看圖知意 The Real Meaning of Words

Life is not waiting for the storm to pass......

it's about learning how to survive them

悲 痛 PAIN

愛 LOVE

別 離 DEPARTURE

憐 憫 COMPASSION

尊 敬 RESPECT

天 真 INNOCENCE

悲 傷 SORROW

悲痛、愛、別離、憐憫、尊敬、天真、悲傷，

人世間的情、愛、羈絆，

不捨不捨還需捨。

Song for You - Misia

http://www.megchan.com/lyrics/index.php?title=MISIA/Song_for_You

Song for you:)

至少還有你 - 林憶蓮

忽然之間 - 莫文蔚

忽然之間　天昏地暗　世界可以忽然什麼都沒有
我想起了你　再想到自己
我為什麼總在非常脆弱的時候　懷念你

我明白　太放不開你的愛　太熟悉你的關懷
分不開　想你算是安慰還是悲哀
而現在　就算時針都停擺　就算生命像塵埃
分不開　我們也許反而更相信愛

如果這天地　最終會消失
不想一路走來珍惜的回憶　沒有你

我明白　太放不開你的愛　太熟悉你的關懷
分不開　想你算是安慰還是悲哀
而現在　就算時針都停擺　就算生命像塵埃
分不開　我們也許反而更相信愛

The Missing Piece & the Big O - Shel Silverstein

Big O:

簡單之美，人生如是，愛情如是，都容納不了強求。

如果我不能是你的missing piece，我就變成 small O，陪你身邊一起轉動。

I Love You

I love you,
Not only for what you are,
But for what I am
When I am with you.
I love you,
Not only for what
You have made of yourself,
But for what
You are making of me.
I love you
For the part of me
That you bring out.

Roy Croft

Dedicated to my coffee. :)

二○○八年經典語錄

• 「酒，裝在瓶 像水，喝到肚 鬧鬼，說起話來走嘴，走起路來閃腿，半夜起來 找水，早上起來後悔，中午酒杯一端還是挺美。」

• 「你要不理我我就成包子了，而且還是天津最有名的……嘿嘿……」
  （注：天津最有名的包子是「狗不理包子」。）

• 「媽媽說，人最好不要錯過兩樣東西：最後一班回家的車和一個深愛你的人。」
  （注：要點是「媽媽說」。）

• 「學問之美，在於使人一頭霧水；詩歌之美，在於煽動男女出軌；女人之美，在 於蠢得無怨無悔；男人之美，在於說謊說得白日見鬼。」

• 「我能容忍身材是假的，臉是假的，胸是假的，臀是假的，但就是不容忍錢是假 的。」

• 「還能衝動，表示你還對生活有激情；總是衝動，表示你還不懂生活。」

• 「問世間情是何物，不過一物治一物……。」

• 「上帝使人滅亡，必先使其瘋狂；上帝使人瘋狂，必先使其買房。」

• 「問：你喜歡我哪一點？答：我喜歡你離我遠一點。」

• 「大師兄，你知道嗎？二師兄的肉現在比師父的都貴了。」
  （二師兄是豬八戒。）

• 「聽說女人如衣服，兄弟如手足。回想起來，我竟然七手八腳地裸奔了二十年。」

• 「小時候，我以為自己長大後可以拯救整個世界；長大後，才發現整個世界都拯 救不了我。」

• 「過錯是暫時的遺憾，錯過則是永遠的遺憾。」

• 「憶往昔，紅米飯，南瓜湯，老婆一個，孩子一幫；看今朝，白米飯，王八（水 魚）湯，小孩一個，老婆一幫。」

嘉菲貓的哲學

Milan Kundera's Quotations

"The brain appears to possess a special area which we might call poetic memory and which records everything that charms or touches us, that makes our lives beautiful ... Love begins with a metaphor. Which is to say, love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory."

"When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object."

"the only relationship that can make both partners happy is one in which sentimentality has no place and neither partner makes any claim on the life and freedom of the other. "

"Love is the longing for the half of ourselves we have lost."

"Perhaps all the questions we ask of love, to measure, test, probe, and save it, have the additional effect of cutting it short. Perhaps the reason we are unable to love is that we yearn to be loved, that is, we demand something (love) from our partner instead of delivering ourselves up to him demand-free and asking for nothing but his company."

"The heaviest of burdens crushes us, we sink beneath it, it pins us to the ground. But in love poetry of every age, the woman longs to be weighed down by the man's body.The heaviest of burdens is therefore simultaneously an image of life's most intense fulfillment. The heavier the burden, the closer our lives come to the earth, the more real and truthful they become. Conversely, the absolute absence of burden causes man to be lighter than air, to soar into heights, take leave of the earth and his earthly being, and become only half real, his movements as free as they are insignificant. What then shall we choose? Weight or lightness?"

