between the dotted line

The soul finally finds rest 101211

2011-12-11T01:21:00.001+08:00

this moment

2011-10-02T20:03:00.001+08:00

Memories deep underFlowers but witherSigh, waiting will IHope must become biggerLove makes me strongerRain, pls wash away my tearsSew up the wounds pried openSay to me you have not forgotten mePaint, another canvasMake me one day Like dreams come true.

How I really love the sky

2011-08-06T09:33:00.001+08:00

Larkin Step (Ling Kai)

2011-05-09T14:27:00.002+08:00

God he turned and walked away
I couldn't think of what to say
When we plane engines fall through your roof
And I broke my knee while walking down the street that I live in
While no one was passing by

Chorus:
Life moves along and it trickles down the cheeks of every beautiful boy
Time comes along and it breaks every bone in your spine

Into the flight of night
Insomnia strikes and hopes alight
We set ourselves up to fall
So we stargaze and we write down all the things that we'll do
Fall into the river our pockets full of stones
Full of stones..

Chorus:
Life moves along and it trickles down the cheeks of every beautiful boy
Time comes along and it breaks every bone in your spine

Season of Life

2011-04-14T22:49:00.001+08:00

I see gaps.
I have grown much.
I think it's time.

My ideal pretty things in life

2011-03-14T00:08:00.000+08:00

One Day

2011-03-14T00:01:00.002+08:00

I will soar.

Us

2011-03-03T10:40:00.001+08:00

I wish that...

2011-02-20T09:42:00.001+08:00

Christian Biecher says the best and worst thing about architecture is Sustainability-- it forces us to look for new forms that will remain original in years to come and also face the challenges of climate conditions and social balance. It's also the worst thing because buildings tend to look the same all over the planet."

Chinese New Year

2011-02-06T00:59:00.003+08:00

Sunshine on my shoulders. I got to get this right.

Moments that I feel

2011-01-18T23:35:00.000+08:00

Each day, I try to be closer to a purpose. I drift into gaps of doubts and plunge into pools of emotions. The mind rattles about this existence that I am living. I try to lean towards hope. And the hope that I have is a love found so needed. What lies ahead can be a blur at times, but I must choose to see the little parts that are possibly greater than the whole.

New Hope

2011-01-09T21:56:00.001+08:00

‎"All I needed to know was that we could have a hope and future together.Even if you have to mend nets and fish for the day and I to walk distances for work, I will do it, simply because we are together."

Tokyo 081210 to 191210

2010-12-16T09:00:00.000+08:00

Love can be a giant ferris wheel.

Happy Anniversary 2010

2010-11-26T14:35:00.000+08:00

Intense

2010-11-16T17:22:00.000+08:00

The year is looking like it is coming to a close. The rains are here and they moisten the soil like massaging the souls of everyone. 2010 is but a year, and there will be another year soon. Next year, there must be change. Radical, if not moderate. I'm leaving this year at this point, like a departure from the heavy periods of intensity that are roaring inside me. I have been reading Murakami. And I thought that it is rare to be connecting with this little part of the book. From Norwegian Wood, it reads:
'Please forgive me for not answering sooner. But try to understand. It took me a very long time before I was in any condition to write, and I have started this letter at least ten times. Writing is a painful process for me.'

2010-11-13T09:05:00.000+08:00

"I want you always to remember me. Will you remember that I existed, and that I stood next to you here like this?"
— Haruki Murakami (Norwegian Wood)

2010-10-31T22:04:00.001+08:00

At the heart of every soul,we are extremely insecure creatures with chronic low self-esteems. We easily admit our weaknesses and conceal them with our so-called strengths. Hindered by our blindspots, we don't go past a day without them.We live by consoling ourselves with affirmations, praises and compliments. We believe this is life. By an accident of sort,we discover our greatest strength could actually be our greatest weakness, we wail,and are severely punished by this inborn helplessness.

October babies

2010-10-26T18:31:00.000+08:00

2010-10-21T07:19:00.000+08:00

At its most primary level, Ader's art is concerned with falling and failing, searching and sadness. But in dealing with these tragic themes, the artist always remained a detached participant, manipulating his media and his body. He remained aware of his ultimate inability to express the sadness he found in the sublime. This failure, which may have deterred him, instead became the focus of his work.

28 years old

2010-10-17T22:05:00.001+08:00

Kiss the Sky

2010-10-02T23:30:00.000+08:00

treasure the gift, don't forget the giver

2010-09-28T13:58:00.000+08:00

breathe.

2010-09-28T09:43:00.000+08:00

My First Marathon

2010-09-12T14:29:00.000+08:00

Strangely, after completing 21 km alone (for really most part of the time)and putting aside the experience of the maginificent scenery of the sunrise at the highway, I felt I don't owe anybody anything anymore.

