Mid year review is coming! How’s your year looking? So far so good? Do you have to make extra turns? Or were you forced to make detour? I thought that I’m doing good so far until when I opened my list and start to compare it. When we are too living in the moment, it’s quite easy to follow the crowd and forget that’s not the place we want to go. Well, at the end of the day, these what […]
Too close
I heard this story from a talk, how big is your hand? It should not be that big right? But what happened when you put your hand too close to your eyes, would you be able to see? You wouldn’t be to, right? Because although our hand is not that big, it will cover our eyes. But if we stretch out our arm, we are still able to see the scenery as well as our hand. When I heard that […]
Imagine that you’re a celebrity
Always be good to others and to yourself in words and in actions as if you’re a celebrity. This trick always works for me, when you’re imagining that you’re a celebrity who are watched by paparazzi or your fans, you probably don’t want to caught doing something bad, don’t you? Or when answering the interview from reporter. Well, unless you want to get some sensations from the negative buzz.
It’s all in your mind
“Why are they creating more problems, don’t they know it already how to do it?” Sounds familiar? We often think that why other people can’t do a simple task? And require us to guide them or to work along with them. The answer is, yes they don’t know how you want them to be done, because we are not psychic or Prof X from X-Men who can read other people’s mind. Even though we often work together with someone, it […]
Getting impatient
Recently I was watching “Miss Pilot”, a Japanese drama, about a lady who has easy going personality and not particularly smart but has a good heart. She was accepted as pilot trainee and surprised that she pass the preliminary screening. (maybe you think that it’s very typical scenario in drama right?) When she was in training with other candidates, they started with different job role before having pilot training. They were thinking that all of those are useless and doesn’t […]
Am I too late?
Are you enjoying what you’re doing now? Is that what do you want to do the most? If what you’re doing now is not what you want to do in your life, how do you feel about it? Do you feel it’s a chores or actually you’re enjoying it? Well, I’m sure that everyone has their reason why choosing to be in the current situation. There are times when we make some compromises about what we want to do. For […]
Why this? Why that?
After all the hard work organizing something, some friends didn’t turn up. After all the long nights revising, turned out that what we study wasn’t included for the exam. Then we asked ourselves, why? I’m sure that we are all in those situations. (Or probably worse?) and we feel stress because it didn’t go as we plan. At the back of my head I can hear my teachers in life will say, don’t think too much about it. Although to […]
Key learning from my recent Japan trip
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 […]