Tuesday, March 31, 2009

上 癮


小學一年級就喝咖啡,為了上課時可以精神八百,我和弟弟就順應父母的意思,每天早餐時順道喝一點黑咖啡(父母也說過睡前喝點酒會安睡得更好,真的沒有聼過有父母會教子女喝咖啡和酒!),當時覺得咖啡實在難喝,加上喝了之後總是心跳得厲害,四年級左右就告訴媽不要再喝了。

近年時有胃痛,有人說咖啡傷脾胃,所以沒想過要喝。

以往總是誓神劈願:「我不喜歡喝咖啡,因爲咖啡難喝,我只喜歡喝酒和水,因為酒能鬆弛神經,微醉的感覺飄飄然,而我又喜歡醉生夢死,後者是身體必須......」之類的狗屁道理,不知何故,今年年初某一天吃午餐的時候,突然想喝,隨便點了焦糖咖啡,然後竟然開始想喝咖啡起來。嫌普通黑咖啡或拿鐵太單調,便到咖啡專門店,嘗試朱古力咖啡、櫻桃咖啡、薑味咖啡等各種味道的咖啡,開始明白呆在那裏的樂趣。

如果喝酒是迷糊地醉,喝咖啡就是清醒地醉,因爲在神智清醒的情況下,明知道喝了咖啡後會心跳得厲害和有可能胃痛,還是想喝,喝完以後,清楚感受到心跳和接踵而來的胃痛,有點後悔,還是上了癮,猶如明知不該為而為之,比酒亂性更可怕。

上星期天,喝著冰凍的碎朱古力咖啡的時候,我才發現喝咖啡的感覺和見到您的感覺一樣,同樣心跳得厲害,同樣有點明知不該為而為之!

More Oscar Wilde's


Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.

We teach people how to remember, we never teach them how to grow.

Illusion is the first of all pleasures.

The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray, and the advantage of science is that it is not emotional.

The only charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception necessary for both parties.

A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.

The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.

Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our intellects.

Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success.

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship; and it is by far the best ending for one.

There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.

Sometimes it takes courage to give into temptation.

The proper basis for marriage is a mutual misunderstanding.

My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's.


Saturday, March 28, 2009

Genie 2.0



I feel like I've been locked up tight
For a century of lonely nights
Waiting... Waiting for someone
You're licking your lips and blowing kisses my way
But that don't mean I'm gonna give it away
Baby Oh baby)

If you wanna be with me
Baby there's a price to pay
I'm a genie in a bottle
You gotta rub me the right way

The music's playing and the light's down low
Just one more dance and then we're good to go
Waiting... Waiting for someone
My Hormones are racing at the speed of light
But that don't mean its gotta be tonight
Baby oh Baby

If you wanna be with me
Baby there's a price to pay
I'm a genie in a bottle
You gotta rub me the right way
If you wanna be with me
I can make your wish come true
You gotta make a big impression
Gonna like what you do
Gonna like what you do
Gonna like what you do
I'm a genie in a bottle baby
I'm a genie in a bottle baby
Come, come, come on and let me out
Come, come, come on and let me out
Come, come, come on and let me out
Come, come, come on and let me out

If you wanna be with me
Baby there's a price to pay
I'm a genie in a bottle
You gotta rub me the right way
If you wanna be with me
I can make your wish come true
You gotta make a big impression
Gonna like what you do
I'm a genie in a bottle baby

I'm a genie in a bottle baby
Come, come, come on and let me out
Come, come, come on and let me out
Come, come, come on and let me out
Come, come, come on and let me out
Come, come, come on and let me out
Come, come, come on and let me out.

Thursday, March 26, 2009

The Ghost - Sara Teasdale

I WENT back to the clanging city,
I went back where my old loves stayed,
But my heart was full of my new love's glory,
My eyes were laughing and unafraid.

I met one who had loved me madly
And told his love for all to hear --
But we talked of a thousand things together,
The past was buried too deep to fear.


I met the other, whose love was given
With never a kiss and scarcely a word --
Oh, it was then the terror took me
Of words unuttered that breathed and stirred.


Oh, love that lives its life with laughter
Or love that lives its life with tears
Can die -- but love that is never spoken
Goes like a ghost through the winding years. . . .


