A new page.A new year.

Happy new year 2010.

A new page begins in the time of current civilization, a new year for our Earth...

We make resolutions, welcome in the new year, and send away the old.

In just a brief second, yester-year had became LAST year.
Actually I don't really know what to say about the welcoming thingy, but just wanted to wrote something for the new year.

Let's see, we have nice fireworks, we were basically 'surrounded' by the fireworks in all directions.

There's that full moon up in the sky, which actually occurred twice in 31 December 2009, a blue moon they call it.

New year, that sounds great, a pinch of sentiments maybe, but for something that becomes new every 365 days, there's that long 'wait' for it, a long living to make it comes:D

Civilization VS Nature

Politics, economy, nature environment, nature resources, culture, religions, technology.

All these and many more are what's that revolving within our planet earth in these days.

With the power of connections through the world wide web, exchanges of information has surely went faster than we could have ever imagined, and have surged the world to work somewhat differently than what it once used to be.

All these, the earth civilization, has gone a long long way since the dawn of man.
However, it would seems that as civilization move forward, nature has taken its tool and further decay from what was once a planet full of greens to a world now overclouded by mega skyscrapers, and all the refuses that man create in their forwarding movement in civilization.

With this, does Sir Charles Darwin's definition on evolution-nature selection still works?
Since we wouldn't know if civilization is actually nature selection itself, but through out the past century, there had been numerous findings on new species of life form constantly being discovered, and some species like the Panda, Tigers, and other species that are constantly decreasing at a painstaking rate, being added into the list of endangered species.

Is this nature selection that causes the species to slowly diminished?
or is it because of reasons like human's act, but is that nature selection?or was it the other way round?

(just me wondering, since i've read a punchline which is something like "Mankind took a step forward, and nature is left behind.")

Last month of 2009

The last month of the year 2009...
How has the year been for you^_^?

This year seems to move on a bit faster than it does somehow.
Maybe b'cuz we're more busy than we used to be.
Working out our life more than we used to, hoping that it'd turn out into something we'd hoped for all those years.

The month where Christmas is, and all those people seem to be excited at the sight of Christmas trees all around town and shopping complexes.

So, did all the resolutions you made for the year being achieved?
Let's just be ready for the coming year.
After all, they say "All's well that ends well."

There's another 2 weeks till Christmas, till holiday^-^

世界が終りな時。

I'm sure that those who could read Chinese will understand what this post title means.

it reads "sekai ga owari na toki", which means "when the world ends".

Have you ever wonder if you could be somewhere else?
Somewhere you are not at this moment, like an alternate dimension of you which lives a different life?
Not all of us live with the dreams we had since our younger days. As some of us would probably find new dreams, new direction as we move along life.

But do ever think?or imagined, thinking back on some of the times that happened in the past, and perhaps choose another path?
Would it all be different than what it is now?

People lives with dreams, and hope, and if we're devoid of these, there's not much in living.
But there are people who had blindingly chases their dreams, yet they had lost track of the reasons they'd chase the dream in the first place.

Reality is so real, yet the boundaries varies not from dreams.
Something that's made of dreams and hopes, is call reality.

It reminds me of something that Albert Einstein said...

Reality is just an illusion ,albeit a persistent one.

Perhaps, if only I'd not blindingly chased something so vague, would I have also be in a different world now?

But little are the use of thinking aback.
It is those that had happened in the past that had us be where we are at this moment.
Rather than wondering the days of the past, is it not better than we live in the moment?

To seize the moment...Carpe Diem!

13 October

^On this day a year ago, I boarded a flight from JB Senai Airport and made for Kuching.
After roughly 6 months at SG, I had decided to come home and find something else to do.

It has already been...a year since then, but I barely feel the things changed.
Blindly assigned myself on a career, and had been working on it since then.
And so, the lifestyle starts getting its routine.

From barely knowing the roads of Kuching, I definitely am better at going around. Though I never bother about the street names, all those landmarks are more than enough for most Kuching people.

Piano practice been going on OK, nothing much learned except two-a-three pieces, but I remember how dreadful the days are when I was at SG, away from my piano.

I took a pic of my piano...

Bank account sure had seen better days.>_<
No, really, it is going to take awhile to fill it up.
So please don't be mad if I'm like Uncle Scrooge. I'll try not to. T_T

Since I took Business Admin at OUM, I have to study again, and I thought the ABCs are through with me. Classes, Assignments, Exams!!! and result!

