One of my favourite authors, Michael Crichton passed away some time late last year (or was it early this year?) Today, I read news that another author, David Eddings, passed away at the age of 77. Mr Eddings wrote the Belgariad series - I still remember that it was my friend Siham who introduced me to this series. Have been hooked to it ever since and even managed to influence ZipD to read.
In April 2008, Anne and I started our resolution to chant 1 million daimoku in one year. It's already Jan - and I am only one-third of the way. I really need to WORK HARDER - coz I made another 1 million resolution from Jan - Dec 2009. The chart you see on the right of this post is a chart that we put beside our butsudan. It tracked our chanting progress. Every 20 minute, we coloured one box. Mine is the one on top, Anne's at the bottom - you can see that she made much better progress than me! Hmmm.. come to think of it, I am not even at one third!! --- Edit 22 March 2009: Thanks to Google, a couple of friends in faith found this post and they want to know how many hours of chanting is required to achieve one million diamoku. Here it is. Based on our publication in Malaysia, 20 minutes of chanting is equivalent to 1,000 daimoku. So, one hour is 3,000 daimoku. 1 million would take about 333 hours. --- Edit 8 April 2018: Checking my blogger stats, this post is pretty hi
Well there were few good authors had passed away .. one of the most recent one was Randy Pausch who wrote 'The Last Lecture'. I think it's a must read for all parents. He wrote this book for his wife and most importantly to his children so that they grew up knowing what his dad wants them to learn in life, all through this book! Its a very upbeat book versus an emotionally wrapped instead.
ReplyDeleteThe other author was Sir Asimov, I didn't really read his book but I learnt he died from AIDS and he got it through blood transfusion.
And one more author which I read a long time ago was Richard Carlson. Passed away in his sleep while he was in a plane.
I believe they left a huge legacy behind for a better generation especially for those self help authors.