"There are no small parts. Only small actors."

"People are always shouting they want to create a better future. It's not true. The future is an apathetic void of no interest to anyone. The past is full of life, eager to irritate us, provoke and insult us, tempt us to destroy or repaint it. The only reason people want to be masters of the future is to change the past."

"The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting."

"I imagine the feelings of two people meeting again after many years. In the past they spent some time together, and therefore they think they are linked by the same experience, the same recollections. The same recollections? That's where the misunderstanding starts: they don't have the same recollections; each of them retains two or three small scenes from the past, but each has his own; their recollections are not similar; they don't intersect; and even in terms of quantity they are no comparable: one person remembers the other more than he is remembered; first because memory capacity varies among individuals (an explanation that each of them would at least find acceptable), but also (and this is more painful to admit) because they don't hold the same importance for each other. When Irena saw Josef at the airport, she remembered every detail of their long-ago adventure; Josef remembered nothing. From the very first moment their encounter was based on an unjust and revolting inequality."

我看過的米蘭昆德拉的作品不多，只有1984年的「生命不能承受之輕」和2000年的Ignorance，兩者充滿哲理，呈現昆德拉的見地，發人深省，所以看一次不夠，每看一次會發現更多。

Baby I'm A Fool

How was I to know that this was always only just a little game to you?
All the time I felt you gave your heart I thought that I would do the same for you
Tell the truth I think I should have seen it coming from a mile away
When the words you say are
"Baby I'm a fool who thinks it's cool to fall in love"

If I gave a thought to fascination I would know it wasn't right to care
Logic doesn't seem to mind that I am fascinated by the love affair
Still my heart would benefit from a little tenderness from time to time but never mind
Cos baby I'm a fool who thinks it's cool to fall in love

Baby I should hold on just a moment and be sure it's not for vanity
Look me in the eye and tell me love is never based upon insanity
Even when my heart is beating hurry up the moment's fleeting
Kiss me now
Don't ask me how
Cos baby I'm a fool who thinks it's cool to fall
Baby I'm a fool who thinks it's cool to fall
And I would never tell if you became a fool and fell in love.

Morrie's Quotes

"There is no formula to relationships. They have to be negotiated in loving ways, with room for both parties, what they want and what they need, what they can do and what their life is like."

"The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in."

"It's not to late to... ask yourself if you really are the person you want to be, and if not, who you do want to be. "

"Forgive yourself before you die. Then forgive others."

"Once you learn how to die, you learn how to live."

"You closed your eyes. That was the difference. Sometimes you cannot believe what you see, you have to believe what you feel. And if you are ever going to have other people trust you, you must feel that you can trust them too-even when you are in the dark. Even when you're falling."

"As you grow old, you learn more. If you stayed at twenty-two, you'd always be as ignorant as you were at twenty-two. Aging is not just decay, you know. It's growth. It's more than the negative that you're going to die, its also the positive that you understand you're going to die, and that you live a better life because of it."

"Death ends a life, not a relationship."

"...if you're trying to show off for people at the top, forget it. They will look down on you anyhow. And if you're trying to show off for people at the bottom, forget it. They will only envy you. Status will get you nowhere. Only an open heart will allow you to float equally between everyone."

People are only mean when they're threatened, and that's what our culture does...And when you get threatened, you start looking out only for yourself. You start making money a god. It is all part of this culture."

Don't hang on too long, but don't let go too soon."

Detachment

"What I’m doing now is detaching myself from the experience."

Detaching yourself?

"Yes. Detaching yourself. And this is important - not just for someone like me, who is dying, but for someone like you, who is perfectly healthy. Learn to detach."
…

But wait, I said. Aren't you always talking about experiencing life? All the good emotions, all the bad ones?

"Yes."

Well, how can you do that if you're detached?"

"… detachment doesn' t mean you don't let the experience *penetrate* you. On the contrary, you let it penetrate you *fully*. That's how you are able to leave it.
…

Take any emotion - love for a woman, or grief for a loved one…. if you hold back on the emotions - if you don't allow yourself to go all the way through them - you can never get to being detached, you’re too busy being afraid. You’re afraid of the pain, you're afraid of the grief. You're afraid of the vulnerability that loving entails.

