Category Archives: Interesting Blogposts

Awesome expats

OKay, now I’m going to introduce to you 2 awesome blogs.

They are really awesome.

More awesome than mine.

and when I say its awesome. its awesome.

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They are basically my colleagues blogging about their adventure as really an expat.
not the fake expat like me. πŸ˜€

 

Matthew:Β http://mattinindonesia.blogspot.com/

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Amber:Β http://amberslifeinjakarta.blogspot.com/

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If you are looking for locations and sites in Jakarta to visit, thats their blog. πŸ˜€ Mine’s my boring old lifestyle blog. πŸ˜€

 

Go check them.

 

thanks for coming by

 

Be Bless
Love,
Amanda

The Other Side

While one side of the road you have those restaurants,

the other side…

Convenience Stalls

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Nasi Padang~

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Gardening Decor and more Gardening stuff

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It fascinates me that they sell soil like that! O_O

 

 

Car repair shops. Hmm.. what do we call that again? Car garage! Car Workshop!

 

 

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Woh…

but yar, makes it more relative, more relate-able.

πŸ˜€

 

thanks for coming by

 

Be Bless
Love,
Amanda

 

Pretty Face

Happy Teacher’s day by the way.

 

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I have nothing against Pretty Face.

and I guess its the reality of life that has made things to be like that.

So girls do what they are good at, be pretty.

and man, well, be good at earning money.

not saying that woman are meant to be vase or trophies.

 

Just saying that this is the effect of what changes has on society’s influence.

 

But I will say, if I have the talent, I will reach out to talented man too.

Because I deserve it.

 

the rest, well, whatever that floats their boat.

 

Go ponder.

 

Thanks for coming by

Be Bless
Love,
Amanda

The Colour Run

Colours make people happy indeed.

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and I have absolutely no idea why running while being splashed with colours make people happy.

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They just left the starting line, look at how happy they are already..

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and πŸ˜€ having been splashed with colours, they are still happy. πŸ˜€

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my favorite moment captured, the young man trying to scare the little ones with his colours. πŸ˜€

For Fun Laughter Peace and Joy.

 

thanks for coming by

 

Be Bless
Love,
Amanda

 

When perfect kisses are not desirable.

Got this off the net about this guy with OCD expressing spoken poetry.

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Source: http://gawker.com/man-with-ocd-blows-internet-away-with-hauntingly-stirri-1111560858

 

Theres much slamming about whether it is poetry or not. I think, who cares if it rhythms or followsΒ a b b a a b b a or not. As long as it touches your heart it is literature.

For many, it is the last few lines, for me its:

When I turn the lights on and off and on and off (repeat multiple times)Β she close her eyes and imagine that the days and nights were just passing in-front of her.

How can it be a mistake, when I don’t have to wash my hands after I touch her?

She could run away from this and I just can’t. I can’t go out and find someone new bcos I always think of her.

She was the first beautiful thing I ever got stuck on.

I want to wake up every morning thinking about the way she holds her steering wheel. How she turns shower on like she’s opening the safe, how she blows out candles, how she blows out candles, blows out candles, blows out candles…

 

In as much as I dont like to study literature or understood the need to study it, I still cant run away from the romanticist in me…

 

Thanks for coming by

Be Bless
Love,
Amanda

The Sessions

Went to watch The Sessions the other day.

It’s very mild, but very deep I guess.

That man with Polio.
How did girls fall in love with him?

Simple.
1. He makes girls laugh.
2. He is giving, of the little that he has.
3. He is simple, which makes it so easy for people to fall in-love with.
4. He needs to be taken care of, like it or not being able to take care of someone is a realisation of a human’s self-actualisation need.

And in the surrogate’s case,
There was affection, selfless-ness in the love makings and his poetry touches.

Poetry.

β€œLet me touch you with my words
For my hands lie limp as empty gloves
Let my words stroke your hair
Slide down your back
And tickle your belly
For my hands, light and free flying as bricks
Ignore my wishes
And stubbornly refuse to carry out my quietest desires
Let my words enter your mind
Bearing torches
Admit them willingly into your being
So they may caress you gently
Within”
β€” Mark O’Brien – Love poem to no one in particular

Mark O’Brien: What happens when people become attached for each other?
Cheryl: You can leave it as love and attraction or you can make things complicated …

Thanks for coming by

Be Bless
Love,
Amanda

Passion vS Manpower

It’s been said that a person without passion is as good as a walking zombie, I strongly believe in that. Passion gives a person life and makes a person unique. I am passionate about communicating with people. I am passionate about making things work.

and then theres the other side of me.

