I will remember you..

Like this song, this version by Amy Grant. Dedicate this song to you.. Wherever you are, we will remember you... Always:)

Lyrics | Amy Grant lyrics - I Will Remember You lyrics

I will be walking one day
Down a street far away
And see a face in the crowd and smile
Knowing how you made me laugh
Hearing sweet echoes of you from the past
I will remember you.
Look in my eyes while you're near
Tell me what's happening here
See that I don't want to say good-bye
Our love is frozen in time
I'll be your champion and you'll be mine
I will remember
I will remember you.

Later on
When this fire is an ember
Later on
When the night's not so tender
Given time
Though it's hard to remember darlin'
I will be holding
I'll still be holding to you
I will remember you.

So many years come and gone
And yet the memory is strong
One word we never could learn
Good-bye
True love is frozen in time
I'll be your champion and you'll be mine
I will remember you
So please remember
I will remember you
I will remember you
I will remember you
I will remember you.

RIP Steve Jobs ~ 1955-2011

Today we mourn the loss of a great visionary Mr Steve Jobs, whose ingenuity has helped to transform our world as we know it.
We will miss you dude...

中秋，赏月，明月明

又是中秋节了。又买了你喜欢吃的冰皮月饼。最近，还好吗？我还是老样子。中秋节快乐哦！

Choices in life...

Imagine you are faced with 2 choices. You can either choose to be burnt alive or you can choose to jump out of the burning building. You might ask... wtf... what kind of questions are you asking? Are you nuts?

It's not funny.



Look at this picture. Sept 11 2001. This man chose the later. He made an heroic choice and did it with dignity and grace. He was caught in this photo, whereby he tucked both his hands by the side of his body and left leg bent at the knee, plunging to his death.

Title of the photo is aptly: "If he were not falling, he might very well be flying".

So next time when you find yourself stressed over choices, think again. Your choices are not that bad after all.

Self-Help

When you have a problem. You learn to deal with it yourself, fullstop.

Do you expect your friends to help you solve your problems? Do you think that they understand you more than you do? Do you feel that they should provide you with a listening ear? Do you expect them to show some concerns on you when you feel down? Do you expect a reply when you ask a question? Do you have expectations? Can you have expectations at all? Does anyone care?

Oh my god, I am surprised that I can ask myself these questions again and again and again.. but what for?

When will I learn to ever grapple with my own expectations?

When you have a problem. Learn to deal with it...Cos only you can solve your own problem and that it lies with you, lies in you.

A Different Corner

I met you for the first time at the corner of Holland Village where the Crystal Jade Restaurant now stands. Now that we're in different corners of the world, the fond memory of our very first encounter still lingers...

"Take me back in time maybe I can forget
Turn a different corner and we never would have met
Would you care"

I would have cared.. I would give anything in this world to be back to the same corner when I first met you and see you again.

A Different Corner ~ George Michael

I'd say love was a magical flame
I'd say love would keep us from pain
Had I been there, had I been there

I would promise you all of my life
But to lose you would cut like a knife
So I don't dare, no I don't dare

No I've never come close in all of these years
You are the only one to stop my tears
And I'm so scared, I'm so scared

Take me back in time maybe I can forget
Turn a different corner and we never would have met
Would you care

I don't understand it, for you it's a breeze
Little by little you've brought me to my knees
Don't you care

No I've never come close in all of these years
You are the only one to stop my tears
I'm so scared of this love

And if all that there is, is this fear of being used
I should go back to being lonely and confused
If I could, I would, I swear

返朴归真

返朴归真：去掉外在的装饰，恢复原来的质朴状态。

再深一层地探讨这四个字的意义。人的本质，一开始是纯洁，善良的。随着年龄的增长，接触了四周围的人，事与物后，慢慢地形成了自己思想与处事待人的一贯准则。不知不觉地，人的本质也开始变了。在金钱挂帅的社会里，人对物质的享受与期待，玷污了纯洁的心灵。价值观变了质，对亲情的看待也变淡了，没那么重要了。金钱能换来的享受与快乐，真的那么重要吗？那是一种持久不衰的快乐吗？在追求物质享受的过程中，忽略了对家人的关心与爱护，值得吗？

