Glittering Blackness

To the Wonder

Wed, 22 May 2013 13:58:25 +0800

To the Wonder

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Wed, 22 May 2013 13:56:32 +0800

There will come a time, when all of us are dead. All of us. There will come a time when there are...

Sun, 19 May 2013 01:01:51 +0800

There will come a time, when all of us are dead. All of us.

There will come a time when there are no human beings remaining to remember that anyone ever existed or that our species ever did anything.

There will be no one left to remember Aristotle or Cleopatra, let alone you.

Everything that we did and built and wrote and thought and discovered will be forgotten and all of this will have been for naught.

Maybe that is coming soon and maybe it is millions of years away , but even if we survive the collapse of our sun, we will not survive forever.

There was time before organisms experienced consciousness and there will be time after. And if the inevitability of human oblivion worries you, i encourage you to ignore it. God knows that’s what everyone else does.

- Hazel Grace

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Wed, 08 May 2013 10:31:52 +0800

OHM.

Sun, 05 May 2013 21:35:02 +0800

Went for my first ever hot yoga class on Thursday night. In the 60mins session, i sweat more than being on production for 10 hours.

Looking forward to my next session.

namaste

“I enjoy… (the work), but I’m also doing something else, and sometimes I’m not aware of what...

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 11:28:39 +0800

“I enjoy… (the work), but I’m also doing something else, and sometimes I’m not aware of what that is.”

http://www.shortoftheweek.com/2012/03/19/sunshine/

Talent means nothing in this world.

Thu, 11 Apr 2013 14:09:49 +0800

I hate the word ‘talent.’ People use it so freely and so often that you would think it actually carried some weight behind it. Take it from someone who is said to be ‘talented’ in many different areas: talent ain’t shit. All that really matters is intelligence.

It’s a shame really. Those born with ‘talent’ or a sharp intelligence tend to waste their lives and waste all of their potential along with it. Laziness and self-righteous entitlement plagues too many people as it is and loves to feed on those that are under the false illusion that their lives will be smooth and easy. Life is never easy for one simple reason.

When we are young we come to understand what we are capable of and plan our lives accordingly. The more talented we believe ourselves to be, the more daring our hopes and dreams. The more seemingly unlikely the dreams, the more difficult to attain. The more talented you are, the more insane your dreams are and the more difficult they will be to get a hold of.

No matter how talented you are, you will need to work hard for that which you really want. Fail to work hard, fail to put in the effort, the hours, fail to break a sweat and you will inevitably end up a failure. A talented failure is still a failure…No. Worse.

A talented failure is the worst kind of failure because you are wasting the gifts that nature gave you. Being talented comes with the responsibility to put your skills and intelligence towards bettering the human race and helping our further evolutionary progress. Being lazy doesn’t accomplish shit.

Let the wrong people go.

Wed, 10 Apr 2013 15:44:02 +0800

You are going to come across many different types of people in life, so you don’t have to be everyone’s friend. You will come to realize who your true friends are, supporting you through thick and thin. You will also, however, encounter a fair amount of poisonous individuals that will try to hold you back from getting what you want for their own benefit.

Cut them off and don’t let them intrude and ruin your life. You can’t make everyone happy in this world, so don’t bother trying. Don’t be so quick to lend out your trust.

Wed, 10 Apr 2013 12:10:52 +0800

Sat, 30 Mar 2013 12:03:28 +0800

Sleep is my priority.

Wed, 27 Mar 2013 06:11:54 +0800

Sleep is my priority.

oldfilmsflicker: Submarine, 2011 (dir. Richard Ayoade)

Sat, 23 Mar 2013 12:17:22 +0800

oldfilmsflicker:

Submarine, 2011 (dir. Richard Ayoade)

“Most people lose the ability to see silver linings even though they are always there above us...

Sun, 17 Mar 2013 01:24:08 +0800

“Most people lose the ability to see silver linings even though they are always there above us almost every day.”

― Matthew Quick, The Silver Linings Playbook

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Sun, 17 Mar 2013 00:39:39 +0800

Feb Reads

Fri, 01 Mar 2013 09:36:48 +0800

http://whatshihsaid.com/2013/02/17/you-get-better-an-open-letter-to-my-teenage-self/

If you survive - and survive,and survive - you will be someone who makes it better. The world(in some small way) will get better, because of you. Your survival is the greatest defiance, the bravest rebellion - and originality- you have to offer. If you somehow arrive at your post-pubescence unshackled from cynicism, liberated from the hunt for everlasting happiness, embracing your own melancholy and even using it to save another life - You will have made it better.

So survive. Because you get better. (And so will it)

http://whatshihsaid.com/2013/02/26/ang-lee-a-never-ending-dream/

The next morning, right before she got into her car to head off to work, my wife turned back and - standing there on our front steps - said,’Ang, don’t forget your dream.’

And that dream of mine- drowned by demands of reality - came back to life

http://likeafieldmouse.tumblr.com/post/25823089196/to-my-friend-in-trouble

Most of us aren’t interested in being immortal. It’s not immortality we want or heaven or super powers, and it’s not even about wishing we were stronger or better or healthier. Most of us just want to understand our measurements, however modest they may be. It’s not even that we want to be comfortable in our own skin, it’s that we want to fell that we’re in skin.We want to be in our own little skin and feel that we’re part of it all again in our own little way for our own little time.

That’s all. We want to feel that we occupy some definite space in a room, in the world, and we’d be content with however much space it may be.

For Jodi :>

Thu, 28 Feb 2013 13:55:03 +0800

For Jodi :>

Feb Tunes

Sun, 24 Feb 2013 23:16:00 +0800

1. Luna Sea - I For You

2. Princess Chelsea - The Cigarette Duet

3. The Weepies - World Spins Madly On

HAPPY MONDAY :>

When going studying in New York

Fri, 22 Feb 2013 17:41:42 +0800

MELBOURNE DAYZZZZ

phdstress:

First week as a visiting scholar and I’m like this

One month later realizing I have done no research or writing at all

When my supervisor stops by my office

Fri, 22 Feb 2013 17:40:37 +0800

phdstress:

On the outside I’m like

On the inside I’m like

Pay day!

Fri, 22 Feb 2013 17:31:04 +0800

phdstress:

Next morning: