Originally posted as a comment in Ahmed’s LJ post about his interesting viewpoint about gasp death :p.

Anyway, you can read his post here:

http://www.livejournal.com/users/Ahmed/395429.html

[Note: I only edited it slightly ;)]

As said, probably death is only the end in the perception of our own dimension of physical reality… Come to think of it… What is actually lost in the event of one’s death? Come to think about it, it’s really a very interesting thought…

From my current line of thoughts, death can probably be viewed not as a lost of something physical in existence, but a lost of an illusionary dream/mind. OK, probably that’s too abstract, putting it in an example: when someone/thing dies, the impact that it’ll cause will …

Sometimes I just need a reminder that if I’m taking an emotional break, that is equivalent to enjoying some peace and quiet that has been given to me.

Just that… There are some feelings that I still keep to myself, restraining it… The very same feeling that I had the in the past but to a much lesser degree (Probably it’s a “Deja vu” to some) It’s not that it’s bothering or depresses me or anything, just that I still feel a bit uneasy… It’s like, I still hold the strong belief of making sure one’s feelings and accessing the situation before committing myself to it, just that from time to time I feel as if I have been challenged again and again… Sometimes I feel as if I …

From time-to-time,
I couldn’t stop looking back
from where I have been

With awe,
I see the path
on which I have travelled

Looking forward,
I see the path ahead
With awe,
I see vastness

And then,
With hesitation,
My body goes a-trembling…

…

That pretty much how I feel now… I can’t really finish or polish it just yet as I really have no idea what is going to be ahead on me. (and it’s been a while since I last write poems and stuff, meh…)

Guess I might as well resume with my own plans and work.

Originally posted as a comment in my friend’s blog, but I just think that I want to keep a copy here:

A lot of times, it really depends on how you look at things: What are you thinking when you are climbing a mountain? Is it to conquer the mountain? Is it to prove the strength of oneself? Or is it just to explore and enjoy the journey?

Life is always a continuous journey of different destinations at different times. And what guides you through is your own decisions that you make in due course of time.

Just enjoy the journey! Enjoy the present moment and don’t look back with regrets. Then it’s possible to feel youthful again even after the journey back from the mountain tops :).

Sometimes whether I write these …

It’s been a while I haven’t been having deep conversations with friends: in several occasions in the past two days, I find myself discussing about matters of success, relationships and life with several different friends. And just some time after these very conversations that I noticed that I still have a really long journey to go: A lot of dreams that I wanted to attain, a lot of current responsibilities that I need to fulfil, a lot of crossroads and challenges that I would need to face. At times like this, I’m still feeling the very same feeling of uneasiness: Of those of the fears getting out of one’s security zone, and of the excitement of the possibilities what change can bring.

Moving on towards one’s life and never look …

A lot of things happen around me when I’m unaware. I doesn’t involve me but then seeing the things revolving around the closest people concerns me.

A time when you’ll get to see that your surrounding good or bad, bubbles up and burst in front of your eyes. Uncertainty and constant change happens every single day. A dream attained can get burst like a bubble, and yet the agony of emotional torture can also be blown away by a calming breeze.

From time to time, I seem to fidget with unease… is it fear? Anxiety? Excitement? Bliss?

Closing my eyes, everything comes and goes. Reflecting back on myself, all clinging seems to me like a fear in disguise. How much certain I am that I’ll still have the things I have …

When I started to get interested with learning languages, my first thought was that “After learning the language, I’m going to be able to understand all the movies, musics, comics and everything else” (i.e. entertainment).

However, having my aunt’s Japanese friend staying over here, I only realised that learning a language isn’t a very glamorous ideal, in fact the point of learning and appreciating a language is, in contary, a very simple and plain affair: it’s all about being able to communicate of a different culture in their everyday life. It’s like… learning how to communicate in order to survive in a new culture, provide a means to understand each other, as well as enhancing your own living in that environment. All these little pleasures come by all the …

Originally posted as a comment, but I believe it’s worth mentioning here:

I’m not entirely sure whether I interpreted “overcritical” correctly (but assuming that comes from your more direct style of communication you had with people either when people pour their problems out to you, or that you can’t agree on one’s action/decision about something)

If I’m correct at my definition, I personally perceive that it’s not much of a big problem actually, as you said that it’s only miscommunication that causes it. It will happen in one way or the other.

Coming back, basically being direct in your communication doesn’t make you a less nuturing or perfect friend. Well… or probably “being direct” doesn’t make your friends misunderstood you, but I guess you get …

Originally posted as my reply to a post, but I would love to share this with everybody:

[:: quote from a friend ::]

今天我可能错过了一生中一次重要的机会。
 回头想想，我曾经错过很多次机会，并不是我不在意，而是没有把握好，没有珍惜，或者说是没有来得及把握，它已经从身边悄悄溜

这令我又想起了那句经典的台词：
 曾经有一次重要的机会放在我的面前，我没有珍惜，等我失去的时候我才后悔莫及，人世间最痛苦的事莫过于此。如果上天能够给我一个再来一次的机会，我会对那次机会说：我要。如果非要在这次机会上加上一个期限，我希望是…再多一天！

同样的机会不会出现第二次，我应该怎样才能把握好下一次，才不会让它在身边悄悄走过呢

Translation:

Today I might have missed one of the most important chance in life. Looking back, I had missed a lot of chances in the past, but it’s not that I didn’t mind at all, but it’s that I never grasp these chances well, never treasured them; or should I say that by the time I wanted to grab it, the chance has already slipped away.

This reminds me of these classic words again: There was a time that an important chance is being placed in front of me …

I just watched Bicentennial Man just now and I just can’t stop feeling touched from end to end.

Anyway, just to spare you the story synopsis (I believe it’s not hard to find that DVD, rent or buy), I just go straight to the questions and thoughts that I would love to share. Honestly I won’t say much here, I believe reading between the lines of the dialogue and just watching the movie itself would give enough room to come out with a lot of thoughts and interpretation.

The first thing that came to mind is… what is it really like to be human? What is actually the good thing about being human in the first place? What is actually the purpose of being in existence…? … there’s just a lot of …