Trudi Canavan - The Black Magician Trilogy

Finally,after a months of sleepless nighttss...

I've read these books...and love them...

So I recommend u to add these 3 books in your collection...



...excerpt from the first book...

"We should expect this young woman to be more powerful than our average novice, possibly even more powerful than the average magician."

This year, like every other, the magicians of Imardin gather to purge the city of undesirables. Cloaked in the protection of their sorcery, they move with no fear of the vagrants and miscreants who despise them and their work until one enraged girl, barely more than a child, hurls a stone at the hated invaders . . . and effortlessly penetrates their magical shield."

Well, i feel like i have to commend further about this books...but later guys...so much to say here...

till then peeps...

The Angel Inside #II

By Chris Widener
Well u hv to be in a situation where u are desperately seeking for answers to all your questions...otherwise this book will only be a waste of time...

Take a journey to a modern day Florence, Italy where a despondent thirty year old American, Tom Cook, goes to "find himself." On the last day of his trip, a mysterious old man approaches Tom on a park bench and begins to lead Tom on a tour of Art, the life of Michelangelo, the history of David, and a deeper look at Tom's own life. This book will inspire you to take your life to the next level and beyond. It will encourage you and challenge you to create a life of power and beauty.

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*The importance of planning and preparation
"Planning helps you do it right the first time."
"You can always erase and start over a drawings. Once you separate a piece of marble you can't go back. You need to do it right the first time. Sometimes in life you can go back, but it is better to get it rigt the first time because of good planning and preparation . Always do the the sketching and drawing first."
"Your mind and heart will be free to pursue whatever you desire. You will want to move very fast because of the excitement you feel. This is all very well and good. Yet the lesson is to not move too fast. Fast enough to get where you want to be, but slow enough so as to do it right the first time.

*All accomplishment starts with one swift action
Why most people dont start?

"They never give it enough thought to actually bring themselves to a place of action."
"They do not plan and lay out a strategy."

"They are engrossed or tied into what they are currently doing that they cannot start on their dreams."
"Fear, fear of anything.Fear of everything."

*Embracing the stages of chipping, sculpting, sanding and polishing
"Supreme artist chips away at us, other times when he is sculpting us, other times when he is sanding, and then times when he is polishing. All of these are needed to create a beautiful life, just as they are needed to create a beautiful sculptures."

The thing is whethere you can accept it and embrace it.

C H I P P I N G
"Every person has parts of them that simply must go. If those part stay, you might never see the Angel Inside. If we are going to create a life of power and beauty, we must allow ourselves to go through the processes that chip away at all of the peripheral parts of us that hide our true selves."
S C U L P T I N G
"The fine art of slowly and delicately revealing the form and beauty of the piece."

S A N D I N G
"represent those times in our lives when seemingly -ve circumstances surround us. It is when things grate against us. They can be irritable if we let them. Ppl...circumstancess...they all perform the act of sanding."
"Trials, adversity and suffering, sanding--are all significant process of shaping our lives...if we handle them correctly.

P O L I S H I N G "Final Step"
"represents the part of life that everyone wants to skip to."

*Being content: Sometimes success takes years
"You place too much pressure on yourself to succeed. You are telling yourself that you should be far more ahead of where you are. This just isn't true."

"The earlier we are in our lives the more we hope for the latter stages, and the later we get in life, the more we long for earlier times. The key is to enjoy each stage and understand that success takes time."

" If we focus on being grateful for our lives and what we have, our thoughts will tend to be thoughts of gratitude."



*No one starts with the Sistine chapel
"Many young people, and even anyone at the beginning stages of a new venture for that matter, pressure themselves to produce tremendous work as soon as they start."

"Most people cannot accomplish the great work that will be lasting until they have gone through the process of growing and learning from their experience."

Closing:

"Enjoy yourself now. Live your life with excellence. Become a person that others will be proud to know. Do the best you can at your work. And everything that is destined to come to pass will indeed come to pass."

The Angel Inside #I

By Chris Widener

Well u hv to be in a situation where u are desperately seeking for answers to all your questions...otherwise this book will only be a waste of time...

"Take a journey to a modern day Florence, Italy where a despondent thirty year old American, Tom Cook, goes to "find himself." On the last day of his trip, a mysterious old man approaches Tom on a park bench and begins to lead Tom on a tour of Art, the life of Michelangelo, the history of David, and a deeper look at Tom's own life. This book will inspire you to take your life to the next level and beyond. It will encourage you and challenge you to create a life of power and beauty."


