eat pray love

EAT, PRAY, LOVE – Is a true story - a quest to rediscover oneself in three different places : pleasure in Italy, devotion in India and balance in Bali. I know how the story will end… pretty much from the beginning.

I like the EAT part, which in Italy. The author discovers the best pizza, enroll in Italian language classes and learn the romantic Italian culture. Nice. The excitement started to fade when the author travel to India to PRAY and meditate. It’s increasingly annoying as it was too chatty and draggy. I was hoping that Bali would pick up the momentum back.. as it might close to heart – LOVE. Unfortunately - It was just okay.

But, I still like this book. It’s inspiring to see the risk that people willing to take, in order to start an extraordinary journey.

Soon there will be a movie based on this novel, starring Julia Robert,.. oh well. I shall wait.

Goodnight Everyone. Sleep Tight :)

Good night, sleep tight,
Don't let the bedbugs bite,
Wake up bright
In the morning light
To do what's right
With all your might.

Author: Unknown

Bubba Gump

Not sure why... its a bit of a let down :( But there's a lot of beautiful quotes from the movie.

My momma always said, "Life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get.

Do you ever dream, Forrest, about who you're gonna be?
Who I'm gonna be?
Yeah...
Aren't-aren't I going to be me?

Listen, you promise me something, OK? Just if you're ever in trouble, don't be brave. You just run, OK? Just run away.

This Is Just To Say

I have eaten
the plums
that were in
the icebox

and which
you were probably
saving
for breakfast

Forgive me
they were delicious
so sweet
and so cold

by: William Carlos Williams

Its cheeky and deceptive – I like :)

The one you feed

One evening, an old Cherokee told his grandson about a battle that goes on inside people.

He said, "My son, the battle is between two 'wolves' inside us all. One is Evil - It is anger, envy, jealousy, greed, and arrogance. The other is Good - It is peace, love, hope, humility, compassion, and faith."

The grandson thought about this for a while and then asked his grandfather, "Which wolf wins?"

To which the old Cherokee simply replied, "The one you feed."

-Author Unknown-

for one more day

Not as good as Tuesdays with Morrie… a bit let down. Story of a man who gets the chance to spend one more day with his mother, who died 8 years earlier. it is not something I am likely to remember or reread.

Favorite bits from the book:

I have forgotten so many things in my life, yet I can remember every moment of that time with my mother, the people we saw, the things we discussed. It was so ordinary in so many ways, but as she said, you can find something truly important in an ordinary minute. You may think me crazy, that I imagined the whole thing. But I believe this in the deepest part of my soul: My mother, somewhere between this world and the next, gave me one more day, the day i’d wanted so badly, and she told me all that i’ve told you.

What causes an echo?” she once quizzed me.
The persistence of sound after the source has stopped.
When can you hear an echo?”
When it’s quiet and other sounds are absorbed.
When it’s quiet, I can hear my mothers echo still.


Here is what you are going to find out about marriage: you have to work at it together. And you have to love three things. You have to love
1) each other
2) your children (when you have some! hint hint!)
3) your marriage
What i mean by the last one is, there may be times that you fight, and sometimes you and Catherine won't even like each other. But those are the times you have to love your marriage. It's like a third party. Look at your wedding photos. Look at any memories you've made. And if you believe in those memories, they will pull you back together.

The Zahir

It’s been a while I didn’t write anything about the books I read. So, here one of it that I like and worth reading.

I picked up this book simply because I had read Coelho's book, The Alchemist. I very much enjoyed The Alchemist. He wrote - Zahir, in Arabic, means visible, present, incapable of going unnoticed. It is someone which, once we have come into contact with them or it, gradually occupies our every thought, until we can think of nothing else – Its novel of obsession.

It’s a journey of a man who is searching for his wife, who has disappeared in odd circumstances. The journey forced him to re-examine his own life and marriage. To find his wife, he must find his own self. At the end of it, I couldn’t help but wonder what was inspired – reality, truth or just fiction.

Taken from ‘the zahir’


That is why it is so important to let certain things go. To release them. To cut loose. People need to understand that no one is playing with marked cards; sometimes we win and sometimes we lose. Don’t expect to get anything back, don’t expect recognition for your efforts, don’t expect your genius to be discovered or your love to be understood. Complete the circle. Not out of pride, inability or arrogance, but simply because whatever it is no longer fits in your life. Close the door, change the record, clean the house, get rid of the dust. Stop being who you were and become who you are.

I start leafing through it and suddenly I read something that surprises me: The acomodador or giving-up point : there is always an event in our lives that is responsible for us failing to progress; a trauma, a particularly bitter defeat, a disappointment in love, even a victory that we did not understand, can make cowards of us and prevent us from moving on. As part of the process of increasing his hidden powers, the shaman must first free himself from that giving-up point and, to do so, he must review his whole life and find out where it occured.

We need to forget who we think we are in order to become who we really are

Law of Jante: Mediocrity and anonymity are the safest choice. If you opt for them, you will never face any major problems in life. But if you are trying to be different...

Great Wall