But by throwing yourself into these emotions, by allowing yourself to dive in, all the way, over your head even, you experience them fully and completely. You know what pain is. You know what love is. You know what grief is. … I have experienced that emotion. I recognize that emotion. Now I need to detach from that emotion for a moment."
…

"Same for loneliness: you let go, let the tears flow, feel it completely - but eventually be able to say, 'All right, that was my moment with loneliness. I'm not afraid of feeling lonely, but now I'm going to put that loneliness aside and know that there are other emotions in the world, and I’m going to experience them as well." - p.104

看Tuesday with Morrie猶如經歷好朋友的生離死別一樣，我剛好是在2000年11月6日，Rebecca逝世一周年當天看到有關Morrie在11月4日去世的章節，害我看畢該書就坐在床邊大哭一場，最印象深刻的一段是Detachment。

抽離前，須先全身投入，那才會無憾！

誰的圍牆

相信自己建了圍牆的朋友，認爲應該爬過來的人還沒有爬，對方連嘗試爬的意欲也沒有。

我說如果他不會爬過來，我大可以爬到自己建的圍牆上，站在上面看清楚那個在圍牆另一邊的人，到底是他不會爬？不能爬？還是根本不打算爬？

到底怎樣才算爬過了圍牆？那是誰的圍牆？誰該爬過圍牆？如果他值得但他不爬過來，我大可以爬過去喔，爬過自己建的圍牆，不是會比較容易嗎？

I've built a wall

not to block anyone out

but to see who

loves me enough

to climb over it.

Brucia La Terra - The Godfather

The moon is burning in the sky
And I am burning with love
The fire that is consumed
Like my heart

My soul crys
Painfully

I'm not at peace
What a terrible night

The time passes
But there is no dawn
There is no sunshine
If she doesn't return

My land is burning
And my heart is burning
What it thirsts for water
And I thirst for love
Who will I sing
My song to
If there is no one
Who shows herself
On the balcony

Just The Way You Are

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMSclJMMV0k

Don't go changing, to try and please me
You never let me down before
Don't imagine you're too familiar
And I don't see you anymore
I wouldn't leave you in times of trouble
We never could have come this far
I took the good times, I'll take the bad times
I'll take you just the way you are

Don't go trying some new fashion
Don't change the color of your hair
You always have my unspoken passion
Although I might not seem to care

I don't want clever conversation
I never want to work that hard
I just want someone that I can talk to
I want you just the way you are.

I need to know that you will always be
The same old someone that I knew
What will it take till you believe in me
The way that I believe in you.

I said I love you and that's forever
And this I promise from the heart
I could not love you any better
I love you just the way you are.

I COULD NOT LOVE YOU ANY BETTER. I LOVE YOU JUST THE WAY YOU ARE. XO :)

Chain Poem

Read Alone......

Especially the Poem

I believe what ever is in store for us will be for us.

Around the corner I have a friend,
In this great city that has no end,
Yet the days go by and weeks rush on,
Around the corner I have a friend,
In this great city that has no end,
Yet the days go by and weeks rush on,
And before I know it, a year is gone.
And I never see my old friends face,
For life is a swift and terrible race,
He knows I like him just as well,
As in the days when I rang his bell.
And he rang mine but we were younger then,
And now we are busy, tired men.
Tired of playing a foolish game,
Tired of trying to make a name.
'Tomorrow' I say! 'I will call on Jim
Just to show that I'm thinking of him.'
But tomorrow comes and tomorrow goes,
And distance between us grows and grows.
Around the corner, yet miles away,
'Here's a telegram sir,' 'Jim died today.'
And that's what we get and deserve in the end.
Around the corner, a vanished friend.

Remember to always say what you mean.
If you love someone, tell them.
Don't be afraid to express yourself.
Reach out and tell someone what they mean to you.
Because when you decide that it is the right time it might be too late.

Seize the day. Never have regrets.

And most importantly, stay close to your friends
and family, for they have helped
make you the person that you are today.
You must send this on in 3 hours after reading the letter to 10 other people besides me

If you do this, you will receive unbelievably good luck.

*NOTE*

the more people that you send this to,
the better luck you will have.

SMILE, even through your tears!!!!!

久沒聯絡的舊老闆傳來連鎖信裏面的連鎖詩，世上會否真的有人看了就有所感悟？還是待到事情無可挽回時才會明瞭？

笑著哭，哭著笑，哭笑本來就難以分割，當你賦予他人令你發笑的能力的同時，你亦賦予了他可以令你哭的本事。

有愛就有恨，或多或少，可愛的，本來就會可恨。

張愛玲說......

1. 通向男人心中的路是胃，通向女人心中的路是陰道。《色戒》

2. 一個女人，上了男人的當就該死；女人給當給男人上，那更是淫婦；如果一個女人想給當給男人上而失敗了，反而上了人家的當，那更是雙料的淫惡...