2010-09-08T17:35:00.000+08:00

Transitory moments

2010-09-05T09:41:00.000+08:00

The ikea effect is when someone builds something pride and sentiment are likely to give them an inflated sense of quality.
The storm must go,surely it will go away.

He said

2010-09-02T17:04:00.001+08:00

Thanks for teaching me to be a good husband.

Happy T Day 2010

2010-09-01T14:11:00.000+08:00

Intelligence and Tears

2010-08-26T07:24:00.001+08:00

til the cloud weeps, how should the garden smile

the weeping of the cloud and the burning of the sun are the pillars of this world:

twist these two strands together

since the searing heat of the sun and the moisture of the clouds

keep the world fresh and sweet

keep the sun of your intelligence burning bright and your eye glistening with tears

~ Rumi

Soli Deo gloria

2010-08-22T18:36:00.000+08:00

Recently, quite a bit tired. Trying to spark fire each day. There must be joy. The way it could be.

2010-08-20T07:18:00.000+08:00

2010-08-14T12:25:00.000+08:00

Blog Assignment 2

2010-08-12T09:11:00.000+08:00

Find a Surrealist artist and one of his/her artworks to compare with 1 work by Lucia Hartini --- List down 5 similarities and differences in terms of techniques, use of color and subject matter.

Men Shall Know Nothing of This, 1923 by Max Ernst

Horse by the ocean , 1998, Oil on canvas, 60 x 70 cm by Lucia Hartini

Techniques
Hartini and Ernst
Oil-paints on canvas.
Brush strokes with occasional smooth blending.
Realistic portrayal -- textures, details, proportion and light/shadow to create 3D modeling.
Use of symbolism -- Hartini paints horses horses (signifying gentleness and virility), flowers (fragility, beauty and femininity), earth and sea (dynamic interacting forces of nature) to create personal narratives emblematic of contemporary Javanese gender relationships. While Ernst uses a single image narrative in this work where he references to the Elephant Celebes in Alley.A revolutionary and selef-destructive element that tells of deep and intense despair triggered off from the War.A kind of cuteness by the subsequent, reverential appreciation of Dada.

Use of colour
Hartini and Ernst
Hartini has a more obvious gradient or blending of colour. Her usage of dramatic colours is highly commendable. A perfect blend of black and blue of different shades seem to complement each other. Ernst is more conservative in the use of colours in which this work is generally of dull hues - greyish and bluish tones that signify a certain sense of pessimism.

Subject Matter
Hartini and Ernst
Most of Hartini's works are seeking to examine the intersecting boundaries of gender and culture in Indonesian society. They are relatively feminism-based.Ernst developed an autonomous system in which the origin of the separate elements is submerged in the final, total image. He was out to produce irritating imagery in which, as in the perfect crime, every clue to its identity had been erased. A posem is inscribed at the back of this work:

"The crescent (yellow and parachutic) stops the little whistle falling to the ground.
The whistle because people are taking notice of it, thinks it is climbing to the sun.
The sun is divided into two so that it can spin better.
The model is stretched out in a dreaming pose. The right leg is bent (a pleasant exact movement).
The hand hides the earth. Through this movement the earth takes on the importance of a sexual organ.
The moon runs through its phases and eclipses with the utmost speed.
The picture is curious because of its symmetry."

To be of great thoughts

2010-08-04T12:35:00.000+08:00

The process of dying is a process that begins with birth. It continues while we occupy ourselves with what is important in our lives: our careers, our families, our pleasures. Our death accompanies us all through our years, gradually taking our place until it exchanges itself for us completely.The event that will soon occur in your life has been preparing itself for every moment of your life.

Happy Vacancy by Stephen Dobyns

Look to you -- Hillsongs United

2010-08-02T20:36:00.000+08:00

I know You love
me I know You died for me
I know You care
I know You care

I know You live again
Your life for all my sin
Now I stand here in
In Your grace again

As I look into the sky above
Wonder how my life has changed
Wonder how Your love, it came to me
As I look into the sky above
All my fears, so far away
All I hear is heaven calling me

So I look to You
So I look to You
No one else will do
No one else will do

Have you one?

2010-07-28T07:48:00.000+08:00

Is there something you go to when thoughts and feelings apparently drown the sensibilities from your mind?
There should be one..

Two quotes to rmbr

2010-07-24T09:36:00.000+08:00

this is what kenrus yee says about "Inception"
Inception is so awesome!
A word leads to a changed thought leads to a changed character leads to a changed destiny!
this is what Mal often says in the film,
You're waiting for a train. A train that will take you far away. You can't be sure where it will take you. But it doesn't matter - because we'll be together.
I love this.

Inception is my movie...

