Just something for you pple to chew on.

YOUTH

Samuel Ullman

Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind; it is not a matter of rosy cheeks, red lips and supple knees; it is a matter of the will, a quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions; it is the freshness of the deep springs of life.

Youth means a temperamental predominance of courage over timidity of the appetite, for adventure over the love of ease. This often exists in a man of sixty more than a boy of twenty. Nobody grows old merely by a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals.

Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust.

Whether sixty or sixteen, there is in every human being's heart the lure of wonder, the unfailing child-like appetite of what's next, and the joy of the game of living. In the center of your heart and my heart there is a wireless station; so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer, courage and power from men and from the infinite, so long are you young.

When the aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you are grown old, even at twenty, but as long as your aerials are up, to catch the waves of optimism, there is hope you may die young at eighty.

btw before i forget...there is this book called "You have a minute, Lord?" that takes a irreverent, but pertinent look at prayer in the form of poetry. Irreverent in the sense that these prayers are scathingly frank in their content, but thought-provoking in the sense that they force you to think.

hey everyone!

i've got myself a blog. come visit and leave me a note! :)

hmm not too sure if jen ming is used to putting up with it as from my memories he is more used to inflicting pain than being on the receiving end of it...haha.

well can't really comment on field of study for you pp as it is quite out of my field....did not even know what EEE was until i asked my teacher who happened to have taken it. however i could say that sometimes never turn out as one has intended (none of what i am doing now is what i expected myself to do), however, ask if something that is so-called bad did not happen, would the sometimes fantastic consequences happen as well? never judge a company by the corporate branding it has...really...sometimes it is the seemingly innocuous places that are really nice for they let you do your own thing as compared to those places where everything is "branded" (you must follow the company vision...mission...whatever).

as for field camp...haha....i thought bacteria and fungi GROW when clothes are stinky...and how is having a hole cool i ask? not as though one would flash the hole (hey scars of battle yeah?) and risk being charged for indecent exposure...haha.

2 more weeks of school and i am free!

i am back from field camp! HUAGH!
i am master of stinky clothes!
die bacteria fungi die die die.

just want to thank those who came for the thingy on sat...though we ended up not talking much cause i was stoned and we were laughing at huijia too much...haha

yep see you pp soon...