Ahhhhhh narcissus
Ahhhhhh.... the character gazes down into the water at their reflection. nothing else matters, not even the sound. it is 'heard' through one's mind. satisfaction in what they see...
Gathering thoughts…
A world of little thoughts.
Ahhhhhh.... the character gazes down into the water at their reflection. nothing else matters, not even the sound. it is 'heard' through one's mind. satisfaction in what they see...
What does photography to me? The answer to this question has evolved over the years. It started off as a creative hobby for self-expression, then competition (because of social media), then back to self-expression, to a business (wedding photography), to documenting daily life, then back to self-expression again.…
Know how to say no Why people don’t give a shit about what you say Because you don’t have the balls to say what you want to say And also you keep focusing on smaller cheapskate solutions If you want to say no at a last minute cancellation The trouble seems harder Of course it would take longer and harder to say once…
Today, it’s easier than ever to live the life you want. It doesn’t take long scrolling social media to see words like intention, mindfulness, and goals. The question is, do you know what you want? “Nothing will bring you peace except yourself.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson You must know yourself to know what you want. With…
People bother me all of the time with a great idea. "You'll love it, and I really think you can something with it," they say. I can tell they are excited. They're ready to tell anyone who will listen. They tell me about their great idea, as though I don't have a stack of ideas at home that I've been ignoring. Stuff I…
I didn’t want anyone to know of my new habit when I first started. What would they think? If my new habit turned out to be a waste of time, I would look silly. They didn't journal, so they wouldn’t understand. I thought that when I started journaling gratitude. I worried about the reaction of others. I soon discovered…
i read a book about how there are people who defy all expectations. like they just HATE fulfilling expectations, doesn't matter if it's internal or external. i may be such a person. i told myself that i should go running at 5 and cook at 6 and have dinner ready by 7.30 but it is now 5.55 and i have been working on…
More like five and a half years, something that began on February 14th, 2021, Valentines Day! A fun and joyful Sunday brunch with friends which extended into another impromptu meet up in the evening with another set of friends. A day of red outfits, red roses and endless champagne! Then the trajectory of dates started…
I've been running up against lots of large, intractable issues recently. The nature of work, the problems with capitalism, climate doom-erism, the absence of any kind of regulation on social platforms (or tech in general), my role in all this... All heavy stuff. It's exhausting. These are not things individuals can…
(original: 12 February 2006) and back east? ... there's a nor'easter & it's nutty. why people love SD's weather! ... it's the middle of february, FCOL! this is what the SD bay looked like across the street from solar turbines. my worries for today? sunscreen, hydration, air conditioning, and focus. yup! focus is hard…
AI is making me question this repeatedly, how will future look like? I feel we might go back to freelance era- and a structured employment will cease to exist. If that is the case what will I want to build? Will I build the most ambitious most risky business which has potential to get me a billion dollars or will I…
I took down my website. It was bullshit. Just like the many bullshit ideas that cross my mind, and all the other bullshit projects that I embark on. I started that site as another "creative outlet". A place where I could improve my writing. The latter, AKA "the goal", remains genuine. The former, AKA "the idea", AKA…
This is my first post on nicheless. It seems like an interesting microblogging app. I like how minimalist the interface is. I even like this font. The onboarding process was easy. Getting the web page as an app icon on my iPhone screen was seamless. 300 words is a lot. That last word was my 50th. I wonder how this…
In every task you do, know that no one owes you anything. The reviewer doesn't owe being nice to you. Your customer doesn't owe it to be nice to you. Once you click 'Submit' or press 'Send', your work is not only 'yours'. It is open to the world. So, let it be. Let go. You'll be surprised by the results in the longer…
Is to be upfront and integrity This is the shield against all immoral and dishonourable G knows you been paying for most It’s ok to reject him once if it’s too much Stay honest and thinking things through The only way to get through and stand strong When having questions - just ask Big decisions; take a night to think…
