tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-273917062024-03-14T03:41:23.994+08:00ALMOST PURR...FECTIn Memory Of MilleMeow. (01/01/01 - ??/02/05) Deeply missed...millemeowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08064984732442516902noreply@blogger.comBlogger84125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27391706.post-51800323558183896422016-12-07T19:26:00.000+08:002016-12-31T01:32:28.802+08:00Reflections To End 2016<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br><div>Into the penultimate day of the year. Twenty four hours remain before the sands of time runs out on the eve. An appropriate period to meditate and reflect on the past. And not just limit it to the previous calendar year. </div><div><br></div><div>On this occasion, due to recent happenings that has occurred within this final quarter, I found particular focus on the past half decade. In the final analysis, though there was joy to be found, there were also instances of regrets. Sadly, the latter cannot be undone. It is history. </div><div><br></div><div>The question I now face is this. Is the opportunity still there? Does it still exist? Or is it already too late to salvage and conjure up that one privilege that I now seek to redefine the future of my life and I? One that I may have awaken too late to realise. </div><div><br></div><div>It is all in God's hands now. For all of what I seek has chosen to be hidden in Him. Thus, the path to whether the hidden will be revealed and availed will be also only through Him and none other. To be deserving or undeserving, He will decide. If I am to be worthy, my courage to face inner demons has to arise to make a stand now against the conflicts that has cost me dearly in the past. Without such resolution, there will be no forgiveness of thy self, nor the healing.</div><div><br></div><div>Into the new year I will walk. A year of uncertainty for certain. Be brave, be fearless to challenge the shrouds of bleakness before you, I tell myself. Be bold to ask the Lord for strength to strive for what you want. For what I desire is the immeasurable treasure of the hidden and a lifetime in union with her to serve our Lord God, the Almighty. </div><div><br></div><div>May He hear my prayers. </div><div>May He heed my pleas. </div><div>This I ask in the name of my beloved Christ. </div><div><br></div><div>Amen. </div>
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I have good reason, I think...</div>
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Nay, I have motivation.</div>
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I have conviction to dare seek.</div>
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I have cause to review past decisions.</div>
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Realign directions.</div>
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To chart purposeful new course ahead.</div>
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I possess new breaths of hope to now expect better.</div>
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To resurrect lifeless existence.</div>
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To reclaim a modicum of happiness and joy for life.</div>
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I have renewal.</div>
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Indeed, I have.</div>
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When I have your presence.</div>
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Thank you, Lord. Thank you for your grace.</div>
millemeowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08064984732442516902noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27391706.post-49290513166532918982015-01-01T17:22:00.002+08:002015-01-01T17:23:56.473+08:00Year 2015. What day? Which day?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The day before today was yesterday. </div>
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The day before tomorrow is today. </div>
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But the day after today is not just another day. </div>
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For it is New Year's Day. </div>
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And so a new year begins. </div>
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A new story book, a new chapter, a new Page One. </div>
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So, may the tale that is spun, </div>
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Turn into a rollicking good ol' yarn. </div>
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Happy New Year, friends. #2015 #AuldLangSyne </div>
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millemeowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08064984732442516902noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27391706.post-55824134005041582632015-01-01T04:30:00.001+08:002015-01-02T01:43:25.920+08:00For 2015....<div dir="ltr">
It is the Year 2015.</div>
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Upon a wish for justice I would make, </div>
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And a claim on equality I would stake.</div>
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A miracle no less difficult it would be, </div>
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A task no less different it will be.</div>
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Impossible till this day,</div>
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Improbable too, but to this age it keeps.</div>
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I then pondered out aloud,</div>
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Should peace and harmony be what I should shout.</div>
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But alas, pessimism spoke just as loud,</div>
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As I questioned all that this is about. </div>
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Wishful thinking it remains,</div>
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So long as politicians and warmongers we do not tame. </div>
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Narrowed choices are these that remains;</div>
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Faith, hope and love. </div>
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So long as God abandons not,</div>
