A dream within a dream - E. A. Poe

[...]

I stand amid the roar

Of a surf-tormented shore,

And I hold within my hand

Grains of golden sand-

How few! Yet how they creep

Through my fingers to the deep,

While I weep, while I weep!

O God! Can not save

One from the pitiless wave?

Is all that we see or seen

But a dream within a dream?

E. A. Poe

SQL: joint statment on 3 different tables

select distinct u.email from user u join season_roster sr on u.id=sr.user_id join team t on t.id=sr.team_id where t.league_id in (3, 13) and u.email like '%@%'  and u.email not like '%test.com';

SQL: joint statment on 3 different tables

select distinct u.email from user u join season_roster sr on u.id=sr.user_id join team t on t.id=sr.team_id where t.league_id in (3, 13) and u.email like '%@%'  and u.email not like '%test.com';

Chinese New Year - photos

I posted some pictures from China Town parade today (Chinese New Year).

http://www.flickr.com/photos/uki/3245699401/

faith - a full circle around

It is interesting how Karma (or Faith) works its magic, I am at the same point where I was in FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 08, 2002

The full cycle elapsed since then. I might know more now, maybe I am a different man, but the same kind of thoughts were in my mind back then.

http://uki.blogspot.com/2002/02/philosophies-war-and-religion.html

I wrote back then...

"So far if I was to follow any of the fore-mentioned faiths, I would choose to become a Muslim mystic, a Sufi. Open-minded, yet spiritual, full of love of God and people."

"It's not always a blind man 

who falls into a pit. 

Sometimes it's one who can see.
A holy one does sometimes fall,
but by that tribulation, he or she ascends,
escapes many illusions, escapes
conventional religion, escapes
being so bound to phenomena."

     by Rumi (Sufi mystic and a poet, sometime around year 1220 AD)