i chose this topic because this was the recent one i came across. I really do have a big question as to why the dresses made in the met gala are so not normal and not wearable by the normal people like you and me. If something should be encouraged it should have a meaning behind it i can't see what good does it…
This is my first post of nicheless, I think the idea for the website is great, and I am happy to be a relatively early adopter. What gets me excited about the platform is the late of likes, reposts etc, and just the ability to get one's thoughts on paper. I'm not sure I would consider myself a writer, but I surely…
I woke up today with anger. I’m just so angry and so frustrated. Nelson told me about how he reacted to Pandu saying that your girlfriend is only not on your side, don’t talk. He was so upset then that I wasn’t on his side. And now he realises that he never thought about it from my side. That unless I saw the logic,…
O título do texto anterior ficou estranho. É porque eu coloco o título antes mesmo do texto. E quando eu comecei, eu queria falar sobre pessoas que vivem com câncer... E que é uma doença cada vez mais comum por conta do estilo de vida humano. Não estou culpando pessoalmente ninguém. Estou falando que os…
It's the fourth quarter of 2023, and I chose to replenish my 6-month undated Roterunner planner - https://roterunner.com/products/purpose-planner - partly out of convenience, partly out of utility. Meanwhile, here's a list of planners which folks have shared -…
ahh Poetry from eras gone show why our words are powerful. They inspire new creations decades and centuries later. It connects us to the past, present and future. One day I would like to design Poetry, but for now I do not know what to say. Time will give me a stronger voice...
Comecei uma nova série. New girl estava na minha lista ha anos. Eu conheço a atriz que interpreta Jess como cantora. Então, está sendo legal ver ela nesse papel de comédia também. Olhos grandes e azuis. Claro, a série tem uma vibe meio pick me girl. Meio "nossa como eu sou estranha e preciso da aprovação desses…
A macher, pronounced with that distinctively Yiddish velar fricative, is the sort of person who could convince you that you need to buy a new lawnmower together with an extended 10-year warranty despite your lack of lawn ownership. A macher knows what you want before you know what you want, and as it turns out, he…
(original: 2010 November 8, excerpt) f|back: when my friend oracle speaks ... ... or [when my friend "oracle"] types ... when i chat with my friend, i enjoy the intellectual banter that ensues. my friend earned the nickname from "the oracle of delphi" - he shared a series of different answers to his daughter's…
What if augmented reality (AR) went beyond simply projecting (virtual, simplified) models of objects into our existing world? AR should be a true expansion of our sensory inputs, enhancing how we experience reality. Scientific instruments already achieve this by allowing us to perceive phenomena beyond our natural…
In the past, I struggled so much to fall asleep. Every night was a real-life nightmare, with my brain refusing to shut down and winding up in all these hypothetical scenarios that brought me anxiety. But strangely, that doesn’t happen when I read before going to bed. Reading before sleeping, apart from making my eyes…
ahh ahh ahh... creating daily has disadvantages. i enjoy creating daily, however my mind deems some creations a failure because they lack intent. i have been thinking of a way to mitigate this disadvantage. creating a streamline process of design to extract the fundamentals of an idea. everything beyond the…
Today I had an inspiring call with Alex West, a solopreneur that runs a $600K/year automated lead generation business. He has been very outspoken about his journey over the last few years, and done so in an extremely authentic und reflective way. In our conversation, he mentioned daily writing as the reason for this…
Someone grabs your jacket as you walk by and they won’t let go. Immediately, your senses are heightened. You think this person wants to fight, but you turn around to see a kind smile. Please don’t leave, they say, I see that you are a man of God and I need to know more. A humbling experience. What does it say about…
I am no longer employed. For anyone to survive in the corporate world, one has to follow some rules. If you want to pursue further studies, you have to study for it along with your job. You have to manage to keep your boss happy and at the same time squeeze more time out to study and ace your exams. If you are someone…
Les dates se confondent ; les jours sont les mêmes. Je me réveille un matin pour réaliser que trois mois sont passés. Mes repères temporels ne suffisent pas à sauver ma pauvre horloge interne. Je vis des journées de trente heures suivies de nuits de dix-huit heures. Ce rythme de vie fut fatal à ma notion du temps,…
