Make It Personal [The Memorial Tower]

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Tower to commemorate those who died in World War II
[Singapore]


[The Memorial; English]


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[Make it Personal]

Make It Personal [4NTM]

This is the locate where we pledge for 4NTM

But Now...


[Our Glorious Dead]

It's the place where I experience all my fun.



Make It Personal is a project I give myself for 2009 Holiday Season



I still remember the day we pledge for to protect our country.
It was 4am in the morning where the whole Battalion was there.
[46SAR]
It was raining but we're showered by with blessing.


[Name of The Warriors]
[They Died; Might We Live]

The Dash

The Dash Poem
by Linda Ellis

I read of a man who stood to speak
At the funeral of a friend.
He referred to the dates on her tombstone
From the beginning to the end.

He noted that first came the date of her birth
And spoke of the following date with tears,
But he said what mattered most of all
Was the dash between those years.

For that dash represents all the time
That she spent alive on earth
And now only those who loved her
Know what that little line is worth.

For it matters not, how much we own,
The cars, the house, the cash,
What matters is how we live and love
And how we spend our dash.

So think about this long and hard;
Are there things you'd like to change?
For you never know how much time is left
That can still be rearranged.

If we could just slow down enough
To consider what's true and real
And always try to understand
The way other people feel.

And be less quick to anger
And show appreciation more
And love the people in our lives
Like we've never loved before.

If we treat each other with respect
And more often wear a smile,
Remembering that this special dash
Might only last a little while.

So when your eulogy is being read
With your life's actions to rehash
Would you be proud of the things they say
About how you spent your dash?

New History

“New History”

is named after a song by Andy Davis

[a sly and soulful singer/songwriter]

whose protagonist has barely survived a bad breakup

and now finds himself unsure whether or not he should embark on a new romance.

He doesn’t know if he’s ready to trust his feelings

and created what he calls “new history.”

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I love the idea of “new history”

It perfectly captures the relationship so many of us have with the past.

No matter how hard we try to let go of it.

All we’re really doing is creating new history,

trying to learn from past mistakes,

but inevitably making new ones that will haunt us in the future.

–– learn from mistakes; obtaining good and move forward ––

The past, it would seem, is inescapable.

Everything we are today is the product of who we were yesterday, last month, last year:

The choices we made

The red lights we ran

The things said and maybe shouldn’t have

The people we loved, we didn’t.

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How to make peace with the past?

This has become a concern to me.

Picture of Andy Davis

Credit

http://mog.com/images/users/0000/0004/6532/images/1202244371.jpeg

Yogyakarta

The people of Yogyakarta can see things from a different perspective.
They’re critical. They’re able to critic themselves, able to self-critic.

There’s this very popular Javanese philosophy that called the “Bejok” philosophy.
If a person got hit on the right eye, he would say that he’s lucky that his left eye was unhurt.
That meant that he could still see.

If you slipped while walking, they would say it’s lucky that it’s only your leg that got hurt,
and not your head.
Or worse, you could be dead.

Yogyakartans can laugh at themselves.
And this ability to overcome their inhibitions makes them more creative.

I understand I need every bit of this resilient optimism.

Hollowed Out Tribe

An author once said: Time was useful, time is not being used.
Leisure time on the imagination room in the gap,
If a room fulls of things the lack of space, we will feel uncomfortable; when we have room
Very spacious, the air out of the room where we feel very comfortable.
Similarly,
the reason, with leisure, we can feel that life.

In many developing countries, a group of ethnic appears, known as a “hollow ethnic” group.
With the continuous development of economic and social life speeds up, more and more White-collar workers will be wisdom, passion and creativity, and other consumption-the-job field, because the pace of life has not been able to "charge" that they have been gradually reduced to
" Hollow" ethnic.
They are in the fast-paced social life of the spirit Victims.
Therefore, how to balance work and life, set up between them the relationship is the key.

I understand that life is a spacious living, including your study, work, there is simple daily life.
It was narrowly life.
I understand that the in addition to the life of this narrow sense there's a broader life,
including three inside.
To a wonderful life, in addition to your work, study, there is still a narrow sense of life
this work is to cross wide of life and life more interesting.
If you do not work, do not study, just a simple life and no fun.
If you just work, study and life is meaningless.
Life should be a cross-together.
There is work, study, rest.
Will usually have time to accompany their parents, with friends, this life would be very rich,
will not be monotonous.

I am often in the leisure, drink tea, and take a look at people.
While tasting the tea, observing human, I taste the taste of life and cultural taste, a taste of leisure, at the same time a taste of family love, friendship and love. . .

See the value to Unfamiliarity and beauty in discomfiture

Can we get to the truth without any beauty?
If we try to arrive at the truth using beauty, we’ll get stuck at the level of appearances.
As a result, we have to get to the truth directly.
It would all look a bit raw.
But I still think that real beauty lies in the truth.
It may be ugly and gross.
It’s just too bad if you can’t stand it.

