IF

If i ever bet on humanity,
I will never cash a ticket.

present of a secret

"Goodbye," said the fox. "And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye."

"What is essential is invisible to the eye," the little prince repeated, so that he would be sure to remember.

"It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important."

"It is the time I have wasted for my rose--" said the little prince, so that he would be sure to remember.

"Men have forgotten this truth," said the fox. "But you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed. You are responsible for your rose..."

"I am responsible for my rose," the little prince repeated, so that he would be sure to remember.

震撼

so you wanted to be a writer?

if it doesn't come bursting out of you
in spite of everything,
don't do it.
unless it comes unasked out of your
heart and your mind and your mouth
and your gut,
don’t do it.
if you have to sit for hours staring at your computer screen
or hunched over your
typewriter
searching for words,
don’t do it.
if you’re doing if for money or
fame,
don’t do it.
if you’re doing it because you want
women in your bed,
don’t do it.
if you have to sit there and rewrite it again and again,
don’t do it.
if it’s hard work just thinking about doing it,
don’t do it.
if you’re trying to write like somebody
else,
forget about it.

if you have to wait for it to roar out of
you,
then wait patiently.
if it never does roar out of you,
do something else.

if you first have to read it to your wife
or your girlfriend or your boyfriend
or your parents or to anybody at all,
you’re not ready.

don’t be like so many writers,
don’t be like so many thousands of
people who call themselves writers,
don’t be dull and boring and
pretentious, don’t be consumed with self-
love.
the libraries of the world have
yawned themselves to
sleep
over your kind.
don’t add to that.
don’t do it.
unless it comes out of
your soul like a rocket,
unless being still would
drive you to madness or
suicide or murder,
don’t do it.
unless the sun inside you is
burning your gut,
don’t do it.

when it is truly time,
and if you have been chosen,
it will do it by
itself and it will keep on doing it
until you die or it dies in
you.

there’s no other way.

and there never was.

Sifting Throught the Madness For The Word, The Line, The Way

Simply Awesome!!!

Introduction of The Crisis Of Credit Visualized
The goal of giving form to a complex situation like the credit crisis is to quickly supply the essence of the situation to those unfamiliar and uninitiated. This project was completed as part of my thesis work in the Media Design Program, a graduate studio at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California.




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A MUST WATCH FOR IGNORANTS LIKE MYSELF!! Impressive visual communication work as well.

On a side note, this is a THESIS WORK for post-graduated media design program. Excuse me for saying this, even Savannah is launching in HK, it'd take a decade for local graduates produce works on this level.

Sigh...

Quote from Andy Lau

凡 事 由 其 自 然
遇 了 處 之 泰 然
得 意 之 時 淡 然
失 意 之 時 坦 然
艱 辛 曲 折 必 然
歷 盡 滄 桑 悟 然

Notes On I Ching

原則: 三易
變易 -> Constant Variables
簡易 -> Inexperience / Lack of wisdom to explain ->萬事有因
不易 -> Constant (Universe / God /Being)

法則: 理數象
理 -> 理由
數 -> 統計
象 -> 現象

天尊地卑，乾坤定矣．
卑高以陳，貴賤位矣．

天為遠，地為近．尊指偉大，卑指平常．尊Vs卑: 卑is a relative adjective when 尊's definition is set under a context. Doesn't mean 卑 in the general sense.

乾坤 = 相對兩極．高＝尊

Everything we face took place within the space between limits. Yet limits are always pre-defined. It was set to be Sky & Ground only bcos way back they defined it according to what they see. And now, we could have push the limit all the way as far as galaxy & as deep as the inner core if we want to.

It was their belief we human are always, always on the ground. That’s why we are and should be 卑 in that sense (being on one side of an end point). But if I were to apply Galaxy Vs Inner Core as the limit, then we will all be standing just in the “middle” (supposedly)!! Isn’t that a more valid position for us to further define尊/卑 or貴/賤? And wouldn’t it be much easier to understand the concept of “relative” and apply the last line of貴賤位矣?

But then again, that's the limit we set based on our "understanding" of the “end point”, which does not essentially represent the "truth".

However it’s important to have limits on both ends, without finding them out, it’s hard for us to know where we stand and thus losing our balance.

If we were to apply 三易 to explain these lines, shd Sky & Ground (Defined Limits)= 不易，We (Human) = 變易 and the happenings = 簡易?

It's Paulo Time

"…in all the woods and forests, God did not create a single leaf the same as any other… People go against nature because they lack the courage to be different."

"You're someone who's different, but who wants to be the same as everyone else. And that, in my view, is a serious illness."

"Live. If you live, God will live with you. If you refuse to run his risks, he'll retreat to that distant heaven and be merely a subject for philosophical speculation. Everyone knows this, but no one takes the first step, perhaps for fear of being called insane."

"If only everyone could know and live with their inner craziness...people would be fairer and happier."

"The danger of an adventure is worth a thousand days of ease and comfort."

Veronica Decided To Die

Paulo Coelho