Yellow Tea Cup :: B4nch4’s Daily Stuff

Hector is a successful young psychiatrist. He s very good at treating patients in real need of his help. But a lot of his patients, aren’t really ill, just dissatisfied and unhappy with their lives. Hector can t do much for them, and it s beginning to depress him.

So he set off to travel the world to understand better what is it that makes people happy? and finding, if possible, the recipe of happiness, to help him treating his unhappy patients.

Hector compile a list of the lessons he learn about happiness:
Lesson 1: Making Comparison Can Spoil Your Happiness
Lesson 2: Happiness often comes when least expected
Lesson 3: Many people see happiness only in their future
Lesson 4: Many people think that happiness comes from having more power & money
Lesson 5: Sometimes happiness is not knowing the whole story
Lesson 6: Happiness is a long walk in beautiful, unfamiliar mountains
Lesson 7: It’s a mistake to think that happiness is the goal
Lesson 8: Happiness is being with the people you love
Lesson 8b: Unhappiness is being separated with the people you love
Lesson 9: Happiness is knowing your family lacks for nothing
Lesson 10: Happiness is doing a job you love
Lesson 11: Happiness is having a home & garden of your own
Lesson 12: It’s harder to be happy in a country run by bad people
Lesson 13: Happiness is feeling useful to others
Lesson 14: Happiness is to be loved for exactly who you are
Lesson 15: Happiness comes when you feel truly alive
Lesson 16: Happiness is knowing how to celebrate
Lesson 17: Happiness is caring about the happiness of those you love
Lesson 18: The sun and the sea makes everybody happy

The book is written in such a simple style, as if the author was speaking to a child. Yet you soon find yourself reading about prostitution, globalization and death, as Hector attempts to uncover what makes people happy (or unhappy) around the world.

This simple yet charming & insightful book truly put smile on my face^^

After months of postponing, sleepless night on the last seconds, begging my editor to extend my deadline (more than twice!), my third book is finally published, thank God.

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It’s such a traumatize experience, writing book is… all those deadlines! *shiver* And it’s also a huge commitment, i mean you can start feeling all excited about starting a new book, and then somewhere along the way you may lose interest, or distracted with other job/activities and it’s so hard to get back on track.

But it does feel kinda great when you did finish writing the book and it get published. So i must say it’s worth all the pain^^

I’m currently reading Eat, Pray & Love, a #1 New York Time Bestseller by Elizabeth Gilbert and i must say i’m completely charmed by it. The book is about the writer herself who was on her thirties, has great career as journalist/writer, a husband and a lovely country home - in short, she has everything a woman supposed to want. But instead of feeling happy and fulfilled, she was consumed by panic and depression. So she left everything behind and set out on a journey to italy for pleasure, india for spiritual devotion, and bali to find a balance between worldly enjoynment and divine transcendence.

I’m nowhere near finish the book yet, and what interest me is clearly not about the author life issues.

I think she has the most mouth-watering way in describing the pizza she found in Naples, Italy. Check out the quote below and see if you agree with me.

“So i have come to Pizzeria da Michelle, and i love my pizza so much that i have come to believe in my delirium that my pizza might actually love me, in return. I am having a relationship with this pizza, almost an affair.

“I always thought we only have two choices in our lives when it came to pizza crust - thin and crispy or thick and doughy. How was I to have known there could be a crust in this world that was thin and doughy? Holy of Holies! Thin, doughy, strong, gummy, yummy, chewy, salty pizza paradise.”
“On top there is a sweet tomato sauce that foams up bubbly and creamy when it melts the fresh buffallo mozarella, and the one sprig of basil in the middle of the whole deal somehow infuses the entrire pizza with herbal and radiance.

Oh man, don’t you want to have a slice of the pizza she is talking about? I’m going to Naples one day, just for the pizza.

oh, while i’m there, couldn’t hurt to have the pistachio gelato too…and capuccino, and risotto, and all kind of pasta..