-lu

.say of the day.

"We have bigger houses but smaller families:
We have more degrees but less sense;
more knowledge but less judgements;
more experts but more problems;
more medicines, but less healthiness.

We've been all the way to the moon and back,
but we have trouble crossing the street
to meet the new neighbour.

We build more computers
to hold more information,
to produce more copies than ever,
but we have less communication.

We have become long on quantity
but short on quality.
These are times of fast foods,
but slow digestion;
tall man, but short character;
steep profits, but shallow relationships.

It is time when there is much in the window, but nothing in the room."

-Dalai Lama

dare you dissent?

-lu

There was a snapshot on the news of one of the funerals for the six kids and teacher who drowned in the NZ tragedy earlier this week. In this one, Floyd Fernandas, 16, is given his eulogy by his father -

"I will miss you nudging me in the stomach telling me I have grown fat. I will miss your talks and laughter and the music played in the house. I will miss you calling me chicken. I will miss you.

I have lost a companion and a friend."

It's sometimes the simplest things that people say that can cause that lump in your throat.

-lu

New York, Paris, Edinburgh, Traflagar Square.. now Melbourne's having one of its own too! haha.

-lu

.4 & a day.

yah i miss you

.nomos.

I swear..legal theory was put on this Earth as a way of spinning the law student around and asking him to walk in a straight line, whereby even then the straight line is never that clear. Anyhow, came across this line (haha so many 'lines') by Foucault :

'Discourse is not life: its time is not your time; in it, you will not be reconciled to death; you may have killed God beneath the weight of all that you have said; but don't imagine that, with all that you are saying, you will make a man that will live longer than he.'
- Foucault, M. (1972). The Archaeology of Knowledge.

-lu

.stuck on you.

for you, baby.

-lu

.5 years.

"if peace had to be fought to achieve,

then what good is it -

in the first place."

...read this on Sera's blog and it made sense. don't fight it, and don't reason with it. with every loss the world loses one more in the fight for peace; and even if at the end of the day we do get that peace we searched so long for, will it all that come to naught?

if anything, this makes more sense.

"The 2000 service members killed in Iraq supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom is not a milestone. It is an artificial mark on the wall set by individuals or groups with specific agendas and ulterior motives" (2005)

Had a talk with dad the other day and he mentioned about how some people don't understand the cynicism and 'realities' of this world and start to lose touch with it; thus labelled 'crazy'.

maybe i'm losing touch with this world, 'cause i can't piece death with victory.

-lu

.rings.

...i know how the whole anti-China/pro-Tibet thing has been going on for awhile, but watching the protests in England and then France on the news yesterday kinda does make one wonder - is preventing the torch from being extinguished the main issue here?

Coz i think, traditions aside, the real issue is how ridiculous it looks with the torchbearer smiling and running amidst a crowd of 20 Chinese and local escorts around her. I mean, fod God's sake, its supposed to be a symbol of sportsmanship, unity, freedom and wadeva not. if anything, its a hunorous metaphor of the way the Olympics will be held this year. A farce of peaceful games and smiling faces among the crowd of security and police forces surrounding it, preventing any attempts to disrupt.

We thought Munich in '86 was bad. I don't know. You wanna talk about the true spirit of the Olympics? If you ask me, Beijing '08 really does not cut it. At all.

-lu

.flashback.

i was taking a break from obligations readings and decided to go to (heh) sleeping_shadow, just to see if i found anything interesting. turns out so many things made me smile, i decided to do a quick collage of everything that caught my eye. =)

so let's see..we'll start from..October 2006, darling?

08-Sep-06 (6.49pm)
"...it's really great, what i felt, hearing you tell me what you did this morning. but it also saddens me because it proved my point that we will never be. it was always one characteristic short, 10minutes too late, 5 minutes too early, an entire ocean away...."

10-Sep-06 (9.08am)
"...and every little thing you say means so much more,
simply because it's you.

...you just keep coming back to mind.

and for me, you too."

11-Sep-06 (11:54am)
"...and i try to find a piece of you in every guy i meet. "

5 Oct 2006 (3.57pm)
"This chair!! THIS chair!!"

22 Nov 2006 (3.58pm)
"I'm not talking to someone right now.
And I wish like hell we're not at it again.

Sometimes I don't know if it's good or bad; or whether I'll always have that part of you with me.
And it scares the hell out of me because then we will have to be cold for as long as I have to be"

26 Nov 2006 (8.36pm)
"I knew the anonymous tag was you.

I don't know what else to say but I'm glad we talked last night."

20 Dec 2006 (6.58pm)
"Well, over two drinks each, we had the best in-person conversation in ages. It was just very honest. Most of you know Lionel-Aimee-Friendship is so on-off that even if we have known each other for four years, we might as well have only met last year. Much of the conversation helped me understand some things, helped me realize other things, and it helped me know you better.

As a person, you are more than alright, Mister Lee. I thought about a lot of things tonight. Of old times, of times forgotten, of times ahead. After all our ups and downs, I think the fact that we're better friends now than ever means something. I know in some way you'll always be there for me, and I'll be there for you the best way I can."

20 Dec 2006 (8.30pm)
"When I hug some of the people in my life, it comes from the heart. It will be tight, firm and it will feel like I haven’t seen them for ages or will not be seeing them for a long time. It might feel like the last hug I believe I could ever give you.

When it comes to you, most times, this is true – especially the part about the last hug. When I hug you, I mean it. And maybe, you felt it."

20 Feb 07 (1.02am)
"The sound of gushing water, the blue of the swimming pool, the tightness in your chest...

I felt peaceful, and I felt close to you. "

05 Apr 08 (10:01pm) - aglio-olio.blogspot.com
...i guess reading all that made me realise you could easily've been someone else's. And i guess it scared me more than i realised. i got so many things i still wanna tell you, wanna tok with you about, wanna do with you, and wanna share with you. and i guess i'm afraid if you go, i'll never get to do them. maybe ever. -muck-

i miss you.

-lu