from Sacred Hoops

There's an old Zen story that illustrates this point. Two monks were traveling together in a heavy downpour when they came upon a beautiful woman in a silk kimono who was having trouble crossing a muddy intersection. "Come on," said the first monk to the woman, and he carried her in his arms to a dry spot. The second monk didn't say anything until much later. Then he couldn't contain himself anymore. "We monks don't go near females," he said. "Why did you do that?"

"I left the woman back there, " the first monk replied. "Are you still carrying her?"

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go on

If I had eyes in the back of my head
I would have told you that you looked good as I walked away
And if you could've tried to trust the hand that fed
You would've never been hungry but you'd never really be
More of this or less of this or is there any difference
Or are we just holding onto the things we don't have anymore

Sometimes time doesn't heal
No not at all
It just stands still
While we fall
In or out of love
Again I doubt
I'm gonna win you back
When you got eyes like that
That won't let me in
Always looking out

A lot of people spend their time just floating
We were victims together but lonely
You got hungry eyes that just can't look forward
Can't give them enough but we just can't start over
Building with bent nails we're falling but holding
I don't wanna take up anymore of your time
Time time time

Sometimes time doesn't heal
No not at all
It just stands still
While we fall
In or out of love
Again I doubt
I'm gonna win you back
When you got eyes like that
That won't let me in
Always looking out

In my rear view
I watch you
Watching the twilight
Behind the telephone lines
With nothing to prove
Or to assume
Just thinking that your thoughts
Are different than mine

I see you slowly swim away
As the light is leaving town
To a place that I can’t be
But there’s no apologies

Just go on
Just go on
There’s still so many things
I want to say to you
But go on
Just go on
We’re bound by blood that’s moving
From the moment that we start

I see your perfect little eyes 
Watch the shadows of the clouds
On the surface of the ocean
Out the window of the plane
I get nervous when I fly
I’m used to walking with my feet
Turbulence is like a sigh
That I can’t help but over think

What is the purpose of my life
If it doesn’t have to do
With learning to let it go
Live vicariously through you
You could do the same
It’s the least you could do
Because it’s a lonely little chain
If you don’t add to it

So go on
Just go on
There’s still so many things
I want to say to you
But go on
Just go on
We’re bound by blood and love
From the moment that we start

i think i bought this around ten years back. i caught their video, the tune stuck, and i had to find the track. so i went round clementi looking in cd shops and lo behold one day i finally found one that had it. the shop was outside the Empress building, outside kfc. haha i had to ask my mom for $20 to buy it.



all the pain money can buy

anyone can see the road that they walk on is paved in gold
it's always summer they'll never get cold

did i tell u my favourite song?

raining now more than ever
we still have each other

his after moan though cries oh no
he's building up a shine but he’d take it slow
and he knows it's time to make a change here, and time to get away
and he knows it's time for all the wrong reasons, time to end the pain

oh what a lovely day to have a slice of humble pie
oh recalling of the while we used to drive and drive here and there
going nowhere but for us, nowhere but the two of us

and we knew it was time to take a chance here
time to compromise our lives just a little while
and it was time for all the wrong and lonely lonesome reasons
but time is often on my side but I give it to you tonight

1:21

coolness

we couldn't be superman

today Andy Seidel, CEO of a water company, came to class to talk to us. Who would have thought he could be so interesting? i mean, he spent the past decade and more selling water processes and systems? hm.
Well, he exhibited a fine art of engaging people. I was suitably impressed.

"take a look around you. this is the last time you are going to be surrounded by so many smart people in a classroom."

Prof Flavio had a pretty good quip today too.

"Look at this slide. Remember this slide for life. I would want you to print it out and fold it and keep it in your wallet. On your wedding night, take it out and have a look at it when you have any doubts. Well, not that it is going to help anyway."

the next time i find myself about to spend more than 5 minutes of my life in front of the screen doing nothing constructive i will:

1) read the econometrics textbook
2) read the google PageRank book
3) or any other book that im supposed to read
4) work out at pottruck. or in my room
5) tidy my table, cabinet, or my whole room
6) go to the shipping center. write or send something home
7) go to the library
8) read the newspaper
9) go skiing

my classes at penn, fortunately, features professors with quite a sole sense of humour. which is quite important in education if you ask me. taking things with a dose of laughter helps in most causes, in this case (higher?) learning.
Babin's class is at 9 in the morn and most times I am kept awake by him. I go into Flavio Cunha's class with half the mind to drop the bloody econometrics class but i come out with a renewed intent to read through the textbook and attend recitation.
which could explain why i am up at 0345 doing homework. haha it's most probably my last minute self at work again.

sharleen

Chapel Hill

Carolina Tar Heel Blue rocks!

there are people saying obama is not all he is made out to be as he is in the media, and hillary she has been called out on her income sources,
but this video

-- is --

pretty good.
It would be nice to believe, inspire and achieve.