The Escapism
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An honest and humble confession (even if it’s shameful) could somehow:
1. enable you to differ who are true friends, who aren’t
2. release you from the burden that you no longer have to suffer
3. release the person or people with whom you share (you might never know what they’ve been through)
4. enable you to move on with your life (live life to the fullest)
5. surely be the favor of God
Just to remind myself and someone.
Play on that one string
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Let me share the ‘life-changing’ advices I got and reacted to at the end, after so many negative and discouraging words I’ve been saying to myself these couple of days.
“The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude to me is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than failures, than successes, than what other people think or say or do. It is more important than appearance, giftedness, or skill. The remarkable thing is, we have a choice every day regarding the attitude we embrace for that day. We cannot change our past. We cannot change the fact that people may act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude. I am convinced that life is 10 percent what happens to me and 90 percent how I react to it. And so it is with you. We are in charge of our attitudes.” -Dr. Charles Swindell-
Henry Ford said it another way: “If you think you can or you think you can’t, you are probably right.”
The advice I’ve been repeating all this time to one of my students is finally appeared as an opportunity for me to know more of its single essence, “the way you study or the process of your study will somehow determine the results, so do all your best starting from writing neater and be more organized.”
Are you experienced?
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I’ve never…
Visited other continents besides Asia (since I live on it)
Bought flowers for myself.
Cooked my parents a meal.
Admitted that I snore.
Been to the opera. Never tried.
Hitchhiked in a foreign country. Never even been abroad.
Had at least one close friend of the opposite sex at the moment. All close friends are female.
Changed a baby’s nappy.
Broken a bone.
Had stitches
Used an electric drill
Bought an original work of art
Helped an old lady across the street
Sent my food back in a restaurant
Been good friends with an ex-boyfriend
Caught a fish
Been on a plane alone
Lived alone
Changed a plug
Been able to whistle a tune
Meanwhile, I have…
Cried with happiness (when my father got US Visa)
Cried at a film (so many times, damned)
Cried at a funeral (the last time was at a friends’s dad)
Bought my parents a meal (hardly remember when and what)
Been to the cinema alone (during Junior High, fun actually)
Served an ace.
Written a romantic letter (hmm hmm… more than once)
Apologised for something that wasn’t my fault (hate it, but necessary sometimes)
Written a poem for someone (oh, I’m such a poet)
Worried that your life is going nowhere (normal, isn’t it?)
Been able to use chopsticks.
Given a speech in public.
Tried eating something I don’t like. (try not to offend the cook or host)
Tried smoking.
Thrown away all my childhood toys (can’t remember having one)
Changed a car tyre
Sewed on a button
Regretted having my hair cut
Been able to count up to ten in three languages (Ind, Eng, Ger)
Found a perfume that suits me (but doesn’t suit my wallet)
Stated all of the above statements truthfully.
Results: LIFE MUST BE FUN FOR ME – THERE’S SO MUCH I HAVEN’T DONE YET.
Bingo!!!
*Heinemann English Language Teaching Resource Pack*
Brotherly thing
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My brother wrote me some advice and encouragement through his blog. Among so many statements I read, a statement caught my attention the most and reappeared again and again on my mind. Need time to digest it. Still do til now.
“let your mind be optimistic but keep your “foot” realistic “
It made my day.
What do you tell yourself?
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However, you should think about how much time you spend worrying or procrastinating. That is not a healthy way to spend time. When you start to worry, use that energy to do something positive.
Tell yourself:
I know more today than I did yesterday.
I am preparing.
I will succeed.
