Relaxed confidence.

- Yuni Jie

Mind Your Own Trouble

The troubling thing is that everyone has their own trouble. As much as you want to help others, it really depends on how they want to carry it. Same as ourselves, no one can really help us if it's not ourselves.

The paradox of crowd loneliness. A room full of bunk bed in a hostel in Krakow. 

Sometimes, the more we talk to people, the more we feel flustered by different comments and different point of views, whereas the one who really understands the problem is solely us.

Defining Happy

Sometimes we define happiness by what we saw, what we experienced and we thought it was. But what if we have seen, experienced or thought in a different way? Do we allow other people's standard to define ours?

After talking with friends about the common wedding reception - mistakenly thought as a standard.

When you made up your mind, that is when you have to realize of the sacrifice you need to make.

And yet, life is about choosing. And believing.

To Choose

There are some funny decisions we have to make in life.

GO Search: Gorengan

In preparation for GO's next exhibition, we are doing some research at the moment through to our exhibition days. We'll be covering some interesting aspects of people's behaviour, especially those around us. These are some facts that we sometimes missed although they have always lingered around the corner. Knowing that behaviour is sometimes unconscious and done as a result of habit, it's no wonder that we seem to have missed it all along.

But first before we go to far, our gorengan template is up for grab for you to download. Enjoy.

Life is for no worries but to make changes.

In The Search of The Perfect Workplace

When coming to Ubud, I had to be sure to visit Hubud for having to see the place so many times on the net. A friend of mine was working there when I went over and introduced me around. The place was filled with 99% bule, working at their own pace, socializing, resting on the bean bags or taking their quiet time at the corner. I myself spent a few good hours getting some things done at Hubud. The vibe was very enjoyable, no doubt with a green paddy field for your relaxed viewing. 

Working on your own, remotely, freelancing, start ups (or whatever you'd like to call it) is fun. It gives you a sense of freedom, by not having to work from a cubicle and do the straight 9 to 5. The community at Hubud is to be sure very welcoming and designed to get everyone together when you wanted too, with activities (free and charged) such as gatherings, workshops, talks, etc.

Freedom and friendship are two out of three things Epicurean believed to lead someone to happiness. We've been longing for that for so long and yet the modern days seem to only provide empty promises. The same is with working at coworking spaces. Has it promised you the live you've been longing for? 

The other aspect that Epicurean proposed was to have thoughts or analyzed life. He said when you possess all of these three in balance, you will reach, what so many people are aiming for, happiness. It stroked me that working on your own does not mean everything for me while talking to Will, who own a dessert bar just next too the original Nuri's in Ubud. He blatantly said that the place gives nothing but paid internet connection. And yes, if you would like to unfold it to the very basic, it actually is just that. The same like restaurant too. 

But what is incorrect is that we thought that freelancing is the final destination of our career. At least not for me. I imagined it would be quite challenging to work on our own and still wanting to do more. Because the nature of working on our own is to enjoy whatever we do, taking our time and do whatever we want. While working on our own should actually be the reverse. It should provide us with enough time to do other things that we've always wanted to do, it should better managed our time and it should make us to think and achieve more things.

We are suffering from a severe delusion of what we want and need. That made me questioned myself, have we really understood what we really want? Has the modern world swayed us from our core?