Self-acceptance. Oh, well.

Defining self-acceptance?

Self-acceptance. 
It is likely to be the idea about accepting yourself as you are. But, then … are you happy with yourself?

What I’m trying to say is … you might accept the facts about you … but, are you happy with that?

Should you be happy? If not? What do you think you should do?

Well, it’s interesting that I instantaneously googled anything related to ‘self-acceptance’ in a little while after a friend of mine brought that up when we were just shooting the breeze. Googling ‘self-acceptance’ means scanning what that is, taking test(s) about it, reassuring myself that I’m not the only out there who tries to be the person I want to be.

And I stumbled on this site. 

It simply says that ‘self-acceptance’ is an invitation to stop trying to change yourself into the person you wish to be, long enough to find out who you really are.

I took the test, and might just as well started the 10-day plan to self acceptance. 

Write more ...

A friend of mine, after reading my blog … well … criticizing to be exact, challenged me to write more. Writing more means making at least one piece of writing in a week. A week, to me, equals to two days, namely Saturday and Sunday. As a matter of fact, I badly need to shift my attention on work throughout the weekdays.

Whoooooaaa …

That’s not a challenge to me. It’s more like committing suicide.

Anyways, I took the challenge …

We’ll see …

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Mom loves recycling unwanted items

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Mom enjoys home moving so much.

When others seem to easily get stressed out about moving, Mom seems to take pleasure in every home moving moment. *LoL. But don’t take it the wrong way. It’s not like she gets excited to stop living in a particular home and then find another house. NO.

OK, what I’m trying to say is that she has a thing about others’ home moving. She always has the benefit of every home moving moment. Don’t get me wrong, again. I may not care for all of our neighbors, but Mom always gets along well with people in the neighborhood. She particularly maintains a good relationship with our next door.

The fact that she always loves home moving is all about her interest in the unwanted items from the household. Tell you what; Mom can amazingly turn those discarded things into something useful.

When moving, people tend not to bring along everything with them. In some countries, people might hold a garage sale. It is an informal event for the sale of typically used goods, sometimes new, like-new items from the household with the home owners conducting the sale.

It is slightly different here in Indonesia. When moving, Indonesians might sort through, throw out and give away things they no longer need. Unwanted items = given and taken. This is what I’m trying to point up about the pleasure Mom gets in every home moving. She’s brilliant.

Tempe geprek = Quick, tasty meal

Earlier today, I was so hungry that I could eat a horse. Then I found myself mumbling “There’s nothing to eat”, as I opened the fridge and searched through the eating table.

But wait a minute; apparently I found leftover Tempe somewhere in the kitchen. Yaay, this what-to-do-with-leftover idea suddenly came across my mind. In short, here’s my quick-cooking-for lunch recipe, simple as it should be.

Ingredients:

• leftover tempe
• chili
• 1 clove of garlic

How to make:

• Crush the garlic and chili.
• Crush the tempe. Mix them all. Done!
• Serve.

Tempe Geprek, like most people call it. I had it with warm rice. Bliss.

Initiative = New Action

A piece of writing that inspires me a lot. It gets me to write whatever comes across my mind, right away, without delay.

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I've been spending my time reading someone's writings, posts, stories, blogs, and stuff. I'm quite surprised to find the fact that I'm now one step closer into reading, for I don't have a good reading habit. Well, things happened for a reason.

This is how things started ...

There was this man,
it was Sunday afternoon, when this man was invited as a guest speaker on my English radio programme - I've been been hosting this programme for the last two years. It was just a casual introduction and I couldn't spot anything fantastic about this man. Unexpectedly, it didn't take too long that I badly wanted to alter my-first-time intuition about this man. I was dumbfoundedly astonished to find the fact that this man is really something. Yeah, something, if you know what I mean. Then again, it only took about an hour conversation for him to impress me!

But then, don't get me wrong, it's not the feeling of affection I had for him. It was a feeling of admiration for being so 'cool' (it's kinda hard to find a more descriptive word for this) after pulling off many great world wide achievements.

Soon, I was stick to his blog. I read and got amazed at whatever he wrote. Words failed me. And I couldn't get a better explanation how it got me to start a blog in the end.

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