Gierad Blogs » Philosophy http://www.gierad.com/blog because he dreams for the wisdom of an owl, but has a memory of a goldfish Sun, 08 Aug 2010 23:38:22 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 East vs. West http://www.gierad.com/blog/2010/08/05/east-vs-west/ http://www.gierad.com/blog/2010/08/05/east-vs-west/#comments Thu, 05 Aug 2010 23:08:34 +0000 gierad http://www.gierad.com/blog/?p=189 To my blog subscribers (if any), I apologize for being MIA for the past few months. I’ve been pre-occupied with a looooot of new things. I wish I can tell you what they are right now, but I’ll eventually spill it out when the time is right (another incentive to subscribe to my blog). No worries, all is well on my end.

Anyway, I saw this email that’s been floating around my workplace and I  just thought I’d like to share it here in my blog. It’s about the differences between Eastern and Western culture summarized in a few witty images.

As someone who has been (and still is) constantly exposed to the Eastern and Western culture, I can really relate and attest to the differences (both good and bad) of these speciously polarizing but apparently concordant ways of life.

I think one element that jumped-off at me was about how the two cultures view punctuality. I think they are very funny (and accurate) . Honestly, I find myself wavering between the two cultures in terms of my punctuality, but I think I’ve been leaning towards the East for quite some time now :-)

Credits to Liu Young for these visual representations (he was born in China and educated in Germany).

Enjoy!

Blue: Western | Red: Eastern

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Way of Life

Punctuality

Contacts

Anger

Waiting in a Queue

Sundays on Road

Party

In the Restaurant

Travelling

Handling of Problems

Three Meals a Day

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Elderly Day to Day Life

Mood and Weather

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]]> http://www.gierad.com/blog/2010/08/05/east-vs-west/feed/ 1 If I could do anything, I would… http://www.gierad.com/blog/2010/02/17/if-i-could-do-anything-i-would/ http://www.gierad.com/blog/2010/02/17/if-i-could-do-anything-i-would/#comments Wed, 17 Feb 2010 14:39:14 +0000 gierad http://www.gierad.com/blog/?p=92 This quote struck me so much that I’ve been using it as a source of inspiration. It’s the theme for Doodle for Google 2009.  Its a motivation for thinking big, reaching for you dreams, and changing the world.

“If I could do anything, I would…”

  • Create technology that would change people’s lives
  • Build a beautiful house for every family in the world
  • Eliminate poverty, eliminate diseases, and get rid of pornography
  • Provide everybody in the world the chance to fulfill their dreams
  • Create a bridge from Michigan to Cebu, or perhaps a tunnel or a teleport machine…
  • Have YFC/SFC household on the moon
  • Learn the ability to walk on water so I can run around the world..
  • Travel the solar system within 3 days, starting from the Sun, with a pit-stop at the rings of Saturn, and finally surfing around the outskirts of the milky way. Then I would fly back to Earth, rest for a few days, and Start making plans to travel to a different universe..
  • Allow snow to fall in the Philippines (for a few days the most) so people there can finally experience their first snow
  • Swim with a blue whale as he takes me around to the wonders of the ocean
  • Travel the world with my wife
  • If I could do anything, I would still read books, go to Grad school, and be able to learn and explore the fascinating world around us..
  • If I could do anything, I would… Do more…

If you could do anything, what would you do?

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