Random of The Day

Random 1:
Perlu baterai buat jam dinding? Atau mengeluh karena listrik mahal?

Jangan khawatir. Solusinya ada di buah belimbing.

Ciptakan listrik dari buah belimbing: tanah yang ditaruh dalam gelas bekas air mineral, disuntikkan sari buah belimbing, lalu dihubungkan dengan rangkaian kawat lempengan tembaga dan seng untuk mengalirkan arus listrik.

Hasilnya: Tada! Terciptalah energi listrik yang bisa mencapai 5 Volt.
http://regional.kompas.com/read/2010/07/14/0558185/Listrik.dari.Buah.Belimbing.Mungkinkah
Kesimpulannya, tanamlah buah belimbing jika ingin menghemat biaya listrik.

Random 2:
Kata apa yang sering diucapkan di kantor anda?
1. The reports have been delivered, right? You have checked all the reports, right? These amounts should tie to that amount, right?
2. So when you checked this figure, really it should tie back to that figure; The reports really are delivered COB today.
3. When answering question/give comment: I guess that figure is correct; We should consider it, but I guess these reports might not be correct.
Note: The word ‘right’ can be used for about 100 times in one day.

Random 3:
Pekerjaan apa yang paling dibenci orang? Manager.
Alasannya:
1. Sering diumpat karyawan (anak buah)
2. Dianggap tidak punya hati karena sering mengejar deadline dan ‘mendorong’ anak buah
3. Sering memerintah karyawan untuk melakukan hal2 yang kurang sesuai dengan logika, etika, dan menguntungkan posisi si manager

This Too Will Pass...

I believe everyone had ever got frustrated in life, like what I’m feeling lately.

Then, does anyone ever try to look for the reason? Try to investigate and asking themselves why it could happen?

Mostly, it happens when your life does not turn out to what you expect it to be. Your expectation did not come into the reality. Even worse, problems come up and you start being dragged along to the unpleasant life of what you thought that should not happen. You start thinking, ‘This is not what my life should be. These problems should not be my problems. And why I keep being hold back to these problems, why suddenly my life is so bad?’

And that’s what happened in my life. I keep thinking about the future, of what I can do, where I can go and I can’t wait the future to be happened. To sum up, I have a lot of expectations on my future. Then, I start ignoring the present moment. I hate my job while I am totally aware that was my career choice initially. And I start thinking that people around me are worthless to my life; my family, friends and even god up there.

While I keep disgracing my present life, it turns out to be even worse. My job is getting more demanding and it almost takes my whole time in a day. I hate enough to turn out to work every day from 9-5pm, but life seems to play around with me and it demands me to turn out to work every day, including Sunday, from 9-10pm.

In that very moment, I believe it is normal when human gets stress. While a research showing that human only uses small part of their brain, I still believe that human can also get brain damage if it is forced to keep thinking and ‘working hard’.

Then, I remember a story of a Buddhist monk. One day, he went to the beach and the beach was so beautiful. Before he gave in to be a monk, he was a professional swimmer; therefore, he could not resist seeing such a beautiful beach. So, he decided to swim for a while.

Unfortunately, the weather was not very good. People had also warned him that the beach was not good for swimming (let me say, it was quite ‘wild’). Big waves start coming out, and he thought he would have died at that time. He kept trying to swim back to the shoreline, but the wave kept coming against him.

Then, he was thinking, maybe I should just follow the waves, then after it was getting ‘calm’, I could swim back to the shoreline. Andthat’s what he did. Safely, he finally managed to go back to the shoreline.

The morale story is, if he kept trying to swim against the waves, he probably had no energy to swim back, and he could have died in the middle of the sea. On the other hand, he just waited until the situation is getting good, so that he could save his energy to swim back to the beach shore.

Afterwards, I start smiling to myself. It could have happened to my life, when I’m trying so hard not to go along and have peace with my present life, I could have died earlier, then my future would not have happened. I will kill my self and my future of which I’m thinking so hard for what it should be.

At the moment, I cannot do anything. I cannot runaway from life, I cannot control everything in my life. I just can stay still, follow the life-flow and wait until it is good for me to escape from this flow.

No one can control the world, and so do I. Every single moment in life will come and go. Then, it reminds me with another saying from another Buddhist monk, ‘This too will pass…’

Start from then, I can give my best smile everyday, coz I know that this unpleasant moment will pass and the sweet moment have been waiting me out there. And I believe, one day, when I look back into this moment, I will say, ‘Well done, Yenny! You did it’

So, no matter how hard your life is, just try to smile, coz this too will pass...