me show you the end result.

This is the original thickness of the book.

sword of shannara trilogy

With that drop of water, the book started to swell, and swell, and swell.

Result?

sword of shannara trilogy

Kembang sial.

(And this is AFter the water had dried up. One month after that. Imagine the condition when it was still wet! )

14 Responses

  1. March 25th, 2008 | 11:48 am

    wow, the book so thick….

  2. March 25th, 2008 | 12:33 pm

    didi, that book IS thick.
    Easily thicker than an ordinary dictionary
    It has 1190 pages

  3. March 25th, 2008 | 2:47 pm

    I think most of the books are like that.. not meh.. especially english books.. Chinese books material are different one..

    You are blogging and then reading some more.. how can you keep the discipline on reading always? Last time I used to read as I do not have internet.. now after I got the internet, I lazy to read book lol.. :(

  4. March 25th, 2008 | 3:06 pm

    keeyit, after we have children
    I still can’t forget to love my wife, no? ^-^

  5. March 25th, 2008 | 3:08 pm

    iron it page by page!

  6. March 25th, 2008 | 3:50 pm

    wuching daigor
    Wah
    then Maybe I will need your ‘nerdy’ kind of magnifying glass too

  7. March 25th, 2008 | 8:11 pm

    Wa, so “hati sakit”! I hate it when bad things happen to my books. Have become less obsessed over the years though!

  8. Kok
    March 26th, 2008 | 12:48 am

    yenjai,
    That book really kembang a lot loh! Some more, I think the book is not cheap. Cham cham…

  9. March 26th, 2008 | 10:35 am

    it’s like my Lord Of the Rings Triology last time, i put in my car boot, and got damp moist go in, and then one day i open my car boot, the book kembang kembang liao. hahahah

  10. March 26th, 2008 | 1:49 pm

    dcyk, so did you manage to shrink it?
    Aba ke dabra ?

  11. March 26th, 2008 | 2:29 pm

    try wetting it again and use hair dryer to blow it..
    next time make sure u wrap ur books le

  12. March 26th, 2008 | 4:45 pm

    i bought a new book, kakakakaka

  13. March 26th, 2008 | 4:46 pm

    michelle no use de, the dampness once touch these paper, will make them kembang, mine kembang until like butterfly

  14. March 26th, 2008 | 6:55 pm

    kesian… sayang….. I know how book-lovers feel when their beloved books got damaged. I seldom lend my books to others.
    *keeps and guards books*

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