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August 30, 2017
August Articles
Still by far the best confession in anime lol (gif is not mine btw). I have just finished Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood (鋼の錬金術師, はがねのれんきんじゅつし) and arrived at a conclusion that Japanese animation is the best way to get over dramas.
This month, I have a couple of articles I highly enjoyed reading |discussing with a couple of friends.
How the Busiest People Plan their Days
In a work-shift where one can only get 5-10 minute breaks every hour, it is normal to hear complaints like “I don’t even have time to pee!” or “I’m so tired.” I blink and I read some pages of a book, or add more words to my piece, learn a Japanese word, drink coffee and sacrifice socialization.
It’s not surprising that this makes it to my list given my growing affection for the concept of alchemy presented in Fullmetal Alchemist.
Ikigai: A Japanese Concept to Improve Work and Life
Somehow, this concept reinforces the idea in the first article.
It was a wish granted by my parents when I was recuperating from appendectomy. I felt like a child again.
Why do Workplace Dress Codes Persist
Working in a performance-based company has taught me that clothes dress code does not have an adverse effect on how one does well at work.
The Greatest Threats to Humanity as We know it
Ignorance is not included but the list makes sense.
Terry Pratchett’s unpublished works crushed by steamroller
I haven’t read any Pratchett’s work — I know that is a shame — but I admire the fact that he had been prolific before dying two years ago. However, I think using a steamroller is way too dramatic to obliterate one’s work from the face of the planet.
This list might appear scanty but it’s because I have managed to read a couple of books this month and even write quick reviews for them (here and here). ‘Til next month.
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August 29, 2017
“…that in certain cases community of symbol is greater th...
Sigmund Freud, Dream Psychology
August 25, 2017
Teacher of the Week
Student: Because it makes other people angry…
Teacher: Isn’t that their problem?
Burning the Handbook of Mortals?
As a published author, I am proud of every star, review (positive or negative), and every dollar my novel and articles earn. This recent case about a book making it to the New York Time’s Best Seller’s list has just intensified this pride. Instead of dousing my desire to write because any nameless writer can make it to the top of a prestigious list, I am delighted that the product of my own night musings and caffeine-induced daydreams is there, fighting a fair battle for me. It is perhaps a turning point in publishing literature: it does not matter what is on the list. What matters is what is going to last.
Handbook of Mortals may have earned a bigger publicity albeit how negative the comments are; it has etched a hideous mark on what most authors have been aiming for.
I won’t even go as far as rating the book with a star. For now. Maybe the writer did her part in creating a wonderful story- I could give her that benefit of the doubt. Then again, I’m a writer as well, a very ambitious one who is easily swayed by competition.
Bosses irk their employees by promoting those who don’t deserve it, so nobody can point a dirty finger at me and expect me not to bite.
August 24, 2017
Student of the Week
Quick Review: The Gunslinger (The Dark Tower #1), Stephen King
The Gunslinger by Stephen King
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
I was supposed to say a number of things about the book but Mr Stephen King himself preempted me with the accompanying ‘Afterword’ so there is nothing left for me to do but read the remaining books to know more. It’s a fast-paced work– for a novel that took twelve years to complete, that says something about his talent in storytelling. Every paragraph matters; every character is connected to the main story and it makes me wonder what had happened to Cuthbert and Jamie. Then again, that is a different story.
My favorite line?
The face was that of a starving idiot.
August 22, 2017
“the dream is a sort of substitution for those emotional ...
― Sigmund Freud, Dream Psychology: Psychoanalysis for Beginners
August 17, 2017
Student of the Week
Dennis: Yes, I always tell her she cooks well.
Teacher: I bet she thinks you are lying.
Dennis: Yes! But I think once I told her the truth she would kill me.
August 15, 2017
Never compete with living writers. You don’t know whether...
-Ernest Hemingway
August 14, 2017
日本語練習|Nihongo 101
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