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His abundance we will have in lot.</div>
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May we ever be so bold,</div>
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To these promises we should hold.</div>
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Happy New Year 2015, everyone.</div>
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millemeowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08064984732442516902noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27391706.post-40106400190137528102014-04-14T12:36:00.002+08:002014-04-14T12:41:38.361+08:00Ill-fitting Misfit<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Finding joy playing in the rain...<br />
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It splatters.</div>
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Within old world surroundings,</div>
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Flashbacks of my childhood.<br />
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A misfit I have become...</div>
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I miss the old KL.</div>
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I belonged then.</div>
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No longer now.</div>
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An ill-fit this city has turned.</div>
millemeowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08064984732442516902noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27391706.post-3757043623867549482014-02-03T16:38:00.004+08:002014-02-04T01:29:58.698+08:00Relationships<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Relationships are bonds. </div>
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The cord that ties one to another.</div>
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And in that process, also binds one down </div>
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with only a certain amount of allowable slack </div>
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that's adequate to let one move, think and emote freely. </div>
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But, as stipulated, only as far as up to certain specified boundaries. </div>
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While typical western or oriental philosophies may overlap </div>
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and concur in advocating this form of anchoring </div>
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<i>(and the masses traditionally laps it up </i></div>
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the reality is this bond is also what holds one back </div>
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from blossoming and expressing life to the hilt. </div>
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In light of this, we may as well acknowledge it </div>
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to be an invisible ball and chain strapped around our left ankle. </div>
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It's a simple thing to surmise, really. </div>
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A choice. </div>
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A choice of deciding between ball and chain </div>
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or of being liberated into a free spirit. </div>
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I've long chosen, </div>
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and have long walked the path of the latter. </div>
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Thankfully, I was not alone. </div>
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I walked it with Jesus, </div>
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my Lord, my God, my saviour. </div>
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Amen. </div>
millemeowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08064984732442516902noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27391706.post-65738268889772458962013-10-25T14:53:00.002+08:002013-10-28T01:05:42.985+08:00The Land of Thieves and MurderersI live in a land of thieves and of murderers.<br />
Ruled by yet another set of thieves and murderers,<br />
Who equals or exceeds the prior.<br />
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Judged by umpires and officials, both inept and corrupt.<br />
Whence justice and equality is more equal for the some,<br />
And lesser for the not-some, ala Orwellian 'Animal Farm'.<br />
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I live in a land where opportunities are not based upon merits,<br />
But favour dependent on the 'Who' that you know.<br />
Or the palm that you otherwise grease.<br />
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I live in a land immoral and sinful.<br />
I live in a land depraved.<br />
I live in a land in fear of itself.<br />
Of what tomorrow brings.<br />
<br />millemeowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08064984732442516902noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27391706.post-87137457545605117392013-10-25T02:11:00.003+08:002013-11-03T04:04:44.812+08:00Ode To An Orange Moon (Part II: The Closing Chapter)<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Tonight....</span><br />
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"A long time ago,<br />
A half orange moon I gazed.<br />
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A moment in impulse then,<br />
A pen I grasped in hand.<br />
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A prose I scribed,<br />
A match in you it described. <br />
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A dandelion t'was for then.<br />
A dandelion so too this is for now.<br />
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A wait too long.<br />
A goodbye, a farewell song.<br />
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A-Mei's 趁早"<br />
