amiel's posts with tag: reading&literature
Our project for our english subject for this grading was to write articles together with your groups and come up of a magazine. It's really hard to write things and research things for this project because you have to be very careful and skeptic of what article you are to write. As for me being an associate editor, i complain something. Why is that my job becomes what the EIC and Lay-out Artist should be doing. Yes, I consider and appreciate her for giving me her trust in editing and re.writing and illustrating the articles but shouldn't we help each other? Isn't that why we have groupings? For us to help and lend a hand to each other? I'm good in english, yes, but im not that fluent. I'm good in drawing, yes, but I'm not that creative. I just hope our group can do this. I really pray for it. Godbless.
I just read the second time this book called "The Secret" by Rhond Byrne. It talks all about how you can be, do, and have everything you want. The Secret talks about one of the most powerful law of nature: The Law Of Attraction .. In which it states that just through thinking, you create something. And to achieve this process, there are simple requirements such as to feel good 100% and gratify all the things and people around you and etc. it also states that feeling happy or any positive feeling is twice greater and stronger than a negative feeling such as depression, frustration and etc. The Law of attraction was used by some of the Greatest Minds in History such as Plato, Shakespeare, Newton, Hugo, Beethoven, Einstein, Churchill, and Luther King .. they knew this all along .. they don't know how it happens, but they do know it works .. The book states that nothing is impossible to happen through faith. It does not talk about any religion specifically but it tells that there is always something bigger than us that can provide us eveything. As for me, I believe this book but I prefer to look at this book as a Christian and I have proven it to myself that If we only believe in God without any doubts, everything is possible in whatever aspect of your life. Remember: To think is to Create. Godbless guys! thanks for reading my blog!
Guys I made an on-the-spot poem here ok ?? trust me .. hehe
Here It Goes: "Friends Forever?"
You and I have met In a very nice situation We became instant friends Without any hesitation.
We cherish our friendship Everytime we meet We love to tak and walk with each other And even we have the same food to eat.
Times have passed And nothing has changed We did the same things Until I said to myself..
"I love you, That's what I feel" That's what you didn't heard But I know this is real.
After that, A great change happened to me I tried to tell you what i feel But then you ignored me.
I became consistent of what I've been feeling This is not easy for me And you don't even come when I am heeding.
It's like whispering to the ears Of the wind which is not even visible Compared to you that i see But to talk personally i am not able.
I thought we were friends All this time, All these years But why are you so rude and blind Is this because you're just fond of me?
I tried to give My everyday to you And in return and exchange This is what you're going to do?
You didn't even realize That I called your name I thought this was a fantasy in reality But you thought it's a game.
Until now I try to tell you I try to fill the empty space A gap that's between me and you.
But this time I'll try to ask you Do you also feel the same That's why this is what you do ??
this is for the people who tries to love someone, a friend, but then they won't make any appreciation in you ..
Give your comments if you like ..
Hope You Like it! TakeCare and Godbless! Happy Christmas and a Blessed New Year
Try watching this hilarious movie of Drew Barrymoore(E.T., Charlie's Angels). In this story she is a newswriter who was assigned to undercover a High School life and excerpt a great story from it. In the end, the story that should be excerpted came from her own. It is really funny but touching though. Just watched it a while ago in Star Movies. Import.flv (5.4 MB)
Haay, i never imagined that i manage to read about 5 books this summer.. well i'm enjoying it though.. some of the books i already read is J.K. Rowling's award winning book, Harry Potter.. I almost cried because of the story in the 6th installment.. well it's worth it.. hehe.. This year i'll try to read 10 books or more.. I really am a bookworm.. hehe.. well.. have a nice day..^_^
 | Category: | Books | | Genre: | Science Fiction & Fantasy | | Author: | Paolo Coelho |
"To realize one's destiny is a person's only obligation..."
In the prologue, an alchemist traveling in a caravan in an unspecified place and time recounts a fable that he read along the way. The story is a modified version of the myth of Narcissus. The twist in this version is that the lake in which Narcissus drowned wept for the death of Narcissus not because of his beauty, but because the lake could gaze at its own beauty in the eyes of the young boy. This idea is taken from a short prose-poem by Oscar Wilde called 'The Disciple'.
Santiago, the protagonist, grew up with poor parents who had struggled their whole lives to send him to seminary. But Santiago had a strong desire to travel the world, and so his father allowed him to use his inheritance to buy a flock of sheep.
As a shepherd, he spent several years traveling the countryside of Andalusia in southern Spain, enjoying the care-free and adventurous life of a wanderer. As the story begins, we learn that a year ago Santiago met the beautiful daughter of a merchant in a town he is soon to revisit. Even though he spent only a few hours talking with this girl, his strong feelings for her make him question his life as a shepherd and make him consider the merits of a more settled life.
When he arrives in the town where the girl lives he first decides to go to a gypsy fortune-teller to help him decipher a recurring dream that he had been having. Santiago always dreamt that a child was playing with his sheep and then took him by the hand and brought him to the Pyramids of Egypt to show him the location of a hidden treasure. But Santiago always woke up just before the child was going to reveal to him the exact location of the treasure. The gypsy said that he has to go because if it is a child that tells, it exists.
The boy at first did not mind what the gypsy had said but when an old man, who call himself Melchizedeck, the king of Salem, told him that it is his personal legend or his purpose to live. Melchizedeck told him a wonderful story about a man who wanted to find happiness. Santiago decided to travel in Africa. He sold his sheep and went to Tangier. But in Tangier, he was robbed. Losing hope, he decided to walk and up in a hill, he found a crystal shop. Business tamed when the nearby city developed. When the boy entered the shop, he cleaned the dusty crystal glasses in exchange for some food to eat. As he was cleaning two customers entered the store and bought some crystal glasses. The Arab merchant was glad with what happened so he hired the boy. Santiago learns that every person's fate is written.
After almost a year, the boy decided to leave the crystal shop since he has enough money to buy a flock of sheep twice the number of the ones he had before. But he never bought a single sheep. He decided to fulfill his personal legend - to find his treasure.
He joined the caravan going to the desert where the Pyramids are found. In the caravan, the boy met the Englishman who for 20 years have searched for true alchemists. The Englishman has so many books on alchemy that are unusual to the boy. In the caravan, he learned so many things.
-- to be continued--
The caravan rolls on toward the oasis. As the Englishman attempts to observe the desert and learn its language, Santiago reads the Englishman's books and learns about alchemy. The Englishman tells him that the goal of alchemists is to purify metal by heating it for many years until all its individual properties are burned. After a while, he stopped reading and returned the books to the Englishman.
When they arrived in the oasis, they were welcomed and told that they can't proceed because of the tribal wars.He helped the Englishman look for the alchemist. And there, he met Fatima where he encountered love at first sight. Fatima was a desert woman and therefore understands that Santiago order to pursue his personal legend. At the very same time the alchemist living at the oasis realizes that he would meet a disciple who would learn from him the secrets of alchemy. Apparently the disciple turn out to be Santiago. Reluctant to leave the oasis because of his love for the desert girl Fatima, Santiago decides to stay at the oasis accepting the new role of being the councilor of the oasis which was offered to him by the chieftain when Santiago averted a threat of tribal attack on the oasis through a vision he had. But the alchemist warns him that in the future he would lose his ability to see omens as a result he would lose his position as the councilor and he would regret his decision of not persuing his destiny that is, finding the treasure. 
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