MsSheepy

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Sometime in March, my school has nominated me to attend an external course entitled ‘Systems Thinking‘.

After attending this course, I realized that my life is filled with balancing loops. I would like to elaborate on one of my own version of balancing loop.

Analogy 1: my savings account. I am personally comfortable with having a balance of $x amount in my account. Whenever i receive any small bonus or any other minor benefits, say $y, i will have a balance of $(x + y) in my account. Of course i will be very happy of my own achievements, and most of the time, i will spend the extra $y to pamper myself or to treat my hubby and so on. So i am always back to $x in my account, because $(x+y-y) 

Analogy 2: my hobby. Being one who loves to travel around the globe, i will surely book a tour to go somewhere far away during the school holidays whenever time allows.  The tour package will cost $p, which is way more than my $y (Pretty Yucky). Thus having $p > $y, my bank account will be left with an even smaller balance of $(x-p). I hate the feeling of being back from my holidays, because this is the period which i will usually announce to my friends that i am pathetically poor, so no more outings for me. I had to scrimp and save all over again in order to reach my comfortable level of $x again.

My savings graph, when drawn, could look something like this:

Sounds familiar? I am sure many of you out there have your so-called comfort zones. Whether it’s in school or at work. Once you are out of your comfort zone, you will feel uneasy or feel threatened. Most of you will strive hard to bring yourself back to the comfort zone level, by resigning or quiting school etc…

I personally think this is a bad kind of loop. After listening to the trainer’s explanation, people who followed this loop are doom to fail in life. We should always strive for the better and aim high. In order to succeed in life, we need to break out of the comfort zones.

That’s all i have to share here. Enjoy!

I received an MSN message from my sis this morning.

Sis: Hey jie, can help me edit a photo?

Me: eh… how to edit?

Sis: I want to resize my image into passport size. Need to use your image editor, like PhotoShop.

Me: My only software editor is Paint leh.. It comes with Windows ah…

Sis: Paint can meh???

Me: Why not? Or use an online image editior?

Sis: ZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzz

I am not a PhotoShop user, and i doubt i’ll ever be one. Why must I pay for a premium software when i can find so many nice online image editors? Pardon me for making this statement. It’s not because PhotoShop is no good. It is useful for professionals but as a photography novice, i think it’s best for me to play around with simple web editors.

I must also confess that i am not a professional photographer and i seldom include many images in my blog, if you have noticed by now.

My favourite online editor so far is Fotoflexer. It has all the basic functions like layering, cropping, resizing, trimming etc…

Yesterday, i was feeling real bored busy at night. Despite my terrible running nose, i simply could not stay away from my lappy even for a night. While waiting for hubby to finish his bathroom adventure, i decided to fiddle around with ONE of the few sites i’ve discovered from DigitalLife.

The first URL that attracts me is Picnik.com

The index page looked impressive, and one does not need to register to try out the features. This is something i love! So i try out some of the features using the image below from bigfoto.com :

The most obvious observation is, it took quite sometime for the page to load completely. More especially so if you are using a shared broadband service at night.

This is one of my favourite edited result.

Something stumbled upon by my colleague..