Entry Title: How I Wish You Were Here
Albert Camus said, "Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despaIr, offering us for a minute the glimse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time."
Seventeen years together was such a short time. But it was time spent wisely.
The best years of my life; beauty and soul concretized.
Happy, 59th birthday, Papa.
You will forever be the light in my eye.
* I LOVE YOU. *
Entry Title: Waking Life and Existentialism
Below is an excerpt from my favorite movie of all time, Waking Life. I’ve know this since time immemorial and I’d very much recommend it to any seeker out there who needs some kind of enlightenment. I've watched it for so many times and it still never fails to put me in a state of total elation. It undoubtedly brought my senses back. It's actually a soul-level interaction between the viewer and the movie. To those who are suffering from LSD (FYI: Lack of Soul Disease), you'll find the concepts tackled in this film very useful and awakening---If you're aware that you've been succumbing to...
Entry Title: All Dogs Go To Heaven
~* In loving memory of Candy who died at 11:30 pm on the 23rd day of August 2005 *~
"You've served your purpose and I admit, without any trace of fear and humiliation in my heart, that life just isn't the same without you. Witnessing your death was one of the most emotionally-draining things I had to put up with. I cried every night for seven days after your death. It was so hard to accept. You were such a big part of me. I have to let you know that the manner in which you died caused me inexplicable pain, but what hurted me more was the fact that I can never go home again and hear the...
Entry Title: Of dream dusts, staying in line for ten hours, and meeting the man behind the Lord Shaper’s form and identity
[I have finally mustered enough courage and strength to counter-attack the hang-over I got from Neil Gaiman's book-signing tour. My hang-over somehow subsided---mellowed down enough for me to be able to blog about it. And I am fully aware that it took me eons. Oh yes, three weeks since.]
In the summer of 2002, I found myself reading one of the books regarded as one of the top ten most dangerous books ever to be written. It was J.D. Salinger's Catcher in the Rye, a book well associated with the assassination of big Beatle genius, John Lennon. To call this controversy-prone book thought...