mem·oir /ˈmɛm wɑr, -wɔr/ from dictionary.com a record of events written by a person having intimate knowledge of them and based on personal observation. a biography or biographical sketch. Usually, memoirs. an account of one’s personal life and experiences;autobiography. the published record of the proceedings of a group or organization, as of a learned society. I read in the newspaper somewhere around last week, Justin Bieber, a teen pop singer from Canada is writing his memoir and I remembered one of my friend comment when I told her about this, isn’t he too young to write memoir? What would his memoir tell? His journey to his stardom? Well, until the book is published, we can’t be too sure about it. On top of […]
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describing a glimpse of kartika angkawijaya daily activity, some events which intrigue her thinker side trying to find out the answers for them
A room for improvement
On a casual talk with my friend, he mentioned about how our life repeating some patterns; for example, when we’re going to school, studying, having exams, making mistakes, being graded, given feedback, learned something and tried to be better. We always have learning pattern and of course making mistakes is part of it. And I was nodding, agreeing his idea.
Let’s find 5 things to be grateful at each day
Reflection of the day: What would you do every morning after you wake up? Do you often feels that the burden on our shoulder is heavy? Do you worried about your future? Thinking that you might not get what you want? Do you feel lazy to go to work? Or go to school? Do you think that other people are so fortunate and you’re so unlucky? Will you be jealous on someone over something that you don’t have?
Boxing our thought
Recently I somehow has impulse to re-read one of my book collection, Personality Plus. The book has been my companion since I bought it in 2004; I did the quiz many times, and I had different results and learning from it too. This book is one of my favorite too, thanks to a friend who recommended it to me. Interestingly, I gain different understanding every time I read it, including this time. As I had my blog pretty recent, I […]
33 Questions
Two days ago I saw a post on my twitter list about interviewing ourselves. I read her post and I found out that she and I are following the same blogger (Dragos Roua). If you like inspiring stories or motivational stories, I highly recommend you to follow his blog too. I like the idea to interview myself because not only you (the readers) can know about me better, but also (importantly) for my own sake. The main point of saying […]
Is blogging useless?
One day one of my friend asked me during lunch time, what would I think about blogging. Well I have a blog and I like to blog. The reason is I can share my thought and with hope to inspire others. How did I start to blog? It started when I was on my final year in high school. I was inspired, many times, by reading stories from Chicken Soup books. Most of the story are short and simple, based […]
Too much of good thing is not good
Why too much of good thing is not good for us? I’m curious about the statement after watching a movie last weekend. One of the character inside the movie said that. The movie I watched was “The Karate Kid” or “The Kung Fu Kid” (the title in China). I’ll keep my post short this time, to take it as reflection. Sometimes we work too hard when we wanted something badly. Let’s say we want to score well in our exam. […]
Capturing the best picture
As a refresher in between some personal development post I usually I write, I would like to share a story. Some weeks ago, I went to a short hike with group of friends. There were 6 of us, three girls and three boys. Almost all of us bring camera, from pocket camera to digital SLR camera (I counted out mobile phone camera in this case, although that some mobile phone can produce not so bad picture)