“Why are they creating more problems, don’t they know it already how to do it?” Sounds familiar? We often think that why other people can’t do a simple task? And require us to guide them or to work along with them. The answer is, yes they don’t know how you want them to be done, because we are not psychic or Prof X from X-Men who can read other people’s mind. Even though we often work together with someone, it […]
Year: 2014
Getting impatient
Recently I was watching “Miss Pilot”, a Japanese drama, about a lady who has easy going personality and not particularly smart but has a good heart. She was accepted as pilot trainee and surprised that she pass the preliminary screening. (maybe you think that it’s very typical scenario in drama right?) When she was in training with other candidates, they started with different job role before having pilot training. They were thinking that all of those are useless and doesn’t […]
Am I too late?
Are you enjoying what you’re doing now? Is that what do you want to do the most? If what you’re doing now is not what you want to do in your life, how do you feel about it? Do you feel it’s a chores or actually you’re enjoying it? Well, I’m sure that everyone has their reason why choosing to be in the current situation. There are times when we make some compromises about what we want to do. For […]
Why this? Why that?
After all the hard work organizing something, some friends didn’t turn up. After all the long nights revising, turned out that what we study wasn’t included for the exam. Then we asked ourselves, why? I’m sure that we are all in those situations. (Or probably worse?) and we feel stress because it didn’t go as we plan. At the back of my head I can hear my teachers in life will say, don’t think too much about it. Although to […]
Key learning from my recent Japan trip
When people asked me when did I start to study Japanese? I can’t remember it well until when I found my school receipt. It was dated 2010. One of the most frequently asked question in class is why do you study Japanese? I still remember the reason vividly. So that I’ll be able to watch J-dorama (Japanese drama series) without subtitle. Having lived outside Japan, we need to depend on the community to provide the subtitle for the drama. These […]
Too much information
Imagine that you’re given these information: Mr X has a water tank which has a base 120cm x 75cm and it’s half full. By 1pm, he threw the 1/3 of the water away By 2pm, he threw again 4/7 of the water away By 3pm, he threw the 3/5 of the water away The remaining water in the tank is 36 liters, how tall his water tank is? What we can learn from this question? First, sometimes in life, they […]
Expectation
Sometimes it’s better for not having any expectation, because whatever you get it will be a surprise for you. The problem with expectation is, the only person who will be able to answer your expectation is yourself.
Appreciate and praise
If you bumped into someone you haven’t met for quite sometime and they mentioning something you good at, how would you feel? Happy, naturally, right? A monk used to mention this many times in his talk and his book as well. That, a praise will get you anywhere. Because we like to be praised, to be appreciated. But most of us didn’t feel it or didn’t get it. Sometimes we had done our very best effort, but other people failed […]