L’arriviste Excentrique

"The desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the desire of the man." - Madame de Stael Thoughts, girls? :)) Perhaps us girls just want to be wanted, huh? /another short useless post

To quote myself from 20 June, 2007: I know I keep running away. That's my problem, but it's hard to fix when you haven't got the will to I wonder when I can stop running away?

When I speak of time relativity, I am not speaking of time dilation or even Einstein's theory of special relativity. But instead, I had been pondering about the relativity of time psychologically. I will start simply with a quote that has been said to come from Albert Einstein: When you sit with a pretty girl for an hour it seems like a minute, but when you are on a hot stove, a minute seems like an hour. That’s relativity. Now, whether that quote really does come from that Nobel prize winner or not is not of any relevance for this entry, because really, ...

"Blogging... Why so serious?" *adopted from Joker's quote, yet another rant of Inficio's blog hijacker...

The purpose of creating new inventions was to make the life of humans easier. To manipulate objects into following our desires; big or small. But at what cost? If by satisfying our wants through new breakthroughs in the world of technology, we will end up being dependent on it, wouldn't it have been better for them not to be created from the beginning? Had they never existed, humankind wouldn't be in need of them. My mind instantly comes up with a quote originating from Mr Clemens: Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities By developing new technologies, are we really forming things ...

So apparently, there are plenty of adjectives branching off from the same meaning of "talking", but with somewhat differing meanings.

A little bit of advice from a Japanese proverb that happened to really strike me: 「継続は力なり」 keizoku wa chikara nari Literally: Continuance is also strength So whenever you get knocked down, to be able to prove your resilience and get up is a strength of its own. If you just hold on, sudden power will emerge by itself. Perseverance is a kind of strength of its own. 七転び八起き! It's better to stumble seven times and then recover by the eighth than to suffer defeat! *slithers away* *sorry for not being constructive yet*

I have been tagged. Hahaha. In order to limit myself from talking too much since I do like talking about myself (whew, talk about some narcissism), I'll just put down a maximum of five bullet points for each!

I would post pictures of my trip to Jakarta, Solo, and Yogyakarta soon enough, but right now I can't find good photos of me. Woe is me, a non-photogenic person. You see, I am somewhat a perfectionist. I absolutely hate failing to fulfill people's expectations, and there are plenty of other small things I'm concerned with, or fear. They are mostly irrational fears, or even if not so, exaggerated, but it is quite hard to get over. However, it's better to try rather than do nothing. My aunt's father just wrote a few pages on how to have a prosperous life, and ...

Note that obviously, I'm not the one to conduct this research; it came from here. It was held by psychologists Elaine Hatfield and Russ Clark. They hired actors they considered attractive enough to approach college students of the opposite sex, and try three different pick-up lines on them. As for the pick-up lines: 1) I've been noticing you around campus and I find you attractive. Would you go out with me tonight? 2) I've been noticing you around campus and I find you attractive. Would you come over to my apartment tonight? 3) I've been noticing you around campus ...