*Finding the angel inside you
"Let us start with a story: One day, Michelangelo was working on this marble that would become David, and a young child came by where he was working. Michelangelo said to him, 'Young boy, there is an angel inside of this rock and I am setting him free'" Michelangelo saw the angel deep at rest within the rock, waiting to be set free to inspire Florence and the world!"

"There is an angel inside you. There is a person of beauty. There is a person of power. David represent both"

*The power of following your own passion
"The world is filled with ppl who do not do what they love. Most ppl drift through life like a feather in the wind. They do not have a purpose that comes from their passion, from their strength. These are the men and women who, as it is said, 'live lives of quiet desperation.' Time passes and they are near death and all they are left with is regret. Yet there is nothing they can do about it. Their lives are lost because they did not decide to do what they wanted."

"You will never be successful doing what you do not want to do. You will certainly sabotage yourself."

*Being confident in your strength
"If you are to be successful, you must find self-confidence in the things that you do well and then pursue them.As the David had done over the city of Florence for so many hundreds of years, the secret is that you too must stand confidently in whatever you do." "Begin to work in an area of your strength and talent. By doing so, you will feel and become more confident. The reason you have no confidence now is because you are not good at what you do. So you are reminded , both consciously and subconsciously, everyday, that you are not good at what you spend most of your day doing. This breed doubt, fear and ultimately, despair."

*Beauty through details
"The beauty is in the details"
"When we are working in areas that we have no passion for, it is natural for us, with no care for our work, to simply put in the time, to do whatever will get us by and produce work that is mediocre at best and with no pleasure attached to it. Michelangelo was passionate about his work. He wanted every statue and painting to look like as though it might suddenly spring to life."

*Your hand creates what your mind conceives
If you really looked at the David you will notice that The head and the hands of David are out of proportion. Michelangelo knew that the head of II Gigante would be some 20 feet off the ground. Of course, the further away an object is, the smaller it appears. He made the head large to provide context, so it could be seen in proper proportion to the rest of the body as people looked up from the foot of the statue. (The lesson here is:) Sometimes parts of your life must be bigger than others in order to bring balance."

"You can become anything you want in life. You can achieve whatever you desire. But you must make the connection between both the head and the hands."

"Most people live in one or the other. They either conceive of amazing things--they dream--but it never goes beyond that. They live only in their minds. Still others do just the opposite. They are filled with action, but not action that is thought out well. It is movement that takes them nowhere. The secret is this: Let your mind conceive it and then let your hand create it. True accomplishment requires both.

To be Continued >>

Twilight side effect

I am currently writing Breaking Dawn...
...the final book of My Twilight Saga...well thats what they call my story...

I assumed u have read Eclipse then, the 3rd book...

All 3 books are like diary to me, except that they are not personal anymore. i decided to tell the whole world , my story...Our Story from my side of the story...

At this point , u should have known about my feeling toward Jake...my best friend...

Oh how I love him...I love him to bits...and he have known that since the first day we met...
He was my sun when my day was impossibly dull and dark...
I loved him...but how could i hurt him by loving him yet not choosing him?
I loved him...but i loved Edward more...

Edward Edward....Edward is the love of my life ...the love of my existence...
Without him...how could i live?
I remember the day when he left me...
I never imagine myself get through that kind of nightmare again....
i could say it was like living in a vacuum...no sound no light no air no nothing....
except for me....but knowing he existed somewhere in this world, was enough....
enough to keep me sane and alive...

But now...I can't believe this!
he's being overly protective! i AM strong...maybe I'm not the strongest...
but still...
i am able to protect myself, for crying out loud...

I wondered why i choose him over Jake... Ha!
Jake would not shield me from any excitement...

Edward...he didn't even let me hunt for mountain lion...instead he brought me to Alaska and hunt for some penguin.....ooo cute penguin but there are my food after all..but i hated those stinky fishy smell... Besides I don't think I like hanging out with his fan, well you know who!

Okay, stop whining...
I think he's back....I'd better be going...
He still owes me something...
And before that,I have to call Jake and ask for updates...I miss her already...

P.S. I Love Edward...

Love Always
Bella

Read Eclipse, borrowed the book from LK, ba this is due to my lack of patient, couldn't wait any longer...abis stock...so i just borrowed LK's book, and lend her my Breaking Dawn as an exchange...
Now am reading Breaking Dawn...damn...how i hope this book will never end...

Oh ya sorry for my "wanna-be- bella" or "wanna-be-stephenie-meyers" behaviour...
I thought maybe i could get over this twilighters behaviour so that i can be normal twilight reader by writing that....ooo cukup la....

Sorry i dont have editor.....so u'll find a lot of hang kang english....buttt BIARRR....

So Long People....