<br />millemeowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08064984732442516902noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27391706.post-20676404633460810002011-09-21T19:30:00.002+08:002011-09-21T19:33:12.316+08:00The Activist: The Financial System<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><h2 style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-weight: bold; font-style: inherit; font-size: 1.72em; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.3em; text-align: center; ">The Financial System is a Machine That Destroys Our Souls</h2><small style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 2em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; display: block; text-align: center; color: rgb(153, 153, 153); font: italic normal normal 0.86em/1.166em 'normal Georgia', serif; ">In <a href="http://theactivists.wordpress.com/category/capitalism/" title="View all posts in Capitalism" rel="category tag" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); text-decoration: none; ">Capitalism</a>, <a href="http://theactivists.wordpress.com/category/consumerism/" title="View all posts in Consumerism" rel="category tag" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); text-decoration: none; ">Consumerism</a>, <a href="http://theactivists.wordpress.com/category/debt-prison/" title="View all posts in Debt Prison" rel="category tag" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; 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font-size: 12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); text-decoration: none; ">IMF-WorldBank-Wall Street- Complex</a>, <a href="http://theactivists.wordpress.com/category/the-financial-system/" title="View all posts in The Financial System" rel="category tag" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); text-decoration: none; ">The Financial System</a> on <strong style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; 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padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-size: 1.09em; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; line-height: 1.4em; "><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; ">How do we take our lives back from the hands of the bankers and bondholders? We must fight for our own minds. We must fight for our own visions, we must fight for authenticity, for freedom in every form and fashion. We must fight against the forces of stability, the vampirism of a financial system based on usurping our hopes and passions. We must fight against the ignorant cycling of capital on the back of human misery. We must fight for our lives back, we must break the exploitive contract, we do not want your house, we do not want your false dreams. We want freedom, we want justice, we want to feed the starving children.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; ">We do not want your luxurious cars or your mansions, we do not want your false hopes, we want basic rights for every individual on earth. We want basic justice for every human being on this planet.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; ">We do not want your weapons programs funded by our very tax money. We do not want your images plastered on the television.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; ">Down with injustice, down with a mass media that sugarcoats the heinous truth. Down with a psychological environment which turns human beings into silent consumers of their inner self.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; ">We have mortgaged our lives and now we sit and wait for our lives to improve, we must stop waiting and take our lives back. We must extract our hearts and souls out of the mass media machine. We must extricate our very being out of the cycles of capital which are meant to distract us, consume us and reduce us to wanton beasts.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; ">Gertrude Taylor</p></div></span>millemeowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08064984732442516902noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27391706.post-63414391924099462312011-09-07T03:00:00.010+08:002011-09-07T03:16:08.721+08:00The Activists: The Truth About The System<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><h2 style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-weight: bold; font-style: inherit; font-size: 1.72em; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.3em; text-align: center; ">We are not a Part of the System, </h2><h2 style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-weight: bold; font-style: inherit; font-size: 1.72em; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.3em; text-align: center; ">We are Merely Exploited by the System</h2><small style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 2em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; display: block; text-align: center; color: rgb(153, 153, 153); font: italic normal normal 0.86em/1.166em 'normal Georgia', serif; ">In <b><a href="http://theactivists.wordpress.com/category/capitalism/" title="View all posts in Capitalism" rel="category tag" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; 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margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); text-decoration: none; ">Oppression</a> </b>on <strong style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); ">August 19, 2011</strong> at <strong style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); ">2:08 pm</strong></small><div class="entry" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-size: 1.09em; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; line-height: 1.4em; "><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.1em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; ">We slave away from day to night. We wash the dishes. We drive to work, we pay our taxes, we serve our time, but are we part of the system?</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.1em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; ">The answer is an explicit no. We are merely the work horses, the laborers, but the agenda is always dictated from above. The social ‘truths’ are all formulated in the think tanks of the rich. The elite mass media which thinks of the masses as nothing more than a piece of dough, to be kneaded and kneaded until the message is clear.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.1em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; ">Thus, we, the masses, the form, the people, have been rendered as nothing more than a reflexive, reactive audience. We, the generation of apolitical children, have been stuffed in movie theatres so that we may have Mr. Spielberg dream on our behalf.