Super Jellyfish

For us to really move forward we’ve gotta get outside the little boxes we all put ourselves in.

I agree!

I was just getting comfortable here and starting to feel like, yeah, maybe it’s not so unsafe after all, but I just found out a really nice lady from my office got robbed! In the middle of the day!

Apparently, she had to do some sort of errand, and she had just gotten her paycheck, so she was carrying around the equivalent $300 with her. $300 doesn’t sound like a lot of money, but it is actually considered quite a bit here.

Anyway, she got dropped off at a public university close by and was walking back to the office when someone robbed her! I don’t think it’s a far walk at all, probably 10 minutes at the most? And this area is considered pretty safe, I think. It’s basically just a neighborhood with lots of houses — really residential — and usually not that many people walk around outside.

I think they took her whole purse including her cell phone. Poor lady!! How scary!

Sigh, I think I should go back to being extra cautious. I was just starting to loosen up. For example, I walked from my hotel to the apartment of my friends the other evening around 8:30 pm (not alone, with my friend) and I walked a block last night with a group from a restaurant to the main road in order to find a cab. But, I guess every time it’s like rolling some dice.. who knows what will happen?

Okay, no more walking!! It’s just not safe here! I better find my “second” wallet again…

UPDATE: I found out that this lady has been robbed two times before! Geez. I guess it’s just not affordable to take cabs for locals — so what can you do?!

And on top of that, I found out another lady in the office ALSO got robbed today. Geez!! I guess I should be extra careful today!

“A person who is nice to you but rude to the waiter, or to others, is not a nice person.”

Raytheon CEO Bill Swanson

Read in a New Yorker article on typefaces (”Man of Letters”:

“Any misjudgement multiplies its effect as he continues… Somehow you have to develop judgement… Before you have a body of work, you have to learn from others. You have to force yourself to form an opinion. If you haven’t got discernment, you simply repeat what you’re used to.”

“The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.”

— Sophocles

“Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your
life.”

by Rudyard Kipling

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or, being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or, being hated, don’t give way to hating,
And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise;

If you can dream - and not make dreams your master;
If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with triumph and disaster
And treat those two imposters just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to broken,
And stoop and build ‘em up with wornout tools;

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breath a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: “Hold on”;

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings - nor lose the common touch;
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run -
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And - which is more - you’ll be a Man my son!

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed people can change the world: indeed it’s the only thing that ever has!”

— Margaret Meade, anthropologist

“Without optimism, you’re not going to make it. You’re just not. I don’t think you can acquire it. I’ve always been optimistic, and not fearful. Don’t be afraid to walk across that board across the ravine. And don’t be afraid to carry a gigantic bowl of water. Figure out how you have to do that… You never look at the bowl — look at where you’re going and you’ll get there.”

“If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.”