“Hey K, why is this like that?” Or “why so and so treats me in that manner?” is one of the common example of many questions asked to me by colleagues and friends. “why” can give you the answer of the cause, when you ask it to the right person. But most of the times, we take the liberty assuming that the person we ask will have some share or some say to it hence we expected some explanation. But […]
Month: August 2018
To detach from our routine has its own good
There is old saying that practice makes perfect and build a routine to be better at something. But have you ever feel that you feel hopeless or trapped within the routine? What happened to recently is I trapped in routine of working. I was determined to get things done, and as a result, I was working morning full time and still have some night calls. And the amount of night calls are becoming more and more. I suddenly felt helpless […]
Learning through experiencing it or doing it
There are two important lessons I received since last week. My dad always tells us, if you don’t experience it, good way or bad way, you won’t learn or remember it. For example, my brother in his younger days, he didn’t listen that to come down from a motor bike, do it from the left side because there is exhaust on the right and it’s hot. Yet he still came down from the right and as a result he had […]
The flip side of it
My sensei told us in the class the other day that, try to look for the silver lining behind something. For example, when you’re falling from stairs because you’re missing few steps from the ground, you should say, luckily it’s not from the beginning of the floor. Only half way. Even if it’s from the beginning of the floor, luckily it’s from there, not from the top of the building. We were laughing with her example. When I grew up, […]