From strength to strength

Before I start, I am here to address the growing problems of disgusting advertisement comments. I am now restricting my comments to only registered members of this arena. However, I have also included a tagboard, which is already very late in my blogging career that I do so. Better late than never. Too busy with O week to really do any serious blogging. Hehe… forgot Ivan might be reading my blog. To make things clear, yes, he is the Mambo King of FASS!!! Having him to grace my blog is my honour, hehe… Especially when he should be very busy with his own blogging as well as his honours year. Back to my Blog. So people, if you all want to add comments, but can’t seem to do so, do it on my tagboard. Hope this will reduce the rather disturbing comment ads. Thanks Robbie for reminding me to do something about the disturbance from those ads too.

Now then I shall blog with reference to my title. From strength to strength, I think I have grown. This year has been a crazy one. This year meaning this academic year. I learnt to take things by my stride, to be less critical, more skeptical, more personal, less informal. To live a life of myself, to take it as they come, to accept life as an up-and-down process. Putting things perspective, there are issues that I cannot resolve. My army days. Yes. They still haunt me in my nightmares. I remember a scene from “The Beautiful Mind”, the last part, where John Nash has learnt to accept his imagination friends. He achieved greatness in his own world and contributed in his way to mankind. I may never reach his level of greatness, but I feel that there are lessons I can learn from him. Like him, I may never be able to walk away from my darkness. Like him, I will learn to embrace my darkness. I cannot make the whole world like me. At least I can know who hates me, and I can avoid them. Learning to embrace the darkness, as my brighten life is starting to be shrouded again. It’s all right. Darkness is sometimes

No one is perfect, but no one tend to really practice it. If we know we can never be perfect, why not be a little more humble, and accept other people’s kind words. Take them with an open mind. Everyone has rights to their views. I know I cannot win everyone to my side, and also that there are many sides to every situation. Neither side may be wrong. However, knowing your own bearings is very important. Let me stress it again. Its incredible important. Others might not be wrong in their view, but they might be wrong in their view about my perspective. They might even insist that I am wrong. So? If I truly think it’s my calling, then just do it. Even if I made a mistake, I learn it as a lesson. “Anything that does not kill you only makes you stronger”. A quote from Flint, Captain Flint: the few that got me through my army days alive.

I am less bitter about my army days already. Especially after hearing about people being wrongfully jailed for decades before getting their names cleared. I am already much more fortunate. Anyone can think of me as the “Chao-geng” one. It’s ok. They have their views. I will live to mine. “The deepest hell is where one is wrongfully put into hell for crimes that he did not commit.” I got this from somewhere, but I forgot where.