Thursday, 8 November 2012

What is yours?

As I was going through the deep valley of my life this year, I couldn't help but to wonder how many of us really know,

What is the most difficult thing in our life?
 When is the saddest moment in our life?
What is the saddest thing in our life?
When is the happiest moment in our life?
When is the most peaceful moment in our life?
What is the most satisfying thing in our life?

Kids know better in Love and Respect, as Adult's mind is highly corrupted by Pride!
  
Imagine,
to see our parent im-mobilized, on sick bed, in hospital;
to know the end will happen in any moments;
to realize we could do nothing about it;
to be told "It's ok!" as they had lived their life in fullness;
to accept the law of nature;
to hold their hands as they leave......

Tuesday, 6 November 2012

Guarantee

In life,
no matter how wise we enlight,
no matter how intelligent we learn,
no matter how brave we are,
there is no guarantee.

There is no guarantee we will succeed.
There is no guarantee we will not fail.
There is no guarantee even we do all we could.

Other than birth and dead, change is the other only certainty.

Thursday, 1 November 2012

Forgiving

Nature gives no Excuse,
nor it is forgiving!

When nature was not treated Fairly,
the deed is back to us!

If we ask for Prove,
look around whenever disaster strike!

We did too many Examples,
yet we never realize nor understand!  

Sunday, 26 August 2012

Peru, Quelccaya Ice-Cap

Peru, my favourite country to travel, is a jewel with authentic Quecha culture. I love Peru for its landscape and historical culture embedded in the people daily life. The appreciation of their own culture, the Pachamama, over the colonialism shows that the Quecha is every bit of their genuine personality.

In the context of 100 Places To Remember Before They Disappear, the Quelccaya Ice-Cap is in the edge of a full melt-down. Quelccaya Ice-Cap is the largest equatorial ice field, consists of 44KM wide.  Majority of the Peruvian depends on this ice-cap for their water resources - agriculture, hydor-power and consumption.

The Quelccaya Ice-Cap has reduced 20% in size since the 70s', it can no longer assume to be a permanent water resources solution.  It is estimated that the ice cap will fully disappear in 30-50 years in time with the present rate of global warming.
Video Clip from 100 Places To Remember Before They Disappear on
Quelccaya Ice-Cap in Peru

Saturday, 18 August 2012

Malaysia, Bajau of the Sulu-Sulawesi Sea

So near, but yet it feels so far.  I born and grown up in Sandakan, Sabah, Malaysia which consists part of the Borneo Island.  My town faces the Sulu Sea and adjacent to the Celebes Sea which is sometimes called the Sulawesi Sea.

Since young age, I had been out to the sea a lot with some of the local islanders as my father owned a couple of fishing boats.  They as the fishermen and the fish morgers, live along the coast of the islands across from Sandakan town.  I am no stranger to them and their culture as I spent almost every single Hari Raya at these islands.  The people who live here are truely the people of the sea.  Their kids we met growing up, knowing how to dive without equipment.  Yes, they need no bull-shit diving stuff.  They just dip in all the way to the sea floor.  They are the Bajau, the sea gypsy of the world.
In many way, the sea is the home of the Bajau people.  They live on the sea at all time. They can dive, without anything, upto 30M to the sea floor for upto 5 minutes.
Documentary from BBC on the Bajau
for the episod Ocean in a series called Human Planet

In the context of 100 Places To Remember Before They Disappear, the Bajau life and culture will be disappeared as they are migrating their live to the land.  Now, life is getting tougher on the sea for the remaining 10% of these sea gypsies for climatic reason. Global warming has raised the temperature and the sea level of the Sulu-Sulewasi Sea. With the raising of sea water acidic level, the coral reef is dying causing the disappearing of fish, seaweed, sea cucumber and other food sources on the sea floor in which the Bajau people depends on.
Video Clip from 100 Places To Remember Before They Disappear on 
Bajau of the Sulu-Sulawesi Sea

Wednesday, 15 August 2012

Madagascar, Mahajamba Bay

The first on my list to talk about is Madagascar. The reason is I always wanted to go to Madagascar. But to reach Madagascar, it is even harder than Ushuaia - not just in term of the cost, but also in term of the travelling.