I went back to the clanging city,
I went back where my old loves stayed,
My heart was full of my new love's glory, --
But my eyes were suddenly afraid.


LIFE


生命 - 候文詠


我和一位朋友傾談,他說雖然有兩份工作,而每月的收入卻非常低,但他已很高興了。

我很奇怪他還可以那麼開心,因為他的收入微薄,要節衣縮食才可以供養他年邁的父母、岳父母,太太,兩個女兒,還有一般家庭的各項開支。

他解釋說,那是因為數年前他在印度目睹一件事件的啟發。

當時他因為一次重大的挫折、心情低落,所以到印度散心。他說他親眼看到一個印度婦人,用刀將她的兒子的右手切下來。那婦人無助的眼神,以及四歲稚童痛苦的呻吟,至今仍令他心頭作痛難以釋懷。

你可能會問:為什麼那母親要這樣做?是否她的小孩太頑皮,或是他的手受到感染? 都不是,原來只是為了行乞!那絕望的母親特意把孩子弄成傷殘,只是為了使他可以在街上行乞。

我的朋友嚇呆了,他把他吃到一半的麵包放下,隨即有五六個小孩湧至,爭食這片佈滿沙石的麵包,就如面對飢餓時的自然反應。

他對這情景很吃驚,他要導遊開車把他送到最近的麵包店,他去到其中兩家,把所有的麵包都買下來,麵包店的老闆很愕然,不過還是願意把所有都賣給他。他花了不足一百元,就買到約四百塊麵包(即每塊少於 25仙),又用了一百元買一些日用品。

於是,他坐在一部載滿麵包的貨車往街上去,當他分發麵包和日用品給那些大部份是傷殘的兒童時,他們都報以歡喜和鞠躬,就是這樣,他在生命中第一次想到人們怎麼可以為一片價值不足25仙的麵包而那麼感動。

他開始對自己說,他是多麼的幸運:他有個完整的身軀,有一份工作,有個家庭,有機會抱怨食品的好與壞,有機會穿衣服,有機會擁有很多這些人沒有的東西。

現在,我開始想到和感受到:我的生命是否真的那麼差?也許吧?但想到這故事,我就覺得不是那麼慘。你呢?

或者下一次你覺得自己的生命很差的時候,想想那個因為行乞失去了一隻手的小孩吧!

『滿足感』不是來自去滿足於你想要的,而是能感受到:你所擁有的,已是那麼足夠。

Monday, March 23, 2009

The Interview with God







Provided by this Internet Marketing Stategies site.

Saturday, March 21, 2009

Believe

Magnet




部落格的一切都可以自由調配,包括上載時的日期時間(例如今天其實是2009年3月26日下午5:17),文字顔色,不喜歡的可以刪去,改頭換面。

人生無法那樣子:自由調配,時光倒流,刪去不喜歡的人和事,我們「要」學會接受,接受人生無常所以悲劇有時奇跡有時,接受因爲人自私所以朝三暮四,接受謀事在人成事在天,接受欲知後事如何,還看自己造化!

Friday, March 13, 2009

Warren Buffet.....2009 Words of Wisdom

We begin this New Year with dampened enthusiasm and dented optimism. Our happiness is diluted and our peace is threatened by the financial illness that has infected our families, organizations and nations. Everyone is desperate to find a remedy that will cure their financial illness and help them recover their financial health. They expect the financial experts to provide them with remedies, forgetting the fact that it is these experts who created this financial mess. Every new year, I adopt a couple of old maxims as my beacons to guide my future. This self-prescribed therapy has ensured that with each passing year, I grow wiser and not older. This year, I invite you to tap into the financial wisdom of our elders along with me, and become financially wiser.

Spending: If you buy things you don't need, you'll soon sell things you need.

Savings: Don't save what is left after spending; spend what is left after saving.

Hard work: All hard work brings profit; but mere talk leads only to poverty.

Laziness: A sleeping lobster is carried away by the water current.

Earnings: Never depend on a single source of income.

Borrowings: The borrower becomes the lender's slave.

Accounting: It's no use carrying an umbrella, if your shoes are leaking.

Auditing: Beware of little expenses; a small leak can sink a large ship.

Risk-taking: Never test the depth of the river with both feet.

