龟兔赛跑

有两个好朋友终于毕业了，由衷地为他们感到高兴，希望他们可以尽早安定下来，再继续各自漫长的人生赛跑。

落后不是末路，将勤补拙反而能获得最后的胜利，因为现实中逐渐自满的兔子多得是。

聪明不是敌人，懒惰也不是敌人，而是天敌。

Quotes (Schopenhauer)

哲学暂时对我仍太深奥，还是先从名句开始吧……我就要看这个著名的悲观主义者到底有多悲观。先收集，过后再翻译。

Arthur Schopenhauer

- A man can be himself only so long as he is alone.

- A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.

- A man's delight in looking forward to and hoping for some particular satisfaction is a part of pleasure flowing out of it, enjoyed in advance. But this is afterward deducted, for the more we look forward to anything the less we enjoy it when it comes.

- A man's face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compendium of everything his mouth will every say, in that it is the monogram of all this man's thoughts and aspirations.

- After your death you will be what you were before you birth.

- All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

- Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.

- As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.

- Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win another's money. Idiots!

- Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situatin, and one leads to other.

- Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.

- Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.

- Compassion is the basis of morality.

- Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.

- Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.

- Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right.

- Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.

- Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.

- For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprenhensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible.

- Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

- Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.

- Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them.

- Hatred in as affair of the heart; contempt that of the head.

- Honor means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is. Fame is something which must be won; honor, only something which must not be lost.

- I've never know any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.

- If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.

- If you want to know your true opinioni of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him.

- In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

- In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.

- In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters of the world, and their dominion is suspended only for brief periods.

- It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain.

- It is in the treatment of trifles that a person shows what they are.
(It is with trifles, and when he is off guard, that a man best reveals his character.)

- It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else's meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger.

- It is only at the first encounter that a face makes its full impression on us.

- It's the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards.

- Journalists are like dogs, whenever anything moves they begin to bark.

- Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.

- Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.

- Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies.

- Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no lnoger capable of human happines in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money.

- Music is the melody whose text is the world.

- National character is only another name for the particular form which the littleness, perversity and baseness of mankind take in every country. Every nation mocks at other nations, and all are right.

- Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point.

- Newspapers are the second hand of history. This hand, however, is usually not only of inferior metal to the other hands, it also seldom works properly.

- Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect.

- Opinion is like a pendulum and obeys the same law. If it goes past the centre of gravity of one side, it must go like distance on the other, and it is only after a certain time that it finds the true point at which it can remain at rest.

- Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who should be thrown out of doors.

- Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

- Rascals are always sociable, more's the pity! and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in his character is the little please he takes in others' company.

- Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own.

- Religion is masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.

- Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

- Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interst and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed.

- Suffuering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.

- Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.

- The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value.

- The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism, a pensioner, as it were, who dwells with the body.

- The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that somethign can be true and untrue at the same time.

- The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice.

- The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity.

- The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.

- The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable.

- The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust.

- The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind happiness.

- The longer a man's fame is likely to last, the longer it will be in coming.

- The man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for.

- The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existance seems to him.

- The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

- The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.

- The word of man is the most durable of all material.

- There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity.

- There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome; to be got over.

- They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice...that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.

- * To buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them.

- * To find out your real opinion of someone, judge the impression you have when you first see a letter from them.

- To free a person from error is to give, and not to take away.

- To live alone is the fate of all great souls.

- Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speaks to you first.

- We can come to look upon the deaths of our enemies with as much regret as we feel for those of our friends, namely, when miss thier existence as witnesses to our success.

- We forfeit three-quarters of ourselves in order to be like other people.

- Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame.

- Wicked thougths and worthless efforts gradually set their mark on the face, especially the eyes.

- Will minus intellect constitues vulgarity.

- Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.

- With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty.But with those who possess great talent is hypocrisy.

搬家

搬家了，没有再和朋友一起住。离开住了大半年的安乐窝，没有太多的眷念，毕竟曾用心共住过，最后的晚上没有灰蓝色，而是一同喝醉。我要走的路还很长，暂且今朝有酒今朝醉吧！偶尔会想念玩闹谈心各种交集，但Life still has to move on，是时候去想如何用心走好下一段旅程。

当初的选择，无论结果是好是坏，都仅仅与自己有关。每一段路的沿途风景不一，看走的人是走马看花还是用心感受。这次找房子，沿途多少奇风异景，回头看，不过一耸或一笑。所有事情，不是得到，就是学到。

