Scar

Today is one of those days... one post after another. It is like when the feeling comes, it comes, when it goes, it goes. I have no control when it comes, just like everyone else. So how did this one happen today? To cut the long story short, I need to renew my passport as it is now expired. As we are approaching the holiday season shortly, it is always wiser to have a working passport than none right, just in case. Then I realised recently my mate and me had a conversation about covering up our scars. While it is nothing wrong to live with them, I guess all of us do have our own preferences. And that led me to think of a list of things that may be relevant to my passport renewal (something so simple, and yet a bit more complicated than others).

I think from a logical point of view, and if you were asking any custom officers, I think the initial approach would be the person presenting the passport, looks like the person in the photo yeah? So I wonder for those who suffered scarring on their faces recently... E.g would they prefer to renew the passport with the new scar? or would they prefer to "minimise / fix" it as much as possible, so that it isn't vastly different to the old / expired passport. What would be even worse I think is having scars on the new passport, and later on, somehow disappeared.... I would hate to be asked if I have ever done plastic surgery etc. I haven't up to this point in time and definitely wouldn't like if someone challenge me for that (due to the potential photo discrepancies), plus any frequent travelers would do their best to minimise the inevitably long delay of questioning, plus arriving last at the baggage collection and the following queues.

So far so good right? But is there a problem? Yes - timing is always a bitch. As we are in mid Dec, getting things done are just going to be a slower process. I certainly don't have the resources to even begin what I need to do (this simple task). I may not even have enough time to make it if there was a deadline *(eg pre or post Christmas? if treatments were involved, timing? Dermatologist? Bookings? Without making it sound like a plan, do I even need to come up with a contingency plan?

Up to this point, you may think - yeah me me me... well yes and no, because it sort of leads me back to my earlier post - this is the tricky bit! In any event, let's go back to the this video - Missy chose to use that piano, even when it is falling apart. Noticing she had a digital one behind her, presumably a working one too, definitely looks better & less broken, but she didn't use it - maybe it couldn't deliver the authenticity that she was looking for, particularly for this song. Who knows anyway... But the message is clear - despite the deteriorating physical appearance of the piano, I think it fits the song perfectly and with Missy's help patching things around - at least it lasts till the end of the song. "Far" - this particular word is featured for a slight moment in the video - I wonder what does it mean? Could it be related to my previous post today? Remember a question relating to what is "real"? At this moment, I think I just realised even with a broken key / hammer, can it still be better from an acoustic point of view? It may well be her intention to produce her art as realistic and authentic as possible.... Mmm.... I think I just also answered my own question above. Weird!

Just like the usual - the weirdness doesn't stop here. I stop asking myself if it was an coincident or a pattern anymore. It seems irrelevant as it just happened too many times. What makes it useful for me, is to use those opportunities to understand something better, anything really. In the video you would see that she used one of the shoe lace to fix a broken string. I kid you not - my shoes (converse), had two type of shoe laces, one the original one, one is replaced with "barcode" written on it. I think I just need to leave this one to your imagination of what it could mean..... But to me, I didn't get to choose, this is the only pair of shoes I have left, I am writing this post using a broken computer, I have literally couple of cents in my bank account, but that didn't stop me from doing what I do today. How far can I go with this? Now I wonder............

GLUE...............................................

**If it was a Q&A...... I was pretty certain that I said it out loud to myself the Guardian Of Dimensions (GOD) has no different to the higher power, or in any conflict of religious, it is just a simply something bigger than me. I also did search jesus nous conduit in Google and got to 2 Corinthians 7. Whether you are a religion person, spiritual or not, I wonder what that passage means to you, to me, and if it resonates it any way. It doesn't need to give the same answer to everyone, really no different to reading any books / material to be honest. What matters - seemingly remains on the person.....