Investment: Don't put all your eggs in one basket.

I'm certain that those who have already been practicing these principles remain financially healthy. I'm equally confident that those who resolve to start practicing these principles will quickly regain their financial health. Let us become wiser and lead a happy, healthy, prosperous and peaceful life.

~~ Warren Buffet

Stars






Anyone who ever held you
Would tell you the way I'm feeling
Anyone who ever wanted you
Would try to tell you what I feel inside
The only thing I ever wanted
Was the feeling that you ain't faking
The only one you ever thought about
Wait a minute can't you see that I

I wanna fall from the stars
Straight into your arms
I, I feel you
I hope you comprehend

For the man who tried to hurt you
He's explaining the way I'm feeling
For all the jealousy I caused you
States the reason why I'm trying to hide
As for all the things you taught me
It sends my future into clearer dimensions
You'll never know how much you hurt me
Stay a minute can't you see that I

I wanna fall from the stars
Straight into your arms
I, I feel you
I hope you comprehend

Too many hearts are broken
A lover's promise never came with a maybe
So many words are left unspoken
The silent voices are driving me crazy
As for all the pain you caused me
Making up could never be your intention
You'll never know how much you hurt me
Stay can't you see that I

I wanna fall from the stars
Straight into your arms
I, I feel you
I hope you comprehend

Wednesday, March 11, 2009

姓名算命






我的整體命格
一生靠自己,容易大起大落,女孩不適合全心於工作,易婚姻失敗。

我的個性分析
內在想法
*個性倔強,且自我意識非常強烈
*自信心強、個性不服輸,是個獨立自主的女孩子
*以自我為中心,不容易採信別人的想法或建議
*想法前衛有新意,喜歡追隨流行
*疑心病比較重,嫁人後喜歡碎碎唸

外在行動
*不按牌裡出牌,經常令人跌破眼鏡
*相當調皮、可愛,常常是團體中的開心果
*相當具有同情心,是個性情中人
*比較愛享受,非常善待自己
*疑心病有點重,對於親蜜的人更是懷疑東懷疑西


我的感情運
*是個很黏的情人,專情度很高,對於男友的依賴性也比較重
*一旦戀愛就非常投入,甚至已經把男友當成一輩子的對象
*無法忍受聚少離多的戀情,但在戀愛中又偏偏常碰到這種狀況
*戀愛過程中的付出,就好像欠了男友情債一樣,只付出不求回報
*婚後是個相夫教子的好妻子,喜歡跟老公出雙入對

我的工作運
事業企圖心強,可在短期間創造不可思議的局面,但不會守,訓練守本更為重要。

我的財運
錢來得快去得也快,短發只是近利,有財沒有庫,男性要娶到有庫的老婆來守,而女性若忙於工作會忘了丈夫的存在,影響婚姻。



你的整體命格
命運悲喜參半,身邊貴人很多,但也容易受到攻擊,定力佳才有好人生。

你的個性分析
內在想法
*想得比較多,簡單的事也常常想到很複雜

*頭腦不錯,求學時成績良好,很會做筆記
*個性主動、積極,比較會去配合他人
*對於不熟的人防禦心比較強
*看起來很好說話,但倔強起來比石頭還硬

外在行動
*急性子,遇到不滿的事情時就很容易衝動

*有挫折或低潮時,會變得非常消極,自我放棄及頹廢
*EQ比較差,讓人感覺像個善變的人
*熱心助人,遇朋友有難一定會伸出援手幫忙
*是個跟得上時代的人,會隨著時間環境的變化而改變自己

你的感情運
*對於感情比較被動,總認為看上的對象會喜歡自己,追求態度比較消極
*一旦有了女朋友,通常都是女友在照顧、寵愛自己
*對感情的奉獻、付出常常比對方還少,認為感情不是人生的重點
*一旦分手很快就能振作起來,會把重心放在工作上
*若遇到更好的女人主動追求自己,恐怕會招架不住

你的工作運
工作只是想要維持生計,對事業沒有太大的慾望,需要有貴人引導才能賺大錢。

你的財運
想要賺大錢,就得先找一個有才能的人來領導,財運也會爆發出來。

Sunday, March 08, 2009

以色事人

來自TVB周刊的王貽興專欄。

愛情標點

按按滑鼠就可以放大!

