Make an Excellent Mistake!

事不宜遲

今早看了友人的一封電郵﹐非常同意她對家人的感情聯繫方式。
對﹗ 有些事情﹐真的要當下去做﹐ 小時候老師都有教導我們背
“日日待明日﹐明日何其多﹔事事待明日﹔ 萬事成蹉跎。”
曾經聽人說﹐ 其實人生最大的“恐懼”﹐ 既是等到有一天﹐ 你回頭望﹐ 你心中仍有許多的後悔及愧疚﹐ 再者那已是徒勞無功的嘆息而已﹗
如你不知道“從何著手”時﹐ 別擔心﹐ 因

Begin anywhere

John Cage (musician) tells us that not knowing where to begin is a common form of paralysis. His advice: begin anywhere.

朋友﹗ 祝妳明天“開工大吉”﹗﹗

Quote of a day:

Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive, easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.

by Lord Broughham

Can’t stop to listening to the debut album by one of my favourite band recently,
The Thrills,

http://www.thethrills.com/
click to the website, and enjoy the Big Sur…

So much for the city
Tell me that you’ll dance to the end
Just tell me that you’ll dance to the end

Hey, hey you’re the monkees
People said you monkeyed around
But nobody’s listening now

Just don’t go back to Big Sur
Hangin’ around, lettin’ your old man down
Just don’t go back to Big Sur
Baby baby please don’t go

So much for the street lights

Do u know which type of personality you are?

If no, try this,
If yes, try again!

http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/

For me, I am the the below:

4 THE INDIVIDUALIST
Enneagram Type Four

The Sensitive, Withdrawn Type:
Expressive, Dramatic, Self-Absorbed, and Temperamental

Basic Fear: That they have no identity or personal significance
Basic Desire: To find themselves and their significance (to create an identity)
Enneagram Four with a Three-Wing: “The Aristocrat”
Enneagram Four with a Five-Wing: “The Bohemian”

Profile Summary for the Enneagram Type Four

Healthy: Self-aware, introspective, on the “search for self,” aware of feelings and inner impulses. Sensitive and intuitive both to self and others: gentle, tactful, compassionate. Highly personal, individualistic, “true to self.” Self-revealing, emotionally honest, humane. Ironic view of self and life: can be serious and funny, vulnerable and emotionally strong. At Their Best: Profoundly creative, expressing the personal and the universal, possibly in a work of art. Inspired, self-renewing and regenerating: able to transform all their experiences into something valuable: self-creative.

Average: Take an artistic, romantic orientation to life, creating a beautiful, aesthetic environment to cultivate and prolong personal feelings. Heighten reality through fantasy, passionate feelings, and the imagination. / To stay in touch with feelings, they interiorize everything, taking everything personally, but become self-absorbed and introverted, moody and hypersensitive, shy and self-conscious, unable to be spontaneous or to “get out of themselves.” Stay withdrawn to protect their self-image and to buy time to sort out feelings. / Gradually think that they are different from others, and feel that they are exempt from living as everyone else does. They become melancholy dreamers, disdainful, decadent, and sensual, living in a fantasy world. Self-pity and envy of others leads to self-indulgence, and to becoming increasingly impractical, unproductive, effete, and precious.

Unhealthy: When dreams fail, become self-inhibiting and angry at self, depressed and alienated from self and others, blocked and emotionally paralyzed. Ashamed of self, fatigued and unable to function. / Tormented by delusional self-contempt, self-reproaches, self-hatred, and morbid thoughts: everything is a source of torment. Blaming others, they drive away anyone who tries to help them. / Despairing, feel hopeless and become self-destructive, possibly abusing alcohol or drugs to escape. In the extreme: emotional breakdown or suicide is likely. Generally corresponds to the Avoidant, Depressive, and Narcissistic personality disorders.

Key Motivations: Want to express themselves and their individuality, to create and surround themselves with beauty, to maintain certain moods and feelings, to withdraw to protect their self-image, to take care of emotional needs before attending to anything else, to attract a “rescuer”.

Examples: Ingmar Bergman, Alan Watts, Sarah McLachlan, Alanis Morrisette, Paul Simon, Jeremy Irons, Patrick Stewart, Joseph Fiennes, Martha Graham, Bob Dylan, Miles Davis, Johnny Depp, Anne Rice, Rudolph Nureyev, J.D. Salinger, Anaîs Nin, Marcel Proust, Maria Callas, Tennessee Williams, Edgar Allan Poe, Annie Lennox, Prince, Michael Jackson, Virginia Woolf, Judy Garland, “Blanche DuBois” (Streetcar Named Desire).

