originality; cold-fire

Tuesday, March 06, 2007

Coincident to yesterday's entry, I faced an almost similar senario today. I woke up early today, did my morning businesses and was out of my house to catch bus 184 at around 7 am. It is the suitable timing that if I got onto the bus and got onto 151 after I reach Bt Timah, I will be strolling to LT 7A in time for the 8 am lecture. However, the hidden conspiracy of the universe hit me just when I was going to board the bus: I left my Ez-link card in another card holder at home!!!! I immediately cursed under my breath (I hope that it was a soft curse cuz I was with my headphones on) and hurried back to my house. From that pt to the time I reached home and found my Ez-link card, I was facing one of the greatest dilemma of my day - should I just hang around until my sis wakes uo and leave home with them. I'll miss the lecture if that was the case. In the end, the better side of me prevailed and I hurried back to the bus stop and boarded the 184 that came along. All went well along the way to school and I made it to LT 7A in time with a certain amount of brisk walking.

Ha.. A whole load of crap just to say that I have turned over a new leaf regarding the skipping of lectures. Anyway, there's a reason for my Ez-link card being in my card holder. It is that I went for an evening jog the day before, just when the sky was parted by a thinning line between stormy dark clouds and bright sunshine. How smart of me to go for a jog at a time like that right? I was just in a bad mood for missing the math lecture when I planned to go for it la. Ultimately, it rained while I was half-way through the jog. I ended up boarding a bus back home. During my wait for the bus, I saw an old lady, without an umbrella and pulling a trolley in the rain. She approached the bus-stop. She took a peek into the rubbish bin and reached in to grab an aluminium can. The load on her trolley consisted of waste cardboards and stuffs. I felt pity for her there and then. What had she done to deserve it? And I wondered if I would grow old to become like that. I felt uncertain for a moment and I quietly thanked god for the life that I'm leading now.

Then I questioned (maybe it is an innately usp kinda thing) - why the heck did I feel that to be something sad and bad? Is it the society that caused me to be so? If I have been in another place or another time, will I feel diferently about it? It is not as if it is a crime or it hurts others in any way. That is the point right?

The Origin. 3/06/2007 05:53:00 pm

quotes

"You know how when you were a little kid and you believed in fairy tales, that fantasy of what your life would be, white dress, prince charming who would carry you away to a castle on a hill. You would lie in bed at night and close your eyes and you had complete and utter faith. Santa Claus, the Tooth Fairy, Prince Charming, they were so close you could taste them, but eventually you grow up, one day you open your eyes and the fairy tale disappears. Most people turn to the things and people they can trust. But the thing is its hard to let go of that fairy tale entirely cause almost everyone has that smallest bit of hope, of faith, that one day they will open their eyes and it will come true." - Dr. Meredith Grey from Grey's Anatomy

'How happy is the little Stone
That rambles in the Road alone,
And doesn't care about Careers
And Exigencies never fears-
Whose Coat of elemental Brown
A passing Universe put on,
And independent as the Sun
Associates or glows alone,
Fulfilling absolute Decree
In casual simplicity-' - How happy is the little Stone by Emily Dickinson

'This is your last chance.
After this, there is no turning back.
You take the blue pill - the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe.
You take the red pill - you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes.' - Morpheus, The Matrix

'The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence.
Not because you'll get it, but because you're doomed not to want it if you do.' - Unknown

'There are plenty of people with good intentions who take the wrong actions in the end' - Gundam Seed Destiny

'Life is no straight and easy corridor along
which we must seek our way,
lost and confused, now and again
checked in a blind alley.

But always, if we have faith,
a door will open for us,
not perhaps one that we ourselves
would ever have thought of,
but one that will ultimately
prove good for us.' - A.J.Cronin

"Every life has one true-love snapshot
Strangers are just family you have yet to come to know
No life is a waste.
The only time we waste is the time we spend thinking we are alone"

"A man can endure alot if he still has hope." - Clyde T. Ellis

" 'Appreciate It.' 2 simple words. A life span of gratitude." - Cinderella Man

"A boxer enters the ring alone. If knocked down, he alone could pick himself up and keep the fight going." - Cinderella Man

"You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing you think you cannot do." - Eleanor Roosevelt

"Jame J. Braddock: I know this isn't what you wanted. But I can't win if you're not behind me.
Mae: I'm always behind you."

"People die in fairy tales all the time." - Max Baer, Cinderella Man

"Maybe sometimes people need to see someone do it so they can do it." - Father Rorick, Cinderella Man

"You always got ot figure you're not the best man in the world, there might be somebody better. That's the way it was. That's the way boxing is. The champion don't always stand up. There's always somebody coming up to take him. That's a part of life." - Jame J. Braddock

"If either man falls through weakness or otherwise, he must get up unassisted" - The Queensbury Rules, No. 4

"All men have fears, but the brave put down their fears and go forward, sometimes to death, but always to victory" - Motto of the King's Guard in Ancient Greece

"With each passing day in a good marriage, the love for your spouse grow stronger than the day before" - Cinderella Man

"I take responsibility" - President George W. Bush

"Sow a Thought, and you reap an Act;
Sow an Act, and you reap a Habit;
Sow a Habit, and you sow a Character;
Sow a Character, and you reap a Destiny." - Samuel Smiles

"Our doubts are traitors,
And make us lose the good we oft might win
By fearing to attempt - Shakespeare in Measure of Measure

"What does your heart tell you?" - Aragorn, LOTR

"To an outstretched hand we shall respond with an olive branch, but we shall fight fire with the harshest fire ever." - Israeli PM Ariel Sharon

"To deny our own impulses is to deny the very thing that makes us human. " - The Matrix

"Be without fear in the face of your enemies. Be brave and upright that God may love thee. Speak the truth, always, even if it leads to your death. Safeguard the helpless and do no wrong. That is your oath." - Balian of Ibelin, Kingdom of Heaven

"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it." - Atticus Finch, To Kill A Mockingbird

"It is not our abilities that show what we truly are... it is our choices." - Dumbledore, Harry Potter

"Do not be too eager to deal out death in judgment. Even the very wise cannot see all ends." - Gandalf, LOTR

"Ohana means family, family means nobody gets left behind. Or forgotten." - Lilo & Stitch

"Your heart is free. Have the courage to follow it." - Malcolm Wallace, Braveheart

"Every man dies, not every man really lives." - William Wallace, Braveheart

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