Just a ranting about life, minimalism, gardening, kitchen, food, deco

A friend of mine opened his wife's underwear drawer and picked up a silk paper wrapped package: 'This, - he said - isn't any ordinary package.' He unwrapped the box and stared at both the silk paper and the box. 'She got this the first time we went to New York , 8 or 9 years ago. She has never put it on , was saving it for a special occasion. Well, I guess this is it. He got near the bed and placed the gift box next to the other clothing he was taking to the funeral house, his wife had just died. He turned to me and said: 'Never save something for a special occasion. Every day in your life is a special occasion'. I still think those words changed my life. Now I read more and clean less. I sit on the settee without worrying about anything and just relax. I spend more time with my family & friends and less at work. Money is to be spent not saved. I understood that life should be a source of experience to be lived up to, not survived through. I no long...

Make other people happy, and you will be happy. Make other people sad, and you will be sad. These totally not in any way is being nosy because making other people happy doesn't need to know who that person is. People tend to make other people happy when the other person has something extra like money, title and is famous. But it should not be that way. Why making other people happy because of reason? However, when we see people less fortunate, and we are more fortunate, then we should make them happy. Just by giving a little that we are capable. Do u realize that it takes a lot of money and time to make rich people happy? But I guess it much easier to make people sad than to make people happy. Oh please, if you cannot other people happy, at least do not make people hate you by you making other people sad.

The things that you want to do, do it immediately because you do not know when you going to do it anyway. Delaying is not a good attitude. What if the things that you delay is mportant and because this bad habit,oh oh... Well, actually I am talking about me. I just have to finish three weeks work in one day, which is not fun at all. I know that I could do the task in time, but because this horrible and bad attitude, I suffer the consequences. I have to restrain myself from doing anything else until my work finish even from taking a bath. Other consequences of delaying, of course yo going to lose precious time and money too. So to me, please, do your work on schedule. No matter what people are doing, me myself are responsible of the action I take, even to delay a minute could end up me losing big things. Who knows, right? So remember people, time is precious.

I do not like it. The work seems endless and there are always new things come up to do. With work, life and family. And that i do not even put about my own personal life, my own time and friends. Wow, it is tiring and hectic. With work and age come responsibility. I put age because the older I get, the more responsibility I have. Like when I was young, my parents who took care of me, but now it is vice versa. I have to take care of my parents. It is not like my parents are not healthy or I have to support them, it just I have to make them happy and help whenever I can. It is time for me to repay back their kindness to me. then, lets talk about work. I am a teacher, supposedly my work is easy. But it is not. I do not come to class and talk and talk, I have to find ways to help my pupils understand my teaching and trust me to find the things, learn and make the teaching good is a lot more work than just teaching itself. Moreover the after teaching work also a lot. Luckily there are m...

I am a very punctual person. Usually I prefer to come early before the aim time. I always like that. But since I found out and discover the beauty of being late, now I am always late. The beauty of being late are ... 1. Why early or be punctual because the event will not start as it stated. 2. There will always people who will come late. 3. Come, nobody bother about punctuality anymore. I know all the reasons I stated there are not right, and wrong to practice or even to think that way. The designated time of something and either we have to come because obligation or promise is something I must obey. It my promise, and my obligation and I have to follow. Truthfully, I hate being late, but as time goes by, I found it to be addicting. I have friend who cannot follow time badly. Whenever I want to go somewhere or do something, I have to lie. Let say, my bus will take off at 8, I have to say I have to go early because I have to do something, and by early, I have to say two hours ear...

I guess this year I have become little less concern to take care of myself. Life has been busy and mostly because new situation i have to face and new scenarios domestically. A lot of things changes and many things need to take care. It has been very hectic. More hectic than last year. I used to live alone and only care for others sometimes, but now I back living with my parents and niece and nephew. The last time I stay long with them was when I was 12 years old and start at 13 years old, I enter boarding school. I have been with myself since then and 16 years later, I back here. It is because I change place of my job. It takes me a long time to make myself used to it. As I have managed to make myself settle, turn out I ignore to care securely about my finances. Used to be I am prudent spender and yet this year so many things I ignore. I do not even calculate my budget seriously and turn out this year there are so many trips I have to make. Thus many changes I have to do. Now I al...

Have you encounter this kind of situation? How that makes you feel? Sometimes when this happen, I felt useless to plan because the planning itself takes a lot of energy and of course consume a lot of time. But still planning is crucial. I am not writing about planning, I am writing about the good things when things happen unexpectedly. Well, for some this is like surprise and many do not like surprises. I like surprises because it makes me feel appreciated. The thing is, I always assume bad things happen because of something. Like I have try my best and there will be this little tiny voice telling what I did is not enough, i should put more effort or whatever this voices tell me and it did influence me. It makes me feel small and not confident. But when there is this little good thing hapen unexpectedly, I feel really good and it makes me happy. There is no need to take things seriously and once I done something, I should trust myself. It is not like I do not do anything, it just t...