Be.

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Be quiet. Let the silence sur­round you. The week shall start soon and the noise will invade. No mat­ter. Rest your eyes and close your ears. The world out­side dis­ap­pears. Peace­ful and rest­ful are you. Sleep.

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Be amused. So many colour­ful char­ac­ters come your way. Your life is a many-splendoured jour­ney. Fear not mak­ing a fool of your­self; amus­ing oth­ers in turn is a virtue. You bring laugh­ter and joy to the world. You share your sparkling wit and your good humour. Aliens and robots and strangers. We are all friends, we are all mates. Keep smil­ing. You have such a beau­ti­ful smile.

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Be incred­i­ble. Make faces and make magic together. Be best friends for­ever and weave your sto­ries into the lives of oth­ers. What we share, what we can barely com­pre­hend, is a song for which every­one con­tributes a strand, a verse, a uni­ver­sal melody. Be not afraid to love so very completely.

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Be happy. Be sad, when it’s time to be sad, but know that sad­ness passes, and joy always returns. The bliss is know­ing that it’s not his or hers nor theirs or ours but that we switch and we swap and we all have our moment and all our hours, and the rhythm comes as we step into place, our feet keep­ing pace, as we press cheek against cheek, tears flow­ing down in streaks and our hot breath as we kiss, and each new day we won’t miss for we will always have the courage a good life to face.

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Words, pho­tographs & design by Kenny Mah.

42 Comments

  • so cute! love the shots.. can­not imag­ine this bunch being sad.. maybe tem­porar­ily miffed.. dats about it! LOL

  • Be your own per­son.
    Be a lit­tle self­ish.
    Be a friend.
    Be sin­cere.
    Be gra­cious
    Be your­self
    Be open
    Be your best self.

    :D

  • Poh Chu wrote:

    So cute!! What are they? Toys, collectibles?

  • very zen! inspi­ra­tional words to live by, beau­ti­fully writ­ten, though per­son­ally, i’m much, much less ide­al­is­tic about life and peo­ple. if some­one tells me to rest my eyes, i’d shake him and say, open your eyes and stop blind­ing your­self to reality. =)

  • Some very wise and calm­ing words, Kenny! Just what I need to start the week…

  • Whoaaaa… this is really a good post, should keep in mind on the begin­ning of each week :)

  • ahh..a well deserv­ing time-out with your clos­est friends ;)

  • a great begin­ning to a hap­py­ness that comes elu­sive , like the green moun­tain dew , as the morn­ing rises so shall the night fall. Still the moments of touch­i­ness is beau­ti­ful indeed

  • Wow, wow, wow! Fan­tas­tico Kenny Mah! I love em dunny and bff and all you guys at the table. How can one be sad when sur­rounded with such cute faces and love. Awwww

    I’m hon­oured and a lit­tle insulted being fea­tured here though. While I’m happy that my cute face is plas­tered cutely on your post, there’s a part of me that’s say­ing “What? This was the post you’ve been strug­gling to write?” I mean, shouldn’t it BE. easy since it us you’re writ­ing about?!?!?!?! LOL

    Hugs bro! Now, that reminds me, when are we going out to bermakan again?

  • Be amazed… at the artistry that you can con­jure up… consistently.

  • Can’t think of any­thing par­tic­u­lar to be! Be sexy?

  • eeeee!! those lil robots are adorable!! seri­ously seri­ously adorable! some­how their ears remind of ‘peace’ signs we make with our fin­gers, dont you think so?

    me likes this be-ing post very much!

  • I love the feel of being happy. Yippe, 20 years of good life, com­pan­ion­ship, more thicks than the thins. Yippe, yippe, yippe, skip, hop, jump and dance!

  • Be.… Thank­ful… Life’s bless­ings and being sur­rounded by peo­ple you love who knows how to:
    … smile witchu wen u’re happy
    … cry witchu wen u’re sad
    … keep u sane wen things get a wee bit outta hand
    … keep u grounded wen u need to be reminded…
    kuakuakua… :D

  • Be all that you can be?

    Man, It’s not fair…ayam not good with this writ­ing thingy :P Dun wan friend Kenny di…

    *runs and hides*

    ROFL. Hugs bro, a mighty fine bunch of friends you got there bro ;)

  • wow how can i get any one of those?? lol

  • Read­ing this, inspired me to just be. :D

  • kenny.…… are you back from bei­jing yet? :P (well look­ing at those dates you should be. but saja ask any­way… :P )

  • For me, have to always remind myself to Be Happy. Be Me. To Just Be.

    Merry Christ­mas!! xoxo

  • Is this hyp­no­sis? Because I was relax­ing and clos­ing my eyes. :)

  • We call “this bunch”, as you put it, The Happy-Go-Lucky Bunch. Cor­rect, cor­rect, cor­rect? :P

  • That’s a whole swarm of be’s! (Pun intended) :P

  • No clue but A Lil Fat Mon­key was muy muy excited when Lyri­cal Lemon­grass brought them back from Lon­don… Sure are cute though. :)

  • What if Real­ity was just what you perceive?

    (Red pill or blue pill, my friend?)

    Hehe.

  • You know what I’d really like for Xmas or for the New Year, Yang-May? To pick up even a smidgen of dis­ci­pline from you, my dear. I can only imag­ine my out­put if I could allo­cate one day out of each week to write, write, write and noth­ing else. You’re my inspi­ra­tion, you are. :)

  • Each week? Shouldn’t I post some­thing new every week, though? Hahaha. Nah, I get what you mean. Just being dorky here. :P

  • Oh, I need more time-out with you guys but be trav­el­ling again this week. Hope­fully next week­end I’ll be free to catch up? Keep cool!! :D

  • They’re a line of col­lectible toys made by Kidro­bot, called Dunny. Been around sicne 2004 and is into its 6th series now, each designed by a well-known street or graphic artist. I love and adore them! Totally cool stuff.

    Check them out there: http://www.kidrobot.com

  • Kid Robots!! Attack!!!

    (No? Not like Trans­form­ers, then? Oh well…)

  • Uhm, it’s always a strug­gle when writ­ing about such PERFECT friends? (Does this pass? Ahem.)

    I’m guess we’ll bermakan soon enough at some party or another but no ear­lier than next week cos I’m fly­ing in a cou­ple of days to Bei­jing. Call you and McCutie when I get back, ok?

    *hugs!*

  • Haha, now … how do I man­age that? I think we are all sexy to some peo­ple… isn’t that right?

  • Haha, I like the sound of that — “Peace Robots!” Make love, not war… :)

  • I think that is very impor­tant — more thicks than thins — as you put it. I need to remem­ber that. I think we all do.

    Thanks for shar­ing, sir! :)

  • I am indeed blessed to be sur­rounded by friends who do exactly all those things with me, for me… :D

  • Awww… why Unka­le­ong dun wan fren Kenny oredi? :(

    *snig­gers*

  • Awww. I wanna focus on sim­ply being today too. :D

  • Haha, Lingzie… you’re such a riot! Yes, I’m back from Bei­jing and back to a world of busy, busy, busy­ness! :P

  • Those are the three best Be’s, in my opin­ion. :)

    Merry Christ­mas, Toy­Girl and to Toy­Boy too!

  • Ah, well… It’s not actu­ally hyp­no­sis. I’m just really good at putting peo­ple to sleep… :P

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