My Parcel!

FINALLY, the time has come for me to share with you the contents of my parcel!

As I've mentioned in my last post, I received this parcel on Monday, 18|08|2014 but I didn't have the time to blog about it until now. 

Let's start from the beginning shall we? How I even got the chance to wait for my parcel to come in the first place. 

After a few months of endlessly begging my mum to order my books online, she finally gave in to my request and finalised my order on Amazon.com. It wasn't an easy task, to be VERY honest. I had to beg her from November of last year to this year's July in order for her to eventually get fed up of my constant begging and get this over with. 

So once we finalised the order, I was over the moon. I mean, I've been waiting for this since last year, how could I not be happy! HOWEVER, little did I know that there was going to be obstacles in my way.

Apparently the information my mum submitted didn't match her banks' so her bank decided to decline our payment. After 4 or 5 failed attempts at changing the information she submitted, - and me pestering my mum to CHANGE THE CREDIT CARD-my mum unwillingly (mind you, she really likes her american express card) decided to pay with another credit card.

Believe it or not, it worked on the first try. My mum definitely earned an "I-told-you-so" for that one.

Once they received the payment, Amazon sent me and e-mail saying that I would receive my parcel on 27th of August ( my mum's birthday, heh ) which was 4 weeks from the time I ordered it. 

So you're probably thinking that everything went smoothly after that right? WRONG.

Two weeks later on a Thursday, my mum told me that the postman had come to our house at 9 in the morning to deliver my parcel, but because no one was home, they failed to deliver it. They left a note in the mail asking us to go get it ourselves. I was very frustrated of course because of all the times they could choose to come, they chose to come at 9 in the morning when no one's at home.

Fine then, we could always get it ourselves. Problem was that my parcel was located in another area, and the opening and closing hours were quite inconvenient for working people. 

What further irritated me was when my parents went there on a Saturday to collect my parcel, they said that the firm that manages parcel-collecting(?) was closed on weekends. 

So after a lot of whining, groaning and 1 day, I finally received my parcel after my mum went to collect it before she went to work on Monday morning. ( I am trying my best to summarise this whole fiasco so the sentences may "flow" as smoothly as you'd like. Plus I'm sleep deprived so..) I couldn't believe my eyes when I held my parcel in my hands. It felt soooooo surreal to finally be able to have it in my possession after everything I went through to get it. I got so excited that I immediately locked myself in my room and filmed the process of me opening my parcel. I also took lots of pictures which can be seen below: 

A massive THANK YOU to Amazon.com for making this possible. You guys have no idea how long I waited for a paperback version of "The Fiery Heart" because there were only hardcover versions in bookstores (I wanted to save some money to buy the hardcover version of SIlver Shadows.) Now that I have both books with me, I'm going to be able to meet Sydney, Adrian and the rest of the gang again after approximately 10 months :'D 

It's my first time ordering something from Amazon and I have to say that I'm very impressed with the condition of my books. As you can probably tell from the photos above, they are still in good condition even though they weren't wrapped in bubble wrap but plastic wrap instead. So to all the book lovers out there, fear not because there is a major possibility that your books will arrive to your doorstep in good condition if you order from Amazon! ( provided your postmen don't screw up when delivering them ) 

Till' my next post, bye!