In the context of 100 Places To Remember Before They Disappear, the Mahajamba Bay in Madagascar will be disappeared due to the raise of sea level from global warming.
Video Clip from 100 Places To Remember Before They Disappear on Mahajamba Bay in Madagascar

In fact, we already know there will be more to disappear on Madagascar than just Mahajamba Bay. As a group of scientists is working hard to fight with time, Story Teller Media has documented their works in a series called Before It's Too Late.
Documentary from Story Teller Media on Madagascar in a series called
Before It's Too Late

Monday, 13 August 2012

100 Places To Remember Before They Disappear

As more and more I write in my travel blog Sepilok Fui, the feeling of writing this subject becomes so intense. The feeling as when I start researching into a places I want to visit and knowing a place will be disappeared on earth is astonishing.

A person who loves travel will not be able to think of the feeling that some places will be disappeared on earth someday.  And that somedays have already started. So, how much longer we, human on earth, have for all these places are not very long.  There is no sign as such we are able to turn back the clock till the present moment

A dedication to a group of Dannish who has started the awareness on 100 Places To Remember Before They Disappear.


 Video Clip from 100 Places To Remember Before They Disappear in the exhibition day.


Wednesday, 8 August 2012

What or Who need to be saved

The thought comes many years ago, and the voice has been at the back of my mind these couple days again!

The question is what is left of us if;
First, we remove the humanity.
Second, we remove the integrity.
Third, we remove the ethic.
Forth, we remove the principle.
Fifth, we remove the values.

The answer seems quite clear! But how many of us are actually acknowledging it.

Every day, I see greed, power, big house, big car, wastage of world resources. What are we thinking? The world resources will not be diminished to non-existence.
The worst example - shopping for more and more shoes and bags.
Many out there are screaming - Save the World!
I think it is Us, the human race, need to be saved!  The World has been around for billion of years and it will be just fine.
So, before we shout like a hypocrite, look at ourselves deeply!
Broga Hill, Malaysia - Sep, 2010.

Thursday, 12 July 2012

immaturity, Not a cute thing

Immaturity, what exacty is immaturity?

Well, here, I am not talking about being young and innocent, nor being in-experience.
But rather about, there was those 'one off moment' in life in which we thought we know it all, we are so confidence yet we were full of skepticism or sarcasticism because our past experiences made us such way, brought us there and experiences proven so.

However, life has a way of showing us no matter how much experience we have had, how many things had gone not in our favour, or how firm our belief, we have to continue to grow.
In searching outward, we see dream and experience passion.
In searching inward, we realize wisdom and gain enlightenment.


Tanjung Jara, Malaysia - Apr 2008.

Friday, 29 June 2012

Daily Surprise


Each day holds a surprise.
But only if we acknowledge it can we see, hear or feel it when it comes to us.
Let's not be afraid to receive the surprise each day holds 
whether it comes to us as sorrow or as joy!

by
Henri J.M. Nouwen

St. Peter's Church - Malaka, Apr 2008.

Tuesday, 26 June 2012

Up for a Challenge


我最喜欢的回忆是克服困难的过程
任何一个在生活中勇于面对挑战的人都会同意。

--- 建筑大师贝聿铭

My favourite memory is the process of overcoming difficulties/obstacles,
anyone who dares to face challenges in life will agree.

