happiness is.....?
my econ c171 class seems to provide me with daily bits of random pieces of information and musings ... yesterday i found out that the QWERTY keyboard we use is designed such that u can type the word 'typewriter' using letters on the first line... and that letters are placed such that if using a typewriter, the 'arms' that print the words on the paper wun get 'messed up'... ie. letters that tend to be together in a word are spaced out.. i thought that was quite cool and brainy of those ppl who designed it..
then we were talking about the measure of poverty in class today when someone just felt the urge to give his stand on happiness... that income is usually the best measure of happiness... which i think is definitely not true though... it is probably usually an easy way out, an easy way of measuring happiness, assumed by many to be positively correlated.. but i guess in actual fact there isn't that much of a relationship, though all of us assume that we will be happier when we have more money... our instructor said there was a study which found that people in richer countries aren't that much happier than those in poorer countries.... i think many a time when we have more money we also tend to demand more things so we'll never be satisfied... we are so naturally greedy... well i guess happiness can be derived more from relationships, or just little things in life, gestures by ppl.... haha sometimes grades... (quite sad but so true), food.... cheesecake.... ice cream...
sigh... have to go for econs discussion now... ya forgot... (happiness also =no class... ) ... actually not really lah, cos if i didn't have class i would prob just laze around and do nothing and end up getting upset for doing nothing...and sometimes learning new things do make me really happy =)