Desperation is the mother of invention

by Stylo on September 5, 2008

What does desperation is the mother of invention mean? Who created such a thoughtful quote? Google tells me, it is from the dialogue Republic, by the ancient Greek philosopher Plato. Everyone is obsess and desperate to something, if you are not desperate you’re nothing. For instance, if you think you have a future as a singer, you will be desperate to go karaoke or desperate in singing in any occasion and eventually will lead you to become a singer. Some may argue that necessity is the mother of invention, this phrase may fairly use often, because people seem to accept it as more common sense. 

First thing first, is necessity really the mother of invention? Then what are the things invented out of necessity? Okay, true, maybe once in a blue moon, you may have thought of a solution to resolve problem out of necessity, but aren’t you were desperate to resolve the problem that leads you to resolve the problem? Sure, you may think of necessity came first before desperation or vice versa, we are not going to argue about an egg or chicken came first. That’s still a myth, but surely necessity is important, considers having an iphone is necessary? No, having a phone to call and receive is necessary; it’s desperation to have the coolest phone invented iphone. Make sense? 

Truthfully, this post was written out of desperation and not necessity, because I have not written a post here since the past 20 days. Desperation has taught me to be more creative, and I hope that, I am not attempting to create some pointless post here. I do not write something in an attempt to fill that void. As I said earlier, if you think you want to achieve something, show desperation, and it will bring you there.

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Lovely wife? Forget it, Women has lost their true identity.

by Stylo on August 24, 2008

The journey to go through another break up has been devastated to me, it seems like a norm to me that women who I had “intimate” before would often live better after that, I had seen and witnessed myself for 3 times in 3 straight years, either they would just taken away by 3rd party or just disappeared out of thin air. Changing partner every year seems to be fun for an average frustrated chumped like me and I guess I took it in a different way, I put the happiness on the hand of other, I am more miserable than being happy in a relationship. I thought this is what it was meant to be, to love and expect to be love in return. It is often what I perceived and indulged was not the desired result.

Its futile to be in relationship again, I shut myself in the house for month reading books, listening to self-help CD and studying forum post of love and relationship. I want to gain back my self-esteem that has been taken away and rewire myself being a more contented person. While shutting myself down from the social world for month had showered myself with more knowledge into better understanding awareness deep inside me. People often read books to search for themselves and find someone who agrees with them. And, right now, I could have done better if I have made the right choice in my life.

I suppose, we were all searching for love to fulfill our loneliness and emptiness, in search of other half needed to achieve happiness. That’s why we found each other. But by putting 2 persons with different system of behavior would never fix what was broken inside. Nothing would fix what was broken inside. All we could do was embrace the damage. The code of conduct to learn how to maintain a relationship.

I have gotten used to it, modern women these days are imbalanced and not firmed about what they need and want in a relationship. They want the best of both worlds. Surprisingly, even a 30 years old girl had this thought in mind. Undeniable, materialism is the key word these days, no matter how perfectly lovey dovey the relationship starts, either through “chemistry” or “love at first sight”. At the end of the day, 2 persons with different system of behaviour trying to change each other to fit their needs, the relationship will fall apart. I am not saying this out of a theoretical but experience it myself.

This is so unnecessary, women just seem to lose the ability or even willingness for sastifaction. They just want more, more class, more money, more time, more love, more care and bla bla bla. Why do Men always being blamed for unnecessary demand by woman? Who’s the one who generate all this unhealthy issues? It is women itself. In old days, women are calm, dedicated and obedient, being part of the backbone of the family, giving real strength that holds the family together with love and dedication. I assumed this is near extinct because social changes, woman has lost their identity for being good wives or good mothers.

Modern women no longer sastify with their traditional roles by fulfillment of nurturing her family or being a lovely wife, they had changed, they find more fulfillment at work being in high powered career, gains social dominant, defines her achievement at work, and NOT through the happiness at home, this has gone out of balance. They no longer being driven by family focus but selfishness to their own achievement and not the shared responsibilities of building a happy family together.

So how? Women are lost. They indulge deeper in work, having affairs with black and white. Doing unnecessary demands that bring little or no happiness and resign to be unhappy. Women appear to be cracks, they are not happy, they stress their life and long for romance, time for kids and more freedom which is supposed to be the traditional roles, but they want it all. Though, deep inside they want traditional roles by not giving up the modern roles, they never felt contented and this leads to miserable and resentment.

It’s not good signs and I am worried, however Love can be maintained, improved and neglected, we often have a choice.

PS:
This post is not to provoke discomfort to women and I still perceived women as a wonderful creatures. This post was purely my opinion based on what I observed, thanks for reading.

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Charisma, can you earn it?

by Stylo on August 20, 2008

I often find charisma something that cannot be earned, and it’s either born with or not. It’s some kind of magical or mysterious magnetism that one had. If you asked me what is charisma, I would depict charisma as someone who is outstanding, successful and attracting attention (good qualities) when he/she appeared in public and do not have to put extra efforts to tell anyone.

