This is the train that send me to the city in the future, I have carried my dreams as my baggages, and departed when the train whistle shocked my heart.  Doo…  doo, doo, doo.

 SiewPeng and I will take a real KTM train soon (for the second time).

I have taken a small boat, I miss the sound of its motor,
I have taken a flight at KLIA, I miss the sound of the chime,
Now I miss the sound of the train whistle.

But…

I don’t like the horn of cars in a busy city,
I also don’t like the frightening horn of bus at the bus ternimal.

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This is another photo from my light box.  Its semi-transparent blue colour make it looks like a crystal.  It is actually another collection of SiewPeng’s stamps.  Look carefully, there is a big wheel underneath the train that can print a pattern when it is scrolled on a piece of paper.

Hope you like this picture.

In photography, focusing is the most important thing.
If a photo is out of focus, 99% chances the photo is useless.

Same thing happens in our life, we have goals that to be focused onto.
What would one look like if he / she lose focus on goals?

I still remember in one of my job as an IT personnel, I was told to set the KRA (Key Results Area) for the coming year.  It was the time for me to make decision about which divisions within my job scopes were to be focused and how much weight for each of them.

It is the end of a year again, have you started to think about your new year resolutions for 2010?  Sit down and think about it and you will be able to focus on what you want in your life.

Can you see that there is a foot in the sky which is going to step onto the Earth heavily, seriously and disastrously?  The picture above is one of a million signs.

From news, earthquakes, tsunami, flood, wildfire, typhoon, cyclone, fog etc.,   occurred more frequent than ever.

Someone has got the prediction on what will happen to Earth in a few years later and make it into a movie.  It is not a joke although most of us do not know exactly what would happen, how serious it would be, where and when … …  but there are many signs  (Climate change and frequent natural disasters) telling us that our Earth is not as normal as before.

Is “wait and see” the only thing that we can do now?  We can do more than that.  First, save the energy in order to reduce the carbon dioxide emissions that causes global warming.  Second, recycle the recyclable materials to reduce pollutions.  I am sure that there are many more other things that you can suggest.

At last, less importantly, but it might be helpful sometimes:- be sensitive to the signs that are happening around us.  Recently, there are getting more and more ants in our bedroom, what does it means?  I still remember a few weeks before the terrible tsunami in 2004, I was home alone and there were thousands or even millions of ants covering our living room’s floor, and the floor turned black which prevented me from watching television because I did not want to step on them.  They appeared and left in about an hour, and I was the only witness in the house.  Unfortunately I don’t have a photo to prove it, but the picture is still clear in my mind.

As the law of cause and effect says, do not step on smaller creatures if you don’t want to be stepped on.

Every picture has a story, the story of this picture is simple.

The fence was accompanied by the trees to watch the sunset and she said,

     ”The sunset is beautiful, but it is too short,
     The night is coming, and it will stay long for some thoughts.

  Before the sun rises again, it may be too cold,
  For me to stay strong, with the wind to hold.

     The trees sway, beneath the moonlight,
     Singing with each other, throughout the night.

  Soon comes the dawn, awaken all livings from slumber,
  Today is a good day, and tomorrow will be better.”

This is a drunken housefly which stopped on a single-lined exercise book.  It was not afraid of my hand coming into its direction.  Instead, it moved left, right and a step backward to response on my action towards it.  No matter how I waved my hand, it just move its body a bit to show that it was scared but did not fly away.

This is unusual compared to normal housefly.  It may have thousands of individual photo reception units on his head that make up its compound eyes and allow it to view all the directions.  But it chose not to move away.  May be it knew that I won’t hit it, or the chemical smell of the exercise book made it drunk.

Drunk can bring anything to death, the housefly might have been smashed into terrible shape but luckily I did not.  A drunken person driving a vehicle on the road not only endanger his/her own life but also the other road users.

From quite a few of Chinese movies, there is a type of Kungfu (martial art) called ZuiQuan or Drunken Master.  I like a sentence which I learned from the movie,”Xing2Zui4Yi4Bu2Zui4″ which means “the shape of the kungfu is drunken, but not the mind.”  That’s true, if the mind is drunken, how to fight with the opponents using the kungfu?

Therefore, keep our mind away from drunk and make it sharp and clear all the time is important to make sure that everything is in the right order.

SiewPeng and Colin do not drink alcohol.