30th December 2007 Sunday

昨晚去听了梁静茹的[今天情人节]演唱会。超棒的一场演唱会。超过百分的演唱会。当全场的人都在同一个时间，同一个地点，唱着同样的一首歌。你曾有过那种感觉吗？你曾感受过那份感动吗？我想在那时候，大家的频率都是一样的吧。我想就连心的跳动也应该是一致的吧。我相信那就是人与人之间所谓的无声的互动。

这场演唱会真的令我很感动很感动。我想大概是因为静茹的歌陪着我度过很多成长的岁月吧。每一首歌都记载了一段回忆，让我想起了最初听到那首歌的人与事，让我想起了每段成长的岁月里所获得的，所失去的，让我想起了最初听到每一首歌的感动。我想随着静茹在音乐道路上的成长，我也在岁月中成长了吧。就连陪我一起听梁静茹的演唱会的人也与两年前的不同了。随着岁月的过去必有从岁月的流逝中所获得的，也必有失去的。我想大概这就是人生。

很棒很棒的歌声。很棒很棒的歌。很棒很棒的演唱会。静茹在散场的时候说她希望我们在每个季节，每个时间，每个地点，心里都会有她的一首歌。不贪心。只要一首就好。我想说那是一定的。但很有可能不只一首！一首太少了！距离下一次静茹的演唱会今天开始重新倒数！

噢。对了。特别来宾阿信也超棒。和静茹合唱的那首[拥抱] 超好听的。FISHDREAM的荧光板也超漂亮。最后在这里也不忘了谢谢XY帮我们拿到超棒的座位。

24th December 2007 Monday

How fast time flies. Before I know it, yet another Christmas is knocking at my door. Same date on a different year and with it, a different feel. I don't really know if I should call the year that just passed a good one or a bad one. But I guess in every year, all of us loses some things and gain some others. So I would just classify it as yet another normal year yah? I guess it really helps to focus on the things that we gain rather than those we lose. And as I always said, we came to this world with nothing and hence, we can't really lose anything in the first place ain't it? So just have to focus on the right things and keep yourself happy.


Oh yah, Christmas is also about thanks giving right? So here goes. Thank you for all the nice colleagues that I have been working with the past year. Work has been tough at times and late hours are inevitable in the line that I am working in but really thank you for giving me wonderful people to accompany me through all this tough times. Thank you for the mostly wonderful clients that I have gotten on my jobs so far. I know it is equally tough in the accounts line, having to deal with both closing and auditors concurrently at times so I appreciate very much the nice clients that have been giving me support and sometimes answering some meaningless but "have to ask" questions despite their busy schedules. Thank you for the wonderful mentor group that I am in and the wonderful people in it. Thank you for the nice seniors that I have been working with so far for their patience in guiding me and forgiving me for all the mistakes that I have made. And I also thank you for the few bad colleagues and clients so I could learn to appreciate the good ones more. Thank you for all the friends that I have gained in the current year and for all the friends that remembered me despite not being in constant contact. Am really touched by the care and concern given by some during the year. Thank you for all the knowledge and experience gained during the year. Thank you for all the nice songs that have accompanied me through the year. Thank you for giving me the ability to earn enough to be independent and to be able to contribute a little to the family, or rather, what used to be called a family. Thank you for all the misunderstandings and quarrels during the year so that we are able to learn more about both ourselves and our friends. Thank you for being able to breathe and live a normal life. And last but not least, thank you for all well wishers and all who remembered me during Christmas. Special thanks goes out to KS, VT and DT for their Xmas gifts and IT, CT, CY and VG for their early Xmas greetings. Have a great Xmas everyone!

21st December 2007 Friday

Do you, Mr/Ms XXX standing here in the presence of God and these witneses, solemnly pledge your faith to Ms/Mr XXX. Do you promise to live with her/him according to God's ordinance in the holy state of matrimony? Do you promise to love her/him, comfort her/him, honor and keep her/him, in sickness and in health, and forsaking all others, keeping yourself only unto her/him, and through God's Grace to promise to be to her/him a faithful and devoted husband/wife as long as you both shall live

These are the exact same words that a pastor would ask a to be wedded couple in a traditional church wedding. I don't know how many times this question has been asked. I don't even know how many versions of such wedding vows are there out there. And of course I wouldn't know how many have responded "I do" to the above. But what I do know is that more and more people are taking the above to be a whole load of rubbish. I don't know about you. But to me, responding "I do" to the above meant a lifetime of promises and a lifetime of love. If you are unable to keep to a promise, why make it in the first place? Or have your faith in your spouse gradually faded over the years? Or perhaps you made a wrong judgement? Or perhaps you made a too hasty decision, attributing a broken promise to naviety arising out of youth? Why are promises so easily broken, so easily ignored, so easily forgotten? Or perhaps responding "I do" to the above was never meant to be a promise in the first place but just a lousy excuse to finish a long standing tradition? I don't know. And perhaps I never will know.

8th December 2007 Saturday

Caught a really nice song today and a not too bad movie. Song is one of Fish Leong. Really nice and sweet song. I really really liked the lyrics. Have placed it below. For those of you who have yet to check out her new album, do check it out. For those who have already bought or listened to her album, I hoped you liked it as much as I did. I really can't wait to attend her concert at the end of this year. Saw on newspaper that she will be singing songs of other singers, unplugged. Really looking forward to listening yet again to that voice that I have so loved all these years. I am sure it will be a great concert and I am sure that voice will touch me yet again.

Also caught the movie Golden Compass a little while earlier. Not as boring as what my friend's friend said and I really liked the concept of your soul beside you in the form of an animal, rather than inside you. I guess that concept grants each and everyone of the people in the movie a soulmate. Well, at least no one is lonely in the movie since each and everyone has an animal friend. AndI liked the way the souls of children could change the form of animal that it took after. Really interesting. For those who are going to catch the movie, do take note though that it is a trilogy. So you are going to have to spend money on two more movies in addition to this one just to get to the ending. Just thought I should say this as I just realised that not everyone is aware that the movie is a trilogy. I guess they didn't do too much publicity on the trilogy part. At least not as much as Lord of the Rings and Matrix. Anwyay, also hope that all of you who caught the movie enjoyed it as much as I did too!

深秋山顶风微凉
恋人并肩傻傻看夕阳
仰望 你为我敞开的天窗
一段日光落在手上 三寸长

你说 秋天手掌上的日光
一寸 能许一个愿望

希望我爱的人健康 个性很善良
大大手掌能包容我 小小的倔强
你的浪漫 只有我懂欣赏
能让眼泪长出翅膀飞离我脸庞

还想每天用咖啡香 不让你赖床
周末傍晚 踩着单车 逛黄昏市场
我的浪漫 只有你懂欣赏
就让每个台风夜晚上不恐慌紧张

第三个愿望 还不想讲
你自己想一想 问微笑的月光

一人一支闪闪仙女棒 好像我们指尖有星光
很烫 可是很灿烂很漂亮
一点点光 捧在手上像太阳
等到世界末日你再讲
那个愿望 一起紧握不放

三寸日光]---梁静茹

2nd December 2007 Sunday

All aspects of existence are based on connections.
Connections establish what each doll is.
A consciousness clearly defines its existence here.
If a doll feels this place is not where it belongs,
then it is the same as if the doll does not exist.
It just becomes another thing.
It is a lonely...dark...cold... and sad thing.

[Rozen Maiden]

I guess the above applies to human beings as much as it applies to dolls......