Plate of Rice

Today I heard a student took a big pile of rice on his plate. He ate only half and wanted to throw the rest away. It makes me ask myself questions like: " Why did he get so much in the first place and just let the rice go to waste?" or "In a country where half the population is hungry or have meager means, how could he throw away food like that? - didn't even think of his people!"

But perhaps, I do not have the right to say that.
It is stunning to realize the abundance of spiritual graces You have nourished me with. And yet many times I take them for granted. Many times I took them in half measures - and let the other half go to waste... not even thinking that I could have shared the "surplus" - the things like talents, knowledge, opportunities which I might have made inaccessible to others.

A Simple Thought in a Not so Simple World

You know very well how much I hate writing... couldn't even keep up with the community chronicles. But maybe, just maybe a simple thought in this not so simple world can help me to live simply and not just simply live.

Do you remember my first Math lessons when they tell you to reduce numbers, equations, etc. to its simplest forms? and those lectures I got and later taught in digital electronics telling the guys to simplify their circuits?

But most of all you make me remember my first B-day in the seminary when they couldn't think of anything to say about me for my Birthday poster. And so they wrote:
"Simplicity is Beauty!"

My Challenge

Hey, I'm more than a month old in this historic place.
Read something from an English paper since I can't still read Khmer (Cambodian).
It goes this way:

"If you reject the food
Ignore the customs
Fear the religion
and Avoid the people
You might better stay home."

Now that's what I call a tough challenge!
But I know You'll see me through.

A Pensieve

Hi! My name is Gerard Ravasco.
I was reading a Harry Potter book and I came across these words from Albus Dumbledore (the headmaster of Hogwarts School) :

"I sometimes find, and I am sure you know the feeling, that I simply have too many thoughts and memories crammed into my mind.... At these times... I use the Pensieve. One simply siphons the excess thoughts from one's mind, pours them into the basin, and examines them at one's leisure."

I welcome you to mine.
Thus begins my journeying...