
Sunday, November 15, 2009
Tuesday, August 4, 2009
The Golf Experience

"Focus on how you hit the ball than the result"
There I was in the Pakuwon Driving Range. The first lesson was to pick the right stick for a beginner as me. My Instructor let me choose any stick in the bag, but he recommends that I use the number seven or eight. As far as I can remember, he told me that the smaller the number the longer the stick would be and the harder it gets to use. So I picked number eight as recommended.
Since the beginning, he told me that I have to use my left hand to hit the ball while the right is just for assisting. When I use my right hand to hit the ball (I have been a righty as long as I live), I always end up hitting the golf stick to the mat and missed the ball. If I focus on controlling my left hand and let my right hand out of my attention, I will, most of the time, hit the ball and made the beautiful 'woot' sound as the stick lightly touched the mat.
My job is not done. In order to deliver the ball curvely, I have to pay my attention to hit the ball. Focus on the ball and not on the result. More than twenty times in a 150 balls game, he kept on reminding me to keep looking at the ball even when I have done a half way swing(When the iron staff almost touched the ball).
If there is a beginning and a middle, it has to have an end. Before a swing, we have to choose the right stick. In the process of a swing, left hand and focus are the main thing and to close a good swing, we have to make a 'big' swing. I tend to close my swing quickly. This means that right after I hit the ball, I eagerly search for where the ball had landed and forget about the swing. This will make my swing smaller than it should. A small swing will not hit the ball straight and far.
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I realized that all these golf's 'golden rules' speak in my other things too. Sometimes in work/school/any other social places, we have to use our left hand. Meaning that we work together with people we don't really know/comfortable with might leads to better outcome than we worked with people we always work with.
Focus on the process, even tough it seems so sure. Focus till the end of the process/forcus till the job is done. I tend to look for the 'glory' behind the job, and that tends to drag the results down. Same goes with the closing of the swing. Seemed nothing could go wrong, and I overlooked it. Well, that cause my ball to go out of line, hit the fence and roll to the ground.
And when the swing is done, relax, we still have enough time to look where the ball will land because we have done a good full swing.
This is my golf experience.
Ivo Christa
July-August Summer '09
Picture of Tiger wood its not mine, taken from google image and it belong to its owner
Monday, June 8, 2009
Similarity between 1982 and 2009
"There are innumerable tax loopholes that help the rich but are without relevance for the poor and bail-outs for corporations and protection for industries when the workers' wages are far above the average for American industry.
~ Mancur Olson on Inequality, Discrimination, and Development pg. 174 of The Rise and Decline of nations (1982)
And yet this resembles 2009 bail-outs and current situation.
~ Mancur Olson on Inequality, Discrimination, and Development pg. 174 of The Rise and Decline of nations (1982)
And yet this resembles 2009 bail-outs and current situation.
Thursday, June 4, 2009
Who Benefit From Recession?
This Video was uploaded on April 03, 2008
Listen at 1.24 duration
This marketing person was trying to publicize Burgatti's new car type 'Hermes'which costs more than $1.7 M.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2008/feb/08/economics
Listen at 1.24 duration
This marketing person was trying to publicize Burgatti's new car type 'Hermes'which costs more than $1.7 M.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2008/feb/08/economics
Friday, January 23, 2009
Poster - Soldiers of Conscience

Date: 1 October 2007
Tools: Photoshop CS2, Illustrator CS2, Mac
A great documentary film by Question of Conscience LLC.
http://www.socfilm.com/
*Picture taken is from the website, and belong to their respective owner
*The College activities Board logo belong to Seattle Central Community College Student Leadership Division
Thursday, January 22, 2009
Poster - The Trials of Darryl Hunt

Date: 1 October 2007
Tools: Photoshop CS2, Illustrator CS2, Mac
*Picture(s) taken is from the search engine, and belong to their respective owner(s)
*Logo belong to Seattle Central Community College Student Leadership
Poster - Basketball League

Date: January 2008
Tools: Photoshop CS2, Illustrator CS2, Mac
*Picture(s) taken is from the search engine, and belong to their respective owner(s)
*The College activities Board logo belong to Seattle Central Community College Student Leadership Division
Poster - Commitees

Date: Unknown (I could not remember the exact date)
Tools: Illustrator CS2, PC
*Logo belong to Seattle Central Community College Student Leadership
Poster - Film Series Committee

Date: Unknown (I could not remember the exact date)
Tools: Illustrator CS2, PC
*The College activities Board logo belong to Seattle Central Community College Student Leadership
Poster - Teaser for Unity fair

Date: 5 May 2007
Tools: Illustrator CS2, Mac
*College Activities Board Logo belong to Seattle Central Community College Student Leadership
Brochure - Apparel Drive
Bookmark - Indonesian Club
Poster - Lunar New Year

Date: 25 january 2008
Tools: Photoshop CS2, Illustrator CS2, Mac
*Picture(s) taken is from the search engine, and belong to their respective owner(s)
*Logo belong to Seattle Central Community College Student Leadership
Poster - ASC Associate

Date: 27 October 2007 (approx.)
Tools: Illustrator CS2, PC
*Picture(s) taken is from the search engine, and belong to their respective owner(s)
*The Associate Student Council logo belong to Seattle Central Community College Student Leadership
Poster - Hoop Dreams II

Date: 29 November 2007
Tools: Photoshop CS2, Illustrator CS2, Mac
*Picture(s) taken is from the search engine, and belong to their respective owner(s)
*The College activities Board logo belong to Seattle Central Community College Student Leadership Division
Poster - My Seattle Central Blog

A Poster I designed for Seattle Central Community College Student Leadership's blog. I made the layout looks like the web browser with the Central Blog opened in the middle. Green used to be the main theme of the blog as well. Bullets points indicate the benefits taken by visiting the blog.
Tools: Photoshop CS2, Illustrator CS2, Mac
*The address of the blog: www.myseattlecentral.com
*Picture taken is from the website, and belong to their respective owner
*The College activities Board Central Blog logo belong to Seattle Central Community College Student Leadership Division
Brochure - Valentine's Day

Date: 11 February 2008
Tools: Photoshop CS2, Illustrator CS2, Mac
*The Student Leadership logo belong to Seattle Central Community College Student Leadership Division
Poster - Hoop Dreams I

Date: 26 November 2007
Tools: Photoshop CS2, Illustrator CS2, Mac
*Picture(s) taken is from the search engine, and belong to their respective owner(s)
*The College activities Board logo belong to Seattle Central Community College Student Leadership Division
Poster - China Blue

Date: 7 March 2008
Tools: Photoshop CS2, Illustrator CS2, Mac
A great documentary film by Teddybearfilm
http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/chinablue/
*Picture taken is from the website, and belong to their respective owner
*The College activities Board logo belong to Seattle Central Community College Student Leadership Division
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