Life is full of surprises and adventures, but sometimes it’s the seemingly ordinary moments that make life special. Watch short film Picture Perfect to remind you why life’s worth living. Continue reading »
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Saturday’s Story: Oh, how I loved her
The clergyman was finishing the graveside service. Suddenly, the 78-year-old man whose wife of 50 years had just died began screaming in a thick accent, “Oh, oh, oh, how I loved her!” Continue reading »
What I want to be
After two and a half years of uni, I have finally decided what I want to be. I want to be a writer. Continue reading »
Rebound: Only this isn’t basketball, it’s relationships
IT’S funny just how heartless we can be when our hearts are broken. Marcella Purnama reflects on the pain of being a rebound and feeling like a distraction until someone better comes along. Continue reading »
What do Adam descendants think about Platonic relationship?
This is a guest post by a friend of mine of the opposite sex, Eddie Mnt. After reading my article on Do you believe in platonic relationship?, Eddie decided to share his perspective on the matter. Check it out, it’s a beautiful read (and totally worth the time). Platonic relationships: The concept or idea that … Continue reading »
A sweet lesson on patience.
by Homestead survival A NYC Taxi driver wrote: I arrived at the address and honked the horn. After waiting a few minutes I honked again. Since this was going to be my last ride of my shift I thought about just driving away, but instead I put the car in park and walked up to … Continue reading »
Attitude problem: is it them, or me?
Sometimes we start blaming others for our problems, without really looking at our attitude. Maybe, the true problem is not caused by them. Continue reading »
Tomorrow
This is a day from the past, on which bittersweet memories have been forged and tried to be forgotten. But that day, she learned something else – she let go. Continue reading »
Weekly Wraps
I have to admit, I haven’t been reading a lot lately. I have just realised that no matter how much I read and how much I take in, I would filter it. There’s no use of too much reading if in the end I’m not really implementing of what’s I’ve been reading. (Is that a … Continue reading »
Tuesday’s Tale: More Than Money: The Good Life Parable
Success is not how much money you make, but how much time you spend with your closed ones, and how have much have you lived ‘the-good-life’ style. So ask yourself the inevitable question: “Then, what?” What lies beyond getting famous, being a millionaire, and living what the world thinks as “the good life”? If you’re … Continue reading »
Weekly Wraps
1. The one trait every writer needs | The Daily Retory Perseverance is the key. In Malcolm Gladwell’s oft-quoted book Outliers, he asserts that it takes approximately 10,000 hours of doing a thing before the typical person becomes an expert at actually doing that thing. So, don’t expect to become an expert writer until you’ve … Continue reading »
Tell the mirror, “Bragging is not cool, dude.”
Don’t brag about yourself, let others praise you. Proverbs 27:2 You see, everyone hates people who brag. But people brag, right? I mean, name me one person who never brags about themselves. Well, maybe you know one, or two. Or even many. But… Most people want to get known. At least I do. And sometimes … Continue reading »
Tuesday’s Tale: Kathryn Schulz on the psychology of regret
This is exactly why I love psychology. It makes me understand life. Do you have any regrets? We often live life knowing a thousand others people who have one. We live life knowing a hundred of thousand others who tell us to live without regrets. But what is a regret? Kathryn Schulz says that regret … Continue reading »
When being impulsive is needed
Do you think too much? Sometimes life is to be lived by reading between the lines, and by making impulsive decisions. Life has always taught us to think before we speak. We are also taught to think before we decide, and to think, before we translate our thoughts into actions. We are taught to think … Continue reading »
On Earth and Other Earths
From Marcella: This is a guest post by Naomi Sutanto. Naomi is a final year Biomedicine student in the University of Melbourne, and she is my long lost junior high school friend back in Jakarta. She just became a blogger a couple days ago (welcome to the real earth, Naomi! Ooops, just kidding, pun intended), … Continue reading »
Saturday’s Story: Joshua Bell playing violin in DC metro station
By unknown. A man sat at a metro station in Washington DC and started to play the violin; it was a cold January morning. He played six Bach pieces for about 45 minutes. During that time, since it was rush hour, it was calculated that 1,100 people went through the station, most of them on … Continue reading »
Weekly Wraps
1. Five Tips to Improve Writing in College I know most of you who are reading this blog might have graduated from college years ago, but most of you are also bloggers, and writers. We might hear these tips to improve our writing again and again and again. But hearing it once again might improve … Continue reading »
You don’t have time? Make time
Written on Wednesday afternoon, while trying to… pick up the bits and pieces. These past few weeks I have been so busy that I have not been writing properly. Yes, that’s right. Although the posts kept on being published everyday, I have to say that it’s not my freshly written post (excluding yesterday’s). Most are … Continue reading »
Tuesday’s Tale: SITUATIONS MATTER by Sam Sommers
These days, I have watched a lot of videos made in this kind of style. To my amazement, they work. They are clever and intuitive, yet I don’t know how long this can last. Style techniques aside, I believe the video has an important announcement to make. As a psychology student who has a specific … Continue reading »
We are indefinite beings, and we are proud of it
Doing what we are able is a good thing, but taking pride in doing it is another gameplan. I miss learning about integral, derivative, function, and complex numbers. I sat down with my sister for brunch the other day and we began talking about tutoring. Being an ex-tutor herself, she believes that tutoring needs skills, … Continue reading »