Where would you think you would find these statements? Yup, for those of you who are planning to take or has taken a TOEFL-iBT (for you who own and actually read the TOEFL-iBT intensive preparation book), you know it, or at least you know how I feel. I read those statements as I was reading the book from the very front cover. Yeah right, I worry and I procrastinate, and once I got sober, I realized that I haven’t done much at all, then I start to panic, to worry, to get nervous, then panic again and it wasn’t long until then I finally see that I lost so much energy. Well, to make it short, I’m finally back to my senses. I’m okay now. Calmer. Stay motivated. *Gasp*
Yes, the Internet Based TOEFL is indeed more difficult than the paper based. It consists of four sections: Reading, Listening, Speaking and Writing. There’s no Structure part, for it says that Grammar is now tested as part of the other sections. It’s important to use good grammar in the Speaking and the Writing sections. Oh my! Hope I’ll managed to achieve minimum score of 100 next month. It takes more effort, strategy, and the ability to manage my time well and wisely. Studying German, preparing for TOEFL-iBT, making sure that I’ll meet all the deadlines without missing one spot and all the little things most people and I procrastinate from completing.
This book, the Pass Key to TOEFL iBT was the book I misbought few months ago (at that time I was supposed to pick a TOEFL paper-based), and now it happens to be very useful. It saves my time to search in the book store to find one. And now, since I have it on hand, I don’t have any more excuse to procrastinate, I need to make the best use of it.
No p, No g
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Plenty of things to consider today, made my head seems bigger I think. Well, overall, my day was just fine, it’s raining all day and it makes me feel sleepy earlier. Thought that I’ll write a little.
No pain no gain, is that so? well mostly it is, for the people who want to aim high. Like the pastor said on Sunday, “have a vision in your life, before that, discover your potential, to discover your potential you need to discover your gifts first. Gifts is about talents, things you’re good at. And it is God that planted all the gifts you have, the discovered and the undiscovered ones. So in other words, it all starts with God.”
Well, at least I can have a good meditation for the rest of this week, something good to feed my mind with. But once we get something to meditate, it’s knowledge, and knowledge means that you can’t put things off from being responsible for what has passed and what has to come.
Leftovers
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Noticed something. It was at the DATE meeting this evening, where we still got plenty of leftovers, which were quite delicious.
First, one person stepped up with a plastic sack, ready to have some of the leftovers, to bring home. The others were just looking without showing interest, a little bit of judging look (what’s she doing???)
Then, another person was starting to ask the first person where he took the plastic sack from. The rest were still talking to each other, but their eyes started to stare at the dining table. So now, there were two people taking the leftover.
Next, the third person joined the ‘club’, began taking the leftovers too. So there were three people taking the leftover, so you can imagine that it’s beginning to be crowded. The others who were talking before, started to consider to join the ‘club’ or perhaps some of them who were reluctant before, started to be ‘encouraged’ to do the same.
After that, once I looked to another direction and then looked to the dining table again, there you go, the crowds were already gathering around the dining table, they started to yell to each other,
“hey, where’s the chilli?”
“oh, you missed the chilli already hahaha…”
“hey, ok ok, you first, you’re older…”
“hey, leave some for me!”
Finally, once there was only a single piece of solid food left (excluding chilli), no one took it, as if it was invinsible.
However, my day was just fine (except for one thing), but I can handle it, as long as my sense of humor stays.
Lemondrops and chimney tops
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Changed the theme again. The third time this month, but I think this one will stay longer than the previous. Also changed the weblog title, sick and tired of the old one, needed a change. Changes, hmm… actually, I don’t like changes. All good friends know that. But I feel a slight movement of myself towards changes, slowly but heading for sure to a direction. I’m about to experience a lot of changes, perhaps.
Currently I’m listening to “Someday I’ll wish upon a star and wake up where the clouds are far behind me. Where troubles melt like lemondrops, away above the chimney tops, that’s where you’ll find me”
Could that be heaven?
Insane weather
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Nowadays the weather has been really strange, the sky isn’t getting dark until few minutes before 7 in the evening. At noon, the damp temperature and hot sun has been such a torture for us.
This is just another Sunday I had like every other Sundays, only this time I came home early, planned to take a nap for an hour but couldn’t make it. I’m feeling uneasy, facing a new day tomorrow, a little bit uncertain for what’s coming. I think it’s still normal, under control, maybe it’s the weather thing.
Yes, I miss mom 
this feeling is real, and I’m wondering why. I hope she’ll call tonight.
I’m feeling kinda:
Should I need umbrella?
I’m reading:
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