which is cuter? the minipigs or minions?

the baby is cute right???
but guess what, the first thing that i noticed this time around wasn't the baby. it was the thing he was holding in his hand. look carefully. if you have been checking the cyber world and your facebook, you would know what it is.

just a week ago, the baby's mom (my sister) had no idea what a minion was. and today, she went to mcdonalds to buy a happy meal and paid for a minion. @_@

obviously she had not watched the animation despicable me 2 and hence had no idea what it was. well, i have not watched the movie too but i do have an idea what a minion is seeing the hundreds if not thousand that have cropped up on my fb wall.

i had watched despicable me 1 and find it just s0-s0 and had no intention of catching the second one when it was released. now, i am curious. my brother said it was funny.....well, i will have to wait till the dvd is out. still......i am not that curious to run to the nearest cinema to watch though. well, they have decided to give the minions their own movie which will be released next year.  maybe next year?

the craze has totally caught all those movie-goers. even my sister and cousin have become one.

this is another minion that my other sister has got in her collection. well, i am sure australians are not as crazy as malaysians who queued at the wee hours of the morning for mcdonalds to open or just after dinner for those 24-hour outlets to start selling that week's design. but my cousin had also reported that the figurines were sold out in some outlets in aussie. i guess there are still collectors over there......hmmhh......i wonder if they are all asians?

as for me, i am patiently awaiting mcdonalds' hello kitty promotion which will come in november. it is similar to the one which finished in singapore...so if that is the case, i won't need to stuff any junk meal into my body then. hahahah.

now to something else that is so hilarious to read:

the book i am currently reading now. it is such a funny story about the writer dealing with two minipigs in the household on top of the one dog and one cat they already had. i thought i was just going to read it because it was one of the unread books in the house, but i found myself looking forward to bedtime every night when i would have the time to read one or two chapters. and everytime i read it, i would never fail to laugh aloud at his writings. however, it is not going to turn me into a minipig lover anytime soon. gosh, no way. they are really a hassle to serve. hahaha....

now excuse me while i go pick up another chapter or two and have some laugh time.