pleasure is found in the little challenges in life

In Search of Metamorphosis

2008-07-07T00:09:00.007+08:00

"Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you’re a man, you take it."

Quote by Malcom X

Image of Fantastic Voyage:
Live Long Enough to Live Forever
written by Ray Kurzweil
and Terry Grossman M.D.

Embrace Experimenting

2008-06-15T08:29:00.008+08:00

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing. To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable.

Quote from The Open Door

by Helen Keller

Don't Forget Your Roots

2008-06-11T18:50:00.003+08:00

For people joined in sexual ecstasy,
Passion is what make things happen...
For just as a horse in full gallop,
Blinded by the energy of his own speed,
Pays no attention to any post
Or hole or ditch in his path,
So two lovers blinded by sexual passion
In the friction of sexual battle,
Are caught up in their fierce energy
And pay no attention to danger.

Excerpt from the Kamasutra
by Vatsyayana

Might Get A Tumblr Account Instead of Spamming gReader and Facebook

2008-06-10T14:30:00.004+08:00

LET’S say you and your spouse haven’t had sex in so long that you can’t remember the last time you did. Not the day. Not the month. Maybe not even the season. Would you look for gratification elsewhere? Would you file for divorce? Or would you turn to your mate and say, “Honey, you know, I’ve been thinking. Why don’t we do it for the next 365 days in a row?”

Excerpt of article in New York Times by Ralph Garner Jr.
Photo titled The Chasity by Virgiliu Narcis

Ooze Sexuality

2008-06-05T22:23:00.009+08:00

Natasha undressed by a candle’s wan flame, and saw her reflection in the murky glass of the window—her pale, thin neck, the dark braid that had fallen across her clavicle. She stood like that, in motionless languor, and suddenly it seemed to her that the room, together with the couch, the table littered with cigarette stubs, the bed on which, with open mouth, a sharp-nosed, sweaty old man slept restlessly—all this started to move, and was now floating, like the deck of a ship, into the black night. She sighed, ran a hand across her warm bare shoulder, and, transported partly by dizziness, lowered herself onto the couch. Then, with a vague smile, she began rolling down and pulling off her old, oft-mended stockings. Once again the room started floating, and she felt as if someone were blowing hot air onto the back of her head. She opened her eyes wide—dark, elongated eyes, whose whites had a bluish sheen. An autumn fly began to circle the candle and, like a buzzing black pea, collided with the wall. Natasha slowly crawled under the blanket and stretched, sensing, like a bystander, the warmth of her own body, her long thighs, and her bare arms thrown back behind her head. She felt too lazy to douse the candle, to shoo away the silken formication that was making her involuntarily compress her knees and shut her eyes.

Excerpt of Natasha
by Vladimir Nabokov
translated, from Russian,
by his son, Dmitri Nabokov

A Bottle of Absinthe and Bag of Wormwood - Gifts from Germany

2008-05-28T00:41:00.005+08:00

The 12 Warning Signs of Good Health

The persistent presence of a support network
Chronic positive expectations and a tendency to frame events in a constructive light
Episodic peak experiences
A sense of spiritual involvement
Increased sensitivity to the needs of the body
A tendency to easily adapt to changing conditions
An increased appetite for physical exercise, healthy foods, and herbs
A rapid response time to crisis and quick recovery
A tendency to identify and communicate feelings
Repeated episodes of gratitude, generosity, and related positive emotions
A compulsion to contribute to society
A persistent sense of humor
If five or more of these indicators are present, you may be at risk for full-blown good health.

Quote from The One Earth Herbal Sourcebook:
Everything You Need To Know About Chinese,
Western, And Ayurvedic Herbal Treatments
by Alan Keith Tillotson,
Nai-shing Hu Tillotson
and Robert Abel Jr.

Psych 119: Drugs and Behavior

2008-05-11T17:39:00.003+08:00

‘TERENCE, this is stupid stuff:
You eat your victuals fast enough;
There can’t be much amiss, ’tis clear,
To see the rate you drink your beer.
But oh, good Lord, the verse you make,	5
It gives a chap the belly-ache.
The cow, the old cow, she is dead;
It sleeps well, the horned head:
We poor lads, ’tis our turn now
To hear such tunes as killed the cow.	10
Pretty friendship ’tis to rhyme
Your friends to death before their time
Moping melancholy mad:
Come, pipe a tune to dance to, lad.’

