Journal of My Journey

  BITCOIN— a familiar name nowadays getting in the spotlight more and more with each passing year. If you have heard of it before, you know this much that bitcoin is a digital currency. But how does a digital currency work? Or what is the use of it when we already have digital banking? In today's blog I'm going to explain the basics in the simplest term possible.  First things first— we need to know how currency works to understand how it can be so much in an abstract form i.e. digital form. Let's look at the history of transaction.  At the beginning of civilization, people would exchange goods for goods in return and thus obtain what was necessary for them. This system had its limitations, so later in the history people  moved onto using metal coins (gold, silver) to buy stuffs. Since these materials are precious to people's standard and can't be obtained easily, they worked well as currency. However, carrying a good amount of coins everywhere was troublesome and s...

  Growing up is all about having eye-opening realizations about different stuffs. Realization about ourselves, the world around us and our dynamics with people. Here are some of the realizations I had in the past few months after going through the trial for a much longer period of time. Most of them can't be generalized since they they are solely my point of view, so you are recommended to take them with a pinch of salt! Saying "I don't care anymore" when no one's asked you very much means you still do care I wonder if anyone has ever grown up without being emotionally hurt by people around him/her. At one point we start feeling stoic. We keep telling ourselves or whoever willing to hear that we no longer care if someone hurts us, betrays us or tramples us down. There's a hint of monastic coolness in this manner, probably that's why we never get tired of proving that we REALLY don't care. But come to think of it. If we really didn't care, we wouldn...

If you watch Ghibli movies and haven't heard of "My Neighbors the Yamadas", it will be difficult to believe at first glance that Studio Ghibli made this film because this movie doesn't have the aesthetic, spot-on, eye-catching art-style that other Ghibli movies have. It's also quite possible to miss this one if are intending to watch all of the Ghibli movies since it always gets less attention and go unnoticed among its peers. However, this family-comedy movie is super humorous and the loosely sketched art style complements it successfully; so you're definitely gonna have a good time watching it.  Yamada family has father Takashi, mother Matsuka, grandma Shige, brother Noboru, younger sister Nonoko and a grumpy doggy Pochy. Their everyday life is portrayed in the film where they bicker with each other, reconcile, make mistakes, learn and grow together in the funniest way possible. The movie doesn't have one story leading to one conclusion but it's a co...

What's a better way for escaping the reality than daydreaming? It's our most available source of entertainment and also an inevitable part of a creative mind. We all daydream at times and it's only natural as long as 'you' are the master of your daydreams. But if it grows as a habit with some special features and starts controlling you, it's time you became careful. Maladaptive Daydreaming- a psychiatric condition indentified by Professor Eliezer Somer in 2002. A maladaptive daydreamer's daydreams are 'highly structured'. Unlike regular daydreams, they have constructed plot, fictional or imaginary characters playing them out- much like a scenario. Maladaptive daydreamers spend a large amount of time constructing these plots and daydreaming. Daydreaming for them is enjoyable and if interrupted while daydreaming, they often feel the urge to continue from where they left off. It starts interfering with their daily tasks and attention. Sometimes they ca...

How you doing! Hope you are spending energetic days cuz it sucks to have a slump... As for me, things are going in a slothful way. Yesterday I finished watching a movie that was stacked in my watchlist for long time and I think it was a perfect pick during a slump. It's the 1994's movie, considered to be one of the best of all time, 'The Shawshank Redemption'. Today's post is supposed to be a review (⚠️may contain spoilers) but I assume I'm gonna go all over the place with whatever thought the movie provoked in me. Of course there are other interpretations out there, this one is solely my point of view.  Andy Dufresne, our main character, is sent to Shawshank prison after being convicted of the murder of his wife and the man she had affair with. He learns about the brutality inside the cage where unlaw is sometimes law itself. However, he appeared different from other prisoners with his strong-resolved personality and big plans. Andy turns himself into an import...

  Over the course of time, I've come to a conclusion that- you cannot label someone simply as good or bad. And what's the basis of my believing so? Well, let's imagine a scenario where there's a leader of a town. The leader has made tremendous development to the town. Proper housing, no hunger, good education, health care facilities for all - sounds great, right? We can put the leader in the 'good' category. However, there's a problem. No one is free from making mistakes nor is that leader. But if anyone from the town tries to point out his misktake, the leader does everything in his power to shut that person up. Would you still keep him in the 'good' category? It's understandable how we label someone as good or bad. If a person's majority of deeds are deemed as good, he becomes a good person. Same calculations goes for the person who we refer to as bad. From the moment we distinguish someone as 'good' or 'bad', we tend to th...

  After Arab Spring, many Arab countries saw a change in their government. In some cases though, situations unraveled in quite an unexpected way. Here are instances of some of the countries where things didn't go as it was expected. Egypt   After 18 days of mass demonstration, Hosni Mubarak resigned from his 30 years of presidency in February, 2011. Mohamed Morsi became the president with political group Muslim Brotherhood's support but was deposed after the coup d'etat by military in 2013. The leader of the coup- El-Sisi seized power next year and has been in power eversince. However, all these changes barely brought positive changes in the country. Political oppression, economic instability indicate that the situation's turned from bad to worse.  Yemen   After watching the success of taking down dictators in Tunisia and Egypt, Yemenis decided to walk on the same path to oust their president Ali Abdullah Saleh who had been excercising power for almost three decades....