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Lately, a friend’s visit has unlocked many unexpected spiritual connections with people around us. As a result, we’ve been reading some metaphysical books such as Seth Speaks, and learning more about vibration and auras. So the thought below came as a continuation of this line of development - this morning at 8AM while I was walking outside on the street and seeing very very skinny runners passing me from time to time and reflected on how people love to lose weight particularly during this period of holiday time.

If our assumption is that each individual is indeed a self enclosed “circuit” system, then the only way for a person to lose weight is to burn off his or her own calories and fat, to eat sensibly and exercise. That’s the bottom line. All the fancy weight programs can boil down to these never changing two rules.

But if we enlarge our assumptions, to allow the possibilities of each person is only a part of a larger entity. Our physical boundaries are not as confined as we thought. If that assumption stands, can we lose weight in another manner? Say, you group a person with extra fat on the body with a person with no fat (but wants to gain some fat to be a little more balanced). The person with surplus fat concentrate intensely on the thought that he/she wants to give the excess to the other one as a way of helping the other person. While the one in need concentrate on how he/she really can use some extra fat from the other person. What will happen in a couple months’ time? It will be interesting to conduct such an experiment to see whether this can prove the theory of us are connected in a greater manner…

The past year I have been mostly active with various online social networking sites. Trying to find the new ground to update and share thoughts. The only result is to have truncated my continuity with this place while not completely migrating to another place.

The way life is - is making people writing less and less, shorter and shorter. Who has the time to read War and Peace now. Time is still the same, it is the rhythm of time that has gotten much faster and the intervals are much shorter.

I’ve lost the use of my laptop - abandoned to be factual. I live by my iphone, surfing, listening, viewing photos, talking, calenaring… I live a condensed life on this iphone. For the first time in my life, I fear of losing one object for an extended period of time. Hopefully no thief will read this entry.

Finally coming back to tend my abandoned patch of blog field. After the upgrade, I noticed the added support with iPhone. Now I will not have any excuses for not writing!

We’ve decided to be more environmentally responsible this year. So starting early on, we’ve been buying green produces, reusable bags, I stopped shopping for leather handbags (still allowing leather shoes). The most significant change has been trying to live with only one car.

The result of this decision is that it is costing us more money right now to be green. In a sense that I feel to be environmentally conscious may not be an affordable option for everyone. After a couple months of trying, here are the reasons why:

1. Carbon emission. For a hard working family with each person working at least 10-12 hours a day, it is nearly impossible to combine their car usage into sharing one car. (I have many such clients with marginal income and 3 household cars as a result.) The ride sharing, public transportation dependent scenario will work for a regular one job person, not for people have 2-3 jobs a day. They have very little time to waste on travelling.

2. The reusable bag. It is a good idea to eliminate the plastic bags, but I have found a reusable outlet for my plastic bags by using them as my trash bags in various rooms of my house. Now that the trash bags are gone, I have to buy for trash bags - an additional expense. For the underprivileged, hardworking people, they wouldn’t want to spend extra $$ from their already tight monthly budget.

3. Green produce. To support the green business, we’ve been buying the produce and other daily needs from the whole foods. In short, these items are significantly more costly than the average products. Looking at the faces shopping at the Whole Foods, I think these are mostly middle class (at the least) people. My 3-car per house hold clients will shop only at Shaws and stop and shop. What they usually buy are frozen foods and canned foods with a little fresh veggies because they lacked time to prepare and shop food.

This way, being green is not really an option for the American working class. It may take some time before the costs of things get down (will it? now that all over the world we see the $$ value plunge?).

Two and half months have gone by without any updates… I think this is probably the most amount of time gap I’ve had since I started this blog.

One’s growth in experiences in life can never be constant. In other years, the two + months can be considered a blur. This year, standing where I am now, I have the sensation that last Nov. was a long, long time away. My theoretical understanding of life has gone a step further with the recent string of events and drama. Finally, I am back at home settling down to become myself again.

Aside for the serious news, I am also playing constantly (if I have the leisure mood) these “room escape games” online. One has to use their wits and the limited resources within a defined space to find a way to escape. The best designed ones are in Japanese, which further motivated me to learn the language. Starting next week, I will be going back to school with my old Sansei. My goal is to be able to read the Japanese instructions on these games and my Japanese gadgets…

This new year arrived without my much attention since I was preoccupied by all the events. Only at 12 days after the ringing in the new year did I contemplate my resolution. Nothing much came to my mind, except my conviction to seek spiritual development to help me navigate better in my own destiny.

This is a serious update.