Inspirational

The path

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Recently there has been a number of changes in the lives of people around me, so this short quote seems rather timely.

“A warrior must always keep in mind that a path is only a path; if he feels that he should not follow it, he must not stay with it under any conditions. His decision to keep on that path or to leave it must be free of fear or ambition. He must look at every path closely and deliberately. There is a question that a warrior has to ask, mandatorily: ‘Does this path have a heart?'”

Carlos Castaneda

Off Beaten Track

Loss of innocence

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It’s hard to imagine that in one week from today, it will be exactly two years since the September 11 event took place in New York.

This incident has often been touted as THE “loss of innocence” by much of US-based media. Since then, US has been involved in every major terrorist-related retaliatory efforts, which are still on-going.

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Faith

Common sense

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Recently saw the following quote

“Common sense faith is NOT faith, and faith is NOT common sense: they stand in relation of the natural and the spiritual, of the impulse and inspiration.

Nothing Jesus Christ ever said is common sense, it is revelation sense, and it reaches the shores where common sense fails.”

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Off Beaten Track

Tiring holidays

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Have you ever stopped and pondered: why it is that after a short holiday where you go off to some place, you always return feeling exhausted? I mean, the purpose of the trip is to take a break away from work/studies, no? How is it that you end up feeling even more tired than before the trip?

I must admit, from time to time, I am also, like many people, guilty of the “tiring holidays” syndrome.

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Off Beaten Track

Friends & company

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Was out with some friends for a birthday dinner last night (for two people actually, two days apart). Funny to think that in the short time that I have been in Singapore, many of the close friends made in my first employment are no longer working at the same place. Some are off to other, similar, organisations, others stayed put when my work place went through a merger, while others have since changed lines of work completely, say, from engineering to patent law, or to financial institutions.

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Films & TV/Off Beaten Track

Do you get it?

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Last night, a friend commented that after watching the recent movie Home Run* one can really appreciate the value of a pair of shoes. Useful advice for shoe-lovers out there!? 🙂

Here is an editorial from Iraq Today concerning the recent power outage in New York. Call it a sense of humour, or what-not, but “the irony, of course, has not been lost on most Baghdadis”. As the article says, the New Yorkers only had to endure loss of power for one day. Not months. I think this really puts things in perspective, don’t you?

For those curious why I was reading Iraq Today? Am I a Islamic “sympathiser”, etc.? For the record, I followed the link from Where is Raed?, a widely followed blogger who sprang up from nowhere during the recent Iraq war. He is now writing for the UK Guardian newspaper: sample.

* Home Run is a Singaporean remake of the internationally-acclaimed Iranian movie Children of Heaven.