kartika's blogs » contemplation http://blogs.kartika9.com to live, to experience and to share Tue, 07 Sep 2010 14:39:28 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 What is your style? http://blogs.kartika9.com/2010/03/what-is-your-style/ http://blogs.kartika9.com/2010/03/what-is-your-style/#comments Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:58:40 +0000 Kartika Angkawijaya http://blogs.kartika9.com/?p=478 Lately, I’ve been into discussion with a friend about my blog. He recommended a blog to me to read the week before. The blog is written by Singaporean girl which is mainly describing her daily activities. Her language is light and simple; some of the story are funny and some are quite provoking but it [...]

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]]> http://blogs.kartika9.com/2010/03/a-thing-called-compromise/feed/ 1 5 self asking question which help to motivate ourselves http://blogs.kartika9.com/2010/02/5-self-asking-question-which-help-to-motivate-ourselves/ http://blogs.kartika9.com/2010/02/5-self-asking-question-which-help-to-motivate-ourselves/#comments Wed, 10 Feb 2010 22:30:37 +0000 Kartika Angkawijaya http://blogs.kartika9.com/?p=436 In my previous post, I listed how to tackle bad mood. One of them is recognizing the cause of it (writing my thought down). So, below is a short list of questions which help me to find out the cause. 1. Do I expect too much? 2. Do I enjoy what I’m doing? 3. Do [...]

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]]> http://blogs.kartika9.com/2010/02/5-self-asking-question-which-help-to-motivate-ourselves/feed/ 0 On one step closer to our dream http://blogs.kartika9.com/2009/11/on-one-step-closer-to-our-dream/ http://blogs.kartika9.com/2009/11/on-one-step-closer-to-our-dream/#comments Sat, 28 Nov 2009 02:25:02 +0000 Kartika Angkawijaya http://blogs.kartika9.com/?p=368 Below is the dialogue excerpt between Ria Torres and Dr. Cal Lightman from one of the “Lie to Me” episodes I watched, Lightman (L): Look, what do you wanna be when you grow up? Torres (T): I am grown-up. (L): Terrific. what are you? (T): I’m–i’m a– (L): You’re on your way to becoming one of the [...]

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]]> http://blogs.kartika9.com/2009/11/on-one-step-closer-to-our-dream/feed/ 1 Embracing new journey.. http://blogs.kartika9.com/2009/10/embracing-new-journey/ http://blogs.kartika9.com/2009/10/embracing-new-journey/#comments Sat, 17 Oct 2009 08:45:24 +0000 Kartika Angkawijaya http://blogs.kartika9.com/?p=294 I’ve been doing this for how many times. Add this, remove that, edit this code, remark that code, change the link here and there. I always like to do same things in a different way.

Used to do it in my local hard drive until I really satisfied with the new look, then upload it to the Internet. But I guess, the condition is a bit different now. Singapore has a faster Internet connection compared to my own country Indonesia. Thus, doing a small renovation live is quite enjoyable somehow.

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]]> http://blogs.kartika9.com/2009/09/my-most-favorite-quote/feed/ 2 on recent depression http://blogs.kartika9.com/2009/09/on-recent-depression/ http://blogs.kartika9.com/2009/09/on-recent-depression/#comments Fri, 18 Sep 2009 02:05:10 +0000 Kartika Angkawijaya http://blogs.kartika9.com/?p=227 a week that made me learn something sometimes we do not need to find reasons behind anything that happened to us and, something or someone to blame to when there is something wrong in our life because we need those pain, trouble, to grow. As someone like to describe it as growing pains.

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]]> http://blogs.kartika9.com/2009/06/grasshoppers-jump/feed/ 0 Me and myself http://blogs.kartika9.com/2009/01/me-and-myself/ http://blogs.kartika9.com/2009/01/me-and-myself/#comments Fri, 23 Jan 2009 01:26:10 +0000 Kartika Angkawijaya http://blogs.kartika9.com/?p=68 A glimpse of time in the morning with myself. Why are you keep pushing me to somewhere else? No, I don’t Then, why you don’t want to be there anymore – where you have friends and family? I just don’t want to be troublesome for them, just it FYI, you’re not troublesome to your family [...]

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