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One Thing Everyday (to Feel Happy)

The list that I commit to do–at least one of the item–everyday to keep my soul happy:

Create something I always feel happy when I create a thing. One thing that I love, doesn’t matter if it small or big: Code, design, write article or poem. 

Do one things that scares me  It has something to do with adrenaline. I will found out the reason why do I feel happy whenever I did things that scares me and overcome the fear.

Try something new At least new pathway to home. New food. To trick the brain that we did different thing today.

One small achievement Create “to do” or check list everyday. Mark the list done at the end of the day, at least to make me feel that I’m doing doing progress in that day.

Feed the brain with something new. New knowledge from book or documentary movie.

Eat delicious and good food: Don’t skip meals!  I always love to eat fruit and drink fresh juices. A cup of juice every day makes my body feels good.

Workout Exercise doing physical activities.

Delete or eliminate negative things that come into me Everyday, at the end of the day I have to make sure that I delete negative thoughts that come from inside me or from other people. Clean “the trash” before bed time. 

Be Grateful, forgive myself I’m not perfect. Failure is the clue that will show me the way to success.

Help other  Family come first! I always happy to see my family is alright. Then help other people and stranger. 

Currently I don’t feel happy at work. I don’t feel like I’m challenged to do the work, I don’t feel I get something new for my brain, for myself. I feel bored. Its hard for me to get up from bed in the morning.

The reason this blog is up again because I want to make sure that I did one of the things above. To keep my soul happy. To motivate me to reach my big goal. 

The list above is the things that I know that will make me happy whenever I did it.

Zinetron.com A domain that I purchased today for this blog. The name Zinetron is come after “Sinetron”: abbreviation of Sinema Elektronik or Electronic Cinema, a television drama series. Similar to Telenovela, Latin America soap opera.

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Climbing

(Day 10)

Have you ever looked at Everest and wondered “Man, wouldn’t it be cool to do that?”

...and then you found out that it’s way more freaking difficult than you ever imagined and that you have a 1/60 chance of dying while trying to make it to the top?

Well that’s kind of how my relationship with climbing is.

In theory, I would love to be able to do it, and technically it’s something I could be quite decent at.

But in practice? That’s a whole other story.

So today I decided to tackle my Everest and take the first step to get into climbing.

I rounded up some friends (who are much better climbers than me), and we headed out for a night at The Hive.  The local bouldering gym.

My recollection of the last time I was here was my arms being sore for a good week and a half afterwards (since I’ve been running, arm days have been nonexistent for me - unless downward dog counts?)

Anyways,  it was a busy night at the Hive and it started out great.  We tackled a few easy ones, then started out on a few harder intermediate ones.  It was all going handy dandy.

Only after about the fourth climb did it really start to burn.  And I’m not talking ‘oh my arms are kind of tired’ burn, more like an ‘my arms are aching so much, I think they might fall off if I try to climb more’ kind of burn.  Suffice to say, we were very much attempting to stretch our poor forearms out in prayer pose (it helps SO much).

And somehow, amidst that awful burn, we still felt great.  We were still scoping out new routes to try and having an awesome time.  In a weird way, the pain was also the gain.

I’m guessing the people that climb up Everest do it to say that they made it to the top of the highest mountain in the world - an amazing feat, but there’s also something insanely satisfying in testing your body and realizing it’s full potential.

I may never climb Everest, heck I may never even be that great of a climber, but today I learned that no matter what you try, you’ve got to enjoy the process - as painful as it may be, sometimes it’s what gives the most satisfaction.

So for now, I’ve made the first step to climbing my own Everest.  I’ve gotten into climbing....and who knows where that will bring me one day.

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Jumping into a new Project

(Day 9)

I’ve always been the last one in the pool.

 The friend who hesitates at the edge until she’s sure that everyone else has gotten in safely and there is really and truly no danger.  Or the friend that hesitates at the top of the diving board, re-evaluating her decision to really truly jump off this slightly insane height.

But once I finally decide to do it, I leap.

So today, I skipped the hesitation and fully just went for it.