--- Architect I.M. Pei

Taken from Wikipedia
In 1983, French President François Mitterrand proposed, as one of the Grands Projets of François Mitterrand the Grand Louvre plan to renovate the building and relocate the Finance Ministry, allowing displays throughout the building. Architect I. M. Pei was awarded the project and proposed a glass pyramid to stand over a new entrance in the main court, the Cour Napoléon.[31] The pyramid and its underground lobby were inaugurated on 15 October 1988. The second phase of the Grand Louvre plan, La Pyramide Inversée (The Inverted Pyramid), was completed in 1993. As of 2002, attendance had doubled since completion.[32]

The Louvre Palace and the Pyramid, which was completed in 1989 (by night)

The Louvre Palace and the Pyramid, which was completed in 1989 (by day)

Thursday, 21 June 2012

South America on a shoestring

Real travelers love South America.
It’s as if the continent was built for travel;
it’s the sort of place that presents you with challenges every step of the way and rewards you with euphorias you have never imagined. ... 
It seems like the entire continent approaches life like a good road trip: with the windows rolled down and the music up loud.
It’s a subtle approach to uncertainty that will surely infect you. And as for the music – it’s the one thing that never leaves your side.
With every adventure, there is a soundtrack. ... In the end, don’t think of South America as a place. Rather, it’s something you turn yourself onto, that engulfs you and changes you – your state of mind, your outlook on life.
As soon as you step foot on South America soil, the tran...sformation begins.

Lonely Planet
South America on a shoestring

 

Monday, 18 June 2012

Ignorance, Not a Pretty Sin

One body - four limbs, one head;
                     four limbs - two legs, two hands;
                                           one leg - one thigh, one knee, one foot;
                                                                                                one foot - five toes;
                                           one hand - one arm, five fingers;
                     one head - multiple brains, two ears, two eyes, one nose, one mouth;
                                                                                                          one nose - two nostrils;
one mouth - one mouth!

St. Peter's Church - Malaka, Apr 2008.

Thursday, 14 June 2012

Revelation of an Icon

The future belongs to the people, and gradually, or in one strike, they will take power, here and in every country.

The terrible thing is, the people need to be educated, and this they cannot do before taking power, only after.
They can only learn at the cost of their own mistakes, which will be very serious and will cost many innocent lives.
Or perhaps not, maybe those lives will not have been innocent because they will have committed the huge sin against nature; meaning, a lack of ability to adapt.
All of them, those unable to adapt - you and I, for example - will die cursing the power they helped, through great sacrifice, to create.
Revolution is impersonal; it will take their lives, even utilizing their memory as an example or as an instrument for domesticating the youth who follow them.
My sin is greater because I, more astute and with greater experience, call it what you like, will die knowing that my sacrifice stems only from an inflexibility symbolizing our rotten civilization, which is crumbling!
I also know - and this won't alter the course of history or your personal view of me - that you will die with a clenched fist and a tense jaw, the epitome of hatred and struggle, because you are not a symbol (some inanimate example) but a genuine member of the society to be destroyed; the spirit of the beehive speaks through your mouth and motivates your actions.
You are as useful as I am, but you are not aware of how useful your contribution is to the society that sacrifices you.

by
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Monday, 11 June 2012

Life

A constant good life could be...bad...
because there is no experience to wise it!

A constant happy life could be...senseless...
because there is no sorrow... to mature it!

A constant peaceful life could be...boring...
because there is no conflict... to color it!

For life itself, the joy of wisdom can only come to us when we face it!

Cameron Highlands - Perak, Jul 2011.

Saturday, 9 June 2012

The First Act of Every Morning

Let the first act of every morning be to make the following resolve for the day: 
I shall not fear anyone on earth.
I shall fear only God.
I shall not bear ill toward anyone.
I shall not submit to injustice from anyone.
I shall conquer untruth by truth.
And in resisting untruth, I shall put up with all suffering. 
by 
Mahatma Gandhi

Wednesday, 6 June 2012

Parent Nowaday

I wanted to write a blog about Youth Today.  But then I realized I need to talk about Parent Nowaday before I can write about Youth Today.

At a kopitiam, I sat down and ordered my food. Quietly, I turned the pages of the newspaper.

Then, I heard a sharp command from the table at my back "Open big big, can not, you must have it!" literally in this english sentence. In reflex, I turned my head and faced the table behind.  My face must had a certain expression. I think the mother saw the expression on my face, she toned down her command and sharp voice to say "You have to have this!".
I went on to read my newspaper.  Not sure why, I truned my head to the table behind again.  This time I saw the father, after finished his food and not helping the wife, pull out a cigarette from his pack and started lighting it, right in front of the whole family while the rest were still eating.