2010-07-23T19:39:00.000+08:00

"Inception" by Christopher Nolan.This movie has struck more chords than one in me.It has drawn me to watch it not so much because it has hit US box office big time but because of the legendary name of Nolan,the man who
is obsessed with the human mind.This movie undeniably articulates my mind,it is brilliant in its generous showcase of the enigma of art and science.Dreams,the pivot of this movie,are assiduously studied,dissected,re-created,as though meant for a dreamer like myself. Just heard that there are up to 6 interpretations for this movie but Im staying true to what I first understood. The ability to construct a whole new by the power of the mind is an amazing human feat,a great vortex of a mystery that is eternally insolvable. They say artists have that,to see an angel in the stone the way Michelangelo did,how we envision our artistic creations by a pure plug-in of imagination. "Inception" must the treasure trove of Nolan's lifework .It crackles with his passion that lends a cautionary tale to us never to stop believing in him.

The World of Trompe-l'œil (pronounced in French as "tom play")

2010-07-19T17:36:00.000+08:00

Hi,
Since I have set the assignment, I can bend the rules. Instead of posting 1 image, I have greedily posted 5.
Always a fervent lover of street art for its activist spirit, these pieces of street art never fail to impress me.
Why are they realistic?
1) They trick the eye with the "trompe l'oeil" technique. According to Wiki, this technique creates extremely realistic imagery in order to create the optical illusion that the depicted objects appear in three dimensions, instead of actually being a two-dimensional painting.
2) They depict real-life elements -- e.g. humans in correct proportions, the coke bottle and laptop
3) The humans' expressions are not exaggerated or set up in theatrical dramatic ways.
4) The contrast of light and shadow used is apparent especially in that of the coke bottle.
5) The monumental scale of the floor painting allows one to be fully immersed in the experience of viewing the work.
6) It duplicates reality as close as possible.
7) It invites interaction because of its impressive scale and realism in the technique.
8) It creates the possibility of another world by transporting us into the creation of another reality (which is one of the main functions of Art)
9) It does not defy gravity.
10) The rendering of the water is extremely realistic with the transparency created.

2010-07-15T15:53:00.001+08:00

2010-07-10T16:26:00.000+08:00

2010-07-10T10:31:00.000+08:00

When you really feel this way, you really feel this way.

E.W.F. glad we did stop and think.

2010-07-07T15:32:00.001+08:00

Don't Cry for Me,Argentina

2010-07-03T18:45:00.001+08:00

Wonder who is going to win tonight? Checking it out at Pennyblack:)
Germany versus Argentina

Local Version of Wendy's

2010-06-28T16:59:00.000+08:00

They don't cut corners =)

Different Stroke for Different Folk

2010-06-28T00:56:00.000+08:00

A chat with a 25-year-old girl makes me ponder so much.
Really, a different stroke for different folk.
I am so wow-ed by her.

no shadow of doubt

2010-06-23T15:22:00.000+08:00

there are times that things need to be given a chance. A chance to grow, survive and we prod on.

Coldplay-The Scientist

2010-06-15T23:57:00.000+08:00

Come up to meet you, tell you I'm sorry
You don't know how lovely you are
I had to find you, tell you I need you
Tell you I set you apart

Tell me your secrets and ask me your questions
Oh, let's go back to the start
Running in circles, coming up tails
Heads on a science apart

Nobody said it was easy
It's such a shame for us to part
Nobody said it was easy
No one ever said it would be this hard
Oh, take me back to the start

I was just guessing at numbers and figures
Pulling the puzzles apart
Questions of science, science and progress
Do not speak as loud as my heart

But tell me you love me, come back and haunt me
Oh and I rush to the start
Running in circles, chasing our tails
Coming back as we are

Nobody said it was easy
Oh, it's such a shame for us to part
Nobody said it was easy
No one ever said it would be so hard
I'm going back to the start

Oh ooh, ooh ooh ooh ooh
Ah ooh, ooh ooh ooh ooh
Oh ooh, ooh ooh ooh ooh
Oh ooh, ooh ooh ooh ooh

Undeniably happy I will be.

2010-06-14T22:49:00.000+08:00

As you take my fears and failures, all I want to have is a blithe spirit in you.

Your Guardian Angel

2010-06-13T19:46:00.000+08:00

When I see your smile
Tears run down my face I can't replace
And now that I'm stronger I've figured out
How this world turns cold and breaks through my soul
And I know I'll find deep inside me I can be the one

I will never let you fall
I'll stand up with you forever
I'll be there for you through it all
Even if saving you sends me to heaven

It's ok. It's ok. It's ok.
Seasons are changing
And waves are crashing
And stars are falling all for us
Days grow longer and nights grow shorter
I can show you I'll be the one

I will never let you fall
I'll stand up with you forever
I'll be there for you through it all
Even if saving you sends me to heaven

Cuz you're my, you're my, my true love, my whole heart
Please don't throw that away
Cuz I'm here for you
Please don't walk away,
Please tell me you'll stay, stay

Use me as you will
Pull my strings just for a thrill
And I know I'll be ok
Though my skies are turning gray

I will never let you fall
I'll stand up with you forever
I'll be there for you through it all
Even if saving you sends me to heaven

