Some of my friends told me that I’m too free by learning too many languages at once. I’ve been learning Japanese for about a year plus and recently I’m learning Korean. I simply like the happy face from the person I talk to when I speak in their language. It also easier to connect with them. I like to think that it’s a form of appreciation too.
Author: kartika9
How to make other people happy
is by making yourself happy first. A good reading from Paulo Coelho’s blog. When I was a kid, I was taught that I should be selfless and give myself to help out others. The more you give yourself, the more respect you’ll get from others. Most of the times by doing this, we will burn ourselves out easily. When I was flying in air plane for the first time, the air attendant said, please put your oxygen mask first before […]
Thought on social media
Have you heard about Aston Kutcher twitter incident recently? You can check it out here and here, if you haven’t, and his post in his blog. What is social media anyway? And why is it such a big trend now? I’m not a social media expert, nor working as a social media spokesperson. But I use them, not only one but quite a lot. Let me share how my “addiction” is started. Personal branding I started working professionally as web developer, […]
Tell your story
Regardless how awesome you are, share the joy with other about who you are and what you do! You never know that by sharing those, you may inspire someone. For your inspiration this weekend, I’d like to share a TED video by a National Geographic war photographer, James Nachtwey.
What photography taught me #2
Here are some of the take away points for me: Master the basic Understand the rule Know your gear Have a picture in your mind Back to basic What are the basic for photography? Google it and you will find a lot of different answers. But for me, knowing the jargon is a must. At least we need to know what is ISO, aperture, shutter speed, etc. Rule, rule and rules If we dig deeper, we can find lots of […]
What photography taught me so far
The first time I held a camera was in my primary six. I was going to a school excursion and all students need to write a report of what we learned from the trip. The report needs to have picture inside it. I brought a Fuji film camera – the point and shoot of that era. My dad taught me how to change the film but I still made the film burned because I opened it under the sun. Lesson […]
Lesson of the week
One secret of personal growth Find a mentor. Whom you can fight and can be honest with you. Straight jab maybe painful, when people who cares about you doing it, it will be less painful somehow. Learn from them. Let the fights shape you.
To be honest with ourselves
I remember clearly that on one fine day, while I was working on my website project, one of my flatmate entered my room and asked me, “How can you build a website?” Looking at her while my hands were typing some HTML code, and replied “Why not?” Let me share you my story. I’ve been playing with HTML, CSS, Javascript, PHP, ASP, for quite some time. I admit that I’m not the best coder among my peers. I enrolled into […]