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Changes

Wow quite a long time i have not touched my blog. I is a bit hard to start writing something now. These days i have made so many changes myself in variety of subjects.

It started with my personal problem. I had many free time after work. And mostly i spent it in drinking, hanging around with friends. Not a big deal actually since i am not a drunk. However, when i sat down and though ahead about the way i will go, about my future. It came down a big problem when looking things at detail. Let’s me point out the things that i have known for long time without taking any action.

Whenever i came out, i spent money. And usually i came home late. It terribly affected my health, made me tired the day after. My family, my lover felt sad about me … And obviously i had a dark future in front even thought i have a quite good salary. I can live with that amount of salary WITHOUT ANY SAVINGS.

I started to solve my problem by reading books. I looked for any kinds of books i can read: novel, best seller books. The 2 first books i got were: How to spend money and The way of managing money and properties of Isrealite. And they totally changed the way i think. It is long to list out here 🙂

Based on the book, i planed for my daily life; keep the penny in a separated place at the end of the day. I also planed ahead for 6 months. Now things get so much easier to me. I really think that i can plan my life and make it happen as i want.

Beside those personal stuffs, i have a #1 girlfriend which will be my wife in next year. We are planing together for the wedding. From now on, my plan means that OUR plan 🙂 I am so proud of her.

 

This post is a way to get me back to my blog. I have listed out many things i will do. And of course, i will blog them. 🙂

City life

  • Anonymity: state of being with a name that is unknown or not made public.
  • city-dweller: person living in the city
  • commuter: person who travels regularly by bus, train or car between one’s place of work and one’s home.
  • congestion: state of being too full, overcrowded -> traffic congestion.
  • cosmopolitan: containing people from all over the world
  • cost of living
  • facade: front ( of a building)
  • glamorous: full of attracting or exciting quality which sb/sth has and which seems out of reach to others.
  • irresistible: too strong/ too delightful or attractive to be resisted
  • lure: things that attracts or invites; power of attracting.
  • metropolis: chief city of a region or country
  • stimulation: making sb/sth more active or alert
  • strain: severe demand on one’s mental or physical strength, resources, abilities.
  • to breed crime

Most people in developed countries are city – dwellers, many drawn by the irresistible lure of the metropolis. The attractions of the city are many: the cosmopolitan atmosphere (foreign restaurants, different languages, international companies), the stimulation of cultural events or the simple hope of finding work. All too many find, however, that the glamorous facade is false. One can be very alone in the city and the anonymity which at first seems to give freedom and protection later leaves just loneliness. There is a lot to do be everything is expensive. The cost of living is high. There is pollution not only of the physical but also of the moral environment and the various pressure of urban life cause cities to breed crime. Above all, perhaps, it is the daily stresses and strains of the city which make life there a matter of survival rather than of enjoyment. Many a commuter struggling to work through the rush – hour congestion asks, ‘Is it worth it?’

Messy

From the beginning of the year, i have had some unhappy issues, events. They were related to my relatives, relationship and personal life and feeling as well. Honestly speaking, i might come from my thinking. I usually say that everything comes from your head. It depends on you, you control it. However, life does not run that way.

From the basic point of view; or from other view; i have a perfect life so far. I have a great family, a nice little sister ( who is an independent girl now 🙂 ), a nice and beautiful lover, and a job. I also run social activities such as kick-boxing, badminton, billiards, drinking, hanging out with friends,…. yeah quite a lot and interesting enough for a man.

It seems so perfect that also caused the trouble 🙁 . Behind the scene there is always a pain. I want to note them out here. However, it is better to keep inside since i am bit afraid :P. During that period, i came out with some solutions. They were aimed at slowing down my life’s speed a bit. I have tried to stay away from the crowd such as drinking, “money” billiards, doing houseworks. Yeah it worked for a while. And then people are just human – being. I was back in those crowds for sometimes. “Breaking the rule is always a trouble”, i got it from “transporter movie”.

Pressure is the way to grow up, and sometime is a killing tool. I have things in my mind and also plan to do it. Now what i really need is time and do stuffs slowly.

Time to do what i am not usually doing!

A simple thing is waking up early in the morning: i will have a better time to have breakfast, drinking coffee with a cigarette, picking up some English words from dictionary or any sources, and then going to work. Can you figure out how many thing you must do to archive that simple thing?

Social notworking

New word from BBC – keep your English up to date.

If you want to be successful in business, I’m told that it is very important to make a lot of effort to meet new people, to socialise and create a network of useful contacts which you can then exploit to advance your career. You meet and make friends with people who might be able to help you later on your professional career. This is called social networking, and it is one of the buzzwords in business in 1980s and 90s.

Well, with new technology come new words. After social networking, we now have social notworking. Increasingly, people are meeting people online using websites that intended to make social networking easier. These sites, things like MySpace, Facebook, Bebo, LinkedIn, … have become incredibly popular. Most people use them as a way of chatting with their friends, and sharing photographs and information about social events – parties, birthday etc. Some people are even using them to provide regular updates about what they are doing, often many time each hour.  Well, when you do this at work, instead of many things you should be doing, it is not social networking, it is social notworking.

If you are one of those people that use these sites a lot, it can be tempting to check what your friends are doing tonight while nobody else in the office, or to see if your friends have put those photos from the last trip you took together on the site yet. It might only take a second … and no-one will ever know. My advice is to check your company’s internet policy and to think about your boss’s attitude before you log in to your favorite sites. Some employers take a very dim view about social notworking.

Staycation

From bbc – keep your English up to date

These days people have less and less money to spend on luxuries, things like holidays, for example. So, when they have some time off work, some are choosing to stay at home, instead of flying or driving, perhaps to the beach or mountains, maybe to another country. It’s a staycation, combination of stay and vacation.

Particularly if you live in a big city, you might not get time to enjoy everything that it has to offer in term of entertainment – to go to the theatre, to concerts or just to go sightseeing. So staycation might be an attractive idea.

Other reasons to take a staycation may be having very young children, or perhaps you want to make some home improvements, like redecorating. In any case, a staycation will almost certainly save your money. I have some friends from the US who come over to London every year or so and stay with me – so i regularly take some time off and have a staycation. Sometimes i visit them in Seattle and they have a staycation.