i like past for that,,
Posted by rocksea on 03 Feb 2006 | Tagged as: life, photography
past fetches me nostalgic impressions
i like past for that
past teaches me fantastic lessons
i like past for that too
if you say ditch your past
if you say
‘it’s just past, forget it’
you’re betraying yourself
for my nowness -> is past this moment
my today is past tomorrow
past is like that giant tree
under which i sit and lean back
i am sitting in this narrow space
tagged as present
my eyes glance forward to future
future sketches me a colorful spectra
i like past for that
~ dedicated to Sarah, the oasis in my Sahara
the Scarlett O’Hara at my Tara
This is the central lawn of Hokkaido University in spring, the cherry blossoms in full bloom. There is a huge tree there, is not in the picture but to the left side of it, where i go with my books n bottle of water and sit n look forward to future (daydream, daydream!)
*update: hey prasad, herez a sakura song (6mb) sung by Moriyama Naotaro. See the lyrics, itz easy to sing sakura sakura along!
more of the university. close. closer..closerrr
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on 03 Feb 2006 at 11:58 pm 1.pidiyana said …
Lovely. Very lovely.
And I TOTALLY agree with
“if you say
‘it’s just past, forget it’
you’re betraying yourself”
Sarah
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on 04 Feb 2006 at 4:05 pm 2.rocksea said …
pathu kalpanakalil onnaya "sarah-yude naamam vrudha opayogikkaruthu" nee lankhichu. athinulla shiksha vaereyum
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on 05 Feb 2006 at 12:29 am 3.pidiyana said …
alllaaaaaaaaa! I wasnt saying that i am Sarah!! Gawd! I am pidiyana, na? I was laughing/smiling at the mention of ‘Sarah’!
Uff!!! So much for miscommunication!!!
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on 05 Feb 2006 at 2:49 pm 4.rocksea said …
Sarah 1 could be a nom de guerre for
Ref: Genesis 17:15 and thereof
1. Sarah: "lady" or "princess" in Hebrew. (Old Testament) the wife of Abraham; mother of Isaac at the age of 90.
2. Sarai: "contentious" or "quarrelsome" in Hebrew. name of Sarah in the Old Testament before God changed it.
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on 05 Feb 2006 at 9:55 pm 5.pidiyana said …
I have read "Gone With The Wind".. but somehow didnt have the patience to reach the end. Lol. I normally dont lose patience with books, but this one did it. I think I took it up at the wrong time. Someone I know said that I remind her of Scarlet O Hara! LOL!!! Now I need to find my Tara…
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on 05 Feb 2006 at 10:02 pm 6.rocksea said …
hmm. my friend gave me the book while i was on a cruise in the arabian sea. whenever i finish my scheduled launches at different stations, i ran back to my cabin to read the rest of the pages. i couldn’t finish it by the end of the one month cruise due to lack of time so i bought one copy of my own as soon as i set my foot on land
i loved it. it was romantic and totally informative as well.
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on 06 Feb 2006 at 10:29 am 7.Geetha said …
It looks like a beautiful and peaceful place.. love it! WIsh I could visit it..
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on 06 Feb 2006 at 9:58 pm 8.rocksea said …
mmm.. itz pretty calm place despite being a city n having all the hi-fi facilities.
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on 07 Feb 2006 at 3:19 pm 9.Sarah said …
Reply: Past- is it a matter of philosophy??
Past is why I cherish my present
Past is the reason why my tomorrow is
Past is why I am
Past is why I know what Hope is
Past is my teacher too
And it taught me a truth:
“Only learn from me, ‘coz I am not to be dwelt in
Only cherish me, ‘coz I am no to be spent in”
So ditch the dark past and forget it
If this is self betrayal, then so it be
I’d rather, than live in the home of yesterday
- a trap maybe I know I don’t see
I agree that the truth is also that past remains
It is to fool yourself by calling it to fade away
But if I see that I have been its grand capture
I’ll say I’ve betrayed my present and future
Past is sweet, but beware of its sting
Past is only to be taken from, not to be lived in
- Sarah
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on 07 Feb 2006 at 4:23 pm 10.pidiyana said …
Very well said, Sarah! Very well said. There are a couple of people I would like to show these lines to!
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on 07 Feb 2006 at 11:06 pm 11.rocksea said …
Lines, fragrence of wisdom, i adore
Let me not live in the yore
Let me not be its grand capture
Let me water my roots for the leaves to nurture
and spread my branches to the sun
For roots are my past,
I will water them thatz all
I dwell in the present sunshine
Flowers n Fruits my future
- but i like past for that
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on 08 Feb 2006 at 1:55 pm 12.rocksea said …
Now,
a breeze from sapporo is on its voyage*
channeling the fragrance of those flowers
if pleasant;
breathe in those future dreams
shape it, color it,
let out the fruits of future
* with a nippon stamp
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on 13 Feb 2006 at 2:39 am 13.pidiyana said …
S-I-G-H-!
