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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Tuesday, March 21, 2006

I have been paying my dues to the Department of Sleep lately. Giving back to them every single minute of slumber I owe. All forty winks.

And on hindsight, I was faced with an impossible last week. It probably takes thirty hours a day to accomplish what I managed with ease for one week straight. But I did it in twenty-four. Pat on the back please.

But by Friday, the week was winding down, and coming to a rest. Like how sand ultimately settles at the bottom of the sea no matter what, irregardless of how badly stirred by currents.

The idea of the weekend has a blanketing effect. Its the smothering of the heat accumulated during the week, dousing and washing out the dusty grime. Jason Mraz's Live cd did wonders, I bought that over the weekend and it had been on repeat mode till today. My iPod had better memorised every beat and refrain by now. The music's so liberating I wished the earphones were fused into my ears. And in a feat never achieved, I did not listen to a single Mariah song this weekend. Sorry, Mimi.

I was dancing to Mraz while walking back on the corridors of my block. And frankly speaking, I did not give a hoot of anyone noticing me, if they even cared to. Music sets me free and I shall pay homage to it in whatever way I may like to. People plugged with earphones and hence music in their ears are, as I have noticed, happier and more confident than the average joe lugging his body in the streets. And to be living in that individual playlist full of music and imagination, disregarding the humdrums of the world is very much bliss to the near max.

Here's a sample. Common Pleasure - Jason Mraz Live (Link works for 7 days from today) Go listen to Mraz. And yes, feel free to dance in front of your lappie or desktop. Set yourself free.

Second reason for my feel good weekend,

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V for Vendetta.

Ain't it amazing how some ideals like freedom triumphs over the larger context of our physical being. How bold and transcendal this virtue of liberation is. People die for freedom, people die for what they believe in. The living on of their vision of a better world take precedence over the continuation of their existence - how noble, how tragic.

The greatest tragedy of all happens when we are impaired from doing what we really want to, when we pursue second-order desires instead of first-order ones and worst of all, are blinded of our first-order wants. The greatest tragedy is when we can't dream, and the only place where dreams can live is in our sleep. Living a dream is not a paradox, but a paradise.

So remember remember, the fifth of november. Gunpowder, treason and plot; I know no reason why gunpowder treason, should ever be forgot. For dreams and ideals live on. Beyond our bodies, beyond time.

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nimgnoy let the night fall at 10:25 PM

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