Jessica’s Notes

Here are some of my newly read books. These are truly inspiring autobiographies: Amazingly illustrated, Soul Touching, Strongly Recommended!

My personal preference in descending order…

I recently got this book from one of the warehouse sales around. I would say it is one of the best and most realistic book that I’ve ever came across. Definitely worth a read. Most importantly it has opened-up my mind on many perspectives on various global slavery issues we thought could not have happenned in the 21st century, but unfortunately it still EXIST. The stories actually gets your heart pounding- imagining the severity of the victims’ situations, especially when the survivors tell shares their stories of non-stop tortures, rapes, close-to-death experiences, escapes, and finally FREEDOM.

Authored by David Batstone (a professor of ethics at the University of San Francisco), the book shared a few real life stories about survivors of slavery including:

• How girls at young age ended up in sex parlours and brothels in Cambodia and Thailand?
• How South Asians ended up being a bonded labourer for generations?
• How children at young age were abducted and trained to kill as a child soldier in Uganda?
• How Eastern European women were transported by the European sex syndicates from one country to another and end up in US, Middle East or Asia Pacific?
• How Peruvian children ended up in the sex market and controlled by pimps?
• How slavery take place in the modern-day America?

More info:

“Not For Sale is a campaign of students, entrepreneurs, artists, people of faith, athletes, law enforcement officers, politicians, social workers, skilled professionals, and all justice seekers, united to fight the global slave trade,” find out more about this campaign at http://www.notforsalecampaign.org/

You can also read more on global slavery updates from the Not for Sale website, i.e: Human Trafficking by US military subcontractor in Baghdad, UK Unveils Plan for Sex Trade Crackdown,FBI: Local child-prostitution roundup snares more than 100 in Bay Area, Project Censored: Not For Sale Featured in Top 25 Censored Stories of 2009,How China has created a new slave empire in Africa,Uganda: Churches, bars cited in human trafficking, and many more.

“Life and Death in Shanghai” by Nien Chang, is one of the best autobiographies I’ve ever read.

Nien Chang who worked for Shell in Shanghai was accused of being a British spy during China’s Cultural Revolution. She was imprisoned in the 1st detention house at that time for 6.5 years. Her daughter was killed by the Red Guards when she refuse to denounce her mother. Even after she was released, she still suffered from continuous harassment and intimidation from the people around her.

Not only that the author has fantastic English, her ability to re-exposed and describe every little detail of her tragic experience during the Cultural Revolution in China, has taught me a lot about the history of China. Her strong will for survival to prove her innocence is something we should learn from.

Life and Death in Shanghai - A MUST READ BOOK!!!

“Why the more you think and imagine about achieving something, you tend to achieve it and achieve it easier?”

“Why the more you think about your debts, your debts will never go away?”

The answers were held in the ‘The Secret’. The most important concept that every individual should find out about…’The Law of Attraction. (How positive returns could be attracted when you think and feel positively and negative returns vice versa?”)

Find out how by going through the journey which ‘The Secret’ would walk you through. The teachers of ‘The Secret’ were popular authors and speakers including:

John Assaraf - Entrepreneur
Jack Canfield - Author (Chicken Soup for Souls)
John F. Demartini - Philosopher
Marie Diamond - Feng Shui Consultant
Mike Dooley - Writer
Bob Doyle - Author
Hale Dwoskin - Author
Bob Proctor - Philosopher
Joe Vitale - Metaphysician
Any many many more…

If you’re not so interested in reading (thier book is available in major bookstores nationwide - RM60+, if im not mistaken), you are most encourage to go through thier website: http://www.thesecret.tv/ Do watch the trailers and the movie, if possible. I’m sure it will give you a sense on what you are currently doing to think about it if you want to achieve something more…