A touch of copper

It's a sudden nudge for me sometimes

When I decide to go different

Especially for hair colour in particular

Then it struck in my mind

"Why not?"

So I decided to go with the lightest colour ever in my life

Off to the saloon

No regrets

As I bear the stinginess of the hair-dye

Thinking of what I would look like

Thinking how would people perceive me

Superficially

But in the end

I came to a conclusion

"Who cares?"

As the colour deeply embedded in my hair keratin

A change can be signifying a new start

A change can be hard to cope and accept

A change can be superficial or deep

But it ultimately depends on you

Whether the change affected you

Or the people surrounding you

A change can not be a change

Or a change can be actually life-changing

Time for a change?

Well, I accept anything that comes it way

Not only a touch of copper

But miraculously

Hope I could turn into a new leaf

And change for a better me

2012.12.13

Simplicity

Something bothersome

How would you deal with it?

How would I deal with it?

Ignore it? Patience? Work around it?

Or you have to get rid of it or at least do something to alter it

Partially? Completely?

Sometimes life isn't all what you wish for.

But the future me would definitely hate myself for doing things half assed

Unlike children, they wish for simple things like glucose treats

While when you're an adult, you wish what a kid used to have, your inner child's possession

Naivety, ignorance towards reality, and simplicity

Though some kids are complicated, but generally they're simple minded

How would they deal with something bothersome?

The simple answer to a child is probably leave it to the adults

But as adults it is not compulsory to get rid of something bothersome for good

As not all of them are get riddable

Solution sometimes includes living with it, adapting to it and competing with it

After all that's what life's about, isn't it?

In the end, it makes us appreciate the simple times in future

A white cloth on a flat green land

A straw basket with some plain white sandwich

A bright sun in the clear blue sky

Well that's my image of simplicity

Why complicate things with politics, power and other personal grudges?

What's your image of simplicity?

Put a curve on that lips and think simple.

Satisfactory

People tend to be greedy

People tend to be wanting more

People tend to achieve the best

And that includes me

I just realised how I yearn to be a perfectionist

I won't accept just a satisfactory grade

I need a superior grade

Is this greedy?

Is this over competitive?

Why can't I just be satisfied with a satisfactory remark?

Why do I want to have a superior grade?

I don't know

I want to know

I know but couldn't find the answer

Just like today's presentation

I knew the answers

I knew how to present well

But I don't know well enough to do it formally

So I blame myself for a satisfactory

When everyone only wishes for a satisfactory

I wish to be more

Stubborn but

...

it's a worthwhile chase

Isn't it?

Kevin Tang

2012 August 21

Equilibrium

What comes around goes around...

Fair say, but does everything follow this rule?

Nevertheless, people would like things to be balanced.

Just like yin and yang.

But of course people as much as how they wouldn't admit their greed,

I am inclusive of course,

would like things to be in a comfortable outcome more than its counterpart.

With so much on your plate

Sometimes you just wish you don't have to keep them in balance

With time, with health, with family, friendships, personal relationships...

Time had been wasted and gained

Health had been neglected and warranted

Family had been torn and reunited

Friendships had been distanced and reattached

Love had been bitter and sweet

Sounds overwhelming but I guess human beings just adapt to it

Evolution continues, regardless of what any outcome it may be

Since to most people, balance isn't a definite 50-50 ratio

It's more like what they show in chemical equations

The equilibrium

The process still continues

The scales still continues to sway up and down

As long as the core remains

As earthquakes, storms, tornadoes tries to put you off balance

As you fall, there's no other way but to stand up again

And to continue the equilibrium

Acknowledging the past

Stabilizing at present

And reassurance for the future

Kevin Tang

04 August 2012

The cause of imbalance: Reality VS Naivety

and physiological vertigo

The equilibrium continues...

Oblivion

From the moment in the sealed up place,
Slowly onto a stranger's embrace.
The first emotional expression to the very present mood,
All I know is how merciless the hands of the clock can be,
Not sparing a second to waste.

Little boy crawled to stand,
Falls and failures like the sand,
All shaped by thy guardians' hand,
Sometimes stolen and left mighty to stand,
Not a single being would ever understand,
How things had gotten so out of hand.

As cells grow and degenerate,
Memories are still to be kept,
Like a process of evolution,
Only the strongest survives and adheres,
To our very own present and future,
Tormented or blessed, it's in our minds,
Naturally or forcefully never fights,
As gradually everything goes automatically,
into a trance of silent oblivion,
which may creep up to us quietly,
like a prey stalked by a lion,
But no scars or damage are to be witnessed,
when it ambushes,
as severity depends on how the oblivious it can be.

Written by
Kevin Tang Hoi Mun
2012/4/22