Tobogganing

As someone who comes from a tropical country. I have never known about a toboggan.

Anyway, here is the definition:
to·bog·gan (t-bgn)

n.

A long, narrow, runnerless sled constructed of thin boards curled upward at the front end.

intr.v. 

to·bog·ganed, to·bog·gan·ing, to·bog·gans

1. To coast, ride, or travel on a toboggan.

2. Slang To decline or fall rapidly: His good fortune has tobogganed.

And this is the trigger why I searched up this word: 

I know I am tobogganing in your mind. 

Almost Bite

Started praying when I almost had my first bite.

Amazing Hands

After a few days having difficulty to let it out (the s**t), I am released and relieved today. It feels so good. Without constipation, I usually forget to be thankful for being able to do it everyday. I take the go-to-the-bathroom time for granted. 

Take sometime to ponder about the things you haven't been thankful for these past few days (maybe months). The things that you can't live without. 

Every little thing is a blessing,
if only we see it.  

Take me to mountain tops,
save me from this darkness. 

I want to see it all,
Your goodness to me. 

I want to thank you,
Your amazing hands. 

Luck

Luck is where preparation meets opportunity. ~Little Black Book (2004)

La Place

It is never easy to acknowledge our weaknesses, our limitations, and our imperfection. But never embracing them means that we are denying our trueself. 

We are probably good actors at playing the nice guys. The ones who please everybody by trying to meet their expectation(s). However, I am sure that that can't last forever.

I have lived for some time trying to be what others want me to be. I have enough. Those fears that haunt me. Those fears that keep telling me that I am not good enough, I am a disappointment, and a loser, I am going to face them. I am going to prove them wrong. 

In time, I will find my place. The place where I belong. The place where I brighten the room. The place where I will be the best of me. And the place where I make a difference.

R

Choice

The Old Man: We all make our choices in life, the hard thing to do is live with them.

~ The Words (2012)

Obsession

Obsess over your customers and not your competitors. Watch your competitors, learn from them, see the things that they were doing for customers and copy those things as much as you can. But don't obsess over them.
~ Adapted from Robert Spector's Amazon.com: Get Big Fast

Innocent

The guilty runs away when the cops chase her. The innocent face them without fear for she has nothing to hide.

Image courtesy: barrenews.wordpress.com

Hardly Pressed

Bent but not broken,
Rocked but not shaken,
Hated but not bittered,
Cornered but not feared.

Money

One of my favorite part from Chairman Ben Bernanke's Ten Suggestion for Princeton grads. 

Money is a means, not an end. A career decision based only on money and not on love of the work or a desire to make a difference is a recipe for unhappiness.

 

Perfect Day

It will never be a perfect day without us choosing to light other's day with a smile and two ears.

Dasar Segala Dasar

Kuterdiam terbawa arus dalam,
Mengapa tak ada kata terucap?
Hati ini gelisah, layaknya terpecah,
Inikah dasar segala dasar?

Secerca cahaya, buka mata,
Kumpulkan tenaga, tanpa daya.
Tak mampu berdiri, tak mampu berlari,
Adakah seorang disana?

After Earthquake

What do you do when an earthquake breaks everything?
You rebuild from the beginning, but stronger this time?
~ A quote from All About My Wife.

I used to think that love is a fragile painted porcelain pot on the decoration table. It looks pretty. But after a little while, it could easily become dusty and forgotten. In many ways, I really enjoyed watching this movie, All About My Wife --you can find the full movie on Youtube. It made me realize that, metaphorically, love is more of a house than a fragile pot. It is something that can be restored. Many of you won't agree with me at this instance. You can argue that the house should be unbreakable at the first place. But, keep in mind that there is always a stronger force that can bring it down. Whether it is the storm, earthquake, flood, or fire. Events that are called as the acts of God.

All I am saying is that you and I should keep giving love a chance, a second chance, and a thousand more chances. It is going to take a lot of work. Yes, it is. But all pretty houses take a lot of work as well, right?

Catchy Promeo

NYAre you like me? I change the channel when it is ad time and I cannot wait to press the skip button every time a promo video appear before the clip I want to watch in Youtube is shown. 

Strangely, I did not want to do any of those while watching this promo video. New Yorker Ad Team did a great job in making it so minimalist yet strong and direct. It caught my attention in that first five seconds and interested me up to the last second of the video. 

They did a great job, didn't they?

How To Love No. 1

Be FAITHFUL no matter what the costs are.

Hey! Ho!

Twice. Sometimes you have got to be told twice to really get what someone is saying to you. Are you really listening?

Forward at Heart

Age can't stop us from being cool.

Arms I Love

Without distance, I won't be longing for the arms that I love.

NEW: Wish List

I don't normally check out the travel tabs when I read digital newspapers. When I do, I stumble upon a picture like the one below and I get hooked. I am definitely adding this into my wish list, my travel destination bucket.

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Peeking into the bucket list, beside Bosnia and Herzegovina, I now see, Auschwitz, Northern Lights, Alaska, Africa, and South America. 

Visa and flight tickets are most welcomed. =D. 

Searching for Signs

Maybe we don’t need the Universe to tell us what we really want. Maybe we already know that deep down. Ted Mosby - HIMYM. 

Inconvenient Truth

I wake up everyday planning to be productive and then a voice in my head says "haha good one" and we laugh and laugh and take a nap.

Tweet from Funny Tweets @FunnyOrTruth

Balance Life Formula

Work hard + play hard + pray hard

Made known to me by Kaka.  

Relentless

From elementary to high school, I was an A-student. Sadly, even though I had been good in academics I was not a genius. Some of my friends were. They could easily make it without as much effort as I did. I resented this. I wanted a brain like theirs so I did not have to work that hard.  

Unconsciously carrying this resentment around, I end up finishing college believing that I am just an ordinary girl, coming from a small town, with nothing much to offer. I become a B-, um, maybe a C- or a D- student. Now, I don't even know how much my self-worth is. I can't even start looking for a job.

Do I really have nothing to offer? Do I really not have what it takes to be a woman with an awesome career or two? 

A friend of mine once said, he excerpted this from a book -I don't remember the author nor the title of  the book, my bad, I'll try asking him whenever I see him-, that a man who has a gift but does not work with his gift is less likely to succeed than a man who does not have a gift but diligently and relentlessly pursue that gift. 

I was wrong when I thought I needed my genius friends' brain to stand out, to be special. I should have believed that I have what it takes to be who I want to be in this world. Yes, I have lost some, maybe a lot of, precious time believing that I am a nobody. But it is not too late to rise up, I am planning a comeback. So folks, wait for it, because it is going to be legen ... dary. LEGENDARY!

My takeaway for today's sentimental hour: diligence, focus, not giving up, and hope. 

Ciao!

Best Colleague No. 1

The one who makes work fun and feel like playing so that I do not get too caught up in my fear of screwing up.

-ty

Always have a big interest in an old friend's Facebook post that has 'ty' comments (twenty, thirty, forty, fifty) even though we do not talk anymore. #nosy

WARNING!

DO NOT TAKE THIS BLOG SERIOUSLY. 

I do not know where this would go. I suddenly feel the need to write anything. I have always wanted to do this. To be able to express myself without so much restrictions. So, here I go, I will talk nonsense, rant about unimportant matters, comment on the tiny bunny bits of whatever I see, feel, touch, taste, and think during the day. 

WATCH OUT. 

THIS CAN BE BIG.