Death and life

Not long ago, I went out with Joanna and Phui Yan. We had our lunch in JJ’s Sushi King.

I was just thinking that maybe its time for Sushi King to change its billing system. Or maybe their trainers should undergo longer training.

Because I, once again, ate there for free.

Why Sushi King likes to let me eat ‘Ba wong chan’ one leh? They love me too much I guess.

A novel by Paulo Coelho

I finished this book yesterday. Sambil watch badminton sambil read. Felt sorry for Choong Wei and the Malaysia’s No. 1 doubles. Watching them got toyed by China so easily was really heartbreaking. Anyhow, they tried their best. Thank you for your efforts!

Back to the book. The first Paulo Coelho’s book that I read was The Alchemist which tells a story about a boy traveling to find the world greatest treasure and the people he met along his journey. The book gave me an insight into Paulo Coelho’s world and his way of interpreting life.

The simple language and sentences he used managed to convey his ideas to his readers. I was surprised by his ideas and philosophy until a point where I laughed to myself and said: ‘Like that also can ah?’

“My Heart Is Afraid that it will have to suffer,” the boy told the alchemist one night as they looked up at the moonless sky.”Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams.” -The Alchemist

However, in Veronika Decides to Die, I found that he has some dark sense of humor. (‘People talked more openly to a psychiatrist then they did to a priest because a doctor couldn’t threaten them with Hell‘ ) The book tells a story about Veronika, who tries to suicide because she don’t have the will to live or to die and failed. She was then sent into the hospital for the mentally ill patients and was told that she only had about a week to live due to organ damage. In the hospital she met lots of people- including those that were just pretend to be ill to escape from reality.

Overall, the book was good. Those that had thoughts of killing themselves are highly recommended to read this. It tells us that the society always imposes on us a collective way of behaving, and people never stop to wonder why they should behave like that because they just accept the best possible behavior or that people go against nature because they lack the courage to be different.

Sometimes I just hope that I can just do crazy things like the mad people in the story without giving a damn what others think.

A friend just told me that the interview list for USM came out but my name was not in the list! For now just hope that I still have a chance to get into that uni.

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~ by yukana on May 15, 2010.