countering counter-intuition

"Reflect upon your blessings, of which every man has plenty, not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some."
Charles Dickens

for karis

"Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy."
~Abraham Heschel

hap-penis

"It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere."
~Agnes Repplier

Progress

"Problems are the price of progress. Don't bring me anything but trouble."
~Charles F. Ketering

From that creepy daily quote service I subscribe to...

"Don't ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive."
~Howard Thurman

Yong(4) Gong(1)

Ni hao! I'm taking Chinese I from Jan-Mar, and then Chinese II from Mar-Jun. Yay!

So I suddenly decided that I like the pink and purple. I'm not really sure when liking pink and purple exactly happened. But I like the arrows. Especially the vertical ones on the right, which are a beautiful example of primitive computer graphics. The whole thing generally reminds me of being between the ages of 10-12. This is just one of the ways that I'm regressing into childhood. Others include: playing with stuffed animals, dating Ming-Jay, learning a new language from scratch, drinking soda (and rotting my twice-braced teeth), and in the hopefully near future getting a pet rabbit.

edit: the pink and purple at the time referred to the blog design template.