现在的房间，尽管简陋了一点，但胜在够宽敞，容得下我的藏书；自主空间没人打扰，不用迁就不用难过，更适合我现在的心境。无论什么事情，都不过是修行的磨练。修行的时间，说短不短，说长不长，时钟一字一字地换，其实剩下的时间还有所少？我只能用尽我的心思去充实和增值。

留不住的，只有时间；带不走的，有什么？

名正言顺

在这个提倡和平的现代社会里，所有发起战争的都是侵略者，无论出师有没有名，但其实“名正”的影响力还是蛮大的，至少可以拿来塞住大众的嘴和误导大众的耳。

你没看到当油涨价时，所有商家都跳出来喊冤竞相加价，仿佛之前都在做亏本生意；待得油价回跌时，跳蚤都变寒蝉，装作没一回事。

你没看到当经济不景时，许多大企业第一时间停薪减薪迫假裁员，不管之前累积的盈余有多少。

你没看到报喜时，多少人争功；报忧时，多少人闪躲；有问题发生时，多少人第一时间想到的是找只羊来代罪，而不是去找问题的症状；再想到的是随便找只鸡来杀，以儆效尤。

名正，则言顺；言顺，又如何？我是文明人，请用道理来说服我，但许多“道理”是连小孩都骗不了的Bullshit，纯粹是借名行事趁名打劫，而你又奈何的了？世界如此复杂，岂是一个道理说了算？越是堂而皇之的，越可能是虚伪的，而我们却害怕承受不了太清楚的痛苦，而宁愿麻醉地迷信“正名”，有什么还会比这更悲哀的呢？

与其背负那么多“正名”，我宁愿承认自己是伪君子。

聪慧

聪明和智慧，经常被拿来比较，如鱼与熊掌。聪明是在“小事”上的脑筋灵光；而智慧是在“大事”上的心灵透彻，两者仿佛不能兼容。有多少人聪明反被聪明误，太聪明的反而因机关算尽而没好收场。

要不要追寻聪明，其实每个人心中多少都有谱，有的害怕脑筋变灵光顾虑太多，有的害怕脑筋不灵光容易遭殃，有的害怕看太清楚宁愿难得糊涂，有的害怕无知不停寻找。

就算有智慧的未必聪明，聪明的未必有智慧；两者真得不能兼容吗？斤斤计较根本就不是聪明，而是狭窄的愚蠢。吸收资讯快，脑筋转得快，是应付“小事”上不可多得的强项；而强于应付“小事”，未必会忽视“大事”。

聪明和智慧，都是从不断学习和经验累积中升华的，为什么不可兼得？

Break

If June was miserable, July is transitional, then August should be what I am looking forward...where a brand new start is waiting for me. Most of the mines in work will be swept, living environment will be fresh, and I could finally spare some time to do my own stuffs.

Past few weeks I have been controlling my emotions to work and produce, to make sure transitions will be smooth, to utilize my time well and to live calmly. Now that things are finally going to end, I start to feel the weight that I have been carrying.

O~ I need a break. A break for me means do nothing. And do nothing usually means being anti-social, because social activity is still a thing, unless you wish to spend time doing nothing with me. Perhaps, that is only for me.

三人行

三人行必有我师，而今天我却从三个人身上学到不少。微妙的是，一个人的强处刚巧是另两个不强的地方……

大多数人，都有让你看不顺眼的缺点；也有值得让你学习的优点。从优点学习，启迪更多；从缺点反思，体会更多。

我还太年轻，需要学习的东西还很多，也会越来越多，因为知道得越多，不知道得更多。

Temporary bias

There is one thing I am very sure, that my words would eventually hurt myself and I have to bite back my tongue. As quick as I derive meanings and motives from observations, moment later I will say another thing when I have more insightful inputs.

I am not sure if I should not judge that fast, but I realize in order to make a stand, I need quick and intuitive stereotyping follows by careful and thorough rumination. I never had this kind of irony before but this is how I am now. A complex mind full of irony, in search of better clarity in life.

They say we can't live without stereotypes and what we need is to keep improving our stereotyping. Stereotyping is only dangerous when you are so used to it and are adamant to change it even a contradicting signal or observation stand in front of your eyes.

That's why I will always be changing my stereotypes, and hence always be contradicting. But I do hope day by day, I will be less and less bias and ironical.

