The Mind in Flight

This is a special post for YOU - My EstemedReaders - if you deem it as occupying a special place in your Heart.


As the Year of the Dog dawns in a few hours, and you're not physically to be by your LovedOnes' abode to join in the celebration to wave another year GoodBye and say: HI! to Year of Man's Best Friend -- no wworries, travel just a w'ile with Desi. I'll bring thee to your Homey's DinnerTableSide.

Today I prepare for a Freedom Flight with mGf, Jonathan.

"Seagulls, as you know, never falter, never stall. To stall in the air

is for them disgrace and it is dishonor.

But Jonathan Livingston Seagull, unashamed, stretching his wings

again in that trembling hard curve - slowing, slowing, and stalling once

more - was no ordinary bird.


Most gulls don't bother to learn more than the simplest facts of


flight - how to get from shore to food and back again. For most gulls, it


is not flying that matters, but eating. For this gull, though, it


was not eating that mattered, but flight. More than anything else. Jonathan


Livingston Seagull loved to fly.

So behave likee a bird for the next 24 hours, travel where your mind will take you as you will.


The extract from Richard Bach's flight of imagination with a seagull named Jonathan could have been part you, part that SpecialGalOrBoyNextDoor, if only you willed it to be. But you must rsie above the ordinary just a li'l. Last week I received an Email titled "JLS" which reminds Desi of some very dear friends now resident abroad -- maybe in England,, perhaps in Australia, some in nearby Singapore -- for among them, some chose to fly, beyond Malaysian shores -- like a seagull.


And if you can, go raid the video shoppes in the coming INTER-LUDE (Sundae remember?), catch JLS in alll his flight of fancy and beauty as he eXperimented with moves and turns -- pirouettes and Swan-lake spins? -- it's a visual feast to top up your "Loh-Sang" of SE7EN heavenly dishes. And you have the golden voice of Neil Diamond to soothe the flight.

Don't be bounded by the physical walls -- with a little flight of the mind, you can join JLS to reach any destination. Yes, even with your loved ones far away.

We don't have wings -- yet we deem we can fly.
And yes, why not?

In the mind of the Writer, in the Mind of the Creative,
Nothing is Impossible...

So what's at the end of an act that is just an quantum leap from the first halting, Baby step to walking, running, jumping, and diving from a board to the pool of water below, temporarily in flight -- then with another Leap of Human Faith, starts Man's Love Affair With Flying!

Yes, science through the ages has enabled Man to conquer many frontiers.

Hurdles, big and small, are crossed using MIND over BODY applications -- Imagination is the Key to Freedom.

Today I remember the book I read as a restless youth, and I'm always thrilled by the images of a Seagull who Dared to Think and Dream Differently from the Pack.It stirred my imagination so much I was moved to write -- first by Imitation, just as a li'l baby bird learning from his Mother, to fly,later via Experimentation, then as ultimate test of arrival, through Self-Exploration. Along the way, one breaks some rules and traditions, even wastes some "youth", mayhaps dices with danger -- but it's a fligght that pays dividends, hi, mighty and flighty.

"Most gulls don't bother to learn more than the simplest facts of flight--how to get from shore to food and back again," wrote Richard Bach. "For most gulls it is not flying that matters, but eating. For this gull, though, it was not eating that mattered, but flight."

And a lesson I learnt from JLS is that of "sharing". He returned mature from a bold solo outing to teach twwo young seagulls -- as a Mentor taking on two Mentees.
Yes, be selfless by teaching Others thy wisdom and skills -- and the rewards, Mr Coww tells me-- comes back to you SE7EN-times-SE7EN fold.......and that's sometimes too much to handle. When an individual rises above the ordinary and mundane, he attains a ddeper insight into understanding other fellow beings and himself. And perhaps, along the arduous jurney of life,, you meet a true-life Jonathan to share the meaning of love and kindness, and in the middle of the night, realises, what is, and who is, this transcendental Self.


As Desi takes a week-long INTER-LUDE to welcome the Year of the Dog, he wishes all Malaysians who believe in the Chinoserie customs and traditions:

Remember, you can indeed, fly
With a mind the world cannot deny
As high as where eternity begins
Let's take off, for this New Year of the Fire Dog:


Flying Without Wings
~ Westlife


Ev'rybody's looking for that something
One thing that makes it all complete
You'll find it in strange places
Places you never knew it could be

Some find it in the face of their children
Some find it in their lover's eyes
Who can deny the joy it brings
When you find that special thing?
You're flying without wings
Some find it sharing ev'ry morning
Some, in their solitary lives
You find it in the works of others
A simple line can make you laugh or cry

You find it in the deepest friendships
The kind you cherish all your life
And, when you know how much that means
You've found that special thing
You're flying without wings

So, impossible as it may seem
You've got to fight for every dream
'Cause who's to know
Which one you let go
Would have made you complete?

For the next SE7EN DAES,
Desi will go flying,
and If my EsteemedReaders'd,
Come Fly With Me!:)

Meanwhile, again,
Wishing EveryBody a Flying Start to
The Year of the Fire Dog:

GONG XI FA CAI!

Meanwhile, again,
Wishing EveryBody a Flying Start to
The Year of the Fire Dog:

GONG XI FA CAI!