Ordering your private wolrd

'Ordering your private world' is written by Gordon Macdonald, the famous Christian book writer in the US. This book has been translated into Korean, Japanese, Chinese, and many other languages in the world. I have yet to take a look at Korean version, because common sense told me to read English version, the original.

Well, the book starts with a personal encounter of an experience of 'hitting the wall', an incidence that he suddenly broke down helplessly without any reason. Only then he realised that he needs to take care of his interior, the private world. He makes his points with a mix of amusing stories or personal anecdotes. Every single pages was precious to me. The more I read the book, the more I realised that I was going off the track in terms of managing time and governing my soul, or interaction with God.

The most challenging part was the section about time. He explains how time flows if we do not have control over it, and that was exactly my case. He then moves onto the ways to grab it back, and bring it under control. Frankly speaking, I've begun to forget some of the materials in the book but the book is always on my book shelf so that at anytime I can strech my arm to get it.

This book definitely isn't an one-time-read book, but is rather a life-time guidebook how to live a fruitful life, especially to Christians. I strongly, absolutely recommend this book to others; they should read this book before they leave this wolrd (you know what I mean).

Between calm and passion

This is one of the most famous Japanese movie to Koreans - Between calm and passion. This movie is actually based on two books. The two books tell the reader the same story but from different perspective; one from Jun-Sei, a art-piece restorator working in Italy, and the other one from Kaori, a lady working in a jewelry shop in Milano, Italy. In other words, this is a story told by a man and a lady, whom previously were lovers in Japan ten years ago.

I read lady's version first. There wasn't any good reason but I somehow felt that I had to read that first, and later I realised that I was right to do so because man's version had something more than lady's. Anyway, when I finished reading lady's version, I couldn't help myself from searching for the movie, as there were so many images floating around my head, desperately wanting to be captured. I just wanted to sort out those images, as the book was (espcially for lady's version) considerably descriptive.

And the movie didn't disappoint me. The scenary of Firenze fasinated me. I was mesmerised by the OST of the movie, which mainly was orchestrial, with few other musical instruments coming into play such as guitar. Even though I had known the plot, I was as nervous as a first-timer, probably because all the critical factors that make up the movie was very well coordinated.

I don't even dare to start on the storyline or how I feel about the movie in detail, because I know that would take me several hours. One thing I can confidently say is this: strongly recommended.