The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman

This was the book that I have been yearning for some time. Before this, I don't even know Neil Gaiman. After I knew of this book existence from a newspaper column, I tried to find this book in the book stores around Kuala Lumpur, however I could not find it. One thing about book stores in Malaysia was that they just keep the best sellers. Some lesser known or specific titles are hard to find. Unlike in Japan, the books were of huge variety. Anyway, at the end, I bought this book from Amazon Japan. There were 2 kinds of cover, actually I spent a great deal of time deciding which one to buy. Then, I decided to buy the darker tone version. 

The Graveyard Book

The title itself could attract one's attention. A boy raised by residents of graveyard after his parents and a sister were killed by a killer named Jack. After the folks of the graveyard decided to keep him, they argued about his name, then 'nobody' popped out and he was named as 'Nobody Owens'. His adopted parents were Mr. and Mrs. Owens. All called the boy 'BOD', short for nobody. And he had a god father, named Silas, a figure neither human or ghost who secured him all the necessary items needed for a human survival.

Cook "Chilli Prawn"

7th February 2012

I saw some Indonesian prawns selling at around 200 yen per pack at the supermarket yesterday. It have been a while since I last eat spicy prawn, so I bought it. The head have been removed, but I still think that with the shell, it would be a mess while eating, so I removed all the shell before I cook it.

the sauces!

Another reason was that my Thai Chilli Sauce was going to expire soon. So, I decided to cook "chilli prawn". I on-lined to find a recipe, and chose the easiest one, just fried all the spice first, then cooked with the prawn. 

I had carrot, tomato, onion, cili padi, I cut all of that into all slices, then added the "Thai Chilli Sauce", hot sauce and pasta sauce, then water. I just boiled everything up, I added too much water. After boiled, I added the prawns and bring to boil. Hahaha, talking about cooking skill!

just boiled up everything!

and add everything on top of the rice, ready to be eaten!

My "Chilli prawn" was quite spicy. I ate the cili padi's seed accidentally, and although the room temperature was quite low, I felt very hot! However, I did not manage to finish up my "Thai Chilli Sauce", need to find another to thing to cook to finish it.