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.1em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; ">We have lost touch with our inner selves, we have been formulated and reformulated so many times that we have grown tired and insecure. We shelter ourselves inside of our manufactured personas. We tuck our feelings inside of the day to day. We try to escape through the television screens, but we are stuck as a non-entity still.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.1em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; ">No, we are not part of the system. In fact, the system deliberately chooses to ignore us when it cannot explicitly formulate our psyche. The system bullies us, the system crushes our self-esteem. When we rise, they call us hooligans. When we protest, they labels us as existential trouble markers.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.1em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; ">No, we are not part of this system, and the dream is not our dream. Our manufactured consumer reality is not even our reality. We are ghosts within the industrial machine, our voices are nothing more than allusions to a primal voice that can exist in this culture no more.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.1em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; ">No, we are not part of any system, we are merely the oil used to lubricate; the cheap labor used to increase profitability; the beasts of burden used to lug around the guilts of the rich and the vanities of the famous.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.1em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; "><br /></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.1em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; "> </p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.1em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; ">Michael Schaefer</p></div></span>millemeowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08064984732442516902noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27391706.post-82327197582624148272011-09-04T15:54:00.002+08:002011-09-04T15:57:51.309+08:00The fruit from the Bong tree....<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-sgiDdRU4SJ8/TmMvLG9l-xI/AAAAAAAAAe8/Jx0gCysOti0/s1600/What%2Ba%2Bbong%2Bis.gif" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 129px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-sgiDdRU4SJ8/TmMvLG9l-xI/AAAAAAAAAe8/Jx0gCysOti0/s400/What%2Ba%2Bbong%2Bis.gif" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5648410225546754834" /></a><div>
<br /></div>So that's what a Bong fruit is! Ooops.... Heh. ;pmillemeowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08064984732442516902noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27391706.post-28780493592688784102011-08-29T05:24:00.009+08:002013-10-28T01:44:09.541+08:00What is an activist?It's been almost five years since I took to activism. Often, I am asked by the uninitiated (or the apathetic) what an activist is. What do they do? Where do they do it? How is it done? And of course, why do they do it? They all expect uncomplicated answers. Like cereal straight out of the box. If only it was that easy.<br />
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There's a point where anyone can become an activist. I mean, you see something so wrong. And you have to act on it. To the more radical extremist elements, this means even if it leads to the end of you.<br />
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In the early days, although I had an uneasy time explaining the complexities associated with this occupation, it did not deter me from obliging as I harbored hopes that it will touch, move or inspire others <i>'to take up arms',</i> per se. I never ceased trying to illuminate injustices or atrocities that are so well hidden from the general population by 'the System'. However, as time passed along, cynicism manifested and overtook my way of being. Facing such questions and defining an answer now bordered on the point of being an inconvenience. So while I look forward to extending my days as a 'troublemaker' <i>(Yes, that's what governments and corporate bigwigs will have others think of people such as us)</i> to a full decade, this posting is my reply to the subject matter one more time. </div>
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millemeowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08064984732442516902noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27391706.post-44561897997093125202011-08-26T21:53:00.002+08:002013-10-28T01:40:16.216+08:00Tonight I can write the saddest lines....<span style="font-size: 14px;"><i>Tonight I can write the saddest lines.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14px;"><i>Write, for example, "The night is shattered, </i></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><i>And the blue stars shiver in the distance."</i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 14px;"><i>The night wind revolves in the sky and sings.</i></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><i><br /></i></span></span>
<i><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">T</span></span><span style="font-size: 14px;">onight I can write the saddest lines.</span></i><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14px;"><i>I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 14px;"><i>Through nights like this one, I held her in my arms.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 14px;"><i>I kissed her again and again under the endless sky.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14px;"><i>She loved me sometimes, and I loved her too.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 14px;"><i>How could one not have loved her great still eyes? </i></span><br />
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<i><span style="font-size: 14px;">T</span><span style="font-size: 14px;">onight I can write the saddest lines.</span></i><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14px;"><i>To think that I do not have her. To feel that I have lost her. </i></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 14px;"><i>To hear the immense night, still more immense without her. </i></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 14px;"><i>And the verse falls to the soul, like dew to the pasture. </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14px;"><i>What does it matter that my love could not keep her?</i></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 14px;"><i>The night is shattered and she is not with me. </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14px;"><i>This is all. </i></span><br />