I am astonished by the scene.
The table at my back was a Chinese family of four, a father, a mother, an elder son and a daughter. The son is most likely around 5-8 year old and the daughter is pre-school age.  The Parent, a young couple in their mid to late 20s'.  They looks like any average Chinese family, the father seems to be able to provide for the family and the wife seems to be a young and innocent house wife.

First of all, I have high regards to my own parent.  However, I am not very fond with the Chinese Parent Nowaday. My parent, both not finishing primary school, hardworking farmers, grown 10 children and all are self independent.  My parent was upmost concerned about our educations.  Even as poor as their time, my parent tried all their best to put food on the table, put all their kids through school (until the kids were not able to proceed) and most important, act and talk like "Parent". My parent never try to convince us we must eat, or we must go to school, or we must be independent.  Instead, my parent taught us that if we don't eat, we will be in hunger; if we don't go to school, we will stay as it is; and if we don't be independent, we will have to face all the consequences for our own actions. 
What I am trying to say is, as the Parent, one must be the example before one can make the children listen, out of respect, not out of fear.

When I saw the scene at my back, it striked me as why our Youth Today is as our youth nowaday.  My niece once said to me "Well, it is not all the parent's fault!".  I told her "I am sorry.  It is not all, however, the Parent's Fault starts FIRST! It is before the fault of the School, or the fault of the Society".
I always wonder - Did all these young couples thought of what Kind of Parent they Should Be before they brought their children to this world? Did they ever think that they need to sharply command their children to EAT? Did they ever think that smoking right after food in front of their children while they're still eating help to convince the children to be good in their table manner, in the future, and in their view of the parent and in their lives?

I remembered once I was on the table eating with my dad, talking was not allowed, sipping soup or eating noise was not allowed, and I was having trouble holding my chopstick properly where my index finger pointed to another person on the table (in Chinese culture, it is very bad to point the index finger to another person during meal).  My dad, quietly, slot his chopstick, hit me right at my index finger.  He said, "Be manner!". I was in pain but kept quiet.  Why?  Because my dad was the one person I think has the best table manner.
 

Monday, 4 June 2012

I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel To Be Free/One

I wish, I knew how, it would feel, to be free
I wish, I could break, all the chains, holding me
I wish, I could say, all the things, that I should say
    Say em loud, say em clear
    For the whole wide world to hear

I wish, I could share, all the love, that's in my heart
Remove, all the bars, that keep us apart
And I wish, you could know, how it feels to be me
    Then you'd see, and agree, that every man, should be free

I wish, I could be, like a bird, in the sky
How sweet, it would be, if I found I could fly
Well I'd soar, to the sun, and look down at the sea
    And I'd sing, cos I'd know, how it feels, to be free

I wish, I knew how, it would feel, to be free
I wish, I could break, all the chains, holding me
I wish, I could say, all the things, that I wanna say
    Say em loud, say em clear
    For the whole wide world to hear
    Say em loud, say em clear
    For the whole wide world to hear
    Say em loud, say em clear
    For the whole wide world to hear

One love, One blood, One life, You got to do what you should
One life, With each other, Sister, Brothers
One love, But we're not the same, We get to carry each other
Carry each other, woah, woah, woah, woah
 
I wish I knew how, it would feel to be free
I wish I knew how, it would feel to be free


By 
Tunde Baiyewu and Paul Tucker

Sunday, 3 June 2012

A Lady named Liz

At one point in my life, I was pretty confidence. While there, I stumbled - not in the sense of abilities, but in the sense of values. 

From there on, there were many doubts.  And I tried to comprehend it through all the meanings behind those most powerful statements such as:
1.  "Contentment is not the fulfillment of what we want, it is the realization of how much we already have. We most time actually do not need that much."
2.  "The happiest of people do not necessarily have the best of everything; they just make the most of everything that comes along their way."
 3.  "It is true that we do not know what we have got until we lose it, but it is also true that we don't know what we have been missing until it arrives."
 4.  "When the door of happiness closes, another opens, but often times we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.
5.  "The brightest future will always be based on a forgotten past, you can not go on well in life until you let go of your past failures and heartaches."
Well, it is meaningful.  It is understood, however, it does not resolve the doubts.

