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How to be Interesting
I’m glad I chanced upon HOW TO BE INTERESTING by Jessica Hagy at Borders. The book is in the lovely shade of blue too. It’s full of charts (just the way I like it maybe because in my work I do charts. A lot.) The contents are listed in 10 simple steps making it super… — read more
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Quotes
“Drummers typically take years to learn to move their limbs independently, and guitarists (as I was starting to realize) take many moons to learn to change chords smoothly.” —Gary Marcus, author “Guitar Zero” — read more
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Go Girl
I enjoyed reading GO GIRL (ISBN: 9780800759711) by Marlee LeDai, illustrated by her daughter, Leyah Jensen who is a book designer for Scholastic. I love traveling and this easy-to-read book has fired up my desire to travel even more. The 205-page book has four parts and at the end of each part features a traveler’s… — read more
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Beauty in the Old
…find a new usage in an old idea…open up possibilities for the future…new ways to think about old things.I was at a vegetarian Japanese restaurant and saw a super old fridge there—a decor—and I immediately thought of the words in the quote above that I read some weeks ago. I’m not sure where I read… — read more
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A Dream Came True
So much of what happened in my life were the result of the decisions I made—some were good, some were bad—but all in all, I am reaping the rewards today. All the good and the bad shaped my life providing me with the experience that only those who’d gone through the things they’d gone through… — read more
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Quotes
“Create in your mind a scenario of experience, but then put it away. Stuff it into your pocket. Because no matter how you plot and plan, life’s winds of adversity of your innocent mistakes will at times blow you off course. When you make interior or exterior journeys, there will be times you don’t know… — read more
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Quotes
“Seeing is a learned process. Some of us go through life “seeing” very little of the power and glory around us. We do not properly filter the information that our eyes give through the mental processes of the brain. As a result we often behold things without seeing them at all. We receive physical impressions… — read more
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MOJO
I bought MOJO in February 2010 and the book has been on my bookshelf since. Now, three years later, I started reading it. I started reading it two nights ago. I instantly felt better about my work. My attitude toward my work has not always been positive and sometimes I get so frustrated with the… — read more
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Why I Blog
“The reality is, I blog in order to clarify my thinking and archive my best ideas. In short, I blog for me. (But you are welcome to read along!)It shouldn’t make any difference whether you have ten readers or one hundred thousand. […] If you are writing, you are achieving greater clarity about your life,… — read more
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Language Goals
I researched language fluency level and came across the Common European Framework of Reference. I reproduced the framework here so that I can come back to it in the future and gauge my fluency at any given time. My dream is, of course, to reach the “Mastery” (C2) level. However, to reach this stage I… — read more
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