3. 男人憧憬着一個女人的身體的時候，就關心到她的靈魂， 自己騙自己說是愛上了她的靈魂．惟有佔領了她的身體之後， 他才能够忘記她的靈魂。《紅玫瑰與白玫瑰》

4. 也許每一個男子全都有過這樣的兩個女人，至少兩個。娶了红玫瑰，久而久之，红的變了墙上的一抹蚊子血，白的還是床前明月光；娶了白玫瑰，白的便是衣服上沾的一粒飯黏子，红的却是心口上一顆朱砂痣。《紅玫瑰與白玫瑰》

5. 男人徹底懂得一個女人之後，是不會愛她的。《封鎖》

6. 一些男人喜歡把女人教壞了，又喜歡去感化壞的女人，使她變爲好女人。

7. 一個男子真正動了感情的時候，他的愛較女人的愛偉大得多 。

8. 没有一個女子是因爲她的靈魂美麗而被愛的。

9. 對於大多數的女人，「愛」的意思就是「被愛」。

10. 不會吃醋的女人，多少有些變態。

11. 以美好的身體取悅於人，是世界上最古老的職業，也是極普遍的婦女職業，為了謀生而結婚的女人全可以歸在這一項下。這也無庸諱言－－有美的身體，以身體取悅人；有美的思想，以思想取悅人，其實也沒有多大分別。

12. 正經女人痛恨蕩婦，其實若有機會扮個妖婦的角色的話，沒有一個不躍躍欲試的。

13. 人生最大的幸福，是發現自己愛的人正好也愛着自己。

14. 諾言的「諾」字和誓言的「誓」字都是有口無心的。

15. 姘居不像夫妻關係的鄭重，但比高等調情更負責任，比嫖妓又是更人性的，走極端的人究竟不多，所以姘居在今日成了很普遍的現象。
16. 自我犧牲的母愛是美德，可是這種美德是我們的獸祖先遺傳下來的，我們的家畜也同樣具有的 ─ 我們似乎不能引以自豪。

17. 裝扮得很像樣的人，在像樣的地方出現，看見同類，也被看見，這就是社交。

18. 生命是一襲華美的袍，爬滿了蚤子。《天才夢》

19. 教書很難——又要做戯，又要做人。

20. 長的是苦難，短的是人生。

沒有讀過張愛玲的作品，只是覺得她的想法一針見血，所以記低那些跟我對胃口的。

http://www.douban.com/group/topic/4087137/

The Boulevard of Broken Dreams.

The Boulevard of Broken Dreams - Leslie Cheung.

I walk along the street of sorrow,
The boulevard of broken dreams.
Where gigolo and gigolette
Can take a kiss without regret
So they forget their broken dreams.

You laugh tonight and cry tomorrow,
When you behold your shattered dreams.
And gigolo and gigolette
Awake to find their eyes are wet
With tears that tell of broken dreams.

Here is where you’ll always find me,
Always walking up and down.
But I left my soul behind me
In an old cathedral town.

The joy you find here, you borrow,
You cannot keep it long, it seems.
But gigolo and gigolette
Still sing a song and dance along
The boulevard of broken dreams.

~interlude~

Here is where you’ll always find me,
Always walking up and down.
But I left my soul behind me
In an old cathedral town.

The joy you find here, you borrow,
You cannot keep it long, it seems.
But gigolo and gigolette
Still sing a song and dance along
The boulevard of broken dreams.

House of Dreams - Sara Teasdale

YOU took my empty dreams
And filled them every one
With tenderness and nobleness,
April and the sun.
The old empty dreams
Where my thoughts would throng
Are far too full of happiness
To even hold a song.
Oh, the empty dreams were dim
And the empty dreams were wide,
They were sweet and shadowy houses
Where my thoughts could hide.
But you took my dreams away
And you made them all come true --
My thoughts have no place now to play,
And nothing now to do.

大概我的前生是Sara Teasdale，她描繪了我想說的、我無法說的，

所以我才會在這裡貼了五首她的詩，

如果今生歷史重演，我應該可以從她的詩中找到眉目，

提醒自己好自爲之。

Jun@Concert 2

Citations

[...]Je voyais la réalité, qui est le plus puissant des hallucinogènes.
Émile AJAR, Pseudo (Mercure de France)
...I saw reality, which is the most powerful hallucinogen.

Ce que l'homme redoute le plus, c'est ce qui lui convient.
Henri Frédéric AMIEL, Journal intime (U.G.E.-Plon) 31 mars 1857
What man fears most is what suits him.

Je me presse de rire de tout, de peur d'être obligé d'en pleurer.
Pierre Augustin Caron de BEAUMARCHAIS, Le Barbier de Séville, acte I, scène 2
I push myself to laugh about everything for fear of having to cry about it.

Je suis comme ça. Ou j'oublie tout de suite ou je n'oublie jamais.
Samuel BECKETT, En attendant Godot
I'm like that. Either I forget right away or I never forget.

On perd ce que l'on tient quand on veut gagner tout.
Jean-Pierre Claris de FLORIAN, Fables : Le Chat et les rats
One loses what one has when one wants to get everything.

