Nice evening. While waiting for the sun to set, now I am back from the North Beach. Oh yeah, I swam! And it felt so freeing as well nearly freezing. Even though the sky was clear, and the sun shone bright, but the wind was chilly as breeze, causing the waves danced quite a craze. For it is nearly the ending of the autumn, winter is coming soon within two weeks or more, and the air will be even colder than these days.
But it is just okay for me. For it means I would have another new experience that I may consider each and any of the lesson as challenging. And yes, I do love challenges! It thrills me on! Can hardly wait! :D
For me, every new day brings opportunities and brand new experiences, over which I can always learn anew things from. It is easy to be put in mind that I am now a student. That way it helps to keep reminding me that every little thing that comes in life is a lesson! And living is just a matter of having a life long span of education. As long as I live, I can and should always learn! Anytime, anywhere, from anyone and anything that comes. It is a never ending process that would not over until it is over. Meaning, I can just live no more. Out of breath and out of this life.
But anyway, as there is a beginning for just anything, let's start anew this journey from the first of scratch. If we are to make a drawing, it is time to sharpen the pencil and begins...
Where do we start? :)
For many, introduction shall begin from the very basic of addressing, that is, knowing the name and be able to identify one. This blog is called The Gong Scratches. Obviously it is named so for a reason. So, first of all, what is "The Gong"?
It is the way people in Wollongong addressing the city. The word WOLLONGONG came from Aboriginal word spelled as Woll-On-Gong, literally means: "The Sound of The Sea". The city of Wollongong is indeed a coastal city in the eastern part of this southern hemisphere. Facing directly to the Pacific ocean, the First Nations, another term used to address the natives of Australia which is the Aborigines, as the many origins of certain cultures in the world do, used to name a place by its specific features, or based upon certain events that occasionally happened in the past. The name Wollongong simply is an apt to this. The name itself explains how it has been derived. And The Gong is the shortening of the calling.
So why did I choose "The Scratch" then? Because like a sculpture that scarp raw materials of a wood, patiently carve it day by day, before it shows the basic shape of what it is about to be, and still, it takes more time to neatly polish for the finishing, with given touch of an art, to make it a final masterpiece; so is the story of our lives. It is not a book written within one night done. It is a work of could be days, months, even years. Of words by words, form sentences, then paragraphs, from short writing of an article to carefully drafted and finalized as an accepted academic research paper, for example, it takes a lot of hard works, struggles and efforts. But for the result that may be satisfying, that sure worth it.
It is about a week here now. And I have just began to collect the scattered again, my fainting memories of what I have gone through in the past seven days that I feel would be worthy to be shared as merely lessons, simply for myself, to remind me to keep learning, and hopefully it can as well be beneficial for those who wants to read. So here it is. A simple daily writing, mostly taken from a simple thing I learn out of that very day, or the previous, then pour them in a writing, a scratch by a scratch.
It is not a painting beautiful as yet, but scratching a line on canvas is like swinging your first start of. There is always the beginning of anything. A thousand miles of a journey is initiated by one move of a footwork, step by step and moving forward. And so it is.
The long journey has just begun. The sun may has been completely set out by now. But the story continues on. Waste the time not. Let us keep moving on, shall we? :)
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