Well well well...,
No directions and faith sinks and breaks a man,
To bring the state of the mind to positivity summons impossibilities.
When nothing is left in the head, the soul yearns to be used,
It knows no logic or rationals, nothing out of the ordinary,
But it knows what is REAL and TRUE.
Faith is an assurance of things hoped for, the convictions of things not seen.
What then is a man to hope when he knows that all things are temporary while he lives and breathe the temporary?
What is he to do with this constant conflict that disrupts thought of progressions?
The man is in search for answers.
Thursday, 11 September 2008
Friday, 27 June 2008
Simon's graduation
Durham is a beautiful place.
It's old, wisely old, so much character, absolutely authentic and a great blend of modernity. If there is one graduation ceremony I want to go to, it would be this one by Durham University in the Durham Cathedral. A thousand years old of history! It was a fantastic place.
We first arrived at St. Aidan's College (Simon's college where he will be the president the following year to organized programs and activities for students living in) of Durham University. This is one of the very few university that has the collegial system in England. We booked in to the hostel rooms that are emptied out to be rented to family and friends of graduates. And check out their hostel rooms!
This is the twin sharing room. The max allowed.
It gets as good as a regular hotel if not better comes ready with towels and toiletries.
Well layed out study table.
And a fridge by the window with proper heating from the radiator for the winter.
And each a proper wardrobe and a wash-basin in it. I can't help but compare to the place I used to live in UNIMAS. More like a shack to this really.
This is a pre-graduation dinner held in the college's room.
And the rest of it, I will just let the pictures do the talking. The atmosphere was truly very very different from the way I had my graduation ceremony back home. The air is filled with education, literature, art, history, knowledge, achievements and the ceremony in the thousand years old cathedral just took it to a different level of greatness.
And here's the very very much celebrated sunshine at the end of a wonderful experience along the street of Durham.
It's old, wisely old, so much character, absolutely authentic and a great blend of modernity. If there is one graduation ceremony I want to go to, it would be this one by Durham University in the Durham Cathedral. A thousand years old of history! It was a fantastic place.
We first arrived at St. Aidan's College (Simon's college where he will be the president the following year to organized programs and activities for students living in) of Durham University. This is one of the very few university that has the collegial system in England. We booked in to the hostel rooms that are emptied out to be rented to family and friends of graduates. And check out their hostel rooms!
This is the twin sharing room. The max allowed.
It gets as good as a regular hotel if not better comes ready with towels and toiletries.
Well layed out study table.
And a fridge by the window with proper heating from the radiator for the winter.
And each a proper wardrobe and a wash-basin in it. I can't help but compare to the place I used to live in UNIMAS. More like a shack to this really.
This is a pre-graduation dinner held in the college's room.
And the rest of it, I will just let the pictures do the talking. The atmosphere was truly very very different from the way I had my graduation ceremony back home. The air is filled with education, literature, art, history, knowledge, achievements and the ceremony in the thousand years old cathedral just took it to a different level of greatness.
And here's the very very much celebrated sunshine at the end of a wonderful experience along the street of Durham.
Sunday, 22 June 2008
New land
Here we are in England, in a North Western town call Southport. An hour drive away from Manchester and 40 minutes of train ride from Liverpool.
That's 三姑's Nissan Micra which she says it's everybody's car. I wouldn't be driving anytime soon as I am not insured to drive eventhough a Malaysian dirving license allows us to drive for 6 months.
Un. Jo traded in his brand new Jazz for this Civic. It is a nice spacious model never seen on the Malaysian roads.
Here's 三姑's backgarden. It's totally different from the winter when I was here the last time as they didn't seems to be coming alive back then. We were all out in the garden eventhough it is still very chilly outside. That's the plum tree right behind 三姑 along the wooden fence. That's where she makes all her plum jam from.
This is the lunch (It's called dinner here. There is no such thing as lunch. Wondering where did the word came from if the English didn't first started using it.) we had the first day.
And that's Trifle, a desert made of a layer of sponge cake at the bottom, fruits, jelly, custard and cream at the top.
This blog entry should have been up the second day we arrived but I didn't post it. We just got back from Durham for Simon's graduation today. I will post the pictures in the next entry.
That's 三姑's Nissan Micra which she says it's everybody's car. I wouldn't be driving anytime soon as I am not insured to drive eventhough a Malaysian dirving license allows us to drive for 6 months.
Un. Jo traded in his brand new Jazz for this Civic. It is a nice spacious model never seen on the Malaysian roads.
Here's 三姑's backgarden. It's totally different from the winter when I was here the last time as they didn't seems to be coming alive back then. We were all out in the garden eventhough it is still very chilly outside. That's the plum tree right behind 三姑 along the wooden fence. That's where she makes all her plum jam from.
This is the lunch (It's called dinner here. There is no such thing as lunch. Wondering where did the word came from if the English didn't first started using it.) we had the first day.
And that's Trifle, a desert made of a layer of sponge cake at the bottom, fruits, jelly, custard and cream at the top.
This blog entry should have been up the second day we arrived but I didn't post it. We just got back from Durham for Simon's graduation today. I will post the pictures in the next entry.
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