books that i like so much

besides the holy bible that i have in 3 languages (indonesia, english, chinese),

this is the book i like so much, that i also have in 3 languages

books that i also likes so much that i have read them for several times

and this is the book i wanna have in the near time ...

what are your favorite books?

recommended blog: Senyum Dunia

blog Senyum Dunia .. 

kisah anak muda Banjar bernama Rei (Andrei Budiman) yang jalan2 ke eropa ala backpacker.  

sarat kisah2 humanis (walau baru baca sebagian). disarankan baca secara runut dari awal. berhubung si empunya blog gak pasang "archive" .. kalo mau baca dari awal, klik di sini untuk posting pertamanya. 

di posting awalnya, Rei menulis gini: 

Eropa gue datang bukan karena saya si sombong yang banyak uang, hanya pria biasa dari kampung biasa yang ingin mengenal dunia karena mimpi2 nya

di situ banyak kisah mengharukan tentang manusia, dari berbagai bangsa dan ras. rasanya seperti membaca sebuah novel. kalo gak mengingat ini jam kantor, pengen rasanya baca sampai habis. 

saat membacanya membuat kalimat kala jiwa-muda-petualang masih bergelora terdengung kembali .. 

Tuhan beserta orang-orang yang berani

cara bertutur kisahnya kocak tapi juga mengharukan.kisahnya di blog kemudian dibukukan dengan judul Travellous: a travel journal. dan Rei menjadi penerbit untuk bukunya sendiri. 

pesan yg hendak disampaikan Rei kepada kita, 

manusia harus berani bermimpi dan terus bermimpi! 

pengen banget punya buku ini! 

three cups of tea, book .. lucky

it was my first time purchasing a book via internet.

the book title is "Three Cups of Tea" 

by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin.

the lucky thing is i'm the first customer of the seller. 

he said since i was the first buyer, he gave me for free. 

it's not expensive though, only US$1.61. it's a chinese version. 

The books that changed the way people think about changing the world: 

Peace Through Education

'Here we drink three cups of tea to do business; the first you are a stranger, the second you become a friend, and the third, you join our family, and for our family we are prepared to do anything - even die' - Haji Ali, Korphe Village Chief, Karakoram mountains, Pakistan. In 1993, after a terrifying and disastrous attempt to climb K2, a mountaineer called Greg Mortenson drifted, cold and dehydrated, into an impoverished Pakistan village in the Karakoram Mountains. Moved by the inhabitants' kindness, he promised to return and build a school. "Three Cups of Tea" is the story of that promise and its extraordinary outcome. Over the next decade Mortenson built not just one but fifty-five schools - especially for girls - in remote villages across the forbidding and breathtaking landscape of Pakistan and Afghanistan, just as the Taliban rose to power. His story is at once a riveting adventure and a testament to the power of the humanitarian spirit.

Three Cups of Tea is one of the most remarkable adventure stories of our time. Greg Mortenson’s dangerous and difficult quest to build schools in the wildest parts of Pakistan and Afghanistan is not only a thrilling read, it’s proof that one ordinary person, with the right combination of character and determination, really can change the world .’ -Tom Brokaw

"Three Cups of Tea is beautifully written. It is also a critically important book at this time in history. The governments of Pakistan and Afghanistan are both failing their students on a massive scale. The work Mortenson is doing, providing the poorest students with a balanced education, is making them much more difficult for the extremist madrassas to recruit." -Ahmed Rashid, best-selling author of Taliban: Militant Islam and Oil in Central Asia and Descent Into Chaos.