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 […]
Author: kartika9
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 […]
Lesson of the week
When everything is not going the right way as you want Learn from it and grow There is a lesson behind it for you
Change plan
or rather adapt your plan. Time flies eh? We had passed the first three months of the year. Early this year, did you make any resolutions? If so, how was it? Are you doing well? Looking at my list this year, some are progressing well, some aren’t. I feel that the importance is also changing. Some are becoming less important. I like to keep them on check from time to time. Until eventually it becomes an obsession to tick them. […]
Quick and easy vs slow and tough
Fast food, quick meal, short discussion, easy money. Don’t you think that we are becoming lazier? Yes, technology plays its role to make life better and simpler. But it also makes us lazier. Don’t you think so? I bumped into a colleague and we were discussing about fruit. We have one thing in common, we are lazy to peel the fruit skin so we chose fruits which don’t require extra effort, for example banana. In our busy life, most of […]
The required price
Last week I attended a talk in a very cool office space. I praised the organiser that they have such a cool office, and they replied, it comes with the stress too. I think most of us has something that we want to achieve but most of the time we don’t want to pay the price. For example, we want to get a good quality of cloth, but we don’t want to pay the price. Well of course, sometimes we […]