RIP Steve Jobs

It is undeniable that Steve Jobs is a truly gifted person. 

My dad bought me an Ipad2 months ago when he went to KL for a holiday with my mom. He had to travel three stores before he managed to get me one. He was so amused by how popular the product is. He was so excited that he kept ringing me (I forgot how many times) on his journeys to those stores. :) 

During lunchtime yesterday, I asked my dad "Daddy, do you know that Steve Jobs passed away already yesterday?"

My dad replied "Yes. I was just telling your mom yesterday morning, the man who made me walked three stores had passed away.."

".........."

I was told that the official Steve Jobs biography will be released on 24 October 2011, but the pre-orders for the book have already made it to the number one bestseller at Amazon. The authorised biography Steve Jobs is written by Walter Isaacson, the former managing editor of Time magazine. 

Hopefully it will not be out of stock too soon. I want a copy of it. 

There is also a comic about him? A 32-page comic titled Steve Jobs: Founder of Apple is initially being sold on the NOOK and Kindle readers and the print edition is due for release at the end of October, with a portion of the profits from both issues going to the American Cancer Society - news from the Guardian. 

I want a copy of the printed edition comic too. :))

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Two quotes from Steve Jobs, which I like the most,

"That's been one of my mantras - focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: you have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it's worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains." - Intereview with Business Week, 1998.

"Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice.

Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don't settle." - Commencement speech at Stanford University, 2005.



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hmm.. I want a Macbook Air now... kaching kaching* 


Greedy me. :P

Leave-taking

Sunday afternoon. 

A piece of super sweet Walnut Brownies with Ice-cream

complement with the Cafe Latte without sugar,

Ipad,

and I stumbled across a poem from one of my favourite apps on Ipad, POETRY from the Poetry Foundation.

Leave-taking by Louise Bogan,

I do not know where either of us can turn

Just at first, waking from the sleep of each other.

I do not know how we can bear

The river struck by the gold plummet of the moon,

Or many trees shaken together in the darkness.

We shall wish not to be alone

And that love were not dispersed and set free—

Though you defeat me,

And I be heavy upon you.

But like earth heaped over the heart

Is love grown perfect.

Like a shell over the beat of life

Is love perfect to the last.

So let it be the same

Whether we turn to the dark or to the kiss of another;

Let us know this for leavetaking,

That I may not be heavy upon you,

That you may blind me no more.

Originally published in Poetry, August 1922.

Source: Poetry (August 1922).