Friday, February 20, 2009

The Last Lecture


By Randy Pausch.

This is the book that I'm going to recommend to all for this summer.

It's actually based on a true story, written by a Professor, University of Carnegie Mellon. Professor Randy diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, and he can live for at least four months. That's why, within these four months, he's going to give his last lecture to all his students. His students, not just his real students, but also friends and relatives from all around the region came to attend his "Last Lecture." Sad to say...



Randy even record down his "Last Lecture" and hope to distribute his philosophy of live to his students, and also if can, to the entire world. This is one of the topic he delivered in the class. "Achieving your childhood dreams"

I must say, what I'd learn from Randy is to appreciate in what you have in life. Humans are like that, when they have opportunity to live, they will slumber their lives through. They only realize it's time to "open their eyes" when they are going to die.

That's why, Randy told his Wife, Jai, that he's going to spend the time while being alive to give his "Last Lecture" and finish writing the book "The Last Lecture".

Randy died on the summer in 2008, accompanied by his wife and his children.

Upon reading the last page of the book, my body had already started to produce goose pimples. I'm really touched.

Like I always say, to read a good book is actually equivalent to find a bag of gold.

8.54am - And I had found a bag a gold.

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