2010-06-11T09:58:00.001+08:00

"Our relationship was beginning to feel like the spinning movement of a child's top. When we were together, we had the power to keep it spinning and the result was beauty and magic and an almost childlike sense of wonder; when we separated, the spinning began inevitably to slow. We became wobbly and unstable and I knew I had to find a way to keep us from toppling over." -- "Dear John" by Nicholas Sparks

Never Knew I Needed

2010-06-08T10:34:00.000+08:00

For the way you changed my plans
For being the perfect distraction
For the way you took the idea that I have
Of everything that I wanted to have
And made me see there was something missing, oh yeah

For the ending of my first begin
(Ooh, yeah yeah, ooh, yeah yeah)
And for the rare and unexpected friend
(Ooh, yeah yeah, ooh, yeah yeah)
For the way you're something that I'd never choose
But at the same time, something I don't wanna lose
And never wanna be without ever again

You're the best thing I never knew I needed
So when you were here I had no idea
You the best thing I never knew I needed
So now it's so clear, I need you here always

My accidental happily
(Ever after)
The way you smile and how you comfort me
(With your laughter)
I must admit you were not a part of my book
But now if you open it up and take a look
You're the beginning and the end of every chapter

You're the best thing I never knew I needed
So when you were here I had no idea
(When you were here)
You the best thing I never knew I needed
(That I needed)
So now it's so clear, I need you here always
(Now it's so clear)

Who knew that I could be
(Who knew that I could be)
So unexpectedly
(So unexpectedly)
Undeniably happier
Sitting with you right here, right here next to me
Girl, you're the best

You're the best thing I never knew I needed
(Said I needed)
So when you were here I had no idea
(When you were here)
(Said I had no idea)
You're the best thing I never knew I needed
(That I needed)
So now it's so clear I need you here always
(Now it's so clear)
(So clear, so clear, I need you always)

Now it's so clear, I need you here always

Plain White T's 1234

2010-06-07T17:13:00.001+08:00

1-2-1-2-3-4
Give me more loving than I’ve ever had
Make me feel better when I’m feeling sad
Tell me I’m special even though I know I’m not
Make me feel good when I hurt so bad
Barely getting mad
I’m so glad I found you
I love being around you
You make it easy
Its as easy as 1-2-1-2-3-4
There’s only one thing
To Do
Three words
For you
(I love you) I love you
There’s only one way to say
Those three words
That’s what I’ll do
(I love you) I love you
Give me more loving from the very start
Piece me back together when I fall apart
Tell me things you never even tell your closest friends
Make me feel good when I hurt so bad
You’re the best that I’ve had
And I’m so glad I found you
I love being around you
You make it easy
It’s easy as 1-2-1-2-3-4
There’s only one thing
To Do
Three words
For you
(I love you) I love you
There’s only one way to say
Those three words
That’s what I’ll do
(I love you) I love you
(I love you) I love you
You make it easy
It’s easy as 1 2 1 2 3 4
There’s only one thing
To Do
Three words
For you
(I love you) I love you
There’s only one way to say
Those three words
That’s what I’ll do
(I love you) I love you
(I love you) I love you
1-2-3-4
I love you
(I love you) I love you

2010-06-05T09:34:00.000+08:00

Takes a good friend to ask, "Have you had time to read?"

Finding Perfect.

2010-06-04T00:25:00.000+08:00

Give me a beautiful rainbow, a glistening sunset and blazing fireworks.
That will make a perfect date.

Because you live

2010-06-02T18:09:00.000+08:00

Staring out at the rain with a heavy heart
It's the end of the world in my mind
Then your voice pulls me back, like a wake-up call

I've been looking for the answer, somewhere
I couldn't see that it was right there
But now I know what I didn't know

Because you live and breathe
Because you make me believe in myself
When nobody else can help because you live girl
My world has twice as many stars in the sky

It's all right, I survived, I'm alive again
'Cause of you, made it through every storm
What is life? What's the use? If you're killing time

I'm so glad I found an angel
Someone, who was there when all my hopes fell
I wanna fly looking in your eyes

Because you live and breathe
Because you make me believe in myself
When nobody else can help because you live girl
My world has twice as many stars in the sky
Because you live, I live

Because you live, there's a reason why
I carry on when I lose the fight
I want to give what you've givin' me always

Because you live and breathe
Because you make me believe in myself
When nobody else can help because you live girl
My world has twice as many stars in the sky

Because you live and breathe
Because you make me believe in myself
When nobody else can help

Because you live girl
My world has everything, I need to survive
Because you live, I live, I live

show me ur books and i will show you your future.

