Autumn in Cold Spring, New York. 2010 Oct

(Jackie, John, and Bob)

Simon and Garfunkel - The Sound Of Silence

Deep in the night，
Thought of The Sound Of Silence by Simon and Garfunkel
Search for the song restlessly on Youtube
Keep on clicking,
listening,
experiencing,
reminiscing ...

Perhaps,
Life is none other than listening to
The Sound of Silence
regardless of its content



Lyrics：

Hello darkness, my old friend,
I've come to talk with you again,
Because a vision softly creeping,
Left its seeds while I was sleeping,
And the vision that was planted in my brain
Still remains
Within the sound of silence.

In restless dreams I walked alone
Narrow streets of cobblestone,
'Neath the halo of a street lamp,
I turned my collar to the cold and damp
When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon light
That split the night
And touched the sound of silence.

And in the naked light I saw
Ten thousand people, maybe more.
People talking without speaking,
People hearing without listening,
People writing songs that voices never share
And no one dared
Disturb the sound of silence.

"Fools" said I, "You do not know
Silence like a cancer grows.
Hear my words that I might teach you,
Take my arms that I might reach you."
But my words like silent raindrops fell,
And echoed
In the wells of silence.

And the people bowed and prayed
To the neon god they made.
And the sign flashed out its warning,
In the words that it was forming.
And the sign said, the words of the prophets are written on the subway walls
And tenement halls.
And whisper'd in the sounds of silence."

reference：The Sounds of Silence

Winter 2010 - arctic oscillation

I have a totally different view about science after this winter, perhaps the whole scientific reality that we subscribe to today is built upon hypothesis and hypothesis only and one day, the whole system will collapse as there proof to be otherwise. Again, perhaps after this winter, we are getting to know the Earth or the causality of atmospheric phenomenon better; to be able to prepare for the future changes better.



Regardless the above mentioned, perhaps the whole theories of greenhouse effect, arctic oscillation … after all are scientific hypothesis that made real to deceive the world. Nevertheless, according to my friend Siao Yian back in Singapore, hypothesis is what keeps us going on with our life. Sometime, I find ignorance is the sole way of maintaining the sanity within our being. Although there is a possibility that we have a chance to peek through the pin hole of disguise, to see the true reality of things, we would somehow retreat back to the comfort zone of ours the very next second; so much of Plato’s cave analogy. Perhaps we are all but being of temporal, seize the days.