okay, you heard me, loud and clear! not so fun after all.. that's probably a more valid reason why i hadn't been writing for a month now..wait, a MONTH?? no way!!
sad thing, i'm not getting where i supposed had to be in my progress.. there's this, what do you call it? HINDRANCE, (not hindraf!) in advancement! how very undiplomatic physics can be, i mean, i think i've been a good friend to it, this time it's playing trick on me! how bad can a bad physics be? trust me, when you strained your 2 precious eyes on super-luminous "excited gas" (commercial name: plasma) screen, furiously typing down programming language that only non-human (laymen term: robot) can understand, experiencing thinning head due to overcomsumption of "what's and where's had i done wrong?", yet nothing comes physically sensible to your centuries old theories (that means you either conjure new theories of your own, possibly crooked, or your experiments data are all flawed!). ah..no, it's not fun at all!
but let's leave that behind for now, and talked about something else.. about a book that my Dudu happened to lend me (actually that's not true, i told her if she doesn't want me dead by the time breaks over, get me a book to read. she came up with 2 books--LOTR, and the one that i'm going to talk about in a wee while, to save me from STOOW--self throwing out of window)
written by exceptional scientist, Robert Winston, "The Human Mind:and how to make the most of it", is one of the rarest books that can really engage me while i'm lying down on bed, making my head (and so are my eyelids) refused themselves to fall into the prey of dozing off. i've got some other books that i'd like to share, but nevermind that for now. i want to talk about this particular book, and you ought to continue to read me!
weaved through 9 chapters altogether,Winston arranged each of the chapter built-up based of the one before it. i started with chapter 2, turning pages until references, glossary and index within 2 nights. why no chapter 1? it's a bit too technical for me, i can't be bothered. for those of you who want to understand your own brain, and a bit of others, how to make and come to your sane senses, how to avoid that caffein-lacking syndrome of early lectures and 2pm lectures, how you love, and being in love, i think this is it!
he writes it with charisma, that doesn't only leave you in daze, but upon finishing it, you would come to your senses, what a unique person are you! it's written with scientific researches and findings as it's wallpaper, while he adds some colors here and there to make it understandable for layman, spotlights where he wants to show us dark matter here and there, even dimming the focus on some so as to prevent us from reading too much into samples of his chosen articles. i'd say it's an argot from its topic, that only certain people can fathom WTH he's talking about, but i'm certainly very wrong. really, it's worth it, the time (and the money too i suppose, although i'm going to haunt for a second-hand one, here's too expensive to buy it--i can have 3 meals with a price of a book), and the knowledge you gain from it, to put it in Mastercard's way "PRICELESS"! it's only more or less 200 pages, and certainly more promising and socially acceptable than those mangas you've been loyally devoted for!
herein, that's why you see me completing my entry for this month. i'm alive, well and nourished (both brain and body), and hope to grow better tommorrow! let's hope that, and work hard for it. i've seen it somewhere: aim for the star, had it shoots lower than that, there's always tree top to land. how very appropriate! maybe it's time for a change-life as a psychologist:PRICELESS!, right Dudu?
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
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2 comments:
Well written post Didi, certainly summed the book up in a beautiful way. Ur review makes me wanna re-read the book from the beginning again. lol.
i'm actually re-reading it for the second time. i'm surprised on the amount of info i've missed on the first go! haha
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