Why, if ’tis dancing you would be,	15
There’s brisker pipes than poetry.
Say, for what were hop-yards meant,
Or why was Burton built on Trent?
Oh many a peer of England brews
Livelier liquor than the Muse,	20
And malt does more than Milton can
To justify God’s ways to man.
Ale, man, ale’s the stuff to drink
For fellows whom it hurts to think:
Look into the pewter pot	25
To see the world as the world’s not.
And faith, ’tis pleasant till ’tis past:
The mischief is that ’twill not last.
Oh I have been to Ludlow fair
And left my necktie God knows where,	30
And carried half way home, or near,
Pints and quarts of Ludlow beer:
Then the world seemed none so bad,
And I myself a sterling lad;
And down in lovely muck I’ve lain,	35
Happy till I woke again.
Then I saw the morning sky:
Heigho, the tale was all a lie;
The world, it was the old world yet,
I was I, my things were wet,	40
And nothing now remained to do
But begin the game anew.

Therefore, since the world has still
Much good, but much less good than ill,
And while the sun and moon endure	45
Luck’s a chance, but trouble’s sure,
I’d face it as a wise man would,
And train for ill and not for good.
’Tis true, the stuff I bring for sale
Is not so brisk a brew as ale:	50
Out of a stem that scored the hand
I wrung it in a weary land.
But take it: if the smack is sour,
The better for the embittered hour;
It should do good to heart and head	55
When your soul is in my soul’s stead;
And I will friend you, if I may,
In the dark and cloudy day.

There was a king reigned in the East:
There, when kings will sit to feast,	60
They get their fill before they think
With poisoned meat and poisoned drink.
He gathered all the springs to birth
From the many-venomed earth;
First a little, thence to more,	65
He sampled all her killing store;
And easy, smiling, seasoned sound,
Sate the king when healths went round.
They put arsenic in his meat
And stared aghast to watch him eat;	70
They poured strychnine in his cup
And shook to see him drink it up:
They shook, they stared as white’s their shirt:
Them it was their poison hurt.
—I tell the tale that I heard told.	75
Mithridates, he died old.

Terence, This Is Stupid Stuff
by A.E. Housman
in his A Shropshire Lad (1896)

Skull of Skeleton with Burning Cigarette (1885)
by Vincent van Gogh

Drugs and Behavior (2006)
by University of Berkeley

Earth Day Is Wrong, It Should Be Human Day

2008-05-04T23:21:00.003+08:00

I am afraid of cities. But you mustn't leave them. If you go too far you come up against the vegetation belt. Vegetation has crawled for miles towards cities. It is waiting. Once the city is dead, the vegetation will cover it, will climb over the stones, grip them, search them, make them burst with its long black pincers; it will blind the holes and let its green paws hang over everything.

- Jean-Paul Sartre in Nausea

Brush It Off Your Shoulders

2008-03-29T23:25:00.012+08:00

"Ellis: Well all the time ya spend trying to get back what's been took from ya, more is going out the door."

from the movie adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's novel
No Country For Old Men
directed by the Coen Brothers
Ellis portrayed by Barry Corbin

Her music makes me want to pick up a guitar and learn

2008-03-28T17:11:00.007+08:00

"I'm having a party but you're not invited
Pizza and fizzy-pop it's all so exciting
Sardines and musical chairs
What a shame that you're not here
Cos you're not my friend anymore"

Selected lyrics from My Party Is Better Than Your Party
by Emmy The Great
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Exhausting Weekend from F1, GP2, Porche and BMW races and Partying at Steve Aoki!

2008-03-23T21:51:00.008+08:00

"I love you. I want to have sex with all of you" - Steve Aoki
at the end of his set
at Zouk, KL.

I'm Not That Kind of Man

2008-03-09T22:48:00.004+08:00

That Kind of Man
by The Heavy
from their album Great Vengeance and Furious Fire

It's a Woman's World, You Gotta Give It What You Got

2008-03-05T23:14:00.004+08:00

So what you wanna do?
So do you wanna rock the house and turn this mutha out?

