What is courage?

It is the ability to look at yourself and ask, who is in charge here? And then, you decide. Ya, I think that's it. Courage is seeing the fact that you can choose.

Here are some other definitions of courage:

I wanted you to see what real courage it, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what.

Lee Harper, "To Kill a Mockingbird"

to be nobody but yourself, in a world which is doing it's best, night and day, to make you everybody else, means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting.

e.e. cummings

Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.

Eddie Rickenbacker

Joe's rant

Hey, I'm not a lumberjack, or a fur trader....
I don't live in an igloo or eat blubber, or own a dogsled....
and I don't know Jimmy, Sally or Suzy from Canada,
although I'm certain they're really really nice.

I have a Prime Minister, not a president.
I speak English and French, not American.
And I pronounce it 'about', not 'a boot'.

I can proudly sew my country's flag on my backpack.
I believe in peace keeping, not policing,
diversity, not assimilation,
and that the beaver is a truly proud and noble animal.
A toque is a hat, a chesterfield is a couch,
and it is pronounced 'zed' not 'zee', 'zed' !!!!

Canada is the second largest landmass!
The first nation of hockey!
and the best part of North America

My name is Joe!!
And I am Canadian!!!

Do not fuck with this spider

Once again, 2007 feels like a good year.

Transformers, more than meets the eye

2007 is going to be a good year.

HK uncle loses it

You got pressure, I also got pressure, ok! Don't anyhow play play ah...

The Japanese Kid ad

Ah, the one Edmund was talking about.

Canon in D, electric guitar style

oh boy oh boy oh boy

6 hit combo!!

I keeeel you

I walk alone, I walk alone

I walk a lonely road, the only one I have ever known
Don't know where it goes, but it's home to me and I walk alone
I walk this empty street, on the boulevard of broken dreams
Where the city sleeps, and I'm the only one and I walk alone

My shadow's the only one that walks beside me
My shallow heart's the only thing that's beating
Sometimes I wish someone out there will find me
Till then I walk alone

I'm walking down the line, that divides me somewhere in my mind
On the borderline, off the edge where I walk alone
Read between the lines, what's fucked up and everything's all right
Check my vital signs, and know I'm still alive and I walk alone

And all the roads we have to walk are winding
And all the lights that lead us there are blinding
There are many things that I would like to say to you
But I don't know how

Who are you?

Are you the boy who refuses to grow up to face the cruel society and its rigid rules?
Are you the dreamer who still hangs on for a chance to change the world?
Are you the man who has seen the pains of life and touched the face of death?
Are you still the man whom darkness comes to every once in a while?
Are you the man who hears the cries of the hearts of others?
Are you the man who fears what you can do?
Are you the man who lusts and lusts and lusts?
Are you the man with the sickest of desires?
Are you the beast that emerges from the deepest of the rationale to haunt the innocents?
Are you the man lost in the world of logic?
Are you the dumb and deaf who cannot hear what your heart tells you?
Are you the coward who hears but pretends his heart is not above the lure of money?
Are you the man who sabotages himself because he feels unworthy of success?
Are you the man who runs and runs and runs?
Are you the man with the greatest gift from God?
Are you the man who's going to waste the gift?
Are you the man walking on the lonely road?
Are you my worst enemy or my best friend?
Are you the one who hurts others because you fear they might hurt you deeper?
Are you an angry man who suffers at the greatest injustice in the world?
Are you one who feels unworthy?
Are you the man whom everybody misunderstands?
Are you the man who doesn't give a fuck to those who misunderstands?
Are you the man who always tries too hard?
Are you the man who always says always?

Some sicko gadget

ah yes, the memories are good

Exchange

I've not been blogging for a long time. Partly it's because I've been busy with work, book and going out. But a huge part is I have nothing to say. When you are on a journey, it's better to enjoy the view. Comments are meant only after you've reached the destination.

And right now, I am going onto another journey. I'm going to draw digital comics. It's gonna be tough, and it'll eat a lot of my time. Frankly, I presume I have to give up something in exchange for the time I need. Maybe I'll watch lesser of the shows I love so much. I'll be more selective about the books I read. And I'll have to choose the right occassions to go out. Sure I'll lose some joy, but I feel it's going to be worth it.

So I'll do it. Then I'll come back again to bitch about it.

Anyone will do

My talent

I am talented in working hard.

Why Macs stay virus-free

The ball! I swear I was going for the ball!

Imperfection

A few months ago, I picked up this book about learning how to draw comics. The author brought out an important point that I like a lot. Look for the imperfect line. Keep drawing lots of imperfect lines. Don't press too hard. Just keep drawing until you feel the shape is there. Then you apply the final touches. But the final touches are just what they are. It's the imperfections that matter. The sketches of life. They form the details. The finished look are merely a shell of the finest details.

Look for the imperfect line, the imperfect phrase & the imperfect person. They are a lot bigger than the end-result.

Adobe launches free Photoshop

"We give up." goes Adobe's answer to piracy of its trophy software, Photoshop.

Adobe is launching a free edition online, supported by brands who want to get in the act. Brand placements, they say.

So now, when you copy Ctrl+C, Xerox is behind you.
When you cut, you cut with the finest of Gillette's blades.
When you paste, it sticks with Super Glue.
And when you clear, you erase all traces with Tide.

Nothing is sacred anymore.