<i><span style="font-size: 14px;">In the distance, someone is singing. </span><span style="font-size: 14px;">In the distance. </span></i><br />
<span style="font-size: 14px;"><i>My soul is not satisfied that it has lost her.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14px;"><i>My sight searches for her as though to go to her. </i></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 14px;"><i>My heart looks for her, and she is not with me.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14px;"><i>The same night whitening the same trees.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 14px;"><i>We, of that time, are no longer the same.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14px;"><i>I no longer love her, that's certain, but how I loved her. </i></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 14px;"><i>My voice tried to find the wind to touch her hearing.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14px;"><i>Another's. She will be another's. Like my kisses before. </i></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 14px;"><i>Her voice. Her bright body. Her infinite eyes. </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14px;"><i>I no longer love her, that's certain, but maybe I love her. </i></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 14px;"><i>Love is so short, forgetting is so long. </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14px;"><i>Because through the nights like this one, I held her in my arms.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 14px;"><i>My soul is not satisfied that it has lost her. </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14px;"><i>Though this be the last pain that she makes me suffer</i></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 14px;"><i>and these the last verses that I write for her.</i> </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">~ <b>Pablo Neruda </b>(July 12, 1904 - September 23, 1973)</span></span><br />
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millemeowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08064984732442516902noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27391706.post-13439229284225690142011-08-21T09:26:00.003+08:002011-09-07T03:17:09.431+08:00The Activist: The Creed<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><h2 style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-weight: bold; font-style: inherit; font-size: 1.72em; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.3em; text-align: center; ">The Revolution is Our Only Hope</h2><small style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 2em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; display: block; text-align: center; color: rgb(153, 153, 153); font: italic normal normal 0.86em/1.166em 'normal Georgia', serif; ">In <b><a href="http://theactivists.wordpress.com/category/activism/" title="View all posts in Activism" rel="category tag" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); text-decoration: none; ">Activism</a>, <a href="http://theactivists.wordpress.com/category/democracy/" title="View all posts in Democracy" rel="category tag" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); text-decoration: none; ">Democracy</a>, <a href="http://theactivists.wordpress.com/category/the-revolution/" title="View all posts in The Revolution" rel="category tag" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); text-decoration: none; ">The Revolution</a></b> on <strong style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); ">August 21, 2011</strong> at <strong style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); ">1:19 am</strong></small><div class="entry" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-size: 1.09em; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; line-height: 1.4em; "><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.1em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; "> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; ">It is time for humanity to act upon the oppression. It is time for us to push back against the waves of injustice. No child should die of hunger. No economy should be allowed to expand by squeezing out the poor. No mass culture should be justified as it deceives the people.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; ">The revolution is the only way to clear the clouds of misery that hover above the human condition. Capitalism is a lie. Economic growth is a myth, the wealth of the people is being siphoned as we speak. The governments are nothing more than charades.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; ">It is time for the people to rise, the frenetic energy of the crowds to manifest itself in every fashion possible.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; ">The revolution is the only way in which we can free ourselves from 400 years of capitalist bondage and accumulation. The revolution is the only way to wipe out the remnants of slavery that will otherwise remain a part of our psychology forever.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; ">Anyone who is afraid of the revolution has something to hide. Anyone who questions the rationale of the revolution is complicit in the injustices that continue to grow as stock market indices skyrocket.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; ">We are the people, we are the ones, we are the voice and it is our duty to resist. It is our obligation to rebel against those who insist on subduing human freedom. It is our responsibility to ourselves and to future generations to do away with the corporate schemes, with the military-industrial machines, with greedy entities that are bent on destroying humanity.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; ">Fear is their weapon, it is not ours. Fear is the instrument that they surgically put into our chests. We are afraid of nothing, we stand together, the collective, the people, the ones who have nothing to hide, the ones who have no desire to hoard the resources of the world.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; ">Our asset is our will power. Our hope lies in our political consciousness. Our freedom is the only air that we need to breathe.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; "><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; "></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; ">Gertrude Taylor</p></div></span>millemeowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08064984732442516902noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27391706.post-76731030726516678522011-08-20T00:01:00.003+08:002011-08-20T00:11:34.583+08:00What the heck are Bong trees???<div>I want to go to the land where the Bong tree grows......</div><div>
