Tangled by Emma Chase

See...what i mean with perfect book to read on bed *grinning ear to ear

It was during the Ied Fitr holiday (about a week), when one of my former coworker suddenly dropped me a line and sent me, what she said as recommended fiction that I might like. It turned out to be an ebook (in epub format) which made me quickly downloaded my epub reader on android. Yes, I normally read ebook in pdf format. She also told me an url which I can browse hundreds of fictions' title...‎​‎​⊙.◎ ‎​‎​w(°ｏ°)w ⊙.◎ *practically droll dripping 【ツ】ƗƗє²² ƗƗє²² ƗƗє²²【ツ】

Anyway, since it was holiday, I didn't have time to read it as the soonest as I can. But fortunately (or unfortunately?) as I caught terrible flu (probably too tired during the vacation) which kept pounding my head...sneezing...caughing...running nose and I had to stay on bed, finally I can read it. It was a surprice...in a nice way right from the very first page. Tell you why...I was wondering (before reading this book)...why I had never read a single fiction with male's perspective. Almost all fictions (especially the romance ones) features the female. I thought probably because most of the author is female. However, Emma Chase, the author of this book is definitely a female yet she can write a fiction with male' brain...the way the story unfolds...the wording...the terms...the male ego...it's totally male (in capital letter). If I didn't know, I would probably have guessed that the author was male as well.

It tells about a single, handsome, successful, and apparently rich bachelor in town (ehm...sounds yummy rite) but has zero attitude especially toward the opposite sex. Until Drew meets Kate, which is smart and sexy newcomer in the office. Unfortunately Kate is engaged and Drew tries all tricks on his sleeves to get Kate on his bed (literally). When finally Kate breaks her engagement and is on Drew's bed, how does Drew react when he find out that he has fallen so hard for Kate?

Well, I am not going to spoil your reading but tell you this, this is definitely a great book to read while you are spending all day on bed This book let you take a peek on what is going on inside every man' head...not much...just a glimpse but it is useful anyway. Terrific :-)

Thanks to my friend who sent me this *hugs

Elysium - the movie

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Elysium is a movie of utopian and dystopian countries. It retold about the future of earth where everything was crumbled and rubbles. No greenery, no beautiful places with hungry, dirty, sick and unfortunate people flocking around of what used to be the evidence of the human' advancement. While these 'unwanted' people eyeing the sparkling place in the sky, the people of Elysium lived in perfect peace and harmony. No sickness, no starved people, not even an ugliness was exist in Elysium, unless the feeling of greed and selfishness.

Max, an orphaned boy who was raised together with Frey, was used to be a low class recidivist. But he turned over a new page and filled his dreadful day by working a honest low-pay-with-long-shift job at the only factory on the earth,the Armadyne Corporation. Accidentally, Max was exposed to lethal level of radiation and was dismissed from the factory with several pills to keep him functioning until the end of his last 5 days.

Unwilling to succumb into his fate, Max contacted Spider, sorta mafia and made a deal which would illegally smuggle Max into Elysium to use the med-bed to cure his radiation. As a compensation, Max agreed to help Spider steal classified information from Elysium' people. Their target was the head of Armadyne Corporation, Carlyle which unknown to them, just agreed with Jessica Delacourt, a high level Elysium' minister to coup the current Elysium' goverment under President Patek. Carlyle just finished written a new set of program which will reboot the whole system of Elysium.

So when Max stole the 'brain' of Carlyle, Delacourt announced a full scale man-hunt using the crazy mercenary, Kruger. When Max realized the price of information stolen by him which was stored in his head, Max decided to use the program to redefine the classification of Elysium citizenship. Though he knew by activating the program in his head would bring immediate death to him, at the end, Max realized the meaning of his life...the sole reason of his living being and the beauty of the place called earth.

Overall I like the movie a lot, especially seeing it on an Imax screen. The Elysium was beautifully constructed and earth was dramatically ruined. However, the ending was too much of drama (imho) when basically the root issue between earth and elysium could probably be simply solved by putting few med-beds on earth. Anyway, I am wondering how close the prediction of Elysium of the future of our dear planet...maybe I should start saving up my share for Elysium :-)