Average looking girl turn out owning an amazing voice
[she's instantly beautiful in my eyes]

A man with vision disabilities plays his finger in Roland RD-700GX
[he's instantly beautiful in my eyes]

An average looking man, playing bass in the corner producing deep beat
[he's instantly beautiful in my eyes]

*beauty comes in many format

Just like bumping into someone
I’ve met him on my way to office

At the same road
At the same time
Inside the same car

See you again tomorrow at 8.30

Is it any good? Putting a scoop of Sundae on top of your Meatball? I wouldn’t know, I haven’t tried that trick before. That’s why I read this “Meatball Sundae” book. It was considered a light reading, the page is only 200s and it comes in a small package. I spend about 4 days reading the book on and off and it’s actually my fastest reading time. Considering I still have 2 books that I haven’t finished reading for almost 2 months now. And that reminds me, that means I still have 7 more books to read (whoa, that’s a lot of reading).

Back to the Meatball Sundae. It was one of those OK to read book. It filled itself with Godin’s point of view upon the online world. How you should consider rethinking your basic organization methods and the new way of communicating and marketing. You will always have to side, your base of organization and then you would have the topping (communication and marketing method). What kind of topping you choose for your base is perfectly up to you, but Seth is trying to point you to the sensible direction in choosing your toping. Being in sync with the topping of chosen topping is essential for the rest of your business. 

If you already done the synchronizing thing, then you could step into the next chapter which talks about 14 things that you should consider when you adjust the chosen topping.  In one of those 14 things, Seth is talking about a lot of things including Long Tail and how to amplify the voice of consumer. It’s more like choosing another topping to put on top of your topping to make the overall servings looks tempting. 

All and all, I give this book a three star (out of five) just because:
I like the fact that this book keeps it short
I like the way Seth tells a story
I like the fact that the book comes in a small form 
Nothing new about the marketing fact, but the book is still nice to read

 

Curious what Meatball Sundae might look like? Here’s the book:

“Falling Up”

I tripped on my shoelace
And I fell up-
Up to the roof tops,
Up over the town,
Up past the tree tops,
Up over the mountains,
Up where the colors
Blend into the sounds.
But it get me so dizzy
When I looked around,
I got so sick to the stomach
And I threw down 

I laugh so hard when I first read this poem. That was one of my early encounters with Shel Silverstein, an artist. I consider him one, because each and every poetry project that he created has turn into some art form in my eyes. “Falling Up” for instance, grap me immediately. He uses opposite term in this poet, people usually fall down not up, and the ending is just right when he said: I threw down instead of threw up! Hilarious…Another thing, he actually made the poet and also the drawing in his book, and he made it in a funny and entertaining form. At least in his book Falling Up. 

Love for Shel has brought me to his collection, thanks for my dear friend Rama who one day give the full set as a get well soon gift. Thank you Rama, love the set. It kept me smiling although I’m lying there in the hospital bed. 

Anyway this book, Falling Up has some funny poems.  Its fun as a bed time stories, friend when you sit in the garden at one afternoon, or just simply sipping coffee or tea. I might suggest this reading for kids, but as an adult, I find this book witty enough to charm me. Keep me flipping every page with an exiting anticipation. Would not have guessed that a poetry book could keep me amuse.