| User: |  miak |
| Date: | 2010-01-07 19:01 |
| Subject: | 日月潭 |
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| User: | miak |
| Date: | 2010-01-07 09:47 |
| Subject: | 观音 |
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| User: | miak |
| Date: | 2010-01-07 09:19 |
| Subject: | 九份 |
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silent night, holy night~
well i didnt exactly spend a silent night for this yr's xmas. in fact i had a rather great night with some closer friends who came over to my place to chill out, make merry, catch up and share very tasty xmas food.
they started trickling in at abt 630, just nice to settle down with a cocktail and soak in the atmosphere with a graceful sunset from my balcony. as more of them came in, the dining table was immaculately filled with more and more nicely plated festive food like fruit cakes, roasted lamb, ham, novel salads and chocs. yes its xmas potluck and i'm so honored to see tt so much effort have been put into every dish!! food aside, the company really made a whole lot of magic!
i'm glad tt everyone's just feeling a good balance of conversation, peace and festive vibes in the breath of the cool breeze, sounds of sexy bossa nova and sips of champagne. for myself, it was the first home party, or shall i say, gathering for these wonderful people whom i can count on as friends. and for them all, an evening to remember and relish.
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For those of you who do not know, I am back at work at where I was first posted. After 3 years, things come full circle and I am back at a familiar, and yet not so familiar place.
Familiar because the environment is something I am used. There are familiar faces and smiles, who seemed welcoming towards my return. The professional work is an area of work I had enjoyed, and which I look forward to again.
Unfamiliar because there are many fresh faces. Also as a Level Head, there are new responsibilities to deal with, and I am sure amidst familiar faces, there are expectations of who I am, who I should be, or what I should be capable of doing.
It is a rather strange feeling - in a way I think being a new officer in the organisation would have been much easier to adapt since every page can be a fresh one. So even as I begin to write on fresh pages now at work, I have to deal with the old.
Looking forward to it, with optimism and Him watching above.
Maybe I should sing "As if we never said goodbye"...
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I don't know why I'm frightened
I know my way around here
The cardboard trees, the painted seas, the sound here...
Yes, a world to rediscover
But I 'm not in any hurry
And I need a moment
The whispered conversations in overcrowded hallways
The atmosphere as thrilling here as always
Feel the early morning madness
Feel the magic in the making
Why, everything's as if we never said goodbye
I've spent so many mornings just trying to resist you
I'm trembling now, you can't know how I've missed you
Missed the fairy tale adventure
In this ever spinning playground
We were young together
I'm coming out of make-up
The lights already burning
Not long until the cameras will start turning...
And the early morning madness
And the magic in the making
Yes, everything's as if we never said goodbye
I don't want to be alone
That's all in the past
This world's waited long enough
I've come home at last!
And this time will be bigger
And brighter than we knew it
So watch me fly, we all know I can do it...
Could I stop my hand from shaking?
Has there ever been a moment
With so much to live for?
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黃小琥-沒那麼簡單
詞/姚若龍 曲/蕭煌奇
沒那麼簡單 就能找到聊得來的伴
尤其是在 看過了那麼多的背叛
總是不安 只好強悍 誰謀殺了我的浪漫
沒那麼簡單 就能去愛別的全不看
變的實際 也許好也許壞各一半
不愛孤單 一久也習慣 不用擔心誰也不用被誰管
感覺快樂就忙東忙西 感覺累了就放空自己
別人說的話 隨便聽一聽 自己做決定
不想擁有太多情緒 一杯紅酒配電影
在週末晚上關上了手機 舒服窩在沙發裡
相愛沒有那麼容易 每個人有他的脾氣
過了愛作夢的年紀 轟轟烈烈不如平靜
幸福沒有那麼容易 才會特別讓人著迷
什麼都不懂的年紀
曾經最掏心 所以最開心 曾經
想念最傷心 但卻最動心 的記憶
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| User: | leejean |
| Date: | 2010-01-05 15:06 |
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It'd appear that the whole world was taking days off for the period from Christmas Eve to day after New Year Day. On facebook, on livejournal, everywhere I looked, people were either going on holidays, coming back form holidays, or in the midst of holidays.
Working on construction sites provides reality check. For a lot of people, those few days were just like the other 360 over days of 2009. The workers were slogging from 8am to goodness know what time of the night. Some of the engineers and supervisors were likewise occupied. I was pretty much weighted down by the prospect of external audits at the two sites, amongst other things.
Thus, when Adrique grumbled that neither he nor mother received any season's greeting except from his friends and Casey, I was stumped for a moment. Since when was Christmas and New Year Day such a momentous occasion in our lives? But upon reflection, I told myself I should be glad as it's proof that their lives in Shanghai is now so settled and comfortable that they're at leisure to celebrate these events.
