Life
Spring feeling
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Early one morning two days ago, I was heading for work, I stopped and took a zoomy shot of that tree (in the picture) across the road. It’s not a maple tree, doesn’t look like one to me. It has full of quietness. I looked around. No car was passing by, no people around. The street lights was still up reflecting the many tinted window glasses of the tall buildings. I looked at the tree while I glanced at the sky, it was like a deep blue ocean with fluffy white clouds. I was amazed.
Such peace. I’d wish it comes very often everyday, to simply calm my day, to see the sun comes up quietly from the horizon. As I stood there for few minutes later, the smooth breeze penetrates my skin. The season is changing, we finally said goodbye to the Winter as we welcomes the Spring. And so was the tree. Leaves fall down from the branches. Trunks turned dark. It can be anything, yet it remained to be a tree.
Time was passing, I suddenly looked at my watch, it was 6:00 in the morning, live people starting to get in. The cars zooms towards the zebra lines, the noise starting to drag my ears. The streetlights went off. So much glad I took a picture of it. Photographs brings us back a lot of memories to think about. Life is like that, I thought.
Eight hours later my brain was on hold as if I was dead on the job. Going through the motions again. The boredom kicks in. A day when I see the hours moved so very quickly - full of trickery. It made me feel anxious with so many imaginings. I knew I was going to ask myself again - to figure out the way to live.
Then once again, I looked at the picture of the tree from my phone. The tree changes every season from green to brown to green again, from bud to flower to fallen leaf. Yet it will always remain itself, a tree. Funny thing was, I smiled. Whether I like it or not, I am the tree. Can I change too? Now I know the answer, no matter what I do doesn’t matter, for as long as I remain inside myself, to be calm in my heart and stop worrying, I’ll enjoy the moment. It is still a beautiful world. I am happy, at least I’m striving to be.
Since it’s the Spring, what do you think of this new theme?
Your Sweet Love
by: Al Jarreau
How early do you go to work? In my part of town there are always people around. That is one thing I miss in HK, it is seldom quiet.
BTW, I like your blog look. The last one was sort of gloomy. No matter what Giordano says this is more like it.
Look who’s back? Welcome Back!
Well I am not a regular office person. I work by shifts and mornings is usually the ‘hateful’ shift waking up as early as five would spare your life with a single point of contact with the environment and quiet city. Hong Kong Island is like having been left alone during the early mornings, unlike in Manila, 3 am is already crowded.
Thanks. I’m liking this Theme too, looks pleasant to the eyes.
Yeah, agree with Dicey… the last one did look gloomy despite the fact that I liked it… this one goes well.
And that pic… it’s amazing K. It can make my day as well. Nice shot.
Asha, GLOOMY? Heh! The black theme was an ‘extension’ of my already suspended account. I always like to try different themes for my blog to look a lot less ordinary. I’m crazy over this theme-thing. However, winter is over so I’m picking this Spring Theme. Wordpress is quite easy actually, you can choose as many Themes as you want depending on your liking.
Taking pictures is my daily dose, aside from putting music on every posts I made. Thanks Ms Asha.
knoizki dear…thanks for the comment on my latest post..is it too much if i ask you to send me a couple of good R&B songs then thru my email? i used to navigate your old site with lotsa songs to listen to,inalis mo na yon?
Ate Sach, I would loveeee to but hey, do you think it will allow me to attach the files thru email? An mp3 files are suppose to be huge but I’ll try, why not. Do you like slow jams, pure R&B or hip hop? I suggest, go for the slowjams. If you have any downloading program, well I know it’s illegal, you can look at some music selections in my Last.Fm lists.
Too bad, I can no longer put music files via “radioblog” since this account is not my own domain anymore. My music chart is now like a dead engrones.
I lurve this new theme!
That’s nice.. to have calmness inside you. keep it on
Hey Princess, btw thanks for the email you sent me. RIDES like that can make you really pee. hahaha.
