Tag: books
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All the Light That We Cannot See
Shortly after laughing at my sister while reading a book, I cried for 2 hours reading the last 10% of All the Light That We Cannot See. On a plane. Sniffling. Wiping tears off with my sleeve and not giving a damn what the fellow next to me thought. War brings out the foulest of…
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Funemployment Quarterly Review
So it’s been almost 3 months since I returned to SF. I’m no longer homeless, but still looking for that perfect job (ok, at this point I’m loosening up my definition of perfect). As someone who gets super anxious when it comes to wasting time, I thought it would be good to review the past…
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Of Love, Music, Physics, and Other Demons
Preface Did you know that the original meaning of demon simply meant divine power, and had no connection to evil? Chapter 1: The Lady in Number 6 “Everyday life is beautiful. Everyday. It’s beautiful. The music is so beautiful.”- Alice Herz Sommer I never want to be old. It’s a silly thing to say, but…
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The Road Less Traveled
It is not by chance that I stumbled onto this book, some may even call it serendipitous. The Road Less Traveled starts with this proclamation: life is difficult. It’s not a foreign concept, as Buddha has always taught us life is about suffering, and Christians are expected to endure tribulations on earth and suffer for…
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Together
I just finished reading The Art of Loving, a classic of sorts by Erich Fromm. The book was structured and reads like a scientific thesis, and I shall restrain myself from crediting that to the stereotype of German methodical precision. I’ve often thought it futile to analyze the anatomy of love, to make sense of…
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one hundred years of solitude
It was the story of history and war, fantasy and parables, and in the center of it all was the Buendia family, who at times were darlings to the Fates and then abandoned ruthlessly without warning. There were all together seven generations, and they all bore the same names that set their destiny. They lived…
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The Selfish Heart
I just finished The Selfish Gene. The book introduces the idea that the gene (the DNA based unit that passes on hereditary traits from one generation to another), in its natural inclination to survive and propagate, stands at the center of evolutionary development. While the first chapters were interesting, it was the section on the evolutionary…
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Pause
It’s slightly amusing to me (and perhaps only me) that this beautiful island that’s probably rarely ever felt a cold front is called Samui, which is means cold in Japanese. I arrived here after my dive trip on the near by Koh Tao island for a flight to Kuala Lumpur, and booked a night at…
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昨天一整天都在下載MP3﹐現在已經有了一整張CD的﹐今天準備燒﹐YEA﹗有事做了﹗ 工作真的很無聊﹐連看古龍都看厭煩了﹐可是也不是很想真的開始做些什麼(所以只能在中文版上寫出來﹐要不然老闆會看到 =P)。 其實我老闆很好啦﹐只比我大幾歲﹐以前和我一樣是學生在這打工﹐現在和以前也差不了多少。她做什麼事都很認真﹐不像我﹐什麼都是哈哈兩聲過去。 今天要陪朋友去美術館。好久沒去了﹗上次好像還是去年暑假吧﹗不過一個人也不是很想跑去那邊﹐雖然說我覺得美術是個人欣賞的藝術﹐可是還是寧願結伴去。 最近打球都很爛﹐氣死了。而且這個禮拜都吃很多耶﹗也不知道是為什麼=( 好不容易瘦下來一點點﹐可不能又讓體重上昇了﹗ 我都不知道“追憶似水年華”是那麼厚一本書耶﹗不過很喜歡普魯斯特的文字﹐雖然我還剛剛看第一章﹐可是已經感覺到他那種淡淡的懷念﹐仿彿自己也回到了法國的莊園上﹐過著平淡的貴族生活。