master chee wrote a secret manual about his mind-washing kungfu which he invented himself after being booted out from the reputated sacred kungfu institution in NUS HILL. he claimed that his kungfu manual was selling like hot shou bin or chinese pancake. but did it really sell? ah.....
the famiLEE had also came out with their version of PAP'S SECRET 101 KUNGFU MANUAL. did it sell? well, it's so hot that it's out of stock! already a 3rd round of printing is in queue!! ah.....yes, again ah! who are the kungfu crazed exponents would wanna buy such manual? famiLEE's kungfu secrets manual is more expensive than master chee but it sells better than chee's shou bin. why huh? why leh?
master chee claims that his are always out of stocks meaning he should be very rich and is something like peesailand's version of JK ROWLING with her fantasy HARRY POTTER tales.
yes! ah......again!
Sep 12, 2009
Book on PAP a best seller
Third print run ordered for Men In White just days after launch
By Cai Haoxiang
A NEW book on the People's Action Party (PAP) looks set to be one of the year's best sellers, with stores here reporting brisk sales and a third printing already ordered to meet demand.
An estimated 75per cent of 10,000 retail copies of Men In White were sold within the first four days of the book's launch on Tuesday, according to Marshall Cavendish International (Asia).
The publishing company's general manager, Mr Chris Newson, said yesterday that a second printing of 6,000 books had been pre-booked by distributors.
A third printing of 10,000 has now been ordered.
'We will probably run a fourth printing of a further 10,000 copies, as demand from retailers is mounting daily,' Mr Newson said. 'The book has been flying off the shelves. At Books Kinokuniya, for instance, about 1,000 copies have been snapped up.
'Men In White has been a phenomenal success and is the biggest blockbuster Singapore book since Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew's memoirs,' said store director Kenny Chan, 57.
The 692-page book chronicles the PAP's rise, fall, split and resurgence in the 55 years since it was formed in 1954.
It is written by Straits Times senior journalists Sonny Yap, Richard Lim and Leong Weng Kam, who interviewed 300 people, including leftists whose voices are not featured in existing literature on Singapore's history. They also went through 200 oral history interviews and pored over confidential documents.
The book was commissioned and published by Singapore Press Holdings (SPH) and designed and produced by Marshall Cavendish International (Asia).
Author Sonny Yap, 59, is happy about the sales: 'A lot of people who bought the book lived through the times. Hopefully, it will also be picked up by young people so they can understand the values and sacrifices of Singapore's pioneering generation.'
Read the full story in Saturday's edition of The Straits Times.
haoxiang@sph.com.sg
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