 Today, I jumped into starting our own business.

 We saw an opportunity, we brainstormed and we just did it. 

By ‘we’ I mean my inexplicably awesome brother who also happens to be majoring in business.  Within moments of getting our idea we acted on it.

 Lucky for us, we got the great opportunity to have access to an amazing studio space at an insanely good location. And therefore…

 We’re going to open up our own concept café.

 Yes, it’s still in the works, yes it’s terrifying and yes, we want it to become an amazing success (without jinxing it).

 Since we’re both still in school, this will be a side project, but we also realized that there was no better time to start doing something we’ve always wanted in our future, now.

 Almost immediately, we started looking for ideas and things we could furnish our space with. 

 The plan is to have it up and running in time for our close group of friends by exam season this year, and from there – who knows where it will bring us?

 Ciao for now, and if I learned anything today, it’s #justdoit.

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Presenting a poster

(Day 6 of One thing every day)

I am a nerd. 

I fully admit to this. 

From an early age, I’ve always loveddoing well at school and eventually I just made it a part of me.  It’s hilarious because in recent years I feel like I’ve changed so much from being the shy girl in class that sometimes it doesn’t show as much as it used to (I might be wrong).  Anyways, you would think that a science loving nerd chica like myself would jump at the chance to present my recent lab findings in front of other bright like-minded people in the form of a poster session.  This is not the case.  I am terrified of this.  

You see, a poster session is basically your standard grade 8 science fair, except on steroids.  Gone are the experiments describing plants growing in different light conditions followed by gentle nods of encouragement…Oh no, a poster session means that on one side there’s a genius who has found a way to study the effect of a genetic mutation in a neurobiological disorder while someone else has identified a new potential chemical target to cure cancer (okay…maybe exaggerations, but you get my point).  And then there’s me, that girl who, albeit being part of an awesome lab and has done and learned some pretty cool things, just doesn’t feel like one of those people. 

So after a suggestion by my grad supervisor, I decided to do it.  Yes - it will be a great experience, yes – I’ll be able to interact with other researchers and yes- I will be terrified. 

And guess what? Turns out it went really well, not only did I present well, I came really close to scoring best poster. Not only has this experience taught me not to doubt myself, it has given me a chance to interact with some pretty cool people that are doing some pretty cool things.

I guess some things never change #nerdlife

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Committing to yoga

(Day 4)

As you might already know, I love yoga. 

 But yoga and I have an interestingrelationship. 

 It’s a wonderfully easy relationship where we both feel completely at ease with each other, growing, learning and sweating together. 

However, as wonderful as our relationship is, it’s often existed as a series of short, passionate summer flings.  I’ll see yoga every day throughout the summer months, then silence as autumn and responsibilities set in.  As much as I loved it, I simply never make enough time.

So for this challenge I’m making a commitment to yoga.  I mean, as scary as commitment is, if you’ve found something that can make you smile on your darkest days, calm you down and change your perspective of the world, why would you ever let it go? 

As easy as it was to fill my summers up, it’ll be just as hard to ensure that I won’t simply put yoga on the back burner during the year.  The excuses pile up...there are too many other things to do, I could get a more intense workout doing something else, it’s just too expensive…  So it’s time I put my foot down.  Yoga and I have a good thing going, and it would be a shame to simply brush it off.

As recently as yesterday, I re-ignited my passion with yoga.  I remembered its amazing qualities during my hot (hip-hop) yoga class at Hotbox Yoga.

I had never been to Hotbox, but boy, am I glad I went yesterday.  It was truly an enjoyable experience.  It was like yoga was simply sitting patiently behind a corner, just waiting for me to stumble back into it.  It was everything I wanted.  A cute little studio tucked away up a long flight of stairs, where you emerge to be greeted by a hip white interior and a long panel of windows letting in the natural light.  I swooned, and fell all over again after sweating out my worries and meeting the wonderful instructor that taught us. So this time, instead of skipping out, I’m stepping in.  And lucky for me, with the Hotbox’s March Madness sale (5 classes for $35!), I really have no more excuses to not commit to my love affair with yoga.  From now on, I’m going to have a once a week (at least) standing date with my very dearest yoga.