As we born, we are instill with values which our family and cultures practice day in and day out.  Over time, it becomes so firmly embedded in us that we might not even know these values are there in us and affecting us in every way we make decision everyday.

My journey came to a cliff, which I could not back up and go backward.  Well, should I jump?
Three incidents happened subsequently.

At that point, I thought - a calm mind is the best for any decisions.  Thus, I halt everything in my life.  Other than eat, sleep, yoga, read and write, I practically do nothing, not even travelling for 3 months. And there I realize, I was living Statement 1.

Then, I felt that calling from Myanmar again.  This is the 3rd attempts to go Myanmar.  Well, it feels fated as it could not have came at a more appropriate time. After 3 weeks in Myanmar, I learnt one absolutely different thing - the thing about people trying to find meaning in their life, the thing about life is suffering taught through Buddhism, the thing about poverty is a suffering in life, etc; all these things that we were taught and embeded in us to form our values, it has a different face in Myanmar.
I am not saying Myanmar people is not poor, I am not saying Myanmar people is not suffering, I am not saying values we learn is wrong; all I am saying is Myanmar people is happy, positive and "trust" that their future is in good hand despite they are being put in such situation. Myanmar people gone beyong believing it; Myanmar people are trusting it and living Statement 2.

I came home, feeling Statement 3. Strange, but true that something is there for me, but I feel so stupid because I do not know how to get it.  

Faith it is. Coincidence it is, a close friend hears what I said, tells me an experience and my mind opens up, and I met Liz.  Timing it is that I was ready to open my mind, as I need the key.  And Liz, my key holder, showed me The Other Me that I have never faced for the past 38 years. Liz showed me why I have never been able to let go Statement 4.
I feel peace finally.  I am happy today and I am heading to Statement 5.

Belum Rain Forest - Perak, Dec 2009.








Thursday, 31 May 2012

on Travel after Myanmar trip May 1-21, 2012

The first commandment for every good explorer is:
An expedition has two points, the point of departure and the point of arrival.
If your intention is to make the second theoretical point conincide with the actual point of arrival, don't think about the means - because the journey is a virtual space that finishes when it finishes, and there are as many means as there are different ways of "finishing".
That is to say, the means are endless.


The Motorcycle Diaries
by
Ernesto 'CHE' Guevara


Awana Porto Malai - Langkawi, Aug 2006.

Thursday, 24 May 2012

Who you want to be

People are often unreasonable and self-centered.
Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, people may acuse you of ulterior motives.
Be kind anyway.
If you are honest, people may cheat you.
Be honest anyway.
If you find happiness, people may be jealous.
Be happy anyway.
The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow.
Do good anyway.
Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough.
Give your best anyway.
For you see, in the end, it is between you and God.
It was never between you and them anyway.

by
Mother Theresa

Tanjung Jara - Terengganu, Apr 2009.

Monday, 30 April 2012

Greatest Love

The Greatest Sorrow we can feel in our life 
is when we ought to let go those we love most.
The suffering is because of our lack of enlightenment to detachment
in which is what life experience try to teach us.

Chinese New Year at Sandakan, Feb 2010.
Mom is the thrid from the right.
 

Saturday, 28 April 2012

Why Not Heaven?

Only if human accept other human 100% regardless...
Only if human harmonize with our environment...
Only if human build from need not want...
Only if human become selfless...

If only...
Then Earth is Heaven.

If not...
Then Heaven is Earth! 

Wednesday, 25 April 2012

Passion of Travel? Fear of Travel?

The fear hits when the date draws closer, alone at a place where I know nobody, have no contact with people I know and I have never been.  Is that really a bit too gutsy? Anxiety is "will I be ok?".

