Black Or White / Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Dark days are part of our lives, but having said that so are light days. There is supposed to be an opposite for everything. For good there is bad, for up there is down, you get the idea.
But for many people there are no opposite, they selectively choose to see one side of things, for them there is no good and all bad, or there is no down only up. Their world is an all or nothing existence; full of light or full of darkness. They only move up or down, and never stop to consider the alternative.
Both cases are bad, we need change, we need flexibility, and we need the darkness and the light. We are not created to be constant; we are created to be changed. Always evolving, growing and surpassing ourselves. It' s those very contrasts of life that enables us to do so.
Here is the argument proposed by Paul Lucas, a little-known philosopher who wrote I book I picked up at Hurstville Library, "The No Road": If we only see the world as all good, why bother with change? It'll is perfect the way it is. If we see everything as down, then what’s the use of even trying to change, it will only end in a downward motion.
Of course, these would be considered extremist views, but in lieu of this he provides boundaries for us to work with and consider, lest we brand them fallacies to the argument.
It is the ebb and flow of grey that create the need to grow, the need to see things in a new light. We need balance, we need to be dark and light up and down… We need to allow ourselves the privilege of contrast. The black and white lights are what give the world its colors. If we have no black, we would have no color, no variations to what we see or experience.
So allow yourself the experience to live the black and white of life, to see the ups and downs and to know the colors of the world. If you are down, appreciate the moment, because you can now look forward for the up. If you are up, relish your situation, because you will have your down.
I wrote this post not for any real attempt to sound 'deep' or 'reflective', but I felt it would be good for me to look back and admire another lesson learnt in this ever-changing society where tiny moments of truth and education are easily lost as we mature further and further into the monotony of adulthood.
For that reason, I give you my new layout. I'm going to go find that grey in between and see if I can get both light and dark, because I"m indecisive and want everything.
Labels: blog, layout, life, thoughts
/because of my high tolerance.
2:35:00 PM
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23-30th March / Sunday, March 30, 2008
Mood: Post-euphoric
Music: 大男人·小女孩 - JJ Lin
Reason for procrastination: Don't want to mark tutor homework, so decided to blog.
Real reason for procrastination: I just finished playing Final Fantasy: Crisis Core on my PSP.
So the week of UNSW/USyd holidays have finished, have they? =/ Good. You bastards for having a mid-sem so godamn early in the year. But what really happened in this past week?
I went and watched Horton Hears A Who on Monday with Jo. It was a totally awesome movie, not because it was one of those family fun movies, but because it really allowed me to appreciate the childish silliness and magic of youthful humour. And as an inspiration, I manipulated Yi into making this current blog layout for me. So many thanks to Yi~ (Yes, can you find her signature embedded in this layout somewhere? According to her blog, there is...so tell me if you're bored because I personally cbb trying to find it.=/)
Tuesday was my Clinical at Campbelltown Hospital. Omg, too long to type. From now on, I dub thee hospital as Camspital (Cam goes to hospital, so Cam's hospital...to Camspital...easy to remember) But yeah, I need to get me some of that alcoholic gel that you use on your hands to disinfect...not because it keeps my hands squeaky clean, but because after you use it, the smell of that alcohol is just...mm.... I totally forgot it was photo day on that day, so I missed out on getting my hospital I.D. Its so funny, because every time I'm at hospital, I'm reminded of how much me and my uws buddies resemble 'Scrubs' in that we actually do nothing at hospital except talk (with patients).
Wednesday was normal day at uni. Nothing interesting so to speak of.
Thursday was my free day. So we crashed Richard Yang's place for his 'housewarming'. Man, his place is huge. Jealous jealous jealous. The day included a lot of DOTA (living up to its name: death of the asians), alot of piano playing, alot of playing with Moon, alot of Nintendo Wii, alot of mahjong and alot of park activities. As always, it feels great to see Hurstville family again~
Friday had uni then crashed hurstville library to reconnect to our roots. So to speak.
Saturday I did absolutely nothing at home. Well, I pulled out my physiology book for a bit of light reading, but then the rest of it was probably spent on my PSP and youtube. I've been watching alot of Journey to the West on youtube lately, and it feels so good to watch one of the best made TVB series ever (well, compared to the crap they make these days).
And today, nothing really...might study a bit. Might actually pull out my community assignment and actually check when its due, what I need to do, and why its worth zero percent. Oh yeah, and mark all these damn high school math excercise books. Why can't kids write neatly with all their working out shown properly?! (lol at unreasonable request)
Labels: blog, Friends, holidays, layout, medicine, uni, UWS
/because of my high tolerance.
10:41:00 AM
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To Celebrate 100th post / Saturday, August 4, 2007
The road ahead will be a struggle.
The path I see uncertain.
When I wander down an aimless path, am I running, walking..swimming?
Can I even glimpse and envision what is ahead? For surely I would trip otherwise.
'Not another journey' I hope, because that would surely be a pain.
If I was to ponder life's many more mysteries, I couldn't be more certain..
if there's a difference between the blinding light
or the enveloping darkness.
Now, don't confuse me with labels, descriptions or mere appraisal
nor dictate, command or expect
For I shall conform to none
As this is my nature
Don't ignore the youth in the back on your journey home
his is probably more worth the telling
Don't ask him though! Please don't!
He probably wouldn't tell. Now, why would he?
He's just a stranger to you, and vice-versa, you're just a stranger to him.
Hearts are not meant to be wrenched open
but coaxed, by patience not words
In every hole, there is only a few key that fits and
The key is the bond between you, and you the forger,
has to decide how to make that perfect key
that fits.
It's strange, how life passes by.
One moment you're on the train for the first time
the next,
you're on the train the last.
Six years of memories, six years of joy
Five years of friendship, five years of bonds
Four years of learning, four years of skills
Three years in reflection, three years of hope
Two years of hardship, two years of pain
One year of studying, one year of grief...
One month of anxieties, one month of solitude
Only one week until fate..
decides when you fall into the shade..
...or rise into the cloud
I hope its the latter.
Happy 100th post~
New layout - Laputa- Castle in the Sky. Ghibli Studios
Labels: blog, celebrations, HSC, layout
/because of my high tolerance.
11:58:00 AM
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Ding Dong! / Thursday, April 26, 2007
I was thiiiis close to making it a Sanrio layout...I had a couple of cool Cinnamon pics lying around and one really good Badtz Maru one, but decided nah, nothing beats Ding Dong!
Exams today!
4U maths was such a bitch. Lost about 13-18 marks already on questions I didn't do T___T
Physics was such a breeze, ridiculous questions that were designed to trick people...
But the pract was bullshit, absolutely hated it.
Can't believe theory is worth just as much as that one pract, and there's another one as well!
10% apiece!
Can't remember my english essays, so going to go all out and hedge that its going to be the radio interview..(plz plz plz...plz be the radio interview...)
And Chem is also tmr. How jolly.
-Someone kill me now.
Labels: exams, layout
/because of my high tolerance.
10:30:00 PM
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