Monday, November 24, 2008
Back when we first moved into this current house of mine, a feng shui shi fu was hired to help us with the floor plan, like where should the bed and study tables be. When designing my room, he pointed out that my table should face the wall instead of the window in my room. I think (giving him the benefit of doubt) he was largely correct in that decision. Knowing myself, any other directions would have made me uncomfortable and easily distracted. Or maybe that's just cuz I am so used to studying in my room in that position.
In any case, I am currently staying in my sis's ex room. The view here is distracting so to speak. Right in front of me a flat laid over the slowly brightening sky. At 0630 in the morning, it is a nice thing to see those little cages light up as their residents each slowly wake up for another day of druggery. At the same time, it is also consoling that I am not the only poor bastard who has to wake up this early for studies or due to insomnia. Maybe it is the direction of the windows too, such that if I am slightly awake at around 6, I would get to hear the opening of metal shuttles. This had been a fairly strange thing for me until I figured out that it is around this time that our friendly area cleaner gets to work and has to open the rubbish chute for some reason.
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I guess words are only words. It is essentially the tone and the way you say it that matters. Since I entered university, I had gradually came into using this line which is essentially a strange habit of mine to find a certain combination of words fitting and may continually use it for a period of time. It was something of fascination and fun when it first started in sec sch or jc. I don't remember. However, right now, I didn't even notice myself using it often until 2 friends who just came back from SEP used the very line on me. The line is a simple "kai xin jiu hao" - happy can already.
I don't remember how I started using it. However, when the two friends used the line on me, they expressed pretty separate meaning. One is of nonchalent or a helpless-ness to do anything about everything or simply life in itself. Such that so long one thinks that he/she is happy, just continue as he/she sees fit. The other had more of a positive air to it. So long as we are happy with what we are doing, that enough.
I'm not sure if these exactly elaborate on the two sides of the same line. I guess it pretty much had to do with the people I am with and the stuff we talk about for them to get these diferent interpretations.
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On to another note, I have for a long period of time not talk about this. I had the thoughts about it but never got it down to blogging because it consists of some pretty loser mentality. It is about photography. In the years that followed after I bought myself my first camera, I had slowly grew tired of capturing the "moments" in life. Well.. I shall not deny that there are days when I feel like just capturing every small things in life. In any case, it begun at class gatherings where everybody wants their camera to capture the moment when all of us were together. Such that simple 1 shot sessions, took more than 5 mins. After returning from my one-month long immersion in France, it got worse. It probably had to do with the fact that after 1 month of playing around with my camera and experimenting, I grew tired of it and also I question the need to capture those moments when I am not exactly a good or diligent photographer. For people like me, the very act of experiencing the moment is more than what a photo capture may do.
The Origin. 11/24/2008 10:10:00 pm