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<br /></span></div><div> <p class="MsoNoSpacing"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span"><i> </i></span></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-US">好雨知</span><span lang="EN-US">时节 <i>The good rain knows its season,</i></span></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-US">当春乃</span><span lang="EN-US">发生<i> When spring arrives, it brings life.</i></span></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-US">随</span><span lang="EN-US">风潜入夜 <i>It follows the wind secretly into the night,</i></span></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-US">润物细无声 <i>And moistens all things softly, without sound.</i></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">野径云俱黑 </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic; ">On the country road, the clouds are all black,</span></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">江船火独明 </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic; ">On the riverboat, a single fire bright.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span class="Apple-style-span">晓看红湿处<i> At dawn one sees this place now red and wet,</i></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-US">花重</span><span lang="EN-US">锦官城 </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-style: italic; ">The flowers are heavy in the brocade city.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span">
<br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span">~ A poem by </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'MS Gothic'; ">杜甫</span><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span"> Du Fu (712-770)</span></span></p></div>millemeowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08064984732442516902noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27391706.post-21898965835746053422010-12-31T10:19:00.003+08:002010-12-31T10:23:30.052+08:00Western Union and its predatory ways<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: small; "><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: small; ">I subscribe to the mailing list of Avaaz, an independent non-profit making lobby group with a global presence. This morning, I received the below email. The core story it told made my stomach churn. So I decided to reproduce it here. If it has the same effect on you, please kindly add your name to the petition by signing at the below link.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: small; "><br /></span></div><div><a href="https://secure.avaaz.org/en/make_giving_powerful/?cl=888883031&v=8054" target="_blank">https://secure.avaaz.org/en/<wbr>make_giving_powerful/?vl</a></div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: small; ">Thank you. </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: small; "><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: small; ">-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: small; "><br /></span></div>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Luis Morago - Avaaz.org</b> <span dir="ltr"><avaaz@avaaz.org></span><br />Date: Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 4:30 AM<br />Subject: Predators<br />To: "ng.steven@gmail.com" <ng.steven@gmail.com><br /><br /><br /><div>Dear friends,<br /><br /><table align="right" bg width="220" style="margin-left: 15px; "><tbody><tr><td style="border-top-width: 1px; border-right-width: 1px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-right-style: solid; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding-top: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 10px; "><span ><a href="https://secure.avaaz.org/en/make_giving_powerful/?cl=888883031&v=8054" target="_blank"><img src="http://avaazimages.s3.amazonaws.com/WesternUnionEmail.jpg" border="0" width="200" /> <br /><br /></a><b>Western Union is taking critical money from the world's working poor</b> by charging predatory transfer fees. As we move through the giving season, <b>let's urgently shame them into action</b>! Add your voice to the petition for fair fees:<br /><div style="text-align: center; "><br /><a href="https://secure.avaaz.org/en/make_giving_powerful/?cl=888883031&v=8054" target="_blank"><img src="http://avaazimages.s3.amazonaws.com/sign_english_pink.png" width="200" border="0" alt="Sign the petition" /></a></div></span></td></tr></tbody></table>This holiday season, Josh, a Kenyan student in the Netherlands, scraped together a year's worth of savings and sent it home to support 10 struggling family members. Shockingly, the giant money transfer company <b>Western Union skimmed off 20% of the cash meant for Josh's family in fees</b>.<br /><br />Josh’s story is painfully retold every day, the world over, on a staggering scale -- an estimated <b>$44.3 billion worldwide was lost in transfer fees last year!</b> The World Bank recommends that transaction costs not exceed 5% of the total, but Western Union has never faced serious pressure to lower its crippling charges. <b>If we unite in a global outcry now, we can expose its predatory practices </b>when its carefully crafted, family-friendly image is most vulnerable: the giving season.<br /><br />Josh's generosity -- and that of millions of workers around the world -- shouldn't go to waste! <b>Let's call on Western Union to lower its fees to 5% for the poorest</b> countries, and when the petition reaches 250,000 <b>we’ll deliver it to the company’s image-sensitive board of directors. Sign now</b> and then forward this to friends and family:<br /><br /><a href="https://secure.avaaz.org/en/make_giving_powerful/?cl=888883031&v=8054" target="_blank">https://secure.avaaz.org/en/<wbr>make_giving_powerful/?vl</a><br /><br />Sacrifices like Josh’s dwarf foreign governmental aid every year and provide a vital lifeline to the world’s poorest economies. <b>Slashing the obscene profits of companies like Western Union would dramatically increase assistance flowing into developing countries.</b> Instead, families around the world received far less than they deserved so that Western Union's CEO could take home $8.1 million in 2009.