看山还是山

Photo: Taken at Yamdrok Lake , 2012

the life in your years

In the end it’s not the years in your life that count.  It’s the life in your years.
- Abraham Lincoln

山色空濛雨亦奇

水光瀲灩晴方好，山色空濛雨亦奇。

欲把西湖比西子，淡妝濃抹總相宜。

- 蘇軾 

Photo: The West Lake, China (2006)

It's what you see that matters

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau

Photo: 2013 @ Taiping Lake Gardens (Malaysia)

桥上看风景

你站在桥上看风景，看风景人在楼上看你。
明月装饰了你的窗子，你装饰了别人的梦。
《断章》卞之琳

Scanned Photo: Taken in China, 2002

The end of labor is to gain leisure

The end of labor is to gain leisure.
- Aristotle

坐看雲起時

Photo: (措那湖 Tsonag Lake) Taken in 2012 while travelling on Qingzang train to Lhasa.

How you remember your life

What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez （Colombian novelist）

Photo: taken in Tibet, China in 2010

what lies inside of you

What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

雞公碗

Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us.
- Oscar Wilde

一粒米中藏世界

一粒米中藏世界；
半邊鍋裏煮乾坤。

[据说：四川峨嵋山洪椿坪（原名千佛禪院）有此副對聯]

There are always flowers for those who want to see them

There are always flowers for those who want to see them.
- Henri Matisse 

Photo: Taken at Cameron Highlands, Malaysia in 2013

Tibet, China - 2012

To see a World in a Grain of Sand / 一沙一世界，一花一天堂

To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.
- William Blake

一沙一世界，一花一天堂。
无限掌中置，刹那成永恒。
- （英）威廉·布莱克 [徐志摩 译]

Photo: Cameron Highlands, Malaysia (June 2013)

看天上雲卷雲舒

去留無意，看天上雲卷雲舒
明 陳繼儒 《小窗幽記》

Photo: June 2012 @ Tibet, China

A cup of coffee

“Do you know how helpless you feel if you have a full cup of coffee in your hand and you start to sneeze? ”
- Jean Kerr (American author and playwright)

做自己，還是做罐頭？

The title of this blog post is actually the title of a book I came across last week.

不亦樂乎

學而時習之，不亦說乎？有朋自遠方來，不亦樂乎？

- 《論語》

Afraid of the Light

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
- Plato

When the tide goes out

It's only when the tide goes out that you learn who's been swimming naked.
- Warren Buffett

Photo taken at Namtso Lake, Tibet in 2012

old wine to drink

Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.
- Francis Bacon

The past, present & future

The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.
- Zora Neale Hurston (American author and anthropologist)

To be yourself

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

An instant out of time

Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still. 

- Dorothea Lange (American documentary photographer and photojournalist)

[Photo taken in Ipoh, in Feb 2013. The old Lido cinema was located further down the road.]

Afternoon Tea

There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.
- Henry James

[Photo of Ang Ku Kueh, which is soft sticky glutinous rice flour skin wrapped with a sweet filing in the centre. Normally the skin is red in color]

Books and Meals

I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The life in your years

In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.

- Abraham Lincoln