Honest thoughts and feelings during watching movies, reading books, or trying new restaurants/meals.
It’s just…one of the best museums i ever visited!
Shanghai history museums provide an interactive and very complete showcase, telling us all stories about shanghai since Ming Dynasty to foreign concession, opium war and until 20th century.
Along the path, we can hear voices of old shanghai from its market to its china opera. Plus, I can even smell the salted fish scent when I walked thru the market!
Every corner is full of surprice!
The Royal Chocolate Biscuit Cake by Carolyn Robb’s The Royal Touch.
One of the favorite cake of Prince William. They said the queen always request this cake on the menu book for Sunday tea time, every time her grandson come to join the tea time.
Looove the cake so much! Not just a simple chocolate cake but it filled with pistachio, biscuits, cherries, and (kind of) nougat. Eat it will always full of surprise.
This book teach us not only to raise up our expectation every time we go for traveling, but also to prepare and keep the spirit high if that expectation goes in opposite way. It teaches us how to value every culture and native country, to pack our curiosity every where we go, to cherish the nature and art.
My fav quotes :
“For me, my native country is the country I love, meaning the one that makes me dream, that makes me feel well.”
…..it teaches us also to always come home whenever you travel.
Surely, it is the holy book of all travelers.
Reading The Art of Travel by Alain de Botton
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Not as funny as i expected, but Amy serves some fresh and wise words that makes you stop, stare and start to think about your own life. Like this :
“Treat your career like a bad boyfriend.
Here’s the thing. Your career won’t take care of you. It won’t call you back or introduce you to its parents. Your career will openly flirt with other people while you are around. It will forget your birthday and wreck your car. Your career will blow you off if you call it too much. It’s never going to leave its wife. Your career is fucking other people and everyone knows but you.
Your career will never marry you.”
*stabbed*
You can also find some funny writings that you can expect from Amy, but unfortunately, you can’t find it in all of her chapters.
“Death exists, not as the opposite but as a part of life. Death was not the opposite of life. It was already here, within my being, it had always been here, and no struggle would permit me to forget that.”
Greatest quote found within this book. And, oh, it’s absolutely easy to fall in love with Toru Watanabe. Murakami never fails to build such strong character, eh?
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