请放慢脚步，歇一歇，想一想。试试轻轻地聆听自己心灵深处的呼唤。尝试脱掉自己精心粉刷上的外壳，看一看自己内心“反扑归真”的状态，
想一想在你百年归老的那刹那，你最想要的，应该是什么东西。

那就是你生命里最最最重要的一件东西。换一换你前进的方向，往你该神往的目标前进吧！

（单单是名与利吗？再仔细地想一想。。。）

七七，思妻妻

回想起唐朝著名诗人白居易，《长恨歌》里一小段。字字真真切切地形容我现在的心情。
“七月七日长生殿，夜半无人私语时。在天愿作比翼鸟，在地愿为连理枝。天长地久有时尽，此恨绵绵无绝期。”

我也心血来潮，写了一小段：
字字，忆奕奕，依依。
七七，思妻妻，凄凄。

《青玉案·元夕》

辛弃疾《青玉案·元夕》

东风夜放花千树，
更吹落，星如雨。
宝马雕车香满路。
凤箫声动，玉壶光转，
一夜鱼龙舞。

蛾儿雪柳黄金缕，
笑语盈盈暗香去。
众里寻他千百度，
蓦然回首，那人却在，
灯火阑珊处。

突然记得辛弃疾的这首诗，到百度看了看诗的解释。喜欢以下的见解：

这首词的意思是说：元宵佳节的晚上，仿佛一阵东风吹来，催开了树茂花繁，原来是焰火流光，在夜空中绽放千重繁华，又纷纷被风吹落，象一场不期而来的流星雨。
宝贵的名马，华丽的雕车，载着美丽的人儿驶过，香气弥漫了整条街。萧声如歌，明月皎洁，时光悄悄流转，整晚上花灯（鱼灯、龙灯）都在绽放光华，美不胜收。美人如花，仕女如云，她们一路上娇笑俏语，带着若有若无的幽香渐渐远去。可是，她们都不是我心底的那人。夜深了，我千百次寻找、等待的那一个人还没有出现。我的心充满疲惫和失落，不经意一回首，却发现她在那灯火寥落的地方静静地站着。
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第一层意思：表明了感情路上的曲折和峰回路转，是爱情的一种存在方式。
第二层意思：作者借此自喻明志。表达自己和词中的女子一样高洁自持、孤芳自赏、娴静高雅。不肯与当时的世风和黑暗现实同流合污，宁可一个人寂寞站于灯火阑珊处，也不肯屈身降志，去和志向不同的当权者凑热闹。
第三层意思：它表达了人生的一种境界，或者是一种哲理，这种哲理或境界是人生中超越时间、空间的理解，具有永恒性和宇宙性。不会因岁月、际遇、环境的不同而磨灭或忘却。 它是爱情的境界，是治学的境界，是成事的境界，是做人的境界，是人生的境界

江 城 子

《江 城 子》 苏 轼 （字东坡）
乙卯正月二十夜记梦

十年生死两茫茫，不思量，自难忘。
千里孤坟，无处话凄凉。
纵使相逢应不识，尘满面，鬓如霜。
夜来幽梦忽还乡。小轩窗，正梳妆。
相顾无言，惟有泪千行。
料得年年肠断处：明月夜，短松冈。

真巧，苏东坡当年写这首诗时，是乙卯年正月。算了算，当年应该是1075年。九百年后的一天，1975年，我诞生了，也是乙卯年，也生在正月。（注：华人农历，每60年为一轮。如今年是辛卯年，60年后也是辛卯年）

除了这个引起我注意的巧合外，就是它的内容，字字痛彻心扉。这是一首苏东坡所写的悼亡词。作者结合自己十年来政治生涯中的不幸遭遇和无限感慨，形象地反映出对亡妻永难忘怀的真挚情感和深沉的忆念。
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你走了，我时时刻刻都在想你。
有话说，但也还是无语问苍天。
如果有一天我们相见了，你应该认不得我了吧！
因为那时的我也该老了，白发苍苍的老头了吧！
是夜，梦回当年，如梦初醒，见你正在梳发，化妆。
几回，伤心欲绝，无言以对，唯我还在心酸，流泪。
每年的那一天，在你的世界里，月亮会是明亮的。
每天的每一秒，在我的世界里，思念会是永恒的。

Carefree Childhood:)

I've always liked music and envy those with good vocals and can sing really well. I know where I stand in this category. I cannot sing for nuts. And in those days when I was growing up, learning music was a luxury which my family couldn't afford. My mum did let me learn to draw when I was young. I guess she might have thought that, that's the next best thing she could do for me; to at least try to develop the "artistic" side of me (think the simple reason was that learning to draw in the community centre was cheap back then). But then again, it was money down the drain as I still cannot draw for nuts.

