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Play loud your dreams, originally uploaded by Jane Jones.

Hey.. I am 28 now.

Haven't really thought about "age" that much since maybe like from 19.. through 27. Those were the blank years, when one year difference didn't seem all that much. My friends from Japan tried to joke about it and scare me on my 24th birthday that "you know, 24, man, that's year when everything starts to go downhill." They were indeed trying to make fun at the time, but boy, should I have taken them more seriously.

What starts to catch up is first the physical health.. You can't afford to stay up effortlessly like you used to. Each staying up past 2am becomes a hopeless goal to catch up on the sleep. All nighters seem like the impossible fantasy and you wonder how you could do it before. When you do pull an all nighter, you really just go to bed in the morning with death wish on your mind. You just never want to wake up again.

Then, slowly, you notice it's the mental health that starts to catch up on you. Your mind bends less easily. Your values are fixed. Your mental habits are fixed. You grow the worthless adult pride that stops you from doing the things that helps you grow. You become bound by society terms and conditions. Your emotions develop a mind of its own and go off in a direction not set out by "you". Worst of all is I think, you stop recovering as quickly as you'd like from a pain. The pain from parting, the pain from memories, the pain from loneliness.

This year's wishes were that 1) my parents can keep good health, both physical and mental. 2) my family and friends can all find good jobs and make good stable money.
3) There's supposed to be a 3rd which I keep to myself. But I forgot what it was I made. It must've been a.. general.. about achieving peace or happiness thing.

I'd be happy to save my wish for you, if anyone's got a good proposal.

多希望你在

So tired lately.. how many times I have said that.
Still hope to update blog.. but always warm up with some copy and paste first.
Enjoy it, anyway, I hope.



蕭敬騰 - 多希望你在
作詞：蘇打綠 青峰 / 作曲：蘇打綠 青峰

直到白雪都已畫滿了腮 眼前風景也浮出了白
直到美麗早已置身事外 路燈也輕易背叛色彩
妳的眼是一顆小小塵埃 卻又將我全身都覆蓋

笑容被鎖在遠遠城外 高塔上的妳是什麼情懷
來不及防備就已被打敗 瞬間瓦解失所流散

lelio~ lelio~ko
只是想起妳天真的臉龐
lelio~~ lelio~ko
只是想見妳專注的眼光
可惜身邊找不到妳肩膀
可惜妳不在身旁
lelio~
妳卻壓在我心上

悲傷已著火 多少話說不由衷
整個世界只剩下風 和我

而妳 妳已經不在
可惜妳不在
多希望妳在
可惜妳不在

And from the original composer:



I seem to prefer the original composer's interpretation of the song and lyrics better.

A new project in life

I am a project manager.
This is what I do for work.

In doing so, I have overlooked the more important projects.
The projects of life.
Recently, taking the opportunity of cleaning up the house, I have dug up a bunch of old things - photos, notes, journals, objects.
I started a new project, called "The Nostalgia Project",
in courtesy of Flickr.

This is a first completed set of this collection.
I put the slideshow below, but you need to enter and view the descriptive details. (only in Chinese at this point).



Finally, I attach an excerpt which motivates this project:
"It takes time, though, for Naoko's face to appear. And as the years have passed, the time has grown longer. The sad truth is that what I could recall in 5 seconds all too soon needed 10, then 30, then a full minute - like shadows lengthening at dusk. Someday, I suppose, the shadows will be swallowed up in darkness. There is no way around it: my memory is growing ever more distant from the spot where Naoko used to stand - where my old self used to stand. And nothing but scenery, that view of the meadow in October, returns again and again to me like a symbolic scene in film. Each time it appears, it delivers a kick to some part of my mind."

from Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami.

過年大三喜

最近有很多好聽的歌,連心情都好了起來.



跟另外一首:



兩張都是整張CD都很好聽,過年在路上不會無聊了.

還有,原來張學友會出演唱會專輯. 而且出的是收錄第96場... 也就是我看的那一場!



謝謝這些用心的藝人.

Flickr Slideshow Generator

有時候不知道為什麼我拖那麼久才做一些想要做的事.
這是一個很方便的工具,可以直接放映flickr上的照片在部落格裡.

這是一個叫做Night的Set.

謝謝最近很多人對照片比較捧場.

One or two things that I like

梁靜茹又出新專輯了..
真想要親自謝謝她不斷的唱好歌,
好像把我的寂寞淡淡的帶走.
我喜歡的歌星很少,都是一直重複的聽就那幾個人的歌,然後等他們出下一張專輯.
這次周董的專輯令我很失望,是我第一次沒有買他的CD. 不過他還是陪我度過國外大學時光的好伙伴,是我唯一對台灣音樂的聯繫. 我想這種感覺只有留學生懂.



我很喜歡這樣簡單的MV,
其實簡單比複雜更難.

讓我想起,第一個讓我覺得簡單的美的MV.


很不可思議, 不是嗎? 整個MV她就只是在洗碗罷了. 而且攝影機架好後動也不用動.
每個動作,歌詞的橋段到下一個卻是那麼的沒有縫隙.

好羨慕.

