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Friday, 30 November 2007 randy sms me for rounding tonite.. but my car still at permas doing wielding.. reader digest sent me the "Big Sweep Lucky Draw" again.. anyway, i wonder will anyone really win anything.. Sitex is on the way.. been waiting for the time to change my pc.. i used to eyed the ATI 2900 XT graphic card.. it was priced around $620 few months ago.. thanks to the released of 3800 series.. newer technology and price is lower.. oh, i caught a rainbow outside my window again! i think its the most prominent one i'd ever seen..  awesome right.. do u see another fainter one on the left?  close up.. 0 comments  
dreamed of racing on 11:49 pm <-------------------------------------------------------> Monday, 26 November 2007 刚想到一个完美藉口 细雨纷纷令心情坏透 两个人并肩走 沉默不开口 潇洒得不想牵手 我们向往我们的自由 竟为对方泪流 不是我一开口 就长相斯守 保证走到白头 不要为我逗留也不要为我等候 请你大步向前走 不要回头不要泪流 请相信爱情 非要到最灿烂时放手 感觉才能永久 我不需要承诺 我不想换来失落 得而复失更难受吻吻我吧 说再见吧 挥挥手 孤独时请你想想我 好朋友 好朋友－星盒子 词曲 : 徐继宗  星盒子 (区永权，陈风，徐继宗）  林一峰 1998年的夏天，滚石台湾公司收到两张来自香港年轻人所写的演示光盘， 里面的创作歌曲有20多首。经过接触之后，才发现他们原来是一个4人的组合， 团名叫“4 and”，其创作风格非常新鲜。滚石公司于是就和他们签下合约， 并积极安排他们到台湾进行发片前的培训。可是，就在录完三首歌的时候， 团员中负责大部份创作的林一峰，因为学业和健康的因素退出这个团体。 林一峰的离开令其余三人顿感彷徨无助，然而他们头头碰着黑， 后竟遇上台湾大灾难“九二一大地震”，令唱片一再押后推出，认真始料不及。 这些压力并非每个新人都能承受，但他们三人一条心，在慎重考虑之后， 还是愿意继续留下来为自己心爱的音乐打拼，这个新团名--“Boxx”也因此而诞生。 在那段时间不断尝试不同的DIY（自家手作）音乐，首张唱片终在99年底于台 湾正式推出。 Boxx是一个创作团体，专辑中的歌曲除几首是离团的林一峰 所写之外，其他词曲都是由Boxx自己创作完成的。在与制作人陈俊仰合作之下， 编曲、合声编写和合声工作也是他们一手包办，不论是独唱、双人对唱或 三人合唱，他们在CD中都各有发挥。有别于一般美声团体，他们不仅要求默契 和和谐，更努力表现出三个人的特色。他们能写能唱，用自己的方法做音乐。 乐风给人的感受清新自然，充满个人的风格。歌曲中透露出年轻人的想法， 他们只需要有两把吉它，就可以马上表演出有别于专辑的Live版效果。 《快半拍 慢半拍》是他们到台湾之后才写的歌曲。词曲是针对三个人的性格 特点来设计的，歌曲内容描写年轻人相处之间的情谊。尽管他们以轻快的 曲调来冲淡那种在家靠父母、出外靠朋友的体会，但是也深深地刻划出他们 离乡背井的内心感受。《分手的第一天》是这张专辑中最后完成的三人合唱。 他们将失恋的那种痛苦感受用歌声非常真实地表达出来，撞击有相同遭遇人的心坎。 而《好朋友》、《你很麻烦》将Boxx给人的朝气、温暖和风格自然地表露 出来。我们也可以看出初生之犊不畏虎的朝气，爱音乐的心，爱音乐的“星盒子”！ 区永权现在在香港有线卫士新知台当娱乐记者，总是采访很多歌手的。 0 comments
dreamed of racing on 11:16 pm <-------------------------------------------------------> Sunday, 25 November 2007 have a really busy weekend.. was in jb the whole sat again..fx, kenji and i was meeting fraser at Permas Jaya this Seng Tai workshop for re-wielding, undercarriage coating and repainting of my car.. it had done some sdc members GTti and fraser is so experience in telling the mechanic which part of the car to take note etc.. its so lucky that he happen to go there for cusion wrapping.. anyway, i saw kelvin car! i still remember that time we meetup at YD, he juz got his GTti.. now it look so different.. i'd decided the color tone for my car.. i was thinking of black, gray and red.. but red was so common and so coincidence, jacob, kelvin and smith GTti are on red.. now i'm thinking of doing it gray, black and white.. if not possible, then gray, black and green.. in fraser's car, i heard of a song by 李玖哲 something like “是我想太多，你总这样说...” quite nice.. because of the Singtel X'mas Fair, i was at orchard almost the whole day.. it was so crowded with people.. i hate going down to orchard, the only time i purposely go down is to see the x'mas lightings.. and i can count on my fingers the no of times i go down in a year.. its not orchard, its the crowd that turn me off.. thus i spent most of time in the library @ orchard.. can't find an empty seat in coffee bean.. went to coffee club, there're a queue of people.. finally after some waiting, we had some earl gray tea with vanilla icecream.. the earl gray at taka is not as good compared to marina.. 0 comments
dreamed of racing on 10:26 pm <-------------------------------------------------------> Friday, 23 November 2007 Joke of The Month The teenager lost a contact lens while playing basketball in his driveway. After a fruitless search, he told his mother the lens was nowhere to be found. Undaunted, she went outside and in a few minutes, returned with the lens in her hand. "How did you manage to find it, Mom?" the teenager asked. "We weren't looking for the same thing," she replied. "You were looking for a small piece of plastic. I was looking for $150." 0 comments
dreamed of racing on 11:25 am <-------------------------------------------------------> Monday, 19 November 2007 went to MAN Exhaust with fx to do K&N open pod for his march.. i also asked aman to fabricate an intake pipe for my air filter.. luckily, i managed to find a small to big silicon hose at ong boon kwee scrapyard for only $5.. man's custom-make pipe cost me $40.. jacob told me that Soon Huat Auto Trading had scrapped 3 GTti recently and had the long lost GTti front grill! i got myself one of that too.. though the price is quite high.. man could help me to indent Hotbits lowering spring at around $280.. Energetic Engineering could also indent Koni Yellow Sport at $137 ea.. whole new suspension will cost me around $829.. i'm also looking at GAB suspension.. i saw its coil over for G100, just have to check that it can fit GTti.. abit troublesome as GAB is from M'sia.. will check it out when going down for re-welding of my car.. 0 comments
