If the past month plus can be summarised using a song, it has to be a Jack Johnson song.

Thankful, and thank you :)

只有當你用生命去感受生命，那生命才是屬於你的。

不加糖的愛情

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Just a few days ago, I was thinking about the differences between living in the less modern city and living in the very modern city.

In our city, we no longer see kids on the street. Playgrounds are deemed too dirty for play. The sunshine is deemed too harsh for playing under. The roads are deemed too dangerous to be playing along. Instead, play means sitting in the comfort of cushy sofa in air-con rooms, bonded by the wires of their superfast computer. Their friends include people they never met, from million miles away, linked by their superfast computers, powered by facebook.

Maybe very soon, they’ll all stop talking, they’ll all start chatting.

via Monday Flying

‘Run’, a photography series started by Herbert out of his observations of city life in Singapore, reflects the urban need to be constantly on the move.

According to Herbert: “Each and everyone of us have a reason to run in our lives somehow. We run from our reality, run to chase our dreams, run as a sport, or run from all of our problems. Some of us are perhaps running to get back to our routine which has been on hold.”

世界上最上等的回憶體 就是一首簡單而深刻的歌。
想要解凍十七歲的回憶，只要play［yesterday］。
想要讀取二十四歲離別的畫， 只要play［in my life］ 。
即將遺忘自己的夢想，那就play［imagine］吧。

Not counting the finals, I’m really coming to the start of the last week of my university life. Or on a bigger picture, the very end of 16 years of formal education, at least for the foreseeable future. 4 years of university life have been a continuum of hits and misses. For what it’s worth, I’m thankful the hits far outweigh the misses.

Looking outwards, I’m not afraid of what’s out there really. But the end of one phase and the start of another phase, it’s the same feeling as trying to snuggle out of bed in the morning – i really like the comfort of the bed even though i knew it’s necessary to get out of the bed for anything to be done. Student life, i will miss you and its concessions!

no other place is a better setting for thoughts than when on a journey that you’ve always been thinking of, days weeks before it actually happens.

Words can’t express how inspired I am after watching this.

I’m probably one of the last ones around to watch this since I’ve heard of “The Last Lecture” more than a couple of times, but didn’t find enough time nor impetus to spend more than an hour on this. As things somehow always fall into its place, I’m supposed to watch this for e-learning.

Professor Randy Pausch is a man I haven’t heard about before this video, but he’s now a person that I really look up to. A role model. A man who had his dreams and made them. A man who epitomises the word ‘inspire’.

Something new for me today -- 1 hour 13 minutes is all it takes for a random stranger to put me on my knees and win over me completely. Two words I’ve got for this man.