Sour Green Grapes

Narrative Lead:
"Keith Van Horn earned $4.3 million on Tuesday, for nothing more than a signature and a flight to New Jersey. Aaron McKie earned $750,000 a few weeks ago for a few pen strokes and a trip to Memphis."-(http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/20/sports/basketball/20vanhorn.html?_r=1&ref=sports&oref=slogin)

It is a funny feeling to witness these ridiculous sums of money being transfered over such unimpressive actions, this is precisely the kind of nonsense that makes one question the senseless world we are living in. That is great opening in any types of writing, for it captures the heart at first sight, as it gives life to a otherwise plain reciting of simple facts through the hidden undertone of rebellion.

Nut Graf:
"This is all made possible because of the N.B.A.’s arcane rules governing trades. Generally speaking, teams that are already over the salary cap have to balance salaries in a trade — taking back as much as they send away, give or take 25 percent."

Power of Knowing

To be exposed by the eyes of the beholder is a scary feat, as I was shocked to realize how much of myself was under the naked eyes and ears of a powerful observer. It is a rather pleasant experience at first, until I later recognized the weight of my words, that is the power of a interviewer. Lucky to say that I am a rather chaotic being with little obligation to what I am for that even I held no solid images of myself, as so spare of the full effect of the exposure. As for the interview, it certainly presented a face of the reality that is "I". Thank you very much, Shannon, for this exquisite demonstration of the power that is in your hands.

Shannon Elliott

A writer, a musician, and just Shannon Elliott, what more is there to say about a person? If one is just the sum of its parts, the equation will not be concluded with an equal sign, might it be lesser, or might it be greater, it’s all due to the will of one. The influence of family, friends, and everything surrounding since day one may set the track for what one calls destiny, but the destination was never filled out. And then there is God, the ray of light to lost lambs, pointing into the great unknown, for a dream that is not yet there, a chance at transcendence. One is always one with a choice, to lead or to follow is up to the soul, the soul to exist life, the soul to exceed with life, and to finally be reborn and continue with new lives. Only then can there be no end, for the soul, the life, the one live on.

Welcome to the World

"What is", the most simple and the most complex form of question in the world, the very existence of such a form prove to us that the eternal struggle to grasp the truth of all is but inevitable to life. If all one feels and all one sees can be the fragments of a grander dream, to achieve the status of knowing is to be God oneself and not any less.

What of the will to know if its powerless to held truth in its weak figure and limited scope? Consider if science proved that love is but a byproduct of biochemical reaction, that music is but the transfer of shock, the greatest sights are colorless waves of energy, and very our soul is nothing more than dancing electrons, will that take away all the meaning from life itself?
If the answer is no, then a new face is born.

Reality is not represented by one or two rules alone, but rather the totality of existance as a whole, there is no real conflict between fragments of different view of different faces, all are but incomplete and imperfect pieces of the whole puzzle.

Only when humanity understand each other and connect with each other can the world be seen as it is, only when together can we discover the many faces that is our truth. So I shall greet you once more, Welcome to the World !!!