Showing posts with label Book. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Book. Show all posts

Thursday, October 16, 2008

The Coming of the End of the Twilight SAGA





Well, Finally I’ve finish the 3rd book in the Twilight Saga and started on the forth.
When you read the series, you’ll find that New Moon and Eclipse (2nd and 3rd book) should be read together. Just like Eldest and Brinsgr of the Eragon Trilogy.
The story is so interwoven that after you finish with the 2nd book, you’ll know that it’s just the beginning of the warewolves and the vampire.
Though the story didn’t end with the 3rd book. A wedding, Isabella Swan’s and Edward Cullen’s and the transformation Bella to vampire and the invasion of the royal family of Vampire from Italy. All that is still to be answer in the forth book. But I must say that it’s a good closure for all those characters that come out of the 1st Twilight book. The forth is to tie off the loose end of those that appear in the second book, (which is most probably to be the most boring of the four.)
Now I started with Breaking Dawn. It’ll be an epic between the tiny town of the Swan and Cullen vs the royal Volturi of Italy.
What makes the book most compelling, especially the girls is that it’s written in the first character’s Bella view point. It’s as if every reader is herself playing the part of Bella. Falling in Love, betrayed, heart broken, frustrated, who said that book shouldn’t be written as first person term. Anyway which makes the story more fun cause you can’t see into everyone’s situation like most story and can concentrate on experiencing the adventure themselves.
So for those of you that have not begun the journey, you might want to try it out. It’s a good ride I’ll say. And mine will end in a couple of weeks.

Tuesday, September 23, 2008

Let's come and compare our notes on "The Last Lecture"


For any of you that have missed "The LAst Lecture" by the late Randy Pausch of Carnegie Mellon. He'd be the one person I'd consider a true hero.

You can check out the much covered lecture in details and more. Because the written edition of the Lecture is published and available to all book lover and none internet viewing audience. So now if you wonder what's your life is about and looking for courage to rediscover your own life's purpose. Or if you have no idea and don't really bother abour life itself, maybe you'd rethink twice after you read this book. I'd recommend anyone looking for courage to face the same situation that Professor Pausch have face in life or simply in every other little things in life that you think is blocking your way. simply said, you just have to move and get a copy and you'll find that your life is much more than it is not. no matter how rich or pour or superior or inferior you are there are still plenty of space in life for us to travel.

Sunday, September 14, 2008

Weekend. Movie, Books! Boring and Peaceful!! Wicked!!

According to the Chinese calendar yesterday is exactly the day of the Mid Autumn. I was supposed to go back home and celebrate with my mom. But I’ve came down with a cold and I have to take measure to take care of it and to have a long drive home was not exactly the smartest choice. So you can say that I have the most uneventful weekend of the year. Not quite. You’d be surprised how many things that you can actually get done to stay at home the whole weekend.


In my disbelieve I’ve actually finishes Twilight in 2 weeks and begin on the 2nd book of the saga “New Moon” straight away now. It was totally addictive as if I’ve became the vampire thirst for a drink. And the book is the blood. When I started I can’t seem to lay it down. Everyday when I got home, I was reading the book. I think I’m maybe coming down with the cold for movie, TV and CD HAHA! The Saga will have a great debut in November and I’m sure if the movie is as addictive as the book, a sequel will definitely be in the making. I won’t want to break the plot to any people. I‘ve got through Lord of the Rings in one shot. I’ve got through all 7 Harry Potter and now I’m totally fallen into the Twilight while waiting for the 3rd book of the Inheritance saga. And I just got an idea for a person who is looking for a way to know what are their standard of English is.... they can start with Harry Potter, growing with the book through the 7 books and 7 year and by the time the person finish he’ll be in the teenager standard. And then he may continue to enhance his teenager’s standard with the Twilight saga. If you can make it through it you may start with the Inheritance and taste you Dark age’s vocabulary and the then it’s time for the hard stuff. Lord of the Rings and Shakespears. My kind of English language courses.