I re-visited this In My Own Words segment a couple of weeks after I first posted it up and I realize that its so un-telling. πŸ˜€ I laughed. True Story.

Anyway, In My Own Words, communication is my strength, I believe in being happy and doing what one loves to do. Appreciates a good random laugh but often too serious to realize it.

If a quote ever tells you anything, perhaps these 2 would suffice.
1) Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear. The brave may not live forever, but the cautious do not live at all. – Princess Diaries

2) All the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players – William Shakespeare.

Actually, the world’s a stage, you are the lead. There’s no retakes, there’s no NG. One show. Live it.

So text me for a good chat, hang on a little, lets see how far this acquaintance can go.

Okay,Β  the text above is my profile intro in most of my dating site, in-fact that 1st para is in my blog intro too.Β  Was reading it when I thought I should address that I’ve changed…

Yar, I’m still passionate about things.
But really back then, I’m like all in and everything about it.
These days, I think I wanna move towards being involved but in a time-in and time-out way.

A person’s value and principle doesn’t really change unless there is a defining moment.

I don’t see defining moments thus far. But whats changing would be how i’ll be dealing with things from herein. Or at least hope to..

πŸ™‚ I want to be on top of situation and not be overly involved again.
Like what happened in my previous job, (although also occurs partially because of physical burn out. )

It’s when one gets overly involve in things, too immersed in it, get carried away, be an insider too deep that one’s opinion and views get clouded (being objective somehow seems to be thrown out of the window.)

No doubt being involved is important. No doubt being about the item is important.

But I began to realise, there’s always a need to pull out, rest and not be involved for a while. Like leave it be after working hours. Leave it be during lunch hours.

Perhaps somewhat like retreat, these rest hours, or this form of un-involveness can help one to see things better. Perhaps in another point of view.

Maybe that’s y we see bosses so zen?

Anyhow, I think I can write this post better.

“I’ll be back!” *speech in Arnold style. πŸ˜€

I’m back!

Actually, the text below is not really a passion thing, it’s more like manpower allocation and really doing what one is good at.

Went by to a coffee house one day. The barista who owns the shop won plenty of awards and is really good in his art.

But being his business, he handles everything. The Purchasing, the Sales & Marketing and most of all, Brewing and Preparing that cuppa.
He commented that he works 18hours a day.

I feel that we as human cannot work too hard. Whether is it on things that we love or just to bring back the money. Because we will slowly began to hate the things we do once we begin to burnout.

Just like e Barista. How good it is then if he could focus all the energy on what he does best, preparing that cuppa.. And let someone else handles all the rest of the stuff.

I think that cuppa would then go a very very long mile for him. πŸ™‚

Trust? Resources? Or just didn’t think and understood things that way?
I don’t know. What about you? Do you enjoy what you do? Or is ur strength being taken away, distracted by the other things thought necessary?

Letting people do what they are good in…

Thanks for coming by

Be Bless
Love,
Amanda

An introvert’s holiday

Hello~~~~ I’m out on a trip again-~~

‘cept that this is a short trip and to assist ppl

I think one of the things I enjoy most being on overseas trip is being able to stay in the hotel room and watch tv. Not exactly about theirΒ  local program’s, but rather more about the English movies I can find. πŸ˜€ it’s like watching movie at the movie theatre, but more luxurious than that. I get the whole hotel room to myself and I can buy whatever snacks and fruits I want at the local convenience shop. Pillows, and bed sheet, temperature to my preference volume control and all that jazz.

But I think more than that, it’s really about the whole relaxed feel that opens room for reflection and really opportunities to think. Such creativity and to certain extend deep thoughts, are reflection, is at it’s best when one is relaxed, perhaps at peace and able to generate more a complex and meaningful thoughts and connections.
Had one from the movie Last Song while I was out in Bangkok with friends.

Okay, that’s two whole paragraph and I have yet to get into the point of this entry. πŸ˜€ i would think theres two parts to this entry, one is on the movie and the other is on being an introvert.

Let’s do the introvert one first since its a little shorter. (okay, after inserting all the extracts from the video, its not that short afterall. πŸ˜€ )

Introvert…

I came on this trip with a colleague, have a common purpose, not so much about leisure and travel.
So he has his plans, and I can’t really be bothered about making prior arrangement.
Both bcos I don’t really have friends here and I’m not really a shopping person,
I’m more keen on staying in the hotel room and you know, sleep, slack and watch tv (as describe above).

So comparing between my colleague and me, I’m effectively an introvert.Β  Cos he’s running around meeting people for business, meeting associates and networking, while me? I do my work from the hotel room and spend more time in the hotel room, way more than supposedly a person who’s on holiday would.

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