. Smile Like You Mean It .

1. Take a 10-30 minutes walk every day. And while you walk, smile.
2. Sit in silence for at least 10 minutes each day.
3. Sleep for 7 hours.
4. Live with the 3 E's -- Energy, Enthusiasm, and Empathy.
5. Play more games.
6. Read more books than you did the previous year.
7. Make time to practice meditation, yoga, and prayer. They provide us with daily fuel for our busy lives.
8. Spend time with people over the age of 70 & under the age of 6.
9. Dream more while you are awake.
10. Eat more foods that grow on trees and plants and eat less food that is manufactured in plants.
11. Drink plenty of water.
12. Try to make at least three people smile each day.
13. Don't waste your precious energy on gossip.
14. Forget issues of the past. Don't remind your partner with his/her mistakes of the past. That will ruin your present happiness.
15. Don't have negative thoughts or things you cannot control. Instead invest your energy in the positive present moment.
16. Realize that life is a school and you are here to learn. Problems are simply part of the curriculum that appear and fade away like algebra class but the lessons you learn will last a lifetime.
17. Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and dinner like a beggar.
18. Smile and laugh more.
19. Life is too short to waste time hating anyone. Don't hate others.
20. Don't take yourself so seriously. No one else does.
21. You don't have to win every argument. Agree to disagree.
22. Make peace with your past so it won't spoil the present.
23. Don't compare your life to others'. You have no idea what their journey is all about.

24. No one is in charge of your happiness except you.
25. Forgive everyone for everything.
26. What other people think of you is none of your business.
27. However good or bad a situation is, it will change.
28. Your job won't take care of you when you are sick. Your friends will. Stay in touch.
29. Get rid of anything that isn't useful, beautiful or joyful.
30. Envy is a waste of time. You already have all you need.
31. The best is yet to come.
32. No matter how you feel; get up, dress up and show up.
33. Do the right thing!
34. Call your family often.
35. Your inner most is always happy. So be happy.
36. Each day give something good to others.
37. Don't over do. Keep your limits.

_ Change Your Ways While You're Young _



Golden Blanket

I watched you cry 
Bathed in sunlight 

By the bathroom door 

You said you wished you did not love me anymore 

You left your flowers in the backseat of my car 

The things we said and did have left permanent scars 

Obsessed depressed at the same time 

I can't even walk in a straight line 

I've been lying in the dark no sunshine 

No sunshine 

She cries This is more than goodbye 

When I look into your eyes 

You're not even there 

It's just a feeling 

Just a feeling 

Just a feeling that I have 

I can't believe that it's over 

You've hit your low 

You've lost control and you want me back 

You may not believe me but I gave you all I have 

Undress confess that you're still mine 

I roll around in a bed full of tears 

I'm still lying in the dark no sunshine 

No Sunshine 

Cardboard People_Anton Tang_Singapore

Nothing Lasts Forever

There are times when many of us would like to cover our heads with a cardboard box and shield ourselves from the outside world. Other times, we walk around feeling as if we’re enclosed in such packaging anyway — like faceless, boxed-up products on an assembly line. Yet whichever our experience, alienated or anonymous, one plain fact gives us hope: We’re all human. And we’re not alone.

In Flakes _ Towada Art Centre _ Japan

Towada city has snowflakes floating around in winter, cherry blossoms floating around in spring, sunlight sifting down through the trees in summer, leaves floating around autumn, and artworks spreading over the city. There is always something floating around through the city’s clear air.

- Mount Fuji Architects Studio

Made of folded stainless steel elements overlapping one another to form benches at the Towada Art Center, the benches are polished so to reflect whatever that hovers above them. In flakes.

Hazey Daze

Happiness, it hurt like a train on a track

Coming towards her, stuck still no turning back

She hid around corners and she hid under beds

She killed it with kisses and from it she fled

With every bubble she sank with a drink

And washed it away down the kitchen sink

The Star Ferry _ Hong Kong

The Star Ferry traces its origins to 1880 when Dorabjee Naorojee Mithaiwala, a Parsee cook, embarked on a new vocation. He began a ferry service across Victoria Harbour with his steamboat, the Morning Star.

The most relaxing way to go from side to side.

The Waterhouse _ Shanghai

The four story, 19 bedroom boutique hotel The Waterhouse was built into an existing 1930's Japanese army headquarters.  Facing the Huangpu River and overlooking the Pudong skyline, the architectural concept was based on the contrast of old and new. While the outside of the building has been restored, some additions using Cor-teen steel are to reflect the old docking history of Huangpu River.

Blurring and inversion of exterior and interiors, public areas provide glimpses into private areas. Vertical room windows above the reception, corridor windows overlooking the dining rooms

THE WATERHOUSE at South Bund

Shanghai
China