Purpose & Perspective In Life

Purpose and perspective in life

Have you wondered how slow the pace of life we live in our childhood and then suddenly we felt hopeless when at an older age, time becomes faster for us to accomplish whatever goal we seek for?

The many activities that we used to wait and usually we count by numbers, like waiting the traffic light to turn green, we press the button so frantically, hoping that red light turn to green while the digital time lapse numbers ticks away. Wow! So slow, we would lament in between.

Consider the waiting time for the last bell or buzzer sound from the washing machine, so that we could unload for drying and move on to next house chores. The painstaking frozen time when queuing up in our usual public service departments or standing still in a long beeline in shopping complex to pay purchased items at the cash register counters.

Snail pace time when we start to countdown the clock minute’s hand towards the number 12 so that the clock ticks goes off in order for the prime time television news appears and listen to our favorite broadcaster.

We could see that how these have purposeful joy and in that time actually gives us a meaningful perspective to our lives. We could be so impatient with ourselves to catch-up with the speed of time we live in daily. I’d realized when we tried to be in a hurry, we may miss many of the real opportunities we could enjoy when things are done in a happier pace. I mean the finer points in doing them and getting a joyful end.

This eventually led to a conditioning of the mind to be serene and contended for that moment without cringing or complaining. As we understood quite clearly the purpose on why we do things/ activities as we wanted them to be, we set real goals and meaningful purposes for a healthy life.

Well, what can be said? We just savor the time and let it sink in our mind and be appreciative what life could offer and we live in that borrowed time that was given to us with a joy and wonderment. Hence, we have actually nothing to complaint about as this is a perfect package, rightfully presented to us.

Have a wonderful day! SMILE

Economy Impact

The Impact of economy slowdown. What impact?

The impact of economy slowdown surely does affect many house-holders but in general, many are still ignorant how serious it was. I took a note book and started to jot down my observations at local shopping complexes and these are my findings:

1. Retail prices are priced higher though fuel has dropped drastically.
2 .Spending pattern of consumers reduced just lower that of the desired target line.
3 .Spending pattern glaringly differs amongst age groups. The younger being spendthrift while the older were prudent.
4 .Many still drives in droves to supermarkets and hypermarkets without doing their basic preparation as what to buy and what are the general prices differences.
5 .Consumers are not prepared to abandon buying though they’d realized that prices of items they would like to purchase are higher than normal as they find troublesome to get a cheaper one at other nearby places.
5 .Concern on buying beauty products than basic necessities among young women shoppers.
6 .Frequenting to fast food restaurant chains after shopping or while waiting for friends.
7 .Qualities of consumer goods are not better vs. the high price attached to them.
8 .Some of the local brands of clothing products labeled higher price than that of the imported ones.
9. The price hypes in the hypermarkets. Check out yourself by comparing from one hypermarket to the others in similar capacity. You could see the differences easily.

It will take awhile before the public masses come to realization of how the impact of economic slowdown had affected us. We are expecting a major melt-down in global financial market system and the wave of economic tsunami is just around the corner. (Many countries already getting the brunt)

Either we wake-up or shake-up, a vigilant focus on our spending pattern must be taken into due serious consideration and as an important element in our effort to stay in survival mode to whether whatever challenges coming ahead.

It’s better to be on guard and prepares an umbrella for the rainy days ahead than stand in ruins when the economic storm ravage us! Are you prepared?

Florigraphy

Florigraphy - Is the study of flowers meaning in actual science, and it reveals extra underlying meanings to sending or receiving flowers - subtle and secret messages can be passed through the different blooms.

I noted that this has great impact when one simply gaze at any of the flowers as we set our eye upon. Flowers attracts our imagination like never before and gives a serene and soothing feeling of comfort and natural beauty.

Take some examples like, Lotus - mystery & spirituality, Red rose - I love you, Tulip - Love, symbol of perfect lover, Bluebell - humility, consistency, delicacy.

What next? I guess I've to sleeve-up my shirt and grasp my digital camera and swing around for happy shots of fine flowers around me.....and find the meanings as well!!

Mount Pulai - Walk in the mountain park!

Observing nature's gift

Pulai forest reserves, a nature enthusiast's haven


Nature - provider , human - the ``greedy'' consumer

Boulders are no stoppers for stream water

Water strider, that "skims" along the surface. An acute swimmer & floater of no match by human dreamer

Slows down when reaches the bottom rung

Cool mountain water rushes down the stream.

Beauty- nature's gift to humanity but we careless her priceless treasures !

Violet in color but not for the nose's flavour!

Yes! it's a flower shoots that looks like a caterpillar in groove!

Young guava fruits looks cute before they could be plucked by an hungry dude

Cattle's grazing available grasses, not knowing where its life masses (on human plate)

These are pictures taken during a weekend excursion to Pulai forest reserve & mountain foothill.

Honoring A Teacher!

As part of a guru-sishya (teacher-student) relationship where the students honor their teacher during one of the days in Navarathiri celebrations, we took that opportunity to honor our Veena and vocal teacher, Ms Yogeswari Ramalingam with a small gift in a traditional way. These pictures are taken on 1oth of October, 2008

Happy Birthday Bodhinatha

``All of us wish Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami a wonderful Guru Jayanthi''

Precious Gift to All Of Us!

Dedication pages to Ms Yogeswari, our beloved veena and vocal teacher!