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Whacky Thoughts

The Moon Against a Beautiful Blue Sky

Besides imaginary friends, I have scripts of imaginary thank you speech too.  I would picture this vision of “I made it” – not a bad end in mind I reckon – and I would give thanks to those who believe in me and to those who don’t.  Except, those who don’t probably become less significant so much so that their once upon a time significance may not even exist anymore.  Yet they have been as important as the believers who support me from one end of the ocean to another; their constant misconception, lack of faith fuels my obsession, propels me forward.

I believe not because I don’t have taste.  I believe because I can see the potential, because I want to care, and because I have hope.

I love the blue sky.  Everything looks beautiful against a blue sky.  Recently read a thought experiment of a baby being brought up inside a spaceship, with the absence of the color blue.  When the baby grows up, the scientists land the spaceship on Earth, and show the young kid a clear blue sky.  How would the kid react?

I love the moon too, against a pitch black sky, in the darkest hours.  There is something mysterious about this lone piece of rock that orbits around us.  It is like a dream so near but yet so unreachable; it is like something so alive but yet so lifeless.  Silently the moon creates the tide that creates the movement that creates the wind.  An invisible force that draws us into her.

I thank the believers, and I thank the non-believers too.  Above all, I love the moon against a blue sky most.

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Snippet of My Life

Snippet Of My Life Episode 14 – Being Supportive, 500 Below, And Two Quizzes

A Quiz

To the first person who can tell me how the above picture was taken, I will cook you a very nice Cantonese meal.

A Self-Reflection

A recent insignificant episode prompted me to self-reflect: Why do I enjoy being supportive to others, especially to those who are passionate in what they do?  Random thoughts as follows.

  • Maybe I am easily excited by the good things I see and the potential of what things can be.
  • I feel touched when someone is willing to (interactively) share a slice of their private lives with me.  And to that extend, I respect that piece of privileged information.
  • How many gold medalists are there out there?  We can still add meaning and purpose to what we do, in our daily quest of bettering ourselves even though we may not be legends.
  • Whether I would have spent my time doing something other than what someone is doing neither means that I cannot relate to the passion involved, nor respect its importance to that someone.  One friend of mine loves to jog.  Day in day out he jogs.  I wish I could have his passion and he recently took home a “silver medal” for a 10km run in his age bracket.  Dude, you are my inspiration.

This little self-reflection has a part two: How shall I negatively opine against what others are passionately doing?

  • Normally I don’t, unless someone is soliciting frank opinion.  And unless I have a good intend.
  • If it is my own skeptic thought with no constructive follow-on suggestions, I will bite my tongue.  Raising doubts is easy, helping others to break through to the next level is hard.  Unless I am asking someone to give up of course.  Huh?  Why would I want to do that under normal circumstances?
  • But if I have something constructive to say, I will share with him or her.
  • And If I do care about that someone and worry that he or she may be veering to the wrong direction, I will also say it.  For example, I am blessed to have friends who keep me in check knowing how I may, for instance, be prone to obsession.  You guys rock!

Another Quiz

Has anyone realized a common theme for all the August 2008 entries?  I won’t keep you in suspense: 500 Below.

All the entries published this month are having a word count of 500 and below.  Perhaps next month, I shall aim lower.  What do you think?

Related Post: Answer to That Quiz and My Spanish Class Continues with The World of Verbs And What Not

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I See I Write

Gecko in the Sky: One Man’s Pest is Another Man’s Pet

O lovely creatures that roam my home and keep the bad insects in check.  I can’t comprehend why some would smash your species into blood and gore, spilling guts on the walls and on the floors.  I would never do that.  Uh-ah, never crossed my mind.

At times I see some of you in my kitchen, on my bathroom floor.  It is good to have good living creatures in my home because I don’t even keep plants.  I can’t recognize your faces, of course, but I can recognize who are the babies, who are the well fed grown ups that have double, quadruple your infant size.  Because of that translucent skin of yours, it often amuses me to see your dark bulging stomachs, full of flies and ants, spiders and other bad, bad insects perhaps?

From time to time, my shower area is infested by fat and tiny, slow flying creatures.  I would have to smash four or eight of them flat prior to my shower.  What an annoyance!  And they fly onto my face!  Then one of you would arrive, clean the area up.  Now I don’t even see flies in my bathroom no more.

You don’t make me jump.  Except that one time when one of you fell onto my shoulder while I was showering.  I laughed away and really, no harm done.

PS. Picture taken by Cynthia on March 24, 2008.