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Popularity revisited
In: personal
2 Sep 2010(continuing my previous post)
Lesson learnt: People want to be popular, but once they are popular, they will long for their quiet life, sooner or later. (Or maybe not)
In the last post, I was talking about the trend of people are (desperately) want to be popular in virtual world. Especially with the growth of a lot of social networking, people (that I know of, ranging from teenagers to my peers) are commonly active in popular networking sites like twitter or facebook.
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- Tags: friend, popular, posts, status update
To be popular
In: inspiration|personal
31 Aug 2010If you’re following my tweet, some time last week you may find article about recent narcissism trend caused by facebook. You can find the article from mashable.com (click here to read it). It is a very interesting study, I say. Based on that article, definition of narcism is “a pervasive pattern of grandiosity, need for admiration and an exaggerated sense of self-importance.”
And, somewhere in the middle the article states that:
The study postulated that narcissists would show more overall Facebook activity than average users and that their activity would be more self-promotional, either descriptively or superficially. The survey’s results showed “significant positive correlations between narcissism and self-promotional content in the following areas: Main Photo, View Photos , Status Updates and Notes.”
That describes me quite well, I thought. Or, at least the self promotional part.
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- Tags: article, blogger, goal, popularity
Win, lose or draw
26 Aug 2010Recent lesson: there is no winning (or losing) in relationship (with friends, someone you close with, or your partner)
I have a friend whom tends to be late. She’s late to show for meet up, she’s going to work late (though she’s justify it by finishing work later, even it means to work overtime), she’s late to go for her classes, and many more.
To my observation, she tends to keep it to the last minute then she will rush to reach the destination. I went out occasionally with her, and what we do was rushing from one place to another, although there are times when we are not rushing, probably when we did our groceries shopping.
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Quotes of the day from Coelho
In: best quote
24 Aug 2010Paulo Coelho tweeted this:
You probably know many people who think: “I have problems, therefore I exist”
For those wounded in love (ENG, ESP) http://bit.ly/8X1sqpPara feridos por amor (PORT) http://bit.ly/cn6v2Z.
And if you scroll down a little bit more on the second post, you’ll find another great quotes by a fan:
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
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A day with lots of coincidence
In: joke
19 Aug 2010Last week Saturday, I was having hair salon appointment with my friend. Wrote down the address on a note and memorized the bus number, I left the house to walk to the bus stop nearby.
I saw a bus was approaching and that was my bus. I fasten my pace and I hopped into the bus. Greeted the driver and I found my seat on the near the back of the bus.
While I was waiting my friend as hers had not finished yet, a colleague called me in panic, telling me that the system was giving her error and made her can’t do urgent thing over the weekend.
Oh well, I explained to her that I was not home and the reception on the hair salon was as bad as her calling expected me to solve her problem. Either I need to go home and try my best to recall what are the password to the source, or go back to office and do a little deed for her.
After having our hair done and eating our lunch, my friend whom picked up by her boyfriend help me by driving me to nearest bus stop where I can take my usual bus to go to office. Oh, I meant to meet another friend in the CBD area but my friend has not replied me yet, and since my office is quite near to CBD area, I think it should be fine. Thinking that it will not be long, I decided to help her to have a nice weekend.
I saw a bus was approaching, and as it stopped and I was about to tap my card, I had a surprise. It’s exactly the same bus I hopped into previously, exactly with the same driver. I think for a split second, the driver sort of recognized me.
Bite one mouthfull at a time
In: inspiration
17 Aug 2010Today’s lesson: when there are too many things to handle, do only one thing, finish it, and move on to the next thing. Do not think too much, nor complain too much, do it diligently, you will amazed on the progress you made after that.
If my last two posts were describing what have I learned during my trip, then in this post I’d like to stress out some points from those.
Last week, I was panic because there were lots of things to do after returning from my trip. I couldn’t think well partly due to I was tired after the trip. I decided to jolt down all the tasks that I need to do (although I still contemplating how can I finish it within that days)
Reaching home, I made myself relax by reading a book, and guess what, I found one piece of advice that I needed.
Getting our feet back on the ground
13 Aug 2010Lesson of the week: it’s hard to make a new habit, but it’s harder to get it back.
This post is still related to my recent trip which I mentioned in previous post. The trip summary, we had a trip because of public holiday fell on Monday, so it was a long weekend trip. On top of that, we add one more day by taking one day leave on Friday, thus we have 4 days 3 nights for the trip.
Basically I was away from my daily routine for one day because of the trip. Daily routine here means my working day routine. Since it was ended on Monday, all of us were supposedly going to work the next day. And come to my surprise, I feel more tired than before I had the trip. I can’t concentrate much at work, I took longer time to solve problems and days feel longer than usual. (oops..)
Some of my colleagues teased me by saying, maybe the holiday wasn’t long enough for me and having a brain freeze after holiday is normal after all.
Have you ever experienced it?
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Writing a memoir
In: personal
10 Aug 2010mem·oir /ˈmɛm wɑr, -wɔr/ from dictionary.com
- a record of events written by a person having intimate knowledge of them and based on personal observation.
- a biography or biographical sketch.
- Usually, memoirs.
- an account of one’s personal life and experiences;autobiography.
- the published record of the proceedings of a group or organization, as of a learned society.
I read in the newspaper somewhere around last week, Justin Bieber, a teen pop singer from Canada is writing his memoir and I remembered one of my friend comment when I told her about this, isn’t he too young to write memoir? What would his memoir tell? His journey to his stardom? Well, until the book is published, we can’t be too sure about it.
On top of that, I read a recent post from my favorite blogger about life lessons, and I’m agree with his idea especially the second point. I have the same idea before I read his article on my morning walk to my usual bus stop to work, for example to share what I have learned from my recent trip, or how I see things in my life. So far, this blog has been a “salad” of my life. A little bit of this and a little bit of that, with some sauce, bread crumbs and many other toppings. Our life is like that isn’t it? We have some ups, and downs, some happy time, and sad. What a coincidence!
Therefore this post will mainly tell you about my trip and why I want to share bits of my life.
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Some people may always look confident on different situations, like in a party, during presentation, during a meeting with clients or even while hang out with friends. Meanwhile, some other people may look totally the opposite. They don’t look enthusiast, low spirited, try to hide themselves, speak low about themselves. I describe those two based on the book I read before, extrovert (confident) person and introvert (pessimist) person.
Even if you feel that you are a confident person, sometimes you may have some doubts about what are you going to do or maybe not confident enough to do some tasks. In this case what is the difference between the optimist and the pessimist?
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A room for improvement
29 Jul 2010On a casual talk with my friend, he mentioned about how our life repeating some patterns; for example, when we’re going to school, studying, having exams, making mistakes, being graded, given feedback, learned something and tried to be better. We always have learning pattern and of course making mistakes is part of it.
And I was nodding, agreeing his idea.
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