January 2010
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Truth is invisible
I have come to realise that happiness is different from joy. Happiness is a feeling whereas joy is a state of being. Where one flitters in and out of our lives spontaneously, the other is lasting - it brightens and dimmers to the rhythm of our lives, but it never flickers out.
Most of us don’t realise that happiness is often an ersatz substitute for joy. This is why we involve ourselves in...
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Every minute spent in anger is 60 seconds wasted
It is when you find the right words that the disquieting roar of life gradually quietens to become acceptable silence. The past week has been troubling, to say the least. I really dislike becoming involved in such matters. My philosophy of life has always been simple: do beyond the best that you can and enjoy the process. Nothing complicated. But it seems like the gravity of politics does not...
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“It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it.”
– Lou Holtz
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Veritas Liberat
I have been playing quite a bit of DotA these days. About a game a day, I think. I guess it’s because the game is such a great escapist mechanism. It draws you into its well-constructed fantasy gamescape where conventions and laws of reality do not apply and where new paradigms are set and followed.
For an hour or so, you immerse yourself into this virtual reality where the only rule is an...
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“Love is passion, obsession, someone you can’t live without. If you don’t start...”
– Meet Joe Black
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“I may still not know what I want to be when I grow up, but I do know that...”
– Amber Morely (YES. These are the words I have been looking for to describe my dream!)
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15 Interesting Facts about Dreams
1. You forget 90% of your dreams. Within 5 minutes of waking, half of your dream is forgotten. Within 10, 90% is gone.
2. Blind people also dream. People who became blind after birth can see images in their dreams. People who are born blind do not see any images, but have dreams equally vivid involving their other senses of sound, smell, touch and emotion.
3. Everybody dreams. Every human...
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“When someone loves you, the way they say your name is different. You just know...”
– Billy, age 4, on love. (via thelovelybones) (via poeticheartache)
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Romance is the greatest religion
I have quite a bit to say but… I DON’T KNOW HOW TO. I think that’s the main difference between happy, reflective thoughts and sad, reflective thoughts - melancholy must have a common wavelength of sorts, because those similar thoughts resonate and become amplified!
I guess sad thoughts are just easier to pen down because when your mind becomes bracketed by those dark clouds of...
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of peanut wars and udder delight
No photos, but lots of memories… and heartfelt moments (:
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My principal is simple: do unto others as you would have others do unto you.
So yes, I guess I have to do it. But I just wish others will take up the initiative and do it instead.
Obligations will eventually undo this tapestry we’ve woven together so far.
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Resolutions
We like coming up with resolutions at the start of the year despite knowing that we will never ever keep to them. I guess the one of the main problems lies in having too many resolutions. So how about having one major resolution and many other mini ones?
Don’t aim to realise the resolution. Instead, use it to guide your life forward. Personally, I find that more useful because half the time...
It’s sad that we stopped talking because we forgot how to.
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2009 - Year of Change
So… 2009, what can I say? It was good and it was bad. It was a period of countless contradictions and game-changing experiences. It was something different. Looking back, 2009 felt uncomfortably long - longer than 2008, or 2007, or any other year before. In the past, when we still had school, the year would be characterised by distinct events that were nicely distributed across twelve...
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“I’m at the point in my life where things are neither good nor bad. They could be...”
– Anonymous