365 days.
A year is all I need to prove everyone wrong.
Julie & Julia project. Similar much? :)
Monday, September 26, 2011
Thursday, September 15, 2011
Wednesday, August 31, 2011
Thursday, July 28, 2011
Friday, July 22, 2011
paradox of work ?
Work generally takes up a third or prolly three quarters of the time available for living. Work is a strange experience: it provides some of the most intense and satisfying moments, it gives a sense of pride and identity, yet it is something most of us are glad to avoid.
Do you know that 20 percent of the male adult population in imperial rome did NOT have to work . By having attained a life of idleness, they believed that they had reached excellence in their lives. However, by even thinking about so, it just makes women more vulnerable in the past; being treated as slaves and servants, or even sex objects. That said, some women are still being treated this way, despite the existence of feminist acts movements and whatnots.
The lack of realism about future career options is in part due to the rapidly changing nature of adult jobs, but it is also caused by many young people's isolation from meaningful job opportunities and adult working models.
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I would love to raise a topic regarding social media right now, but I will do it in another post, another time.
Till then.
Work generally takes up a third or prolly three quarters of the time available for living. Work is a strange experience: it provides some of the most intense and satisfying moments, it gives a sense of pride and identity, yet it is something most of us are glad to avoid.
Do you know that 20 percent of the male adult population in imperial rome did NOT have to work . By having attained a life of idleness, they believed that they had reached excellence in their lives. However, by even thinking about so, it just makes women more vulnerable in the past; being treated as slaves and servants, or even sex objects. That said, some women are still being treated this way, despite the existence of feminist acts movements and whatnots.
The lack of realism about future career options is in part due to the rapidly changing nature of adult jobs, but it is also caused by many young people's isolation from meaningful job opportunities and adult working models.
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I would love to raise a topic regarding social media right now, but I will do it in another post, another time.
Till then.
Monday, June 27, 2011
sunflowers to clean radioactive soil in Japan
not only can it brighten one's day :)
http://sg.news.yahoo.com/sunflowers-clean-radioactive-soil-japan-114840850.html
not only can it brighten one's day :)
http://sg.news.yahoo.com/sunflowers-clean-radioactive-soil-japan-114840850.html
Thursday, June 16, 2011
reason to believe
Everybody's got a secret
Can you tell me what is mine?
Can you tell me what you'd find?
I'll tell you if you keep it
I promise not to lie
Well, I have the fears, the pain and the tears
I just can't hide
It all disappears
'Cause everything passes with the time
All you need
Is reason to believe
All I need, is reason to believe.
Everybody's got a secret
Can you tell me what is mine?
Can you tell me what you'd find?
I'll tell you if you keep it
I promise not to lie
Well, I have the fears, the pain and the tears
I just can't hide
It all disappears
'Cause everything passes with the time
All you need
Is reason to believe
All I need, is reason to believe.
Tuesday, May 10, 2011
i am autotelic !
It interests me. It is the source of satisfaction. Achieving something that one thinks is important. Without such a consciousness or motivation it seems to me that life could be rather dull and purposeless and I wouldn't want that kind of life. Of complete leisure, say, of having absolutely nothing to do that one felt was worth doing - that strikes me as a rather desperate situation to be in.
Needs few material possessions and little entertainment, comfort, power, or fame because so much of what I do is already rewarding. Because experiencing such flow in the things I do, in life, when interacting with people, when eating and even when alone with nothing to do, I'll be less dependent on the external rewards that keep others motivated to go on with a life composed of dull and meaningless routines.
More autonomous and independent because I can't be easily manipulated with threats or rewards from the inside or the outside. At the same time, being involved with everything around me and therefore be fully immersed in the current of life.
To be totally absorbed in what I am doing and to enjoy it so much that I don't want to be doing anything else. That is what I really need.
Finding Flow: The Psychology of Engagement with Everyday Life by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. Go read it.
It interests me. It is the source of satisfaction. Achieving something that one thinks is important. Without such a consciousness or motivation it seems to me that life could be rather dull and purposeless and I wouldn't want that kind of life. Of complete leisure, say, of having absolutely nothing to do that one felt was worth doing - that strikes me as a rather desperate situation to be in.
Needs few material possessions and little entertainment, comfort, power, or fame because so much of what I do is already rewarding. Because experiencing such flow in the things I do, in life, when interacting with people, when eating and even when alone with nothing to do, I'll be less dependent on the external rewards that keep others motivated to go on with a life composed of dull and meaningless routines.
More autonomous and independent because I can't be easily manipulated with threats or rewards from the inside or the outside. At the same time, being involved with everything around me and therefore be fully immersed in the current of life.
To be totally absorbed in what I am doing and to enjoy it so much that I don't want to be doing anything else. That is what I really need.
Finding Flow: The Psychology of Engagement with Everyday Life by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. Go read it.
Tuesday, February 01, 2011
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