The story of Telegraph Cottage should remind us that even people in very high-stakes jobs need to set aside time for recovery. It’s easy to forget that we need to build rest into our schedule. It’s easy to convince ourselves that detaching from work is impossible. We live in an era when we’re urged to be passionate about our work, to regard the boudary between work and life as an obolete relic of the industrial age. Mobile technologies keep us…
After months of lazy reading, I finally managed to make it to the final page of The Two-Year Mountain, a book that I bought at Kinokuniya of KLCC for RM53.95. To tell the truth, I find it quite difficult for me to stay reading – not only this book but other books too – and my mind will start going to somewhere else if I’ve been on a book for more than, say, 15 minutes. In fact the only time…
So, I have finally finished reading Across Many Mountains – a book based on the true story of a Tibetan family who had to leave their peaceful lives at a beautiful monastery in Tibet to flee the oppression inflicted upon them and the people of Tibet by the Chinese regime. The first few chapters of the book narrate mostly about the early life of Kunsang – from the day she was born until she was left orphaned at a very…