Simple wisdom

“Remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. 

Never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.

 If you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don't throw it away.” 

Stephen Hawkings

A double rainbow arch over a verdant valley

How we miss the wisdom of this simple truism of Stephen Hawkings

.Rest among the stars in peace.What do I get from his message is to be far sighted in life-

look at the long term instead of the short term consequences.

Even if you don't need to ,continue with work as it gives one a purpose to work for in life

.Have a strong work ethic and live off one's own labour and not depend on others to 

support us .

If we have love in our lives ,it enriches our lives more than  possessions or accumulations of wealth.

Love adds a deeper meaning to life -more than mere gut instincts to live for fame or riches-success as defined by society so he exhorts not to disregard or devalue it.Stephen Hawkings is a genius like the advice Albert Einstein gave 

as a tip to a Japanese bell boy.Invaluable,priceless wisdom

Plot of a sci fi crime thriller

I love the movie Inception starring Leonardo D caprio.It took 10 years for Chris Nolan to rewrite script for Inception.My hats off to such perseverance.Writing is tough work..

Just now as I was munching on breakfast,flashes of a new plot for a sci fi zapped my brain.


Alan was an ex soldier suffering from post traumatic stress syndrome.When he was captured and tortured by the enemies,he had theese recurring nightmares that he was being chased through a maze and discovered and captured by the enemy.He was blindfolded and heard screams as his mates were shot.
     To aid recovery,he volunteered in a neuro psychiatric  lab where Dr. Steve had invented a device that enabled the sleeper to control his responses in his dream as he is aware he is dreaming - a lucid dream.The wearer puts on a headband and some pads to his chest that monitors his heart rate and discharge mild electrical impulses to his brain.It records REM sleeps through monitoring the eye movement.After two years,he's able to retrain his brain through cognitive sublimal reprogramming to rewrite the narrative from a victim to a victor.
  Alan's son is severely autistic but in his silence,Troy finds a calmness that doesn't need words to convey his intentions.Troy ,his son has an innate ability to understand animal instincts and he brings back wounded sttrays and nurse them back to wellness.
    In the home is his elderly mother who helps to look after Troy since his wife left him and abandoned the child as she was unable to accept the reality of looking after him.
  one night,Alan comes back to see the house in total darkness.when he flips the switch,he freezes when he sees pools of blood near the sofa.His mother had been cruelly bludgeoned to death,the house is in a mess as someone  has been rummaging through the drawers and cupboards.
      Where was Troy? He finally found Troy utterly devastated and weeping quietly clutching the blinded dog and the cat he had rescued.
    As the only witness,the police couldnt get any information from Troy.Dr Steven had invented a new device The Mind Reader that can translate the brain waves of a sleeper and visualize his dreams in 3D.Perhaps Troy could be induced into a deep sleep and the police could get a clue to the crime scene.
  As Alan views the screen of the desktop,he feels he in looking at the house through Troy's eyes.The house is lit by pools of soft table lamps-Troy reaches to the kitchen cabinet and brings down the bag of dog and cat food.He whistles softly and the loyal dogs comes leaping into the kitchen followed by a cool cat lazily strolling in.Troy gives the dog a hug and pours the food into a bowl,Just as he turns his back to the sink to fill the bowl with water,he hears the sound of something crashing in the living room outside- Nan,are you ok,he shouts and runs to the living room.A woman turns around.He freezes 'Mom,what are you doing here?" " Son, I'm sorry you have to see me in this way,trust me ,I'm here to protect you,have you seen where your dad keeps his old CDs-those he had when he came back from the war?"
 "Mom,is that why you've come back?" "Are you planning to return to us?'
 Alan's heart skipped a beat as he heard the plaintive plea in his son's voice.
 No,darling,don't ask .Just tell me where your dad has rearranged his collection of CDs.
"Mom,are you ok? Why are you doing this?
"It's for your own safety not to know too much.
Dad moved the CDs to his psychiatriast office.He says Dr Steve can help him to wipe out the nightmares from the time he was in Afghnistan.
"thanks,love.I've torun.Don't tell anyone that you saw me.Your life may be in danger otherwise.You're a good boy.I 'll always love you." 
  

