Goodbye Sadness!

Hello Guys! It’s been a long time since I’m not posting anything in this blog. I know you guys missed me a lot right… LOL just joking!

     In this entry, we are still talking about The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake. Maybe this is the last entry about this novel. Okay, maybe I should go straight to the point. If you read the last chapter, Rose is talking about an article that she read, about an island. I’m quite interested with the image of the tree. In my opinion, the tree portrays an image of a family. All the parts of the tree are the family members. If all the family members are strong and work together, they can protect their family from danger. The root gives support to the whole tree (the family). All the branches produced leaves, so that the whole part of the trees can obtain enough nutrients to survive. It is exactly like a family. If you’re not supporting each other, then everyone will collapse! If it is not your father or mother who sacrifices themselves to find money, then you will be dying because of starving maybe.

     Other than that, there’s another thing that really attracts my attention in the last chapter. It is the last line of the novel. It touches my heart, thinking that how sad it is to lose your siblings even you’re not closed enough.

     “Was it so different than the choice of a card-table chair, except my choice meant I could stay in the world and his didn’t?”

     Rose tries to compare the choices that she have and her brother. She still can choose to live in this world but her brother can’t because of his ability. Joseph can choose any furniture for him to transform but her can’t choose anything except the card-table chair that his brother loves, or else she can’t recognize his brother anymore.

     In life, everyone faced different situation when they’re required to choose only one from all options available. You need to make the best decisions, or else everything will be lost. In this case, Rose might lost his brother if she not conveys her brother to transform into that only one chair, but compared to Joseph, it is really hard for him because he needs to sacrifice big things when he choose either options available for him. If he chooses to stay in the real world, the he will lost his life, but if he choose his life by transforming into the chair, he will lost all things that he loved in the real world such as his family. Although Rose might never meet his brother anymore, at least she knew that her brother is still there. Sometimes, great sacrifice is needed for the sake of everyone. Even it is not a happy thing; maybe it is the best for everyone. Think wise, or else you will lost everything, including your loved ones.

     Talking about the family and sacrifice, I always keep thinking if I should go to overseas to continue my degree. What if my family members died when I was there? It is so hard to return to Malaysia then. My big family just lost two members last year, my grandpa and my cousin. 2016 is full of sad event in my big family. I’m glad that I can meet my soulless grandpa before he was sent to the grave, looked at him for the last time but it is other way around when my cousin passed away on Saturday 24^th September. I’m in KMB on that day and my uncle passed the news to our big family member in Whatsapp around 3am. Sometimes, I feel a little regret because I can’t meet him for the last time on that day. I stayed up until almost 3am and it is just few minutes left before we got the news. I knew about it around 6am when I woke up. If I’m still awake a little bit more than I will knew about it earlier and go to his house which is quite near to my house. I want to go home but my mom said that I can’t make it up on time. I need to search for bus ticket but that might not available but I guess I should blame my cousins who just stay near to KMB (in Serdang) because she forgot about me who is in KMB (she departed from her house around 6am and arrived there around 9am). Nay, just joking. She is so stressed on that day with her PHD class and rushed to my hometown too until she forgot about me. I didn’t blame anybody at all, maybe not my fate to make it there and looked at him for the last time. My cousins from my mom’s family and I are really close, and all of us feels so sad because we lost one of our beloved cousins.

     That’s why I feel indecisive if I should go to overseas then but I’m just can pray that nobody passed away when I’m not in Malaysia if I get that chance to go to the university in overseas. I know that studying overseas is a huge opportunity and I should not let it go. Maybe I should let go my dream to study in UK University and targeting university in Australia or New Zealand which is quite near to Malaysia and working a little bit there so that I still can return home every year (but I want to make it every holiday Hahaha). It is a win-win situation between my dream and my family. When you need to make a decision involving your family, don’t ever put them aside cause you never know if you will regret it.   

     The best thing about this book is everything, especially the magical element exists which is the special ability in Rose’s family. Honestly, I love a fantasy novel and this novel mixed up the element of the real life and magic. How Rose ability helps her to discover the dark secret in her family really plays an important role in developing the story. Rose life is full of sadness since she discovered her ability. She hates that ability because she needs to be selective in eating. I recommend you to read this novel but you really need a box of tissue if you’re that emotional kind of people when reading a novel. If you ask me, I also want a special ability haha but special ability comes along with great responsibility. Same as the talent. Use it to the right pathway and make use of it to the max.

     That’s all from me and hopes you guys enjoy this entry and get some beneficial input. It already late and I need to sleep because I don’t want to be sleepy in class. I always can’t avoid it and it is a real struggle okay to stay awake in class!