Remember the Titans?

Hay! [Sic]

https://youtu.be/eLWm5ceH3PQ

Some Sheila on the tv was saying this is a great movie. Half an hour into it and she was right. It's reminding me of my ex girlfriend Mary. And her dad Eric. And also my father and sister Trish, and my brother Jose. Mary met my father, albeit only on the phone, said he sounded so innocent. Australians excel at that. It's coz of the penal colony past thing. They're guilty. My sister Trish met Mary I think briefly at Amsterdam airport or somewhere like that. Trish said she looked fed up of the relationship with me. Mary was spooked by my brother saying 'Mary, Mary quite contrary,' but equally perplexed

https://youtu.be/hCKBl-TpRzc

and I can't remember my grandmother's response to Mary but they probably met. In fact, Mary met a lot of my family in Spain and they all liked her a lot. I liked Mary's parents Eric and Kumee or however you say Mary's mom's name, she was from South Korea, even Mary was born in South Korea so she couldn't be President I guess. Mary said she loved Bill Clinton and voted Democrat. Mary's dad was Republican. Played a hole of golf with Dan Quayle once and worked at area 51 for the airforce at one point. I mean subsequent I visited an airforce base in South Korea. The u.s. military is very unpretentious and approachable it's fair to say. Mary was a military brat. I loved Mary. A lot. Anyway they had the posters up in Spain for the Titans movie in those days, I think that's what I remember.

Coz I've never seen this movie til now! Sometimes it's best to wait.

Ten minutes later into the movie.... I'm remembering Mary never met Raquel because she was dead by that point which was really upsetting me alot. But prior to that in Madrid, four years earlier I was with the first west coast girlfriend Hannah and she met Raquel. We all went to Winston Churchill's castle in England. Hannah and Mary went to University in LA. They had that in common. And similar ages. But Hannah didn't have a military background and never met any of my family apart from Raquel that I can recall. They both met my BFF Aurora the lawyer from Andalusia. Sorry I'm reminiscing I don't know why. Actually Hannah was from LA but technically never went to University there but with Australian deanism that's an abstract statement really.

Apparently the real coach Washington is playing just died. Digressing, hope I don't turn into an old grouch like this guy whenever I get old, in this or next whenever lifetime I get old ... Already too grouchy and not even old yet

https://youtu.be/QNDhSYmmFro

This actor playing PEI Mei, you can see him on regular State run Chinese tv in Guangdong, he plays a lot of different roles in various Kung Fu movies. Tarantino was right to make a movie about a cruel Chinese person. Don't watch his movies anymore after kill bill, I'm happy with that. In Guangzhou one of my coworkers wore sticks in her hair once or twice at least. Some of the Chinese style is very impressive in general, I must say. And unique, totally different from anything American. So much potential in China.

Hay! The Sheila on TV was right, it was a good movie. Skipped the last nine minutes and ended at Titans win the State championship. So in those final days of living in Madrid, as opposed to just visiting, had a beautiful blue book on Buddha's teachings, full of wisdom, that was in like August 2001... In those days cell phones were primitive, I think there was no GPS or good laptop computers... And hadn't heard of Lao Tzu either... The stone d age!

Do you think you can take over the universe and improve it?
I do not believe it can be done.

The universe is sacred.
You cannot improve it.
If you try to change it, you will ruin it.
If you try to hold it, you will lose it.

So sometimes things are ahead and sometimes they are behind;
Sometimes breathing is hard, sometimes it comes easily;
Sometimes there is strength and sometimes weakness;
Sometimes one is up and sometimes down.

Therefore the sage avoids extremes, excesses, and complacency.


Tao Te Ching - Lao Tzu - chapter 68A good soldier is not violent.
A good fighter is not angry.
A good winner is not vengeful.
A good employer is humble.
This is known as the Virtue of not striving.
This is known as ability to deal with others.
This since ancient times has been known
     as the ultimate unity with heaven.