perfect art.

the art of making fun of urself.

of laughing at urself.

of absorbing the joke.

of being the joke.

is the most beautiful art of all.

the clown in u.

express it.

laugh at urself.

and people will laugh with u.

valentines

it all started on monday i think.
ko unleashed his valentines plan on us.

'we have 12 girls and 11 guys in the class.
y not we jus draw lots and have couples for valentines?
and one lucky guy gets 2 girls.'

lol.
we were supposed to be sporting.
at least its better than the cucumbers we gave the girls last year.

further discussion brought down to alyssa being exempted as shes nt single.

drew.
got a 4.

well, its sure funny as each couple was revealed.
any1 gettin kong will be sure suprised.
underneath his roundness....
is a baby dragon.

zhen got me.

house rules:
must get something 4 partner.
sit together, lunch together..
lol...

i was lazy to think.
seriously.

so i did it the daniel way.

collected data from various sources.
compounded it.
and form a complex compound.

lol.
some suggestions were more outrageous than tunas.
for goodness sake? basketballs?

***

well, even the florist is against me:

'flowers for valentines day?'

'yup. do u have hibiscus?'

no joke man, she flared up like an angry mung bean.

'no, our shop dont sell hibiscus. u want, u go to the roadside and pick. no, i tell u, our shop dont sell hibiscus.'

imagine timothy in full bitch mode. lol.

'so, errr what bout these?'
i took some white flowers.
they look like those u see when u go to funerals.
nt bad, funeral flowers 4 valentines.
sniff*
its beautiful.

'u said its 4 valentines? dont take them. usually ppl will get roses, not that.'

lol.
whats her problem?
i was about to give her a sureshan frown.
then i thought better of it.
no time.
grabbed some bright yellow brush.

' ill take this.'

she gave me some dirty cross disgusted frown.
then passed them to an old woman.
and turn back to her telephone askin bout some visma place near kepong.

***

i need to get the tuna out before the flower.
feel like punking her.

sharon.
an angel.

well, she did suffer a bit on my behalf.
holdin d yellow stuff.
kena shoot straight away by su ern and zhen when they came.

lol.
zhen was like in hysterics when i gave her the tunas can by can.
6 of them.
well, i do need to work on my expressionless blur face more.
but i cant let sharon get underfire for longer.
i do owe her a lot.

then only i gave the flowers.

and i got chocolate milk packets.
6 of them.








i messaged my hsmate,
'lol...'




his reply?
' oh lord jesus'

O' LORD JESUUSSSS

i hold no grudge against jesus.

in fact,

i respect him.

brilliant guy.

died with so much style.



i ve read the whole bible.
and memorised luke and acts.
and sat in for god knows how many cell groups.
and fellowships.
and prayer meetings.


and 3 people just simply threatens to ruin jesus's good image before me.

on a fine friday night.
my hsmate's friend said she wanted to visit him, with some friends.
well, thats fine.

then my hsmate asked me to introduce myself.
ok... no problem with that.

then i spotted the familiar booklet the guy was holdin.
o.y.g.
sometin's wrong.

they asked what religions we were.
'buddhist.'
'free but more to buddhist.'
' me? im a muslim"
went back to the room.
my hsmates:'no he is just jokin, he is a free thinker'
dont they know how to act?


got pulled out by
" eh? where daniel went?'

cooperated.
give face.

then they started askin.
whats ur purpose in life?

my hsmate: to find real me.
second hsmate: sometin bout wildlife.
my turn.

"so, daniel? whats ur purpose in life?"
'to glorify god.
to spread the news of the kingdom of god to the ends of the world'

as soon the words were out of my mouth,
cant help but laugh.
covered my face.
this was so funny.
like takin the words out of their mouth.
they must be mistakin me for being shy.
like i care.
lol.

then,
lectures.
his english sounds wrong in a right way.
the girls' keep on using an unnatural hypnotysin voice.
...
(interject lots of amens and lord jesus in that voice which makes one feel like shiverin, just like a limp french fry)
...
gloves created for hand.
not for feet.
...
...
sometin bout names
and i realised they wanted us to chant
O LORD JESUSSSS.
5 times.
the time i feel the stupidest in my life.
even other christian meetins are more natural feelin.
...
...

then talked bout satan.
archangel created by god.


'whats his name again?'
lol.
they come here to preach and dont even know some stupid name.
'lucifer?'
tried to be helpful.
'yeah, lucifer.' the other 2 confirmed.

...
...

well at last they are gone.

智者不言，言者不智。

desire

why do we desire anyting?
why do we strive to get what we want?
why do we want?

kong said,
isnt it better to just work in seven eleven and earn just enough to feed urself?
why study medicine? when the whole million dollars can be used for something else?

it is human nature to desire.
to desire too much we call greed.
not to desire is to be detached.

yet to call it human nature is an excuse.

yet being detached is not human.
we call them divine.

as even buddha was once human.
then he sat under a tree.
and detached.
till he realised how useless being detached is.

being totally detached is useless,
as well not be borned,
it would save so much rice,
reduce co2 produced by so much.

moderation is the best.
to rejoice and be satisfied
yet still have the drive to achieve.

chiun min signature depressing question:
why do we live?
whats the purpose?
why do we eat?
why?

its just because we were created for the purpose of living, eating, surviving, reproducing and dying.

and why were we created?
we may just be an accident for all we know...

jesus said he will bring you to heaven.
and he just tells u theres a feast there.
and not everybody can go there.

sidharta gautama is a bit better.
at least he describes more bout the land of bliss.
every tree...
every rock...
every petal...

even creating demigods,
guan yins,

well, to be fair,
he did live longer than jesus.
jesus only had thirty years.
he did have more time for creativity.
and more time to think.

the heart sutra:

Body is nothing more than emptiness,
emptiness is nothing more than body.
The body is exactly empty,
and emptiness is exactly body.

The other four aspects of human existence
-- feeling, thought, will, and consciousness --
are likewise nothing more than emptiness,
and emptiness nothing more than they.

All things are empty:
Nothing is born, nothing dies,
nothing is pure, nothing is stained,
nothing increases and nothing decreases.
So, in emptiness,
there is no body, no feeling,
no thought, no will, no consciousness.
There are no eyes, no ears,
no nose, no tongue,
no body, no mind.
There is no seeing, no hearing,
no smelling, no tasting,
no touching, no imagining.
There is nothing seen, nor heard,
nor smelled, nor tasted,
nor touched, nor imagined.
There is no ignorance, and no end to ignorance.
There is no old age and death,
and no end to old age and death.
There is no suffering,
no cause of suffering,
no end to suffering,
no path to follow.
There is no attainment of wisdom,
and no wisdom to attain.
The Bodhisattvas rely on the Perfection of Wisdom,
and so with no delusions, they feel no fear,
and have Nirvana here and now.

This is truth that cannot be doubted. Say it so:
Gaté, gaté, paragaté, parasamgaté. Bodhi! Svaha!
Gone, gone, gone over, gone fully over. Awakened! So be it!

道可道，非常道。
名可名，非常名。

the path which can be shown,
is not an eternal path.

those that can be named,
are those that are not eternal.