When I counted my blog entries just now, I couldn’t believe it’s already 7 weeks. What shocks me is not how fast the time flies but it’s only THREE weeks left to the finals. On one hand I hope this quarter could be over asap, but on the other hand, I wish that I could be given an extra few weeks to get undos done.
I’ve never been looking forward to weekends this much, mainly because I spent most of the week in hospital. Yeah, that’s why I left early last class on Wednesday. My boyfriend got seriously sick and passed out on Tuesday night, so we called an ambulance to send him to hospital. (I thought a car is enough, but the hall director insisted on calling 911…) This is my first time to be in hospital in US, the first time on ambulance in the world. So it terrified me, really, since I’ve always been a healthy person from head to toe, never have a shot in mine, except for blood donation. The consequences in hospital were nothing like Grey’s Anatomy, except for costumes.
Since I had to accompany him in the hospital, I put off one presentation, one photographing assignment and one paper to next week. Plus what suppose be in next week on schedule, I would have a taste of more than most overloaded. Sometimes I get high on challenging my working limits per day, while most of the time, I feel tired and exhausted of chasing after due dates. My accounting TA comforted me, “Don’t be stupid to make your work-life balanced. There’s nothing on the right-hand side of the scale, it’s not gonna balance anyway.” Indeed, I realize more and more that so called “work life balance” is no more than an urban myth. And it reminds me of another old joke, on the left-hand side of their balance sheet, there’s nothing right. And on the right-hand side, there’s nothing left.
Complaints completed. Fighting ~!~!
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Sunday, February 15, 2009
overland wannabe
When I scroll down the notable blogs list, a name caught my attention immediately: “overland wannabe”. http://overlandwannabe.blogspot.com/ So I took a step further to see what it’s really about, and it’s just as I imagined, a blog like a travelling bible. What’s more, there’s even a more overwhelming tagline on the main page, “the ultimate escape”.
“Escape” is being used frequently in our high-paced life nowadays, even the ad slogan in the cinema on High St. is “your nearest escape”. People are suffering from high pressure and overloaded work obviously; they badly need to take a breath. Compared to normal ways like movie time or tea chat with friends, an oversea trip is a more effective, romantic and head-to-toe relaxing to ease every nerve. So the blog targets our social issue precisely, in other words, very timely.
Those blog entries are especially relevant and compelling to me because I want to be an “always on the way” person myself. And I’m so obsessed with photographing the same things in different places, as you can see from the slides to the right. I think this sense of change and adventure may be formed in my childhood, when my parents took me to lots of trips which could be considered as dangerous to my peers. We went whitewater-rafting and hot-air balloon riding, we ate weasel, zebra hot dogs, even cooked cockroach with local people as a great delicacy. Every different trip opens me up for something new and exotic, therefore, it’s a shortcut to experience a different kind of life which I have never approach to.
The “overlandwannabe” is like a mini-edition of the lonely planet, Europe section. Btw, the lonely planet is forbidden in China because it lists Taiwan as an independent country… I still remember how excited I am when I first found one in Barnes and Nobles. I already add the blog link to “my favorites”, I’m sure I’ll get some great ideas for my future escaping journeys from it!
“Escape” is being used frequently in our high-paced life nowadays, even the ad slogan in the cinema on High St. is “your nearest escape”. People are suffering from high pressure and overloaded work obviously; they badly need to take a breath. Compared to normal ways like movie time or tea chat with friends, an oversea trip is a more effective, romantic and head-to-toe relaxing to ease every nerve. So the blog targets our social issue precisely, in other words, very timely.
Those blog entries are especially relevant and compelling to me because I want to be an “always on the way” person myself. And I’m so obsessed with photographing the same things in different places, as you can see from the slides to the right. I think this sense of change and adventure may be formed in my childhood, when my parents took me to lots of trips which could be considered as dangerous to my peers. We went whitewater-rafting and hot-air balloon riding, we ate weasel, zebra hot dogs, even cooked cockroach with local people as a great delicacy. Every different trip opens me up for something new and exotic, therefore, it’s a shortcut to experience a different kind of life which I have never approach to.
The “overlandwannabe” is like a mini-edition of the lonely planet, Europe section. Btw, the lonely planet is forbidden in China because it lists Taiwan as an independent country… I still remember how excited I am when I first found one in Barnes and Nobles. I already add the blog link to “my favorites”, I’m sure I’ll get some great ideas for my future escaping journeys from it!
Saturday, February 7, 2009
Reincarnation
There are always some kinds of strange thoughts pop-up on my mind since my childhood. I used to share this with elders, but they seemed to be freaked out and talked seriously to my parents that kid’s thoughts were wild; they needed to pay more attention. Well, later I’m no longer that confessional to them as I used to be. Those thoughts could be only lighted up to its believers, if they don’t understand, why bother to tell?
I believe there’s a house-elf around my house when I was very young. I believe there are really wizards and witches out there, although Hagrit forgot me when I was turning 11 years old, obviously. I believe plants can talk, since I dream of them talking a lot. I also believe in reincarnation, that people have some kind of notion of an eternal soul.
But it changed side one day.
On that day, I watched a movie and a man in it was very doubtful about reincarnation. Then he came up with his theories and it persuaded me. As he thought, 50,000 years ago, there are not even a million people on the planet. 10,000 years ago, there’s like 2,000,000 people on the planet. Now, there’s between 5 and 6 billion people on the planet. If we all have our own, individual, unique soul, where do they all come from? Are modern souls only a fraction of the original souls? If they are, that represents a 5,000-to-1 split of each soul in just the last 50,000 years, which is like a blip in the earth’s time. So, at best, we are probably like these tiny fractions of people, maybe even scattered in some way…
His explanation makes much sense to me, since using an assumption about figures and data to form persuasive evidence. His theory is a completely refresh to the normal thoughts coming along with reincarnation, since it’s always related to religion, theology… while on his side, it’s just thinking in a logic way to raise a contradiction. In this way, his persuasion is more effective since it avoids collisions directly against normal belief about reincarnation. It doesn’t oppose the common value straightforwardly, instead, in a tricky way.
Does it convince you?!
I believe there’s a house-elf around my house when I was very young. I believe there are really wizards and witches out there, although Hagrit forgot me when I was turning 11 years old, obviously. I believe plants can talk, since I dream of them talking a lot. I also believe in reincarnation, that people have some kind of notion of an eternal soul.
But it changed side one day.
On that day, I watched a movie and a man in it was very doubtful about reincarnation. Then he came up with his theories and it persuaded me. As he thought, 50,000 years ago, there are not even a million people on the planet. 10,000 years ago, there’s like 2,000,000 people on the planet. Now, there’s between 5 and 6 billion people on the planet. If we all have our own, individual, unique soul, where do they all come from? Are modern souls only a fraction of the original souls? If they are, that represents a 5,000-to-1 split of each soul in just the last 50,000 years, which is like a blip in the earth’s time. So, at best, we are probably like these tiny fractions of people, maybe even scattered in some way…
His explanation makes much sense to me, since using an assumption about figures and data to form persuasive evidence. His theory is a completely refresh to the normal thoughts coming along with reincarnation, since it’s always related to religion, theology… while on his side, it’s just thinking in a logic way to raise a contradiction. In this way, his persuasion is more effective since it avoids collisions directly against normal belief about reincarnation. It doesn’t oppose the common value straightforwardly, instead, in a tricky way.
Does it convince you?!
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