28 Views About Life
a.k.a Accidental Life Lessons My Late Father Randomly Said
- In borrowing loan, make sure your installment is no more than 20 percent your income. If possible, make sure your first installment is paid from the loan money itself, in other words, don’t spend all your loans
- A stupid friend is the worst enemy you can afford. Also, enemies who show themselves are better than the ones who hide. But it’s best if you don’t make enemy at all
he said this as we’re walking on the pedestrian walkway, that we must see the vehicles from opposite direction
- Always show more brain than skin. Always.
- It’s okay to have suicidal thoughts; just make sure you have a fool-proof murder plan and prepare a whole load of insurance money for your heirs
he said this as he was signing his new insurance contract
- Amazing good takes time, so being indecisive is okay. If you want something, anything, wait for a week to actually buy it and avoid regretting it in the future. If you still think about it after one week, buy it. If the price goes up or the thing is not available anymore, then it’s just not meant to be
- Once a month, you should at least try living like the rich even if you’re just average; you know, eat fancy dinner in a steakhouse, play golf or tennis or billiard, learn music
he said this as we’re doing my 4th-grade math homework while waiting for the fancy expensive steak to come
- Two things you should never buy second-hand: gadgets and vehicles. There are rules to buying them: you can only have a 6-month installment for any kinds of the former, 1-year installment for motorbikes, and 3-year installment for a car. Please remember the first rule of borrowing a loan
- Music, like math, is a universal language
he said this as we’re going to my piano lesson after I just had a ballet recital
- If you worry, you’ll experience twice the suffering. Once you face your fear, you’ll realize the feeling is different — it’s more freeing than scary
- I am diabetic because I drank soda soft drink three times, every day, for a whole year — do not make the same mistake
he said this as I was getting ready to be hospitalized for . . . being addicted to soda yet again. Soda is really one of the biggest issue in my life
- Rich people get breakfast in one country, then move to another for their lunch, and fly to another one to have fancy dinner. If you don’t do that, you’re not financially rich yet
- I rely so much on my father’s opinions about food, they always count
I don’t like the food he doesn’t like; sometimes I don’t try some food at all, such as Indonesian semur jengkol, petai, satay padang. And I’d eat anything he said is delicious. If I already tried and kinda liked something but he didn’t like it, my degree of like to that particular food would decrease
- If you’re good at doing something, never do it for free — but don’t trade your play times with money, you need to enjoy this short life
- Read. That’s the first order from our God
quite a funny story, he often left me in a bookstore to read as he was reading as well; that’s how I get a reading habit
- Unless you’re a math teacher or professor, you won’t ever use math again in your life; math is about shaping your mind into analytical and structural thinking
- If you don’t make a mistake, you don’t need to apologize; in fact, stand up for what you believe — keep your mind open, though
he said this during the Katara fought the patriarchy scene; he loved Katara and was obsessed as I am with Atla
- Your ‘wealth’ is what’s on you; what you just ate, the clothes on your body, your senses, everything in the now, not the ones you’re getting, not even the ones you left at home
- Sometimes men think they’re so powerful, break their confidence
this is my fundamental reason to talk back to cat-callers and not be afraid to do something about harassers
- The secret to happily enjoy your salary is to save some of it, then just spend the rest; you’ll know how much you need to save for the future, so it’s okay to have fun with what you earned
- If you love something, or someone, nurture it; I believe everything has a soul somehow, and it will choose its care-giver
about marrying my Mom, buying a house, and having a soft, tender heart in general
- Two things you should never sell: gadgets and books; just give it out when they’re no longer in use
- Hatred is like drinking poison and expect the other person to die
he concluded this during his favorite atla book 3 scene where Katara was all about revenge, he sided with Aang’s, “It’s easy to do nothing, but it’s hard to forgive”
- All the sadness and other feelings of getting picked on as an outcast will eventually pass. People don’t like different, but that’s okay. Be yourself, people will judge either way; sometimes if you want to punch them or flip their tables, do it — still, think it through. Avoid people who gossip and bad-talk each other behind their backs by any means necessary
- One of my job as a parent is to tell or teach you right and wrong so that you can distinguish it by yourself; I’m not here to decide for you, the choice is all yours. If you’re secretive, though, it’s fine; after all, that trait came from me
he said this when I was learning boolean. He added, if you mix right with right then the output is right, if you mix right and wrong then the output is wrong, if you mix wrong and wrong then it’s super wrong. God is a logician, like us, in the Quran, He said وَلَا تَلْبِسُوا الْحَقَّ بِالْبَاطِلِ وَتَكْتُمُوا الْحَقَّ وَأَنْتُمْ تَعْلَمُونَ
- It might be impossible to be grateful all the time, it’s more realistic to not complain, ever
- Strong women are for strong men, if the man is not strong enough to handle her power, he’s not for her, you don’t settle for less
he said this during a Makkora scene, showing disapproval to the relationship; Korra should end up with General Iroh II, at least
- You can achieve anything if you truly set your mind to it — you have the gift. Except for shaping your world, idealistic world, where everything is good and balanced, that just doesn’t exist; it only hurts you to wish for that
- Do you know that some people are allergic to chocolate? Not even chocolate will make everybody happy, you’re always gonna disappoint somebody
he said this as we’re . . . you know . . . eating chocolate
