Book recommendation time!


Even though I might be “flooded” with the activities I have, but not forgetting one of my favourite pastime-reading!

The book which I am going to recommend is “Plantation-A Lowcountry Tale” by Dorothea Benton Frank.

This novel is not totally sad but it will make you tear. It teaches about cherishing your loved ones especially your kin. I always believe that no matter how much your loved ones hurt you, you will eventually forgive him/her. I am not sure about others but I am one such person.

In the story, there was a misunderstanding between a mother and her children which caused her children to hate her for few decades of years. Later, when her daughter knew that her brother had some problems and so she wanted to find out. She then moved to where her mother and brother stayed. Both the mother and daughter never expected the short time they spent together could be so enjoyable. On the day her daughter went home, she found out that her husband betrayed her. Later on, she even found out that her husband had already betrayed her for quite a number of years and had high sex drive which he claimed sex and love were different. And so, he did not agree that he had betrayed her. This is so sad right? The daughter actually still loved him very deeply and her husband claimed that he loved her as deeply too. I feel that this is such a crap. Anyway, she and her son moved to stay with her mother for some time. At the last stage of her mother’s life, she found out about the misunderstanding they had. Her children always thought that her mother hated them. What a pity they only cleared the misundersanding at the last stage of her life.

Anyway, it is really good to read. When you feel stressed up or are feeling down, reading could calm your nerves down and make you stay focus-on that book. =p I know of some people who fall asleep after reading a few paragraphs. I am not trying to say they do not have any focus but rather this is not their pastime. As for me, once I start reading, it is very difficult to stop. I would request to myself after every chapter saying “One more chapter please. It will be the last one. I promise.” The mature or rational side of me would say “No, you have to sleep or start doing your work already.” But, the soft-hearted side of me usually gives in. It seems that it is rather difficult to keep to my own promises. But, reading is really good so it is actually alright, right? =D
Seriously, I do hope that when I retire or become a rich person, I would be able to spend a lot of time reading books. I do not like to shop so I would not use the money to shop for a lot of clothes excluding food unless it is necessary. I would donate the money which I owned to the charity or needy people or even give it to my kin who needed it.

This is one of the plans which I have. I love to do planning or rather day-dreaming when I have nothing on my mind. I know this will never come true.

I will definitely not like some rich people if I were one. Trust me, sometimes I really did feel like slapping them. Can’t they get a life of theirs? I am not trying to be violent but wanting to wake them up.

When you are successful in life, do think back how you were able to climb up so high and how you were being treated when you were trying to succeed. I guess you would not feel good. Treat people like how you want to be treated. I do hope that those haughty rich people could be more humble and stop looking down on poorer people or people of lower rank and think too highly of themselves. I will never ever respect them like how a human should be treated. I will never ever bootlick them because of the dirty money which they own. This is my principle. Although I might not be as successful or rich as them, I will never betray myself and let my parents or people who love me down and I will use own hands to build my own future.

Sometimes, I feel that people should be grateful to people who treated them badly. Because of their treatment, you actually unconsciously try to improve yourself so that they could accept you and you consciously want to prove them wrong.

P.S. What is written here is not directing at anyone whom I know.