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I'm reading this book at the moment that says no matter what, I need
to persist at writing. It doesn't matter what junk comes into my head
-I need to give myself the permission to write badly or well. No
pressure.

& so, I'm going to try blogging everyday. I don't know how I'm going
to do this (surely there's not that many interesting things that could
happen everyday? I dunno...I guess it's mental training to get my mind
more in tune with my creative side) but unless you give it a shot, you
never know.

So...let's see if I can fulfill my blogspot title - MoO in Transit (&
in transit in more ways than one)...I'll keep you posted by
continuously posting (& if I fall off, don't make me feel too guilty).

Now that I have it on paper (haha! Cyber paper that is)...let the
blogging begin!

Ps - the book also said "Dont be an editor". Which means that at
times, you may get posts that don't make sense. I guess half the fun
of that is for you to figure out what I really mean!!! Heck, even
might join in ;)

2010 : A new decade

Hello everyone,

Its been awhile since I've been back here...sometimes, it feels like returning home where everything feels familiar. And then, it feels like returning home...and finding that everything's changed. Your parents are getting older, your friends are having kids and you're still standing in the same spot at the crossroads of your life.

So then the question is...what now?

*shrug* I don't know.

A new decade...maybe new things to do. Maybe new experiences to be had. Maybe new people to meet.

Or maybe, I just need to get off my ass and stop being a hermit.

Maybe that will work?

p/s - Happy New Year everyone...better late than never, right?

The One

When I was a kid, I used to ask my mother "How will I know if he's the one?"

My mom used to say "You won't...until he turns out to not be the one".

And so, this is how I believe blogging will be. Do I know if this is the one and only blog I'm going to be true to? Time will tell...and when it does, I may return to blogging again...or I may not.

If I don't, it has been a pleasure updating my friends with what's going on and meeting new people, who have brightened my world and made me smile.

Take care everyone and have a fantastic New Year ahead. I only wish great things for you in 2009...and an abundance of happiness, the kind which makes you smile from the heart and infects everybody else around you.

May your cup runneth over...may your pockets be heavy...may your spirit be light...and may you always keep in touch with this littl' ol' MoO on an island in the middle of nowhere! ;)

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

Duality

Balance...

I find it fascinating that everything has something equally opposite.

The left is a mirror image of the right. Only then can the body achieve an easy balance. For darkness, there is light. For beauty, there is ugliness. For happines, there is despair. For every up, there is a down. For every high, there is a low. Stop and go. And the list goes on and on and on.

Was the world created like this for us to appreciate both sides of the coin? If we had a world filled with all things evil, would we ever know good? Would anyone aspire to be good? Would there ever have been a Santa Claus? Would there even be an incentive to be good? Would it be that somehow, man would eradicate themselves because they were all evil?

It all comes back to balance. The scales must not be tipped, lest we unleash chaos. But where there is chaos, some order must rule. Where someone rules, someone must serve. And again, the list goes on and on and on...

But then I started thinking - is there anything that doesn't have an opposite? Is there anything that stands by itself? At first, I thought prayer. But then, isn't the absence of prayer its balance? Does that then mean that something which doesn't have a named opposite is just the absence of?

Perhaps this is the way to adopt what is coming for 2009. Accept it as it comes and see what could possibly be the opposite of it. Then maybe that might put it into perspective (like a challenge could really be an opportunity) and it truly might just be the case of looking at it differently. Then maybe, I can find some balance in my soul and some peace in my heart.

Roll the dice thrice...

Lots of things come in threes - The Holy Trinity...The Three Stooges...The Matrix Trilogy...the LOTR trilogy (although I think they may have actually been 6 books)...The Triple Gem...there's even a website that looks at threes right here.

I wonder why is that? Pairs are expected - ying and yang, man and woman, good and bad. For every reaction there's an equal and opposite reaction. It's easy to explain two. It's easy to understand the rationale behind two.

Perhaps three comes from triangles and how three is somehow stronger than two. You can never make a shape with just 2 points. You could never get a table to stand for very long on just two legs. There would never have been 'Tiga Sekawan' and a story to unite the three main races in Malaysia. And don't even get me started on 'Ménage à trois'.

And what's with three times lucky? Or three's a charm? Why is it lucky? Why is it a charm? Is there some magic in the number three that makes the third go better? Which is really strange because the probability of one in three is much less than the probability of one in two. So it might make sense to hedge your bets and cut your losses.

And why on earth am I spending time wondering about threes?