dreamed of racing on 10:20 pm <-------------------------------------------------------> Friday, 16 November 2007 A Treasure In A Box A young man learns what's most important in life from his neighbour. It had been some time since Jack had seen the old man. Studies, girls, career, and life itself got in the way. In fact, Jack moved clear across the country in pursuit of his dreams. There, in the rush of his busy life, Jack had little time to think about the past and often no time to spend with his wife and son. He was working on his future, and nothing could stop him. One day, over the phone, his mother told him, "Mr. Belser died last night. The funeral is Wednesday." Memories flashed through his mind like an old newsreel as he sat quietly remembering his childhood days. "Jack, did you hear me?" "Oh, sorry, Mom. Yes, I heard you. It's been so long since I thought of him. I'm sorry, but I honestly thought he died years ago," Jack said. "Well, he didn't forget you. Every time I saw him he'd ask how you were doing. He'd reminisce about the many days you spent with him" Mom told him. "I loved that old house he lived in," Jack said. "You know, Jack, after your father died, Mr. Belser stepped in to make sure you had a man's influence in your life," she said. "He's the one who taught me carpentry," he said. "I wouldn't be in this business if it weren't for him. He spent a lot of time teaching me things he thought were important. Mom, I'll be there for the funeral," Jack said. As busy as he was, he kept his word. Jack caught the next flight to his hometown. Mr. Belser's funeral was small and uneventful. He had no children of his own, and most of his relatives had passed away. The night before he had to return home, Jack and his Mom stopped by to see the old house next door one more time. Standing in the doorway, Jack paused for a moment. It was like crossing over into another dimension, a leap through space and time. The house was exactly as he remembered. Every step held memories. Every picture, every piece of furniture. Jack stopped suddenly. "What's wrong, Jack?" his Mom asked. "The box is gone," he said. "What box?" Mom asked. "There was a small gold box that he kept locked on top of his desk. I must have asked him a thousand times what was inside. All he'd ever tell me was the thing he value most," Jack said. "Now I'll never know what was so valuable to him," Jack said. "I better get some sleep. I have an early flight home, Mom." It had been about two weeks since Mr. Belser died. Returning home from work one day Jack discovered a note in his mailbox. "Signature required on a package. No one at home. Please stop by the main post office within the next three days," the note read. Early the next day Jack retrieved the package. The small box was old and looked like it had been mailed a hundred years ago. The handwriting was difficult to read, but the return address caught his attention. "Mr. Harold Belser" it read. Jack took the box out to his car and ripped open the package. There inside was the gold box and an envelope. Jack's hands shook as he read the note inside. "Upon my death, please forward this box and its contents to Jack Bennett. It's the thing I valued most in my life." A small key was taped to the letter. His heart racing, as tears filling his eyes, Jack carefully unlocked the box. There inside he found a beautiful gold pocket watch. Running his fingers slowly over the finely etched casing, he unlatched the cover. Inside he found these words engraved: "Jack, Thanks for your time! Harold Belser." "The thing he valued most was my time." Jack held the watch for a few minutes, then called his office and cleared his appointments for the next two days. "Why?" Janet, his assistant asked. "I need some time to spend with my son," he said. "Oh, by the way, Janet thanks for your time!" "Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take but by the moments that take our breath away." more touching stories here.. 0 comments
