9 years ago

Nine years ago, I worked in a youth service organisation.  I never treat works as only learning money but should be meaningful.  I recognized good friends there who are not in design fields but they have different aspects.  Not only designers and creative person has dreams, in fact many colleagues have dream to help youths.

But NGO may be more complicated than commercial field.  And if it losing direction, then it is another sad stuff.

Feel frustrated in these weeks when people told me teaching students is just a service.  It is definately not, what a confusing world nowadays. 

Nice article

Before you judge my life, my past or my character... walk in my shoes, walk the path I have traveled, live my sorrow, my doubts, my fear, my pain and my laughter...

Remember everyone has a story.  When you've lived my life then you can judge me.

I always worry about things

But I read this article talking about "Things to worry about".

In 1933, renowned author F. Scott Fitzgerald ended a letter to his 11-year-old daughter, Scottie, with a list of things to worry about, not worry about, and simply think about. It read as follows.

(Source: F. Scott Fitzgerald: A Life in Letters; Image: F. Scott Fitzgerald with his daughter, Scottie, in 1924.)

Things to worry about:

Worry about courage
Worry about cleanliness
Worry about efficiency
Worry about horsemanship

Things not to worry about: 

Don’t worry about popular opinion
Don’t worry about dolls
Don’t worry about the past
Don’t worry about the future
Don’t worry about growing up
Don’t worry about anybody getting ahead of you
Don’t worry about triumph
Don’t worry about failure unless it comes through your own fault
Don’t worry about mosquitoes
Don’t worry about flies
Don’t worry about insects in general
Don’t worry about parents
Don’t worry about boys
Don’t worry about disappointments
Don’t worry about pleasures
Don’t worry about satisfactions

Things to think about: 

What am I really aiming at?
How good am I really in comparison to my contemporaries in regard to:

(a) Scholarship
(b) Do I really understand about people and am I able to get along with them?
(c) Am I trying to make my body a useful instrument or am I neglecting it?

With dearest love,

Daddy

The thesis period

The period during thesis writing, everything was up-side down.  So messy in my mind, I kept moving from dinning table, small table to the desk in the room.   But I really learnt a lot from this period, it was so fruitful.  

JCCAC market

An open market without grassland seems like missing something.  Hope we have more grassland in the city.

Nice BU campus & graduation show

Coffee, tea and only me

In the status of writing thesis... The last 2 days before DHL to Italy.

Mental state

When you come out from the comfort area.