Mindfulness Challenge: Dealing with Setbacks
This challenge is called “a challenge” for a reason. Keeping the consistency of being mindful proven to be harder than I’d expected, especially when the pace of life is getting faster. Setbacks During weeks leading up to midterm, I found myself slipping further and further from my mindfulness routine. The frequency of meditation getting lesser…
Mindfulness Challenge: Understanding The Concept
Despite my eagerness to learn about Mindfulness in a class, I missed the deadline of registration in campus. But does not mean gaining access of the concept of Mindfulness is impossible. One article I’ve found mentioned 8 characteristics of Mindfulness (Gunaratana, 1996): Non-judgemental Observation –> Simply observing ourselves, our experience, and the environment without putting…
Initiating Mindfulness as a Personal Climate Change Action
Inspired and initiated by Personal Challenge assignment in ESD course of University of Cambridge I think it is interesting to point out that my first assignment I received from Cambridge is to disrupt my life. It blatantly mandating us, the student, to make a personal change, in whatever form it will take. My initial thought…
Morning Commotion
I can smell the mint from simmering food that I am cooking. It is my first time using mint leaves on any cooking of mine, and the smell has woken me up. Pulling me away from my busy, murky mind for a little while. The smell of fresh tomatoes, the soft sting to the nose…
THE END – Day 365
It has been a long, adventurous, fun year! Thanks to this writing project that I do almost every day (I tried to do it everyday, but I was late and or unable to access internet, etc), it has helped me find a new and better perspective in my life. It has been fun. Really. I…
Morning Walk – Day 364
We partied hard. Well, actually, we just did karaoke, 7 of us, til 4 am in the morning, in the event of my birthday and letting off some steam, I guess. And there we were walking with sore throat yet gleeful smile back to our apartment. Our backs were crouching trying to endure the morning…
Birthday – Day 363
I’ll admit to you that I love birthdays. I love celebrating it, mine or others. It’s nice to get or give attention to others, show our love to each other, our grace of an existence, and basically just be nice to each other, isn’t it wonderful? I just celebrated mine. To be honest, originally, I…
The End is Near – Day 362
Well. I promised me 365 days of writing, and I can’t believe it is almost over. Well, of course, there were a lot of bumps in the road, like false numbering, the bad system that messed up with my posts and created a mess… Nevertheless, here we are, 3 more posts and this fun project…
A Girl’s Fear – Day 361
Is it just girls who had constant internal panic when facing potentially-awkward moments with man colleague and/or boss? Oh, wait, but I am afraid of not only men, though, but also the women who’s related to my work or my colleague. It is exhausting. I literally said unkind words to my colleague in front of…
Weary – Day 360
Those days are here, where waking up and walking out of the room have become a particular torture that I dreaded every single day. I don’t know whether it’s the added responsibilities in the office, the constant pressure of milestones I have made prior yet I couldn’t fulfill, or the haunting deadline lingering on my…
Being Watched – Day 359
The secret recipe of amazing attitude of people in Japan: Everyone is watching your moves. I personally think that it is the main cause why everything is in order. All the time I felt like being watched by my seniors, information about me somehow get spread to people that has no relationship with me whatsoever,…
Long Distance Friends – Day 358
The thing that I have to get used to is not having friends around me when I moved here. Most of my friends are in Indonesia, living their own life, and we grow further and further apart as we both shaped our own life. However, no friends means a chance to create new ones. So…
Life Routine – Day 357
We are still stumbling on adjusting to two-people-life routine. After all, it is 2 independent people, used to live on their own rhythm and habits, forced to change stuff to adapt for each other. Compromise is often needed. I think we have been managing it pretty well, compared to my imagination that it would be…
Grateful – Day 356
I know that happiness don’t last, and life goes up and down so quickly. So I cherish and treasure each passing moment, that I live comfortably. The morning hugs and kisses, smiles and affection we share with each other, the punctual trains I ride, the integrity and honesty people give in general here, the supportive…
Warm Winter – Day 355
It’s warm when it should’ve been piercing cold. It’s 17 degrees when it’s supposed to be 3 degrees outside. Something is incredibly wrong with winter in Tokyo. But we all know the cause. The growing realization of the worsening climate change has been inevitable. We all feel it. We can see it. Yet still, humans…
Halt – Day 354
No one has ever stopped me when I am lost in my mind in the night. We were in bed and my mind is buzzing with unfinished chores that we have to do. And it was making a list and agenda. Then he stop me mid-talk, and say “You’ve been thinking non-stop. Stop. It’s 11…
Juggling – Day 353
My whole life, I think I heard only once about how life is just about juggling stuff and keeping it in balance. And now, I can fully agree on that. That is all I am doing nowadays. Juggling work, relationship(s), health, hobby, friends, dreams. And keeping it in balance is a lot of headache. Often…
Work Mode – Day 352
It is still a puzzle for me on how to behave at home, now. The moment my foot stepped on Japan, my mind switch from vacation mode to work mode. And it demands a lot of logical, cold headed and practical decision in work-mode-me. I grew to realize when I am in frantic mode at…
Adaptation – Day 351
Humans are an advance being in terms of adaptation. Despite the painful process, adaptation is the core value that has made us survive to this day. I personally think that this is also the main factor on our success in climbing the ladder to the top of food chain. My first 1.5 years was painful…
Friendship Dynamic – Day 350
All of us must have what we call friendship dynamic when we are with friends. Part of my learning was realizing that I have various friendship dynamics depends on the people I am with. One group of friends is just easy and natural to be with, some other requires extra energy and effort. The same…
Kind Talks – Day 349
We were having dinner with friends and having animated chats. By the end of it, I can’t help but sigh in relief of how good and relaxing it went. That somehow, I can have decent dinner with local friends and not feeling the gap of culture during. Something that is ‘normal’ to me but also…
Blind Spot – Day 348
Everybody has blind spots. Blind spot here means things you cannot see objectively because you are too deep intertwined with it. The easiest example, is ourselves. Somehow, we cannot see all of our strength and weakness 100%, because there is always something we missed out on. If we are arrogant, we definitely can’t see that…
Outside The Hall – Day 347
I just started learning this game thing. I am leaning on an advertisement board, and across me sitting 2 garbage cans with band posters stick to the wall above it. The band playing inside the hall is quite intense, and I can hear it pretty well as the sound seeps in to the hallways. He…
Being an Engineer – Day 346
I wonder why an engineer has never been portrayed as main character in a Hollywood top movies, played by top actors/actresses? Somehow, the ones that often came up are either finance, marketing/sales, IT, soldiers, writers, artists, and of course CEO. Sometimes they do make movies with scientists or mathematicians as main character, like Stephen Hawking,…
Wedding Flaws – Day 345
I was looking at the shiny wedding pictures of mine and thinking: Hahaaa that moment was not as beautiful as it seems, wasn’t it? In the current climate, weddings have to look perfect, the food, the people, the dresses, the event, which is impossible. The plain truth is, if anyone is planning a wedding, he/she…
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