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.
Category: attitude
anything that helps kartika angkawijaya during hard times, inspires or motivate her to go through those times
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Remember why you are here
Recently I listened to a design talk, one of the speaker begins her presentation with a slide titled, “Remember why you are here”. And following that title, there is a sentence, “I started this field because I’m passionate about [blanks]” This brought my memory back to a book I read in the past, a self help book on to find joy about your work. I’m sure working can be exciting to us yet horrifying to some of us. It’s either […]
Daily inspiration, find one every day
Question to self: What is inspiration? What inspires you every day? What are the thing that you find inspiring? Do you think inspiration takes an important place in your life? I found this poster somewhere in the internet two days ago and it made my day. I hope it inspire you too. Happy weekend.