This article reminds me of some sayings that “There is no such things as no time, but it depends on whether the thing is mattered to you”. My sensei sometimes asked in the class how we see “working from home”. I said it’s great since we have flexibility to do some work at home, and some of my classmates agree with this too. But she said, she doesn’t like it. It means there is no separation between work and non-work […]
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Which team are you at?
“I’m team Canon”, “I’m team Nikon” or “I’m team android”, “I’m team iOS” and so on. This is quite common bickering back then among me and my friends. To the extent we call this “our religion”, depending on the community, ie, photography, mobile phone, etc. Come to think of it now, I feel silly yet I had good times debating those with my friends. But, out there this can be quite nasty. Some keyboard warriors just bashed others and look […]
Have you tried..?
To eat tofu as onigiri stuffing? Is what my sensei asking in the class. We said we never try it. She said, go and give it a go. In life you need to challenge yourself, try something new or not common and decide it if it turned out good or bad. If it’s good, then you find a new thing to do or eat. If not, then try a new one. One of the thing makes me looking forward to […]
How we see things
I think when you heard similar things from different sources, it’s a sign from the universe to our problem. Or could be just a gentle reminder too. There are few important events since last week at work and as the saying goes, when it rains, it pours. So it’s coming to me one by one at steady pace. One of my colleague has a term called project hoarder, which happened to another colleague because that person like to collect projects. […]
What do you think lately?
When you keep saying or thinking can’t or not possible, you won’t be able to do it Is what my sensei said in front of the class. She likes to comment how boring our life is because we are not creative enough to deal with situation. Or try something different. She jokes that when you’re walking at rad side, don’t just look at your phone, but look up down left and right, who knows there is some money, or interesting […]
The greener grass on the other side
This week in my Japanese class we were practicing about asking permission to be absent from work. And one of my classmates was saying how about if we want to request for more days to rest. Our sensei replied that human always wants something which they don’t have. Because you’re so busy now, so you want to have more breaks. But when you have long break, you will be quite likely wanting to go to work. Right? What’s your biggest […]
The flip side of it
My sensei told us in the class the other day that, try to look for the silver lining behind something. For example, when you’re falling from stairs because you’re missing few steps from the ground, you should say, luckily it’s not from the beginning of the floor. Only half way. Even if it’s from the beginning of the floor, luckily it’s from there, not from the top of the building. We were laughing with her example. When I grew up, […]
Laugh it out
When did the last time you hear a cold jokes and laughing out loud? Maybe I’m too used to with my sensei’s cold joke as I’ve been following her class for more than 4 years, but I think that to have ability to see things in slightly less serious way is necessary. She always has very interesting angle to see things which she heard from News or the Internet. Sometimes it’s really a refreshing angle but there are times it’s […]