Well, actually I didn’t really just stayed at home for the past 2 days. I actually went for a small movie when I was trying to get my hand on the “New Moon”. It’s actually somewhat a Eric Bana week. There’s “The Other Boleyn Girl” and “Romulus My Father”. Yes, both not the current movies, well, there haven’t been any new movie that can get through the censor lately that actually able to reach the region fast enough. While the American is enjoying the new movie like Tropic Thunder, we have The Love Guru. Jessica Alba have already got her baby out and the movie is actually made before she is pregnant. So it’s not exactly new HAHA!




Any way I watched “Romulus My Father”, it is most probably the most boring movie that I’ve been to but as anything that’s happened this week. It’s perfectly fabulous. it’s the most honest and realistic movie I’ve ever watched. A Romanian in the rural area of Australia in the 1960s, with an unfaithful mother that the father still in love with. Narrated through the eyes of the son, the story unfold in front of our eyes, the betrayal, the silent acceptance of the father, the education of a father to raise a son to become a great man. It is a story told by the writer of the story, Raymond Gaita about his father and family. It is totally wonderful and really tranquilizing.
And I have the most “Aha” moment this weekend of my Law of Attraction and A New Earth practice.

Wednesday, September 10, 2008

Book with love, non-fiction, made up, and some what realistic.

My non-Fiction feature for reading this month would be the You Series from Dr Oz. Starting with You: the Owner’s manual. Then You: on a Diet to You: Staying young. All three books give us great insights about our own body and how it works when we do something like smoking, drinking alcohol, eating grease, or taking vitamin or when we are sick. It even tell us plenty about cancer and how eating, sleeping, having sex and exercises works. I follow the plan and gain some visible muscle finally. So give it a try if you want to change your life now. Everything from head to toe, inside out and more and more even intimate detail about sex, there’s nothing off limit and totally clear up everything in my mind with a question marks when you read them.

As for the fictional entry of the month, I’m going young once more after finishing the Harry Potter saga while waiting for the Inheritance saga’s Brisingr to come out. I’m reading Twilight as my sleeping aid now or morning wake up call. Well, like Harry Potter. It’s a teenager story book so it’s not really that hard to understand. Just that it’s a more of a love story. And I believe with the right director, the November debut of the movie will be a hit. Because it captures the heart of the youngster imagination and the adult’s fascination for supernatural and action and the tween lust for love. All of the necessary element is there. Just need a person who has the power to master mind the gathering of the talent. So If you are into teen’s story, vampire and plenty of great plots, you’ll like this one.

I would suggest you guys to take on Eat, Pray, Love as well. it is about the author’s journey after her divorce to healing and fall in love again. Going to Italy to eat for 3 months. And start her spiritual journey in India for the next 3 months and the falling in love again. Or is it one year each??? I can’t remember as I haven’t start reading that. Which is why I’m hesitant to recommend but no harm. We can start together. It’ll be a great journey too to start one something non-fiction yet is a great story and not a biography or advisory edition.
So I hope you all will enjoy my recommendation

Thursday, July 24, 2008

Life and Books





Just finished the second book of the Inheritance trilogy, while people are contemplating on the failure or success of the first instalment of the movie, I’ve already begun my journey longer down the road and finish it and awaiting the last book to be released this year. At such a young age Christopher Paolini is a genius in his own write. For writing such amazing story at the age of 16 and now only 25 already getting his third book out. And it’ll sure to be a sold out straight away.
Anyway the Eragon saga will end for the literature world by the end of this year and it’s a shame that we can’t see the realisation of the whole saga in movies because of the box office. I do hope that one day we’ll get into it.
While we are talking about books, after finishing another fantasy I think it’s time to get back into my ”self preservation” projects. After finishing The Secret and A New Earth, the next most natural selection would surely be the Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff collection.
I just want to say. The way I take the journey. I was dumb founded when I first started. Angry, frustrated, unsatisfied and not in a good sense at all. Then come The Secret. The arrangement of how these 3 books comes about to be is a miracle by itself. This which is a great blessing really.