Everytime, I go for this kind of trip, I will feel myself at the beginning of the trip - this will be my last because of the fear and anxiety.  But everytime I come back, the urge starts all over again. I will forget the fear and anxiety and start another journey. Fearless, not really. But there is a calling within, un-controllable and surface after peaceful life for a while. Well, it forces me to learn over and over again everytime I do  it again and again.

Jalan Sepilok in Sandakan - Sabah, Feb 2010.

Monday, 23 April 2012

Today Thought

Waking up with a heavy feeling of burdenness, as the trip to Myanmar, on the 3rd Go, is drawing nearer.  I feel tired first time after resting 3 months since mom passed away.

I didn't quite understanding the feeling as travelling has always been my passion, especially going to a places where I know nobody, have no contact, no possible communication to the exterior world.  It is a whole new challenge, like leaving behind one self in a secured and comfort world, and go in an environment where I need to re-learn how to live, how to handle every single daily task, how to survive with only my clothes on and pocket money for food, moving from places to places. I always thought a trip like that make me humble.

After a while absorbing in my thought, a feeling falls on me - Isn't it that is the way I cast myself away? Isn't that a perfect example of running away of the imposed social expectation?
It strikes me that I have nothing to run away from now!

2012 is a difficult year, but it is also a strange year to begin with.  So much lost, no beside sorrow and suffering, however, it is also with so much realization.  It is like mountain hiking, at its last stage before the summitting, keep going!
Sunrise at Mt.Kinabalu, Dec 2004.

Often I feel I go to some distant region of the world 
to be reminded of who I really am.
by
--- Michael Crichton ---

Saturday, 21 April 2012

Difference in Focus

Difference between Focusing on Problems and Focusing on Solutions

Case 1
When NASA began the launch of astronauts into space, they found out that the pens wouldn't work at zero gravity (ink won't flow down to the writing surface). To solve this problem, it took them one decade and $12 million.
They developed a pen that worked at zero gravity, upside down, underwater, in practically any surface including crystal and in a temperature range from below freezing to over 300 degrees C.
And what did the Russians do...???
They used a pencil.

Case 2
One of the most memorable case studies on Japanese management was the case of the empty soapbox, which happened in one of Japan's biggest cosmetics companies.
The company received a complaint that a consumer had bought a soapbox that was empty. Immediately the authorities isolated the problem to the assembly line, which transported all the packaged boxes of soap to the delivery department. For some reason, one soapbox went through the assembly line empty. Management asked its engineers to solve the problem.
Post-haste, the engineers worked hard to devise an X-ray machine with high-resolution monitors manned by two people to watch all the soapboxes that passed through the line to make sure they were not empty. No doubt, they worked hard and they worked fast but they spent a whoopee amount to do so.
But when a rank-and-file employee in a small company was posed with the same problem, he did not get into complications of X-rays, etc., but instead came out with another solution.
He bought a strong industrial electric fan and pointed it at the assembly line. He switched the fan on, and as each soapbox passed the fan, it simply blew the empty boxes out of the line.

Moral: Always look for simple solutions. Devise the simplest possible solution that solves the problems. Focus on solutions and not on the problems.
ONLY THOSE WHO CAN SEE THE INVISIBLE CAN DO THE IMPOSSIBLE!

**Note**
I am not claiming this mine.  But I don't know who this belongs to as it was forwarded through so many emails. 

Wednesday, 18 April 2012

Faith & Einstein

Professor : You are a Christian, aren’t you, son?
Student : Yes, sir.

Professor : So, you believe in GOD?
Student : Absolutely, sir.

Professor : Is GOD good?
Student : Sure.

Professor : Is GOD all powerful?
Student : Yes.

Professor : My brother died of cancer even though he prayed to GOD to heal him. Most of us would attempt to help others who are ill. But GOD didn’t. How is this GOD good then? Hmm?
(Student was silent.)

Professor : You can’t answer, can you ? Let’s start again, young fella. Is GOD good?
Student : Yes.

Professor : Is satan good?
Student : No.

Professor : Where does satan come from?
Student : From … GOD …

Professor : That’s right. Tell me son, is there evil in this world?
Student : Yes.

