Every moment is forever March 27, 2009

Imagine you’d won a contest. The prize was that every morning, a bank would open an account in your name containing 86,400 dollars. There were only two rules: The first rule is that everything you fail to spend is taken fron you that night. You can’t cheat, you can’t switch the unspent money to another accoung: you can only spend it. But when you wake next morning, and every morning after that, the bank opens a new account for you, always eighty-six thousand, four hundered dollar, for the day. Rule number two is that the bank can break off the game without warning. It can tell you at any time that it’s over, that it’s closing the account and there won’t be another one. Now, what would you do?

Or in another words: every morning when you wake up, they give you eighty-six thousand, four hundred dollars, on the sole condition that you spend it in one day. If you don’t spend it all by the time you go to bed, you lose whatever you didn’t spend. But this game- this windfall- can stop at any moment. So, what would you do if you were handed a prize like that?

I think most people will choose to spend every dollar on pleasure and on gifts for the people they loved, because I will do the same thing too. I’d find a way to use up every cent offered by this magic back to bring happiness into my life and the lives of everyone around me. And even the lives of people I don’t know, because I don’t think I’d manage to spend eighty-six thousand, four hundred dollars just on me and my friends every day.

Actually, we all have that magic bank account: it’s time! A big account, filled with fleeting seconds. Every morning when we wake up, our account for the day is credited with eighty-six thousand, four hundred seconds, and when we go to sleep every night, there’s no carryover into the next day. What hasn’t been lived during the day is lost; yesterday has vanished. Every morning the magic begins again, with a new line of credit of eighty-six thousand, four hundred seconds. And don’t forget rule number two: the bank can close our account at any time and without any warning. At any moment, life can end. So what do we do with our daily ration of eighty-six thousand, four hundred seconds? Aren’t seconds if life more important than dollars?

Generation Y March 19, 2009

Generation Y are those who are born between 1977 and 1994, and these children of the baby boomers now number 76 million.

Generation Y oldsters have now graduated from college and are moving up in their careers. One distinguishing characteristic of Generation Y is their utter fluency and comfort with computer, digital and internet technology. A study shows that:

(1) Some 87% of teens use the internet, up 24% over the past four years.
(2) More than half of the 87% go online every day.
(3) 84% of teens own at least one networked device, such as a cell phone, blackberry or computer.

Well, well, well… I’m quite surprised that I belong to the 87%, 24% and 84% of the study. Wow, its my first time to have an opportunity to belong to all the categories shown in a study!

True love never runs smooth March 8, 2009

I was re-watching this Japanese drama, Love Generation for the n-th times yesterday. It was such a good drama although it can be consider as quite an old drama, since it was first aired 12 years ago.

Anyway, what I love the most about this drama is the frequent apperances of a crystal apple throughout the series. When one look into the crystal apple, his or her view would appear upside down. And also due to this crystal apple, I ended up searching high and low for it for a few months last time. I found it and I bought two extremely mini crystal apples in the end. And come to think of it, I wonder where is the two mini crystal apples now… I guess its lurking somewhere in my house.

Actually there is an advertising poster appears over and over again throughout the series too. The model is holding a crystal apple with a message “True love never runs smooth”. Although I have never experience this, I guess its true anyway.

 

Orbituary for my polycarbonate bottle of 600ml March 3, 2009

Well, something unfortunate happen to my water bottle recently. The cap is completely destroyed! Seriously, I really dunno what happened to my poor bottle. For sure, I didn’t drop it!

 

I guess all the things that we used nowadays have an expiry date. I have been using this bottle for like 2 or 3 months only.

As you all can see, the cracks are going to meet each other soon. Actually the bottle is still very new. But then, with a cap like this, the water will pour out for sure! If there is any other way that I can use back the bottle without a cracking cap, then it will be perfect.