Sep 21, 2010

Rice

 
Rice Rice, Baby
 Sufficient with minerals and vitamins
Somersaults with fish in yummy sushi
 Acting as a friend of coffee

Rice Rice, Baby
 Food  for half of the people
In the world
 Love by young and old

Sometimes under-price
 Sometimes over-price
Rice Rice, Baby
 Always the right food
At the right time
 Rice Rice, Baby








Deltiology

People collect almost everything. From baseball cards to dusts. Just kidding! Maybe pebbles but not dusts. I collect postcards. This hobby started when I graduated from college. Since I do not have the means to travel I decided to be bold and ask my traveling buddies to send me postcards when they undertake journey to a foreign soil. By 'looking' at postcard(s), it allows me to 'itinerate' from an exotic place to another. It started off as a simple aimless hobby but the more I collect the more I wonder about the origin of postcards...

In the earlier part of  19th century, writing letters enclosed in envelopes were a norm.  By the end of the 19th century the idea of writing on a piece of card without envelope evolved. There were some images printed on the postcard but the size of the image was small in order for messages to be written. Dividing the postcard into two sections for the address (left-side) and message (right-side) came into style. 

Although postcard collecting is treated as a hobby and a means of affordable communication, business-minded publishers decided to fill the postcard with white border in order to save the amount of ink used for images as the business soared. Subsequently, linen style, chrome postcards photography style and real photo postcards became the norm for today's postcards.

If you do not have any hobby why not start collecting postcards? Postcards are ubiquitously available everywhere, cheap, light and pretty, not to mention easy to store.  Additionally, postcards curb boredom -  Indulge in the rich iconic representations on the postcard, travel with the images.  From humour to nostalgia to joy to hate, welcome to the practice of deltiology - the art of collecting postcards.

Sep 11, 2010

What is your September Goals?

Show confidence and faith and persevere until you gain success
Many books have been written about how to achieve our goals. Many leaders, mainly church leaders, as far as I have experienced give motivational speeches on how to fulfill our goals. We think it is hard and impossible to achieve our goals because we often forget what are the main reasons for our failure. Often, when we try several attempts to execute our goal and fail, we give up immediately. Too many failed attempts at reaching for a specific goal will stop us from recharging our mindset and accomplishing again. Experts call this situation the "Brick Wall".

As mention, the "Brick Wall" is hard. It is tough. In other words, in my own terms, I call it our stubborn inflexible unconsciousness to move forward. The broader the "brick wall" is the more difficult one takes to demolish it. An easy and painless way to overcome this is to write down all the times you have try to attain your goal and why it failed. By identifying the cause(s), and by bringing them into your consciousness, as opposed to compiling the failures into a "brick wall", you get the opportunity to analyze the reasons for failing, subsequently understanding your current circumstances and think of ways to solve it. Don't be a bully to yourself by building "brick walls" around you. Bull doze those "brick walls" and strive for the September sky!