“What a man can be, he must be.”

Another Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs

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Kurang lebih sembilan bulan sepuluh hari tidaklah cukup. Masih ada bertahun-tahun ke depan di mana anak kita akan terus bersama kita, meskipun jauh, meskipun hanya kontak batin, seorang anak akan terus "melihat" ibunya. Apakah ibunya seorang pekerja keras, pejuang rumah tangga, pendidik yang berhasil, seorang yang tak mengenal kata gagal ataukah sebaliknya. Anak-anak akan menanamkan sebuah pikiran tentang ibunya dan merefleksikan hidupnya pada jalan hidup ibunya. Meskipun ada beberapa perkecualian namun hukum normal terus berlaku, anak yang sukses lahir dari ibu yang sukses juga, anak yang pantang menyerah lahir dari ibu yang pantang menyerah, anak yang pemberani, tegas, berwibawa juga lahir dari ibu yang berkarakter serupa. Begitu juga, anak yang lemah, anak yang pesimis, dan yang paling menyedihkan adalah anak yang tidak memiliki kebutuhan untuk terus belajar dan maju. Meskipun tidak kita sangkal, genetik memberikan pengaruh besar akan tetapi lingkunganlah yang membentuk karakter dan mental seorang anak. Siapa seorang ibu di mata anaknya adalah lingkungan dalam pikiran anak yang di dalamnya akan tumbuh cara pandang sang anak terhadap hidup dan lingkungan yang sesungguhnya.

Terima kasih ibunda dan terima kasih untuk para perempuan yang telah dan sedang berjuang dalam membentuk mental dan innate curiosity anak-anak mereka.

Room Color and How it Affects your Mood by Freshhome.com

While most of us may not spend a lot of time thinking about room color, it affects every day of our lives. Room color can influence our mood and our thoughts. Colors affect people in many ways, depending upon one’s age, gender, ethnic background or local climate. Certain colors or groups of colors tend to get a similar reaction from most people – the overall difference being in the shade or tones used. So it’s important to choose wisely.

To have a beautiful home, you do not have to worry about trends. Color trends will come and go. The people who live in a home make it beautiful by choosing colors that reflect their likes and their personalities. The trick is to blend those colors you like into a pleasing combination. Choosing color combinations is one of the most intimidating steps for beginners. Color has the power to change the shape and size of furnishings as well as the shape and size of the room itself.

Selecting colors is not difficult if you equip yourself with some basic information about color and its effects, so let’s find more about room colors, and how these affect your mood.

Let’s begin …

When selecting color for a room, keep in mind that each color has a psychological value. Think about how those colors make you feel. The main color of your room can have an effect on your mood. These colors can make you feel anything from tranquil to rage. So when trying to create peace and harmony in your home choose your colors wisely. Some colors in large amounts will have just the opposite affect on you and your loved ones’ moods.

What mood do you want to create? Which colors will help you achieve that mood?

Find clear answers to these questions. If you find this task quite difficult try to look at magazines, decorating books, blogs and websites for ideas, or let your fabric be your guide. In fact, this is a good approach to take even if you’re starting from scratch. Fabric, carpeting, furniture and tile are available in a more limited range of colors than is paint, so choose them first and then decide on your paint color. Once you’ve found what you where searching for limit the number of colors in a room to no more than three or four. Too many colors can make a room look busy or cluttered.

Paint is a fairly inexpensive and transforms a room more quickly than anything else you can do so you can afford to experiment a little.

Room Colors

Understand that colors behave in three basic ways : active, passive, and neutral , and you can easily match every room’s colors to your personal desires and taste and to the room’s purpose. Light colors are expansive and airy, they make rooms seem larger and brighter. Dark colors are sophisticated and warm; they give large rooms a more intimate appearance.

Now let’s find more about some colors.

Red raises a room’s energy level. It’s a good choice when you want to stir up excitement, particularly at night. In the living room or dining room, red draws people together and stimulates conversation. In an entryway, it creates a strong first impression. Red has been shown to raise blood pressure, speed respiration and heart rate. It is usually considered too stimulating for bedrooms, but if you’re only in the room after dark, you’ll be seeing it mostly by lamplight, when the color will appear muted, rich, and elegant. Red, the most intense, pumps the adrenaline like no other hue.

