not in a good writing mood

this week is just not a good week to practice my 5-10 minutes free writing here...just being busy so many unnecessary things..catch me on my facebook la...

Thinking

What are the criteria to be a good researcher, graduate student, PhD candidate, PhD holder etc..??? These are something we always fail to recognize, or even sometimes fail to become one. .The main criteria to become one of those are we should be able to think, generate new idea, recognize research risk, layout the idea nicely, and the most important thing is capability to make a wise decision.

Sometimes, I simply do not blame anybody of failing to become one of those. If we somehow do not have kind of environment that support creative thinking and free flow of idea there is no way we can nurture research thinking. By end of the day, we will only produce research technician who do everything by SOP or manual-without thinking. I would say we actually producing robots that do everything that we program..

In research, we need to allow ourselves to make mistakes. Then, we learn from our mistakes to improve our outcomes. If we are too afraid to make mistakes, we surely will make more mistakes or serious mistakes beyond our imagination. Give ourselves enough space to think, arrange idea, and also don't afraid to try!

Doc Childre and Bruce Cryer, From Chaos to Coherence
"Flexibility and adaptability do not happen just by reacting fast to new information. They arise from mental and emotional balance, the lack of attachment to specific outcomes, and putting care for self and others as a prime operating principle. Flexible attitudes build flexible physiology. Flexible physiology means more resilience in times of challenge or strain. Staying open—emotionally—insures internal flexibility".

More pictures around Paris

Here are more pictures around Paris. Some of the places might not interest many people but people who read Da Vinci Code definitely love to see them :-D..hehehe...e.g. I went to Madeleine just because this church was mentioned in DVC...Anyway, that was not the only church I ever been. I just love to see arts inside out-that's all.

I've been to Galerie Lafayette, but it was closed on Sunday. Might try next weekend although I'm very sure I can't afford to shop there :-D..

Gare St Lazarre was another place mentioned in DVC..


Part of Galleries Lafayette














Madeleine














Gare St Lazarre














Place de la Concorde














Opera house

Du Louvre museum-monalisa's house

Like other people, the main reason I visited Du Louvre museum is to see Monalisa portrait. Today is the first Sunday of the month so free for all, or else I would have to pay 9 euro :-) I arrived there quite early so the queue was not too bad. This museum is full of arts thingy including paintings, sculptures, crowns, etc..Name it from medieval to 1990s. To date, they have Pablo Picasso exhibition, so I have seen his work from sketch to real paintings. My personal view, most of the arts during that time was based on human anatomy. No wonder most of them end up being excellent scientists. Oh well, naked is part of art, so expect to see lots of naked sculptures or painting in this museum or Paris in general :-) . I took lots of pictures but there's no way I can upload all..

Here are some pictures:




























Crowd to see Monalisa




























Monalisa




























Coronation Crown of Louis XV














Venus de Milo















































Pablo Picaso exhibition
























































The winged Victory of Samothrace

Square Louis Michel

This is another tourist attraction close to Anvers metro station. Hmm..quite a good place to get cheap souvenirs as well.

Update..

I just got internet connection at my apt this evening. Well, not really mine though, actually I kind of share with my neighbor-using his wireless account. Somehow, my old landlord just simply don't know how to get re-connection to landline, internet and cable TV. Thank God at least he arranged something for me so that I can do my usual business at home :-) If you know what I mean...

Life here getting harder each day. Work wise, so many things to learn and easily make mistake during lab work. A simple mistake sometimes very annoying-no turning back but to repeat all over again. Nextweek I have to work with mice serum yarghhhh...I'm a material researcher, I never thought one day I have to touch those kind of things. I hate the smell..I simply hate touching living cells...hehehe...

Weather here getting colder each day. Few days ago, the temperature was about 3C from morning to evening...not even winter yet! My surviving rate getting better but I found it's hard to leave here compared to English speaking country. Although I managed to do grocerries shopping, mostly using sign language..hahaha..To buy canned food in supermarket also not that easy, I simply find it difficult to read the ingredients. How do I know/remember all terms in French??Surprisingly, lots of food contains beef or pork flavour including pasta source. Really have to be careful before buying food. To date, I remember quite a few French words in order to help me during shopping.

Wet weather this weekend. I wish I can visit museums tomorrow because of free entrance every first Sunday of the month. Not that I'm into free ride or something but I already paid almost 3 months allowances to the landlord and the agent. We are still waiting for the company to review our allowances and reimburse some settlement allowances, which God knows how long we have to wait..For me the current allowance is enough for me to live comfortably here (not JPA rate).

Champs Elysees

This street is famous among tourist, and locals (for window shopping-including myself) :-)The street is full of designer boutiques, just name it! Most restaurant or even side walk stalls sell food at incredibly expensive price...Champs Elysees is also suitable if we like to walk. As for myself I walked from 1 end to another end, which is from Arc du Triomphe to the Royal Museum DuLouvre-but a long walk! I would say nearly 1 hour..hehehe...either we love sightseeing or simply stingy to take metro, then we can walk. When I passed through this street, I chose to walk since I need to know my direction. I was not good at taking metro at that time. If I'm going again in the future, I will take a metro...aha..I may have to go again during Christmas sale hehehe...I would like to see any discount in LV boutique..

The street facing Arc du Triomphe














Some shops














LV boutique














Sape punya lamborghini ni parking situ..hehehe...














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