2010-05-31T10:32:00.000+08:00

2010-05-31T10:11:00.000+08:00

"On more than one occasion I have been ready to abandon my whole life for love. To alter everything that makes sense to me and to move into a different world where the only known will be the beloved. Such a sacrifice must be the result of love... or is it that the life itself was already worn out? I had finished with that life, perhaps, and could not admit it, being stubborn or afraid, or perhaps did not known it, habit being a great binder. I think it is often so that those most in need of change choose to fall in love and then throw up their hands and blame it all on fate. But it is not fate, at least, not if fate is something outside of us; it is a choice made in secret after nights of longing.
... I may be cynical when I say that very rarely is the beloved more than a shaping spirit for the lover's dreams... To be a muse may be enough. The pain is when the dreams change, as they do, as they must. Suddenly the enchanted city fades and you are left alone again in the windy desert. As for your beloved, she didn't understand you.
The truth is, you never understood yourself."
— Jeanette Winterson (Sexing the Cherry)

2010-05-31T10:07:00.000+08:00

If art is a soldier

2010-05-30T02:25:00.000+08:00

If art is a soldier
There is melody
As colorful as the sunrise
Strengthen our spirits
Share our thoughts

If a soldier is gentleness
It's enough to harmonise
The melody of love
Along with affection and hope
With beauty and compassion
Beauty and compassion

Art fighting and sharing
Moving and giving
Love is the commander
If peace is the ruler
Fight together
Until the end of our days

HAPPY

2010-05-26T18:08:00.000+08:00

When I think about the heavens, the moon and all the stars, I wonder what you ever saw in me?

true voice of the ghetto

2010-05-25T11:24:00.001+08:00

What is it about art that we give it so much importance? Artists are respected by the poor because what they do is an honest way to get out of the slum using one's sheer self as the medium. The money earned is proof pure and simple of the value of that individual. From: Basquiat 1996

Pioneer Panorama (finally Up)

2010-05-18T17:17:00.000+08:00

Specky Day 170510

2010-05-18T17:16:00.000+08:00

for him, for the love.

2010-05-18T15:01:00.000+08:00

The Colour Red

……was curiosity. For him, who bade farewell and off to distant lands.
Safekeeping the comforts of yesterday.
……was missing. For him, his heart was one indivisible whole, now a part of him remained.
Coping with the arrival of absence.
……was uncertainty. For him, a milder fate, the world has enlarged.
Realising the insignificance of living.
……was exclamation. For him, he was crying at the earliest hour
Paralleling the physicality of his surroundings.
…was his cheeks
…was the London booth
…was her.

DO I MAKE YOU PROUD

2010-05-14T12:09:00.000+08:00

I've never been the one to raise my hand,
That was not me and now that's who I am

Because of you I am standing tall,
My heart is full of endless gratitude,
You were the one, the one to guide me through,
Now I can see and I believe it's only just beginning

Chorus-
This what we dream about
But the only question with me now
Is do I make you proud
Stronger than I've ever been NOW
Never been afraid of standing out
But do I make you proud

I guess I've learned, to question is to grow
That you still have faith, is all I need to know
I've learned to love, myself in spite of me
And I've learned to walk, the road that I believe

This what we dream about
[ Do I make you proud lyrics found on http://www.completealbumlyrics.com ]
But the only question with me now
Is do I make you proud
Stronger than I've ever been NOW
Never been afraid of standing out
But do I make you proud

Everybody needs to rise up
Everybody needs to be loved, to be loved

This what we dream about
But the only question with me now
Is do I make you proud
Stronger than I've ever been NOW
Never been afraid of standing out
But do I make you proud

This what we dream about
But the only question with me now
Is do I make you proud
Stronger than I've ever been NOW
Never been afraid of standing out
But do I make you proud

Do I make you proud?
Do I make you proud?

What is Important

2010-05-13T22:57:00.000+08:00

havent cried for some time, so I teared today. Pioneer Praxis is important to me but all of you are even more important!
Simple Folks of Simple Pleasures. You make my day.

Just The Way You Are - Billy Joel

2010-05-11T11:35:00.000+08:00

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 would not 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 colour 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 couldn't love you, any better,
I love you just the way you are.

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.

Hide Me in The Shelter

2010-05-03T22:38:00.000+08:00

Under the shadow of your wings
Here in the secret place of your holiness
I will wait on You, O Lord, my God and King

Here in the Holiest of All
You draw me near with love
To abandon all for the sake of knowing You, my God and King

Hide me in the shelter of your love
Deep in the centre of your heart, my Lord
How I want to know You more
And keep me in the shadow of your wings
Safe in the secret place of Holiness
How I need You more and more

Carrie Chen And I ;)

2010-05-03T15:06:00.000+08:00

The Nicest Thing by Kate Nash

2010-05-03T13:35:00.001+08:00

All I know is that you're so nice,
You're the nicest thing I've seen.
I wish that we could give it a go,
See if we could be something.

I wish I was your favourite girl,
I wish you thought I was the reason you are in the world.
I wish my smile was your favourite kind of smile,
I wish the way I dressed was your favourite kind of style.