生死的修行法

我自己有一个很简单的，关于生死的修行方法：

每天睡觉时就想，今天睡着了，明天不会再起来了。
这样想就可以睡得很好，
因为想到明天没有什么事干扰我，
就会放下今天的一切忧伤，
甚至放下以前的一切忧伤，
就不会对这个世界有所计较，
也就不会想到有人欠我一万元，
打车去向他要一万元，
要一万元回来做什么？

明天就要死了，
躺下来安心地休息吧！
明天可能就死了，
我们的死就好像睡眠一样。

有人想：“明天就会死，这样太消极了！”
不会消极，明天醒来，张开眼睛赶快爬起来，
因为还没有死，还有一天可活。
如果我们珍惜每一天，知道生命是无常的，
就不会顶撞父母，把爱放在一天里，就不会和亲人争吵，
会珍惜和孩子、同事在一起的。

若讨厌的同事坐在你旁边，
想到明天可能会离开这个世界，
就不会那么讨厌他。

若想到还有很长的时间要和他做同事，才会讨厌。

如果每天都做一个生死的观想，
就没有什么可以讨厌的了，
这样就可以每天都好好的睡着，
第二天又可以充满精神醒过来。

純心

天真可以是年輕無知,
但成人能修練得一份純真的心,
卻是不易為的.

份純真的心,就是沒有自己的私心.
看世界就是世界,不是我的世界;
看事看物都由這些事物原本的角度看,
沒加上自己的判斷.

判斷是"我"經驗及學習的結果,
放棄判斷, 即是放棄"我",
觀人如是, 觀物如是(as such),
一切由它而不是由我.

能如此(如是)看世界及人, 物, 事;
可能就是一份純真的心吧.

是福不是祸，是祸躲不过

以前誤解'是福不是祸，是祸躲不过'這句話,
認為意思是一切順其自然.
當我深入了解後才明白裡頭的道理.

遇順境,處之淡然
是非天天都有,不聽自然無

人為善,福雖為至,禍以遠離
人為惡,禍雖為至,福已遠離

事物發展的必然性

也就是說,
你認為事情是好,
結果一定是好.

物质世界里有唯物唯心的说法,
但是在自己的精神世界里,
没有这样的强制性规定,
人,就是生活在自己的信念里的.
世上的任何一句话,只要你认为是正确的,
他就是正确的.

塞翁失马的故事听过吗?
他的儿子摔断了腿,
他认为是福,结果它就是福.

不管事情是福是禍,
自信的告訴自己是福...

這樣就比較好過,
不要鑽牛角尖.
事情發生了,
就選擇往好的方面去想.

自己的命运是在自己的手上的,
选择什么样的人生都在于你自己,
永远不要信命.

快餐文化

如今，“快餐文化”已风行世界。
这说明人类对自己越来越不耐烦，越来越希望追求简单。
与此同时也越来越追求生活的品质，并表现得寻幽探微，不厌其烦。
这两种相反的行为到底说明了什么？
说明了人类的存在是绝对简单不了的现实，只能越来越复杂，越来越难办。
表现在“快餐文化”上，就有个速度与质量的问题。
虽“快”，但品质要优，配餐还要符合营养标准。
或者说在时间含意上简单，在内质含意上不简单。
平心而论，今天世界的快餐文化，并不令人满意。
以庸俗冒充通俗，绝非快餐文化的真正标准。
“通俗”二字非同小可，有其无极无底的深层含意。
只有真正高质量的“快餐文化”，才能解决人类精神所需的营养问题。

人生多彩。
思想愈绵密，愈不易统一；
愈开会，矛盾愈多；愈强大，愈霸道；
议题愈多，积怨愈深，
人各有各的想法，需要相当的时间互相了解，彼此接受。
这是无论如何也“快餐”不了的。
如此一个人文现状，“快餐文化”再不讲究，用什么来维持心理健康？
这不是个小事情。

因为任何快餐文化的最终目的，是对人类本身有好的享受与好的教益，
使人成为健康的人，好的人。
如此这般才能推行各类好“道”。
因为“道”虽是好道，倘若人不是好人，照样推行不开。
这是最简单的“道”理。
既然“道”有“道”理，那么快餐文化的道理又是什么呢？
如果用百米赛跑做个比喻，
就是说，距离都是一百米，他跑 9秒 5，你跑 11秒，他是真正的冠军，
因为距离相等，前提是百米赛。
倘若抽掉百米的概念，他跑 9秒 5，你跑 2秒 2，你固然快了，
但他跑的是百米，你只跑 20米。
所以说快餐文化的含意，不能只有速度的而抽掉文化内涵的。

Art of Living

Being dazed, lost, and confused, is only symptom,
this "problem" becomes an opportunity to test yourself.
And isn't that what life is all about -
putting yourself on the line in a situation where you test yourself to rise to another level?
It's simply an evolutionary step along the path of living.

The art of living is finding places where silence works better than words.

66kg

In the 1st lesson of my Grey Matters
Sawn asked the class
"Can you come out with a question related to 66kg?"

