YEAHH I'm back in Seoul now! Feels good to be "home" :P Well, you just feel attached to a place when you've spent so much time living there and have so many good memories. Anyways, the weather here feels so much better than the humid weather in Taiwan right now. Some people don't like Korean weather but I think for me it's relatively good.
Now that I'm back in Korea it's time to put all the plans to work. Plans..? Wait, I haven't really made any LOL Oh well~ I'll just need to make sure I'm not wasting my one month stay here. One thing for sure though is that I have to make good use of my DSLR to take lots of photos to capture some memories. This is probably going to be the last time I'm going to be in Korea for this long.. at least for another few years.
SSOOOO~
Time to start planning and getting the fun started!!
May 30, 2010
May 29, 2010
Heading to Korea
It's May 29th, one day before my flight to Seoul :]
It's been such a long time (4 months) since I last saw all my friends there. Really excited to go back again and just enjoy some quality time with friends and all :D
Just finished packing 90% of the stuff.. the rest.. well, there are still things I need to buy and prepare so that'll have to wait till later. But that shouldn't take long so it's all good.
One month trip in Korea~ I gotta plan out some meaningful things to do. I think I'll go ahead and visit some places in Seoul that I haven't gone to for a long time or haven't gone to AT ALL during my 6 years living there before.. haha. And now that I got a DSLR camera I'm gonna take lots and lots of pictures while I'm there. Practice my photography skill and capture some good memorable moments too :P
Recently the news about North and South Korea tension has gotten a lot of people worried. I'm a little worried too but right now it doesn't seem like the war is really going to happen so soon... SO I guess I'll just try to be on the watch when I get there and.. get out ASAP if things start to go bad.. lol
ANYWAYS, D-1~ Woot! Korea here I come :D
It's been such a long time (4 months) since I last saw all my friends there. Really excited to go back again and just enjoy some quality time with friends and all :D
Just finished packing 90% of the stuff.. the rest.. well, there are still things I need to buy and prepare so that'll have to wait till later. But that shouldn't take long so it's all good.
One month trip in Korea~ I gotta plan out some meaningful things to do. I think I'll go ahead and visit some places in Seoul that I haven't gone to for a long time or haven't gone to AT ALL during my 6 years living there before.. haha. And now that I got a DSLR camera I'm gonna take lots and lots of pictures while I'm there. Practice my photography skill and capture some good memorable moments too :P
Recently the news about North and South Korea tension has gotten a lot of people worried. I'm a little worried too but right now it doesn't seem like the war is really going to happen so soon... SO I guess I'll just try to be on the watch when I get there and.. get out ASAP if things start to go bad.. lol
ANYWAYS, D-1~ Woot! Korea here I come :D
May 26, 2010
My First DSLR
Yay I got the first DSLR camera of my life yesterday~ Canon EOS 500D~
It's so much better in terms of pixel quality and of course the manual functions compared to point-and-shoot digital cameras. Although digital cameras are more convenient and easy to carry around, I think I like the functions and freedom on the DSLR camera better :P
Well, yesterday when I bought the camera it didn't come with a memory card (not a good deal at the camera store) so I went to the electronics market area in Taipei to buy one. After some quick browsing I found a good quality memory card and as I had my camera with me, I inserted the card into the camera and started using my camera right away XP
Went around to a few places downtown and shot some photos in the park. I've read some basics about the manual functions you could play with on DSLRs and I experimented with shutter speed while taking pictures of sprinkling water. With digital cameras it's probably hard to see big differences as the adjustment of shutter speed is usually unavailable, or so little that it barely makes any difference (at least for the digital camera I used anyway..) 
But DSLRs the range of adjustment is way bigger and allows the pictures to really show differences. For example, the sprinkling water would look "softer" when shot at a slower shutter speed while looking "sharper" and more "distinct" when shot at a faster shutter speed. Well, this is really basic stuff for DSLR users but for me this is quite new and exciting :P It's fun being able to adjust all these settings to take different styles of shots. Anyways, today was just a quick test to see how my camera works, and I think I'm getting the hang of the basics. Awesome.
