A nicely written article from Barbie

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I happened to read one random article entitled "The Tyranny of Choice" by Barry Schwartz a few days ago. He illustrates how choice overload can lead to uncertainty, anxiety, and perhaps depression. Having more choices are essentially good for those who know exactly what they want, and therefore, having more alternatives is indeed a bless. However, ones still have to spend a great deal amount of time balancing all the pluses and minuses before making their ultimate decision in order to make a good informed decision.

He further divided human's behavior into two different categories, the maximizer and the satisficer. The maximizers yearn for the best out of every decision they made while the satisficers aim for just "good enough", and once they have found what they were seeking for, they would stop looking. The maximizers, on the other hand, feel the need to spend longer time deciding, yet mostly ended up feeling unsatisfied of the decision they made. They have the higher tendency to regret what they chose, and always come up with the thought of "what if?"

We all have to make decisions at one point in life or another, ranging from trivial matters to a crucial life changing ones. We had to choose variety of items to purchase at the stores, be it foods, beverages, clothes, accessories, or perhaps a birthday gift for someone, you name it. We walk from aisle to aisle, stores to stores, and ended up getting something or nothing at all. There are just too many things for us to choose from which has somehow made shopping more difficult and more time consuming than it was before. In fact, choice overwhelming does not just arise at the mall, but almost in every aspect of our lives including future career, friendship, romance- something like which degree should I pursue, What types of friends do I wish to hang around with, who will become my Prince Charming, and would he be the one?

I guess I am a maximizer after all. I always aim for the best, and later feel disappointed when I cannot live up to my own expectation. Maybe i should come up with some sort of boundary like having my ultimate goal set, create a specific and acceptable requirement or standard, and stop looking back on bygones once it has past. I shouldn't be spending as much of my time getting frustrated at little things, not wasting 1 hours just to pick what clothes to wear to the party, 3 hours just to pick one small topic for Language Arts Oral Report, 5 hours or perhaps my whole day just to shop for clothes, and forever just to choose what topic I should write about for my History term paper.

I meant, I don't have all the time in the world to do all these, especially when it comes to something like shopping, clothing, and stuffs. Yes, I need to prioritize what is more important to my life, and what is less. I need to have the ability to distinguish what matters, and what don't. Eliminating unnecessary choices is indeed healthier for my personal well-being, and I should start it from now, and if any of you out there feel the same way I do, I hope you would join this mission together with me :)

P.S. Forgive me if I don't make sense to you as I actually have tons of homework awaiting me yet I am still blogging and goofing off.

P.S.S. Oh, and by the way, I think I know why Albert Einstein decided to wear the same clothes all over and over again lol... because he didn't want to waste his precious time just to choose what to wear everyday since this genius gifted man has more important tasks to do ^ ^ haha...

Word that are hard to say

Wow, What a smart approach

Who help love - a Tale

Once upon a time, there was an island where all the feelings lived: Happiness, Sadness, Knowledge, and all of the others, including Love. One day it was announced to the feelings that the island would sink, so all constructed boats and left. Except for Love.

Love was the only one who stayed. Love wanted to hold out until the last possible moment.

When the island had almost sunk, Love decided to ask for help.

Richness was passing by Love in a grand boat. Love said,
"Richness, can you take me with you?"
Richness answered, "No, I can't. There is a lot of gold and silver in my boat. There is no place here for you."

Love decided to ask Vanity who was also passing by in a beautiful vessel. "Vanity, please help me!"
"I can't help you, Love. You are all wet and might damage my boat," Vanity answered.

Sadness was close by so Love asked, "Sadness, let me go with you."
"Oh . . . Love, I am so sad that I need to be by myself!"

Happiness passed by Love, too, but she was so happy that she did not even hear when Love called her.

Suddenly, there was a voice, "Come, Love, I will take you." It was an elder. So blessed and overjoyed, Love even forgot to ask the elder where they were going. When they arrived at dry land, the elder went her own way. Realizing how much was owed the elder,

Love asked Knowledge, another elder, "Who Helped me?"
"It was Time," Knowledge answered.
"Time?" asked Love. "But why did Time help me?"
Knowledge smiled with deep wisdom and answered, "Because only Time is capable of understanding how valuable Love is."

What i have learned

Relationship is not everything. You can also be happy without relationship. sometimes relationship bring headache sometimes it bring fun. But it is different from being single only in degree how much you headache and happy. It seem the degree is higher in both headache and fun.

Sometimes being sweet is so boring.

In bad period, be strong, be calm and be friendly.

Be forgiving, but with limitation

Be caring, but not too much caring. Too much caring also boring.

Don't ask too many question if it is related to personal life...

Exam Result

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This semester was a tough semester. There were 4 core subjects that were hard to study. I'm happy to find out that i manage to get 1A+ 2A and a B+ for them. I really don't like studying Microprocessor and was surprise that i still could get B+. Hmm compare to the previous semester, there is a small progress in my GPA ^^. i wanna say Thank you to s.o for making me happy and enjoy my life during this semester. Hmm i dunno whether i will be happy again next semester, but i gotta move on.

Next semester will be even tougher...besides studying core subject, I need to do CIDP project during term and i heard pp said it is really difficult.