Captain's Log - Chapter 22
Weather: Mild
Mood: Heavenly
Scales falling from my eyes - Epiphany
Seldom do I describe my mood as heavenly. Today shall be a day that my life has taken a radical turn - which I think is for the good of my spritual self. I simply had an epiphany.
Like all days, office hours were the normal dour event. As per normal, I just managed to trample over every set of toes that was in my way. No, I am not a difficult person to get along with, it's just that I expect the world/people to do the best in everything they do. Well, that's the first part of my day. In the second half, I had a branch meeting with my supervisor and colleagues. One of my team-mates were presenting the learning points from his business trip to Australia, and being bored to tears, I wrote on my palm "BORING" to show my fellow colleague who by chance is also my girlfriend. She apparently saw the dirty look my boss was giving me - of which I am not aware of. Oops. That's not the worst! After my colleague has given his presentation, he actually started talking about my idea to my boss, taking it as his - ad verbatim somemore!!!
My blood was really rushing to my brains - for there's not much love for this colleague of mine in the first place. I just cut in and stated that this was MY IDEA!!! Career suicide tip here. Well, I just couldn't control myself and started a tirade against that fella. Don't think I won many admirers today.
At the end of the day, my honey told me that I really lost the plot today. I told her that I stood by my principle of integrity, that no one should steal anyone's idea. We had a long talk that evetually led to a path of self-discovery for me, and I think for my girlfriend too.
We concluded that this colleague of my, let's call him Mr R, R is a cool customer. He exudes confidence in whatever he does, even when doing the underhanded stunts as stealing others ideas etc. His self-confidence has won him many admirers, and only a few detractors - mainly myself and my girlfriend. So, we concluded that he is like a rock. What sparked off the epiphany was this statement:
"Your worst enemy, is also your best spiritual teacher"
My girlfriend is really wise. I wouldn't have thought of such a statement much less read it from papers or books (at least for those that I read). My girlfriend told me that one's worst enemy will usually 'teach' us things that will radically change our lives. If we can 'conquer' the enemy, one would have conquer the self, thus achieving a sort of enlightenment. This really opened my eyes - scales seemed to have fallen from my eyes!!! Suddenly, I felt this release. A flow of energy that was never there before. It replaced the pent up frustrations and anger that I had in me, and turned these to something positive.
While I have some to a new level of understanding, it did not occur to me at that point of time that this conversation with my girlfriend would have such a profound impact. We joked about our new understanding, being a joker myself. :)
It was only upon leaving her home that I started to feel this buzz in me. Its bizarre, but I felt a physical buzz in my body. It was like some sort of energy being released. My mind became free and I began looking at things different. From this point on, I told myself, I should not conquer R, instead I should conquer self. Thus....
"If he's the rock, I shall be the foundation on which the rock rests"
I hope all of you would have such a relevation in your lives. Its such an empowering moment where your views on everything change in that instant. I know now for sure that life will never be the same for me again. Praise the Lord! Amen.
Captain's Log - Chapter 21Weather: Warm and Stuffy
Mood: Tired
Microchip from Aliens?
I have always been fascinated by terrestrial (hmmm not sure how to spell it, and too lazy to check the dict.) beings aka. aliens. Guess I was served with too many alien movies when I was young. Can't really recall when I first watch a movie with aliens. But I know that my favourite movies are ALIEN, ALIENS and Independence Day. I loved Sigourney Weaver's portrayl of the alien ass-kicking Ripley in the Alien series. She really knows how to kick their butts!
Coming back to the microchip issue, one of my colleagues told me that her friend told her that the microchip was developed more through reverse engineering rather than a scientific breakthrough (my English teacher would have taken me to tasked for the unecessary long sentence). Anyway, what this means is that we humans must have discovered a microchip before we even had the technology to make it! So, this chip must have come from somewhere or "someone". My friend says that her friend believes that the chip was found at the crash site in AREA 51! Now, I am sure that makes more sense. I can't deny that this is a plausible theory, but it's still bizarre. It's up to you to believe it. My mind is still open to new ideas.
Oh, btw, I have concluded my friends alien believing buddy must be a Raelian. If yo uare not sure what is Raelia, do an Internet search and you will be surprised with what you get. ;)
"One small step for man, a gian leapt for mankind" - Neil Armstrong
"Oops... looks like someone's already here!" - this is what Neil would have said if he found 'something' on the moon. :)
