Sentaro

I really like this comic, Sentaro. It is about a pet-rabbit which lives with its owner named Baku Kosawa, a simple single comic writer man. The comic book contains of short stories. I love the drawings of Sentaro specifically, and the whole book drawing in general. Personally, actually I don’t really like pet. Rabbit is not that cute also, but anyway, I like Sentaro in the comic book hehe.. I like it because this comic is different with other comics, you can tell from the story. It is something light, funny, and warm I want to thank the author, Tsubasa Nunoura who has done a great wonderful thing on this comic

Dragon Seed

I read this novel, authored by Pearl S. Buck. From my perspective, I see it as a life journey of a chinese farmer in a village. When you want “usual” and peaceful life, but what you get is chaos and war. And when you lose hope of it, you get to see a new beginning. Life’s rolling like a movie that when you walk through it, you don’t realize, but try to track back, then you’ll know and see how far you go. Life is changing, even though you want it or not, life is rolling, you cannot stop the time. Change your life into a better one, realize that time is ticking that makes you do something worth each day. Accept the changes and live it.. That’s life..

Many Lives – end

I have finished reading this book. The epilog is somehow, almost the same with what I’ve described in the previous post. If I think back, the story is like “vantage point” movie where one incident was repeated, then we see from many people’s point of views until the incident happens. In Many Lives, the stories of each person who died in the accident are varied and unique, and all are still strongly bounded with Thai culture; families, works, life, religion. Some life stories I would mentioned to be tragic, another story made me upset. Anyway, each live story can give me some lessons though. It’s interesting.

I like these epilog sentences from the author:

“The only people who can escape being swallowed up by that river are those who are able to swim ashore and find a dry spot on the bank on which to stand, refusing to allow themselves to be carried away by the river of life. But, caught in the torrential currents of life’s river, who among us is capable of doing such thing?”

reference: Pramoj, Kukrit M.R. (1996) Many Lives. Translation by Meredith Borthwick. O.S Printing House, Bangkok.

Many Lives

 I’m reading this book now, Many Lives. The author is M.R Kukrit Pramoj (Thailand), with Meredith Borthwick (Australia) as the translator. The story of the author and translator interest me as well as the story of the book. So far I’ve read the prologue and 3 lives, and it was very interesting. The prologue itself describes about the sunk of a passenger boat heading to Bangkok and the death of all its passengers.

I was thinking, it was quite interesting that a story can begin with death. Like death becomes the beginning, and born people will experience death as well and so on. It’s a never ending story. Then I see again, that family and childhood are important in shaping one become a person, beside kamma. As far as I go, the 3 lives are too controversial for me which are quite easy to guess. Can’t wait to read another live stories in this book…