First come the Secret, which smash this knuckle head of mind into realisation. So What is Law of Attraction (LOA)? It’s a simple concept that we attracted and is responsible for everything that comes our way. Not that we attract the death of other people, but we does create the reality of the event follow by it, the fear, anger and disappointment. It makes us be responsible for every action and thoughts we have and swipe away the fear, rage and doubt that slow us down in our reaction to the environment. It also eliminate the urge of worrying about the future and for it suggests that whatever we think about most affectionately will be a reality in the future. But there’s one catch. Most people don’t actually deal well with confrontation, self ego and fear. Though The Secret is a great hammer to smash all the doubt and worries, it doesn’t deal well with fear and the conscious or unconscious ego. In fact the way it come about it’s popularity is build on fear and greed on a certain level. It’s about what you want in life and actively attracting it with your thought. But you need to let go of the notion of time and how long it’s going to take to manifest. Which is pretty hard trick for people to master and in the end a lot of people may gone down with disappointment and manifested fear of losing.

Which is where should comes A New Earth. I knew from the start of the consciously or under the conscious I’m really self protected, with all the walls and the natural reaction to blame or get angry when things don’t goes as planned. A New Earth just brings everything and thought into one single point on the line. Not left, not right, not up, not down. Right in the centre of the point where we are NOW. A New Earth explains and help me how to deal with my mind and shift the consciousness of it from worries and fear and anger into the centre of myself at this moment. That is letting your consciousness accept the state of our situation, mind, mental, soul, the environment NOW as it is. Focus on the current state all of the aspect of it is NOW and then move on from there. Whenever we stray and wander, we remind ourselves and hold our ground back into the centre. Which is our own life NOW. While the LOA suggest we can only attracts whatever the situation is that’s came, coming or gonna come. It is all done in previous present and THE present moment. We are attracting it NOW with our action NOW. Which with that focus, and knowing what’s in our head and what it will bring. And then knowing that everything happens at this moment NOW. Not anything coming soon and what’s happen in the past that matters, you are more into yourself and what’s happening around us NOW, and we’ll be much more focus on whatever happening NOW. No fear, no doubt, no anger. Because we are centred and we start really living our lives. I’m not suggesting we throw away all of the emotion. They will still come when things or situation occurs. But without the confusion of the egoic mind and the out of control emotion. We can detect or get conscious about it at the point of it presents and start our conscious doing to hold or release it.

Which now comes to the third phase of the situation, Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff and It’s all Small Stuff, is the 2 rules that comes with the Third book by Richard Carlson. While we have certain consciousness of what’s we doing and attracting and what are our emotion are and how we are NOW. So what we should do when the times comes to really choose what’s really matters and what’s not. And what to hold and what to release. Don’t Sweat The Small Stuff give us a good idea of the choice there is and how BIG they are really. It help you to choose. I don’t mean you must follow every rules that there is. Because in some other book I took it suggested the 100 rules to follow in a successful life. I don’t understand it then but now I do. You don’t really have to follow every rules that there is, for it’d be too overwhelming to monitor all that and follow all that every second of your life. Stress is not the end result we are looking for in life. Happiness is. So just relax, and go with the flow. And just relax and enjoy the ride. Though it is a roller coaster ride. Just like the detective of the CSI story, you still get tranquillity in all the chaos you just have to find the click and make the switch. So, all things are in cycle. When you are done with one stuff. Just move on then to the next projects and the cycle repeat. That is the Karma, that is reincarnation of life, that is what it all meant. We life only one life in one life time. that’s our and our own. No one can determine it for us let alone alter it. it’s ours to take. So take it. do what you want with it. Yet no one say that this one life should, will and must remain it’s current state now and in all logic suggest is that it won’t and it will. It won’t remain the same as it is when is start, it changes and revive and reincarnated over and over again from time to time and it’s a great and wonderful journey to move on, Life, Old, Sick, Die, that’s the four big stage, and when life begins and when Life ends we return to as we were when we come of being. Nothing but dust and wind. Nothing more and nothing less. Not even our skins or blood would carry any thing but a matter of going back to it’s origin, nature. That’s how beautiful life is. It’s not about fear or anger or sadness, it is a process, a journey and an experience, through which we go through as a Being, as ourselves.
As you may realise by now that all of the books talks about is about ourselves and ourselves alone. It’s not that the world revolves around your, it’s self centred in the sense that the world in not out there. The world evolves inside of you. It’s not out there and hard to grasp. It’s in all of us, we are the centre. And when everything happens if the world outside, the connection related to our inner consciousness. So it is our own world. It is self centred in a good way. And everything that’s coming from the outside, be it complains or attacks it is merely a small stuff for it is the ego of the people retaliating to your being. See the truth, see what’s truly you have done. Feel every emotion with every fibre of your being, experience what Life brings. Without prejudice, without doubt, without fear and without lost minded simple negative reaction to another simple unintentional stupid reaction of an unconscious auto-piloted being.
Here I hope that everyone would get something from this article and truly start living your life truly as it is and realise how beautiful it is.