手機情

“與其發手機短訊，倒不如看著太太美麗的照片，通過電話多跟她交談。”

──首相馬哈迪不認同“手機短訊休妻”的做法，他認為科技應善用來促進感情交流。

看了首相的一則話﹐感觸良多﹐ 現代人實在濫用科技﹐ 最近除了看一些教科書之外﹐ 也不停地“拜讀” 陶傑先生的作品﹐ 得益不淺。
曉君與曉羚﹐ 你們知道陶傑的書在吉隆坡那裡有代售嗎﹖

引用其中幾句﹕

難得幾回黑暗

“紐約曾經大停電﹐ 有人在黑暗中四出槍掠﹐ 然而在大停電後的十個月﹐ 紐約的出生率急升﹐ 因為許多夫婦和情侶﹐ 在停電的那夜﹐在黑暗中反而重新發現了原始的激情和溫馨。”
“當我們習慣了電燈公司提供的浮華﹐當電力是那麼廉價﹐一切都那麼理所當然﹐我們以為人生永遠是亮晶晶﹐ 以為快樂的定義就是光明。 難得一夜的大停電﹐ 就像兒童的音樂椅游戲戛然中止的琴聲﹐ 當一百萬年前的鴻濛的黑暗意想不到地重新降臨﹐不該不安而驚恐﹐ 這是沉思的一刻。”

願與住在吉隆坡這片經常停電國土的朋友共勉之。。。

Life happens when you are busying with other things, I have been in UK for about 10 months, one year course will be ended in nearly 2 months time.
What in my mind is, no matter where you live, you want to get out. I don’t think it was KL that I was desperate to escape from. It’s just a natural feeling everyone has when they grow up. You just want to see what else is out there.
Maybe in a total strange environment, we can reproduce ourself easily

Today, I came across this book in library, Life Style” by Bruce Mau, take of your time to go through it.

An Imcomplete Manifesto for Growth

1. Allow events to change you
You have to be willing to grow. Growth is different from something that happens to you. You produce it. You live it. The prerequisites for growth: the openess to experience events and the willingness to be changed by them.

2. Forget about good.
Good is known quantity. Good is what we all agree on. Growth is not necessarily good. Growth is an exploration of unlit recesses that may or may not yield to our research. As long as you stick to good you’ll never have real growth.

3. Process is more important than outcome.
When the outcome drives the process we will only ever go to where we’ve already been. If process drives outcome we may not know where we’re going, buy we will know we want to be there.

4. Love your experiments (as you would an ugly child).
Joy is the engine of growth. Exploit the liberty in casting your work as beautiful experiments, iterations, attempts, trials, and errors. Take the long view and allow yourself the fun of failure every day.

5. Go deep.
The deeper you go the more likely you wil discover something of value.

6.Capture accidents
The wrong answer is the right answer in search of a different question. Collect wrong answers as part of the process. Ask different questions.

7. Study.
A studio is a place of study. Use the necessity of production as an excuse to study. Everyone will benefit.

8. Drift.
Allow yourself wander aimlessly. Explore adjacencies. Lack judgement. Postpone criticism.

9. Begin anywhere
John Cage tells us that not knowing where to begin is a common form of paralysis. His advice: begin anywhere.

10. Everyone is a leader
Growth happens. Whenever it does, allow it to emerge. Learn to follow when it makes sense. Let anyone lead.

REMEMBER! Never go to Europe when it is in Summer time….

Just back from Paris for a 13 days holiday, Paris is like a big hot steamer!!
ho…..sweating, sweating and sweating, no wind….
for me, Paris is a romantic city when it is during winter period.

Time seems to be flying by without leaving any trace, but sure there must be some experience we can gain from it, no matter there is sweet or bitter memories.
2 more months to hand-in our final dissertation, my hostel, Singer Hall looks like a very lonely buidling nowadays because all of the BA students have moved out, and my block some of the flatmate have moved out to block 4, so there is only 3 of us living in block one now. As Laura said, we have a bigger kitchen to use.

I will be fly to Paris by Wednesday morning, I eagerly hope my mum will come to visit me this time, since we have free apartment to live in, then my sister can get some very economical price of air-ticket for her, but I really need some money to settled down after I moved out from University’s accommodation.

try this pix,
http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/ap11ann/kippsphotos/6550.jpg

This pix reminds me one of the sentence in Alan Fletcher’s book, The Art of Looking Sideways,

When Russian astronaut Yuri Gagarin orbited the earth on 12 April 1961, he became the first human to physically see planet earth. The object illustrated opposite, the size of a not-so-old English penny, is where we’re at.
On this tiny disc, or on the reserve side, is where you were born, grew up, fell in love, breathe, eat, see sunsets, play, work, dream and die. Indeed it’s where you are now while looking at this page. I wouldn’t be surprised if we are really no more than a twinkle in God’s eye.

Currently been listening to some of the British album, Radiohead (Oxford), The Coral (Liverpool), and The Thrills (Dublin).
Radiohead latest album, “Hail to the Thief” is brilliant! as said by Johnny Greenwood, is the dark version of “The Bends”, the album is so rich, I have been listening to it all of my wonderful morning, is like drinking some rich mocha……

try this out,

Yeepee!! I am feeling so relaxing this dew days because my course is nearly finished, and actually I am susposed to be busying with my final dissertation, nevermind, need to get mentally prepared for my 13 days Paris tours.