So I can't sing, I can't draw..sad right? And I was poor...so so sad right? And so how to satisfy my love for music? No money to buy cassette tapes, so how? Go rent lor. Rent cassette tapes? Where?! Unheard of now right?

Haha, cos in my era, each library had an audio/visual section, where you could rent cassette tapes to listen to, in one of those cubicles as well as shows to watch in the form of video tapes. I used to like to listen to classical music (why? anything wrong with that?) and watch movies, action packed movies such as "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade", "Rocky","Godfather" etc. But interestingly, my all-time favourite then was "The Sound of Music"! Haha shocked right? I have lost count of how many times I have watched this show.

"Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens, bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens. Brown paper packages, tied up with strings, these are a few of my favourite things"

"I am sixteen going on seventeen...."

"Doe a deer a female deer, ray a drop of golden sun, me a name I call myself, far a long long way to run. Sew a needle pulling thread. La a note to follow so. Tea, a drink with jam and bread, that will bring us back to do (oh oh oh). Do re mi fa so la tee.."

And so I used to go to Queenstown Library a lot, during my primary school days. I was quite independent back then and would go to the library by myself. Now that I recall, my dad and mum had never accompanied me to the library! (Dad was busy for obvious reasons and mum had to stay at home to sew to earn extra bucks)

I spent most of my free time in that old double storey building. Boring childhood, you might say. But to me, some of my happiest childhood days were spent there. I could borrow my favourite books, books on war/history, the Nancy Drew, Hardy Boys series. Books by Enid Blyton, Roald Dahl etc. I could listen to my favourite music and I could watch my favourite movies.

On top of that, especially on weekends, Mum would give me extra pocket money to buy snacks or treats for myself from shops around the library. (I guess she was glad that I was going to the library instead of wilding my time away playing at the void deck with kids from the neighbourhood). I still remember that one of my favourite snacks was this chicken burger from a confectionary near the library.

Life was simple but very fulfilling back then, when policeman was just starting to wear long pants, when we were still sucking "ice tube"/ "冰包” , when we were playing block catching and when we were using student bus stamps which allowed unlimited bus rides around Singapore.

Looking back, though the distance from my home in West Coast to Queenstown was quite far apart, I always enjoyed the bus rides to and back from the library; especially on my way back home, happily chomping away on my favourite chicken burger.. life was really really simple and carefree back then:)

梦醒了

又听到了一首很好听的歌。。《梦醒了》。

听到这段，我笑了，想起你的微笑：
我想起你描述梦想天堂的样子,
手指着远方画出一栋一栋房子,
你傻笑的表情又那么诚实,
所有的信任是从那一刻开始。

听到这段，我。。神伤。。：
你给我一个到那边天空的地址,
只因为太高摔得我血流不止,
带着伤口回到当初背叛的城市,
唯一收容我的却是自己的影子

听到这段，我多么希望我有选择：
想跟着你一辈子,
至少这样的世界没有现实,
想赖着你一辈子,
做你感情里最后一个天使.
如果梦醒时还在一起,
请容许我们相依为命,
绚烂也许一时,
平淡走完一世

听到这段，我想对你说，“如果你这样问我的话，我的答案是。。。（你知道的）”：
就怕梦醒时已分两地,
谁也挽不回这场分离,
爱恨可以不分,
责任可以不问,
天亮了我还是不是你的女人.

我多么希望我能从这恶梦醒来，再看看你甜睡的样子。

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《梦醒了》 － 王菲版本

我想起你描述梦想天堂的样子,
手指着远方画出一栋一栋房子,
你傻笑的表情又那么诚实,
所有的信任是从那一刻开始,
你给我一个到那边天空的地址,
只因为太高摔得我血流不止,
带着伤口回到当初背叛的城市,
唯一收容我的却是自己的影子,
想跟着你一辈子,
至少这样的世界没有现实,
想赖着你一辈子,
做你感情里最后一个天使.
如果梦醒时还在一起,
请容许我们相依为命,
绚烂也许一时,
平淡走完一世,
是我选择你这样的男子,
就怕梦醒时已分两地,
谁也挽不回这场分离,
爱恨可以不分,
责任可以不问,
天亮了我还是不是你的女人.