Thursday, March 05, 2009

Citations d'amours

Il y a des incidents d'une minute qui font plus qu'une cour d'une année.
Alexandre DUMAS Fils, La Dame aux camélias, chap. 11
There are minute-long incidents that do more than a year of flirtation.

Il me vit, il m'aima ; je le vis, je l'aimai.
Pierre DU RYER, Cléomédon
He saw me, he loved me; I saw him, I loved him.

J'aime bien mieux être malheureuse en vous aimant, que de ne vous avoir jamais vu.
GUILLERAGUES, Lettres de la Religieuse portugaise, troisième lettre
I much prefer being unhappy while loving you to never having seen you.

C'est un malheur de n'être point aimée ; mais c'est un affront de ne l'être plus.
Charles de Secondat, baron de MONTESQUIEU, Lettres persanes, Lettre III, Zachi à Usbek
It's sad not to be loved, but it's insulting to be loved no more.

L'homme est principalement une puissance d'action, la femme, une puissance de fascination.
Pierre Joseph PROUDHON, La Pornocratie ou les femmes dans les temps modernes, chap 2
Man is essentially the power of action, woman, the power of fascination.

L'on est bien faible quand on est amoureux.
Madame de LA FAYETTE, La Princesse de Montpensier
One is very weak when one is in love.

[...] La jalousie seule m'a fait sentir que j'étais amoureux.
Madame de LA FAYETTE, Zaïde, première partie
... It was only jealousy that made me feel like I was in love.

L'on peut aimer plus d'une fois, mais non pas la même personne.
Gaston, duc de LÉVIS, Réflexions, Sur l'amour et l'amitié
One can love more than once, but not the same person.

Mieux vaut la chasse en amour que la prise.
Étienne PASQUIER, Jeux poétiques
In love, the chase is better than the catch.

C'est à cause que tout doit finir que tout est si beau.
Charles-Ferdinand RAMUZ, Adieu à beaucoup de personnages (Les Cahiers vaudois)
It's because everything must end that everything is so beautiful.

Monday, March 02, 2009

故園風雪後 vs Brideshead Revisited




http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYgTjXR3-fY

重返這校園 疲倦眼裡更感疲倦
想起我 與你在雨天 結伴行 寒日仍是暖

紅磚這校園 回望四處 滿心凌亂
多感慨那美夢太短 破滅時 從未能預算

故園風雪後 這天我孤身又再走 這道牆這山丘
與當天的所有 難免已變陳舊
故園風雪後 我的愛一一被帶走
再回頭 你的手 已經不可擁有
再見青春時候 

黃昏滲著愁誰在這裡 說愛不殘舊
秋冬裡我暖著你手
雪上行 行動如木偶

1981年的經典電視劇Brideshead Revisited的中文名字也叫「故園風雪後」,所以林子祥的同名作品會令我想起這部電視劇,年輕的Jeremy Irons,還有劇中的淡淡哀愁。

其實歌曲和電視劇是頗爲配合的。

Winners of Valentine's Poetry Contest


THESE ARE ENTRIES TO A WASHINGTON POST COMPETITION
ASKING FOR A TWO-LINE RHYME
WITH THE MOST ROMANTIC FIRST LINE,
AND THE LEAST ROMANTIC SECOND LINE:

1. My darling, my lover, my beautiful wife: Marrying you has screwed up my life.

2. I see your face when I am dreaming. That's why I always wake up screaming.

3. Kind, intelligent, loving and hot; This describes everything you are not.

4. Love may be beautiful, love may be bliss, But I only slept with you 'cause I was pissed.

5. I thought that I could love no other that is until I met your brother.

6. Roses are red, violets are blue, sugar is sweet, and so are you. But the roses are wilting, the violets are dead, the sugar bowl's empty and so is your head.

7. I want to feel your sweet embrace; But don't take that paper bag off your face..

8. I love your smile, your face, and your eyes. Damn, I'm good at telling lies!

9. My love, you take my breath away. What have you stepped in to smell this way?

10. My feelings for you no words can tell, except for maybe 'Go to hell.'

11. What inspired this amorous rhyme? Two parts vodka, one part lime.