On appelle gens de bien ceux qui font comme les autres.
Anatole FRANCE, Crainquebille, Putois, Riquet et plusieurs autres récits profitables, Crainquebille
We call people good when they act like everyone else.

Il faut vivre comme on pense, sans quoi l'on finira par penser comme on a vécu.
Paul BOURGET, Le Démon de midi
You have to live the way you think, otherwise you'll end up thinking the way you lived.

Si je n'espère rien, rien ne me fera craindre.
Philippe DESPORTES, Amours d'Hippolyte, XLIII
If I hope for nothing, nothing will scare me.

Une bonne confession vaut mieux qu'une mauvaise excuse.
Jean HAMON, Lettre à un ami
A good confession is better than a bad excuse.

Je ne cherche pas, je trouve.
Pablo PICASSO, Étude de femme
I don't seek, I find.

Quiconque rougit est déjà coupable ; la vraie innocence n'a honte de rien.
Jean-Jacques ROUSSEAU, Du contrat social, livre IV
Whoever blushes is guilty - true innocence is not ashamed of anything.

Mieux vaut faire, et se repentir,
Que se repentir, et rien faire.
Mellin de SAINT-GELAIS, Quatrains, LXXVIII
It's better to do something, and regret it,
Than to regret, and do nothing.

Le prix d'Amour, c'est seulement Amour. [...] Il faut aimer si l'on veut être aimé.
Honoré d'URFÉ, La Sylvanire ou la Morte-vive, fable bocagère, acte I, scène I
The price of Love, is simply Love.... One must love if one wants to be loved.

Citaion 是法語 quotation的意思，昨天整理部落格的時候，發現自己收集了很多名人語錄，收集的原因是因爲共鳴。

例如以上所說的現實是最大的幻覺，基於越抗拒的事越會發生，人類最恐懼的其實最適合他自己，因爲我一是立即忘記或無法忘記，所以逼自己去一笑置之，就是怕自己流淚不止，如果渴求越多失去越多，沒有期望就應該沒有失望，我們認爲一個人好人是因爲他跟其他人一樣，起碼這個好人不會有畢加索的「我不尋找我發現」的豪氣，說的時候更是理直氣壯不會臉紅，寧願事後後悔也不要因爲沒有做過而後悔，因爲不去付諸實行就只是空想，正如被愛的代價就是先付出愛，發生甚麽事都坦白從寬，抗拒從嚴，懺悔比諸多解釋好等等。

對酒當歌，人生幾何？把握面對逃避錯過一念間，兩者需要同樣力氣和勇氣，把握機會面對，結果如何看做化，逃避而錯過，素願未償，只會陰魂不散，令人無法安寧，待陰氣太重構成補償心理，人最終可能會不顧一切，背城借一，或壯烈犧牲，十八年後一條好漢，或打入十八層地獄，永不超生。

如果寧為玉碎不為瓦全的英雄氣短， 不及寧為玉碎不為瓦全的兒女情長，正好解釋了何以英雄難過美人關，情教人生死相許，再大言不慚地補充一句為愛所做的一切超越好與壞，我是個任性的好孩子，我不相信夢是假的，但我更不相信死無報應，好孩子會對自己的良心負責。

沒有良心的人天下間多的是，我的任性開始討厭我的良心！

But There Are Dreams That Cannot Be

I Dreamed A Dream

There was a time when men were kind,
And their voices were soft,
And their words inviting.
There was a time when love was blind,
And the world was a song,
And the song was exciting.
There was a time when it all went wrong...

I dreamed a dream in time gone by,
When hope was high and life, worth living.
I dreamed that love would never die,
I dreamed that God would be forgiving.
Then I was young and unafraid,
And dreams were made and used and wasted.
There was no ransom to be paid,
No song unsung, no wine, untasted.

But the tigers come at night,
With their voices soft as thunder,
As they tear your hope apart,
And they turn your dream to shame.

He slept a summer by my side,
He filled my days with endless wonder...
He took my childhood in his stride,
But he was gone when autumn came!

And still I dream he'll come to me,
That we will live the years together,
But there are dreams that cannot be,
And there are storms we cannot weather!

I had a dream my life would be
So different from this hell I'm living,
So different now from what it seemed...
Now life has killed the dream I dreamed...


