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No. 2 curse

When I’m number 2, I’ll feel like I’m the loser to number 1, not realizing I’m still the winner to thousands or millions of others.

Money

Money brings you happiness, especially when you’re deprived of it.

Candide or if translated, means optimism, is a book by Voltaire, a philosopher/thinker/whatever that means. Basically when Voltaire wrote this book, there was an ongoing philosophy by Leibniz, a church goer, which dictated that since God is benevolent, everything that has happened to us is the possible best thing. When Voltaire wrote this book, heContinue reading “Candide”

Long Story Short

I have my own rhythm, my own habit, and other personal things that I like.Once I contemplated that if someone else comes into my life and start dictating what I should do and shouldn’t do.How dare she? Then recently I just watched a short film “Long Story Short” episode 2.Inside, basically there is a conflictContinue reading “Long Story Short”

Things No One Taught Us About Love: Part II Final

I have read the whole book. Yes as I have mentioned in part 1, basically it doesn’t answer my curiosity of how love between two people works. Instead it tells me the nature of love, which in itself is not romantic love at all. It is a state of being, of metta, of universal love.Continue reading “Things No One Taught Us About Love: Part II Final”

Respect and cowardice

Just last night I had a lot of uncontrollable laughs. I laughed because I watched a lot of Pinkan Mambo compilation videos and Lina Mukherje. For Lina “Queen of Garmek,” because that was my first time being exposed to her contents. I was very much surprised by how insightful she was. After all, she wasContinue reading “Respect and cowardice”

How I Imagined An Ideal Relationship

is between Phil and Claire. Respectful to each other.Maybe relationship is not that complicated.We just do it, and solve the problems ahead.Problems stem from bad communication.Things we’re afraid to say.Sometimes even after good communication, there are still problems.The next problem is immaturity.Given good communication between each other,relationship should have been going well.We share our discomfort,Continue reading “How I Imagined An Ideal Relationship”

An Insight from Things No One Taught Us About Love: Part I

When reading this book, I kinda get a sense of what the author wants us to be like, or in another word, what the author is like, if in his life he practices what he writes. Imagine someone you know, whose mind is always positive. Some who’s always avoid thinking negatively about another person. SomeoneContinue reading “An Insight from Things No One Taught Us About Love: Part I”

Selfishness in me

Am I selfish?If I make my niece laughnot only to make her happybut because I enjoy seeing her laughin the end, what I do bring happiness back to me if making her happyput me in a miserable positionno, I won’t do it with this intention and realizationam I self serving?

Things No One Taught Us About Love

When I first encountered this book at Periplus, it was wrapped in plastic.I couldn’t check what was inside.As a robot who is learning about human behavior, this intrigued me, and I wanted to know how love works. I expected the contents would be something like, how relationship worked, how it should be. But after readingContinue reading “Things No One Taught Us About Love”