24

Some time during my college years, it occurred to me that time was passing faster than ever, and since then 24 hours has never been enough in a day. It’s not just that i was having fun, but the simple truth that there is so much to do. Talk about broadening my perspective.

In Chinese medicine, there’s this herbal soup that would supposedly detox your body and would boost your immune system. Simply named as 24-flavour (廿四味), the soup is anything but. Well, even if it has twenty-four flavour, it would be twenty-four distinctive flavours of crap.

It wouldn’t do it justice to say that my life is hectic. Because it’s really not, but it is filled with a lot of different, if not unrelated, fragments. If sleep takes up one-third of my life and work takes up another, the remaining third would be a series of clusters of miscellaneous. In between working out, yoga, meditation, reading, writing, cooking and photography (the last two i really ought to get back in), there’s hardly any more time for anything else within a day’s duration. The good thing is that all of the above are dedicated solely to myself and not for anybody elses. It’s selfish, but i believe it’s necessary.

Besides slowly getting back into updating this blog, my friend from Hong Kong and I are also collaborating on a new Chinese blog. The idea of that literary blog is so fresh and different that it’s hard not to be excited about it. I’ve written some posts in Chinese on here before, and the new blog is similar to those but with more personality. If you can read Chinese, please feel free to head over there and let me know what you think.

We have 24 hours in time, 24 flavours in life.
時間有廿四個小時，生命有廿四種味道。