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on 13 Feb 2006 at 1:56 pm 14.prasad said …
those two pictures of trees..they r very cool.so beautiful.i like thm 2 much.rite,on to my desktop!
i love the scenery of ‘Sakura falling’ they show in animes.but i wonder in reality is it really tht wonderful.hav u ever seen scenes like tht?may be i shud chk in google images
tht poem is simple n nice.it seems u have a very gud skill in writin stuff.keep it up!
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on 14 Feb 2006 at 3:18 pm 15.rocksea said …
pidiyanae, enthu patti?
prasad, sakura (cherry blossoms) usually stay for 3-4 days only. i dont even get to see them properly. but surely, it can happen in those sakura gardens where all those trees blossom at the same time. a gentle breeze and you can see the sakura dancing with the wind.. i have seen similar scenes with the yellow-orange-red maples leaves in autumn, splendid!
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on 14 Feb 2006 at 3:43 pm 16.rocksea said …
prasad, i have updated with a sakura song for you. have a look.
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on 15 Feb 2006 at 3:18 am 17.prasad said …
arigato
many thnxxxx for the song
c ya
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on 15 Feb 2006 at 4:12 am 18.prasad said …
wow!thts a cool song.i luv it
and yeah tht hummin is catchy.
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on 18 Feb 2006 at 4:05 pm 19.rocksea said …
The oasis i saw, was it a mirage?
The colorful spectra, was it a one minute rainbow?
The earth, the roots, are shallow it seems
Or may be i pour too much water into it?
I see all the water flowing out
No fragrant flowers, No ripe fruits
I see the sun hot in this cold winter
Leaves fall, dry and dead, into the soaked earth
and decay, let become another past??
for i said past is from where my present
n future grows
and are my nostrils getting that decayed smell?
oh how vicious this cycles in life and this lifecycle is
but i like past for that
cuz thatz all i have in life
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on 19 Feb 2006 at 2:40 am 20.pidiyana said …
Senti adikkyaathey, maashey
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on 19 Feb 2006 at 1:57 pm 21.rocksea said …
mmm,, entha cheyka?
njan oru chilanthiyakunnu ..
swantham valayil akappettu poya chilanthi
njan ente bhaavikkayi nalloru vala ketti
pakshe aa valayile sticky vazhikal
enne kudukkikkalanjuu..
vala theerkkanavunnathinu munpe..
pen-chilanthiyaduthu varuunnathinu munpe..
oh! i have read abt those female spiders
who eat male spiders blah blah :O
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on 20 Feb 2006 at 2:50 am 22.pidiyana said …
iyyoo!
:O
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on 21 Feb 2006 at 6:16 pm 23.Sarah said …
Even mirages show hope,
Even rainbows speak hope
….don’t you see it?
How will you
If you were too soon to conclude and give up?
See carefully, each mirage says,
I might seem a dream, but the reality is just beyond me.
Listen carefully, the rainbow will say,
I have stolen only a few colors from the real bright spectra.
Oh don’t turn blind and deaf to their sight and words…
They are the trailors to the future.
And if you see that, you will realize
Some of the shoots take the longest to show up.
Some of the most fragrant flowers don’t bloom like the common.
Some of the most appealing fruits do not occur easily.
And you would be mistaken
if you walk away before
they could display their beauty to you
…so don’t give up and be soon to say
“It is yet another past”
…coz you have not yet touched the future!
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on 13 Mar 2006 at 8:51 pm 24.rocksea » Sarah. Then our assignments said …
[...] Outline: The princess who came out of the colorful sketch future drew for me. [...]
on 16 Apr 2006 at 5:23 am 25.maya cassis said …
beautiful shots
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on 23 Apr 2006 at 3:33 am 26.Sunny said …
hi everyone,
Here are few lines from my side!!
Past is our birth,
it lets us know our worth;
Past is the teacher,
it let us built our future;
Past is our moral ground,
it let us freely roam around;
Past is in our genes,
it let us build our dreams;
Past is all the record,
which is our biggest forte.
sunny
(i am no poet and just wrote it to express my fellings. Need not to be judges but enjoyed)
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on 25 Apr 2006 at 2:30 pm 27.rocksea said …
maya,
sunny, happy to see you sharing your lines and feelings.
just a thought: if we take the geological time scales, our life is a few moments “infinitesimal” and fading into past so soon,,
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