Alam Maya Liyana

lately I've been reading quite fast...
just imagine in 8 days I can finished reading 3 novels...
it equals to 1544 pages for 3 novels...
just to make it more explicit... :)
I usually read at night...
lately, I slept late...
every night, I stopped reading between 3 a.m. to 4.30a.m. ...
and I beat my own record in reading novel...
I finished reading a novel in less than 24 hours...
what a record...
honestly, I never thought of setting a target when to finish a book...
it actually depends on the plot too...
maybe since I learn literature about 7 years ago...
I can cope quite well with arts thing...
although I'm in science stream right now...

today is my 37^th day off…
a few minutes ago, I was thinking…
about the reading habit among Malaysian…
I just want to take one type of book that are getting more popular nowadays as an example…
novel…
it seems that today, many people like to read novels…
including myself…
I've just read a few posts from a few blogs regarding reading novel…
there's one thing that I can summarized after reading their entry…
not all parents like their children to read novel…

I'm glad that my parents supported me…
one thing that I still remembered until today…
since I was in standard 1, that was in 1995…
when there's a bookfair (don't think like KLIBF, that's way too big) at my school…
my mother (usually, sometimes with my father because he was working) will accompany me to buy story books…
although I don't buy a lot of books at the bookfair but because there's a lot of kids' book publisher, we're actually have about 3-4 bookfair a year…
so, for 5 consecutive years studying at same school, I've bought quite a lot of books actually…
but then, how can I have the interest to read novel???

it's started when I've finished my SPM 05…
after passed my driving test, (I'm taking both car and motorcycle licence, I know some can't believe it), I'm kind a bit bored…
furthermore, my parents didn't allow me to go and look for a job (and I'm glad they did because I wasn't thinking of working at all)…
I told my mother about it…
later, she took me to Harfa (the most famous bookstore in Kulim, that's what I said)…
I look around and then decided to buy "Bagaikan Puteri", by Ramlee Awang Murshid…
after finished reading it, I look for a new novel…
I don't actually have the right numbers of novel that I own right now…
because recently, I bought 4 new novels and I didn't include these in my list yet…

talk about Damai Kasihku...
I'm not trying to be like one of the most popular person who always give views on the novel...
I just want to share my story...
this is the 1st novel that I bought written by a new novelis...
before this, I usually bought a novel written by a well known novelis...
I feel like there's something different and attracts me about this novel more than other novels at Alaf 21 booth...
I bought this novel although at that moment I feel like is this a right choice???
but then, I wasn't dissapointed after finished reading Damai Kasihku...
something that I like about Damai Kasihku, this novel makes me travel to a few places from England to Malaysia, more specific to Penang and Sarawak...
something that I don't find in other novel yet...

and I never imagine that one day the author of Damai Kasihku is one of my friends...
although I never met Kak Iris yet, hopefully maybe one day, if I have that opportunity...
leaving a short message at her blog is a way for me to keep in touch with her...
a method that is now not impossible for anybody to keep in touch with anybody, anywhere, anytime...

talk about novel, hopefully before my 3 1/2 months vacation end, I can finished reading all the novel that I bought...

talk about reading, I started to seriously read newspaper when I was in standard 2, that was 12 years ago...
I started by reading the comic and then by time to time I began to read other section as well...
quite suprise that eventhough I don't like to read English materials, my English is ok...
ok in terms that I can get really good marks at high school...
but I know that I still need to improve my grammar...
among all newspaper, I like to read Kosmo...
simple, cheap, compac and easy to read anywhere...
furthermore the price at IPT is RM0.30 cheaper than buying it outside campus...

but my passion right now is reading novel...
I started with books from Alaf 21, then my brother introduced me to Jemari Seni and Kaki Novel...
but there's other publisher that I've never read yet their published books such as Fajar Pakeer and KarnaDya...
maybe one day, InsyaAllah...
there's one book publisher I'll maybe never buy anymore their published novel again...
I'm kind a bit dissapointed because the way the author represent the story is too boring...
the language, the dialogue between the characters and a few more things...
I'm not accusing for no reason, even my best friend bought a novel from the same publisher but different title from mine...
she even complaint the same thing...

I read anything that I want to read regardless publisher and author...
from my point of view, there's nothing wrong buying new novelis' handwriting...
I remembered that during Raudhah Festival 07/08, an annual event at CFS, there's Alaf 21 booth...
for sure I'll never missed a chance to have a look and maybe buy a novel, if there's one that looks interesting, lol...
guess what...
I bought 2 novels at that time, Soalnya Siapa(novel Prima) and Damai Kasihku...