Tuesday, August 25, 2009

Insanity & Falling in Love

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An Instant Book Review & Summary (as well)

Her name's Veronika and her life was almost perfect. She's pretty, she's smart and she's dying.

After years of success and enjoyment, she has realized that something is lacking. It was something she could never ever have for it was something she doesn't know.

For a longing with no definite solution, death was the only answer. So she decided to take fifty sleeping pills and write a nonsense suicidal note to be left on her bed.

But after becoming unconscious, she suddenly woke up. She was in Vilette, a mental hospital in Slovenia.

Her story slowly unfolds in this dreaded place (am I exaggerating or something?). A place where she found the real reason why she has to strive to live again.

Paulo Coelho takes the readers' into another perspective of looking at insanity and hope.

The freedom of thinking and dreaming without anyone stopping you, of doing and saying things the way you really want it to and loving someone with your whole heart knowing that you only have a day to live.

A book of miracle & second chances; chances to believe, love and live for the second time.

Monday, August 24, 2009

Friday, August 21, 2009

My Made-Up Rule for Blog Users

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Writing in a blog is like writing in a diary except for the fact that in a blog, an individual allows other users to read his entry thus giving them a peek on his personal life and/or beliefs. Hence, the user is responsible for every single word that he uses in his entry. In order to avoid breaking the basic rule of respecting others’ rights, one must know how to arrange and how and when to give the proper accent to certain details.

Most important things must never go unmentioned. Points that need to be given emphasis must be correctly emphasized. Lines containing or supporting the main idea should be structured as to catch the reader’s attention and key words should be used to preserve or symbolize the thought wished to be conveyed by the author. Every writer has the right to include anything he wishes but he must not let his imagination twist the reality.

Monday, August 17, 2009

Tuesday, August 11, 2009

The Flying Kiwi

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“Okay, so how come that kiwi was viewed over 23 million times?”


I won’t deny the fact that it was indeed a hilarious but moving video. This one seems to approach the viewers in an animated and humorous manner but I think it is also a kind of allegory. It has a funny plot enhanced by a creative animation or should I say it the other way around?


Every story usually begins with the cliché “Once upon a time” but allow me to start my own essay the way I want it. Here I go.


And so the kiwi suddenly jumped from the cliff without any clear reasons which I interpret to be very irrational but it has obviously its own reasons to do such an action. That tiny creature, even though it seems to be dumb depicts courage. Dumbness because it nailed the roots of the tree to prevent it from falling. On the other hand, it also showed courage because it took risk in going down the slope just to nail the roots. What that kiwi did can be compared to those people who tend to take great risks in some certain events in their lives to do something which is actually worthless.


As far as I’ve read in the children’s encyclopedia, a kiwi is a bird found in New Zealand which is closely related to the emu and ostrich and obviously, it cannot fly. But the kiwi in the video looks like a chick and it also acts like one. Because we have chickens at home, I have observed that the chicks are helpless without the mother hen. They would often be picked on by other chickens and they often wander around, get lost and chirp endlessly until the hen finds them. I have also watched a video in youtube entitled “very funny” wherein the penguin kicked one of the chicks into the water because they make very annoying sounds. In the end, the chicks that were left became silent when a shark ate their companion.


But despite the fact that the only character in the video seems helpless, it also shows some actions which can remind us that miracles do happen. Remember when the kiwi wearing the pilot’s costume jumped off from the cliff? As it was falling, it shed its tears and then tiny structures grew from its body which I consider to be its wings because of the flapping movement. We sometimes tend to wish for certain miracles to happen in our lives but we are not even ready to take risk or sacrifice something in return. I have learned through this video that just like the kiwi, we human beings are helpless in nature but when certain situations require us to take risk, we must not hesitate because it is during those times that a lot of miracles take place.

Monday, August 10, 2009

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The Impossible Author

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Rophy Sly G.Nunes, a scientist and member of University of California, Los Angeles’ Marine Science team, is the author of the 2016 Newbery medal book “Into the Depths of Dolphin’s Despair”- one of the books greatly acknowledged and recommended by World Wildlife Fund.

Her first ever published book was widely read around the world by children of all ages and was translated into more than 20 languages including French and German. This book genuinely and vividly portrays the endangered life of dolphins; their unusual intelligence and their never-ending struggles to adapt and survive the constantly changing world of the deep waters.