Rather ironic, I'd say. You?

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Funny analogy

Guess what? My Advanced Corporate Finance professor gave us an analogy this morning regarding the advantage of making alliances compared to acquisition in terms of managing risk. And he used marriage as the analogy. He said, marriage should be an alliance in form, where two party cooperate for a limited goa. The risk is minimal because there are contracts and laws to accomodate interests. But in Indonesia, because the law is weak, people used acquisition. In this form, the men act as the more powerful and the outcome are not good. Domestic violence, etc are the risks of acquisition in marriage life.
Ha..and I wonder why my posts are mostly about marriage.

Effort to learn?

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Just yesterday I thought of what parents should do in order to foster learning in their child? As a child, my parents provided books, magazines, and Internet technology (when it arrived), so my access to knowledge was a highway. And how that has shaped me now? I believed I became easily discomforted when I feel a lack of knowledge. But I know that I also seek the shortest way to find information, I am not used to giving much effort in finding knowledge.

And then I compared myself with my friend, whose parents did not provide him with easy access to knowledge when he was a child. In order to read an encyclopedia, he has to borrow from a friend or from library. I think the good thing is, he got used to searching for knowledge with an effort. But sometimes we don't know what to search if we have no clue of what's going on. So the drawback is, probably he still lacks knowledge in a broad sense.
I wonder if parents made a choice when they raised us or they believe a method is the most correct way?

The sin of humankind

It is very hurtful to see my tortoise fell sick. He refuses to eat and several times splutters liquid from his mouth. His condition currently is stable, probably due to the good nutrition he has received all these time. However, as the caregiver of the tortoise, I cannot refrain blaming myself for his illness. I kept looking back at where I have neglected him, exposed him to unsuitable environment (temperature, humidity), failed to provide balanced nutrition and health check-ups. After being despondent for a while, I start to blame other parties, such as the person who gave him to me due to inability to keep him as a pet, and then to hunters who first took him from the forest and sell him as a pet. It's really awful what human have done to the innocent animals. We took them from their natural habitat but, regardless of all the effort to understand their metabolism and behavior, we still fail to give them the appropriate nurture. And yet we treat them as the lowest citizen without paying much respect to their lives. If they die, we just say, "Well, it's only animal." I don't know how big our sins have become. I guess animals also have the same position in the eyes of God and human can only prentend to be of a higher degree by lowering other species.

About future thoughts

Hi! After being absent in writing for a long while, I am going to write again about...marriage. It's not my favorite subject, but recently I received a question from a friend about whether I have given a thought of my future and what he meant was about marriage etc. Certainly he expected me to tell him about my target to marry. And I search into my mind whether I have given a thought to such issue and turned out to be none. And not so long ago I watched this Oprah show regarding USA females in their 30s. Some are established women who have not got married because they simply cannot find anyone they're attracted to. Seems to be my case now. They've dated several times but none seems to meet their expectation. Finally they discovered that they have been completed and they can accept the fact if they will never get married because they don't feel a necessity for that.
And recently my Mom said the same thing.

Another funny thing: a friend said he is looking for.. love.
So I guess it actually sums up the whole conditiion: people are looking for love while actually everone knows that love needs time to grow. People looking for soulmate while there is no such thing. The whole mismanagement of acquaintances and network in this big yet small world.
Well, in the end we are all alone in this world.

Totally an inconclusive writing.