In my teens - I was a commi/socialist. Read Che. I thought everyone should share everything in equal parts. In my 20s, I want to conquer the world. Nothing can stop me. Hell yeah! Started tilting towards center. In my 30s, I'm part of capitalist system, and turned capitalist. Believes money can buy happiness & many…
As a certified foodie, I rarely pass on an opportunity to celebrate a life event which does not involve food! So when a long overdue conversation with a friend turns into a call where she tells me about her daughter's plan to get married, albeit with six weeks notice, I figure the Mother of the Bride could do with a…
the bird left its nest the feather of it's right wings were ready to soar but the muscles gave up within a minute her childhood injury had a left it's scar - invisible but all the more threatening to its dreams during her first fall - she cushioned her face with her wings the embarrassment hurt more than the…
Whenever you say something, my ears take the words right out of your mouth
i have never done anything in my life i've hated as much as thinking about boat work not even working in a psychiatric hospital or sitting through tantrum fits of children who don't want to play the piano but who are anxious when i suggest that they stop taking lessons i hate this so much and i hate sebastian for…
Imagine you are making a cake and a milkshake. You put the cake in the oven and realise it's going to take 2 hours to bake. Until the cake is in the oven, you smartly make the milkshake, and then come back to the oven and finish making the cake. That's async processing. All the work is being done on one thread but…
It's been a while since I wrote. A whole month has passed. There was some anxiety closer to the NT Scan when I started bleeding a little. Nothing to worry, baby is doing well. We made a baby announcement. Was happy to share this news with the world. Almost 15 weeks pregnant now. A long way to go, but have also come a…
the problem with creative writing is that it messes with your "serious" writing. when you're in creative mode, you can do whatever you want. there are no rules. you can get away with a hand-wavy explanation of something under the guise of being an artist or whatever. it's not that creative writing doesn't have well…
Unplanned, unexpected moments are the most beautiful ones. Today we were walking around Aalto University without a plan, without any expectation. It was cloudy, we accidentally found this lookout spot, and then all of a sudden the cloudiness turned into one of the most beautiful sunsets of my life. Even the birds were…
today is sunday and the air has a quiet and restful quality and i have decided to go with the energy and do whatever i want to do, wander with my mind. and youtube is recommending me videos with 43 likes by people with 2.23k followers [i'm talking about the channel tokyochemist; she talks about books] and i am so…
Today marks the end of my three-month study abroad in Cambridge. It's been a wonderful journey, filled with profound learning, unforgettable experiences, and a deep affection for the city. Initially, the thought of this chapter closing is saddening, and it's natural to feel this way. Transience often conjures feelings…
creativity is all about knowing the rules and thoughtfully breaking them. in order to think outside the box, you need to understand the box. it's not about fully living outside the box either. use the box as a central hub you can build spokes out from. for example: everything everywhere all at once has been revered as…
16g of coffee ground at a setting of 1/30. 240g of water heated to 95 degrees. Bloom the coffee with 30g of water and leave it for 35 seconds. Then pour the remaining 210g of water in slow concentric circles. That's my daily routine to prepare my first cup of coffee upon waking. As long as I stick to light or medium…
I recently started listening to an audiobook called 'Story worthy' and in that the writer states that every movie can be boiled down to 5 secs scenes of transformation. I realized this can be true for any movie, tv show or any other form of entertainment. So, I had a thought that if we think what our 5 secs would be,…
Assistindo a um documentário sobre invenções que nos poupam tempo (ou não), pensei em viagens no tempo, e em como estamos viajando no tempo, mas apenas em uma direção: para o futuro. É uma viagem contínua, sem volta, e cada segundo que passou foi aproveitado ou perdido. Mas como julgamos se estamos aproveitando ou…
Tons of people Tons of things to do Tons of places With all this, I just go into a very extrovert personality to protect myself
Living an independent has been the goal. Although I earn, I haven't that goal yet. Let's plan for it. Let's do it.