Animal Topiary (2)

I have flu symptoms since yesterday. My body wants me to lie down, but my mind wants me to write some blog updates first.

Last week I’ve shared some animal topiary inside Nusantara Flower Park (Cipanas, West Java, Indonesia). This time I’ll share the other topiary. I wish you can enjoy them, have a great week end!

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Couple’s Corner : We Promise

Keeping marriage happy and harmonic needs efforts from both husband and wife. Since the topic of this week is about what we could promise to keep our marriage; I’ll mention first a little about promise. It’s said that a promise is your word to someone else. The promise is important and not to be taken lightly. Don’t say “I promise” if you aren’t sure and there’s still a doubt in your mind. Other people will appreciate and trust you more if you always keep your promises.

But when it comes to promises in our marriage, it’s only between me and my hubby. I agree with the saying: Marriage is a promise of love and a commitment to life. In a marriage, two people are trying to reach equal physical and emotional relationship, and it’s promised for a lifetime.

Well, to keep our marriage happy, we’ll try to do these: better open communication, keep the faith, love, trust and romantic between us, and do better ways to solve any problem. We still don’t have a child, and I know that it can cause a broken marriage. But we’ve promised that it won’t break our marriage, as we always keep our love together.

We believe that every marriage has its own path of life. Only God knows the right time for us to have a child. Sorry for writing here, but I always have this bad mood every time I’m getting older. Birthday isn’t a happy moment for me. I still can’t stop the negative feeling that the older I become, the harder for me to get my dream.

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To Give a Worry-Free Life to Your Family

We have realized that our future is really unknown; anything –even the most terrible situation- can occur in the future. That’s why insurance is needed to protect you from unpredictable conditions in your future. Nowadays, there are already many insurance types offered by insurance companies. But with the current economy situation and limited budget, getting protection in affordable rates is becoming one of most people’s concerns.

Have you noticed that funeral cost can be so expensive? At present time, it’s not a taboo anymore to prepare things for your own funeral, such as getting funeral or final expense or burial insurance. You need burial insurance to make sure that all of your funeral costs are paid for and there won’t be any hassle with your burial ceremony. You don’t want to make your family worry about your expensive funeral cost, right? At BurialInsurance.org, you’ll find out that you’ll get all information that you need; including obtaining free

final expense insurance rates, just by filling out their simple form.

If you are a senior citizen that needs more coverage than funeral expenses, you can consider getting the other type of insurance like senior life insurance. You should visit BurialInsurance.org to know more about senior life insurance policy. Since your family is the most important thing in your life, investing in senior life insurance could be the best decision to ensure their continuing happiness, after you leave them for good. 

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The Musical Fountain

It’s one of my favorite spots inside Nusantara Flower Park (Cipanas, West Java, Indonesia). The patterns of spraying water are changing – follows the played music. If you sit near the fountain, it feels like smooth rain. You’ll love to sit there and watch the dancing water. The music is nice to listen and the air is so fresh!

My entry for Watery Wednesday

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Saturday Afternoon in Sempur Field

Every afternoon, if it isn’t raining, lots of people will visit Sempur field (Bogor, West Java, Indonesia) to do various activities. Especially on the week end, you can see more people there; children, adults and elder. Let’s see. What kind of activities that you can do in Sempur Field? You have many options: you can run and bike around the field, play football, volleyball, basketball, or you can try wall climbing.

If you don’t want to get sweat, you can just sit or look for something to eat and drink since many food sellers are available there. When I visit Sempur Field, we always look for our favorite food there: chicken porridge or chicken noodle. Do you have a public place like this in your city? Ours is very simple one, but this field has become one of favorite places for many people in my city.

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Animal Topiary

Inside Nusantara Flower Park (Cipanas, West Java, Indonesia), you can see lots of animal topiaries. Why don’t I post here in Camera Critters? This time I share three of them, one is the biggest topiary in the park.

I won’t mention here what animals they are, as I’m sure that you can guess it.

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Couple’s Corner: Why Bad Habits are Hard to Break?

We’re still talking about habits this week. Well, I’ve ever shared here about my old bad habits that I feel hard to change. Why is it hard to break our bad habits? We call some behaviors as habits if we always do these behaviors frequently.

Honestly, I don’t know the right answer. My hubby often complains about my disorganized behavior. I really want to change; but it’s difficult. I’ve read lots of great advice out there about how to change bad habit; but it only held out for a few days, and I always come back to my old habit. Sigh.

It makes me curious enough to find the answer. Fortunately, I found an article that explained this situation. In fact, it relates with basic human biology, especially human brain!

I’ll share here a brief of the article to you:

There’s a small region in the middle of human brain that owes ability to form memories: the hippocampus. This brain region is the gateway to forming and recalling memories.

The hippocampus keeps most of the things that you see and experience in short term memory while other regions of your brain are working out if it’s actually important. If what you’ve seen or learnt is important, then the hippocampus will record it. If it’s not important then it’s rapidly lost, and you’re not capable to remember it easily.

Your brain will remember things if only there has been some importance attached to it, often because of repetitive experience. It’s how we learn almost everything. It’s how to change the old habit and have a new better one.

Check this out: repetition and reinforcement things that are important for you to remember are the triggers your brain requires to begin forming long lasting memories and behavior patterns.

You have to actually try something different, and then you must repeat it and practice it until your hippocampus realizes it’s important and you remember it, and act on it automatically.

If we’ve just read this and that tips without practicing it repetitively, our brain will not see it as important things; we’ll forget it easily. That’s why it’s hard to change the old bad habits, if we don’t try to do the new and better habits repeatedly and continually. Keep doing it with discipline, until your hippocampus remembers it!

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