"Gardening" Quote of the Day

"Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?"

Douglas Adams

Quote of the Day

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self

Ernest Hemingway

Quote of the Day

Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.

Voltaire

sun light

Was watching the extra segment on the Sunshine DVD (the Danny Boyle film) and came across this bit by Leonard Shlain... it's such a lovely way to describe Sunshine and how it link to the movie. A segment that I had to rewatch a few time to absorb the awe of what he was saying.

Fire is nothing more than sunlight stored.
So when you light a log in your fireplace... what you're witnessing is the release of the sunlight that was stored a long time ago in a primeval forest.
so there's something wonderful about starring at a fire and realiez that this is just another manifestation of sunlight ... coming out in another way

Leonard Shlain ~ Author ~

Just loving Sunshine more and more

Love Tsunami

"Richard Lim Jr is hopping that love will come like a tsunami … unexpectedly and flooding / sweeping him over with potentially deadly consequences."

Er just in case there are friends who are worried when I make such morbid remarks …. the comment above ^ was made when I was chatting with a poly friend (Joel Tan, the best President of TP CSC) just now.

He asked if I am dating anyone right now and I told him that I am not... currently happily being single ... He went on and said something about love will come unexpectedly like a tsunami ... (in retrospect, I think he was trying to console me )

my First reaction was: "WAHHHH ... so deadly"

hahahaha LOL ... was so amused that I posted that on my twitter / facebook...

a little something for those morally uptight folks

Don't be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so.

-Henry David Thoreau

Crushing a Butterfly with wheels

While watching Shattered (Starring Pierce Brosnan, Maria Bello and Gerard Butler ) today, I came across this term, “Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel" which sort of mean going through a lot of effort in achieving very little ... a quote that was said to be rather common but it's the first time that I came across

haiz on a personal level, this is what I been feeling nowadays with work ... feel so tired but yet achieved so little

nevertheless, I thought it was a pretty good film ... and tho I didn't catch it in the cinema, it's one of the contender for top ten this year ..

One of the best films that I almost overlook due to it's very formulaic plot line but after viewing it, I was swept away by it's emotional performance, frenetic pacing that kept me hook on every surprises and the final turnout which supposedly minor turn out to be more affecting that I could ever guess ... good stuff I say

my practice quote

so I told my friend about what happen in the afternoon (that post below) and how I was practicing my "charms" on her ...

when my friend then asked if I have gotten the salesgirl's contact number ... My reply was

"just because I want to practice, doesn't mean that I want victims"

Worry & Relax

worry is not a good friend
worry dont help u solve ur problem
worry actually give u more problem
so fuck worry

and relax
relax is then ur friend
relax can make u wet
relax can make u horny
relax can help u release all those endophine

Now-ism

cant change the past , its already gone
cant predict the future, its not here yet
can work the now, its still here

Ambition & Failure

"Ambition is the Last Refuge of Failure"

Oscar Wilde

Quote: Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.

Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.

It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us.

Your playing small does not serve the world.

There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you.

We are all meant to shine as children do.

It's not just in some of us; it is in everyone.

And as we let our own lights shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.

As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

Nelson Mandela

sometimes we are afraid of what we can achieve more than what we cant, so go on and shine as you are because the world will be a better place with u shining than u worrying

Turmoil of the Human Heart

I realized how easily it is to make a film that I will love ... let me tell u how (specially those who are film maker wannabe)

It was another windy day ... I pull the curtain up and saw the trees swaying mesmerising in front of me .. I was thinking of the floating yellow flowers from yesterdays and wondering that for every songs that I like or search for, must there be a story to it ? ... (John words echoing in my mind)

then my thoughts strayed into movie ... It felt like it was a scene that i seen it before and it wasn't just one movie ...

the first one that i remember was A Bittersweet life, it had a monologue about a monk and his disciple, pondering about the swaying trees and leaves ...

"Master, are the branches moving or is it the wind?"

to which the monk enlighten his disciple that

Not even glancing to where his pupil was pointing ... "That which moves is neither the branches nor the wind ... It's your hert and mind."

hmmm then it occur to me ... that wasn't the first time that a movie which I loved begin with a similar message like the one above ... and it came to me ... Ashes of Time also had one of such message flash before the movie started ...

The flags are still,
No wind blows...
It's the heart of man that's in turmoil

I am such a sucker for such message .... I remember that by the first monologue of A Bittersweet Life and the message appearing in Ashes of Time, I had already somewhat fell in love with the film already ...

Nothing is Right or Wrong but Thinking made it So ...

Henry Miller

Discovery Channel Quote

In life, nothing is certain
If you feel frighten, Don’t

Embrace the uncertainty
Allow it to lead you to places

Don’t waste time with regret
Take each moment as it comes

And if you ever find yourself lost
Simply take a break and start all over again

It's one of the advertising quotes played for Discovery Channel's ads on the top selection of documentaries this year and somehow, it help me answer some of the question that I have for my future and relationship matters.

Yes, it's advertising but it's also a good motto to have in life.