Books 01 (May 08 - Oct 08)

[millionairemind]

Winston,

I recently watched the oprah winfrey show and she highlighted/recommended "a new earth" by ekhart tolle. I went to borders bookstore on tue but was told that it is sold out. You may wish to check out her interview w. him on the Oprah magazine, May 2008 edition

Pepper,

I just bot A New Earth by Ekhart Tolle from Kinokuniya this morning. The branch is located at Bugis Junction. Today there is a store wide 20% off promotion going on.

Along with it, I also bot "The Last Lecture" by Randy Pausch. For those who are not familiar with him, here is a Google/Youtube video that might help.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid ... 5846055184

It is of utmost importance to live our lives to the values and the priorities that we think are most important.. and it can be different for everyone. Nobody on their death bed ever wished that they spent more time at the office..

Cheers,
mm

[Kelvin]

Who moved my cheese?

Brilliant Book

[pepper]

MM,

Tks for the info abt "The New Earth".

Randy Pausch was also on the Oprah Winfrey Show where he presented "The Last Lecture". I've not checked out the book yet but the presentation was rather touching. Though he is dying soon from pancreatic cancer, I can see that he still has a lot of passion for life.

He mentioned that his main reason for writing "The Last Lecture" was actually for 3 people - his 3 young sons, so that when they're older, they will watch it.

Btw, one of my favourite books is "Tuesdays with Morrie" by Mitch Albom. I've also read his "For One More Day" and "The Five People You Meet In Heaven", but I like "Tuesdays with Morrie" the most.

[millionairemind]

Pepper,

I liked Tuesdays with Morrie too. Read the whole series by Mitch A.

You might like Chasing Daylight by Gene O'Kelly. He was the former CEO of KPMG USA when he found on one day that he had brian cancer and had only 3 months to live. The book chronicles his last 3 months and writes about how he regretted while climbing the corporate ladder, he never had a decent dinner date with his wife ( I think he had like 1 in ten years.. )

Here is a review on NY Times.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/30/books/30masl.html

Cheers,
mm

[pepper]

Another book which i enjoyed reading is "Anne Frank - The diary of a young girl".

It is a dairy written by Anne Frank who was hiding for 2 yrs with her family during the nazis occupation of the netherlands. They were hiding in the upper rooms of the annex of her father's office in amsterdam. Unfortunately she died shortly after the liberation in 1945.

I read it right before visiting amsterdam 2 yrs ago and it was quite an experience visiting her place of hiding, known as "Anne Frank's house" (which is now a tourist attraction).

I have also recently bought "Night" by Elie Wiesel (winner of the nobel peace prize). I've not read it yet but it is abt Wiesel's experience as a teenager in the Auschwitz concentration camp.

[kennynah]

Anne Frank was indeed quite a touching read...it was my literature text during my skolar days...

I guess you will probably enjoy "My Left Foot" as well..

[pepper]

kennynah,

I've not read "my left foot" but I've seen a movie by daniel day lewis with the same title.

[kennynah]

title : secrets of candlestick charting (((i usually dislike books entitled "secrets"....))
author : louise bedford (female...and they say women make better traders)

simple illustrations of candlestick TA...easy to read and understand...good for beginners.

[helios]

thanks K for e TA book; maybe u bring along when we lim kopi lor ...

earlier today, i juz bought e Undercover Economist by Tim Harford; will be reading this soon.

(i must also thank CIF5000 for his Blue Ocean book).

[LenaHuat]

Another book which i enjoyed reading is "Anne Frank - The diary of a young girl".

It is a dairy written by Anne Frank who was hiding for 2 yrs with her family during the nazis occupation of the netherlands. They were hiding in the upper rooms of the annex of her father's office in amsterdam. Unfortunately she died shortly after the liberation in 1945.

I read it right before visiting amsterdam 2 yrs ago and it was quite an experience visiting her place of hiding, known as "Anne Frank's house" (which is now a tourist attraction).

I have also recently bought "Night" by Elie Wiesel (winner of the nobel peace prize). I've not read it yet but it is abt Wiesel's experience as a teenager in the Auschwitz concentration camp.

I find Elie Wiesel's "Night" pale compared to Primo Levi's "If this is a Man" (the American version is "Survival in Auschwitz"). Primo Levi has another masterpiece "The Periodic Tables".

U might also be interested in Simon Wiesenthal's book "The Sunflowers". He is known as the Nazi hunter.

Juz a short preview of "The Sunflowers"

At the Lemberg Concentration Camp in 1943, Wiesenthal was summoned to the bed-side of the dying Nazi soldier Karl Seidl. The soldier told him that he was seeking a Jew's forgiveness for a crime that had haunted him (Seidl) in his life. The soldier confessed to having destroyed, by fire and armaments, a house full of 150 Jews. He also spoke that as the Jews leap out of windows to escape the burning building, he gunned them down. Wiesenthal was so troubled he simply walked out of the hospital room silently, ignoring the soldier's pleas for forgiveness. Later, he re-counted the tale to other prisoners in the camp and asked them if he was justified in his silence, getting varied responses.