A glimpse of Newcastle

Yes...

Kangaroos were harm during the shot of this picture...

Everybody needs to kick back and relax once in a while...

With a power chair, heaven is just a flick of a switch away...

Sam Sam :Baby, while in the midst of writing my thesis...I accidentally discovered the secret of Life.!!!! Check it out.....they don't call me-"The Guy...who will one day discover the secret of life" for nothing.

Ming Ming : HHHHHHHmmmmm, no honey bun bun...it's just a recipe for Very very spicy Tandoori Chicken...I Wuw chicken...yum...!!!

(What a cute couple, don't you think??...I would know...stayed with them for a good 2 weeks)

Trusses...So many of them...

This is what Sam does doring his free time...Teaches his own brand of Latino Dancing ...

Better known as the "Spastics"

Some of us from "TEDS"

Gee...What did I say??

I'm feeling a sense of Eu-Catastrophe.

Food For Thought

“Ah, that’s a fine fellow!” exclaimed the Chief. “He has gained much land!”

Pahom’s servant came running up and tried to raise him, but he saw that blood was flowing from his mouth. Pahom was dead!

The Bashkirs clicked their tongues to show their pity.

His servant picked up the spade and dug a grave long enough for Pahom to lie in, and buried him in it.

Six feet from his head to his heels was all he needed.

-Leo Tolstoy,"How much land does a man need?"

Always was facinated by this short story...
One lesson that the author was trying to push was Greed.
However, when you look at it at another angle...I find that the author is trying to remind us all of our mortality. Despite our strengths and ability to conquer all, alas we are just fragile beings and death will always await us no matter what we are capable of achieving in life. The only thing we can take from this world is "Six feet from his head to his heels".

-P.S, Why are all my recent post so depressing??

Mom and Dad, how's the neighbour's construction going on??

Strange Discovery

Bond movies…so many of them…in fact, 20 in total so far. I’ve seen quite a few of them, but my all time favorite was “You Only Live Twice”. I never knew why I was so attached to this bond film…it didn’t have the special effects of gadgets the new bond movie often possesses…but it did have smarts and wits…
Turns out, by some strange coincidence that I learned…the screenplay for “You Only Live Twice” was written by none other than Roald Dahl himself. No wonder, he was the only one in the world who could pull of such a feat. Mixing a blend of Sarcasm, witty humor and a touch of elegance. Having said that, I think Ewan Mcgregor should play the next bond.
Worthy Note: Children’s favorite “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang” screenplay was also written by Roald Dahl.

Finding Our Neverland

A place of tranquility, inspiration, to runaway, to hide. A place where time is relative to the observer, where everything you can imagine co-exist in harmony (well, except the grown-ups there)…that is Neverland Ranch…Ops…I mean…Neverland. I watched “Finding Neverland” with a friend the other night…and man...simply loved it… in fact, it was one of the best movies I had seen in a while. The story is based on the life of play-writer JM Barrie. The plot focuses on Mr. Barrie, when he was going though the worst period of his life with marital problems, and your typical writers block. All that change, when he met the lively Davies brothers and their mom Sylvia Llewelyn Davies. Well, like all great stories…Mr. Barrie needless to say, made a triumphant comeback.
I was so inspired by the movie, that I actually googled “JM Barrie”. Turns out they did change some of the historical details. Basically, when Mr. Barrie met Mrs. Davies, she just became a widow…but in fact, her husband was alive when they 1st met. In fact he was really jealous of her and the boys close friendship with Mr. Barrie. But still, they manage to manifest that tension with Mrs. Davies’ mom in the movie.
It was just amazing to see how Mr. Barrie, despite being older, never actually growing up. “You brought pretending into this home” quote from the movie. But alas, this kind of thinking was probably why the Davies brother who never grew up met tragic ends. George, one of the sons, died in World War I, Michael drowned himself with his boy friend in Oxford. Peter, who become a publisher, committed suicide in 1960. I guess even if we hate to…or despise growing up. Eventually at some point, we’ll always have to. Or at least know when to.

"I guess like the ticking crocodile, time is always after us".