Burning & Building Bridges

Recently, while checking for updates in Facebook, I came across an interesting posting by a good old friend of mine. It is as shown below:

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In Pursuit of Happiness
Sunday, November 29, 2009 at 10:26pm

Don’t let someone become a priority in your life,
When you are just an option in their life …
Relationships work best when they are balanced.

Never explain yourself to anyone,
Because the person who likes you doesn’t need it,
And the person who dislikes you won’t believe it

When you keep saying you are busy, Then you are never free.
When you keep saying you have no time, Then you will never have time.
When you keep saying that you will do it tomorrow, Then tomorrow will never come.

When we wake up this morning, we have two simple choices.
Go back to sleep and dream, or wake up and chase those dreams.
Choice is yours…

We make them cry who care for us,
We cry for those who never care for us
And we care for those who will never cry for us

This is the truth of life, it’s strange but true
Once you realize this, it’s never too late to change
Don’t make promises when you are in joy

Don’t reply when you are sad
Don’t take decisions when you are angry
Think twice, Act wise

Time is like a river, You cannot touch the same water twice
Because the flow that has passed will never pass again
Enjoy every moment of life

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The rules to a happy and fulfilling life are not difficult to understand, but obviously difficult to put into practice.

I personally find the first paragraph particularly interesting:

”Don’t let someone become a priority in your life,
When you are just an option in their life
Relationships work best when they are balanced.”

It is not uncommon to find that people whom you thought were friends choose to send you right down to their ‘priority stack’, for some ‘mysterious’ reasons.

I’ve had a classmate from my primary school who doesn’t write to me, and I only get a response from him (if any), after ‘building my half of the bridge’.

The irony of this matter is that while this is a simple rule to understand, very few people actually take it seriously. In other words, these apparently simple rules are often taken for granted.

Obviously, if they don’t take you seriously, or at least, they choose to have you ‘blacked-out’ of your life, who can blame them?

Be happy, just burn down the bridge.

 

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Sawing your way to fame

Joshua Bell plays the violin.

So does Itzhak Perlman.

Both men are world-class musicians, with world-class reputations. Joining this list is Takako Nishizaki of Japan. I just love the way she plays The Butterfly Lovers.

These musicians are known the world over for their amazing virtuosity, as the violin is not an easy instrument to play, let alone master.

Just two days ago, I was convinced that you can make good music out of just about anything. Be amazed. Be enlightened. See the video below!

Now imagine getting that thing on the plane. Sheesh….

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Airbus at Kuching Waterfront

What??!!

Sorry for the unusual title, but I had to grab your attention. I was taking a walk along the waterfront with my uncle just yesterday, taking photos, when I noticed something rather unusual.

 

 

There’s just something about the name that I don’t get.

Is it a bus? Check.

Made by Airbus. Definitely a no no.

Nothing like the real thing:

I wonder why the bus company decided to put an ‘Air’ there. Should call it ‘Road’ Bus la…

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Invasion of the ‘Happy Thing’…

The ‘thing’, or better known as, the ‘happy thing’, has,  over the recent years,  successfully covered just about every facet of our digital lives. It knows no boundaries. It is merciless in it’s choice of propagation. It infects the living host, and floods the individual with emotions that subdue the consciousness of the host,  and consequently encourages it’s spread. This ‘happy thing’ is notorious to the point of invading into every text space known to mankind, every email, every word processor document, even spreadsheets, and well, just about anything attached to a keyboard.

This ‘thing’, while seen as nothing but a pest to some, is seen by many (myself included), as the ultimate expression of sincerity, friendship, passion, and even love. The ‘happy thing’, as implied by the word ‘happy’, is supposed to convey joy, and of course, ‘happiness’ (duh).

The ‘happy thing’ is pictured below.

 

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Cute and dangerous… :-)   (don’t you see why now?)  :-D

 

Yes, you have got that right. The ‘happy  thing’ is really just a smiley face. Oh wait! I don’t just mean a smiley face, but it’s the smiley face. Read on to find out why.

 

Variations and Themes of the ‘thing’

Yes, the unassuming smiley comes in many forms and shapes. Commonly ‘written’ as a:

 

:)

 

Mr. Smiley was eventually changed to look more ‘complete’, with a ‘nose’:

 

:-)

 

The ‘very happy thing’:

 

:-D

 

The big-‘eyed’, happy ‘thing’:

 

=D

 

The ‘winky thing':

 

;)

or…

;-)

or…

;-D

 

Uses of the ‘happy thing’…

In spite of it’s cute look, the smiley is tremendously useful when used correctly, but like all good thing, abuse can happen. Below are some of its uses in Live Messenger.

 

‘Good’ Uses:

1. To convey excitement:

2. To convey agreement:

 

‘Bad’ Uses:

1.  To convey ‘bad intentions’:

 

2  To convey sarcasm:

 

See? The ‘thing’ does afford us the power to choose between ‘good’ and ‘evil’.

With great power, comes great responsibility, so use the ‘happy thing’ wisely!  :)

 

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‘Define: Google’

It’s hard to believe that it just happened. In fact, it’s so hard to believe, that only after years of ‘Googling’, I had just ‘discovered’ one of Google’s most powerful search operators: ‘define:’.

Go ahead and try it! It works like a charm… =)

Now, I am not writing this article to tell you what late bloomer I am. It’s just that instead of scouring the web, conducting dictionary searches and performing cross-searching across multiple sites, I found that a way to get the ‘best of both worlds’, was to simply use the search operator ‘define:’. In short, Google gets to do the dirty work (nearly all of it), with sleeves rolled up.

The result can be seen below.

Too good to be true right? It’s no wonder Google has such immense sticking power.

Let’s just try another keyword to define….

 

Heck, no harm trying anyway…

And what do I get?

Hmm…sad, obviously nothing to shout about, except that my name being popular among the folks in Britain at one time.

 

And another…

  
Hmm..nothing very interesting, looks like Google hasn’t exactly moved with the times…

So we need to be a little more specific with Mr. G (Google!)…

Ahhh…that’s better. Have fun defining!    

 

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