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A book haul from Experal Bookstore Malaysia

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I have been shopping across Instagram with my imaginary cart picking out nice book titles. The decision to actually click the purchase button is based on the comments on the recommended book post, the price alongside my budget and the cover of the book. Despite the famous ‘Do not judge a book by its cover’ – I still do that most of the time.

I buy my physical books from Experal because they have the book’s synopsis in the product description. It saves me time from having to search for it on another website. Plus, they tend to send my books in perfect condition and make it clear on some books that it is a ‘pre-order’. Thus, as a buyer, I would understand that my books will not be shipped immediately. Even then I can wait. It is not a problem on my part. I can have delayed gratification.

This was my recent haul of RM 886.69 including the shipping fee. It makes me want to have a book-reading party with Kim Namjoon already.

The gifts for 2022 bday

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The collab, Bad Decisions was released on my birthday. I had thought that Agust D would drop his track this month but no.. it did not happen. I think there was a VLive sometime last month where Namjoon said he will release his album in the near future. Earlier than Agust D? Anyway, I will take Bad Decisions as a bday gift from bangtan to ARMY’s celebrating birthdays on that day.

Speaking of songs, sometimes… when I need to raise my self-esteem or something, I’ll stream Prince’s song – The Most Beautiful Girl in the World. The birthday celebration is ongoing for a month. LOL. My husband gave me 2 sets of Elianto products. One is a makeup set and the other one is a beautiful selection of perfumes, body mists and EDTs. Enough to keep me fragrant until next year. I Superlove them all. They smell so nice! I need to declutter my old, expired makeup products and clear my vanity again. The collection of skincare and makeup items is growing!

I’ll make a blog series called ‘On my vanity’ soon. Kind of to share what’s on my mini dresser.

I gifted myself a tower of books this year. The initial list was longer but I restrained myself from going crazy with the carts in Shopee. Plus, I still have a TBR list on my Google Playbook.

Remember last year how I have this new friend out of the blue? This year, this friend also sent me the gift of energy. I received Zus coffee and a pandan cheesecake. The friend was worried that I wouldn’t like the selection but I told the friend that I loved Zus Coffee products, so it’s totally fine!

August and September will be interesting months as we head towards the National Sports Day celebration. There will be games and mini leagues in the following weeks.

A Kinokuniya book haul

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It was an impulse purchase.

There was this unexplained urge to head on to the Kinokuniya website and go crazy on book shopping. Perhaps it was partially motivated by the fact that I lost my Popular membership card. And my Watson card. I ended up paying for the Kinokuniya Privilege Card as well at Rm38/annum. I honestly feel it is worth the money. I get another 10% discount on top of the online price.

This time I am less greedy. I was realistic and bought only 4 books. My choices are very business-like this time. I bought one fiction thriller to ease the intense reading materials. Ok, that is still intense. I actually wanted a chick flick but I’m not sure what is recommended nowadays. Maybe it’s because I’m old, my friends are old, most of us are married and stuff. Gosh, I miss the thrills and butterflies of love birds. I used to enjoy the shopaholic girl series. Recently, I loved the Crazy Rich Asian movie – so something along that line? Light, lovey-dovey themes.

It seems that now I like reading more than playing games. One of those recurrent phases in life, only hoping that it will last longer. This haul costs me a total of RM234.67 with free delivery to Melaka. My package was couriered by DHL Express and reached me in less than a week since all of my books are in stock. I hope to get more during the Christmas season.

So what have you been reading lately? Share with me.