Wireless @ SG

Has heard of this service for a while but did not bother to register. It was launched in roughly 2007 and the free service supposed to end at 2009 but it was extended to 2013. It is covered by 3 operators: iCell, QMax and Sintel depends on the area, you can choose to register with anyone of them.

http://www.infocomm123.sg/view.123?page=wirelessmain

学的误区

我逐渐明白我被什么所误。在这个信息社会，知识哪里都有，什么都是知识，做什么都可以长知识，单纯靠满足好奇欲来让自己快乐，我可以随意地快乐。但信息有好坏之分，知识不止是好就可以；随机好学，真的不如主动好学。

原来，学什么很重要。

我在说话吗？

每一天，我们听到不少话，大多都是一般话。一开始听到，还会困惑一下；听多了，就觉得那些话真的很一般，道听再途说，一代传一代，一口传一口，基本上如同出一撤，烙饼都不会烙得如此相像，基因复制还会有突变呢！于是我开始纳闷了，难道这就是社会的智慧和经验传承？

或许，话的信服力终究得看人。同样的话从不同的人口里说出来，质量（不是份量，如果是份量，只管听高官的话就好了）不一样，因为一些人是随口讲中，一些人是人云亦云，一些人是真心分享。

“听话”，真的不简单呢？何时可以让我听到“胜读十年书”的一席话呢？

正邪

我一直认为，人既非天使亦非魔鬼，但我要稍微改变我的想法了，这句话只适用于大众。人间，没有天使，却真的有魔鬼，各种浮士德转化而成的魔鬼，即便天使也感化不了的魔鬼。人间的“圣人”，仍有缺陷；而人间的“魔鬼”，却如此地完美。

Everyone is fallible, but not every fallen one is rescue-able.

破坏的力量，永远比建设的力量大。正邪之争，从一开始就一面倒；而你，选好了站哪里吗？

修行

我们都即将独自走向各自艰辛的修行，路漫漫兮其修远，都不知道我们的未来会是怎样，都不晓得我们的寄托会是什么，一切都是求索。

现实中的破碎，破碎了的寄想，寄想里的文化，文化上的遥远，遥远着的理想，理想外的挣扎……或许，这就是修行的意义？旅程。是周而复始，还是螺旋而上？

天行健。

-寻梦者

独立

从今晚起就不会再有知己在新加坡了……如果不是他来，或许我不会来的，现在要真正独立了，心灵上的独立……虽然一路来都很坚强，不懂为什么有时候就是按耐不住泪水。没什么机会的了，或许我的眼睛以后会变得很深邃。

叹，我这个没方向的小孩……

四年半，如眨眼；多半年，就二十年了……人生，还有几个四年？二十年后，我们又会在哪里？

沉舟

哦……大家都往自己的梦想前进，而我却在原地窝囊，我还要继续迷茫吗？死就死啦，反正我又没什么负担，总比安逸死好。最多不是慢别人一年，勤奋的话我就不信我补不回这一年，人生的路比龟兔竞赛的那段路还长呢！

-寻梦者

雨濛濛路茫茫

清晨雨濛濛，听着不远的淅沥，迷茫着前方的路……理想的呼唤和现实的捆绑，滴滴答答地交战。缥缈的音乐麻醉不了迷茫，滴答只是漫长雨途的起点，闭上眼睛走是否是不顾一切的勇敢，滑倒了又会不会有懦弱……念念反复，声声滴答，是我傻了吗？还是我刚醒？

-寻梦者

Life UPs

Hey, what's up?
Isn't your life f'ck up?
Your work is so mess up,
do anything also screw up,
go anywhere also line up,
meet anyone also make up,
aren't you fed up?

Fares and fees keep hiking up,
loans and debts keep building up.
You put money in banks to save up,
but your interests only get eaten up.
You buy shares hoping that it goes up,
but end up it just busts up.

So, what's up?
Isn't your life really f'ck up?
Aren't you really fed up?
Shouldn't you just give up?
Hold up!

Let's get a cup of seven up...
Let's go for bottom up...
Let's find someone to cheer you up...
Let's think of parents whom raise you up...
Do you still feel like giving up?
Or you slowly find your mood heals up?

So, what's up?
Isn't your life a bit f'ck up?
Aren't you a bit fed up?
But...
Life is never full of ups,
on and off there will be hiccups.
Just buck up!

It's time to wake up,
It's time to think up,
Don't be afraid to stand up,
swear but keep your head up,
smile and cheer your friends up.

