8 Reasons To Love Being Single This Valentine Day
By Yogesh Mankani on Feb 14th, 2010 in Other 9 Comments »
Valentine Day, a day to tell our partners how much we love them, to share out feelings towards them. But have you think, what happen with all those people who are still searching for their love means they are single or who recently broke up with their partners. I know if you are single, you may see Valentine’ Day a waste because you don’t have a date or aren’t in a relationship with someone special.
But I love being single because I found eight ways to celebrate Valentine’s Day and make this day a fun no matter what.
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rePost::The Recession is Dead, Long Live the Recession: Life Without Jobs : Casaubon's Book
I got terminated as a tester on my first job out of college. I was out of work for 3 months. Although 3 months was a relatively short time compared to other people’s experience it was too long for me. Nobody can really get you out of that funk your in, the feeling of uselessness , incompetence. After a month I was beginning to have serious thoughts of questioning how good I really was at anything. I don’t know but I believe if it stretched to 6 months I may have accepted jobs I wouldn’t have considered a couple of weeks before. This is why the reluctance of Barack Obama to help the unemployed of his country in the scale that FDR did is really heartless and gutless of him. I could go on and on but this would just be an angst , sorrowful filled post. Suffice to say whenever I can’t get myself to work harder I just remember my last evaluation and a fire lights within me. To end in a lighter note after that job I was able to get a job as a programmer again and I can say that I did well. In a lot of ways I shined. So have faith that God has better plans for you.
Strong evidence suggests that people who don’t find solid roots in the job market within a year or two have a particularly hard time righting themselves. In part, that’s because many of them become different–and damaged–people. Krysia Mossakowski, a sociologist at the University of Miami, has found that in young adults, long bouts of unemployment provoke long-lasting changes in behavior and mental health. “Some people say, ‘Oh, well, they’re young, they’re in and out of the workforce, so unemployment shouldn’t matter much psychologically,'” Mossakowski told me. “But that isn’t true.”
via The Recession is Dead, Long Live the Recession: Life Without Jobs : Casaubon’s Book.
rePost::The Neural Advantage of Speaking 2 Languages: Scientific American
The ability to speak a second language isn’t the only thing that distinguishes bilingual people from their monolingual counterparts—their brains work differently, too. Research has shown, for instance, that children who know two languages more easily solve problems that involve misleading cues. A new study published in Psychological Science reveals that knowledge of a second language—even one learned in adolescence—affects how people read in their native tongue. The findings suggest that after learning a second language, people never look at words the same way again.
via The Neural Advantage of Speaking 2 Languages: Scientific American.
rePost::The Science of Sport: Exercise and weight loss
Then there is plenty of evidence that shows how physical activity improves health – blood pressure, lung and heart function, cholesterol (lipid) profiles, insulin sensitivity, muscle and bone strength, and so forth. These studies even challenge the notion that weight loss should be a focal point for people who are exercising. They suggest that it is better to be fit, even if you are overweight, than it is to be within normal weight and unfit or inactive. However, this did not feature at all in the article.
via The Science of Sport: Exercise and weight loss.
rePost::» Blog Archive » Beyond Passion: The Science of Loving What You Do » Study Hacks
Working Right
Research reveals that autonomy, competence, and relatedness are the key to loving what you do. So how do you get them? There are different answers to this question, but the strategy that I keep emphasizing on Study Hacks has two clear steps:
1. Master a skill that is rare and valuable.
2. Cash in the career capital this generates for the right rewards.
The world doesn’t owe you happiness. Your boss has no reason to let you choose your own projects, or spend one week out of every four writing a novel at your beach house. These rewards are valuable. To earn them, you must accumulate your own career capital by mastering a skill that’s equally rare and valuable.
It’s important, however, that you cash in this capital, once accumulated, for the right rewards. The word “right,” in this context, is defined by the traits of SDT. In other words, once you have something valuable to offer, use it to gain as much autonomy, competence, and relatedness as you can possibly cram into your life.
via Study Hacks » Blog Archive » Beyond Passion: The Science of Loving What You Do.
rePost:: Places Not to Be Gay: Malawi Edition ::wronging rights
Places Not to Be Gay: Malawi Edition
Last week, police in Malawi arrested 21 year old Peter Sawali for putting up posters reading “Gay rights are human rights” in response to the public indecency trial of Steven Monjeza and Tiwonge Chimbalanga. (The two men face up to 14 years in prison for attempting to marry.)
Apparently, the government believed Monjeza and Chimbalanga were Malawi's only gays, so imagine their surprise to be confronted with a well-organized gay rights campaign secretly producing and distributing “expertly and expensively printed” posters and leaflets. The authorities have announced that whoever is doing it had better reveal themselves so that they can be arrested too.
I'm thinking given how poorly Malawi has treated the two gays they've got, it's not likely anyone's going to respond to the request “if there are others, let them come out in the open.” When will governments learn that gays are a privilege, not a right?
via wronging rights: Places Not to Be Gay: Malawi Edition.
rePost::Reddit, I got the best present a girl developer could ever want. : programming
This was a sweet story. Read the whole thing
So, to give you a little background me and this guy went on a few dates and he moved far away. We got along well, things didn’t get very far. He is really nice, however, I wasn’t leaning one way or the other.
He sent me the Post Secret books for xmas. He hinted at another present, but said I had to wait. It’s a little after Christmas, but I got this email yesterday with the title “I wanted to make something for you for Christmas”:
“So I told the computer, and it showed me how to write a poem in byte-form. I can’t tell what you’re thinking these days, but this will either remind you of something that was good, or send you off.”
It included a link to a poem.zip file, which I downloaded. Inside, there was a file called magicfile with no extension and a ReadMe that said:
via Reddit, I got the best present a girl developer could ever want. : programming.
rePost::» What’s Coming Next? » The Simple Dollar
Loved reading this.
What can’t I imagine happening next?
Here’s the truth: an awful lot of lives go through the same progression as my own. Not in the sense of the specific things that change, but in that the specifics of their life change so drastically in even a few years. And we don’t see it coming, either.
At each of those times above, I thought my future would go on more or less the same way that it was going right then. I was repeatedly wrong.
The best thing you can do with your money and with your skills is prepare for change. Why? Because things will change.
via The Simple Dollar » What’s Coming Next?.
rePost:: Announcing Mission Blue: A TED Prize wish :: TED Blog
I Pray some parts of the Philippines become protected areas through this TED Prize.
From the TED Prize session: Mission Blue is the name for an ambitious, overarching project to create marine protected areas.
It’s powered by Sylvia Earle’s 2009 TEDPrize wish: “I wish you would use all means at your disposal — films! expeditions! the web! more! — to ignite public support for a global network of marine protected areas, hope spots large enough to save and restore the ocean, the blue heart of the planet.”
via TED Blog: Announcing Mission Blue: A TED Prize wish.
rePost::Zero rupee note that Indians can slip to corrupt officials who demand bribes Boing Boing
Maybe someone could do something like this for us Filipino. I’d definitely buy a reasonably priced note.
An Indian U of Maryland physics prof came up with these zero rupee notes that Indians can slip to officials who demand bribes. They’ve been wildly successful, with a total run over over 1,000,000 notes, and the reports from the field suggest that they shock grafters into honesty. Fifth Pillar is the NGO that produces the notes, and they’re available for download in Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Malayalam.
via Zero rupee note that Indians can slip to corrupt officials who demand bribes Boing Boing.