Ministry of Zero

So, like what I wrote on the previous post, I spent my time with reading books during the flood.

One of the books I bought weeks ago is "The Time Keeper", written by Mitch Albom.

For all of you who came across this random post, just for your random information, reading book is one of my most favorite hobbies.

However romance novels are not in my lists. I do read them sometimes but... I just can't make them my favorites for an unknown reason.

Fantasy is my favorite genre. Speak about Harry Potter as the example.

I also go for inspirational book. Chicken Soup for the Souls, Life's Golden Ticket by Brendon Burchard, or books by Jon Gordon.

Mitch Albom is an American best-selling author. He is notable for "Tuesdays with Morrie" and "The Five People You Meet in Heaven".

The Time Keeper is his newest book and I read it in less than half day, simply mean that I love the book that I didn't want to stop reading it until I finished.

The story delivers a simple plot with three people as the main characters.

There is no complex word to confuse my dictionary so I think you don't need to think hard while reading it; all you need it is to reflect what's written with your ongoing life.

One who counted the gift from God.

One who refused the time given to her.

One who wanted more of his time.

There are many quotes those make me question myself:

"Have I done my best till this moment?"

"Do I appreciate time I have received?"

"Why do human never treasure what they have until they're gone?"

What I'm trying to tell here is...

Go and read the book.

Tell me what's your opinion later. ;)

It's well written and powerful at a point where you will be reminded that time is a gift from God and, even though human made his way to measure the gift, it's still a gift that you can't control.

All we can do is to do what we can when we have the chance.

Credit goes to here and here

Why do I put the above quote at the opening here?

For the intermezzo, let me write down about what had happened for the past week in my life.

At the beginning of the week, everything was normal but everything turned upside down on Tuesday night.

Rain kept on pouring the town without mercy while one of my friends at office needed to stay till late to finish a really important task. My mother called me and said that maybe I couldn't return for tonight because of the rain and flood.

I ended up staying at a nearby hotel with my friend after staying at office till 2 AM. We returned to the office at 8 AM on Wednesday, continued to work till 7 PM before we returned to our houses.

That's when I realized that flood had gotten inside my house for around 20 centimeters or so but I kept telling myself that tomorrow morning would be alright.

Unfortunately rain betrayed my wish and the flood increased and increased.

I ended up with blackout at 11 PM on Thursday, trapped on second and third floor of my house while flood took the whole first floor.

On Friday, rain became heavier and flood increased in no time, causing us to be hopeless.

The situation continued until Sunday at 2 PM; we survived with limited water, Indomie, and eggs everyday.

I spent my time with reading books at daytime and did nothing at nighttime in the darkness. It's very uncomfortable especially at Saturday night when a fire incident happened only 1 kilometer away from my house.

That's quite a surprising situation. Thanks God people managed to calm the fire and there's no victim but, well, it did make me panic somehow.

When the electricity returned, I was really happy. People asked me how I could survive for 95 hours without electricity, without almost nothing at all.

Actually I was surprised by myself. I also wondered why my mother, the one who always complained that she couldn't sleep if the air conditioner was not cold enough, could survive the nights without it.

This is how I will link the first quote with my intermezzo.

People often said "I couldn't do it" or "It's impossible for me" or "I could only do it if...".
We put limits for ourselves, announcing them to the world that we have our own limits.

Here we must remember that we have what we called instinct to survive.

Perhaps it's too... far in our topic.

So let me give examples in my case.

I used to think that blackout for one day would make me suffer to the maximum state but, hey, I lived on for four days without complaining much. The same went for my mother.

Because the limitations we made are what we thought we could do and don't when, in fact, we probably could do it when we're pushed to the corners.

Have you ever experienced that?

When you did something you never thought you could and looked back, wondering how you could do all of those?

Credit goes to here and here

So I found this link from a friend of mine at Twitter.

Thanks to @astridfadil for sharing the link.

If you don't know, I always have interest in personality tests so, test regarding how your brain works is not an exception.

Therefore I downloaded the application "brainworks.exe" and ran it.

It's a simple self-assessment test and I think it just took some minutes for me.

I answered all 20 questions in one go before I received the result.

As the introduction, some of you may already know about left and right hemisphere of our brains. One have the tendency to be more dominant and this affects you in a way your probably don't know.

This exercise is also said to help us determine whether we react in a more auditory or visual manner, regarding our learning style.

Well, my result is in below picture and I'll give the review after it. ;)

I am a strongly left-hemisphere dominant and a predominantly visual learner, a unique blend of characteristic, it said.

Typical of the left hemisphere dominant person, you are organized, precise, focused on details and logical. You seek or assign meaning to your experiences as part and parcel of the way that you learn.

In general, your approach to life and learning is step-wise and emphasizes the functional and pragmatic rather than the symbolic and abstract. You prefer to place things in existing categories as a way of making them familiar and/or controllable.

Combined with this, you are a visual learner. You are active and continuously searching so that you process information rapidly.

As a result, you can be constantly organizing and structuring without necessarily needing to verbalize as a way of guiding yourself. You have a unique ability to see what needs doing and to get it done.

The predominance of your visual learning style implies that you tend not to be reflective and may not pick up on auditory cues including your own "inner voice". Frequently you may find that you can "see" where the other person is going before she/he gets there and this way can be impatient with roundabout language.

Overall, you may find yourself driven and distracted. There is a sense of excitement that attends this combination but also a sense of frustration.

You can have well-defined goals without the ability to articulate them yourself, let alone others.

You can "see" where you are going but not be able to "tell yourself".

As for myself, I do think the result is correct up to 90%. I don't know though if it's just me or not.

I'll let you try and decide whether the test gives a correct result or not. ;)