Crimson can make some people feel irritable. With red invoking feels of rage and hostility is a color that should be avoided as the main color of a room. Sitting for long periods of time in a room this color will likely breakdown any peace and harmony you are striving to create in your home. Ancient cultures used the color red to stimulate the body and mind and to increase circulation.
Yellow captures the joy of sunshine and communicates happiness. It’s perfect for kitchens, dining rooms, and bathrooms, where happy color is energizing and uplifting. In halls, entries, and small spaces, yellow can feel expansive and welcoming.Yellow although is a cheery color is not a good choice in main color schemes of a room. People are more likely to lose their tempers in a yellow room. Babies also seem to cry more in a yellow room. This color tends to create feeling of
frustration and anger in people. This color is the most fatiguing on the eyes.In chromotherapy yellow was believed to stimulate the nerves and purify the body.

Blue brings down blood pressure and slows respiration and heart rate. That’s why it’s considered calming, relaxing, and serene, and is often recommended for bedrooms and bathrooms. Be careful, however: A pastel blue that looks pretty on the paint chip can come across as unpleasantly chilly when it’s on the walls and furnishings, especially in a room that receives little natural light. If you opt for a light blue as the primary color in a room, balance it with warm hues in the furnishings
and fabrics.

To encourage relaxation in the rooms where people gather family rooms, living rooms, large kitchens consider warmer blues, such as periwinkle, or bright blues, such as cerulean or turquoise. Blue is known to have a calming effect when used as the main color of a room. When going with blue go for softer shades of blue. Dark blue has the opposite effect. Dark blue evokes feels of sadness. So refrain from using darker blues in your main color scheme. Stay with the lighter shades of blue to give you and your loved ones a calm effect.

Green is considered the most restful color for the eye. Combining the refreshing quality of blue and the cheerfulness of yellow, green is suited to almost any room in the house. In a kitchen, a sage or medium green cools things down; in a family room or living room, it encourages unwinding but has enough warmth to promote comfort and togetherness. In a bedroom, it’s relaxing and pleasant.Green also has a calming effect when used as a main color for decorating. It is believed to relieve stress by helping people relax. Also believed to help with fertility this is a great choice for the bedroom.

Purple in its darkest values (eggplant, for example) is rich, dramatic, and sophisticated. It’s associated with luxury as well as creativity, and as an accent or secondary color, it gives a scheme depth. Lighter versions of purple, such as lavender and lilac, bring the same restful quality to bedrooms as blue does, but without the risk of feeling chilly.

Orange evokes excitement, enthusiasm and is an energetic color. While not a good idea for a living room or for bedrooms this color is great for an exercise room. It will bring all the emotions out that you need when jumping into your fitness routine.In ancient cultures orange was used to heal the lungs and increase energy levels.

Neutrals (black, gray, white, and brown) are basic to the decorator’s tool kit. All-neutral schemes fall in and out of fashion, but their virtue lies in their flexibility: Add color to liven things up; subtract it to calm things down. Black is best used in small doses as an accent , indeed, some experts maintain that every room needs a touch of black to ground the color scheme and give it depth.

To make the job easier, you can rely on the interior designer’s most important color tool: the color wheel.

Something about Ceiling and Walls

The ceiling represents one-sixth of the space in a room, but too often it gets nothing more than a coat of white paint. In fact, for decades, white has been considered not only the safest but also the best choice for ceilings. As a general rule, ceilings that are lighter than the walls feel higher, while those that are darker feel lower. Lower” need not mean claustrophobic: Visually lowered ceilings can evoke cozy intimacy.

Dark walls make a room seem smaller, and light walls make a room seem larger.

Conclusion

These general guidelines are a good starting point in your search for a paint color. But remember that color choice is a very personal matter. You’re the one who has to live with your new paint color, so choose a hue that suits you, your family and your lifestyle.And after investing time to select just the right color, make sure it continues to look that way long-term by investing in a top quality paint.

Di atas langit ada langit, membuat kita silau namun tetap menatapnya. Di bawah tanah masih ada tanah, seharusnya kita sadar -dan tidak banyak mengeluh- masih banyak orang lain yang diberi cobaan lebih berat dari kita.

Hidup ini keras dan penuh perjuangan. Jangan bermanja-manja.

Terima kasih utk pemberi inspirasi di atas.

The work is done, but we're not happy. Just good enough isnt good enough. We realise that we want better, better and better.

Intellectual need, intellectual growth

is a specific form of intrinsic motivation; it is a desire to learn something. Although it is a difficult concept to grasp, it has been recognized as critical in effective educationlearning. Intellectual need arises when someone poses a question to themselves or others, either out of curiosity or to solve a specific problem. and

Intellectual need is often greatest when there is a hole in an otherwise well-connected web of knowledge. Merely understanding a question and being unable to answer it is not sufficient to create intellectual need—intellectual need arises when a person believes the question to be interesting or important, and usually this involves fitting the question into a framework of well-understood ideas.

