The long known secret?

Yesterday went to swimming class again. Was surprised that my ex-partner is back! So since instructors were all busy with other students, we practiced ourselves. We competed freestyle 25m too! Three times some more! I was shocked by my own achievement, coz I've never swim that fast before. Hehe. Happy happy!

But my instructor told me although I swim fast but my freestyle is still not 100% correct. =( She say actually for life saving any style also you can perform as long as you can beat the time but since you want to teach swimming after you get the cert you have to make sure your styles are correct. Stressed man.

Din do 100m yesterday coz was very tired already. But 300 m and underwater swim was okay for me already. No problem with them.

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Have I told you here that I bought 3 books from the MPH stock clearance sales? Next by Michael Crichton (RM24.00), 101 Great Answers to the Toughest Interview Questions by Ron Fry (RM18.00) and the very very famous The Secret (hardcover) by Rhonda Byrne (RM56). So I spend a total of RM93 in books. Hmm. I better go get back the receipt from the dustbin so that I can claim income tax next year. =P


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I saw this Secret book on the shelf and I know it's about Law of Attraction. I read online that it's really motivational. And I really want it because the whole book is finely packaged. lol. But I saw the price in Popular bookstore before this and it was not cheap (if not mistaken more than RM70). So when I realized it's RM56 in the sales I couldn't control myself from grabbing it from the shelf and then couldn't let go of the book. I made a sin. lol.

Eh? While writing this entry, I went to Shelfari which I had long abandoned. =P And check on the book review on the Secret. A lot readers are not very satisfied with the book wor. They say it's very much like a normal motivational book. They say it's not actually a secret also coz a lot of motivational books had already mentioned it. Some even say it's worse than a normal motivational book and it's so famous because of marketing gimmicks.

Die liao. I think I really made a great sin by buying it with such price. Argh. Nevermind. I can use the receipt to deduct my next year income tax. Maybe it might motivate me in some ways that "How-to" book can't le. But I really like my "How-To" book now. I'm worried that the How-To book is better written than the Secret.

Argh. Dunno la dunno la. Just read la.


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Hmm. Since I talked about books already. Might as well talk about movie as well.

Recently, I watched this movie called The escape from Huang Shi (a.k.a The children of Huang Shi) cast by Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Radha Mitchell, Yun-Fat Chow and Michelle Yeoh. This movie is inspired by true events with the historical background of Japanese occupation of China in 1937 (南京大屠杀).

Although there are two Chinese actor/ actress in the movie, but the story is mainly about how good a contribution of a white man to the kids from Huang Shi. This movie touched me. And the effort the guy took to really raise the spirits of the kids in their haunting experiences of losing their own parents. If there really was such man, I really salute him for that because raising one's spirit from such haunted experience is already very hard, what'smore he raise 60 spirits, summore during a war.

The best thing about this movie is that, like the 911 movie (if I'm not wrong with the name), there's some "proofs" from the kids, who are already in their 80-90s now, appreciating what the guy taught them in life.

This is a must watch movie. =)