relaxing sunday - Kogepan (the burnt bread)
This Sunday, I would like to introduce to you one of my favourite Japan comic characters, the Kogepan (meaning “the burnt breand”).
In contrary to the “pretty bread”, the Kogepan is burnt and could not be sold. It is an outcast from the bakery shop and it is not welcome by the customers.
The Kogepan, due to it’s outcast position, it is a bit sad, lazy, not active, don’t care, self-pity….. Yet, it is able to make fun of its own situation and it always make fun on the “pretty bread”.
When everybody is focusing on successful and self-improvement, let’s see how this “natural born failure” faces its life. Very funny and interesting piece of work indeed, which makes us think a lot.
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What do you see?
Do you see the girl turning clockwise? or anti clockwise?
Answers:
A) Anti-clockwise.
B) Clockwise.
C) It becomes clockwise from anti clockwise after a while, but mostly anti-clockwise.
D) It becomes anti-clockwise from clockwise after a while, but mostly clockwise.
E) It varies from time to time, sometimes clockwise, sometimes anti-clockwise.
F) I could control it clockwise or anti-clockwise.
What’s your answer?
Explanations:
In fact, every one of us sees things very differently.
For those who see the girl turns in clockwise, they use their right brains more.
For those who see the girl turns in anti-clockwise, they use their left brains more.
For those who see the girls turns in anti-clockwise, but change to clockwise suddenly, their IQs are normally higher than 160 ! (oh?! I am one of those?! Haha!)
It seems that this little test could reveal whether we use our left brains or right brains more frequently. For most people, the left brain controls the languages, logic and mathematics, while the right brain controls the emotions, colours, sounds and abstract images.
The existing education systems all over the world focus on the “left brain” training too heavily and have ignored the “right brain” developments. For the right brain developments, most people believe that come from “talent”. We just seldom notice that it is the education system which has created such results.
Nowadays, more and more studies have drawn and called for our attention to the importance of “right brain” developments. More training in the art appreciation, creative thinking and emotional balance has been used to supplement the traditional language, mathematic and knowledge based education system.
A more balanced thinking approach, resulting in a more balanced society, would be a blessing for us all.
Filed under self improvements, fun, reflections | Comments (41)Spencer Tunick - the naked projects
(Aletisch Glarier, Switzerland, 2007)
A body is a living empathy. It represents life, freedom, sensuality, and it is a mechanism to carry out our thoughts. A body is always beautiful to me. It depends on the individual work and what I do with it and what kind of idea lies behind it - if age matters or not. But in my group works, the only difference is how far people can go if it rains, snows etc.” Spencer Tunick, from Wikipedia
Spencer is an American installation artist. His interest in human body brings him a famous “nude installation” artist. He creates his art work by recruiting huge number of volunteer and placing them in various cities or environment in their nudity. The nude bodies in Spencer’s work always look like “living sculpture”. In his creations the nude form becomes abstract due to the sheer number so closely placed together.
His famous projects include the “Dream Amsterdam” on 15 April 2007 where his installation took place in a tulip field in Schermerhorn wuth around 100 participants. In 2006, Spencer created serveral installations for the ArtCity events of Dusseldorf’s Quadriennalle of Germany. In front of the museum building and oil paintings, the nudes either look inhuman or just like some real art work coming out from the paintings.
In 18 August 2007, Spencer just completed another astonishing project for the Green Peace: photographing 600 nudes in the Aletisch Glarier of Switzerland. This project calls for people’s awareness of the global warming and the shrinking of the world’s glaciers.
Oops, at the Aletisch Glarier, the air is cold, but the hearts are warm.
“I will try to treat the body on two levels. On an abstract level, as if they were flowers or stones.
And on a more social level, to represent their vulnerability and humanity with regard to nature and the city and to remind people where we come from.”
(Spencer Tunick, 2007)
If you are interested in Spencer’s project, do visit his official website. He is now recruiting for his new project in Miami Beach on 8 Oct 2007 at the Sagamore Art Hotel. See if you are brave enough to join this interesting project!
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(”Birthday Greetings to Xonti”,herbert bayer, 1930)
Some days ago, Armand wrote about:
“… I was telling you that the whole universe is made of energy. Everything is energy in different frequencies.
Your thoughts, emotions, feelings all are energies ……
Your thoughts are energies and you are the master of your own thoughts. Some thoughts come as a result of interactions with other energy fields, but it is you who create your thoughts and it is you, who control them.
Now if we take into consideration the fact that like energy attracted like energy, the implications are enormous……”
It has taken me several days to re-think about this concept and logic.
Thanks Armand for your sharing, which helps me to review the basic concept of “new age”, i.e. we select the lessons to be learnt in “this life”, we design the energies we have or we don’t have in this life in order to learn those lessons we selected, we write our own scripts, we even choose our own parents and select our own birth days, etc.
Our lives could be prescribed as the flow of energies. ”Like energies attracks like energies”, ”like thoughts attract like thoughts”, and here forms the basis of “self fulfilling prophecy”.
