Billions of blue bilious blistering barnacles in a thundering typhoon!!!

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I used to go to Geylang East library and hunt for Tin-tin books. Damn hard to find, cos I bet lots of other kids were hunting (and hoarding) tin-tin comics too. I had to resort to giving my friends bits of my stickers collection in exchange for Tin-tin book loans. My mum never allowed me to buy comics, cos she said it was a waste of money and time (which... ok lah... quite true, i mean, look at what i'm blogging about now).

My favorite character is not Tin-tin. Actually he's quite a boring fellow. What made the series so fun to read was actually the combination of all the other characters. Let's start off with Thompson and Thomson. Their bowler hats damn cute man... and whoa where got ppl dress like that one. The way they talk also super funny. See below


Thompson: He wont get far, if my name's Thompson!�
Thomson: To be precise: if my name's Thomson we won't get far!

Thompson: Bother! We were mistaken!
Thomson: To be precise: we're a mistake.


And then there's Professor Calculus who was a little deaf. He was always carrying his pendulum around no matter where he was.
My favorite book was The Blue Lotus. Actually Tin-tin not bad you know.... I think Herge tried his best to be politically sensitive, he even gave Tin-tin a good chinese friend in The Blue Lotus. The Blue Lotus was actually the 2nd part of a longer story, and it was about Tin-tin going to China to stop some opium gang or something.


Ok I going to do work now. That's why my mother's advice is always good for me.