五月天 - 你不是真正的快樂

最近覺得好聽的歌.
阿信的詞曲,配上阿信的唱腔,很有力.
是上一張專輯沒有的五.月.天.原點的聲音.
歌詞也有那麼的一點感觸.
在MV 1:01分的時候往洋裝滑過去的構圖跟色調都很有感覺.
[2:08] 讓女孩哭起來的笑話到底是什麼呢
[3:50] 笑一笑想起自己該是哭, 好像可以體會那種感覺.

可以讓人從黑暗的深淵看到一點光,好像這是人類的原點.


《你不是真正的快樂》
詞曲:阿信　編曲:五月天　演唱:阿信

人群中哭著　你只想變成透明的顏色
你再也不會夢或痛或心動了　你已經決定了　你已經決定了

你靜靜忍著　緊緊把昨天在拳心握著
而回憶越是甜就是越傷人了　越是在手心留下密密麻麻深深淺淺的刀割

你不是真正的快樂　你的笑只是你穿的保護色
你決定不恨了　也決定不愛了　把你的靈魂關在永遠鎖上的軀殼

這世界笑了　於是你合群的一起笑了
當生存是規則不是你的選擇　於是你含著眼淚飄飄盪盪跌跌撞撞的走著

你不是真正的快樂　你的笑只是你穿的保護色
你決定不恨了　也決定不愛了　把你的靈魂關在永遠鎖上的軀殼

你不是真正的快樂　你的傷從不肯完全的癒合
我站在你左側卻像隔著銀河　難道緊緊的抱著遺憾一直到老了　然後才後悔著

你不是真正的快樂　你的笑只是你穿的保護色
你決定不恨了　也決定不愛了　把你的靈魂關在永遠鎖上的軀殼

你不是真正的快樂　你的傷從不肯完全的癒合
我站在你左側卻像隔著銀河　難道緊緊的抱著遺憾一直到老了

你值得真正的快樂　你應該脫下你穿的保護色

為什麼失去了　還要被懲罰呢　能不能就讓悲傷全部結束在此刻　重新開始活著

Subconscious test result

The Worker

You want only for what you really need. A loyal, honest and hardworking type who requires only the simplest things from life; a home, a partner, a family and a good meal. You are prepared to work for all you earn and these strong principles will see you right. There are some around you that seek to take to take advantage of your generous and selfless ways so be wary not to give so much of yourself that there isnt enough for those that truely matter. But there are also some around you that wish only to have some of your good natured ways rub of on them, and you must learn to judge this difference and act accordingly. You are a good soul, keeping things simple will keep you happy.

很多人的救星

想要介紹一下正露丸.
正露丸為什麼叫正露丸,以及什麼時候該服正露丸,其實在它的名字裡都有說明- SEI RO GAN.

[SEI]第一層要服它的症狀就是"瀉",假如你在瀉了,你可以服用正露丸. 它可以止瀉, 真的很有用.

[RO]假如你不止偶爾瀉,連一般的時候都覺得有"漏"的情況,應該就是一定要來幾顆正露丸. 它真的很臭,但是它也能幫助你.

[GAN]第三個境界應該還是有不少人經歷過,而且應該都是不太好的回憶,就是你的症狀1&2已經讓你坐在馬桶上完全的一個覺得很"GAN、" 這個時候假如有人告訴你其實一次吃十顆比較有效, 你也會照作.

這樣大家對正露丸有了更深一層的了解了嗎?

在大陸

1. 這是沙縣小吃..店面看起來很不乾淨..出差大陸第六次了才敢去吃.
可是一吃就發現,其實好像不會不乾淨,而且比又油又鹹的湘菜好吃多了..
我跟ME的工程師Albert&Nike吃到都出"一號餐"了(小的乾拌麵+排骨湯).
一號餐才8ＲＭＢ...(其實這才是我的重點...)
二號餐是大乾麵+雲吞湯...

圖為二號餐.
大家都要帶自己的筷子才環保唷!

2. 在過了兩個半禮拜的大陸小鎮生活之後..到了香港機場想做的第一件事就是找一個像樣的東西吃..
(順便一提,可以活著到香港簡直是奇蹟.司機開飛車就算了,我一從照後鏡看他,竟然發現他快睡著了.XX的.請大家不要坐從大陸返港的永東巴士.)
因為很早到機場,把所有的餐廳都晃了一遍.在外面,沒有看到想吃的.過了關以後,看到很多餐廳,不過跟外面大同小異.重點是,隨便一個飯啊,麵啊,湯啊,就要六七十塊,實在不太想讓阿共的陰謀得逞..走啊走啊,到了最後一家,是"大家樂".我看到了我的救世主 - 海南雞飯HKD$39.
原本還是有一點怕怕的..因為以機場的標準..太便宜了嘛!
不過真的很好吃.香港的海南雞飯,雞肉就是很嫩,很"乾淨",肉多骨少,也不會有切的碎碎的雞骨頭,吃起來很危險.
不但如此,39塊的飯竟然還有一碗白菜,一碗煲湯(而且很好喝),跟普洱茶..太不可思議了.
吃的很飽..不坐列車,改成散步到登機門口..


3. 這是無聊排的小花.真是個方便的糖果.