Don't Quit

What's the point of judging others? will it give you a self satisfaction? does it make you feel superior? cos honestly i don't get this. At times i want to shout at their faces: "Please Re-evaluate yourself and above all else, please judge yourself and not the others". Group of professionals (so they called themselves) talk about their colleagues, cracking below-the-belt jokes, makes them laughing so hard. Watching them makes me sick like i want to evaporate. I think it's not my thing-tearing people down, mocking, scrutinizing. The world doesn't need that Let's spread love and joy!

As one active oldtimer once said: " If you are not committed to something, you are just occupying space." And so, to be able to face the reality of growing older day by day, gracefully and meaningfully, we share the following prayer:

"Lord, you know better than i that I am growing older and someday will be old. Keep me from the fatal habit of thinking I must say something on every subject and on every occasion.

"Release me from craving to straighten out everybody's affairs. Make me thoughtful but not moody; helpful but not bossy. With my vast store of wisdom, it seems a pity not to use it all... but you know Lord, that i want a few friends at the end.

"Keep my mind free from the recital of endless details... give me wings to get to the point. Seal my lips on the aches and pains. They are increasing and the love of rehearsing them is becoming sweeter as the years go by.

"I dare not ask for grace enough to enjoy the tales of others, but help me at least to endure them with patience.

"I dare not ask for improve memory but for a growing humility and a lessening cocksureness when my memory seems to clash with the memories of others. Teach me the glorious lesson that occasionally I may be mistaken.

"Keep me reasonably sweet. I do not want to be a saint-some of them are so hard to live with-but a sour old person is one of the crowning works of the devil.

"Give me the ability to see good things in unexpected places and talent in unexpected people. And give me the grace to tell them so."

--Anonymous

Next time I'll shoot RAW

I never shoot RAW for one reason-it consumes memory. I only have 4GB. The very significant benefits of shooting RAW is you can make adjustments to your shots. RAW is for shooting QUALITY image.

Windmills of Your Mind - original : Noel Harrison

Round like a circle in a spiral

Like a wheel within a wheel
Never ending on beginning
On an ever-spinning reel
Like a snowball down a mountain
Or a carnival balloon
Like a carousel that's turning
Running rings around the moon
Like a clock whose hands are sweeping
Past the minutes on its face
And the world is like an apple
Whirling silently in space
Like the circles that you find
In the windmills of your mind

Like a tunnel that you follow
To a tunnel of its own
Down a hollow to a cavern
Where the sun has never shone
Like a door that keeps revolving
In a half-forgotten dream
Or the ripples from a pebble
Someone tosses in a stream
Like a clock whose hands are sweeping
Past the minutes on its face
And the world is like an apple
Whirling silently in space
Like the circles that you find
In the windmills of your mind

Keys that jingle in your pocket
Words that jangle in your head
Why did summer go so quickly?
Was it something that I said?
Lovers walk along a shore
And leave their footprints in the sand
Was the sound of distant drumming
Just the fingers of your hand?
Pictures hanging in a hallway
Or the fragment of a song
Half-remembered names and faces
But to whom do they belong?
When you knew that it was over
Were you suddenly aware
That the autumn leaves were turning
To the color of her hair?

Like a circle in a spiral
Like a wheel within a wheel
Never ending or beginning
On an ever-spinning reel
As the images unwind
Like the circles that you find
In the windmills of your mind

So Far Away - Bamboo

Yesterday was my day 1 in swimming lesson 101. it was my first time to float. dang, i should've done this way back then. i didn't know It feel so good :) this is really my coolest summer ever!