Looking forward on your…. *winks*. Let me know, yeah?
knoizki..pwede yon sa email or try this one “yousendit’
http://s7.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1USMDPEVO19VZ08X79LBZX9P6Q
its free and can send big files.
i like the slowjams..thanks a lot! *hugs*
But of course, so silly of me! I think I’ve used “you send” a long time ago. Ok then give me sometime to look for some song and will let you know.
Nice new theme!
Hi BILL of Y thanks. This theme from WP.com is old but just on time for Spring. Looks like ya’v seen my Hemingway previously on?
Will give you a blog visit sometime.. maybe I did already? Cheers!
A very meaningful post, K. Live the moment.
It’s the weather Jack. Spring in HK is all about the rains, but thanks heaven it’s not raining at the mo’.
It is getting colder down here … with the first of the autumn rains.
HK winter months is like autumn in NY but it’s the most trendiest season around here. I can understand why. I totally hate colder months, it’s not snowing but the wet cold weather makes you sick to the bones. Best season here is Autumn.
Autumn is a bit cold for me in New Zealand—I miss the warmer climate but at the same time I don’t want global warming!
Wow New Z seems seemed soooo far away from here Jack. I’d rather stay in HK longer than I thought I should, easy for me to go back in the Philippines minus the jetlags. Living here always amuses me. NZ is such a beautiful country like Australia, I’m sure that’s why you have been living there since.
Most of the time it was not by choice. My family decided to come here and I was a kid who got taken along for the ride. When I first got here, it was a hick, redneck country where the native Maori population was treated pretty much like dirt, although interestingly the Prime Minister (Robert Muldoon) really respected them. The good news was there was no poverty (there is now).
Despite the political shortcomings since, I have really grown to love this place. Clean air, laid-back and trusting people, and a respect for individual freedoms in general. I think we should be where we are happiest, and somewhere that amuses you is a darn good place!
“I think we should be where we are happiest, and somewhere that amuses you is a darn good place!”
And I was able to adapt with the people around here as well. It’s sometimes difficult to adjust to a place with different ethnic backgrounds. I’ve always see myself as the minority amongst other nationalities but so far I have generally get along (not all the time tho which probably normal) with my peers. HK is, undoubtedly a place one can’t argue about - it’s a very modern place, a place to work maybe, but the living standard is freaking so expensive that I sometimes end up buying a sushi in a tiny styrofoam at Park n Shop store.
I remember when things were a bargain back home, but those days are long gone. I have lived most of my life as a minority—the good news is that now I have a bit of a profile publicly, I don’t suffer from the racism I saw for so many years. I think Hong Kong could well be more cosmopolitan, though even we can be accused of prejudice—I remember there were stateless Indians stuck there during the 1997 handover, and I don’t think their legal domicile was resolved at the time.
I’ll respond to your other posts tomorrow—better get some work done!
Hahaha Jack, no pressure here - take your time. It’s always nice to exchange ideas from one conversation to another in a comment box such as this. You respond so quickly. Amazing coComment service indeed. Thank you.
I try! Thank you! And dialogue can only be good for people—and traffic!
I mean really, I enjoy comments turned conversation like this. Does not matter how much hits I’m getting. I reply to every person who commented on this blog because you acknowledge their visits. It is why blog has a comment page. Besides, it’s free, I can write as many story and dailies of life I want or reply to comments as many as I want, right? I’m glad you’re here - for helping me with my ratings at coComments ;).
Me, too. It means the dialogue can continue for longer, we get to help and learn from one another, and it also helps traffic. Not only will it help your coComment rating, it will help my own blog get more links. No losers in this at all! And I agree—our own blogs are our own territory. As in our own homes, we can be as welcoming or as unwelcoming as we wish. It’s our space to do with as we please.
And you keep bumping into me Jack. Hahaha I’m pleased. Thanks.
It’s nice to see familiar names at other blogs, true!
It happens all the time to me, they thought I’m all everywhere. I mean I’ll be your regular visitor most of the time, it’s kind of like exchanging pleasantries.
I’m fairly prolific, too, among my profession at least. It is like exchanging pleasantries; just a 2006 version of the traditional ways.
It’s always a pleasure exchanging conversation with you Jack. I live, I laugh and I learn, so to speak.
