In today’s lesson, my sensei taught us a very interesting meaning behind a Kanji word. 辛い（つらい – tsu-ra-i）: hardship, mentally painful 泣く（なく – na-ku）: to cry 涙 （なみだ – na-mi-da）: tears And if we do these that word can give us a brand new meaning: For 辛（い） + (work hard or hang in there) = 幸（せ）read: しあわせ shi-a-wa-se. It means happiness and notice there is a small dash on top of it. For 泣（く）- 氵(mean: tears; lit. water) = 立（つ）read: たつ ta-tsu. It […]
Month: May 2013
ST*U
It’s often that our mind is so busy talking, sometimes it’s a self talk, sometimes we speak it to others. By speaking too much, it makes we hear less from people around us. Or our inner heart. So, have a right mind, right speech and hopefully we will have a happy and peaceful life, not only with ourselves but also with people around us. Happy Vesak!
iPhone or DLSR
I always have passion to capture moments. Maybe I had told this many times, how I started to like taking photo. Starting from a film camera, prosumer digital camera, mobile phone camera, owning my own pocket camera, DLSR, iPhone and so on. Seems like I got distracted by owning the tools rather than taking the photos. When I have my first DSLR, I used to bring my D90 with the kit lens 18-105mm everywhere. It’s quite big, not as big […]
Accidentally offended
I think most of my friends know how I love Apple, or idolized Steve Jobs. I simply inspired by him since listening to his commencement speech at Stanford back in 2005. Recently, there is A who likes to loathe about her iPhone. Anything wrong with her phone, she will blame Apple. How stupid is the reason to change the wide pin charging cable into lightning pin, or the common woes for every iPhone users, the battery. Basically she’s an unhappy […]