憑這首音樂劇 Les Miserables（悲慘世界）裏面描寫夢想破滅的歌，47嵗的Susan Boyle夢想成真，紅了人紅了歌 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lp0IWv8QZY ，Susan唱功不錯，但她欠缺Fantine的元素，所以她不可能是Fantine，因爲劇中後者只有20嵗，癡心錯附，為撫養女兒而當娼，這歌就是她講述自己的夢想破滅，找到該劇十周年紀念演唱會，由飾演Fantine的Ruthie Henshal演唱的版本。http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yt-IBJpEMzA

所謂四大音樂劇裏，我看過跟不上時代步伐的Miss Saigon（西貢小姐），科幻的Cats（貓），尚欠Les Miserables （悲慘世界）和 The Phantom of the Opera (魅影歌聲)。俗稱Les Mis的悲慘世界，由雨果原著改編，劇如其名，多年前已從收音機領教過其中一首歌Empty Chairs and Empty Tables 的感染力，因爲太悲慘，所以想看不敢看，早年在香港公演時錯過了，怕到了有機會看，會不敢看。

But there are dreams that cannot be，到底 can be還是 cannot be，到夢醒時分就會知道，Fantine的夢，又是一椿明知不該為而為之。

Friedrich Nietzsche 's Quotation

1. For men are not equal: thus speaks justice.

2. What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.

3. Disgust with dirt can be so great that it prevents us from cleaning ourselves - from "justifying" ourselves.

4. "Every man has his price." This is not true. But for every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing. To win over certain people to something, it is only necessary to give it a gloss of love of humanity, nobility, gentleness, self-sacrifice - and there is nothing you cannot get them to swallow. To their souls, these are the icing, the tidbit; other kinds of souls have others.

5. No price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.

6. Faith: not *wanting* to know what is true.

7. Hope in reality is the worst of all evils, because it prolongs the torments of man.

8. Whatever does not destroy me makes me stronger.

9. There are no facts, only interpretations.

10. Battle not with monsters, lest ye become a monster, and if you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.

何許人？尼采是也！

My Redeemer Lives –Dick & Rick Hoyt

Sung by NICOLE C. MULLEN

Who taught the sun where to stand in the morning?
and Who told the ocean you can only come this far?
and Who showed the moon where to hide 'til evening?
Whose words alone can catch a falling star?

Well I know my Redeemer lives
I know my Redeemer lives:
All of creation testifies
This life within me cry
I know my Redeemer lives, yeah.

The very same God that spins things in orbit
runs to the weary, the worn and the weak
And the same gentle hands that hold me when I'm broken
They conquered death to bring me victory

Now I know my Redeemer lives
I know my Redeemer lives
Let all creation testify
Let this life within we cry
I know my Redeemer, He lives
To take away my shame
And He lives forever, I'll proclaim

That the payment for my sin
Was the precious life He gave
But now He's alive and
There's an empty grave.

And I know my Redeemer lives
I know my Redeemer lives
Let all creation testify
Let this life within me cry
I know my Redeemer,

I know my Redeemer
I know my Redeemer lives
I know my Redeemer lives
I know that I know that I know that I know that I know my redeemer lives
Because He lives I can face tomorrow
I Know I know
He lives He lives yeah, yeah I spoke with him this morning
He lives He lives, the tomb is empty,
He lives I gotta tell everybody

有一天，兒子問爸爸：「爸爸你和我ㄧ起去跑馬拉松，好嗎？」
爸爸說好。於是他們一起跑完了這第一場的馬拉松
第二次，兒子又問爸爸：「爸爸你和我ㄧ起去跑馬拉松，好嗎？」
爸爸又說好。
有一天，兒子問爸爸：「爸爸和我ㄧ起去參加鐵人競賽，好嗎？」
鐵人競賽是最困難的比賽，必須游泳 四公里 、腳踏車 180公里、跑步 42公里。
爸爸說好，我們去參加。

Love - Swami Vivekananda

http://www.utdallas.edu/~ramakrishnan/Swami_Vivekananda.htm

I once had a friend who grew to be very close to me. Once when we were sitting at the edge of a swimming pool, she filled the palm of her hand with some water and held it before me, and said this: "You see this water carefully contained on my hand? It symbolizes Love."

This was how I saw it: "As long as you keep your hand caringly open and allow it to remain there, it will always be there. However, if you attempt to close your fingers round it and try to posses it, it will spill through the first crack it finds.

This is the greatest mistake that people do when they meet love...they try to posses it, they demand, they expect... and just like the water spilling out of your hand, love will retrieve from you .

For love is meant to be free, you cannot change its nature. If there are people you love, allow them to be free beings.

Give and don't expect.
Advise, but don't order.
Ask, but never demand.

It might sound simple, but it is a lesson that may take a lifetime to truly practice. It is the secret to true love. To truly practice it, you must sincerely feel no expectations from those who you love, and yet an unconditional caring."

