What you are telling yourself

Today i attended an adventure education program as a facilitator at an institution. The program's aim is to bring across the value of communication. At the end there was a speech on how the students, if they just put in a little more effort, can do well in their studies and so on. And well, here are some of my thoughts and observations.

I saw people participating excitedly to people not giving a fart's worth of interest in the activities. Well i could imagine what the latter were thinking, probably along the lines of: Its a waste of time!, These activities are so lame, I don't need this speech about how I'm not a loser etc.

What the group of detached and uninterested students had struck me was this: Who told you the program was a waste of time? Who told you that the activities are lame?

Who told YOU?

Why isn't it you yourselves truly?

So my question is: What do you want to tell yourself?

Shopping!

Bought a Tamron 18 - 200 AF lens. And a 30L Dry Cabinet. The lens cost 325 and the dry box costs 118. Must say overall it was a good deal.

Tried out the tamron lens just now and found out the focusing isn't very good for macro shots. But i love the zoom and the color! It beats the 18 - 55 canon one. Then i tried to get rid of the mold in the canon lens and so proceeded to unscrew the whole thing. Found out that the mold or fungus was growing inside the lens which is impossible for me to get rid of. So i screwed it back and amazingly it still works. haha.

does every post need a title?

My family has grown. it has included 1 and perhaps 1 more in the near future into this picture.

How we have all grown up, i thought. balancing our ideals and reality, work and fun, societal pressures and personal goals, to push on into the future.

Lets hope our future are as we like it to be, rather then bright and great, it can be wild, adventurous, arduous or plain crazy. But it should never be bleak, not when we are this young.

its time to up the game.

Haiku?

wake up tomorrow

we might want to continue

the day yesterday

University of Michigan - Ann Arbor

University of Michigan. Essay(Required for all applicants. Approximately 250 words.)Everyone belongs to many different communities and/or groups defined by (among other things) shared geography, religion, ethnicity, income, cuisine, interest, race, ideology, or intellectual heritage. Choose one of the communities to which you belong, and describe that community and your place within it.


I guess I belong to a community of "floaters". They are aimless, unmotivated and pretty much termed as lazy by the rest of the communities. As part of this community, of course interaction with each other is kept to a minimum; usually we only talk if necessary. Also since there are no specific goals we set for ourselves, we tend to wander around a lot in search of things that might interest us, more often than not failing to do so and wallow in self pity instead. I am just a member of this community and do not hold an important position in it. I do not feel that I belong as I grow older and realize that the world has too much things to offer to be lazing around or be bystander to changes. We human beings are programmed to adapt to many environments, I want to be part of the change instead of being the part to adapt. Hence I now belong to the community transitioning from floaters to Doers, where I’m planning activities I like instead of joining them, where I actively look for answers instead of them still buried deep in my mind, where I feel satisfied everyday when I complete a mini project or adventure I set out to do. Sometimes I do regress and go back to “floating” mode, but I guess this belongs to a larger community called “maturing”. I hope UMICH could help me get into an executive position of this community.

What do you think?

the golden sun