Ocean Deep

Nothing beats a long quiet drive in my most beloved car; one that I am proud of, one that I worked really hard for.

And once in a while, the radio will play a beautiful song or 2 to surprise you. iPhone Soundhound application is on hand to recognise the song and voila.. here you are... Ocean Deep:)

Oh just realised that the lyrics is quite sad...
"Love can't you see I'm alone
Can't you give this fool a chance
A little love is all I ask - a little kindness
In the night
Please don't leave me behind
No - don't tell me love is blind
A little love is all I ask and that is all"

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Ocean Deep by Cliff Richard

Love can't you see I'm alone
Can't you give this fool a chance
A little love is all I ask - a little kindness
In the night
Please don't leave me behind
No - don't tell me love is blind
A little love is all I ask and that is all

oh Love i've been searching so long
I've been searching high'n'low
A little love is all I ask - a little sadness
When you're gone
Maybe you need a friend
Only please don't let's pretend
A little love is all I ask and that is all

I wanna spread my wings - but I just can't fly
As a string of pearls and pretty girls go sailing by

Ocean Deep - I'm so afraid to show my feelings
I have sailed a million ceilings - in my -
Solitary Room
Ocean Deep - will I ever find a lover
Maybe she has found another
And as I cry myself to sleep
I know this love of mine I'll keep - Ocean Deep

Love can't you hear when I call
Can't you hear a word I say
A little love is all I ask
a little feeling When we touch
Why am I still alone?
I've got a heart without a home
A little love is all I ask - and that is all

I wanna spread my wings - but I just can't fly
As a string of pearls and pretty girls go sailing by

Ocean Deep - I'm so afraid to show my feelings
I have sailed a million ceilings - in my -
Solitary Room
Ocean Deep - will I ever find a lover
Maybe she has found another
And as I cry myself to sleep
I know this love of mine I'll keep - Ocean Deep

I'm so lonely lonely lonely...
maybe..

A Man's Requirements

Remember this beautiful poem "A Man's Requirements" by Elizabeth Barrett Browning? My very impression of this poem is that it must have been written by a man, but later realized that it was written by a woman... what an irony. Pardon me for not making the effort to read, understand and find out more about this poem.

Until one day.. I showed it to one of my friends who with the slightest ease, enlightened me and pointed out to me the "twist" and sarcasm presented in the very last stanza.

Always respect those who enjoy, appreciate and understand good poems.. may I present this poem to all who appreciates it:)

Saw this analysis posted by someone in the Internet: The ironic wit evident in the final stanza cannot just be dismissed, without any discussion whatsoever. It is the point of the poem. The love described is certainly beautiful but only made more effective by the sarcastic, playfully scornful comment in the final four lines.

A Man's Requirements
By Elizabeth Barrett Browning

I
Love me Sweet, with all thou art,
Feeling, thinking, seeing;
Love me in the lightest part,
Love me in full being.

II
Love me with thine open youth
In its frank surrender;
With the vowing of thy mouth,
With its silence tender.

III
Love me with thine azure eyes,
Made for earnest grantings;
Taking colour from the skies,
Can Heaven's truth be wanting?

IV
Love me with their lids, that fall
Snow-like at first meeting;
Love me with thine heart, that all
Neighbours then see beating.

V
Love me with thine hand stretched out
Freely -- open-minded:
Love me with thy loitering foot, --
Hearing one behind it.

VI
Love me with thy voice, that turns
Sudden faint above me;
Love me with thy blush that burns
When I murmur 'Love me!'

VII
Love me with thy thinking soul,
Break it to love-sighing;
Love me with thy thoughts that roll
On through living -- dying.

VIII
Love me in thy gorgeous airs,
When the world has crowned thee;
Love me, kneeling at thy prayers,
With the angels round thee.

IX
Love me pure, as muses do,
Up the woodlands shady:
Love me gaily, fast and true,
As a winsome lady.

X
Through all hopes that keep us brave,
Farther off or nigher,
Love me for the house and grave,
And for something higher.