The feeling is totally mutual. If you were not a good host, I would not keep coming back.
BTW, your threads are right up the charts, too, at coComment.
Haha Jack, I’ve seen that and I hope I don’t give other people the impression that I’m competing with the rest of them. Between you and me, I’m just replying to comments, leave comments to any other blogs that I read. Just so happen that they have coComment service to keep a log for my comments. I think that’s what the service is all about, right?
Yes. I am not competing other than that time I was trying to get to 200 from 189 or something. I do leave a lot of comments, and I do need something to track them—hence, coComment is perfect. Prior to that I was ego-surfing in Google with the word blog to see what would come up—hardly efficient. I also think it’s good you leave comments at the blogs in areas you’re interested in: I do the same thing.
I usually do that. I use blogmad when I surf with other blogs and at the same time, wp.com has this “next blog” option that I just go along read. Sometimes I get stucked with “photography” blogs and technology. There are times that I would spend clicking between deviant & flickr and end up downloading old songs to my iPod.
Maybe I easily get familiar with blogs who ’speaks with the minds’, intellectual, kind in a way, blogs that gives me ideas on how to improve your writings and all that. But end of the day, I just give up reading other blogs and flip back mine instead, like I review them once in a while.
I would have to find a great deal of affinity with a blog (or blogger) before I became a regular visitor but like you I search for ones that push me, that make me more “complete” as a person. I will go to Flickr to find pics to help make my blog look nicer, but I am lucky that I get exposed to great photography on a daily basis at work.
Hand me a nice camera Jack, I shoot and don’t really think of the angles the colors but I pretty much enjoy taking MACRO shots. My digi cam IXY canon doesn’t give justice to my shots. One day I’ll starve to seriously buy 5K worth of camera and do photography.
Doug would be the man to ask—one of his lenses cost NZ$3,000! I use a Voigtländer Bessamatic, an old German camera dating from 1959. I haven’t made the leap to digital yet!
That’s vintage and it’s still working? I got my Dad’s Konica c35 dated 70’s I think, our first family camera which he bought in HK. It sits in my desk as a souvenir.
Yep. It’s in excellent condition and has been around the world many times. Even the selenium cells are working after 45 years. I have to hand it to these Germans. Pity Voigtländer is not an independent company any more. I think it is part of a Japanese group these days.
Amazing gadget. At least the instructions are basic. While I’m more or less a gadget freak, technology these days are crazy, IMO this is where the industry will end up in the coming years, anyways so more digital cameras are coming with too many complicated, too difficult to understand manuals before you learn its operating system.
Same with cellphones. They take worse pictures than a 50-year-old camera, have texting which is vaguely above Morse code in sophistication (and which costs the telcos a tiny, tiny percentage of one cent each time you send a text message), and now they have music on them as well. It’s like bloatware: too much useless and not particularly good stuff that take from their original function.
There’s some hype going on now, the new iPhone is coming soon so I hope its a good stuff since everyone now are into digitals.
I won’t get one but I can guarantee that it will be a huge hit. Apple’s marketing prowess and the promise of new features will make it pay off handsomely for the company.
Let’s wait what it gives. I’m sure people get excited, for curiosity sake. That’s exactly what the Apple people are doing - to be over the top.
Picking up on an old comment, K, I have realized that over the last 10 days, the top five commenters at coCo are Asian. I wonder if there is something about us that makes us more receptive to conversation, or is it just a big coincidence?
Which means blogging is so popular for Asians nowadays. it’s becoming obvious that even the other parts of China are into this online journal - that’s good news tho.
It is great. I get one or two readers from China every two days, so I am not doing as well there. Most of mine are American and European, which is interesting.
When I started to blog, I didn’t realize people would go read and leave comments. I used it like just learning to write or two, and it shows that I’m still learning how to write. My posts are just a kind of a regular conversation, keeping it simple for myself to understand what I write. I often thought that my writing is poor compare to the many of you who visits here, your blogs are great.
I think this is a great blog. The standard of English is actually very good (and I should know, being in publishing), you are an accommodating and very civilized host for our comments, and people keep coming back because you have managed to build a feeling of community.