 

I have seen and admire charismatic people who has strong sense of presence who can light up a room immediately and command respect when approach, it makes everyone looks small. This kind of quality is something money can’t buy, and it’s good to have to gain acceptance and respect whenever you are. When I wrote this, it reminds me about a girl in my life who had charisma but did not utilize the power of charisma she has to achieved what she wants, although at one glance, she may look highly intellectual, sophisticated, successful and rich but in reality, she’s somewhat opposite, the things she likes and ways of thinking is not what I perceived as charisma when I first took it. I slowly realize that the charisma she has isn’t something to shout about when it comes to reality.

Although, this may not always be the case, there’s always an odds case happen, people with charisma are often somewhat different, their magnetic personality, confident level, body language and the ways their emotion influence other are intrigue. Well, it’s not necessary charisma need to be rich and live luxury, charisma people make other feels good about themselves in a way that is not overwhelming. Charisma cannot be fake or pretend as it comes out naturally from his/her characteristic. It’s some kind of unexplained attraction signals that is pure in every way. Charisma can be good and evil, some people can use charisma to manipulate one mind and manipulate situation to do bad things. If you posses one, make sure you use it in a positive and productive manner that guarantee you a prosperous and happiness life to fulfill with. Charisma is a gift from GOD, if you possed one, be proud of it as it not just give other but give right back to you in the process.

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A Relaxation Post

by Stylo on August 15, 2008

Hasn’t been updating all my blog for some while, has been struggling with time to clear all the backlog of the book that I planned to read. Too much things to do and too little time to get all things done at once. Finally, it’s good that I can start blogging again on a quiet and relaxation environment back home where thought and idea starts flowing in. This is going to be a relaxation post. It is says that the biggest and most headache problem face by most blogger are what to write. I have this problem as well even I have been blogging for the past 3 years, it may get more obvious if you are not familiar with the topic that you are going blog about. Struggling what to write and finding content to write can be frustrating and drain you emotionally. It is often easy to start than to maintain, foremost each post you write need to be easily absorb and comprehend by real human being from all walks of life that has the mind to react and response to what you had written. Thankfully, all this can be improve, practice makes perfect.

No matter you have zero visitor a day or thousands of visitors a day, being professional should leads you somewhere, you don’t do it for statistic, you do it for yourself to cultivate good habits and improve your skills of writing, blog with passion. Anyhow content is king, everyone can pen their thoughts and share with the world, you are having one in between your ears, your greatest assets of all. That’s why blogging is fun.

Somehow, I wasn’t quite sure about why I started this domain with a blog title lifestyle and happiness that happen to be bought for someone and end up I am the one keeping it. Reselling it has no value as it hold a person name, therefore, instead of parking the domain for the next 8 months, I would just start a blog and make myself better in understanding the science of happiness and what is it meant to be living a perfect lifestyle. Haha … how I wish I could learn the mastery of happiness, I am just a simple guy with a simple goal, happiness is just a state of mind, we are given choice to choose the state in our mind at any given time. It’s always your call to choose the state of mind to be happy and it should be independent and not dependent, else you will get disappointed to rely on others to make you happy, because this would not happen or last long. I learned a hard ways, this is always true.

Since I have decided to start, I would just keep my promise to myself even I am not familiar with the topic to blog, I would just take it as a challenge and to be honest, this blog would not be update frequently as my priority is not on this domain, maybe 1 or 2 post a week. Somehow, if you happen to visit here through referral links or search engine, I appreciate your time to drop by and I would be glad if you could subscribe to this blog RSS and I hold my promise that each blog post will get something that could be meaningful to you.

Thank You.

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Fashion rules for Beijing’s 15 million residents

by Stylo on August 3, 2008

This isn’t funny, it’s only 5 more days to 2008 Olympic Games, the China government has already handouts etiquette booklets to Beijing’s 15 million residents to advised them on clothing and social etiquette. The booklets includes everything from what to wear to what not to wear. Source from You’re telling me to wear what? - UK Times Online

This reminds me back to old school rules where we are advise what to wear, how to wear it, colour combination and hair length. Give me a break, I am sure chinese people know what fashion is. This isn’t funny, I agreed that  they do need these guide, but it’s not about east or west, it is just merely for good social behaviour to make foreigners feels comfortable and happy staying in Beijing.

Enough said, I guess the guide should be applicable in Malaysia as well, ermm..at least we are slightly better that we don’t spit around.

Don’t
— Men should not allow their hair to grow over eyebrows, ears or collar
— Sport pyjamas in public
— Roll up trousers
— Bare chests
— Wear white socks with black shoes
— Wear high collar if they have a short neck
— Women should not wear leather skirts, transparent garments, clashing colours or more than three colour groups at once
— No resident should display affection in public
— Fight over who settles the bill
— Press others to drink at a banquet

Do
— Men should shave daily
— Plant their feet slightly apart, in the shape of a V
— Women should wear light make-up
— Comb hair appropriately for age, occupation and situation
— Darker stockings should be used to cover thicker ankles
— Match the length of skirt to age. Young girls can wear skirts three centimetres to six centimetres above the knee
— All residents should go easy on garlic and clean their mouths

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