A DIVINE DIVIDE!

Yeah man, every instant takes its turn to pass, to presence, to future. Present is really a razor between past and future; the crest of the divine waves of past and future of time and space smashed against each other; the watershed the present. In certain faith OR FAITHS, the reality has no inherent nature; the nature of reality is empty, void. Depending at a moment of time and in a place of space, the number of such occurences or instances is beyong our human mind can even humbly chart. Each instance is like a void that only allow what ever preceding to pour in to make a reality; as in human mind, never succeeding to pour backward. Then this divine number of so called reality produce another divine number. The word "Interdependence" is used, hence all instances are interdependent to produce the next divine number, just the preceding moving atoms pushing those in front; like atomic energy.

Generations and generations of life do not need to be serious or routine or follow a trend. Of course, it is terribly difficult not to living to learn some seem to have atomic energy but not decaying! Therfore, I will have to cease writing at when one's life is decaying, genuine one. The others far above that decaying stage can still choose to be unhappy, not unhappy or happy.

Time to slumberland. Knowing more is a good feeling that must not stay too long; I cut the content of the particular space reserved for such feeling and paste into the recycle bin, the past, which I rarely retrieve or recover. As soon as the space is empty I fill it again with goodness when I know more. The emptiness in this space that push me to know now!

Cursor stopped. Good night everybody. Serenity is beauty, Nathan Phang.

LEARNING BEGETS UNDERSTANDING!

If we are living in the digital age, whether we are travelling in a private vehicle or other forms of public transportation, other than the driver or operating crew of public transportation, how many of us still find long hours are hard to sit past? Assuming those not incapacitated and not devoid of a faculty of intellect, does it not having wireless mobile devices greatly entertaining that palliate the pathology of long hours of boredom?

As our planet Earth rapidly has her nature tampered by human; landscapes transmogrified to accommodate expanding human race; nature coffers raided to fulfill greed and wants; unique topographies disfigured to validate power and wealth; the protective layers of atmosphere destroyed to feed ignorance and egotism. The resulting ramifications forcing the poorer poorest, the poorest poorer; incubating the rich richer, richer richest in the banking vault, the uber-rich.

If I seemed straying or desultory from digital age to nature destruction, I am not. Rather I like to attempt to link the good the bad to engender an advantage, carving a dharmic, or dynamic, mind of living for myself, those close to my heart and those who would read my blog one day.

Faith in good beings and have faith in good beings.

I always believe it is constructive, and a great boon or a blessing, to share or to be able to share and, correspondingly, express and exchange good or creative thoughts whether with friends, as a writer or in a pooled manner which I can never imagined to live it out in MY BLOG! Collaborative tools which are all blessings I am truly fortunate to live to experience. I admitted that I am a wannabe writer THAT I dreaded every time I thought of blogging. I expect my future readers many soon would spot sporadic mistakes in my writing and picked me apart with their acid comments; and if there are even the harshest comments that would be such a marvel. I have ideated that I have to write mistakes and to be picked apart to fasten improvement.

Summarizing my fourth post, whether it was mental upheaval or social turmoil, living my life till today, healthily and minus complaints, is the strength of blessings and serendipity….

*1* A PASSION FOR TRUTH,

*2* A PASSION TO READ,

*3* A PASSION TO LEARN,

*4* A PASSION TO APPLY …..

NO VIOLENCE, NO WAR!

RIDE THE TIDE OF WIRELESS AND MOBILITY, SURF THE WAVE OF PASSION AND PATIENCE!

Have you ever felt embarrassed pulling out a hard-copy dictionary, in public or presence of nieces or nephews flashing iPad or its equivalent, seeking meaning of a word? Or ever felt uncomfortable reading a hard-copy book while possibly distracted every direction by clicks and ticks and streams of ring tone of latest pop song?

Are book lovers being reduced to outdated or generational-gapped creatures? Is eBook replacing book? Are the awe-inspiring new technologies digitizing and embalming into eBooks the books I so beloved paper and ink such that I can scribble here and there, and retrenching my old beloved dictionary too? What do all these mean? No more conventional writing tools, reading materials or bookshelves?

I love books. I love the new the very old, the smell of both. I have a peculiarly loving affinity for my dictionary. It is pure passion; I owed a lot of my being to my reading, my books; more recently by surfing the net. For many years I carried books, articles and a dictionary in my security bag everywhere I travelled, and I still do but only one book and faithful dictionary. Time is killed unnoticeably quickly.

Years ago when I was reading a book titled “Our Mutual Friend” by Charles Dickens, I remembered having difficulties which took me nearly six months to finish. I found many emotions were simply beautifully written that it was nearly palpable yet uncountable words were new to me; I had no laptop or wireless or 3G mobile then. You see, I have a habit of lingering on interesting or beautiful words or sentences. In 2009, I read Karen Armstrong’s A History of God; to have finished reading the book marked a new milestone in my being; I loved this book. I did a lot of cross-referencing surfing the net with the latter book. It was a book of brief accounts of three major religions which were very new to me. It took me nine months to finish reading the book, but, how can I consider that a long time? While I shall not mentioned too much of the books I read at this time, but from birth till a Mind Past 50, I am and have always been a normal, average person with an average mind.

