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Photo: Mike GinFemale elephant seal scratching her head while another sleeps peacefully behind her on the beach in San Simeon, California.
Disappointment
The biggest disappointment is the disappointment of ourselves. Disappointment to others have certain level of helplessness from our behalf, since it’s others and we have no control over others. The master mind of the disappointment scandal is expectation. The most dangerous expectation is the expectation of ourselves. So that disappointment from unfulfilled expectation have a benediction from the lack of power to control of others. Yet disappointment to ourselves have no benediction, since we are the controller of ourselves. This disappointment is insidious because it can drag us down into the pit of self-loathing. Throw some guilt with self-disappointment/self-loathing and you have a depression party. I think the hardest thing to do in life is to get to know who we are and accept it whole-heartedly.
“Can Money Buy Happiness?” Interesting and intriguing video for only 3 minutes duration
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Gombalan anak HI
Kompilasi gombalan HI sedari tadi malam. Dimulai dari kelebihan ide sampah di otak dan ditambah dengan ga bisa tidur tengah malem, jadilah menghasilkan tweet2 gombal ala HI, dengan pancingan dari saya, memang hakikatnya anak2 HI itu murahan, lumayan juga yang kepancing dan berkontribusi :”) terharu. Buat lucu-lucuan dan hiburan, ini dia tweet2 gombalan HI sedari tadi malam:
Cinta itu melanggar hukum humaniter, soalnya dia melanggar prinsip diskriminasi dgn ga pandang bulu. #ea #edisihukumhumaniter
Cinta pasti nglanggar UNCLOS,krn ga cuma mengarungi transit passage lane kepulauan hatiku doang tapi internal waters jg. #ea #edisihukumlaut
Tapi cinta boleh lewat pake innocent passage. #edisihukumlaut #naon
@gedeadhy: @arrlitong Cinta itu istimewa (special), Kebal (immun) dan tidak dapat diganggu gugat (inviolability) #edisihukdip #eaaa nyamber
@caturolprma: @gedeadhy @arrlitong cinta itu dapat diterima (O) dan ditolak (X), dan terkadang dlm percintaan trdpt cinta segi3, bahkan segi4! #edisiPS
@ameliartj: cinta melanggar konvensi Jenewa! orang yang terluka kan harusnya ditolong dan dirawat. eh dia main tinggal aja! @arrlitong
Kamu putusin aku sepihak? Kok kamu ga menghargai perjanjian komitmen cinta kita? Bagaimana dgn pacta sunt servanda sayang?!! #edisihukumintl
@ameliartj: intl flight aja hrs berjadwal. eh si cinta (duh kok jijik ya nyebutnya) malah seliweran seenaknya! *edisi chicago conv @arrlitong
@fikryachmad: @arrlitong pdhl dlm deklarasi den haag 1899 dilarang pake peluru dum-dum, knp kamu menghancurkan aku dari dalam?
@gedeadhy: @arrlitong sebelum berlaku, antar hati harus meratifikasi cinta #edisihukumperjanjianinternasional
A: kamu cinta aku? B: iya sayang km kan most favored nation aku #edisihukumekonomiintl
A: kamu itu bagai putaran uruguay di GATT, sayang. Kamu yg menentukan berjalannya duniaku ini #masihedisihukumekonomintl
Ih kamu, selingkuh aja, kaya billiard ball model deh senggol sana sini. #edisisisteminternasional
@gedeadhy: @arrlitong Aku harus mematenkan cintamu agar dunia tahu hatimu tercipta hanya untukku #edisiHukumHaKI
Cinta itu kaya hukum humaniter, biar satu pihak lainnya ga ngaku dalam konflik bersenjata, tetep berlaku. Kaya cinta bertepuk sebelah tangan
@ameliartj: mas, cintaku padamu itu macam diplomasi Machiavelli. Serang dengan segala cara #edisiDiplomasi *ingetajadong
Kok kamu mengkhianati aku?! Di konvensi den haag 1907 aja pengkhianatan dilarang!
