yay. my low EQ made me decide to get the autosampler through the US lomo site... deadma na difference in cost. i want to get it na now. hahaha. we're talking of a few hundred pesos difference lang naman. pwede na rin if it means ill get it the same time lily does. i might die of envy if lils gets hers first. :p
can't wait for lily to tell me it's here na. weeeeeeeeeeeeee!
konting tiis na lang...
i was researching on my demekin and stumbled on this super cute all-weather camera... and fell in love. im really not a photography (or even lomography) fan, but this little girl has been popping in and out of my head since. now i think i wont get a super sampler anymore. i think i want this one instead. (photo from www.lomography/autosampler/about/)
the hunt is on for the best deal. buti na lang talaga i will likely end up back in hongkong in the next few months. ni-research ko talaga, and apparently they manufacture it in shenzen and they have a sales office in kowloon!!! either that or i get it on ebay. :p
hmmm... i wonder if i can still say im "not a fan". hahahaha.
the last of my paul arden quotes... for now. i guess his point was really simple...
SIMPLY CHANGE YOUR LIFE
The world is what you think of it.
So think of it differently and your life will change.
--- Paul Arden
... the hardest to learn was the least complicated.
Talent helps, but it won’t take you as far as ambition.
Everybody wants to be good, but not many are as prepared to make the sacrifices it takes to be great.
Most people are looking for a solution, a way to become good. There is no instant solution, the only way to learn is through experience and mistakes.
--- Paul Arden
Im down to my last few quotes from "whatever you think, think the opposite".
NO ONE BUT NO.1
It is fashionable for so-called thinking people to try to lose their ego.
Well, they should think a bit harder. Presumably we were given egos for a reason.
Great people have great egos; maybe that’s what makes them great.
So let us put it to good use rather than try to deny it.
--- Paul Arden
people with severe control issues, or OCD are going to have a hard time with this one. haha. though my control issues aren't severe, i still find immense comfort knowing that i know what im getting myself into and im prepared for it --- plan B, C and D ready. generally speaking of course.
DO IT THEN FIX IT AS YOU GO
Too many people spend too much time trying to perfect something before they actually do it.
Instead of waiting for perfection, run with what you’ve got, and fix it as you go.
--- Paul Arden
THE CASE FOR BEING RECKLESS
When we were young we jump into the pool whether we can swim or not.
We have no fear. Either we swim or we drown.
Before we turn thirty, important things happen to us which shape the rest of our lives.
The first is:
We become aware of ourselves and our own thinking. We reach the age of reason.
The second is:
In a new-found maturity we begin to think in a more adult way.
We become grown up.
Recklessness and risk are not compatible with age.
Risk becomes something which must be carefully considered.
--- Paul Arden
food for thought for the day... seems appropriate since mel said something about wrong decisions and regret...
DECISIONS DECISIONS DECISIONS.
When you look back there will be things you will regret.
You made the wrong decision.
Wrong.
You made the right decision.
Life is about right decisions. Whatever decision you make is the only one you could make. Otherwise you would make a different one.
Everything we do, we choose. So what is there to regret?
You are the person you choose to be.
--- Paul Arden (whatever you think think the opposite)
I WISH
I wish means: wouldn’t it be nice if…
If you always make the right decision, the safe decision, the one most people make, you will be the same as everyone else.
Always wishing life was different.
I WANT
I want means: if I want it enough I will get it.
Getting what you want means making the decisions you need to make to get what you want. Not the decisions those around you think you should make.
Making the safe decision is dull, predictable and leads to nowhere new.
The unsafe decision causes you to think and respond in a way you hadn’t thought of. And that thought would lead to other thoughts which would help you achieve what you want.
Start taking bad decisions and it will take you to a place where only others dream of being.
--- Paul Arden
when i bought his books at page one in HK, i didnt realize what gems they were. so i was really pleased at how they tickle my brain when i read through them... my next few entries will probably be quotes from his books.
TRAPPED
It’s not because you’re making the wrong decisions, it’s because you are making the right ones.
We try to make sensible decisions based on the facts in front of us.
The problem with making sensible decisions is that so is everyone else.
---- Paul Arden (Whatever you Think, Think the Opposite)
