So this is my last night in Singapore. After all the rushing about, I’ve finally forced myself to sit down, reflect, and write.
It’s been really busy, the past few months. The earlier reunions start off safe; birthdays, or just a casual meal, and everyone congratulating each other on having survived secondary school, JC, army, or [...]
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at the neck of the hourglass
Posted in life, pensees on August 16, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Armstrong’s song, Aldrin’s din
Posted in hahas, life, music, pensees, poetry on July 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
What the men on the moon might have sung, post Apollo 11:
(a.k.a. the dark side of the moon landing)
courtesy of Elton John, Harry Nilsson and (yes) Ernie! I think Ernie says it the best, and says much more, too
some people
Posted in pensees, poetry on April 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Some people talk and talk
and never say a thing;
Some people look at you
and birds start to sing.
Some people laugh and laugh,
and yet you want to cry;
Some people touch your hand
and music fills the sky.
-Charlotte Zolotow
When two people of the first kind meet, fog meets frost, and they dully pass their dreary existence on this bleak [...]
martha
Posted in Logos, pensees, poetry on March 17, 2009 | 1 Comment »
We all know the story told in the Gospel of Luke about Jesus’ visit to the Mary and Martha:
As Jesus and his disciples were on their way, he came to a village where a woman named Martha opened her home to him.
She had a sister called Mary, who sat at the Lord’s feet listening to [...]
PW pwnd
Posted in education, pensees on March 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Not really.
But students, teachers, or corporate staff, imagine how much nicer your project, presentation, report or personal notes would look like if it included a couple of the charts from the Periodic Table of Visualization Methods.
(ironically, I can’t find “Periodic Table” as one of the methods…”Table” doesn’t count…)
wikipedia suggestion
Posted in books, pensees on March 2, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Just a thought:
It’d be useful if Wikipedia could include in each of it’s articles the Library of Congress Classification (and/or other library classification systems) number of the topic in question.
For that matter, the classification tree of the topic in question would also be useful. Seems like this is done for some articles (or rather, some [...]
om.com
Posted in hahas, pensees on December 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
that’s what i’d name my meditation site, if i had one…
(the online version of winnie-the-pooh’s Thougthful Spot)
what do you do…
Posted in hahas, pensees on December 23, 2008 | 1 Comment »
when you NEED to sneeze while the dentist is drilling your teeth?
I dunno, but here’re some options:
1) Don’t worry. It’ll never happen. Hopefully.
2) Be really good at charades so you can signal your urge to the dentist.
3) (…and hopefully the dentist will react in time…)
4) Don’t worry: the dentist will forgive your strained attempts at [...]
love that cleanses dross
Posted in Logos, pensees, poetry on December 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I cannot think that God would be content
To view unmoved the toiling and the strain,
The groaning of the ages, sick and spent,
The whole creation travailing in pain.
The suffering God is no vast cosmic force,
That by some blind, unthinking, loveless power
Keeps stars and atoms swinging in their course,
And reckons naught of men in this grim hour.
Nor [...]
tear
Posted in life, pensees, poetry on December 5, 2008 | 8 Comments »
When we cry
It’s a sign, that it’s not all okay,
And though I may smile,
Deep down inside,
It’s not bright and gay.
.
As each petal is weighed down
By morning dew,
These tears,
They weigh down my heart
And bend it towards you.
.
We say goodbye
To the morning,
Farewell to our youth,
Time passes, things change,
There’s no use mourning.
.
But what I know
I do not do,
And [...]
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