So last month I think the most popular and highly-rated movie in taiwan is Slam Dunk.
I haven't seen the movie but I did see the comic books over than 10 times.
I love the charactors in Slam Dunk - each of them has their own vivid personality and the story is very well portrayed.
Slam Dunk is always one of my favorite comics. I'm such a lucky person to live in the prosperous time of comics in 90s.
Growing up with ages, I find myself focusing on food more and more.
For this comic, even though it says about a girl into mountain climbing, actually it describes more about food carried by the girl in mountains and they all look delicious.
If you're into mountains, it is good comics. If you're interested in food, this is the ones for you too.
It's a book written by Kazuo Ishiguro, who is a Nobel prize winner in 2017. It says about a butler in England during WWII. The lord of Darlington Hall is close to German, but the butler, Mr. Stevens is still dedicated to the lord without any question. Even if Mr. Stevens was in love with Ms. Kent, the main female servant, he refused to be falling in love with her because he has his own job and needs to fully dedicate to the lord. So, Ms. Kent left Darlington Hall they haven't contacted till twenty years later.
It's not a happy story but the author described the butler, the maid, the lord and other characters vividly and with every detail. Moreover, the England atmosphere and beautiful scenery is all over the place. And there's a movie made for it, starring by Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson. It's a beautiful and profound book. Share with you.
Just finished the book today. It is about human beings to live a life without complaining or finding excuses for him/herself's failures. And also about to live our own lives but others', which means everyone has their own lives/ issues to face but we just don't need to take others' opinions or involvement for granted because at last, it's our own lives.
It is a new and working perspective. Share with you.
Another book from Japanese. Sometimes I just feel that Japanese is a really sensitive and considerate and mature group of people. They can not only do their jobs and also learn something profound from the jobs. And most of them see their jobs as their long-life career and diligently do the work.
So for this book, it's a person who has the job as a death cleanser. Since it's a really unique job, it of course would bring lots of thoughts to the worker. For human beings, the one thing we can't resist would be death, but people often tend not to think about it because it is too heavy and sad. But for the author, it is his work so he has to face death everyday and even worse, some deaths are not natural deaths. They're self-suicides or bad death bodies. From the work, author saw different stories, some showed the warmth from human beings, while some showed the bad side. But from the stories, the author learned the essence of lives and he put them altogether in this book. It's highly recommanded when you're confused about lives. In front of deaths, everyone is so small and needs to be humble.
This is a book which once you start reading, it's hard to stop. It says about a japanese woman who is hitting 36 years old but still only got a part-time job in at convenient store and unmarried. Well, after reading it, I can totally understand the feeling and situation happening in the book because that's the society for now.. Women or men who don't get married and a job will get critisized and eventually don't want to be with other friends because they're tired of any kind of question. So, this book keeps asking what is normal and what is abnormal. Actually that is a good point. If someone doesn't get married and a full-time job, why are they abnormal? It's evident that they're judged by the society. But is the society correct? No one can answer that. Sometimes I feel that society is slowly killing the minority. But I guess that's the darwin's theory, so that's normal, right?
I've been reading a comic series called "Dilbert", which is a popular one describing the life for office workers- exactly what my life is now. Since I'm working for a while, after reading each of Dilbert, I always can imagine vividly what it is saying and easily come up a story which really happened in my office and it is just like the Dilbert says. Even though Dilbert's characters are all simple and not very fancy, it tells the truth precisely in every office (or I should say every cubicle)- the lazy worker, the diligent worker, the stupid but arrogant boss, the bad-tempered lady etc. It brings so much joy to me especially when I'm in a boring working environment and feel sleepy during work. Strongly suggest to read this comic if you're the can't-change-anything-but-have-to-work person. You can find some comfort in it.
Pix from: http://www.bcemba06.org/events/
Honestly, I am not a book lover or read lots of books. But this book is interesting to me, especially the campus life part. I didn't have the chance to study MBA in the US, but from this book I can know every detail of the MBA life. The author has a talent to write everything in a funny and appealing way- I've always liked fun stuff. I've studied abroad as an exchange student for one semester and that's partly why I like the book because some situations the author says in the book can be imagined vividly by me. I couldn't help smiling all the time while reading this book. Even though I haven't finished it all, it is a useful book for those who would like to study abroad- not because it will tell you where to do the grocery shopping, because it humorously and loyally describes the MBA life in the US.
