Farewell

Had hwa ro today with friends!

A lot of people are moving away to different places:

Eileen going to Sydney,

Ka-Seng going to San Francisco

Emma going (back) to Taipei, and

Tricia going (back again) to Tokyo!

We surely are growing up and going places but when I was young I had never imagined that this would be such a common thing !

As Eileen said, 'good luck to everyone' and I wish everyone the best on all their journeys!

July 1914

- Alston, the weekend west aug 9-10, 2014

Quote

The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.

- Churchill

100

It's been 100 years since the Great War started.

And we are still trying to figure shit out from that time

Good

Even good intentions can have bad consequences

Imagination

The grand Budapest hotel is an amazing film! 

Amazing sound track!

Legend

Separation anxiety :O

Only a fool would believe in legends

Yet legends exist because you believe in them

Berlin

GG 50,000 refugees per day entering Berlin.

Not including corpses such as children who had frozen to death

#reasonswhywarisstupid

Wiki

Got lost in Wikipedia again.

There goes my sleep!

Democracy

Riley also notes that in contrast, fascists denounced liberal democracy for not being a true democracy but in fact being un-democratic because from the fascist perspective, elections and parliaments are unable to represent the interests of the nation because it lumps together individuals who have little in common into geographical districts to vote for an array of parties to represent them that results in little unanimity in terms of interests, projects, or intentions, and that liberal democracy's multi-party elections merely serve as a means to legitimize elite rule without addressing the interests of the general will of the nation.

WFC

7 years of knowing these fabulous boys!

Coolest guys ever! Except when they're taking the piss :(

Envelopes

Places that sell gift cards without accompanying envelopes shouldn't sell gift cards!

The fact that it's a gift card is bad enough they can't even provide a nice way to present it :(

Relay

Relay for life was on Saturday!

I had awesome fun for the time was there & I'm super proud of my team for the effort they put in!

My foot still hurting though! But it was worth it!

My bracelet (halfway in, I managed to get more beads later on!)

edit: fucked up the publish, this is 2 weeks old.

Humankind

Is your outlook for the next 50 years of humankind a positive or negative one? Will the average human still be suffering? Why? 

Croce

All history is 'contemporary history', declared Croce,^ meaning that history consists essentially in seeing the past through the eyes of the present and in the light of its problems, and that the main work of the historian is not to record , but to evaluate; for, if he does not evaluate, how can he know what is worth recording?

^: The context of this celebrated aphorism is as follows: 'The practical requirements which underlie every historical judgement give to all history the character of "contemporary history", because, however remote in time events thus recounted may seem to be, the history in reality refers to present needs and present situations wherein those events vibrate' (B. Croce, History as the Story of Liberty, Engl. transl. 1941, p. 19).