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in less than 24 hours.. i ll be leaving singapore for a familiar place - oxford...
oxford now has a special place in my heart... it is soooo different from london.... it is like a place one can retire... easy reach of countryside.... i miss the times picnicking with my beloved by the river.... setting up our own bbq stuff... watching the ducks swim across.... only to realise that we were flanked by them in no time.... 'they' were eyeing for 'our' bones... our chicken bones.... and literally drooling... there a joke was borned - have you heard of ducks eating chickens?
for three days after i handed in my dissertation on 1 september... i woke up early in the morning.... feeling an incredible enthusiasm to want to find out more about 'life'... i had a weird feeling... i felt spiritually more enlightened... although 'enlightened' may be too strong a word to use... i am not saying i reached nirvana.... more aptly.. i think i felt more awakened... spiritually...
1. i thought of a game. its free and incredibly challenging. the objective of this game is to woo the ducks. success is determined by the number of ducks i attract. to make it more challenging for myself, i limited myself to using one piece of oat/sunflower seed biscuit. its yummy. i can testify. excitedly, i wrapped the biscuit using a piece of kitchen towel. so i went out there to the lake in university parks, just at the back of abraham building in linacre college where i stayed... i approached the ducks... they ran away and did not dare to draw near... i wanted to lower myself to 'their' level... so i squatted down. there i started. i broke a few pieces of biscuit. threw at them. keeping in mind the objective, i began to step back, and laided a trail of biscuit bits as i stepped back... i drew myself to about 3 metres away from them... so as to better observe them... there... i observed...
some ducks were daring than the others... they looked further and walked further.. so they saw more bits and got to eat more... a few others gave up searching... and went back to the lake.... after a short while.. i found myself with 3 loyal followers. i tot to myself "hmm. not too bad for a start"... to reward these ducks... i threw more bits at them... they followed me around for quite a while... however, when i began walking to the other side of the lake... they stopped following... i tot to myself again.. "hmm. enemy territory?"
so i thought, well.. lets not force the ducks... go back to their "home ground"... so i went back... this time, i stood close to the lake... the rest of the ducks were drawn towards me... i began throwing small bits.. like manna from heaven... many ate happily. in a distant, i saw a white slender duck. woo. a beauty. but it was shy. it didn't want to associate with the rowdiness of the rest. so i broke a slightly larger chunk (weight needed) and aimed into the distant white duck... 'she' took a bite... i threw another one.... she got it again... as i was thinking of throwing a third piece... it swam away.. i tot to myself, "easily contented"...
having lost a pretty duck, i felt a little dejected... so i decided to take a break and sit on the bench.... about 5 ducks followed me... so i tot again, loyal followers... let me feed them more... in my heart, i had a question, "do the ducks trust me, even when i have no intention of harming them?" so i laid the bits closer... trying to test whether they wld draw near... so i waited... somehow the ducks refused to come to the cement portion of the bench... cld they not see the bread? or do they fear me? i laid bigger bits to test this. it was obvious. they still fear me.
i finished giving out my final pieces of biscuit. i decided to take a pee. i went to a big tree behind. at the same time, this allows me to observe what the 5 ducks were doing. so i observed. expectedly, they advanced and finished up the biscuit pieces that were laid at the cement area.
so that was day 1.
i thought to myself.
"haven't the ducks taught me something today?"
1. i hypothesise that some fundamental principles of life can be discovered by observing the forces of nature.
2. i hypothesise that the most fun and pleasurable things in life are free.
any guesses what happened on day 2?
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