Interpreter of Maladies & The Namesake -Jhumpa lahiri

so sad and real..
you are who you are, no matter where you are..

MOMO -Michael Ende

An imaginative story about the concept of time.

Why are we, adults, see it and use it so differently from children..how do we start changing?

In case you're wondering, What's good about all those technology that claimed to helped us work faster, if the time we save is used to do more work?

It's not that we should just waste our time.

This book reminds me of this story:

A time management guru places rocks into an aquarium at the front of the class. She asks the class if the aquarium looks full. Everyone points to the spaces in between the rocks. She smiles as she adds stones, which fall between the rocks to fill up the bigger spaces. People then point to the space between the large stones and pebbles. She sprinkles in sand, which seems to fill up all the spaces. When everyone agrees that the aquarium is full, she pours a jug of water into the aquarium. Every drop of it is absorbed between the rocks, pebbles and sand.

The moral of the story is not that you can always fit something else in - it's that this is the only way we can fit all this into the aquarium. If we place the rocks in first, everything else fits in around them. If we try any other order, we would have leftover things at the end of each day or week.

so, what's your rocks?

a story behind Oxford English Dictionary (OED)

Interesting facts:

1. It took 70 years to finished OED.
2. It involved a lunatic murderer doctor as its greatest contributor.
3. English as an International language is a vision, certain people struggle for it.
4. How OED was build? how to collect all the words and quotation?

...my new heaven on earth is called Homerian Library

This library is'nt far from my house. It's different from my university library or a book rental. They have the collection of many interesting books, dvd and cd, from indonesia and abroad. They also sell and buy old books. The owner is a truly book hunter. I love their collection.
Having too much leisure time, I can do anything I want, and since I love books soo much..this is my new heaven on earth.

Newton's Apple Mystery

There are some interesting facts you can found in this book.

First, The most interesting one for me, is about the myth of Newton and Apple. Of course you're familiar with the story of Newton, Apple and Gravity. It turns out that it's not like what I used to think it is. I'm not gonna tell you here. You must read it yourself :p

Which you think is the CooLest, Einstein or Newton? I have always been Einstein big fans but after reading this book I change my mind. Sir Isaac Newton is the Greatest Scientist Ever. In the last pages of the book you can read what Einstein said about Newton and some reasons why, both, Einstein and Newton's are considered to be the greatest scientist and polling result about Einstein vs Newton.

Imagine, how is it like to conduct research on something real brand new. There was no specific glossary used to describe 'the thing' you want to measure and there's no unit of measurement.

Read the book and then answer this question
"If you could be Isaac Newton, be the greatest scientist ever, contributed so much for human, etc but you have to live the way he live, and experience everything he did. Personal life, love life, personal relation, daily habits..I meant everything! Would you???"

* 'the thing' that I meant was Force(F) and the unit of measurement..well..Newton(N)
*pic from here