I'm not Enlightened. For Life is not yet finish for me. I will be when my journey end. en-light-en.


NOW it's simply lighter...
Best of Luck to all of you.
Love.
Peace.

Monday, April 14, 2008

Yeah Finally The 100th Post!!!!

Being the 100th Post of my blog I'm Conciously making this one a personal and spiritual one.

As everyone following this blog knows that I'm reading "A New Earth" in correspondance with Oprah classes which is on TV every Monday night.

I was following "The Secret" before this. I am positively conceptualizing my life then and positively attracting great things into my life. Ater releasing most of my negative thoughts and actively thinking great positive thoughts and then attracting great life. My Life is changing and getting better and better.

But after a while although the life is getting better. I've comes to a bottle neck where I'm content yet still deep inside I find that I'm still having fear. And I know that fear could expand and further later block my sight of my current life again. and eventually I might get back to my old life.

So I realise that this is something deep inside. of my previous OCD, of my uncontrol thoughts.
So In the event, to not put this into an ideology. I've again have faith that the solution will come at the suitable time and it does.
The solution has come in the form of this book. "A New Earth" by Echart Tolle
I don't know whether how many people have been like me. I always knew there's this thing called Big Love and the Love that is so big that could be given to the world. then my real life doesn't lead me there and some where I ended up into this small secluded condition where I'm all by myself in this "small me". This book have coinside with the realization that I gain with "The Secret" and help me further my spirituality which is to explain how I can actually "handle" my own ego. the self awareness I am, all this while is nothing but a mere illusion of ownership of my ego of that somethings or idea are my own. and when I release the thought or ego that all the idea I have in my mind or things I have around me is mine. I...... felt free. simply to say that to have selflessness I found myself. Without obsessing with what I have and thinking how I'm so proud of owning it. Instead of feeling not enough. now I felt content with enjoying the beauty of this things around me. the beauty of the person in the picture, the beauty of the music, I can lose myself in the sea of melody again. I can enjoy every aspect of a story in a movie more. this feeling is so fresh and renewing.
Finally the last chapter of this release is here. I can finally Let Go and truly be free.
I'm not saying that everyone should just let go and sell all their belonging and you can be happy. there is no "should" here. there's no action any everyone must take. I am saying I myself have the feeling of freedom and I can let go of whatever other people idea was of me and the most important thing, now I can let go of what My idea of myself is and really live a True Life. that is living and experiencing what I'm living and experiencing Now.

For I'm not a teacher, nor am I higher than anyone. no judgement just what I saw in cause and effect. For the universe holds the truth and we all have access to this universe simply by existing in this space. so I hope all of you could enjoy it as I have been this year and realizing that we are people that can rise above adversity and gain life. for life is within you, me and us all. we simply have to dig within to gain access and let go and let the world inspire us.

so if anyone is inspired by where I am now then you can start taking the journey with the book.
but if you think it's not gonna work or you think you are better and not planning on going on any spiritual changes Now, then don't. I'm just sharing my experience.

and for unhappy people reading this or angry people reading this or depressed people reading this and looking for freedom and changes? then I'm saying you might want to look into this.


