Retour - EarthStar Continuum

[94.6]
I accept that we can evolve, that we will find a way to come home to ground and reach for the stars again. I let go of this gravity on earth, and merge with the space within without. I believe today is a good day to help and be at peace. This star has come so far. This star is part of the Omniverse, the continuum of stories.

[79.17]
...in the midst of virtual chaos,
I lost my place in that space,

a present frozen in history 2001

years on, more exploration done,
more ? ! * . , & mishaps past,
I survived to tell my tales...

...I am not that interesting,

and I am not that ignorant,
I don't think I am much fun,
although life gives me plenty

of adventures and good people

who help me along the way...

...a mental moment in time,
a sharing of thoughts, you and I,
someday when I am gone,
you will still be here, my dear reader...

...but nothing lasts forever,
maybe not even this,
so enjoy it now, while we can...

Re-posting EarthLOG: Stories under the Stars
This is a collection of my adventures under the stars.
They aren't always about astronomy, nor the equipment.
Originally at EarthStar Continuum.
http://earthstar.htmlplanet.com/earthlog.htm

Ying & Min's Observatory

3-5 June 2011 (Johor, Malaysia)

The first time I was privy to the original observatory design plans, Ying & Min were kids of four and six years. They have grown beautifully, as has their dad's observatory which now includes air-conditioning, satellite TV, two bathrooms, and a spacious area which can easily fit a group of twelve camping there with sleeping bags.

The main observatory itself is smaller, yet cosy enough for four telescope-computer set-ups. The full length of the roof glides easily to reveal gloriously dark skies with a hint of the crowns of the taller fruit trees. It is a zone for collecting stars and for harvesting mangosteens, durians and local duku-fruit.

 
We have not met up for some seven years since our last stargazing trip to Mongolia. Vin is still working on his pier modification, Loo has gone tech-saavy in his photography. New attempts at imaging old starlight for the guys. I have become contented to sit back, relax and simply admire the sky for what it is without the need to capture starlight.

The only thing left to enhance this trip is a proper tea set with really good tea to enact nights of old Tang Dynasty poets philosophizing under a moonless sky.

Thanks for the roti prata and bak kut teh.

Welcome to our journey together..

2017.Jul
Unification. Courage.

After some 20 years of random writing, musing, and poeting with reservation, this is the moment I put it altogether and say - WHY NOT? It is sheer laziness that I now stop separating spheres and layers of dreams, ideas, thoughts and experiences. Inspiration builds on the onions of the past and the buds of what-else-might-grow. This is the year of the toddlers and the perennials.

2015
Missing online in 2015 because I'm having an adventure offline. (: #yale

2014.Nov
#NaNoWriMo2014 - sometimes we are that masochistic mind who relishes the sadistic spirit's determination to create a masterpiece. 50,000 words, here we go. Again. Completed version 1.5 of "Mirror Walkers", the 5-minute short.

2014.Apr
#NaPoWriMo - the challenge of writing 30 poems in 30 days. #HeSaidSheSaid completed. Storyboarding on white screens and dreaming on green screens. Completed version 1.0 of "#Mirrors" the 10-minute short.

2014.Feb
There is an ill-perceived freedom that comes with anonymity and privacy.
There is also a freedom that certain lifetime limitations trumpets, "All hail whatever will be, will be!" So I unleash the mind on the next creative phase to explore online (as courageously as I am comfortable with.) I am still tracing the lines of destiny backwards and forwards; no, this is not a metaphor. A blue elephant is born from the abysmal physical conditions that travel requires; this mind can still be displaced. I am cautious but I am far more curious.

"For you grow to heaven, you don't go to heaven. It is within thine own consciousness that ye grow there. All you may know of heaven or hell is within your own self." - Cayce, E. (1877 - 1945) 3409-1

2013.Nov
A Novel in November – Releasing DreamTimeTales as the four comets approach.
How remarkable is this opportunity to give me a goal to procrastinate to. Still, the awesomeness of me thinks I can, and strives for the moment of “I knew I could.” A lost moment turns so easily into a distracted life. A moment noticed gives meaning to a chaotic life. NaNoWriMo 50,000 words; yes, I can. Simultaneously, #WorldsWithoutEnd Experiment 311 with Paul Pereira

2013.Oct
Mixing experiments 79, 87, 91
occasionally for a few months
A host of mundane dreams and a few spectaculars.

2012.Nov
2 days with Experiment 64 DK.
of static crowns and sentimentality, I remember vaguely.
I could lose myself in the tsunami of time and space.
How I live, how I leave. 

2012.Sep
More inspired by posts on FB recently.
Blogs seem a little one-sided, and about as engaging as an encyclopedia. Yet as with all things temporal, we flow from one system to another. The whole point of this project is to share stories in all ways.

2012.Jul
Did not complete using Experiment 86 Oberon.
Once that stopped, the blogging stopped too.
Instead the mind re-routed to other apps
- loads of fascinating stories and creative bits.

2012.Apr
[perception-in-progress]
These are my stories and experiments over time.
Currently on Experiment 86 Oberon, and posting massively.
Uploading the records requires patience.

2012.Feb
..lost, blind & ignorant..
to come back from nothing
is this untruthful? perhaps ungrateful?
to learn much, suffer more
and then let it all go,
all forms
all that be
.
to be found, to be seen, to be wise
.
each adventure, every mishap, per episode
of living life, of experiencing pain and peace -
an atom of my story, a quark of my moment here,
all for you, from me eternally.

this teaches me patience,
that we learn and grow together,
the first to be, is as good
as the last to come home.

2o1o
*Learning new thoughts..

2009.Jul
It is a beautiful moment. Aloha.

There are so many creative works out there
it is amazing what we find
little troves of treasures and wisdom
some as simple as a babe's rhyme
others more intricate just for fun.

Project EarthStarLight
began a long time ago 18
with a dream and a thought 09,
then an action with hope 12.

We do not exist alone;
We exist because we believe
that others believe in us too.

May we serve to inspire each other always.
Thank you for sharing with me. *L

2007.Sep
...more chaos, I spent the last 48 hours wondering...
WHY am I doing this? I still have dated preferences. I treasure privacy and the exclusivity of circles and circular thoughts. The reason I prefer no trace of being here is because I do not exist in here. My mental traces uploaded when I am physically gone, and I cannot be of real value anymore, except perhaps for these literary atoms. I am learning everyday; I am growing perennially. Even after virtually and physically disappearing from all I knew before, I can create new waves. I cannot hide so WHERE can I go with this? I've reviewed my past, my present - the person who wrote then, still writes. Only the tip of the iceberg of this life is re-written in 2007. Least I melt away too soon in this continuum, HOW will I remember you? Inside this illusion that I exist, only by the rules of my continuum, and because you have read what I penned. You exist because I choose not to ignore you, and I exist because you choose to acknowledge me. I stroll through the atoms of this plane, everyone lost in their worlds, no one feels the earth they are in, nor see the sky around them. It is dense out here, so WHAT happens now?


2006
Earthbound
every moment i grow,
every moment i expand,
just the same words,
with different ways to say it,
to intend it, to be it.
萬事如意

i write as a freethinker tinged by the philosophies of humankind; of ancient prayers across cultures, of poems and songs between dreamers. what a world to experience and be in.