Why Stand On One Foot When You Can Stand On Two?

I've had just enough time to...   stand on one foot

 Taken of the Kung Fu duck standing on one leg on the rock in the garden of a restaurant in Hanoi

Why stand on one foot when you have two?

Close your eyes and learn from the blind

Stand on one like the flamingos do

And if you do not know why

Know at least how it feels like

Five seconds and counting

You cannot keep still

And if you only have ten seconds

To learn all you can standing on one foot

This is it –

“Do not do unto others what is hateful to you”

And if you need to learn economics standing on one foot, this is it :D -

Bathing Ritual in The Temple of Sacred Water (Thirtha Empul)

I've had just enough time to...   be cleansed by holy water

 

Taken of the bathing pool in the Temple of Sacred Water

Water, the elixir of Life

Cleanse me

Purify me

Refresh me

I am born again

Without my sins

Without my worries

Without my pains

I am renewed

By sacred water,

The elixir of Life

Devotees in prayer during purifying ceremony

This temple is regarded as one of the six most important temples in Bali. It got its name “Thirtha Empul” meaning “Bubbling Spring” from a legend. When the evil King Mayadenawa poisoned Lord Indra’s troop by creating a pool of poisoned water, Lord Indra saved them by stabbing his flag pole into the ground creating a bubbling spring of sacred water which has curative power. A temple was built at this site in 926 AD. For more than a thousand years, Balinese have come to this sacred site to heal and purify themselves.

Reflection Part III – Where Have All The Good Times Gone?

I've had just enough time to...   try to see his reflections on the water.

Taken in the same Taiping Park in Taiping, Malaysia

What does he see

When he looks into the water?

Does he see the years that went by?

Does he see regrets floating on the surface?

Does he see opportunities lost?

Does he see paths that should have been taken?

Goals that should have been achieved?

Or does he see

The reflections of his grandchildren

And is contended with that

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Won't you tell me

Where have all the good times gone

Where have all the good times gone

Where have all the good times gone

Once we had an easy ride 

and always felt the same

Time was on our side 

and I had everything to gain

Let it be like yesterday

Please let me have happy days

David Bowie - Where have all the good times gone

Reflection Part II – Memories of the Way We Were

I've had just enough time to...   reflect on the way we were

Taken while strolling round Taiping Park in Taiping, Malaysia.

The reflections on the water

Sweep the memories pass

Its calm surface

To a misty land

Of ghostly images

That pulls at the heartstrings

Vibrating

And exciting

Emotions

Long thought dead

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Memories,

Like the corners of my mind

Misty water-coloured memories

Of the way we were

Scattered pictures,

Of the smiles we left behind

Smiles we gave to one another

For the way we were

Barbra Streisand - Way We Were 

Pisces Cannot Swim

I've has just enough time to...   swim outside the boundary

Taken in the Maeklong Railway Market Bangkok of fishes uniquely presented for sales

Pisces caught in a vice

Unable to escape.

Out of its element.

Boxed in.

Where is the dream?

Out of ocean

Out of water

Out of space to swim

Out of a land to be free

Is this world an illusion?

Or is it a dream?

Is reality written in the stars?

Or is it sold two for twenty?

Rule by emotion

Kill by cold steel

Misjudge the tide

The water retreat

Pisces are left

Floundering on the beach

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Some times my life it seems like fiction 

Some of the days it's really quite serene 

I'm a living proof of all life's contradictions 

One half's going where the other half's just been 

And I'm a Pisces fish and the river runs through my soul 

I'm a Pisces fish and the river runs through my soul

George Harrison - Pieces Fish

A Little Pebble To Create A Tsunami

I've has just enough time to...   throw a little pebble to create a tsunami

Taken while cruising Tanah Merah lake in Taiping, Malaysia.

I told them if -

I throw a little pebble into the sea

It could create a tsunami

But they would not believe me

They say -

Crabs walking sideways cannot learn to walk straight

The dodo birds cannot sprout wings and take to the sky

The lemmings who stop the march will get run over

Why rock the boat when it is still over the water?

Which ostrich can stop running from its own shadow?

Who will be the fool to shout “broken arrow”?

The silent men may get passage to the ivory tower

The rest will be used as cannon fodder

Courage cannot put a meal on the table

Suicide can be done without a knife

Go shoot yourself in the head

When you’re done shooting the toes

You will not live past midnight

Because you will not listen

The hollow men speak without moving their lips

Together all at once disharmoniously

I threw my little pebble out into the sea

Waiting for the waves

To blow them over!

How Can A Heart Hold So Much Sorrow?

I've had just enough time to...   hold some sorrow.

Taken in Taiping, Malaysia under the Rain Tree.

The still water 

Beneath the Rain Tree

Gathered the tears 

Of a thousand drops

Of hanging leaves 

Distressed by August tales

Of wandering clouds 

From a distant land

Where morning songs

Were drowned 

By thundering hooves

Stirring up a dust storm

Swept through the land

Into every home

Choking and stifling

And when the rain came

It was no salvation

Except burying everything 

In mud

Hidden 

Except for the tales 

Carried by the wind to 

The drifting clouds

Caught by the Rain Tree

Coalesced 

Into the pool beneath it

How can a heart hold so much sorrow?

As Fine As A Frog In Boiled Water.

I've had just enough time to...   get out of the water.

Taken in Marjeyoun, Lebanon where I saw a frog jumped into the wrong water.

Everything is normal, everything is changing;

Nothing is normal, yet nothing is changed.

Get out of the water, get out of it quick!

But the water is fine, and I’m fine in it.

As fine as the frog in boiled water,

As fine as I am in it.

A Boat That Never Leave The Shore.

I've had just enough time...    to ponder about safe harborage.

Taken in Kota Kinabalu

 

"For love was offered me…and I shrank from its

disillusionment:

Sorrow knocked at my door, but I was afraid:

Ambition called to me, but I dreaded the chances.

Yet all the while I hungered for meaning in my life.

To put meaning in one’s life may end in madness.

But life without meaning is the torture

Of restless and vague desire—

It is a boat longing for the sea and yet afraid. "

- "George Grey" Edgar Lee Master.

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A boat that never leave the shore,

Still ends in the bottom.

Yet never sail the wide water,

For which it was intended.