Photos with just the right angle ;)

Stumbled upon a neat website with some really funny photos ;) More here.

On productivity

As I was revising for the interview and reading Grady Booch's "Object-oriented Analysis and Design with Applications", this surprising quote came out that really taught me something:

Mankind, under the grace of God, hungers for spiritual peace, esthetic achievements, family security, justice, and liberty, none directly satisfied by industrial productivity. But productivity allows the sharing of the plentiful rather than fighting over scarcity; it provides time for spiritual, esthetic, and family matters. It allows society to delegate special skills to institutions of religion, justice, and the preservation of liberty.
- Harlan Mills (DPMA and Human Productivity)

How true!!

誰說栽花可以忘掉傷感
季節變遷了　雪花冷卻我心
但願你未在我心坎中消失
懇請捉緊　不要讓我再等

時日秒秒飛過像塵
感覺將逝 不知在何年何月與日
如還未愛過便叫人遺憾
縱然暖過的心　等了又等

看著你　想念你
渴望你前來和我接近
花也哭　花亦笑
似在問　為何未可靠緊

我害怕　有日會
一覺甦醒這夢會變更
倘若感覺還在　逝去多無奈
盼望你　可靠近　輕輕來吻

Lego's Imperial Walker

Was just looking at the Wired news, oh man, look at this beauty :)



http://www.lego.com

What's happening in this world!?

Just looking at this week's headlines, I am dumbfounded, but I am also angry and frustrated...

What's injustice? A girl in Saudi Arabia was raped by a man, then the court ruled her guilty and sentenced her with 200 lashes. Sounds just like a story in the bible, eh?


What's unfair? That the victims of global warming (almost all caused by industrialized countries) are the very countries which can least defend against them. A cyclone devastated Bangladesh, and more than 3,000 people are already dead. What have they done to contribute to global warming? Nothing...

What's profane? After YouTube, there's now YouPorn, with 15 million viewers, higher than CNN and Weather.com .

Does this seem like the Kingdom of God is here?

And what's indifference? Scientists' final warning to HUMANITY: If we don't do anything serious in the next few years about global warming, be prepared for the worst consequences... Katrina and the flood in Bangladesh will be but just the tip of an iceberg... Yet people can still be indifferent even though this affects each and every one.

Calling ourselves "Christian", how can we become satisfied, how can we be so narrow-minded? Let's get past the petty and the touchy-feely, and let's start thirsting for some justice.

How about just a tiny glimpse of heaven on Earth?

Beyond the church walls
Beyond the weekly fellowships and religious functions
Beyond intimate prayer times and frequent devotionals
Beyond the soaring peace of a worship experience
Beyond our own little comfort circles and rigid boxes
Look around you, and cross your borders;
There is still injustice,
Coldness, indifference
Loneliness.

Kingdom of God.
Heaven on earth.

Who are we to claim that we already found what we are looking for?

I won't;
Until the day
Every tongue confess and every knee bow
And see Your glory face to face,
I'll keep running
A new kind of Christian.
-ck

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U2 - I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For

1. I have climbed highest mountains
I have run through the fields
Only to be with You
Only to be with You

I have run
I have crawled
I have scaled these city walls, these city walls
Only to be with You

But I still haven't found what I'm looking for
But I still haven't found what I'm looking for

2. I have kissed honey lips
Felt the healing in her fingertips
It burned like fire
This burning desire

I have spoke with the tongue of angels
I have held the hand of a devil
It was warm in the night
I was cold as a stone

But I still haven't found what I'm looking for
But I still haven't found what I'm looking for

3. I believe in the Kingdom come
Then all the colors will bleed into one, bleed into one
Well yes, I'm still running
You broke the bonds, and You loosed the chains
Carried the Cross of my shame, of my shame
You know I believe it

But I still haven't found what I'm looking for
But I still haven't found what I'm looking for
But I still haven't found what I'm looking for
But I still haven't found what I'm looking for