I wish you couldn't figure me out,
But you always wanna know what I was about.
I wish you'd hold my hand when I was upset,
I wish you'd never forget the look on my face when we first met.

I wish you had a favourite beauty spot that you loved secretly,
'Cos it was on a hidden bit that nobody else could see.
Basically, I wish that you loved me,
I wish that you needed me,
I wish that you knew when I said two sugars, actually I meant three.

I wish that without me your heart would break,
Yeah, I wish that without me you'd be spending the rest of your nights awake.
I wish that without me you couldn't eat,
Yeah, I wish I was the last thing on your mind before you went to sleep.

But, all i know is that you're the nicest thing I've ever seen;
And I wish that we could see if we could be something
Yeah, I wish we could see if we could be something..

Fav Hideout

2010-04-30T12:12:00.000+08:00

Tears for Fears

2010-04-24T10:30:00.000+08:00

I found the tune that I can call surreal.

I like Tears for Fears.

They say

2010-04-24T09:23:00.000+08:00

She says,
"My heart was unbended to your kisses last night.By this we know, we will never want to keep each other out of sight. It is a moment of truth that came to light, in your embrace often so tight. Only longing to remember and cherish what is left of the twilight."

And he says,
"As I held you by the whispering sea
The waves kissed the shore gently, like the way you kissed me
A feeling so intense, so warm, so pure
I just want to love u.
Of this I am sure "

I love you by Sarah Mclachlan

2010-04-22T12:57:00.001+08:00

I have a smile
Stretched from ear to ear
To see you walking down the road

We meet at the lights
I stare for a while
The world around disappears

Just you and me
On this island of hope
A breath between us could be miles

Let me surround you
My sea to your shore
Let me be the calm you seek

Oh and every time I'm close to you
There's too much I can't say
And you just walk away

And I forgot
To tell you
I love you
And the nights
Too long
And cold here
Without you
I grieve in my condition
For I cannot find the strength to say I need you so

Oh and every time I'm close to you
There's too much I can't say
And you just walk away

And I forgot
To tell you
I love you
And the nights
Too long
And cold here
Without you

Fire Station Hillside Bar

2010-04-20T20:58:00.000+08:00

2010-04-16T13:30:00.000+08:00

The probability of separate worlds meeting is very small. The lure of it is immense. We send starships. We fall in love.

- Jeanette Winterson

Nat's hangouts

2010-04-11T21:25:00.000+08:00

Helipad
The loof
Timbre
Cafe del mar
Villa Bali
Balaclava
15 minutes
Ice cold beer
Wala wala
Hotel Rendevouz
Plasma
Bellini's
Hairloom and caramel
Coffee nation
and all TCCS.
[the list should go on]

Fearless -- Taylor Swift

2010-04-10T23:46:00.001+08:00

There's somethin' 'bout the way
The street looks when it's just rained
There’s a glow off the pavement
Walk me to the car
And you know I wanna ask you to dance right there
In the middle of the parking lot
Yeah

We're drivin' down the road
I wonder if you know
I'm tryin' so hard not to get caught up now
But you're just so cool
Run your hands through your hair
Absent mindedly makin' me want you

And I don't know how it gets better than this
You take my hand and drag me head first
Fearless
And I don't know why but with you I'd dance
In a storm in my best dress
Fearless

So baby drive slow
‘Til we run out of road in this one horse town
I wanna stay right here in this passenger’s seat
You put your eyes on me
In this moment now capture every memory

And I don't know how it gets better than this
You take my hand and drag me head first
Fearless
And I don't know why but with you I’d dance
In a storm in my best dress
Fearless

Well you stood there with me in the doorway
my hands shake
I'm not usually this way but
You pull me in & I’m a little more brave
It’s the first kiss, it's flawless, really somethin’, it’s fearless.

And I don't know how it gets better than this
You take my hand and drag me head first
Fearless
And I don't know why but with you I’d dance
In a storm in my best dress
Fearless

Portrait of a broken visage

2010-04-03T22:57:00.000+08:00

In this portrait, we see fragments of hurt
Pain underlined
And lips dried with words
The wrinkles enmeshed in a long forgotten love
Tears not yet flowing
But about to be unleashed
Eyes too dim with what reality can offer
The night was long
But morning, too miserable to unfold
Cheeks aglow with that of yesteryears
The forlornness, oh who will know?
Silence too deep to ponder
Words far and beyond
There was loneliness.
Nostrils breathing a new vista of impossibilities
Awaiting the new
In this portrait, the sunshine has gone
The sea with its tidal waves
Reaching out to the stars we have kissed
The kite is flying
To a distance we do not know
The journey home is but, a maze of uncertainties
In this portrait, a broken visage
Masked with a hardened existence
When will you be near again?
To sing me an affection
And hear me cry once more?
As you stand, my portrait remains.
Letters penned with a heart of regrets
May you receive them, but please do smile.