<br /><br /><b>The World Bank recommends that transfer companies limit fees to 5%</b> of the amount being transferred, but some banks and companies have astronomical hidden charges. Perversely, the neediest countries coming out of war or disaster suffer the greatest losses, because of transfer companies' monopolistic privileges and exclusive deals with local banks.<br /><br />The yearly savings of men and women laboring in hospitals, construction sites and restaurants end up padding Western Union's profits. The company funds charity projects to improve its corporate image – but these do nothing to hide the massive inequity that their business model perpetrates. Let's raise our voices loudly to support true generosity during the holiday season – and help bring immediate benefits to workers and the relatives they sustain. <b>Together we can make sure that needy families – rather than CEOs – benefit from holiday giving:</b><br /><br /><a href="https://secure.avaaz.org/en/make_giving_powerful/?cl=888883031&v=8054" target="_blank">https://secure.avaaz.org/en/<wbr>make_giving_powerful/?vl</a><br /><br />When citizens around the world stand together to protest injustice, we can force back unchecked greed and inequality – as we've done together before. Buoyed by the warmth and empathy of the holiday season, let's make sure that generous gifts arrive where they're most needed.<br /><br />With hope and gratitude,<br /><br />Luis, Stephanie, Graziela, David, Paula, Ben, and the rest of the Avaaz team<br /><br />SOURCES:<br /><br /><i>Western Union CEO's pay more than triples in 2009</i>, Associated Press:<br /><a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory?id=10241684" target="_blank">http://abcnews.go.com/<wbr>Business/wireStory?id=10241684</a><br /><br /><i>Past Time for Remittance Justice</i>, ACORN International:<br /><a href="https://secure.avaaz.org/remittance_justice_report" target="_blank">https://secure.avaaz.org/<wbr>remittance_justice_report</a><br /><br />World Bank Remittance Pricing resource:<br /><a href="http://remittanceprices.worldbank.org/" target="_blank">http://remittanceprices.<wbr>worldbank.org/</a><br /><br /><img src="http://www.avaaz.org/act/open/888883031.gif" border="0" /><br /><b>Support the Avaaz community!</b> We're entirely funded by donations and receive no money from governments or corporations. Our dedicated team ensures even the smallest contributions go a long way -- <a href="https://secure.avaaz.org/en/donate_to_avaaz/?cl=888883031&v=8054" target="_blank">donate here</a>.<br /><br /><hr /><span ><b><br />Avaaz.org is a 6.5-million-person global campaign network</b> that works to ensure that the views and values of the world's people shape global decision-making. ("Avaaz" means "voice" or "song" in many languages.) Avaaz members live in every nation of the world; our team is spread across 13 countries on 4 continents and operates in 14 languages. Learn about some of Avaaz's biggest campaigns <a href="http://www.avaaz.org/en/highlights?footer" target="_blank">here</a>, or follow us on <a href="http://www.facebook.com/Avaaz" target="_blank">Facebook</a> or <a href="http://twitter.com/Avaaz" target="_blank">Twitter</a>.<br /><br />This message was sent to ng.steven@gmail.com. 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I'm dumbstruck! </div></div>millemeowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08064984732442516902noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27391706.post-40627034631782748262010-09-04T02:57:00.005+08:002010-09-04T03:04:16.390+08:00Idiota!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_zvXYO7AdOaI/TIFFSBxtV0I/AAAAAAAAAaI/eDlWfc0VJRc/s1600/333039.zoom.gif"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 129px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_zvXYO7AdOaI/TIFFSBxtV0I/AAAAAAAAAaI/eDlWfc0VJRc/s400/333039.zoom.gif" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5512763594895087426" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; line-height: 20px; font-size:10px;"><div style="text-align: center;">(Click on comic strip for a higher resolution image)</div></span><div><br /></div><div>I'm dreading this but I think Mr. Walking Cane up in First Class is about to disprove the hypothesis of my two previous posts.</div><div><br /></div><div>Goddammit! Which idiot thought up this lousy comic strip anyway? </div>millemeowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08064984732442516902noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27391706.post-78532723400037143932010-08-28T02:04:00.008+08:002010-09-07T01:12:05.447+08:00Antique Chapter, Antique People....<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_zvXYO7AdOaI/THf-XtM53RI/AAAAAAAAAaA/s8rrz3rcXA0/s1600/332208.zoom.gif"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 126px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_zvXYO7AdOaI/THf-XtM53RI/AAAAAAAAAaA/s8rrz3rcXA0/s400/332208.zoom.gif" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5510152352335256850" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; line-height: 20px; font-size:10px;">(Click on comic strip for a higher resolution image)</span></div><div><br /><div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">It used to be so natural</span></i></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Verdana, Helvetica, Arial;font-size:11px;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">To talk about forever</span></i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">But "used to be's" don't count anymore</span></i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">They just lay on the floor</span></i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">'Til we sweep them away.....