Book Title: Dark Prince: A Carpathian Novel
Author: Christine Feehan
Publisher: Piatkus Books
Genre: Romance/Erotic, Fantasy, Mystery
Rating: 2.5/ 5

One-Liner Synopsis
Raven Whitney used her psychic gift to comfort a wounded individual mentally but she ended up finding her other half or rather soulmate except he is not human.

Review
The synopsis reminded me a lot of Lisa Jane Smith's Nightworld series which indicated why I picked this book.

Feehan is really good in describing the emotions the main characters have especially the leading male character. Every action each character does is entailed with a logical reasoning, which gives a better insight and understanding of each background.

Not only that, she is also very descriptive and detailed on the love making scenes which are spread like 2 to 3 pages or more. And the setting of that erotica scenes are various: they do it on the floor and in the lake but not on the bed. But you know what? I just feel there's a rush in the whole storyline especially the love making scenes. That's because the first page you flip tells you Raven contacting the wounded fellow mentally and then he got so excited?he tracked her down instantly by changing into a crow bird and then he molested her using his mind and then the next night, he kidnapped her into his mansion and followed by his seducing rituals and tada there goes the love scenes. I just think Feehan could go slower on how they discover each other. What's the fuss of rushing? Or you guys get more excited?

Wee interesting?
The leading male character is sort of a vampire that sleeps in soil not coffin???!!! My, we need to rewrite vampire history.

If you like reading this book, you should also try reading:
Lisa Jane Smith - All Nightworld series & The Forbidden Game series
Sherrilyn Kenyon - The Other Side of the Moon

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Missing and returned alive in one piece. Nope I'm not a shinobi.

I went to Penang on Friday to distress myself but things didn't turn ou well on the journey but they got better later... here I present my updates!!

1. Went to the bus terminal punctually but was told to be waiting at the wrong platform. How the heck was I supposed to know which platform to wait when here are 4 platforms for the same bus company without indicating the destinations. Thank god, I realised I was standing at the wrong platform and headed to right one. But things were not great since I waited 1 hour 30 minutes for my bus to appear.

2. Pretty sad when I had dinner with jolenesiah when I arrived because my family favourite's Thai restaurant no longer exist. It just evaporated into thin air. I really miss that restaurant. But happy to be able to eat one of my old times Japanese restaurant. Quality and price is still good.

3. I slept in jolenesiah's house. Bwhaha. Got to sleep in an air conditioner room... and I finally got to play a RPG game using her account. We also discussed of setting up a project.

4. Wow. We watched 2 movies back to back and we managed to get some manga. I recommended her to read Yotsubato manga and I got myself some manga that I got attracted by their cover. Oh well, I'm simply Chinese illiterate. The movies we watched were Evan Almighty and Ratatouille.

5. Came home from the cinema with an accomplishing feeling but not for long because I had diarrhoea. I was just simply goofy. I drank only Coke/ Pepsi during the hours we were in the cinema area. And that means I only drank Coke/ Pepsi as water for almost 6 hours. Because I have acute gastritis [sort of], I had diarrhoea the whole morning, leaving me with little sleep. I woke up like every 2 hours to visit the toilet. And ol' sweet jolenesiah made me ginger tea because I requested. Thank u. Bwahaha..

6. The journey back to Kuala Lumpur was fun because I get to sleep in the car while jolenesiah sped. Haha. I don't mind driving since I'm already "owing" her some USD 100000000++ ... without any black and white document. Haha. Despite the fun of it, it was awful to have stomach dicomfort because I only get to see jolenesiah drinking Chocolate Blast from Baskin Robins.

7. Sweet Mr. A called me to say hi. I remembered him asking me for some dream translation, which I asked my colleague since he's a psychology graduate. The dream he had was me with a bunch of army rabbits chasing after him in a field. [Gee... Am I that violent? I thought I'm as sweet as a daisy flower..]. The explanation I got was ... "there's no explanation for that dream. If it does, it is called NIGHTMARE."

Oh well, I'm happy to be home ... because the happiest news is ... the damn Internet is finally back for good. The reason? Streamnyx has not replaced a card into my jumper area I guess due to no stock. If the problem I was facing was just simply of a card, can't Streamyx be frank with me? I waited and talked like an idiot for the past few months. It's simply not acceptable. I will be writing in to the newspaper and asking for rebate. Woohoo~

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It's funny that my brain and emotions were not stable yesterday evening after my sister broke the news that the Yang tze dolphins are now declared extinct. Read that again, EXTINCT.

Reading and hearing any flora fauna species becoming critically endangered is still within the tolerance limit of emotions but not extinction. Why not extinction? If I were to cry out to my friends about the extinction of this dolphin species, they will just reply "So?". So what is the significance of the word 'extinction' in this context?

Extinction is a word that I don't ever want to hear in my life especially I'm trying to safeguard the environment for our younger and future generations. This is the word, I'm sure, that drives many environmentalists (e.g. zoologists, environmental scientists, environmental officers) in the broader context to save the environment in the first place. We don't want to see and hear the word 'extinction' of species.

Come on people. Think for a second about the concerted efforts to save a species and now it is finally gone; forced to extinction. Because you are not working in this field, doesn't mean you should be ignorant and ignorance is never a bliss. My feelings now is best described with this question "What would you feel if your beloved ones (humans, anime/ manga characters, hard disk, pets, etc) die?" This is a torture many environmentalists are undergoing. And all we wanted to do is to safeguard the environment. Is there anything wrong with it?