May 11, 2010
Law of Attraction
After having read both the original The Secret and the new edition The Secret to Teen Power, I came to the conclusion that the difference is only that the new edition is written in a more casual tone towards young people. Even though the ideas are basically the same, it wasn't a waste of time reading the new one for me because it was helpful to understand the stuff in English too :P
A key concept in the book is the "law of attraction." Basically, the secret is that what our minds are set to will create this attraction to our surroundings, meaning that if we fill ourselves with positive thoughts, good things will more likely to happen. Whereas thinking negatively will often make things worse and make ourselves unhappy. The idea may sound a little abstract, but I think it has some good points. For example, when we are unhappy, it is usually because of the bad things that happened. But if we look at the situation in a different perspective and think more positively and focus on the good part, we can at least improve our mood if not changing the situation itself.
One thing the book stresses is that if we want something, we have to believe and think positively so we can send out this signal to the surroundings to attract what we want. In a way, I think it is very similar to a Bible verse from Mark 11:24 - "Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours." If we set our minds to something and believe that we can get it, eventually it will come to you. So I guess this idea of attracting what you want with your thought isn't really some abstract nonsense at all. Positive thoughts bring positive feelings, and negative thoughts bring negative feelings - it's as simple as that.
After reading the books I got the feeling that some people might think that the ideas are kind of bizarre. It's true that it might seem a little to good to be true when it says that we can get what we want simply by believing and thinking positively about it, but I think what the book really wants to teach us is that we need to always keep a positive attitude. By being positive, even if we don't get what we want, at least we can feel good.
If anyone is going to read either of these two books, I would suggest the original one, The Secret, over the newer teen version as the content sounds a little more.. mature? But of course the new one has its good part too. It's more colloquial and easier for teenagers to understand the concept and how it can be applied to their lives. So... if you like reading a book written in a chillaxed tone, go for The Secret to Teen Power. If you like reading a book with a more.. properly written style, go for the original one.
I only shared one key concept I think is important from the book. It's probably the best to really go through the whole book on your own to see more. It is worth reading.
A key concept in the book is the "law of attraction." Basically, the secret is that what our minds are set to will create this attraction to our surroundings, meaning that if we fill ourselves with positive thoughts, good things will more likely to happen. Whereas thinking negatively will often make things worse and make ourselves unhappy. The idea may sound a little abstract, but I think it has some good points. For example, when we are unhappy, it is usually because of the bad things that happened. But if we look at the situation in a different perspective and think more positively and focus on the good part, we can at least improve our mood if not changing the situation itself.
One thing the book stresses is that if we want something, we have to believe and think positively so we can send out this signal to the surroundings to attract what we want. In a way, I think it is very similar to a Bible verse from Mark 11:24 - "Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours." If we set our minds to something and believe that we can get it, eventually it will come to you. So I guess this idea of attracting what you want with your thought isn't really some abstract nonsense at all. Positive thoughts bring positive feelings, and negative thoughts bring negative feelings - it's as simple as that.
After reading the books I got the feeling that some people might think that the ideas are kind of bizarre. It's true that it might seem a little to good to be true when it says that we can get what we want simply by believing and thinking positively about it, but I think what the book really wants to teach us is that we need to always keep a positive attitude. By being positive, even if we don't get what we want, at least we can feel good.
If anyone is going to read either of these two books, I would suggest the original one, The Secret, over the newer teen version as the content sounds a little more.. mature? But of course the new one has its good part too. It's more colloquial and easier for teenagers to understand the concept and how it can be applied to their lives. So... if you like reading a book written in a chillaxed tone, go for The Secret to Teen Power. If you like reading a book with a more.. properly written style, go for the original one.
I only shared one key concept I think is important from the book. It's probably the best to really go through the whole book on your own to see more. It is worth reading.
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