Excerpt of lyrics from Grip Like a Vice
from the studio album Proof of Youth
by The Go! Team

Do Something Physical Everyday

2008-02-27T23:21:00.004+08:00

The human body was never designed for a sedentary lifestyle. It was created to hunt saber-toothed tigers and walk forty miles a day. When we have no physical outlet, tensions build up within us. The body reacts to minor frustrations, such as somebody cutting us of in traffic, as life-and-death situations. The "fight or flight" mechanism is tripped, adrenaline floods our system, our blood pressure skyrockets. Exercise in general and bodybuilding in particular give us an outlet for these tensions and satisfy the body's need for strenuous activity.

Excerpt from The New Encyclopedia of Modern Bodybuilding
by Arnold Schwarzenegger.

And The World...

2008-02-27T22:39:00.008+08:00

"And the world is made of energy
and the world is possibility
and the world is made of energy
and there's a light inside of you
and there's a light inside of me."

Excerpt of lyrics from Energy
by The Apples in Stereo
from their album New Magnetic Wonder

Listened To This Album 4 Times Just Today

2008-02-19T22:36:00.005+08:00

On and on the world spins round
It's enough to get you down
But I don't worry cause sometimes you just have to...
Whoooo Hoooo!

Excerpt of lyrics from Well Alright!
by The Hives
from The Black and White Album

Bring On The Power Plants

2008-02-15T19:06:00.002+08:00

All the palmate-leaved ones, the
pinnate, and the pinnatifid, the entire -
Rosy Hawaiian babies, wise Mazatec sages,
and the old Indian rope trick.
Come on, you indoles, you terpenes,
you alkaloids, you medicine plants.
Hello, star-eyed betel juice plants, Amazonian
vine plants, Chihuahuan cacti;
Come, blue-eyed witch plants; come you
dung-loving fun guys...

Come on, O rueful Syrians,
and all you thick-smelling
solanaceous plants;
You cultivated-in-rows tobacco and coca plants;
You maligned poppy plants and worshipped
grapevine plants -
All forgotten plants, and fad plants;
Come forth you motley troop -
not a gentleman among you -
Not one that won't lie, cheat, or swindle
a ride -
Come, all ye ruffians;
Be fruitful, we have need of poison.

by Dale Pendell in Pharmako/Poeia

First You Have To Know, Not Fear, Know That One Day You Will Die

2008-01-31T18:27:00.001+08:00

Narrator: [Tyler steers the car into the opposite lane and accelerates] What are you doing?
Tyler Durden: Guys, what would you wish you'd done before you died?
Steph: Paint a self-portrait.
The Mechanic: Build a house.
Tyler Durden: [to Narrator] And you?
Narrator: I don't know. Turn the wheel now, come on!
Tyler Durden: You have to know the answer to this question! If you died right now, how would you feel about your life?
Narrator:I don't know, I wouldn't feel anything good about my life, is that what you want to hear me say? Fine. Come on!
Tyler Durden: Not good enough.

Narrator played by Edward Norton
Tyler Durden played by Brad Pitt
Steph played by Evan Mirand
The Mechanic played by Holt McCallany
in Chuck Palahniuk's Fight Club

Know Thyself

2008-01-28T23:19:00.000+08:00

"I change during the course of a day, I wake and I'm one person, and when I go to sleep I know for certain I'm somebody else."

Robert Allen Zimmerman
better known as
Bob Dylan

Where To?

2008-01-26T17:03:00.001+08:00

"Cheshire Puss," she began, rather timidly, as she did not at all know whether it would like the name: however, it only grinned a little wider. "Come, it's pleased so far," thought Alice, and she went on, "Would you tell me, please which way I ought to walk from here?"

"That depends a good deal on where you want to get to," said the Cat.

"I don't much care where - " said Alice.

"Then it doesn't matter which way you walk," said the Cat.

" - so long as I get somewhere," Alice added as an explanation.

"Oh, you're sure to do that," said the Cat, "if you only walk long enough."

- Excerpt from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson
better known by the pseudonym
Lewis Carroll

2007-11-07T11:38:00.000+08:00