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172 days ago
so, you think your kid's still young and there's still a lot to learn out there, well, think again... i was so engrossed in an online game... anxious to complete a mission, i was browsing through a list of items looking for something that i needed but doing it the prehistoric way of going through item one by one, and my eldest son was behind me observing what i was doing... after a minute, he asked me, "why aren't you typing the name of the item you want and hit 'search'?" well, "mr-know-it-all" hadn't thought about that, wahaha!
184 days ago
in a bruce lee film, a master quoted, "what's good about knowing kungfu? even a master struggles to keep up with today's times!" i guess kungfu is enlightenment, as are some other things we might be good at... we lose ourselves sometimes... being able to excel in something we do gives us an opportunity to immerse ourselves physically, mentally and sometimes spiritually... even if we can't achieve excellence, our indulgence will take us away from some life stresses... indulgence is our shield... excellence is our castle...
184 days ago
this is from a us army officer, brigadier general stephen townsend, on his camp's high suicide rate: "suicide is a permanent solution to what is only a temporary problem..." this may be irrelevant to many people, but then, we face many difficulties, and we must have the courage to carry on to the other side of the upslope (and similarly, there's no indefinite downslope)... people who choose this permanent solution, they won't regret because they can't, but they will have left a world of destruction to those who lived around them...
224 days ago
life seemed to have flew past me in a flash, so many things went through my mind it seemed like not so long ago all these happened... and delightfully so... i read "ozma of oz" very long ago... i guess i liked the story, but well, guiltily, most of it was thrown into my past... however, i was delightfully surprised over the weekend when disney channel aired "return to oz", and my memory valve just burst and all the characters just started appearing before me... it was almost like meeting people i knew from long ago, and i was quite excited to introduce these "friends" to my children... "that's dorothy! and scarecrow, and timidy lion, and the tin man, and her new friends, ozma of oz, tic toc, and belinda the hen... her eggs are poisonous to gnomes!" "what? poisonous? how can eggs be poisonous?" "only to gnomes! especially those in this story, because everything is extraordinary!" "why is it ...