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Escaping from a room, under pressure

(Day 2)

So we just watched The Imitation Game (which I would highly recommend), and I think that’s a pretty good intro to this next challenge.

You know that part where they’re in a room trying to figure out the codes and use clues to basically win a war?  Yea, well that’s what we’ll be doing.  My amazing visiting aussie friend found this super cool thing called Smartypantz in gastown that basically has a bunch of rooms with different scenarios where you have an hour to figure out all the clues so that you can get out.  The scenarios range from being stuck in a submarine, getting murdered by a cannibalistic psychopath, to being in a paranormal activity house (are you kidding me??). 

I don’t know what could be scarier. 

I’m not sure if I mentioned that I have a terrible, terrible fear of horror.  I have watched a total of one horror movie in my life (the Ring) and have never since watched another.  Even when horror movie ads come up on tv, I have to either shut my eyes or plug my ears (often both) just to avoid it (yes, I'm a chicken).  So needless to say that while this challenge seemed super exciting, it was also one of the scariest things I could do.

So with this in mind, we signed up for it with two other friends.  We did however avoid the absolutely, piss-inducing terrifying ones for fear of our mental well - being and general sanity.  But we did sign up for a very legitimate scenario where you have an hour to break into a Nazi’s office to get secret papers (we were hoping The Imitation Game would prep us well for this beforehand).  If this isn’t something out of a scary movie, I don’t know what is. 

Arriving at Smartypantz (finding it was already the first challenge), we were quickly introduced to our scenario: you’re working for the secret forces to infiltrate and obtain an important folder in under 45mins.  

What happened next was a flurry of rummaging, yelling, team work and frustration.  Clues were hard to find, red herrings brought us down the wrong paths and it was ridiculously fun. 

In the end, we came SO close to solving it, enough so that our frustrations were many when our time was up.  But overall it was an amazing experience with some amazing people.  Not only did it cure me of my fear of being stuck in a locked room under pressure, it taught me that sometimes failure is ok as long as you learned something (and had fun) in the process.

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One thing every day - Lyra. a. k. a. Carolyn

This lovely person has to tell me one good thing about her every day until she starts believing she's the awesome, fantastic and caring person I'm telling you all she is. This is what we've got so far:

Driven person when the time/situation needs her to be.

She has been told she has pretty eyes, and we both agree. ([…]Dark olive green with little bits of gold in them[…])

She’s very stubborn and a very faithful person when it comes her family and close friends.

She cooks like “no one’s mother"

She's becoming more comfortable with herself instead of being so insecure.

If given a task, she will keep trying to do it right, until it is done so.

She can adapt to a situation if the need arises.

She has long legs. And they look especially nice in a skirt or a dress.

She just got her hair cut before she went off to NIU. And she loves it! (Seriously, her hair is so pretty and perfect I can't even) It makes her feel really good about herself.

She's an emotional person and can empathize with a person easily.

She's a great listener, but rarely can give advice. ("[...]I’m not good at it, unless I truly understand[...]")

She's really passionate about music. ("[...]Not playing it or making it, but just listening to it. I really love finding the different chords and vocals that most people don’t listen for.[...]")

She has one of the most amazing superpowers ever: She can fit tons of stuff into a small bag, that's why she's called The Sorceress and a invaluable person to go to the movies with.

She's learning tostep up and ask for help when she needs it.

She's learning to talk about things that bother her to her family and not hold them in

She's really good at organizing things. ([...]I can organize stuff in a room very well, but it won’t stay like that because I can be pretty messy also :D [...])

"I am 5’10”. So reeaaallly tall and I love it :)"

Her confidence in herself has gotten so much better that she feel really, really good about herself. 

She's very sociable!

She's been feeling stronger and more sure of herself everyday from experiencing the things life has thrown at her. "It's been a little bumpy, but I have made it through!"

She gets along very well with just about anyone!

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One Thing I Like About Myself

I can cook like no one's mother :)