A common critique of certain educational systems is that students are expected to learn facts and ideas in the absence of any intellectual need. As a result, the teachers and educational system must provide extrinsic motivation for the students in the form of tests, grades, or other incentives. This gives rise to a whole series of problems, ranging from boredom to academic dishonesty.

thanks to wikipedia

Examples

• A student who asks a question is displaying an intellectual need for the question to be answered.
• A birdwatcher who cannot identify a certain bird will often have a strong intellectual need to identify that bird because it represents a hole in their knowledge; however, others might have no intellectual need, even though they also cannot identify the bird.
• One can cultivate intellectual need by giving students a problem they can easily understand but cannot solve, or a question they can understand but cannot answer, before introducing a technique that can be used to solve the problem or information that answers the question.
• If a student cannot understand a question or problem, it cannot provide intellectual need for a solution.
• Giving students a new technique to solve a problem will not be effective if the students are already able to solve the problem through other easier or more enjoyable techniques, because they will have no intellectual need for the new technique.

From erdhaus.ch

„Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future“( Charles F. Kettering )

Personal and social change in our global community requires flexible, multi- functionally adapted solutions of our built environment.Unfortunately, most contemporary buildings are the result of conventional thinking in designs of past days.

Architecture should not dictate nature, it should cooperate with it.

Sustainable architecture is preferrably integrated into the natural environment and should be in a symbiotic relationship with it.Earth-covered architecture benefits from the natural balance of temperatures. It’s cooler in sommer and warmer in winter.High contamination facilities can be built with earth covered architecture to reduce impact to nature. Good working/living environment even in underprivileged locations can be created.The curvy forms of the earth-houses are an ideal synthesis between form and function. The emotional archaic form is an hommage to the natural environment.Planning should be centered around mankind, making the house his 3rd skin in context with nature.

Experience around people

Yes, there are many virtual tourist website in the internet. But the atmosfer and the sense of being around with local people could only be felt in the real situation, in 4D dimension with real time feature. This make you experience some kind of human universal condition to act humanly. So, travelling does give you that expensive taste of people. And it enrichs your humanist soul.


Have you had enough experience around people?

If you ask me, what type of treasure hunter i am, undoubtely i say, i am looking for people treasure! just believe me, amazing things will happen when you go on an expedition to find treasure in people.

and dont forget, research is the key to treasure hunting success

How I survive

All life is just a compensation
from shadow into sunshine, from storm into refuge.
Light and dark, storm and shine, wind and silence - these are all but reflection

and all successes come from failures

It is all a matter of learning how to have control over the mind
Fight to help those less fortunate than yourself

Do you think that that sorrow was brought for a purpose?


Yes, for the soul has to have all varieties of experience before it can unfold the highest. The soul is eternal and carries with it the result of every thought, of every spoken word, of every deed, and you are what you have made yourself - second by second, minute by minute, hour by hour, day by day, week by week, month by month, year by year. You achieve your own growth and all actions that you perform determine the state of your evolution. No one else accomplishes that growth for you.

From the greatest sorrow comes the greatest knowledge

Why do they think that their only solution must be to kill as many as possible, that the one who is the greatest killer is accounted the victor? It is a strange world you live in.


THERE IS NOTHING BUT FUTURE

Naj ul Balagha (2)

A few of the many verses of the Qur'an that require metaphysical understandings about God are:

• And His is the loftiest likeness in the heavens and the earth. (30:27)
• And He is God in the heavens and the earth. He knows our secrets, and what you publish. (6:3)
• He is the First and the Last, the Outward and the Inward. He has knowledge of everything. (57:3)
• Allah is One and Absolute. (112:1-2)
• This is a scripture that We have revealed unto thee, full of blessings, that they may ponder its revelations, and that men of understanding may reflect. (38:29)

"God is not inside things in the sense of physical penetration and is not outside them in the sense of physical exclusion. Times do not keep company with Him, and implements do not help Him. His Being precedes times. His Existence precedes non-existence and His eternity precedes beginning. By His creating the senses it is known that He has no senses. By the contraries in various matters it is known that He has no contrary, and by the similarity between things it is known that there is nothing similar to Him. He has made light the contrary of darkness, brightness that of gloom, dryness that of moisture and heat that of cold. He produces affection among inimical things." (Sermon 186)

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