where thoughts materialise.

So we're into the sixth version of my blog after the last version hung around for a year or so.

Now, a bit of info on this image. This photo was taken one lovely spring afternoon, featuring the iconic Old Well from the UNC Chapel Hill campus. I would like to think of this image as a tribute to my time in UNC Chapel Hill, the awesome friends I made and the memories I now hold dear.

A milestone in my life indeed.

I've dropped the tagboard cos its useless and taking eons to load. But thanks to Angela who helped me set it up, I still do like and will miss the pink interface.

So yeah, it's the sixth one you fellas!

Yours.

27 April 2008

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Saturday, April 09, 2005

Our past creates our future.

Why is it so hard to live in the moment? Carpe diem - we are advised, yet as much as we try to keep it from happening, thoughts of the past and future keep popping into our present. And even if we are successful in temporarily clearing our mind of such thoughts, trying to capture a sense of the present is as difficult as trying to capture the wind.

Time. It's like how movies are created. Still images on celluloid are passed before our eyes so quickly that our brains interprets these images as moving, and not as the multitude of consecutive still images that they are really are. I guess it is also how we perceive time - moments tied together seamlessly so that we perceive them not as separate entities, but as one continuous stream.

Just as we are incapable of hearing as disjointed separate entities notes that we are tied together to form a tune, so we are incapable of separating time into distinct moments. In fact, in my opinion, there is no way that we can carpe diem because "Time is the medium of narration as it is the medium of life." In other words, our lives are a continuing story in which each of us has a starring role.

"The past is never dead. It's not even past."
Memory of course, is what makes the past real for us.

Something lives on in our memory, and it is inevitably going to colour and influence the way we look at things that occur in the present. Therefore, past and present are not mutually exclusive, for they commingles in the unity of our consciousness.

Our past, present and future form a totality that is our life. And acknowledging our past is an important process, for it allows us to become more fully human.

"For a conscious being, to exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating one's self endlessly."

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I can't write at 3am in the morning, this is far too much an ambitious attempt. Disorganised.

nimgnoy let the night fall at 3:08 AM

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