my lawyer made me change the name of this blog so i wouldn't get sued...

"Our greatest fear is not that we are inadequate, but that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that frightens us. We ask ourselves, "Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, handsome, talented and fabulous?" Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God, your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God within us. It is not just in some; it is in everyone. And, as we let our light shine, we consciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our fear, our presence automatically liberates others."


..i still remember reading this quote pinned on the wall of a youth hostel in Nairobi and the shivers it sent down my spine...


opening scene, Chong qing sen lin (chungking express)

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Every day we brush past
so many other people.

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People we may never meet...

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or people who may become close friends.

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I'm a cop, No. 223.
My name's He Qiwu.

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Freeze!

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This was the closest we ever got.

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Just 0.01 of a centimetre between us.

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But 57 hours later...

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I fell in love with this woman.




We are alone, absolutely alone on this chance planet: and, amid all the forms of life that surround us, not one, excepting the dog, has made an alliance with us.
Maurice Maeterlinck



Voor ik haar kende
was mijn wereld veel kleiner.
Ik bleef op mezelf, ik had niemand nodig en daar ging ik prat op.
Maar in feite...schaamde ik me voor wat ik was.
Ik was bang dat als ze zagen hoe anders ik echt was...ze zich van me zouden afkeren.
______ zag hoe anders ik was.
Maar ze keerde zich niet af.
Ze wilde juist meer zien
voor 't eerst in mijn leven...
wilde iemand me zoals ik was.
Dat veranderd mij. Voorgoed.
Vanaf de dag dat ik haar ontmoetten,
was mijn eenzaamheid voorbij.
Ik wil mijn verdere leven met haar delen.
Bestraal me met jou gloed..




`I am just pointing all this out to you. It doesn't mean that facts need frighten you. Facts are there to observe. If you observe them they never frighten you. Facts are not frightening. But if you want to avoid them, turn your back and run, then that is frightening. To stand, to see that what you have done may not have been totally correct, to live with the fact and not interpret the fact according to your pleasure or form of reaction, that is not frightening. Life isn't very simple. One can live simply but life itself is vast, complex. It extends from horizon to horizon. You can live with few clothes or with one meal a day, but that is not simplicity. So be simple, don't live in a complicated way, contradictory and so on, just be simple inwardly....'