"whatever happens, life has to go on"

This has become one of the most used phrases nowadays when facing a tough situation. I think people take advantage of this phrase to shield their cowardice in facing the situations. 

I believe that we have to at least give a try to break the shackles and change the situation and make it desirable. Life offers us with everything, but we are always afraid to take more than a step further due to the risk involved. Try beyond the safe zone cos nothing is impossible if we are ready to give out best to get what we want. 

I hope, I wish but how far can I? 

This one's for you and me,

living out our dreams

We're all right where we should be

Lift my arms out wide I open my eyes

And now all I wanna see

Is a sky full of lighters. 

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Fly me to somewhere I can live my life happily, will you? (Phuket's not good enough for me, I'm sorry) 

365 days. 

A year is all I need to prove everyone wrong.

Julie & Julia project. Similar much? :)

get up. 


New York, you know you make my heart skip,
In my dreams, I make it into Vegas.

Seattle hits me every time,
I can't get Chicago off my mind.

New Jersey taught me how to let go,
And I've learned that's all I need to know

In this moment, we're connected
If we fall, we fall together.

haunted. 

Never want to get stuck back in the past. Please, pull me away from all these distractions.

Good luck and all the best.

forever 21 

I smell freedom, and I got it.

On a side note, look what I received in my mail yesterday !

SAY YAY ! :D

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.

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

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.

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.