Simple and Complicated
16 May, 2007 by malcolm-
It's been a good one month since I last visited this place. I wonder how many people actually bother to come. But there aren't the point I guess, this is just a place for me to pen down my thoughts. Just suddenly felt like coming back to just pen down some of my thoughts in these couple of days.
Just yesterday alone left me wondering on some things. Was at Holland V when I saw this 3 kittens. Just the normal black and white patched ones, but they were really cute. Playing on top a covered walkway, it was by chance i saw them. At first, one of them saw a branch there and started fiddling with it, curious and playful I suppose. Then the other two joined in as well. It was quite nice to see them just playing around. There were two other larger cats not far away, but were peacefully asleep.
It just struck me how simple live could get. How pure and innocent live can be.
It left me wondering why humans make things so complicated. Are all these things that we do really necessary. Okie, you might say the cats are fed, they have nothing else to worry about. But the thing is, why do we need to have an endless chase on things. The rat race never seems to end. At times, people even do stupid and evil things just to get their goals. Are this really called for?
Just watching the news for the first time in the past week left me thinking more. It somehow seemed that the news on tv has lost its purpose. It somehow has turned into more of a orbituary. In this part of the world a bomb was set off, killing 25. In that part of the world, someone was killed. Is there really nothing else that the world needs to know?
I always have this thought in me. You attack me, I go your house attack you. I don't get out of your house you attack me. I attack you back and stay longer because you attack me and your house is not safe for your family. So you continue to attack me to chase me away, but I won't leave because you are dangerous, I want to make this place safe.
Sounds confusing? It's like a never ending cycle. A vicious one.
More recently, everybody is upset over the Taiwan fighter crash incident. Everybody are so concerned about the dead, the injured. Blame starts to pile up on why an old plane was used, why the pilot this and that. No doubt, the incident is uncalled for and totally regretable. I know the heartache of the people. But how many people took to notice some details in the reports?
The plane came into trouble over very populated area. If the plane came into trouble, the pilots could always choose to eject. But why is it that they chose not to. They could have abandoned the doomed plane and let it crash to save their own life. But they chose to fly away towards the military camp where it was less populated with civilians. They gave up the chance to save themselves, to reduce the casualty toll. No doubt, they sacrificed their lives and two others. But would it have been more if the plane went down over much more densely populated areas? Would we feel the pain then? Would we pay so much attention if our fellow people weren't affected? Are we really that self-centered?
(That's my own personal opinion. My own take on the incident. Not necessarily true or factual.)
Just to end this post on a lighter note, couple of Saturdays back, Khee Ling and Steve Tan finally tied the knot, in what I thought was a really simple wedding. Simple it may be, but it certainly was meaningful. To see friends and familiar faces all gathered back at exactly the same ballroom where our church service was held. To see a once together worship team gathered together to worship at their wedding. It really is heartwarming. So I did some shooting, to capture this wonderful occasion moment by moment. 144 pics in total, all in the album below.
Just yesterday alone left me wondering on some things. Was at Holland V when I saw this 3 kittens. Just the normal black and white patched ones, but they were really cute. Playing on top a covered walkway, it was by chance i saw them. At first, one of them saw a branch there and started fiddling with it, curious and playful I suppose. Then the other two joined in as well. It was quite nice to see them just playing around. There were two other larger cats not far away, but were peacefully asleep.
It just struck me how simple live could get. How pure and innocent live can be.
It left me wondering why humans make things so complicated. Are all these things that we do really necessary. Okie, you might say the cats are fed, they have nothing else to worry about. But the thing is, why do we need to have an endless chase on things. The rat race never seems to end. At times, people even do stupid and evil things just to get their goals. Are this really called for?
Just watching the news for the first time in the past week left me thinking more. It somehow seemed that the news on tv has lost its purpose. It somehow has turned into more of a orbituary. In this part of the world a bomb was set off, killing 25. In that part of the world, someone was killed. Is there really nothing else that the world needs to know?
I always have this thought in me. You attack me, I go your house attack you. I don't get out of your house you attack me. I attack you back and stay longer because you attack me and your house is not safe for your family. So you continue to attack me to chase me away, but I won't leave because you are dangerous, I want to make this place safe.
Sounds confusing? It's like a never ending cycle. A vicious one.
More recently, everybody is upset over the Taiwan fighter crash incident. Everybody are so concerned about the dead, the injured. Blame starts to pile up on why an old plane was used, why the pilot this and that. No doubt, the incident is uncalled for and totally regretable. I know the heartache of the people. But how many people took to notice some details in the reports?
The plane came into trouble over very populated area. If the plane came into trouble, the pilots could always choose to eject. But why is it that they chose not to. They could have abandoned the doomed plane and let it crash to save their own life. But they chose to fly away towards the military camp where it was less populated with civilians. They gave up the chance to save themselves, to reduce the casualty toll. No doubt, they sacrificed their lives and two others. But would it have been more if the plane went down over much more densely populated areas? Would we feel the pain then? Would we pay so much attention if our fellow people weren't affected? Are we really that self-centered?
(That's my own personal opinion. My own take on the incident. Not necessarily true or factual.)
Just to end this post on a lighter note, couple of Saturdays back, Khee Ling and Steve Tan finally tied the knot, in what I thought was a really simple wedding. Simple it may be, but it certainly was meaningful. To see friends and familiar faces all gathered back at exactly the same ballroom where our church service was held. To see a once together worship team gathered together to worship at their wedding. It really is heartwarming. So I did some shooting, to capture this wonderful occasion moment by moment. 144 pics in total, all in the album below.
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