The tides of wireless and mobile devices came and come, I rode and ride on them. The waves of intense and unabating passion roared and roar, I surfed and surf them. I feel very fortunate to be able to ride on technology and surf on passion to learn, understand and gain insights. I truly consider myself an amateur in books yet to be able to finish Karen Armstrong’s book was not an easy task without the aids of my laptop. All these that culminated writing my thoughts in a blog is a gift of one of human’s better technology in a very healing way for one like me.

Penning off, truly hoping and wishing all in the world a peaceful life!

A BABY BOOMER'S EUREKA

Is it not amazing? Is it not subliming?

For a baby boomer and a computer science graduate in the nineteen eighties, I am so amazed and sublimed. While many baby boomers became successful and well rewarded for their computer and related fields studies, I was not one of them. I never worked for any IT firm. My past working experience with companies I worked for is nothing but a mediocrity like toying proudly with tanky CPU, chunky monitors and clumsy keyboards. Still they were pioneers and respectable machines that one should not disrespect.....

..... During my early working years, I dealt mainly in accounting and banking facilities. I do not regret as the experience renders very helpful today. But it was realizing how removed from the cyber realm I was, in 2010, I know I know just 2 years ago, that catapulted me into anything digital, mobile or cyber; if I had not befriended many Generation Y's and then X's archetypes, I never would have understood as yet humbly as now and beckoned into the great Information and Communication Technology and its awed development.

Wonder how many users enjoy the convenience of a mobile device in her or his convenient cubicle or powder room?

I know I do, and  yet my knowledge in computer is so mean and similarly to be said for my laptop and mobile device. I did not owe a laptop or wifi devices for a long time until 2011 when a kind friend gave away his laptop, and until March 2012 another brotherly friend gave me a 3G plus wifi mobile phone. As my blog title declares that I aged past 50, all the more reason I have to create a blog to share my understanding of being 50+ with anyone that one day reads my blog. You see, these two giveaways truly markedly signified a 50+ baby boomer who has just begun his journey to the most important realm in the world, conveying and acquiring information.....

 

 

..... My maiden voyage to the wireless cyber was nearly coincided with the time when laptop was given to me. Not long after that I was swimming in an ocean of wireless internet. I digress but I love swimming. Where I live, a humble dwelling, anywhere within the perimeter of it, I felt awed with the the fettle of wifi convenience, pardon me that I used the term 'wifi' so loosely. It is just awesome that I am able to search and understang anything I need and want to understand disregarding my whereabouts. I do sound like a child with a new toy but I am nearly history! Like a Neanderthal suddenly possessing advance tools in, as like inquiring and acquiring for a new lease of life and a new way of living by 'googling', 'wiki'ing', 'yahoo'ing' etc. .....

..... For many years I possessed no will to live but now I have no reason for no will to live!

My laptop is Dell's Pentium Inspiron 700 and the mobile phone iPhone first generation which I am so fortunate so have. Hmm, they must be older than my youngest niece or nephew of four years old.

To pen off today's post I would like to extend my sincere apologies to readers who find my context distasteful or offensive.

FIRST MOMENT!

11:45am plus seconds, local time in KL, this moment I must admit is exciting but momentous to me. This spectacular moment opens a work-in-progress window for me to welcome any one, any thing, any phenomenon whether they peek, say 'hi ya!', ask for directions or steal in a drizzle or a thunderbolt. But I suspect I will spend more time 'hi ya!' to passerby, onlooker or even kibitzer if they are at my window; rains or sunshine nature gifts no one cannot not welcome.

That moment may have passed but the next 23 plus hours are still very significant as the window will remain open to begin a new chapter. I am Nathan and just edged past 50, or aged past? Mmm? 50 years may have past but the most unforgettable period of real experiences that attributed to how I am today is the last 10 years. It was torrential but educating. I thought perhaps I would put my thoughts in writing or, better yet, share them. I thought I would be a bit thick-skin to suggest to myself I do have quite a heapful of thoughts, ideas, information etc to share, and conversely to gain from my, errr....., readers!? But I do believe I will gain a lot from blogging.

As I am writing my first blog, an immediate extemporary creation before my 'momentous moment', I like to offer my apologies in advance for any grammar or spelling mistake, context fragmentation etc. I will bear any critical remarks with an open and constructive mind. Too much time had passed wasted and left untold of, owing to those whom and who remains unspoken, abundant love and care were unconditionally shared but remains unsaid. Yes, unconditional love, care. Perhaps partly this blog will become my testimonial to them; partly a seeking of how and what 'I am' and 'you all' are all about through a conveyor of circuits, wires, cables, satelliates, the wonders of informaton and communicaton technologies of infinite, punishing height.

Dear world, lets start cracking!