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Spontaneous respond from class:

"What is after 65kg?"
"How heavy are you?"
"How heavy is your bag?"
etc.

Until Linli
(Our Lawyer Student in Art College)

"How do you get to 66kg?"

[The End]

How heavy is this glass of water

A speaker raised a glass of water and asked

"How heavy is this glass of water?"

Answers called out ranged from 20g to 500g.

The lecturer replied,

"The absolute weight doesn't matter. It depends on how long you try to hold it."

“If I hold it for a minute, that's not a problem.

If I hold it for an hour, I'll have an ache in my right arm

If I hold it for a day, you'll have to call an ambulance

In each case, it's the same weight, but the longer I hold it, the heavier it becomes."

He continued,

"And that's the way it is with stress management.

If we carry our burdens all the time, sooner or later, as the burden becomes increasingly heavy, we won't be able to carry on."

"As with the glass of water, you have to put it down for a while and rest before holding it again.

When we're refreshed, we can carry on with the burden."

“SO before you return home tonight, put the burden of work down

Don't carry it home.

You can pick it up tomorrow.

Whatever burdens you're carrying now, let them down for a moment if you can.

Relax; pick them up later after you've rested.

Life is short. Enjoy it!"

Some ways of dealing with the burdens of life:
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Accept that some days you're the pigeon, and some days you're the statue.
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Always keep your words soft and sweet, just in case you have to eat them.
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Always read stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.
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Drive carefully. It's not only cars that can be recalled by their maker.
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If you can't be kind, at least have the decency to be vague.
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If you lend someone $20 and never see that person again, it was probably worth it.
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It may be that your sole purpose in life is simply to serve as a warning to others.
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Never put both feet in your mouth at the same time, because then you won't have a leg to stand on.
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Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance.
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Since it's the early worm that gets eaten by the bird, sleep late.
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The second mouse gets the cheese.
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When everything's coming your way, you're in the wrong lane.
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Birthdays are good for you. The more you have, the longer you live.
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You may be only one person in the world, but you may also be the world to one person..
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We could learn a lot from crayons. Some are sharp, some are pretty and some are dull. Some have
weird names, and all are different colors, but they all have to live in the same box.
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A truly happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery on a detour.

Gas - Liquid - Solid

Solid and Liquid are visible and touchable
Gas can be visible but never will it be touchable

Solid is a stereotype
Liquid is flex
Gas is freedom

How would you categorize
your character personality
or your thinking

一個以為自己是蛋的人

以前有個人一直認為自己是一顆蛋
怕自己會破
連坐都不敢坐
怕破了蛋黃流出來

最後看了醫生
沒有用
吃藥也沒用

醫生就告訴他
下次你出門
就帶片麵包

那個人就問
“為甚麼”

醫生說
“這樣如果破了 蛋黃流出來 流在麵包 就不會浪費”

































[愛情也一樣 一切都是“心”事］

The Obssession Of Colour Pencil

1 whole semester of Drawing Lesson
Other than the Contour Drawing
I'm always having problem drawing
-.-
Until the last few lesson
I fall in love with Layering and Tones
Charcoal
Chinese Ink
Color Pencil

This is my 1st successful color pencil Layering and Tones.


Warm Color (Orange & Green)


Cool Color (Blue & Red)
Warm Color ( Orange & Green)

Element of Myself

Last 2D Assignment given for this semester

So fast 1 semester just gone

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The objective of this assignment is to do a painting of myself
Making use of what we learn and apply to a between A3 - A2 painting

After several research and experimentation
I used Aquatone and Wax

I had an usual excitement when I was doing all these


Studying the Original
(Photo-shop Image)


1st Part of the Painting
(Aquatone)

The reason why I created this is to show
the release of my character. They are all in Red.
Red here represents Hatred and Anger.
This part also helps to create a balance in the painting.


2nd Part of the Painting
(Aquatone)
[Hiding behind the mask]

Hiding behind the mask meaning there's another personality in me.
A violence personality.
The Red here represents Danger and War.


3rd Part of the Painting
(Wax)
[The mask]

The mask is to represents what people see.
White here represents Goodness, Safety, Purity and Innocent.


The Final Painting

Description of the painting:
It is rather ironic to paint myself.

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Danger behind a Safety mask reveling
May the wind blow
Let the bypass be the bypass
Good bye
Hatred
Good bye
Anger

Balige - A Tragic Love Story

First thing first
I've to apologize to Qiang and gang.

I really tried to spare time for this video
but I realize it need more than just few day to edit
due to the sound, the camera and stuff...

I've tried my best out of the worse

But really appreciate for me to play with your clips...

Thanks...

-iMoive Edited-

My First Horror Work - Corridor

On this year's Halloween Night
I actually was helping my brother to settle his video work
Then I remember I video a scene at his corridor

For the past 16 years
I never realize his corridor is that scary until I video it down

A lot of missing element still
but it's just a try out

Comment Please.
- iMovie Edited -