Thursday, July 01, 2010
How true?
"ask most people what they want out of life and the answer is simple, to be happy, maybe its this expectation, though, the wanting to be happy, that just keeps us from ever getting there" Grey's Anatomy
Tuesday, June 15, 2010
I'll Try Anything Once
"Ten decisions shape your life, you'll be aware of 5 about..."
"There is a time when we all fail,
some people take it pretty well,
some take it all out on themselves,
some they just take it out on friends"
"oh everybody plays the game,
and if you don't you're called insane" I'll Try Anything Once, The Strokes
"There is a time when we all fail,
some people take it pretty well,
some take it all out on themselves,
some they just take it out on friends"
"oh everybody plays the game,
and if you don't you're called insane" I'll Try Anything Once, The Strokes
Thursday, June 10, 2010
Simple Pleasures
"I am sitting in a hard-seat carriage with a hundred strangers, swaying from side to side as the train clatters along. It feels nice. My nerves begin to calm. I don't want to read, or speak, or move, or think... live your own life... sky beyond the sky... empty, everything is empty..." Red Dust, Ma jian.
Following Footsteps
Red Dust by Ma Jian - a Chinese painter cum photographer, is a journal of his experience traveling around china, during it's trying time under Mr Deng Xiao Ping, who was clamping down on "Spiritual Pollution". From Bei Jing, to Mongolia, to Xi'an, Shang Hai, to Tibet, Guang Zhou...
Then came Matt Gross, the Frugal Traveler of Nytimes, who followed the lead of Patrick Leigh Fermor, departing on a "frugal europe, on foot" journey, from Vienna to Budapest, a 180-mile route, tracking part of Patricks trail 70 over years ago.
While reading Ma's 3 years of exceptional experience has been keeping me off my chair, a whole world of reality has been gravitating me back on to it. difference? Matt writes about his travel experience for a living, while I sit in a office cubicle.
Who would pay me for my experience? I promise I'd tell a hell of a story (ies).
Then came Matt Gross, the Frugal Traveler of Nytimes, who followed the lead of Patrick Leigh Fermor, departing on a "frugal europe, on foot" journey, from Vienna to Budapest, a 180-mile route, tracking part of Patricks trail 70 over years ago.
While reading Ma's 3 years of exceptional experience has been keeping me off my chair, a whole world of reality has been gravitating me back on to it. difference? Matt writes about his travel experience for a living, while I sit in a office cubicle.
Who would pay me for my experience? I promise I'd tell a hell of a story (ies).
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
Thalassaemia
I recently went for a full body check up, surprised that I have high cholesterol, even more surprised to find that I have Thalassemia, a inherited autosomal recessive blood disease, from dad no doubt.
Thalassemia will not affect my life or my life span in anyway, however, if my spouse is also suffering from the same disease, my child might not live pass 10 years old. if she does not have it, my child will have a 50% chance of inheriting it, like me my dad.
it was shocking when the doc told me "your child might not live pass 10 years old", but in some ways its soothing, too, to find that I inherited something from dad, good or bad, I retained a certain part of dad, and I feel closer to him, even though he is no longer around.
Thalassemia will not affect my life or my life span in anyway, however, if my spouse is also suffering from the same disease, my child might not live pass 10 years old. if she does not have it, my child will have a 50% chance of inheriting it, like me my dad.
it was shocking when the doc told me "your child might not live pass 10 years old", but in some ways its soothing, too, to find that I inherited something from dad, good or bad, I retained a certain part of dad, and I feel closer to him, even though he is no longer around.
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