Japanese language doesn't seem to be going anywhere, when the mood kicks in, I might be able to make up some crappy sentences, but that IS IT.
I've lost my own reference book, so I borrowed NanPing's to study it.

A new cinema had just been opened last month at The Spring, its MBO, haven't went there yet.

I joined Taekwondo training again, a new gym was opened awhile back, less than 5mins driving distance, convenience is king. Might go get my 2nd Dan. Hahaha.

Some of our friends are Hitched, that's cool, getting all 'grown' eh^_^.

Leone, the new Rottweiler in my crew is getting smarter, it is gonna get bigger, I can tell you that!

Leone, the badass Rottie

The SWATCH I got for myself after I quitted my SG job, it sure is wrecked, with scratches all over the face glass.

The leather wallet and ring I got at SG is still good, and so is my PSP
Oh yeah, love my PSP.

Mustn't leave home without 'em.

Within one year, we have Starbucks, Coffee Beans, Manhattan Fish Market, Sushi King added to our Kuching town. More and more International brands are making their intrusion into our little city.
Where's that Burger King, MOS Burger, Subway, etcetcetc.
There's that local Bing!Coffee Company too, which have another 2 branches opened in the same year.

The recession seems to be quite over, and the economy is getting better around the world.

H1N1 appeared and strikes panic to the world some while back, but the heat is so much less now.

Well, maybe all these appears to be 'little' things, that's why it is kinda hard to feel the changes.

At any rates, it's best not to be overly concern with everything bad. Even though you see the glass as half-empty, you can always trick yourself into believing that it is half-full, which is True.

Yes, everything can be better, but give them some time, I told myself, things should work out one way or another.
There's the old saying, 'The boat will be Straight when it reaches the Dock.'
When the time comes, it comes.
All the wise saying uttered by a fool, yes?

Cheers everyone!
My Thanksgiving to you all, who cares wehn the real Thanksgiving day is!

Sunday drinking

Haven't got much to post lately, mostly boring stuffs like the one i would do right now, and i don't wanna bore y'all constantly with boring stuff.

Just got back from going to Travillion's C.O.R.E. and had a few glass with some friends.

Never really can accept spending there, legal-highway-robbery like business.
Its like, a shark with its jaw wide open, and us the prey that goes in like a moth would dive into fires.
Yep, metaphors can get you almost...everywhere.

Well,its great doing this once in awhile, cuz' when it all boils down, we're just spending to have some fun.
(Some 'expensive' fun, hahaha!No offense Boys and gals.)

I'll try to get some photo up here if possible, but that's gonna wait awhile.

nah~this one's from some time ago.

Power in a different light.

'Murasama' and 'Masamune', this is the name of a pair of famous Japanese katana...

Both of this names appear well in games, anime, and several other things.

There is actually a story regarding the katana, which i once read somewhere.

But here's one taken from wikipedia...

A legend tells of a test where Muramasa challenged his master, Masamune, to see who could make a finer sword. They both worked tirelessly and eventually, when both swords were finished, they decided to test the results.

The contest was for each to suspend the blades in a small creek with the cutting edge facing the current.

Muramasa's sword, the Juuchi Yosamu (10,000 Cold Nights / 十千夜寒) cut everything that passed its way; fish, leaves floating down the river, the very air which blew on it.

Highly impressed with his pupil's work, Masamune lowered his sword, the Yawarakai-Te (Tender Hands / 柔らかい手), into the current and waited patiently. Not a leaf was cut, the fish swam right up to it, and the air hissed as it gently blew by the blade.

After a while, Muramasa began to scoff at his master for his apparent lack of skill in the making of his sword. Smiling to himself, Masamune pulled up his sword, dried it, and sheathed it. All the while, Muramasa was heckling him for his sword's inability to cut anything.

A monk, who had been watching the whole ordeal, walked over and bowed low to the two sword masters. He then began to explain what he had seen.

"The first of the swords was by all accounts a fine sword, however it is a blood thirsty, evil blade, as it does not discriminate as to who or what it will cut. It may just as well be cutting down butterflies as severing heads. The second was by far the finer of the two, as it does not needlessly cut that which is innocent and undeserving."

And that's the legend about this two sword, any idea what is it trying to say?