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Who's Hot?

I've had a bit of a depressing week, largely because a few projects didn't work out as planned and I lost enthusiasm for a while. But I've picked myself up with the help of my new friend Conrad, who can be heard running around my house at night. He's obviously having a great time, and - although the situation is very different - it reminded me of the famous story about Robert Bruce of Scotland.

Many people are scared of spiders, and there's no way I'm going to touch him, but in reality he's harmless. Having him in the house also reminds me that our ideas are usually our biggest problems. So, I'm focusing on one particular problem and making it the theme of PassionQuest month - I keep delaying starting because I'm not "inspired" enough, but really it's up to me to inspire myself. And I had a big reminder of this recently due to an event near to my house.

This temple is close to my home, and one night recently I was disturbed by fire engines screaming towards it. As you can see, it appeared to be on fire - although in fact the smoke came from a smaller building behind it. But whichever building was burning, it's an important reminder: things can change at ay time, you never know what's going to happen to you.

Whenever we get stuck or depressed we need to remember that we could be living our last few minutes. A fire, earthquake, war, typhoon, road accident, disease, or any one of a thousand other events could happen at any moment and totally destroy the lives we are leading. Of course, everyone says "it won't happen to me" but these things happen every day - and they have to happen to someone. That someone could be you! I've been reading about this a lot recently, and it seems that most people really have no understanding of what risks they face, and what is imaginary.

I was thinking about this a while ago, and again this morning in a restaurant. The story is kind of sad, and the end conclusion is that I'm a loser! The only way to change this is to force myself to face reality instead of worrying about the wrong things.

My friend April, she's hot, but not available

Here's the story: I was in a restaurant, and I saw a beautiful girl with a group of other people. She was obviously interesting and funny, as well as very sexy, because all the other girls were listening and laughing with her - she was the leader of the group and incredibly desirable. But I didn't have the balls to walk over and say hello - fear of what might happen is always stronger than the certainty of what we know - even if we know that doing nothing will achieve nothing. When I left the restaurant, I hated myself because I couldn't take the opportunity that was in front of me - even though I knew I might never have another chance.

This was the original inspiration behind PassionQuest, and today I was reminded of this by seeing yet another lovely lady that I didn't dare talk to. So now I'm all fired up to begin my next PassionQuest month.... but I'm doing it a bit differently from the last time!

This time, I have to carry my camera with me at all times. Every day, instead of simply looking for thngs that make me happy, I will add one photograph every day to a new section of the site called "Who's Hot?" - I have to seek out and photograph the most attractive girls I see in Taipei. I also have to introduce myself and invite them to take a look at the site.

Hopefully, after a month of doing this I won't be so useless. And I'll also have a nice collection of photographs to look at with Conrad.