Around The World In 80 Dates

It’s hard to pin down how dumb and vague I am. I seem to lose my consciousness all the time. Look at the indistinct things I see because of how crummiest my eyes are, the dual things my ears hear and how confusing and incomplete meaning of the words I send out. I’m unable to express what I’m really thinking correctly, in this way, always end up by sending the incorrect things I want to say, unconsciously. Well, constantly, I let my subconscious play trick on me. I just can’t get it fixed easily. It cringe me to death with embarrassment and uncomfortable-ness.

All right, I should stop prattling on it and stick to what I really want to write about.

Here, I just now finished another book called, “Around The World In 80 Dates” by Jennifer Cox. Well, it much sounds like silly ladies romance stuffs. But it’s exactly not at all. It has much more to learn and it’s the thing you would eventually and inevitably run into.

At first, what I saw was, “Around The World In 80 DAYS” which sounded like a book I ever overheard long time ago, so I didn’t even bother to read the brief story at the back page. I just grabbed it and paid for it. But when I reached home to check again, it turned out to be “Around The World In 80 DATES”! Duh! How fool I was!
But it’s a nice book though.
The more pages I read, the more it had me pinned my thought that I will force my both very-busy-working ladies, Bong Thuch and Bong Ny, to read. It’s a MUST read for both of them indeed and ready to set the new resolution for themselves to find their Mr. Right. Ha-ha

I believe the ideas of this book which merge with the already-known-knowledge they have would let them know how to set it right. Good luck neak bong terng pi neak!

The Plot:

The whole story is about Jennifer Cox, a too-busy-working-to-fall-in-love-38-years-old writer, has set out her lifetime trip by her friends who became her Date Wranglers, dating her way around the world searching for her Mr. Right. She’s an on-and-off plane woman meeting 80 men in different 30 countries and four continents. But, in her Date #55, she was so attracted to Garry, who as soon as she saw him, she knew he was The One. Especially, the more she got to know him, she felt she was right by what he did like the fact that he let her see so many different parts of his life. She felt very welcome. She believed that to be truer than ever when Garry accepted her decision to leave him and continue dating, because she has to have the responsibility toward the remaining 25 Dates. But at her Date #76 in New Zealand, she decided enough was enough. She ended it and grabbed her bags to fly to Seattle to be with Garry.

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What I got from this book is not just about her true story. There are much more than that. It’s like I read three different books, which are: the travel book, the wide variety of people personalities book and the every aspect of relationships book.

It's what I learned from this book:

1- I learned to know how opened, honest, loyalty and courageous she is. And I want to become more like this.

2- I learned the different aspects in different countries which made me wish if I can be able to travel one day. But now I’ve completely forgotten those countries’ view in this book [Ha-ha].

3- I more learned to know how formal British people are, though, I’ve already known through a book titled, "Secret Of A Proper Lady".

4- I learned more about the men personalities which have been told in the story. And I have to say Garry in this story has many great personalities with the quality of being a man, same as my Mr.Perfect [My Uncle]. teehee ... He has the sense that make people feel trust, warm and secure while he is protective, loving, capacity to love, full of sense of humor.... etc

5- I learned from the Love Professor, who was one of Jennifer's date man, gave her advices which are:

- “When two people meet and get involved, they each other bring their own history with them. How you bring these histories together provides the condition for the future of your relationship. A person who gives you too much of their History shows an inability to choose or prioritize their relationships”.

- “Traditionally, the most important reason for being in a relationship was to reproduce: couple married and had children. The man support the family, the woman stayed at home and looked after it. Most women these days are not looking for partners in order to have babies, or at least not right away. A change has taken place in a very short period of time; men and women have become more equal. Although we have acknowledged the change, we have yet to address how the needs and expectations of relationships have changed as a result.”

- “You should not plan too much… just let it happens. Use all your senses and take in whatever comes. You should not watch too much what kind of message you are sending. Afterward, you can analyze, but not at the time. What is attractive to the person you are dating is that you are present in all aspects: Mind, Body and Soul. That’s a very good start.”

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However, it doesn’t really adapt to everyone’s real life. Principally, we have different situation, status, culture, religion to be considered and there are even more deal of complexities which we find it hard to be able to explain, to face and get compromise.

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Good Night!