XI
Thus, if thou wilt prove me, Dear,
Woman's love no fable,
I will love thee -- half a year --
As a man is able.

退一步天高地阔

今天同事让我看了以下这段：
≪须交有道之人，莫结无义之友。饮清静之茶，莫贪花色之酒。开方便之门，闲是非之口。静坐常思己过，闲谈莫论人非，能受苦乃为志士，肯吃亏不是痴人，敬君子方显有德，怕小人不算无能，退一步天高地阔，让三分心平气和，欲进步需思退步，若着手先虑放手，如得意不宜重往，凡做事应有余步。≫

我感触良多。简单的处事之道，应当时时提醒自己，常常自律己言与行。

知其不可为而为之

不知不可为而为之，愚人也；
知其不可为而不为，贤人也；
知其不可为而为之，圣人也。

一个人不知道一件事该不该做，而糊里糊涂地做了，是愚人。
一个人知道一件事是不该做的，而就不去做那件事，是贤人。
一个人明知道一件事是不该做的，但必须做而去做，是圣人。

我乃愚人，贤人也。
圣人？不敢当哟！

浪子心声

不知几时才能真正悟到“命里有时终需有，命里无时莫强求”的道理。

Sundays.. never the same again

Really miss those sundays when we go to the supermarket in the afternoon to buy ingredients for our dinner. Spending a few hours preparing dinner on a lazy sunday is simple fun and joy...Lost the passion for it now but hope to rekindle it one day...

When it comes to cooking, the most important ingredient is "the heart" to cook for your loved ones.. then whatever you cook will taste good no matter what:)

And I always remember every single meal that you'd cooked for me. This is one of them "爱心chicken porridge ” （you cooked it the way that I'd taught you, constantly stirring it with love) , "Chai Po Egg" and "Braised pork with onion and potatoes".


And your simple and super yummy salad:


And the most memorable meal that you'd cooked for me was when I visited you in Sydney while you were studying there. I had just touched down from Singapore and was very cold and hungry, You cooked a bowl of tomyum instant noodles for me. It is still the best tomyum noodles that I've eaten in my entire life... cos it warmed my heart instantly.

你快乐所以我快乐

你快乐所以我快乐

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王菲《你快乐所以我快乐》

你眉头开了
所以我笑了
你眼睛红了
我的天灰了
啊 天晓得既然说
你快乐于是我快乐
玫瑰都开了
我还想怎么呢
求之不得求不得
天造地设一样的难得
喜怒和哀乐
有我来重蹈你覆辙
你头发湿了
所以我热了
你觉得累了
所以我睡了
天晓得
天晓得既然说
你快乐于是我快乐
玫瑰都开了
我还想怎么呢
求之不得求不得
天造地设一样的难得
喜怒和哀乐
有我来重蹈你覆辙
啦~~~~~~~
不管为什么心安理得
天晓得既然说
你快乐于是我快乐
玫瑰都开了
我还想怎么呢
求之不得求不得
天造地设一样的难得
喜怒和哀乐
有我来重蹈你覆辙

写一首歌

昨夜，驾车回家途中，听到了这首旋律幽美的歌。

想把所有烦恼都忘掉做不做得到

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《写一首歌》顺子

月亮在你的眼睛太阳在我心
现在我唱这首歌 ohh 只为你
想把所有烦恼都忘掉做不做得到
你明白我心在燃烧因为你因为你
oh 为你

你心中的话我全都想听能不能相信
所有的梦里全都是你会不会停息
和你一起是否不会再放弃你的心里有没有秘密
我分不清不要在意只想为想为你写一首歌
写一首歌都是你 ooh
月亮在你的眼睛太阳在我心
现在我唱这首歌 oh 只为你
想把所有烦恼都忘掉做不做得到
你明白我心在燃烧因为你因为你
为你为你 ooh

oh, love's in the air it's everywhere
everyone can see everyone can feel
that love's in the air
it doesn't matter where
everyone agrees love is all we need

when the moon falls in your eyes
i know the sun has set
the fire still burns within me
since the day we met
i know my heaven would be so complete
you could make it real
i won't let this chance go by i can see,
i can feel you
when the moon falls in your eyes
i know the sun has set
the fire still burns within me, within me

月亮在你的眼睛太阳在我的心
现在我唱这首歌只为你