談婚論嫁 - 林燕妮

來自2009年4月8日的明報。

明知是風車 - 黃貽興

Jacques Brel - Seasons in the sun ( Le moribond )

Adieu l'Émile je t'aimais bien
Adieu l'Émile je t'aimais bien, tu sais
On a chanté les mêmes vins
On a chanté les mêmes filles
On a chanté les mêmes chagrins
Adieu l'Émile je vais mourir
C'est dur de mourir au printemps, tu sais
Mais j'pars aux fleurs la paix dans l'âme
Car vu qu't'es bon comme du pain blanc
Je sais qu'tu prendras soin d'ma femme
J'veux qu'on rie
J'veux qu'on danse
J'veux qu'on s'amuse comme des fous
J'veux qu'on rie
J'veux qu'on danse
Quand c'est qu'on m'mettra dans l'trou

Adieu Curé je t'aimais bien
Adieu Curé je t'aimais bien, tu sais
On n'était pas du même bord
On n'était pas du même chemin
Mais on cherchait le même port
Adieu Curé je vais mourir
C'est dur de mourir au printemps, tu sais
Mais j'pars aux fleurs la paix dans l'âme
Car vu que t'étais son confident
Je sais qu'tu prendras soin d'ma femme
J'veux qu'on rie
J'veux qu'on danse
J'veux qu'on s'amuse comme des fous
J'veux qu'on rie
J'veux qu'on danse
Quand c'est qu'on m'mettra dans l'trou

Adieu l'Antoine je t'aimais pas bien
Adieu l'Antoine je t'aimais pas bien, tu sais
J'en crève de crever aujourd'hui
Alors que toi tu es bien vivant
Et même plus solide que l'ennui
Adieu l'Antoine je vais mourir
C'est dur de mourir au printemps, tu sais
Mais j'pars aux fleurs la paix dans l'âme
Car vu que tu étais son amant
Je sais qu'tu prendras soin d'ma femme
J'veux qu'on rie
J'veux qu'on danse
J'veux qu'on s'amuse comme des fous
J'veux qu'on rie
J'veux qu'on danse
Quand c'est qu'on m'mettra dans l'trou

Adieu ma femme je t'aimais bien
Adieu ma femme je t'aimais bien, tu sais
Mais je prends l'train pour le bon Dieu
Je prends le train qui est avant l'tien
Mais on prend tous le train qu'on peut
Adieu ma femme, je vais mourir
C'est dur de mourir au printemps, tu sais
Mais j'pars aux fleurs les yeux fermés, ma femme
Car vu qu'j'les ai fermés souvent
Je sais qu'tu prendras soin d'mon âme
J'veux qu'on rie
J'veux qu'on danse
J'veux qu'on s'amuse comme des fous
J'veux qu'on rie
J'veux qu'on danse
Quand c'est qu'on m'mettra dans l'trou

Seasons in The Sun - Nirvana vs Westlife

Goodbye to you my trusted friend
We've known each other since we were nine or ten
Together we've climbed hills and trees
Learned of love and ABC's
Skinned our hearts and skinned our knees

Goodbye my friend it's hard to die
When all the birds are singing in the sky
Now that spring is in the air
Pretty girls are everywhere
Think of me and I'll be there

We had joy we had fun we had seasons in the sun
But the hills that we climbed were just seasons out of time

Goodbye Papa please pray for me
I was the black sheep of the family
You tried to teach me right from wrong
Too much wine and too much song
Wonder how I got along
Goodbye papa it's hard to die
When all the birds are singing in the sky
Now that the spring is in the air
Little children everywhere
When you see them I'll be there

We had joy we had fun we had seasons in the sun
But the wine and the song like the seasons have all gone
We had joy we had fun we had seasons in the sun
But the wine and the song like the seasons have all gone

Goodbye Michelle my little one
You gave me love and helped me find the sun
And every time that I was down
You would always come around
And get my feet back on the ground

Goodbye Michelle it's hard to die
When all the birds are singing in the sky
Now that the spring is in the air
With the flowers everywhere
I wish that we could both be there

We had joy we had fun we had seasons in the sun
But the hills that we climbed were just seasons out of time
We had joy we had fun we had seasons in the sun
But the wine and the song like the seasons have all gone
We had joy we had fun we had seasons in the sun
But the hills that we climbed were just seasons out of time
We had joy we had fun we had seasons in the sun
But the wine and the song like the seasons have all gone

Mae West's Witty 25!

http://mae-west.org/old/

1. A woman in love can't be reasonable - or she probably wouldn't be in love.

2. All discarded lovers should be given a second chance, but with somebody else.
3. Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly.