harden my tears

2010-04-03T22:35:00.000+08:00

2010-04-03T21:32:00.000+08:00

Piano - 范逸臣

白键是那一年海的沙滩浪花的缱绻
黑键是和你多日不见弹指间
海岸线你的泪我的眼模糊天边
每个人心中都有架钢琴尘封在回忆任凭我只是你的插曲
时间偶尔提起钢琴偶尔哭泣那些凌乱片段
如果爱还能再重来我期待澎湃永远在
oh~~每次琴盖打开便有歌来自大海
如果爱我已不存在我希望有一段精采让回忆有所感慨
白键是现在我爱到昨天成全你改变黑键是原谅
我的原谅好想再弹一遍手指却只听见你的抱歉

Dedicated to those in Owl City

2010-03-28T01:25:00.000+08:00

The stars lean down to kiss you
And i lie awake and miss you
Pour me a heavy dose of atmosphere

'cause i'll doze off safe and soundly
But i'll miss your arms around me
I'd send a postcard to you dear
'cause i wish you were here

I'll watch the night turn light-blue
But it's not the same without you
Because it takes two to whisper quietly

The silence isn't so bad
'til i look at my hands and feel sad
'cause the spaces between my fingers
Are right where yours fit perfectly

I'll find repose in new ways
Though i haven't slept in two days
'cause cold nostalgia
Chills me to the bone

But drenched in vanilla twilight
I'll sit on the front porch all night
Waist-deep in thought because
When i think of you i don't feel so alone

I don't feel so alone i don't feel so alone

As many times as i blink
I'll think of you tonight
I'll think of you tonight

When violet eyes get brighter
And heavy wings grow lighter
I'll taste the sky and feel alive again

And i'll forget the world that i knew
But i swear i won't forget you
Oh if my voice could reach
Back through the past
I'd whisper in your ear
Oh darling i wish you were here

2010-03-21T23:06:00.000+08:00

Now I know what it means to run further than I can. To go beyond myself. This time, I will run far.

Understanding HOLIDAY

2010-03-19T23:58:00.000+08:00

2010-03-18T10:42:00.000+08:00

Why does it hurt each time I think about it?

Teach me anew

2010-03-16T23:55:00.000+08:00

Savior I come
Quiet my soul remember
Redemptions hill
Where Your blood was spilled
For my ransom
Everything I once held dear
I count it all as lost

Lead me to the cross
Where Your love poured out
Bring me to my knees
Lord I lay me down
Rid me of myself
I belong to You
Lead me, lead me to the cross

You were as I
Tempted and trialed
You are
Te word became flesh
Bore my sin and death
Now you're risen

To your heart
To your heart
Lead me to your heart
Lead me to your heart

Under the weather

2010-03-02T08:46:00.000+08:00

The Lord answered Moses, “Is the Lord’s arm too short? You will now see whether or not what I say will come true for you.” (Numbers 11:23, NIV)

I finally understood what it feels like to know and experience that God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.
For all good things in the world, my health determines how I can enjoy these blessings of God. For now, I am under the weather but I know I will recover and be back on track for the good things that God will lavish on me in His most gracious LOVE.

I love you Jesus.

LOVE

2010-02-28T19:55:00.000+08:00

I learnt from Anil's poem
"My shoulders are your shelter, and my heart be your home."

How Sweet.

Stanley's 210210

2010-02-22T09:18:00.000+08:00

CNY and Valentines' Day 2010

2010-02-16T01:18:00.000+08:00

MAGIC TAPE

2010-02-10T14:15:00.000+08:00

It is something that I like.
Magic Tape.
Something about it that reminds me of something I like.

pause with me

2010-02-09T11:30:00.001+08:00

How does it feel like.. to be part of a lost dream?
These ghostly fragments haunting you daily.
They gnaw at your heartbeat, slowing and accelerating it at their whim.
Oh, am I defenseless in all of these?
Or had I been too fixated at a pinprick of hope that can only linger?
I am so, very uncertain.
It is true,
the change manifest in this portrait of mine has
Given form to a wail,
Why do I continue to wait in vain?
For an answer that cannot decide?
I toss those days like pages of a scrapbook,
And eavesdrop on the voices of joy
If beauty could only last this second,
Would you wait for me again?

Tears for Fears

2010-01-29T08:37:00.001+08:00

"Mad World"

All around me are familiar faces
Worn out places, worn out faces
Bright and early for their daily races
Going nowhere, going nowhere
And their tears are filling up their glasses
No expression, no expression
Hide my head I want to drown my sorrow
No tomorrow, no tomorrow
And I find it kind of funny
I find it kind of sad
The dreams in which I'm dying
Are the best I've ever had
I find it hard to tell you
'Cos I find it hard to take
When people run in circles
It's a very, very
Mad World
Children waiting for the day they feel good
Happy Birthday, Happy Birthday
Made to feel the way that every child should
Sit and listen, sit and listen
Went to school and I was very nervous
No one knew me, no one knew me
Hello teacher tell me what's my lesson
Look right through me, look right through me

Back to starting point

2010-01-25T08:45:00.000+08:00

I think I am back at the starting point again.