And here I wish all of you great luck, Great Life, and Love and peace

Sunday, March 30, 2008

What a Life to be in Now!!!! Preview of Life in April

Earth Hour just gone Off last week, Come Join Earth Day on April 22. It's time to continue your effort to protect our earth. Why? you live on it. and if we are to evacuate it. 99% of the world population will have to be left behind. So, for the sake of yourself, your parents, your children. do something now and not regret later. Earth Day is coming ahead of us. it may be a publicity stunt but i don't mind promoting protection of the earth to all earthlings and remind them over and over again through out the year. If you need a wake up call. watch "An Inconvinient Truth", Search of glacier around the world and watch the picture from 10 years back and today's in comparison for yourself. at least 10 years ago we watch the African people starved to death now still they are still starving, and the environment have gotten worst. so do something everyone. every second there's 6 children dies of global catastrophy or circumstances cause by it. so Do something everyone. come join the compaign of Earth Day on April 22.
for more information how you can save the earth and yourself go to
Greenpeace
earth911
Save The Earth
Save Our Earth
A Beautiful lie
Armegeddon Online

or even search and check the doomsday clock. it's 5 min to 12th now. which in every sense it's time to act. I don't mean we all should just give up but it's time to move your ass and do something.

I'm no Fanatic. this is the very truth. I'm not promoting doomsday. I'm promoting life. Protect Lives, save Lives, do your part and save your own life now. Take the Stand.

If you haven't heard the news yet. the coldest place on earth. the Antartica just lost a "Chunk" of Ice, the size of Manhattan and the cracks stretch at least to the Size of Connetticut and this will continue if we continue with what we are doing now, so change. Imagine all the ice melted. there's will not me any New Orlean, Manhattan, or Netherland and Sri Lanka and Calcatta.

More Festival on April, Go to Japan and enjoy the most beautiful Cherry Blossom under the beautiful Mount Fuji.

Celebrate Dutch Heritage Month in New York

Baisakhi Festival in India on April 13, beware of the war or color dust that day. where something you actually dun need to wear anyore later.

Paris, Banlieue Blues Jazz Festival and Foire du Trone (Paris Annual Fair), or even Paris Tattoo Art Festival on April 27

Sport Freak Join the Salt Lake City Marathon on the 26th of April

or if you want to have a more ancient scenery, join the Athens Marathon on April 5.

or the Earth Day Half Marathon Festival April 18-19 in Minnesota.

Celebrate Anzac Day with the Australian on April 25
or
Celebrate National Day of Italy April 25 or Saint George's Day, Festival of San Marco in Venice in St. Marks Square. or if you are into food Food festivals in on12 April in Rome.

of course everywhere is celebrating Easter.
Spring fairs is on Frankfurt, Hamburg and Munich in Germany Filmfest Dresden and Dresden International Dance week in Dresden. Long Night of the Museums and Flamenco Dance Festival in Dusseldorf.

Thursday, October 18, 2007

"The Secret" that the night bring


I've just finish the book, "The Secret", for these few weeks I've been digging my head into all the self-improvement books that i've bought for ages and stacks in my floor to ceiling 4x4 Book shelves.

I've tried the books suggestion, it's working quite well, the main thing is Faith.

I like the idea that our Fate though control by "God/ Whatever Universal Power you believe" are still obtainable for us with our faith in the All Good.

So, what do you care what other people think about you? or how you react to any environmental unfriendly situation? You just have to have faith in th positive and positive will come.

to tell the truth it's not really that hard to believe and even optain happiness or comforts with GOOD FAITH. how people act out towards you are merely reaction to foreseen or unforeseen curcumstanse on your life. Your act brings reaction whether it's something you realise or not. and your reaction to others brings reaction of others on you. So It's simple mathematical Logics that if you do good, act good, think good then all positive reaction will be pour to you.

some how you realise it or not. when you feel happy and think positive a lot of the reaction you shown to your counterpart seem positive and great and in the long temr, ppl will change their mind and given you Good and POSITIVE reaction. So try to be friendly and Positive even when the situation are not as such. you'll see that all things you consider difficult are merely Fog that's create fear and blocking you from moving forward. So Brave Yourself, think positive and you'll find your way out.

one thing you can do, look into the mirror and laugh the hell out every time you brush your teeth, you'll feel happier