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Everybody is talking about bonus at the moment. The site engineer is very unhappy since he expected 3 months but he calculated he's getting just slightly above 2 months. The QS is telling a 'horror' story whereby HR overpaid the bonus and subsequently deducted the overpaid amount from the next month's salary. I think the topic will continue at least until the pay slip come when all is revealed after which everyone will bitch one last time. Until next year, that is.
This, of course, is yet another proof that I live in a different world from most of the people on my flist.
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I'm looking forward to the dress rehearsal this Wednesday, then the actual show on Saturday afternoon. And the photo shoot of course. After that, I can start eating like a normal person again. Cheese cakes, ice cream, ...hmmm
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When Nick passed away, he was barely 21. His death shocked my entire family to the core. One moment he had just passed out from OCS and became an officer, and then a week or two after that, he was cruelly taken away from this world on a seemingly sunny and bright Friday afternoon. But it was a Friday afternoon I could never forget, from the point I received the frantic call from my mom to the panicked run along the cold corridors of Orchard Central, to the hospital, to the face to face with his lifeless shell. Even til today, some nights I wake up in cold sweat reliving that traumatic day.
If that day left such an indelible scar in my memory, imagine what it's like for his mother. The last we spoke, she told me that every day is a living hell for her. Indeed it must have been. Especially when we all have been conditioned to accept what should be a natural course of events for our lives - we are born, we grow up, we work, we marry, we have children, they grow up, we grow older, we fall sick, we die, and our children manage our funerals.
Our children manage our funerals. We should not, as parents, be sending our children off in a coffin into the furnace. That is not natural. Parents shouldn't be grieving for their sons or daughters. If they do so, something is askew. They can't explain it, but they think something must be wrong somewhere. Could it be their karma? Could it be that they didn't do their best as parents, that they didn't pay enough attention and let their children slip away? It has to be their fault somehow. How else could something that is against the natural law of order happen to them?
But I've learned that sadly, it is natural. Because eventually everybody has to die. Death is perfectly natural. If you die after your parents have gone, it is natural. If you die before your parents, it is natural as well. Unfortunately and absolutely heart wrenching for those you've left behind, but natural. Because as much as we fear or hate to admit it, we will all die one day. We will not know how, or when. That is why we ought to wake up every day thankful we are alive. We don't do that all the time - most times we wake up wishing we didn't have to wake up that day. Well, one day that wish will eventually come true for all of us.
It is easy for me to console someone who shares the same faith as me when his or her son or daughter leaves before their time. After all, it is in our belief system that we all go through this cycle of birth and death, rinse and repeat, until we finally gain enlightenment through the study of the dharma and break this cycle. This particular existence is just one of the millions we have gone through and will go through, in so many permutations. In our past lives, our parents could've been our sons and daughters; in our future lives, our friends could become our parents. So this short time span that we live together as children and parents is short by comparison to what lies ahead in our future lives. This is not the end, and we will meet one day.
But how do you explain this to a parent who believes in an all-mighty god concept where there is only one life to live and where it is this god who gives or takes a life away at will? My aunt happens to believe in this particular concept, so each time she asks me why her god has to take Nick away from her, I am at a loss of words. I don't know how to answer her because firstly, there is no god in my religion, and therefore secondly, life and death are accepted as part of our existence. No gods, higher beings, or fate, determine how we die. Last but not least, explaining to her my personal views of her religion will only hurt her further.
And thus, I can only comfort her with this advice - these things are beyond the understanding of the human realm. We will only suffer more by questioning why. In this existence, the reality is that he is no longer here. So now, what is most important, is to take care of ourselves presently, face our future, but remember the past.
I think that is the best advice anyone can give to a grieving parent or friend.
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today's my chinese (lunar) birthday. and we of chinese descent have a tradition of consuming "red eggs" and rice vermicelli as a symbol of good fortune and longevity.
mum has lovingly prepared them for me and tho i was quite reluctant to have her smooth the dyed eggs all over my face, hair and clothes fearing tt it will leave an unsightly trail of red stains all over. i shd be very lucky tt i have a mum to do so for me :) as she wished me happy birthday and longevity, i could faintly hear the change of her voice as mini tears welt in her eyes. she's given me so much. and so has my dad and grandma who as also prep stuff like this for some of my bds and given me a huge part of their love.
tho we (will) never have e habit of showing it so obviously.. tho i'm staying out by myself which u r all not very happy abt, i love u all and i am still the good decent boy u brought me up as.
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