Song - Lonely Island featuring Akon - I Just Had Sex ( One of the catchiest songs I've heard in a while. Possibly a summer hit? Maybe not one for the kiddies )
Dj Earworm - Like, OMG Baby ( Mash up of many songs. Can't wait for the official 2010 mix though but this will suffice for now )
Taylor Swift - Christmas Must Be Something More ( Just something for the holiday spirit )
Band / Artist - Kina Grannis ( Her voice is so serenading. Sounds similiar to Colbie Caillat *inserts Natasha's failed attempt to act out "Bubbly" in a game of Charades lol* )
Girl Talk ( The musician actually a guy. Yup, just the one guy like Adam Young to Owl City but instead of making happy synthisized music, Girl talk mashes Hip-hop songs. I've listened to his recent album "All Day" The album is such a sample fest which fyi I love! Try 373 overlapping samples over twelve tracks [for navigational purposes] or just one seamless track [how it was meant to be heard]. Mind Blown!
Well I've been busy lately over the past couple of weeks and the rest of the holidays are probably no different. First of all, shoutouts to the Kamath Sisters overseas (Shraddha, Sunaynay and Shilpika) Missing ya heaps! and to my home boy Terina (she just wants to be acknowledged) and finally Chooi Wen cause it's her birthday coming up and here she is buying me a souvenir from overseas! Happy Birthday Choi Sum!
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| Only photo of us I could find |
So during exam study leave which was a while back (I was busy remember) and here I was, chilling in front of the TV after dinner and like I always do, I start channel surfing.
I was like wtf was I watching TV?! Then I remembered. The internet is capped =(
But then I wouldn't of found Heston's Feasts. One of the best cooking shows if not the BEST on TV! Keeps me interested in cooking, end of story. Cooking should be as exciting as this! Take that MasterChef, Hells Kitchen and Top Chef! Sorry Padma Laksmi
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| Only reason to watch Hells Kitchen |
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| Only reason to watch Top Chef |
The best 30 seconds of my life (inside joke) but Heston is truly a genius!
Moving onto the main point of this whole thing or do you want me to rant about how cool Heston Blumenthal some more? After Heston's Feasts, more channel surfing was done and came across this inspirational speaker by the name of Prem Rawat on a channel I never knew I had (Triangle TV?)
Here he was. This short middle aged in his 30s or 40s in a mahogany suit sitting in front an audience. He had this glint in his eye. I would have flick to a new channel but glad I didn't because this wise man basically changed my outlook on life.
He starts off with "What is the meaning of life?"
A question that stumps us on a day-to-day basis.
A question that goes unanswered
So I asked myself the very question and did some soul-searching
What is the true meaning of our existence?
In the film Equilibrium where Christian Bale slices off Taye Diggs' face along with taking out an entire team of baddies with killer gun moves, one of the most memorable quotes was this conversation between John Preston (Christian Bale) and Mary (Emily Watt) about their existence
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| I just don't like you that much Taye |
John: I'm alive. . . I live to safeguard the continuity of this great society. To serve Libria
Mary: It's circular. You exist to continue your existence. What's the point?
John: What's the point of your existence?
Mary: To feel. Because you've never done it, you can never know it. It is as vital as breath and without it, without love, without anger, without sorrow, breath is just a clock. . .ticking
That's one way to see our lives. To become emotionally involved and immersed in life. Just wanting to love and to be loved. It's such a simple thing that is incredibly complex.
Or you can take it from Forrest Gump
"My momma told me life's like a box of chocolates. You don't know what you'll get" Something predictable and something a little unexpected.
Life is what you make of it.
“For all of us who are alive, life is the real issue. Yet so often we judge our existence by the things that happen to us—by whether things are going our way or not. Sometimes we feel strong—strong enough to dictate our future. Sometimes we feel that we can make things happen. Then there are times when we feel totally helpless. But through all the dramas and bumps, there is life. There is the very powerful, very existence of every single human being”
“To live this life, my friends, you have to have a genuine passion. Nothing artificial. To live this life, to love this life, you have to have a genuine passion. People think Kabir was so wonderful because he was uneducated and yet he said all these wonderful things. Do you think it would have been different had Kabir gone to Yale and Oxford? If so, you missed the point. The point isn't whether he was educated or not, because, in the truest sense, he was very educated. More educated than most people. The point is that passion. Maybe you won't be able to write like Kabir, but you can feel the same passion. Passion is the point. That love is the point. That feeling is the point. That is achievable by everyone sitting in this hall, and in the city of London, and on this planet Earth. That passion. That love. That awakening. That joy.”
"People try to define life. You know, all the 900 different things that people have wedged in there. But in reality, life is simply the time between birth and death. That's life. To us, it is a lifetime. But somewhere out in space, it may just be a blink of an eye, that's all. Because of the earth's gravitational pull, time is being slowed down and TA-DA, you have a lifetime. But somewhere out there, it's just this blink of an eye. And in this blink of an eye, you have created complexities that rival the complexities of the universe itself. In a sense, you have outdone the stars, you have outdone the motions of planets. You have outdone the whole principle of how light travels. In your little world, you have created absolutely amazing complexities.
But Prem Rawat summarized the reality of life in three words - To Be Fulfilled
Everyone may have different goals in life but at the core of these so-called goals, they are hoping to achieve the fulfillment of their life. Whether it's focused on relationships, their careers, their lifestyles, they want fulfillment.
"It's something that moves and inspires each human being.
And that is the desire to be fulfilled—not in thought, not in imagination, but in earnest"
"The meaning of life cannot be explained. It must be felt"
"When you die, when you look back, what do you see? What will you remember?"
"The good you've accomplished or the good you've done to others. This contentment is the fulfillment in life
What things did you do to get this far?
These are the questions you ask yourself
when the road ahead seems blurry
when you've lost sense of direction
when you're at the crossroads
What I've taken from this is as long as you're passionate about something and live a happy, fulfilling life, that is what really matters. Nothing materialistic or artificial. Just the genuine article.
It's not always the destination but the journey
You only have one life. Live it!