</span></i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: right;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> - You Don't Bring Me Flowers, Neil Diamond & Barbara Streisand</span></span></div><div style="text-align: right;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></div></span></div></div>millemeowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08064984732442516902noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27391706.post-29187813637546127922010-08-25T00:38:00.008+08:002010-08-25T00:54:16.919+08:00五十年不變 (Fifty Years, Unrequited Love)<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_zvXYO7AdOaI/THP16HDRUFI/AAAAAAAAAZ4/VRjP-67FNko/s1600/1.gif"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 126px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_zvXYO7AdOaI/THP16HDRUFI/AAAAAAAAAZ4/VRjP-67FNko/s400/1.gif" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5509017147878232146" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_zvXYO7AdOaI/THP1s_UzrTI/AAAAAAAAAZw/zr7ZcQYR8kY/s1600/2.gif"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 129px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_zvXYO7AdOaI/THP1s_UzrTI/AAAAAAAAAZw/zr7ZcQYR8kY/s400/2.gif" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5509016922466004274" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; line-height: 20px; font-size:10px;">(Click on each individual comic strip for higher resolution images)</span></div><div><br /><div style="text-align: left;">I'd like to say that I still believe in love but...</div><div style="text-align: left;">Somehow the fallacies that befalls men and women of today no longer allow for the romantic notions of yesteryears to thrive beyond eras past.</div><div style="text-align: left;">Sigh....</div></div>millemeowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08064984732442516902noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27391706.post-18963878292132479502010-07-28T00:07:00.007+08:002010-07-28T00:41:13.730+08:00Personal announcement...Not!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_zvXYO7AdOaI/TE8Lob5d2nI/AAAAAAAAAZY/U9dnW3qVAVg/s1600/Hammock.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 268px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_zvXYO7AdOaI/TE8Lob5d2nI/AAAAAAAAAZY/U9dnW3qVAVg/s400/Hammock.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5498626459354126962" /></a><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;color:#333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: small; line-height: 20px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.75em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; ">As of time anew commencing August, I would like to announce that I shall be embarking on a new career. It is called 'Professional Bumming', and from my comprehension of the recruitment brochure, it is a vocation that requires one to only meet 2 conditions; that is, a commitment to take the meaning of leisurely idleness to new heights and a willingness to sacrifice time (which I currently have in over-abundance). I am unsure if lazing on a hammock after lunch and drinking beer by the beach at night is the right career move but as they say, "Nothing ventured, nothing gained."</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.75em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; ">Wish me luck, guys. Danke! ; )</div></span></span></span></span></div></span></span></span>millemeowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08064984732442516902noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27391706.post-44167641185153320082010-06-28T23:06:00.005+08:002010-06-28T23:17:00.483+08:00What should one do....Somehow, lurking somewhere within the shadows of conflicts, there will always be some semblance of profound humanistic philosophy to cling to; albeit, one that does not necessarily not arise by succumbing to one's weaknesses and one's compromise of moral values to do the right thing.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_zvXYO7AdOaI/TCi77HbciMI/AAAAAAAAAZQ/jQ63-Xljo6M/s1600/idiot.gif"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 129px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_zvXYO7AdOaI/TCi77HbciMI/AAAAAAAAAZQ/jQ63-Xljo6M/s400/idiot.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5487842770231789762" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:78%;" ><span style="font-style: italic;">(Click on comic strip for a higher resolution image) </span></span></div>millemeowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08064984732442516902noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27391706.post-60495308606612683052010-04-18T23:53:00.002+08:002010-04-18T23:56:47.652+08:00If Ever....<span style="font-style: italic;">If ever we meet again, and you were to ask if there had been anything that I had longed to say to you, I think this would be it.<br /><br /></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-style: italic;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_zvXYO7AdOaI/S8srJ5UtyUI/AAAAAAAAAYo/WjGWoV8q13c/s1600/hello.gif"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 126px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_zvXYO7AdOaI/S8srJ5UtyUI/AAAAAAAAAYo/WjGWoV8q13c/s400/hello.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5461506422123383106" border="0" /></a></span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:78%;" ><span style="font-style: italic;">(Click on comic strip for a higher resolution image) </span></span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-style: italic;">If ever....</span><br /></div></div><span style="font-style: italic;"><br /><br /></span>millemeowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08064984732442516902noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27391706.post-51850044661794918242010-03-14T15:35:00.000+08:002010-03-14T15:36:15.349+08:00A year. Twelve months.<span style="font-style: italic;">A year passed. </span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Though twelve months it is not like. </span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">I don't know where you are.</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">I don't know where you've been.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Time heals.</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Wounds closes. </span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">And pain eases. </span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">I thank God.</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;"> </span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Should the wind carry this,</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Know that I have long forgiven you.</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">And that my heart still skips a beat, </span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Each time I hear your name.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">I ask that you forgive me too, Bibi...</span>millemeowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08064984732442516902noreply@blogger.com0