I was very inspired after watching J.K.Rowling's recent speech at Harvard. I highly recommend everyone to watch it. It is probably one the best inspirational speeches I have heard so far. In her address to graduating Harvard students, she touched on two themes- the importance of failure and the importance of imagination. My favourite part of her speech is this: "If you choose to use your status and influence to raise your voice on behalf of those who have no voice; if you choose to identify not only with the powerful, but with the powerless; if you retain the ability to imagine yourself into the lives of those whoso not have your advantages, then it will not only be your proud families who celebrate your existence, but thousands and millions of people whose reality you have helped transform for the better. We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already: we have the power to imgaine better."
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Hope you enjoyed and learned something after watching the clips. I have never read any of the Harry Potter books but now I know why J.K. Rowling is such a great writer.
"As is a tale, so is life, not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters." -Seneca
Tuesday, June 24, 2008
Thursday, June 19, 2008
My wall light has a new look!
Check out my latest design for my house wall light.
You are probably wondering why the cover looks like a truncated plastic plate. Well, it is. It looks rather austere and I decided to keep it that way as it blends in better with the colour of the wall. The original glass cover was nicer and more elegant, but my mother dropped and broke it accidentally last week while trying to chase out a lizard hiding in the cover, despite my advice to leave the lizard alone. Haha. Luckily my father was bathing at that time so he didn't know, or he would blow his top. I quickly modified a plastic plate and supplanted the broken glass cover with it before he came out from the bath room. Well, he didn't notice it for more than a week despite the prominent positioning of the wall light. Haha. Maybe I can become an interior designer. :) Anyway, my father only realized it after my mother decided to tell him what happened as she couldn't stop laughing for days. So I was wondering if we didn't tell him, he would probably never find out. My design is cool right? UNIQUE.
You are probably wondering why the cover looks like a truncated plastic plate. Well, it is. It looks rather austere and I decided to keep it that way as it blends in better with the colour of the wall. The original glass cover was nicer and more elegant, but my mother dropped and broke it accidentally last week while trying to chase out a lizard hiding in the cover, despite my advice to leave the lizard alone. Haha. Luckily my father was bathing at that time so he didn't know, or he would blow his top. I quickly modified a plastic plate and supplanted the broken glass cover with it before he came out from the bath room. Well, he didn't notice it for more than a week despite the prominent positioning of the wall light. Haha. Maybe I can become an interior designer. :) Anyway, my father only realized it after my mother decided to tell him what happened as she couldn't stop laughing for days. So I was wondering if we didn't tell him, he would probably never find out. My design is cool right? UNIQUE.
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