dreamed of racing on 3:11 pm <-------------------------------------------------------> Realisation: A Loving Sprinkle of "Stardust" Yvaine, the "star" in the movie "Stardust" remarked thus about love - "... it [love] was the only thing that made watching your world bearable. All those wars. Pain, lies, hate... It made me want to turn away and never look down again. But when I see the way that mankind loves... You could search to the farthest reaches of the universe and never find anything more beautiful. So yes, I know that love is unconditional. But I also know that it can be unpredictable, unexpected, uncontrollable, unbearable and strangely easy to mistake for loathing, and... What I'm trying to say, Tristan is... I think I love you. Is this love, Tristan? I never imagined I'd know it for myself. My heart... It feels like my chest can barely contain it. Like it's trying to escape because it doesn't belong to me any more. It belongs to you. And if you wanted it, I'd wish for nothing in exchange - no gifts, no goods, no demonstrations of devotion. Nothing but knowing you loved me too. Just your heart, in exchange for mine." Though that seems like a wonderful declaration of true love, it is still conditional, as it desires reciprocation of love. Isn't that a "demonstration of devotion"? To burst the fairy-tale bubble, one cannot have unconditional love for someone alone, for if it is truly unconditional, it has to be for everyone - despite their gender, race, religion, age, character... If one's love for someone is conditioned by that person being that particular someone;not being someone else, the love is not really unconditional. If so, the romantic notion of one-to-one love being true and unconditional is but an illusion! That said, romantic love is not useless - for it is usually part of the path from conditional love of one to unconditional love of all. Even loving a particular someone else is improvement from just loving oneself or no one! As Stonepeace said, "When you do not love yourself, you cannot really love others. When you do not love others, you cannot really love yourself." Not anyone's exclusively, true love is truly for one and all. In Buddhism, what makes true love is not just loving-kindness, compassion and appreciative joy for one, but for all - with impartial equanimity. These qualities of metta, karuna, mudita and uppekha are the four sublime states of mind. So immeasurable can they be that like Yvaine's case, they cannot be contained. It feels light and nurturing though, never unbearably heavy. Worldly love is easily mistaken as hatred because they are two fickle sides of the same spinning coin of attachment and aversion. True love has neither of these qualities. Neither is it unpredictable nor uncontrollable, as it is mindful and steady. Unlike Tristan, who wanted to "prove" his love, true love doesn't seek to prove itself, for that is ego at play. True love simply loves truly. At the end of the story, Tristan and Yvaine gained "everlasting" life as stars. Neat twist to the traditional "happily ever after" as mortals, but even stars burn out, while true love never fizzles out... life after life. Just think the perfect love of the Enlightened for us all. -Shen Shi'an 0 comments
dreamed of racing on 9:17 am <-------------------------------------------------------> Thursday, 15 November 2007
 went to super import nights.. i only went to see the drifting..didn't go in cos nothing new.. i'd already seen the new Civic Type R, the new Evo X.. and i hate the new lancer design.. DAMN ugly la.. the slanting tail light doesn't look at all stylo and with a flat boring front.. wth.. lancer design work is getting worse every evolution since Evo 7.. ok some updates on my car.. went to VIS on tuesday to add a side SARD 800cc injector.. and after some tuning, finally able to boost 1.2 bar.. i'm wana do a CAI and juz happen that fx need to go MAN Exhaust.. actually i didn't hear anything wrong with his car, but kenji and him said that they heard the exhaust pipe at the front of his car leaking.. in the end, aman say nothing wrong.. lolz.. we went to YD afterward and i saw jacob! his GTti look so new after spending 5k doing it up! he promised to pass me the jb contacts where he re-wield his car and interior wrapping.. oh, i finally found my speedometer! and its the rare flat with super bright blue illuminate type! one and only one in sg.. =) 0 comments
dreamed of racing on 11:21 pm <-------------------------------------------------------> Monday, 12 November 2007 今天是张雨生逝世十周年，以下是张雨生谈莫札特的片段。他对莫札特的形容 就好像对自己形容。上天排他把天上的音乐带给大家，又匆匆的把他带回天堂。 |
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一份情讓我們相知相惜 一份真摯的友誼，使我們成為永遠的朋友
                                                     
 stare at the blank + in the center, what do you see?  do you see the dancer turning clockwise or anti-clockwise? "There are some people who meet that somebody that they can never stop loving, no matter how hard they try. I wouldn't expect you to understand that, or even believe it, but trust me; there are just some loves that don't go away. And maybe that makes them crazy, but we should all be lucky enough to end up with someone who has a little bit of that craziness. Someone who never lets go. Someone who cherishes you forever." - Ally McBeal unique moonlighters |