A: Km ky AS deh,sneng bkin kbijakan yg mgada2 biar dapetin apa yg km mau B: yg aku mau itu km syg,km kaya timur tengah soalnya, bnyk hartany
A: Km tu ky AS invasi irak aj si,pk alesan aku pny snjata pmusnah massal sgla. G ad kn pdhl? B: ya namanya jg usaha buat masukin hati km beb
A: km selingkuh kn?! B: ah elah beb gausa sewot ky israel nyewotin iran soal nuklir de,km jg slingkuh kn? ky israel yg sndirinya pny nuklir
A: tinggalin aku sendiri! B: aduh kamu jgn sok2an pgn mandiri pdhl ga bisa kaya timor leste gt lah
@gedeadhy: @arrlitong aku g prlu negosiasi,konsiliasi,arbiterasi, aplgi mediasi.Aku cuma pgn kita putus!
A: dasar lelaki buaya! Brengsek! B: beb km jgn ngliat aku kaya ngliat AS pake drone dong, yg diliat jeleknya doang #edisiskripsisendiri
@gedeadhy: @arrlitong Penggunaan ranjau dilarang loh!! tapi kamu malah menebar ranjau cinta padaku
Syria: gausa sok2 peduli! Russia: eh aku peduli sm km! Km gatau kan aku belain km segimana d dewan keamanan?! Aku pake hak vetoku buat km!
Cowo itu kaya negara, kalo baik pasti ada maunya.
Aku sampe nerapin kebijakan war on terror kaya AS karena trauma dulu kamu hancurin hatiku kaya peristiwa 9/11
A: kata C kamu clubbing kmrn B: yaampun si C fitnah aku kaya Mossadegh difitnah komunis sm CIA, aku ga clubbing beb
Kamu jangan kaya indonesia deh! Million friend, zero enemy. Ntar kamu dikira jablay kesana kesini oke,ga pny pndrian. #edisimeangirl
A: ga! Bakal aku tweet. B: oh jd skrg mulai ngelawan? A: ya! Rakyat Mesir jg pd akhirnya bisa ngejatohin Hosni mubarak pake socmed kan!
@gedeadhy: Internasional aja pny tanggungjawab u/ kerusakan krn benda luar angkasa, aku jga mau kamu bertanggungjawab u/ rusaknya hatiku memendam rindu
Buat apa kamu ngusulin perbaikan dalam rumah tangga kita tapi ga ikut memperbaiki? Jgn kaya AS yg gamau ratifikasi protokol kyoto!
@gedeadhy: aku ga perlu kode2 ala ICAO mengkode kebangsaan pesawat, cukup langsung katakan apa maumu
A: Beb ayo kita integrasikan perlahan2 cinta kita kaya uni eropa berintegrasi. B: Tapi aku gamau kita ntr krisis ekonomi #edisioi
A: beb aku mau kita menghargai satu sama lain dalam hubungan ini. B:yauda kita kaya asean aja bersatunya, pake prinsip non-interference
@gedeadhy: Aku tulus membantumu, aku bukan WTO yang membantu tapi banyak syarat
@gedeadhy: Dunia perlu DK PBB untuk menjaga perdamaian, tapi aku cuma perlu kamu untuk mendamaikan hatiku
A: aku akan terus menunggumu mengiyakanku bagai turki menunggu approval masuk uni eropa #edisioi
“Walaupun cinta kita ter’delay’ seperti pakta warsawa pasal 19 aku akan selalu sabar menunggumu” - @shennachristy
Even if the whole world against you, I will always be on your side like US always backs up Israel no matter how all people hates them.
Jangan sampai kita kaya korsel korut ya beb, terpisah karena pihak ketiga. #edisihi
Kamu menghancurkan hatiku bagai yugoslavia yg terpecah belah
Rindu yang kutahan di dadaku untukmu ini sebesar komunisme yg ditahan containment policy AS di Eropa beb. In English: The size of my longing for u that is contained in my chest is as big as communism that US’ containment policy in Europe tried to contain.
