Here is where it all begins! The journey of a Thousand Li, begins with the first step taken. The birth of a New Beginning, the Shift from what is Real and what is Not, what is Authentic and what is a fake. The Journey begins with the end of the 2024 year of much Pain and Suffering for humanity at all levels from all walks of life, to 2025 what I feel will be a promising year if we play our cards right! If we can live a genuine authentic life free from self doubts and ignorance we might still be able to create healing spaces, where like minded people can gather together over a glass of Teh Tarik. A Retreat, where a weary soul can hang up their hats and sit and meditate and contemplate among brothers and sisters. A Place off Sharing pain and comfort, joy and sorrow a place where one can enjoy the healing of one's mind in perfect silence; I will create another Hospice by the Sea! "Space of Energy rejuvenating and Mind Bending," for those having doubts in their lives of late. There are more Private Hospitals in Penang than anywhere else in Malaysia, I think so. Good for the economy of the local residents, hopefully our Medicare System will still be running and that medication available at the General Hospital is genuine. Anyway that's not my concern on who is getting rich and who is not. My concern is putting together a plan that would complement the Medical Industry in Penang with an R@R for recovering patients or their spouses and family. and the ability to see the country.
That's the plan! Yes man can only propose and God will dispose...and this too will pass...and I will have missed entering the gateless gate! I have the location and land earmarked for the facility and I am sure that there will be investors towards financing the project. It will all Happen, InshaAllah, by His Will! I can only propose. Terengganu can use a New Medical Support Facility catering to do and the well todo! This is where the recovering and the waiting can spend their time by the South China Sea. Fresh air and good Sunshine. Then again, why do I need to put myself into these 'business type situations', I do not think i have that much energy left. Off course i can relegate and delegate, all good Supervisors do. Still there's too much phone calling and such disrupting engagement that will upset my original plan of healing my wearied soul. The Journey of Thousand Miles begins... and i propose, while God dispose, so it is said and so it shall be written! Well all that aside i still see a good possibility of getting the idea carried out if I can persuade my two nephews to join forces and make it happen.
The Ten Commandments was a movie made in 1956 and I think i saw it in the same year when almost the whole Francis Light Primary School kids were at the Cathay Theater, on Penang Road, next block to the Main Police Station. The building is now a Mydin Mall where you can get anything and everything. I remember the day we went to see Spartacus with Kirk Douglas, a legend in my time. Sometime in the 50s too I went a movie called Tom Dooly with my eldest brother at this theater. Ben Hur came to mind too, with Charleston Heston about the same period, it was fun watching along with a bunch or howling monkeys, but it was the best of times for me. I later saw, "The bridge on the River Kwai," with David Niven and Lawrence of Arabia with Peter O'Toole. At 4-6 years of age i was exposed to some very heavy duty movies that ever graced the theater. I was mesmerized and absorbed by what i saw on this huge screen some of the best landscapes and great acting by the masters of my youthful period on this plane.
"The Ten Commandments is a 1956 American epic religious drama film produced, directed, and narrated by Cecil B. DeMille,[5] shot in VistaVision (color by Technicolor), and released by Paramount Pictures. The film is based on the 1949 novel Prince of Egypt by Dorothy Clarke Wilson,[6] the 1859 novel Pillar of Fire by J. H. Ingraham,[7] the 1937 novel On Eagle's Wings by A. E. Southon,[8] and the Book of Exodus, found in the Bible. The Ten Commandments dramatizes the biblical story of the life of Moses, an adopted Egyptian prince who becomes the deliverer of his real brethren, the enslaved Hebrews, and thereafter leads the Exodus to Mount Sinai, where he receives, from God, the Ten Commandments. The film stars Charlton Heston in the lead role, Yul Brynner as Rameses, Anne Baxter as Nefretiri, Edward G. Robinson as Dathan, Yvonne De Carlo as Zipporah, Debra Paget as Lilia, and John Derek as Joshua; and features Sir Cedric Hardwicke as Seti I, Nina Foch as Bithiah, Martha Scott as Yochabel, Judith Anderson as Memnet, and Vincent Price as Baka, among others.[5]
Why am I sharing the above? I am sharing how my childhood years were influenced by great events especially in the movie theaters. I am considered by my peers in the past as a talented artist and I believe that my upbringing has a great influence upon my creative energy, I was born an artist, a highly creative spirit that was exposed to every extreme circumstances and events that the result is what is presently making these entries. I was born a twin, sharing our mother's womb, I was born alongside my shadow, my mirror image, mine nemesis! As I have been to him all our lives. Through no one person's fault but that which has been written playing itself out, Call it Destiny, call it karma, call it by the Divine Grace, call it what you may, From the moment I was saved from my mother's womb, I was destined to play a pivotal role laid out for me in this life. I will have my Lion's Roar and Dharma Spinning moments in my heart and in my mind, These are the stories told to me by the Sutras and the Scripture, by the Good Book and the Vedas. I am honoring my dharma position as to who I am or stand to beat the present moment is as such and Such Is! One of the Movies that had a strong impact on me was Al Pacino's ,"And Justice for All!" Marlon Brando's depiction of the God Father was another landmark classic in moviedom as far as I was concern. Mel Gibson's "Apocalypto" was gripping and took me down the road to hell in the jungle. No t real but close to what reality can be all up to the imagination.
Akira Kurosawa's Black and White Samurai movies will always throw me into the realms of my shadow warrior, where I walk in the shadows, where light meets darkness and the transition in between. Each shot taken was a stroke of genius in composition and presence/gripping and it lingers with you for a long time...like the 'Dark Knight Rising', Akira Kurosawa captured Light and Shadows in his movies like no other. I may be slightly biased in the matter as I love to work with black and white albeit in water color or acrylic and I love printmaking where I have to create from the reverse side of light and darkness. Most printmaking process like etching or mono-print, intaglio or woodcut, demands or trains the mind to create from a reverse perspective like working white on black. This is said in studies to disrupt the human creative mind and shake it a bit before making a print; its the right brain left brain thing where creativity is manifested and imagination set free. I like to exaggerate sometimes i know, but I really can't say enough when it comes to self education. You got to know yourself ! They say and i believe them and am on my way to find out, have been and will always be...and live and learn and then you die! So live with the awareness that I am walking side by side with my shadow, still! Sometimes I am dark and sometimes lighter, to take the Middle Path has been my Practice, although easier said than done! This ego has very deep rooted karmas and they need to be uprooted and set free, dispersed into the four winds. But I would like to let it be known that I am fully aware of my past in light or darkness and have fully surrendered to my Lord and Creator for His Mercy and Clemency! For He is Oft Forgiving Lord of Mercy and Forgiveness, Ar Ghafoor ur Rohim! I submit my soul and spirit to this in faith and surrender. Ameen!
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