Heroes: Saving Charlie

I finished reading Heroes: Saving Charlie today. I was a bit disappointed but it's still worth reading...
As expected (if you watched Heroes) Hiro wasn't able to save Charlie.
Why? Because she chose to die! She knows she will be murdered on October 4 because Hiro warned her and yet she chose to die. Such a stupid girl.

I was a little bit disappointed because the writer wasn't able to adopt the Japanese culture in Hiro's personality..
Sorry about being so particular about that..

But seriously... while I was reading the book, I imagine an American geek instead of a Japanese. Even his thoughts are so american-like.
There are a lot of intimate scenes in the novel and I can't imagine Hiro Nakamura (who looks like picachu) in those kinds of situations. I can imagine him infatuated but in love?? Heck, no!
Oh, well I think I'm just too narrow-minded...

Freakonomics

I read some reviews of the book “Freakonomics” by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner.

I think this is a very interesting book despite the fact that it’s a worldwide bestseller. The author applied his knowledge in economics in analyzing everyday happenings in human life.
There is a part in the book where they discussed something about what will happen if a political candidate cuts his budget for campaign into half. According to the book, if the politician spends only 50% of his total budget, his votes will only decrease by 1%. So its useless to spend billions of dollars in election.

Death penalty does not significantly decrease the number of criminals. To decrease crime, they should increase the number of people imprisoned. He also connected abortion to crime rate. According to the book, crime rate fell because of legalized abortion. Doesn’t make sense? Well, hear this.. It is highly possible that most criminals were unwanted child meaning those children who got aborted will someday become criminals but ever since abortion has been legalized crime rate decreased significantly.

I definitely recommend this book (although I haven’t read it myself yet)…

New Moon

I’ve been reading Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight Series book 2: New Moon. It’s been a long time since I last read a novel because I’ve been addicted to TeniMyu and anything related to Japanese.

Vampires are really interesting. If someone will ask me whether I believe that vampires exist or not, I probably wouldn’t be able to answer. I need more facts before I decide to believe that they really do exist. But I guess it’s interesting to meet some of them as long as they’re vegetarian vampires like Edward Cullen who only drink animal’s blood. I wonder how terrible their lives were, having to do things they hate just so they could live. I mean, vampire’s only means of survival is to drink blood but most vampires were once human and for some of them, killing other human beings to satisfy their hunger is not a very easy thing to do. And so they begin to hate themselves for being the way they are when it’s not even their fault that they became like that.

That’s usually the source of conflict in most books and movies about vampires. And it’s really interesting especially stories about love between a vampire and a human being.
The biggest question is: Is it justifiable for the vampire to turn the one he loves into a vampire if that is the only way for them to live peacefully together?

In case of Edward and Bella in Twilight, Edward doesn’t want Bella to become a vampire although she desperately wanted to. For Edward, vampires are naturally evil and there’s no heaven for them. And he doesn’t want Bella to have the same fate as his. For me, I don’t care whether Bella became a vampire or not as long as it’s a happy ending for the two of them.