You would surely reply "there's nothing wrong". But think again. How sincere are you saying those words? I remembered the time I was visiting my relatives in Melbourne, Australia. They are nice and warm people but they simply told me "Oh it's good to study about the environment but it's a job that got no money". I studied about the environment not because of money but the desire of simply wanting to see Mother Nature continue flourishing in this unpredictable globalised world. Is there anything wrong with it? I'm fully aware that this is a job that got no MONEY but what is the point of having tonnes of money and living in a polluted world that just shortens your lifespan.

I don't think we even want to hear "We are doing a noble thing" or "such an altruistic actions". Why are we doing this in the first place? That's because NO ONE ELSE is doing it. We all bloody DEMAND for cleaner air, cleaner water and cleaner land. But are we all doing our bits in recycling or reuse? I do. What about you? Like my colleague, she just pointed to someone else to take care of the environment. Or we just simply blame the government for polluting the environment. Are we so clever in this matter? But hang on, people. What makes up of the government? They just simply lead us and who is behind them? Ironically, WE, isn't it?

I'm extremely angry and sad over the news of the demise of Yang Tze dolphins. Yes, we could say there is a lax of enforcement in China. But where is the ultimate logic is that? The government could make the poachers, whatever, face the music and tighten the laws but are we not the POWER of the government? When the buying stops, the killing stops. How many times have we heard, read and see this slogan? I cannot imagine my little cousin in China challenged my sister to eat dolphin meat. It makes me sick to the stomach. It is nothing wrong to eat dolphin meat whatsoever but you are not in some remote places that you need it for survival!

The news of this dolphin seriously killed all hopes of other environmentalists that are trying so so very hard to prevent extinction. It is the worst way to be prepared to face another extinction. I modified this "nice to see, nice to touch, once broken, pay at counter" to "nice to see, nice to touch, once extinct, gone forever."

People, please wake up. I'm expressing my thoughts not only for some stupid animals only, I'm saying in a broader context: our overall environment which includes water, air, land, etc. There's an article about we running out of clean water. People, rewind your eyes to that sentence again. Are we going to be happy and satisfy when our drinking water supply REALLY runs out?

In the end, human beings are just some selfish bunch of living things who just think we are superior in everything including the force of nature. When did we humans become so arrogant?

And you know what? If the dolphin article doesn't make you think of the environment and everyone else, then you have truly forgotten that you are in the same boat as us. Don't dream of a Noah's ark coming to rescue us because no matter what, we need resources for our survival. And whence we getting our resources? The same as Noah in the story; the natural environment.

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I'm not too sure what kind of emotions I should wear now. I'm not really into buying lottery but I do that once in a bluemoon and also because I want to try to be 'lucky'. So I bought 6 numbers.

Out of the 6 numbers, 3 of them were close to winning prizes. The results were:

1. 1348 - (I bought) 1340
2. 6307 - (I bought) 6387
3. 5491 & 5695 - (I bought) 5495

Should I be mad or in teary now? I got no emotions whatsoever at the moment. Just plain nothing. I think my mum will be mad now ... because we shared these numbers.

But hey ... it also showed that I'm pretty good in forecasting the numbers!! No .. this time I didn't use my remote viewing to see because ... the number I saw 6387 didn't win me ANYTHING. So you see ... using this kind of technique doesn't bring accuracy as well. Sigh ...

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I’m totally crazy or fanatic about Nelly Furtado’s song “Say It Right”. I have been listening to it everyday on my blog since Monday. But other than that, I’m just my usual self; scratchy, stress and feel like sleeping all day long.

Despite being my usual self, [there’s some unavoidable NARUTO spoiler…] I have been pondering things I have been thinking over and over again and some of them are as the following:

1. The “Last” Uchiha
Looking at the whole scenario of Sasuke and Itachi, I just have to confess again I HATE SASUKE UCHIHA because he simply is a brat that never grows up. And don’t tell me Tobi is actually one of the Uchihas named Uchiha Madara. Don’t tell me that because I like Tobi’s crude humour especially the way he irritates Deidara. Madara looks like a pure evil guy that really is power fanatic. How did I get that idea? Simple. Tobi and Madara have the same mask and Madara commented that Sasuke utilizes his sharingan much better than Itachi. Whatever. That Madara is really creepy. I pitied Itachi and Pain to be played by Madara. If you are so strong as you claimed to be, why work as an underling, not as Oyabin [boss in Japanese]?

2. OMG They did it again!
I would really like to tell some people out there to STOP TORTURING ME. I simply don’t understand what is so “beautiful” about me that I have an admirer who keeps on kirim salam [send my regards in Malay] to me via AA, the bratty birthday girl. I don’t mind people kirim salam to me but there’s no need to tease me like “shahrenee” [the guy’s name is something Shah]. Do it once and for the last time, you are safe. You do it twice, don’t blame me for some inadvertent insults and reactions. I have had ENOUGH. I have been undergoing this kind of things since Primary. It’s not I’m not sporty whatsoever, but if you want me to tolerate for more than 11 years, I welcome you to switch place with me.

3. Phobia is my hidden name
To be frank to myself, I don’t like to be touched. Read that again. It’s not haphephobia/ chiratophobia/ haptephobia/ aphenphosmphobia (fear of being touched). It has been like this since I was a kid. I don’t like my uncle holding my hands while we crossed the roads and the like. I sometimes have low tolerance for people touching my shoulder. But I’m fine with brushes like in the trains. This is worse than sterilizing yourself [for guys] before touching me. One touch = one flying kick to some unknown place.

4. Writer’s Bloc
I have been trying to write some short stories but apparently I’m running not out of ideas but descriptions and vocabulary. I read a lot but just don’t know why I can’t express my imagination with words. What a failure I am. Trying to write some short horror story and the other is a sad romance story. Really want to write a romance story that brings tears to the readers.

That is all I wanted to grumble. Back to my singing “Say It Right”.

5. Dessert to shoo away those negativities!

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