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Perpetuity

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On April 15, 2004

In Inspirational, Off Beaten Track

Stressed from work? Family? Relationship problems? Maybe time to step back re-examine the significance of it all!?

“The next time you’re feeling stressed out or are facing a difficult challenge, think about sitting in a graveyard, and look at the years on the headstones: 1925-1973, 1934-1987… Our entire existence will one day be represented by a single dash. Ask yourself, how important is this situation in the context of that dash? Will I even remember this situation 10 years from now? No? Then let it go now…”

Vadha Master Gene

Easter thoughts

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On April 10, 2004

In Faith, Inspirational, Off Beaten Track

Tomorrow is Easter. For me, Easter is not just time to reflect upon what Christ has done. It is also a time to think about how mankind can live in harmony, without prejudices and without inadvertently destroying mother Earth in the meantime.

In Christianity, the God of the New Statement, unlike the God of the Old Testament, seems to be characterised by love and compassion. Here is a quote on love for ourselves.

“What do I mean by loving ourselves properly? I mean first of all, desiring to live, accepting life as a very great gift and a great good, not because of what it gives us, but because of what it enables us to give to others.”

GUI history

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On April 8, 2004

In Personal Computing

Take a walk down the memory lane, where you can see some of earliest computer graphical user interfaces (otherwise known as GUI, pronounced as goo-ee by the techies) and their subsequent evolutions. Very fascinating to see how far we have come since early Apple interfaces – my current OS is Windows XP and the occasional KDE on Linux.

Not a gift

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On April 6, 2004

In Inspirational, Off Beaten Track

Very often I hear people complaining that they have no natural talent for this or that, and that seems to fully explains their failure to achieve something. Well, while not everyone can be a number one at everything, dedication and a big heart (otherwise known as passion) can go a long way!

“We do not receive wisdom,
we must discover it for ourselves,
after a journey through the wilderness
which no one else can make for us,
which no one can spare us,
for our wisdom is the point of view
from which we come at last to regard the world.”

Marcel Proust

Story of perspectives

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On April 5, 2004

In Off Beaten Track

Heard this story on the radio the other night.

A bus full of passengers was travelling along the mountainside. It stopped, and a couple were the only people who alighted. Minutes later, as the bus continued on with its journey, an avalanche occurred and the bus was buried under the rubble. There were no survivors. All this happened in full view of the couple. At this point, the couple said to each other, “I wish we were still on the bus”.

Intrigued? At this point, the radio DJ challenged her listeners to guess the reason for the seemingly bizarre reaction.

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