Percy Jackson and the Olympians

I am a person who seldom read books. Therefore, this is the second series of book which I actually completed (title above). The first series was Harry Potter. I am going to give my opinion on this Percy Jackson series for those of you who wants to know more about it.

1. Genre: fantasy, Greek mythology, adventure
2. Author: Rick Riordan
3. Number of book in this series: 5
4. What is it about?: A teenage boy who is a demigod (a child of a god and mortal) trying to save Olympus from being destroy by the evil titan Kronos. Every book talks about his quest with his group of demigod and mythical creature friends on a quest while trying to prevent Kronos from reviving. Some how this book has it resemblance with Harry Potter. The resemblance are as below:

   Harry Potter	Aspect	Percy Jackson and the Olympians
   Hogwarts	Place where this special group of people train	Camp Half Blood
   Voldermort	Villian who is trying to revive	Kronos
   Hogwarts gang vs Death Eaters	Good vs Evil	Olympians + Half bloods vs Kronos' monsters

   
   
5. Why I find it interesting?: The author manage to combine Greek mythology with our current era in the story. Learn a lot about Greek mythology from it and it has comedy element in it.
6. What I dislike about it?: The ending is a bit too happy. As some of you may know, I don't really like totally happy ending. There are some sad parts in it but it is too minor to affect the readers' emotion. I prefer a story with a mix of sad + happy ending which can actually affect the readers. Harry Potter shows an epitome of a good ending where there are death of major characters. Since when is life so perfect?

Rick Riordan is currently working on the sequel to this Percy Jackson and the Olympians series. It is another 5 books pentalogy called Hero of Olympus. Currently, 2 books of the series had been released and I am planning to buy it too. I hope it will be as good as Percy Jackson.

2011 flashback

2011 was a year of ups and downs... I am sure it is the same for everyone. Nevertheless, there are no regrets.

Here is the lists of what I did / experience for the first time in 2011 (from what i remember):

• Spectate Malaysia vs Arsenal live at Bukit Jalil. Final score 0-4. Scored by Ramsey, Walcott, Vela and Rosicky.

• Being a student helper for INTI in an education fair. Post about it can be read here.
• Holding the position of Organising Chairperson for a camp. It wasn't an easy job but it was a great experience.
• Both the whole 'Percy Jackson and the Olympians' series (5 books). Thanks to the RM200 voucher given by INTI.
• Learned my first programming language, C++.
• Started my degree in Network and Mobile Computing.
• A best friend of mine and also another close friend went to USA to continue their studies. Miss them so much =(

By the way, HAPPY NEW YEAR 2012!!!