4. Don't cry for a man who's left you--the next one may fall for your smile.

5. Don't keep a man guessing too long - he's sure to find the answer somewhere else.

6. Don't marry a man to reform him - that's what reform schools are for.

7. I believe that it's better to be looked over than it is to be overlooked.

8. I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.

9. I'm single because I was born that way.

10. I speak two languages, Body and English.

11. I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.

12. It isn't what I do, but how I do it. It isn't what I say, but how I say it, and how I look when I do it and say it.

13. Its not the men in your life that matters, its the life in your men.

14. It takes two to get one in trouble.

15. Ladies who play with fire must remember that smoke gets in their eyes.

16. Look your best - who said love is blind?

17. Love conquers all things except poverty and toothache.

18. Sex is an emotion in motion.

19. The score never interested me, only the game.

20. There are no good girls gone wrong - just bad girls found out.

21. Those who are easily shocked should be shocked more often.

22. Too much of a good thing can be wonderful.

23. When I'm good I'm very, very good, but when I'm bad, I'm better.

24. Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.

25. You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.

In MEMORIAM - 63 YEARS LATER

按一下滑鼠就看到漫畫的放大版本。

Jun@Camera

潤本來就是我見過的最美麗的動物，尤其是他似笑非笑的時候，

這個他可是了如指掌，所以才會在鏡頭前做出那樣的表情。

XOXO

Jun@Concert

:D

Jun@Studio

工作中的松本先生通常都一臉認真，生人勿近似的，

看見他錄音時竟然會笑出來有點不可思議，但很高興。

只要他可以做自己喜歡做的事，我都會高興。

:)

哀江南賦序 - 庾信

粵以戊辰之年，建亥之月，大盜移國，金陵瓦解。余乃竄身荒谷，公私塗炭。華陽奔命，有去無歸，中興道消，窮於甲戍。三日哭於都亭，三年囚於別館。天道周星，物極不反。傳燮之但悲身世，無處求生。袁安之每念王室，自然流涕。昔桓君山之志事，杜元凱之平生，並有著書，咸能自序。潘岳之文采，始述家風，陸機之辭賦，先陳世德。信年始二毛，即逢喪亂，藐是流離，至於暮齒。燕歌遠別，悲不自勝。楚老相逢，泣將何及。畏南山之雨，忽踐秦庭。讓東海之濱，遂餐周粟。下亭漂泊，皋橋羈旅。楚歌非取樂之方，魯酒無忘憂之用。追為此賦，聊以記言。不無危苦之詞，惟以悲哀為主。

日暮途遠，人間何世。將軍一去，大樹飄零。壯士不還，寒風蕭瑟。荊璧睨柱，受連城而見欺。載書橫階，捧珠盤而不定。鍾儀君子，入就南冠之囚。季孫行人，留守西河之館。申包胥之頓地，碎之以首。蔡威公之淚盡，加之以血。釣臺栘柳，非玉關之可望。華亭鶴唳，豈河橋之可聞。

孫策以天下為三分，眾纔一旅。項籍用江東之子弟，人惟八千。遂乃分裂山河，宰割天下。豈有百萬義師，一朝卷甲，芟荑斬伐，如草木焉。江淮無涯岸之阻，亭壁無藩蘺之固。頭會箕歛者，合從締交。鋤耰棘矜者，因利乘便。將非江表王氣，終於三百年乎。是知並吞六合，不免軹道之災。混一車書，無救平陽之禍。嗚呼山岳崩頹，既履危亡之運。春秋迭代，必有去故之悲。天意人事，可以悽愴傷心者矣。況復舟楫路窮，星漢非乘槎可上。風飆道阻，蓬萊無可到之期。窮者欲達其言，勞者須歌其事。陸士衡聞而撫掌，是所甘心。張平子見而陋之，固其宜矣。

大學預科時，我可以背誦整篇「哀江南賦序」！那時決定預科選修中文，老師說我在英文中學畢業，唸預科中文是不容易的事，我一意孤行，因爲我相信，身為中文老師的女兒，多少有點遺傳因子是唸得上中文的，加上老師引發我的讀書興趣，結果我是全班同學之中，最好成績的兩個人的其中一個。

賦序寫得很好，要背不難，只是描寫的是個殉國沒膽做反沒勇氣的窩囊廢的呻吟不斷，唉！
http://www.cognitiohk.edu.hk/newlit/Curriculum/Curriculum%20Adobe%20Files/YuXin_01.htm

怪你過份美麗

六年前哥哥今天啓程了，想起這首歌的歌詞，一針見血，不差毫釐，酷！

誰亦能呵一呵　一張嘴一副面容差不多
但別要選出色一個　耗盡氣力去拔河
懷內能躲一躲　力度與溫度　差不多
唯獨你雙手握得碎我　但我享受這折磨

可以說走　一早已拼命退後
想過放手　但未能夠

怪你過份美麗　如毒蛇狠狠箍緊彼此關係
彷彿心癮無窮無底　終於花光心計
信念也都枯萎

怪我過份著迷　換來愛過你那各樣後遺
一想起你如此精細　其他的一切
沒一種矜貴