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Chinese New Year's Eve Celebration

Okay, there's no celebration cuz Alec and I already celebrated last weekend with my folks. We all got together and ate like piggies. I'll just call them tomorrow to wish them a Happy New Year and it'll be a done deal.

Got PS2's Devil May Cry 2 this afternoon and I'm going to have at it in a little while... maybe later I can play a little Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance as well and, once again, save the earthrealm. Alec mentioned that we can watch a Chinese DVD later, I'm going to 'make' him watch The Road Home, heeheehee... we'll see about that!

Hong Kong

I often wonder what would happen if I stayed in Hong Kong, rather than moving to Los Angeles back in '77? I also wonder about a lot of other things.

Every second takes another turn, even in your dreams...

Re: On Entering...

I just had to put that up as my first blog... my very official first... woohoo! ...and I didn't even write it! :o)

Late Nite

I can only write about what I'm capable, I cannot write about what I don't know. Driving home today from work, I came across those 'feelings' again, happy and sad, as I listen to the music... about things like people suffering, a couple enjoying themselves with friends and families, people fighting with themselves, people killing each other, doctors delivering newborn babies, a person making dinner for him/herself, kids playing in the park... this very moment!

It's hard to imagine this place we live in is anything but 'perfect', but I think it's as perfect as it can be. All the 'wrongs' and the 'bads', also the 'rights' and the 'goods', they all have their own little places to be, whether here or there, now or never... All and all, right now I feel like I'm the luckiest man alive, and I don't want to die...

On Entering, Living in, Leaving the World

Man, you enter the world reluctantly, crying, as a forlorn babe;
Man, you leave this life, deprived again, crying again, with regret.
Therefore live this life in such a way that none of it is really wasted.
You have to become accustomed to it after not having been accustomed to it.
When you have become accustomed to it, you will have to become used to being without it.
Mediate upon this contention.
Die, therefore, "before you die," in the words of the Purified One.
Complete the circle before it is completed for you.
Until you do, unless you have--then expect bitterness at the end as there was in the beginning;
in the middle as there will be at the end.
You did not see the pattern as you entered; and when you entered - you saw another pattern.
When you saw this apparent pattern, you were prevented from seeing the threads of the coming pattern.
Until you see both, you will be without contentment--
Whom do you blame? And Why do you blame?

--Hashim the Sidqi, on Rumi