@lutfilingga: @arrlitong hati aku itu terpenjara selamanya di hati kamu, seperti tahanan2 yang terpenjara selamanya di penjara Guantanamo
kalo ada yang mau nambahin silahkan!
You need to remember these things about friends
What you need to remember:
not everybody feels the same way as you, do not expect anything
just because you do nice things for people, that doesn’t make you guys friends
even if you think you are close enough, there are boundaries that you should be aware of and not to be stepped on
there are just friends and great friends
just friends are situational and conditional, and it is very normal, you accept this.
great friends are the ones crosses any distance and time.
no distance and time will matter for great friends. Even if you guys are far feom each other and haven’t shared stories, when you guys meet again, you’ll find no change of feeling and you’ll feel no hesitation to catch up all those stories. Unlike just friends whom you will feel some hesitations ti catch up bunch if stories and you could even feel awkward.
great friends needs no special task from you, it just happened, bonded, and you can feel it with chemistry. If you don’t feel any chemistry with your friend, don’t push it. Like dating rule: he’s just not that into you.
you should still be nice to just friends and mere acquaintances, just don’t sacrifice too much.
forget giving your just friends presents, give presents to your great friends. You’ll just ended up solely giving.
to choose the people around you that you feel more comfortable is totally your prerogative, you should not feel guilty.
trust your instinct. If you don’t feel really click with someone, trust that instinct and stay on the distance, do not power through to be close yet ignoring your true feeling.
what you felt about your friends were fine. It’s normal to sincerely care about someone and do things for them and to expect things from your cherished ones.
humans are forgetful creature.
human relations are based on the benefit principle
to forgive. To forgive the people who hurt you because every person passed on the path of your life are here to teach you something, the people who hurt you are giving the lesson of endurance, acceptance, emotion, introspection. Those people taught you what friends are and not.
to be grateful. That you made friends, even if it is situational and conditional. Aren’t those situational and conditional friends are great? Remember how great it was to have situational and conditional friends when you were living and travelling abroad? You know, Charlie, would kill—well, not literally, we know Charlie—to have a friend, any kind, better than to have a date.
you should get your ass moving
you tend to act rashly when you are immerse in emotion, especially emotion. Do not do decide anything when you are angry, especially posting it on twitter.
Home
Home is comfort.
Home is happiness.
Home is unconditional.
Home is present.
Home is wanting to be there.
Home is safe.
Home is another world.
Home is being thy self.
Home is love.
Home is reciprocal.
Home is trust.
Home is existence.
Home is to be remembered.
Iran’s Interesting Policy Shift towards Drugs: back to nature
The writing of Amir A Afkhami entitled How Iran Won the War on Drugs in Foreign Affairs. This is the link -> http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/139095/amir-a-afkhami/how-iran-won-the-war-on-drugs
Well basically this piece is about Iran’s policy shift toward drugs. The previous policy of Iran is that drug problem approached harshly with punitive measures and viewed as a sin to God. Yet contradictory with the stricter policy, there is no sign of decrease upon drug user and its problems. So, Iran changed their policy more toward preventive and treatment actions. They spent half of their budget of drugs on education and campaign, they encourage clean needle change in prison. And it works, the number of drug user and its problems (HIV/aids) decreased.
The interesting thing for me is that, I see this as a back-to-human-nature thingy. Somehow, not only applied to kids, humans (?) have more tendency to break the rule when the real gets stricter. Like a kid when he/she were forbidden to do some things, that kid on the contrary will feel more urge to do the things they were forbid to do. And that is what probably happened in Iran. When the government applied stricter rule toward drug using, the people, the drug tends to be more rebellious. Yet, when this strict prohibition soften, the violations also goes down with it.
I find it funny. Isn’t it? *#shrugged
Well, maybe, the regulation of a country should be broken down to the root to make it works: the root of human nature. Well, this is just my shallow thought :E