So, what's up?
Isn't your life f'ck up?
Aren't you fed up?
But so what!
Just buck up!
and day day up~

理想与面包

这曾是一个辩题，我以前在中学辩论时引经据典高谈阔论过，而现在，它成为我人生里的选择题。往昔无关痛痒地去唇枪舌剑的那股劲，早已消匿，那些当初，不过是脑力的锻炼；而现在的我，只想静静地去探索。

有头发谁想做癞痢？谁能不为五斗米而折腰？志气无价也无价。

兴趣、能力、潜力、期望、责任、理想、现实，当全部大块头的交集在一起，烦恼少不了。每一个年代，都有每个年代的起点；同一个年代，每个人有不同的起跑点。

我要怎样把选择题化为非选择题呢？

自疯

为什么疯子是疯子？因为他们只活在自己的世界里。但我们就不是疯子了吗，我们也不是只活在自己的世界里么？很多时候，我们只能用自己的感觉去认识世界，只能用自己的眼光去判断人事，即便是摆在眼前的事实，我们也无力正确处理所有讯息，而只能用思维去过滤和抽取仅仅所需的。什么样的人，就看出什么样的世界。很唯心？你能不唯心吗？当局者迷，众人皆醉。

什么是情商？不就是自欺而已么，看你要欺骗自己让自己快乐点，还是要让自己伤心点。世上的万事，或许都是随机发生的，但我们就是要欺骗自己，为它赋予意义，好让自己有力量前进，无论是向坏的还是向好的。自欺欺人不好？我们每天都在做，不是我们想欺人，而是我们未必懂我们在自欺。

人就是疯子。疯子不好么？至少活在自己的世界比活在别人的世界好。更何况，疯子也有不同类型的，有的活得很开心，有的活得很自虐，有的让人很开心，有的让人很无奈……你是哪一种？

痴肥痴名

从前是人怕出名猪怕肥，现今大不同，是猪怕出名人怕肥（或许我应该用人怕胖，不过以我看来真的是没什么分别了）。最近猪不过上了一阵头条，就搞得人心惶惶，什么疯牛、狂犬、癫鸡……大抵只要动物搞出名，就完了。至于现今的我们，都巴不得尽早出名，名利全收，哪里还有人会怕出名的呢？神经病。

MJ的逝世，引起全世界注意，我们这些市井，有哪个不想像他这样名震天下留百年？哪怕叫我们牺牲童年的无忧，哪怕叫我们进入人性被名利欲极度扭曲的异度空间。谁让我们都被生活的庸碌折磨得不成样，这些小小牺牲算什么？到得了他的境界时，我们自然会适度调整。我们不是莲花化身么？

真是前所未有的智慧。

大地的母亲

湖弧荡，影映禅

我喜欢一个人与大自然共处，缓慢的生生不息能让心灵回归最原始的宁静。我喜欢坐在地上看着天上，任烦忧给微风拂走，与云一同无拘地漫游。这不是对人间纷扰的逃避，而是对大自然的回归。谁说一个人只能有一个家呢？至亲可以是一个，朋友可以是一个，环境更可以是一个，而且是最慈祥的一个。

听说过吗？赤脚走在青葱的草地上，可以释放城市忙碌生活里所积存的静电，让人的心情更轻松。赤脚行，赤子心；可惜在社会环境的限制下，我们都没有这种奢侈。

有一次和爸爸晨运时，对着高耸青葱的大树，他说人总要到了他这个年纪，才会开始懂得欣赏树的美。这道理大抵上是对的吧，但人未必都需要历经荣辱富贵尝尽人间冷暖才懂得回归，也未必需要“化”才懂得欣赏。喜欢，可以有很多个理由；回归，也可以有很多个理由，因人而异，因人的天性和成长环境而异。

只是，我们还有多少时间共处？以现在社会发展和消耗资源的速度来看。当我们都身陷资本主义推动出来的欲望无限扩张，就算有人想作尊菩萨，也只能找到泥。之前看过一篇关于禅的文章，觉得挺有意思。欲望，不仅仅包括物质上的，也包括精神上的；一个人要追求禅，不仅仅要生活得清贫，精神上也要过得贫乏。想想看，其实挺对的。物质上的需求，很多时候是由精神上的欲望所推动的；而精神上的追求，无论如何也要通过物质的形式来实现。关于这两者的交叉，岂是自以为清高，标榜自己不崇尚物质主义如此简单……

这是一个最好的年代，也是一个最坏的年代。最好的，就是让人作为欲望的动物得到前所未有最大程度的解放；最坏的，就是让大自然的生生不息得到前所未有最大程度的破坏。我们的所有成就，都是建立在大地母亲的痛苦之上；无论我们要不要追求成就，要不要追求禅，这一点少少意识和感恩都是不可少的。

或许，一切就怪我们太年轻了吧，不知晓母亲承受的痛苦而肆意展现活力，直至有一天过了头，大地已太苍老而不能支持我们时，我们只能相拥而泣，与天地同灭……而那一天的到来，或许并不是一场悲剧。