J.K. Rowling said that in her Harvard commencement speech. She said that she was racking her head what should she share in a commencement speech. So she thought that what she wished to know when she was at the same age with the graduates. Her words made me think, what are the think I want to tell my younger self? Or maybe what would my future self would tell the present me. (I’m sure that Luffy wouldn’t want to hear […]
Month: August 2017
Random notes from last week
Don’t you feel amazed when you started to tidy up some of your stuffs and as you look through it, you started to think, why it seems I was wiser yesterday? 1. I took out some pages from my agenda, it’s been half a year in 2017 but I still kept all the planner pages from beginning. It makes my planner thinner now. In one of the page I wrote few lines which I heard from a Japanese movie, Honnoji […]
Being considerate in public places
There are times when I miss to be in Japan because of their manner (besides the manga and anime culture). First, the peace while riding a train. Today the young chap in front of me listening to a music with his speaker phone and do a muted lip sync with occasion of air fist and patting his chest. I ran this scenario inside my head: A. Bro, can you play BIGBANG song? B. Bro, can't you afford earphone? C. What […]
To be more confident, follow these
Do few baby steps, and do it right. It will make you feel good and confident. Once you get it right, add the intensity or steps or do it for longer period. If it wasn't going well, stop and reflect. Then repeat the last one when you're succeed. Those were my swimming coach advice to us this week. She often asked us, how do we feel, did we do this or that, and so on. Because it's easier to correct […]