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Sunday, September 25, 2011

Inspiration - Dawn Tan

She is an Artist, illustrator, art teacher, knitter, food lover, quiet observer, day dreamer, adventurer and the author of http://hand-made-love.blogspot.com/ and she lives in Melbourne and is a singaporean!

i think that she is a really cool! she loves food, and food inspires her work. She also really likes craft and draws and paints really well.
for example here, here and here.

Another reason i think she is cool is cos she does art for a living and we all know that that isnt easy. for example she encountered some difficulties that made her mood bad however this is what she wrote:"

Now, those meanies can go ahead and bring me down in whatever way they want to, but they will never ever be able to take the happiness I get from working in a creative space along my joy of making art away. "

i think she is a really contented and positive person. she is happy just doing her art although it is really difficult. Her attitude really inspires me (:

Inspiration - shopping does not buy you happiness, but a concert may

Shopping does not buy you happiness, but a concert may
the straits times
monday, may 30 2011
pg A24, review
link to the article

As mentioned in the article, "However, contrary to expectations, research has rebuffed this proposition by demonstrating that neither the ability to acquire nor the actual acquisition of material goods leads to sustainable increase in happiness.
Instead, it has found that this relationship is negative-increases in material possessions may well be accompanied by a decrease in happiness. This phenomenon, termed the "hedonic treadmill", says that as possessions increase, so do people's expectations. Over time, people become less sensitised towards their possessions and require even more new possessions just to sustain the same level of happiness as before. Essentially, their efforts at increasing happiness via material acquisitions are in vain."
As seen from the article, the more one has and one wants, the harder one is happy. i guess this explains why people in less developed countries are happier than people in more well-developed countries. And those who are poor tend to be happier than those who are rich.

so happiness is not so much on how much you have but if you are contented with what you have!

Inspiration - http://smileee.tumblr.com

i really dont know when i got to know this tumblr but i really like the things that the author posts. she (the person seems to be a female) encourages people to be happy,smile and to look at life in a positive light, have hope here are some examples:

iamblessed:

borgomani:
You’re that rainbow in my life…

bringyourdreamstolife:

“Be you. Find you. Be happy with that.”

she also posts beautiful pictures of landscapes, Perhaps showing that the world is already so beautiful why cant we just be happy?

Saturday, September 24, 2011

inspiration - Bhutan GNH

Bhutan is a small landlocked country in south Asia, it has a small population of about 700,000 people. However it is ranked one of the happiest countries in the world!(it was ranked happiest country in Asia by business week magazine in 2006)

i believe this is partly due to the fact that they pursue GNH instead of GDP.

GNH- Gross National Happiness

as the video explains, the pursuit of happiness > the pursuit of economic growth and materialistic wealth in Bhutan. despite not being very well off as a country, it is a very happy country.
so it is possible to be happy without having many things or having alot of money, what we need is the the right attitude.

inspiration - Trip to chiang rai

During the march holidays, i went to chiang rai for CIP, there i met some children,of whom some were orphans. they left a deep impression on me. they were always thankful, always happy, always contented, always laughing and having fun despite not having much

5 of the children, part of their home in the background

2 of the youngest children

one of the children that i especially admire is the boy on the right of the second picture. during the time i was there, he was sick and his back hurt most of the time. due to his sickness, there were many things that he could not eat or do. however, despite the pain and discomfort, he would still come and play with us. also most of the time when i saw him around, he would always be smiling (:

his innocent, not complaining spirit is something that left a very deep impression on me and is one of the reasons why i choose CONTENTMENT as my coursework theme