55 years ago. Ow! Time flies....

Remember this picture ? Apollo spaceship landing on the moon. It was an amazing moment. Totally, speechless and taking my breath away. Louise Armstrong. It was like yesterday. Ow! how time flies ? Now, the space shuttle , Discovery can fly in and out of space with minimum damages. In the beginning, we have Apollo series of rockets. Apollo 13 was the blown to pieces on take off. So, many lives have been sacrifice to complete the mission of capturing the space and the moon.

When I was small, I was told by my mother that I cannot point my finger at the moon, otherwise, one of the ears will be gone. On moon cake festival day, we will look towards the moon where the fairy will meet his lover on the moon. The lover will walk from the rainbow to the moon and they will united for just that nite.  The legend was kind of sweet but the moon cakes were sweeter. Lanterns in the different shapes and some is like the moon shape with the image of the fairy dancing in the lanterns. It was fun. But, as we grew up and when Apollo landed on the moon, the myth disappear from that moment.  Back to a white sheet of paper,  However, the song has die but the music carrys on.  There are still people who pray to the moon fairy for blessing.  It is all in our mind and make belief.

This morning, I meet a former neighbour and I was told that his son is now 21 years old and studying in Japan. Again, it was like yesterday as my memory bring back to the time of his son running in his garden shouting and making an awful lot of noise. Ow ! 21 years already.  Ow! Apollo landed on the moon 50 years ago.  A quantum leap. In no time, our time is up like so many people before us.

By the way, we are mortals. So, live like one and behave like one.  The earlier we see it and realize it , the more contented we will become. There is a mandarin song which carry this message : " Our life is like a dream" . Yes, it \is as short as a dream. Each day is like minutes and each month is like an hour and when we wake up and if we wake up, everything is a dream.

Namaste.