Don’t under estimate the power of our thoughts. What we think, what we believe, would eventually come true. We think we are poor, we think we are unlucky, we think we are miserable, we eventually should become poor, unlucky and miserable. We think we are not good enough, we are incapable, we are not worthy, then we become so. We think we are not beloved, then we have no love. These negative thoughts would do us no good but to make us negative.
We are our own director, we are our own architecture, we paint our own lives. Take up the responsibilities now and stop blaming like:
- I should certainly be more successful, but it was the overall environment that I cant achieve more.
- The university life wasted all my time, I gained nothing from it.
- I don’t like my work, it’s a waste of my life.
- My life is so poor, everybody I love, they left me.
The actual cause is ourselves. It is us who don’t believe ourselves and don’t work hard for success; it is us who don’t make sense from anything; it is us who drive our beloved ones away.
It is not fate, it is how we think and the thinking comes true. Self fulfilling prophecy, it is what we have to learn and understand. Start thinking positive and believing ourselves today and we would notice for a change in our lives.
Filed under self improvements, Success, spiritual, philosophy, reflections | Comments (14)Blogging - Tagging Game vs Reflections
Thanks Shine for tagging me.
To be frank, in the very first beginning, I am not that keen on this kind of tagging game. However, after reading the questions, I have found that they are quite interesting and could help me to do some reflections. I then ask myself “why not”.
Dear friends, I am also tagging you and really would like to know your answers to these questions, ha!
3 things that scare me
- people bad mouthing others
- people with bad intentions
- people who are not loyal and not trustworthy
3 people who make me laugh
- all my beloved ones and friends
- Charles M. Schulz: Charlie Brown and Snoopy, they are my first comic idols since I was small
- Stephen Chow: my favourite comedian director in Hong Kong, his films are classic!
3 things I love
- All kinds of beautiful things
- Good friends
- Good wine
3 things I hate
- Do stupid things
- Don’t know that I was doing stupid things
- Enjoy doing stupid things (ha!)
3 things I don’t understand
These things I am still trying hard to understand, but not yet …
- How to love myself
- How to love “you”
- The aim of this life
3 things on my desk
- My mini notebook computer
- A 20′ LCD screen
- Japanese books, French books, Astrology books
3 things I’m doing right now
- Thinking
- Writing
- Listening to music
3 things I want to do before I die
Woo, I have many things on my list, just to pick 3 of those is really a difficult task.
- To love all my beloved ones and bring them happiness
- To travel to and live in those places I love
- To win fame in both my work and my life
3 things I can do
- Be loving
- Be “royal”
- Be positive and happy
3 things I can’t do
- Betray others
- Stop improving myself
- Live in a boring life
3 things I think you should listen to
- “Love and let go”
- “Self fulfilling prophecy: what is likely to happen in the future would become true because you have expected it to happen”
- “Believe in yourself and love yourself”
3 things you should never listen to
- “You are not as good as others”
- Gossips and bad words
- Your own negative thinking
3 shows I watched as a kid
I remeber that I only watch movies when I was a kid …
I am tagging:
- Maartje @ Behind the Page
- Santa @ Santa Mail
- Jon @ Chimeric Day Dreams
- Shay @ Sparkplugged
- Justin @ Push a Pixel
let go
(”the kiss” 1908 & “mother and child” 1905, Gustav Klimt)
“the more we care, the more we lost … i better give up ……” - said the frustrated harry potter.
i was watching the harry potter, the “order of phoenix”, tonight and i was touched by these lines.isn’t this too true for us all, especially in the era of love and relationships? the more we care, the more we love, the more we are hurt and frustrated.
we always ask ourselves, why they don’t appreciate what we have done? why they don’t understand us? why they treat us so bad?
if this is all out of love, why we are hurt and frustrated?“
“you will be surprised to know that the English word love comes from a Sanskrit word lobha, lobha means greed. it may have been jsut a coincidence that the English word love grew out of a Sankrit word that means greed, but my feeling is that this cannot be just coincidence. There must be something more mysterious behind it, there must be some alchemical reason behind it.
in fact, greed digested love. it is greed, lobha, digested well, which becomes love.love is sharing; greed is hoarding. greed only wants and never gives, and love knows only giving and never asks for anything in return; it is unconditional sharing. there may be some alchemical reason that lobha has become love in English language. Lobha becomes love as far as inner alchemy is concerned.” - <love, freedon, aloneness>, osho, 2001.
do we notice that it is out of greed that we think / claim that we care and love someone. for this greed, it means desire and expectation. do we ever notice that when we love and care someone, the deep down reason is to fulfill our desires and expectations?
i love you (and i wish you love me in return …)
i love you (and i wish you obey me in return …)
i love you (and i wish you are loyal to me in return …)
do i truely love you … ?
when desires and expectations are not met, that becomes the source of our frustraction and disappointment. to love someone, to care someone, and we also have to learn how to let go, to let go of our desires and greed.
if we love someone, then love them the way they are;
if we love someone, then love them and don’t ask them to change;
if we love someone, then love them with freedom and give them space;
if we love someone, then love them and don’t ask for return.
we let go, and we hope that our beloved ones would let go too. love, with “greed digested well“, would become the unconditional love. it is when we could let go our greed and desires, the distilled true love is with us.
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