A twist to Little Red Riding Hood

After 30 over years in the teaching profession,the kids think they can outsmart us.Do they think we were born yesterday?I can smell a rat a mile away when they smartly copy each other's homework and try to get away with it,thinking they will be undetected.Nope our eagle eyes can spot any dare to cheater in an exam,even in the days of high tech tools.Schools should install equipment to jam transmission signals in exam halls and when bluetooth devices can be plugged into the ear and tucked by a beanie hat,the spaced out eyes give the cheater away or better still,schools send in loud metal music to daze their brain-we need to outwit them at their own game.


Innocent looking kid who's not an angel in disguise: Me,I didn't do ,anything-honest,I swear

The BIG BAD MADAM : Cut that out,roll up your long sleeves,what are those words  handwritten on the cuff
Kid:EhhMiss,,those are special mantras that the priest wrote to bless and give me luck in this exam

The Big ,Bad Madam: That's a tall story,you're telling me.When did blessings have
M1V1=M2V2. or E=MC2?

Kid: I worship science as God is my witness.

The Kid's partner whispers to friends: Nothing escapes her eagle eyes or does she have eyes at the back of her head?

The BIG BAD MADAM: Come with me to the principal's office.Now.

The next day

Class group discussions

The Big ,Bad Madam: Kids,do you have any question,don't be afraid,you can ask me anything

Kids: Miss ,what long nose you have?

The Big,Bad Madam: All the better to smell a rat or Andy are you eating caramel roasted pop corn in my class/I can smell them a mile away!! Write 50 lines ;I promise not to eat in class anymore.



Kids: Miss, what Big ears you have?

The Big ,Bad Madam: All the better to hear you with,my dears. Stop whispering behind my back,now who is playing games with your mobile phone-I can hear a ringtone.cut it out-place all your phones on my table and cut that nonsense.you are here to learn so don't play in my class.Don't test my patience or you will see my true colours.

Kids: Miss, why is your tongue blue in colour and so sharp?

the Big ,Bad Madam' ' Don't you know,I'm a true blue blood badass teacher and will cut you to pieces with my tongue. I'm shouting and screaming at the top of my voice until I'm blue in the face and all you can recall in my lesson is " Miss,you have not fully zipped up your skirt."You smartass,you'll soon find out who I really am.(Snarls in frustration)

Kids; Miss,what sharp teeth you have?

the Big,bad Madam:  Don't bite off more than you can chew,I'm warning you all.I'm going to tear you to pieces and if you haven't digested all these ,you will pretty quick do so when you have to face your parents who will blow their tops when they see your grades.You kids are unteachable.This is more than I can stomach.I'll call it a day.Class over.

Kids; Yippy,hurray,hurray,we won -how not to focus on the boring lesson and entertain ourselves by driving miss up the wall and over the bend.Congratulations and celebrations

simple is hard

the simplest things are the hardest to do


The skill of making cawanmushi is hard-the timing and proportions needed to make the silky smooth custard or even making the perfect onsen egg.

Zen minimalism is how to achieve a sense of calm and serenity with the bare minimum in the design

The writings of japanese novelist is so meaningful because  the stark lyricism of saying so much with so little words.

So in life less is more.

Food art animation

Just had a crazy idea.


After ratatoille the Disney animation on french cuisine presented through a french rat,it would be cool to put together a team of food technologist,graphic deigner,animators or classical chinese art painter  or 3d printed design to make an animation using the ingredients of chinese cuisine.Dong quai as pieces of rock sculpture,magnolia petals as building blocks of mountain,black sesame paste,black thick soya sauce as medium of calligraphy landscape,chives for grassland ,crysanthemum flowers and so to create a storyline about a chinese chef's search for the emperor's recipe for longetivity or immortality.Incorporate elements of the fantasy with a qilin's help to find the elixir of eternal life from a shepherd's dicovery of the goat's agility and strength by foraging for caterpillar fungus or cordyceps on the tibetan plateau to an encounter witha Taoist mystic who transformed into the root of ginseng to live forever underground .The chef crosses the seas to japan and encounters magical mushrooms  and etc.
           Animated food paired with real videos of actual dishes like Crossing the bridge noodles,a heartwarming tale of loyal love and etc.So far out ideas would whet appetite of movie goers who would be willing to pay a bomb if a nearby restaurant serve those recipes in an outdoor dining event with music from the anime broadcasted to add ambience to a fine dining experience.View and dine hmmn .Experiental moments add value to the cinemagoing experience.View and dance or view and sing  or view and martial arts.