"Press on: nothing in the world can take the place of perseverance.

Talent will not - nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.

Genius will not - unrewarded genius is almost a proverb.

Education will not - the world is full of educated derelicts.

Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.”

- Calvin Coolidge

QOTD:

"Whatever he's done now can't be worse than what he's going to do."

Conversation relayed to me... (by AH, who said that he's rather saddened by the remark).

AH had just bought Arkham Asylum, and had just showed it to his housemate, ST.

ST: In your hands, Batman becomes Baaaaaaadman.

Probably shouldn't had posted this, but I can't help cracking up everytime I remember it...

Interesting quotes from here.

Self-defeating statements have a long history. In the fourth century BC, a guy called Eubulides asked a question: “A man says he is lying: is what he says true or false?”
Hmm. Think about it. If it is true, it is false. But if it is false, it is true.

Eubulides’ question has been making people’s heads explode for two ( Read more... )

Life has been rather busy. Work, home, dinner, shower, phone call, sleep. Rinse, wash, repeat.
Games on weekend.

And yea, despite having promised to myself months ago that I'd never play Diner Dash again, I actually got to play the second one and finish it. Bwahahahahahaahahhaaa (insert comment of sympathy to self here ( Read more... )

More QoTD read while walking past Elizabeth's. Wordings might be a bit off; yours truly isn't very good at remembering sentences word-by-word, especially if it's in English. (I translate everything to Indonesian in my head... and tend to remember them as Indonesian ( Read more... )

Life, I think... has been pretty good lately. 'Good' meaning it's that idyllic sort of life. It does feel boring at times, but I'll take it any day compared to having an exciting life. (Being born in the year of the pig, to me life is meant to be enjoyed peacefully ( Read more... )

A friend told me repeatedly to read the online Wikitravel guide to Jakarta. It's... quite a painfully honest guide to how to travel in Jakarta. In a sarcastic-but-honest kind of way ( Read more... )

"If women dressed for men, the shops wouldn't sell anything, just the occasional sun visors."
(I forgot whose quote this is...)

Yours truly succumbed to temptation and bought a book at random last time, despite saying to self "Have to save money." over and over again. Errrrr. But said book turned out to be pretty entertaining, so it's alright. ...I guess.

The book is called The Dag's Dictionary, which basically contains words that should be in the English dictionary, but ( Read more... )