Professor : Evil is everywhere, isn’t it ? And GOD did make everything. Correct?
Student : Yes.

Professor : So who created evil?
(Student did not answer.)

Professor : Is there sickness? Immorality? Hatred? Ugliness? All these terrible things exist in the world, don’t they?
Student : Yes, sir.

Professor : So, who created them?
(Student had no answer.)

Professor : Science says you have 5 Senses you use to identify and observe the world around you. Tell me, son, have you ever seen GOD?
Student : No, sir.

Professor : Tell us if you have ever heard your GOD?
Student : No , sir.

Professor : Have you ever felt your GOD, tasted your GOD, smelt your GOD? Have you ever had any sensory perception of GOD for that matter?
Student : No, sir. I’m afraid I haven’t.

Professor : Yet you still believe in Him?
Student : Yes.

Professor : According to Empirical, Testable, Demonstrable Protocol, Science says your GOD doesn’t exist. What do you say to that, son?
Student : Nothing. I only have my faith.
Professor : Yes, faith. And that is the problem Science has.
 
Student : Professor, is there such a thing as heat?
Professor : Yes.

Student : And is there such a thing as cold?
Professor : Yes.
 
Student : No, sir. There isn’t.
(The lecture theater became very quiet with this turn of events.)

Student : Sir, you can have lots of heat, even more heat, superheat, mega heat, white heat, a little heat or no heat. But we don’t have anything called cold. We can hit 458 degrees below zero which is no heat, but we can’t go any further after that. There is no such thing as cold. Cold is only a word we use to describe the absence of heat. We cannot measure cold. Heat is energy. Cold is not the opposite of heat, sir, just the absence of it.
(There was pin-drop silence in the lecture theater.)

Student : What about darkness, Professor? Is there such a thing as darkness?
Professor: Yes. What is night if there isn’t darkness?

Student : You’re wrong again, sir. Darkness is the absence of something. You can have low light, normal light, bright light, flashing light. But if you have no light constantly, you have nothing and its called darkness, isn’t it? In reality, darkness isn’t. If it is, well you would be able to make darkness darker, wouldn’t you?
Professor : So what is the point you are making, young man ?

Student : Sir, my point is your philosophical premise is flawed.
Professor: Flawed? Can you explain how?

Student : Sir, you are working on the premise of duality. You argue there is life and then there is death, a good GOD and a bad GOD. You are viewing the concept of GOD as something finite, something we can measure. Sir, Science can’t even explain a thought. It uses electricity and magnetism, but has never seen, much less fully understood either one. To view death as the opposite of life is to be ignorant of the fact that death cannot exist as a substantive thing.
Death is not the opposite of life: just the absence of it. Now tell me, Professor, do you teach your students that they evolved from a monkey?
Professor : If you are referring to the natural evolutionary process, yes, of course, I do.

Student : Have you ever observed evolution with your own eyes, sir?
(The Professor shook his head with a smile, beginning to realize where the argument was going.)

Student : Since no one has ever observed the process of evolution at work and cannot even prove that this process is an on-going endeavor. Are you not teaching your opinion, sir? Are you not a scientist but a preacher?
(The class was in uproar.)

Student : Is there anyone in the class who has ever seen the Professor’s brain?
(The class broke out into laughter. )

Student : Is there anyone here who has ever heard the Professor’s brain, felt it, touched or smelt it? No one appears to have done so. So, according to the established Rules of Empirical, Stable, Demonstrable Protocol, Science says that you have no brain, sir. With all due respect, sir, how do we then trust your lectures, sir?
(The room was silent. The Professor stared at the student, his face unfathomable.)
Professor : I guess you’ll have to take them on faith, son.

Student : That is it sir … Exactly ! The link between man & GOD is FAITH. That is all that keeps things alive and moving.

P.S.
I believe you have enjoyed the conversation. And if so, you’ll probably want your friends / colleagues to enjoy the same, won’t you?
Forward this to increase their knowledge … or FAITH.
By the way, that student was EINSTEIN.

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