Something BEAUTIFUL

2010-01-19T09:31:00.000+08:00

If you put your arms around me,
Could it change the way I feel?
I guess I let myself believe
That the outside might just bleed its way in
Maybe stir the sleeping past
Lying under glass
Waiting for the kiss
That breaks this awful spell
Pull me out... of this lonely cell

Close my eyes and hold my heart
Cover me and make me something
Change this something normal
Into something beautiful

What I get from my reflection
Isn't what I thought I'd see.
so, give me reason to believe
You'd never keep me incomplete
Will you untie this loss of mine?
It easily defines me,
Do you see it on my face?
And that all I can think about is how long
I've been waiting to feel you move me.

Close my eyes and hold my heart
Cover me and make me something
Change this something normal
Into something beautiful
Into something beautiful
Into something beautiful

And I'm still fighting for the word
To break these chains
And I still pray when I look in your eyes
You'd stare right back down
Into something beautiful

So close my eyes and hold my heart
Cover me and make me something
Change this something normal
Into something beautiful
Into something beautiful
Into something beautiful
Into something beautiful

Crash and burn

2010-01-12T23:05:00.000+08:00

Is it hard to let go of something that excites u ? I am envious and happy and I long to be in your shoes. I think I have loved and died, hoped and cried. In the long run, I am only thankful to have passed by your life. For now, I am looking forward and not looking back anymore. Itself is a kind of pleasure.

Squaring off 2009 to 2010

2010-01-04T00:29:00.000+08:00

Right on. A new year has begun. Something unusual has begun to stir in me, I feel myself more in love with my church. It has been some years as a person in Brighton but it is only of late that I consider it a very integral part of my life. Have my perspectives changed? Maybe. I think it makes sense, all of it, the history of Brighton, the life of it and the people in it. We are driven by eternity, or at least, really, the love for God.

As I take stock of 2009, a wheel of change has overtaken me. Big, small, mediocre. And recently, my past seems to be narrated to me once again. It is like a test of Satan to question me again if I have really done that mega clearance of my past.I did throw my old shoes away... It is STRANGE.

I find myself containing lesser feelings these days. Some feelings have become diluted and sadly, some relationships turned thinner. IS this what people call ‘maturity’? But I am not all mechanical.

I am not about to write some ‘mend my old ways’ resolutions here. But I want to say that the year must be framed in this manner:

“I consider my life worth nothing to me; my only aim is to finish the race and complete the task the Lord Jesus has given me-the task of testifying to the good news of God's grace.” Acts 20:24

I feel some raging emotions in me. But they rage like silent waves. They say, fear will immobilize you and lethargy will literally kill you.
So, I will erase them now.

I hope I can be invited to a nice welcome sight when I return to work next week.
Hello 2010, will you teach me more than I can ever ask for?
I pray.

between the dotted line

The soul finally finds rest 101211

this moment

How I really love the sky

Larkin Step (Ling Kai)

Season of Life

My ideal pretty things in life

One Day

Us

I wish that...

Chinese New Year

Moments that I feel

New Hope

Tokyo 081210 to 191210

Happy Anniversary 2010

Intense

October babies

28 years old

Kiss the Sky

treasure the gift, don't forget the giver

breathe.

My First Marathon

Transitory moments

He said

Happy T Day 2010

Intelligence and Tears

Soli Deo gloria

Blog Assignment 2

You Are Here

To be of great thoughts

Look to you -- Hillsongs United

Have you one?

Two quotes to rmbr

Inception is my movie...

The World of Trompe-l'œil (pronounced in French as "tom play")

E.W.F. glad we did stop and think.

Don't Cry for Me,Argentina

Local Version of Wendy's

Different Stroke for Different Folk

no shadow of doubt

Coldplay-The Scientist

Undeniably happy I will be.

Your Guardian Angel

Never Knew I Needed

Plain White T's 1234

Finding Perfect.

Because you live

show me ur books and i will show you your future.

If art is a soldier

HAPPY

true voice of the ghetto

Pioneer Panorama (finally Up)

Specky Day 170510

for him, for the love.

DO I MAKE YOU PROUD

What is Important

Just The Way You Are - Billy Joel

Hide Me in The Shelter

Carrie Chen And I ;)

The Nicest Thing by Kate Nash

Fav Hideout

Tears for Fears

They say

I love you by Sarah Mclachlan

Fire Station Hillside Bar

Nat's hangouts

Fearless -- Taylor Swift

Portrait of a broken visage

harden my tears

Dedicated to those in Owl City

Understanding HOLIDAY

Teach me anew

Under the weather

LOVE

Stanley's 210210

CNY and Valentines' Day 2010

MAGIC TAPE

pause with me

Tears for Fears

Back to starting point