Sunday, 29 May 2011

this post may be a tad offensive to young singaporeans, but its a fact that i'd
observed for the past no of years.. young singaporeans general are getting from bad
to worse..

more youngsters are getting back into fights, that even lead to fatality.. if u rem
the down town east incident.. more are smoking their life away esp. girls.. the news
had reported that the no of young female smokers increased the most.. young s'poreans
are naive and easily influenced..

young singaporeans are getting more materialistic.. u see most female in their teens
wish for LV, GUCCI stuff.. its not totally the girls fault.. guys are the culprit
for spoiling them, regardless they're rich or not..

people are getting more selfish.. this is regardless of age.. due to our society,
esp singapore, i feel that we had lost our values.. school education only focus on
academic result, no one will care about your moral values..

both parents are working hard to maintain a household due to the high standard of
living in s'pore.. thks to our govt, the pap, our society.. they hardly have time
to supervise their kids.. parents are tired/stressed after work, and leave all the
upbringing of their child to teachers in sch.. some parents didn't even know how to
teach and guide their children.. sorry to say this, but some parents themselves are
failure in moral values.. teachers today are juz passionless teaching robots who
only focus on academic results..

every woman want man to be a gentleman.. yet reading thru stomps, one can see in
almost weekly basis, young woman being "stomped" for not giving up seats to elders
or pregnant.. yes, this is what young s'porean lack.. such a simple unselfish act..

ok, if you're a young s'porean reading this, do not be agitated.. cos if you're
what i mentioned above, its a fact.. if you're not, there's no need for you to get
angry.. :)

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Friday, 20 May 2011

Unhook from negativity

No one likes to be in a negative situation, but we don’t always get along
with everyone all the time. Once, when we were with the Dalai Lama,
he said to us, If we were together all the time we would quarrel!

However, if someone is being dismissive, fault-finding or disapproving
and this is making us feel unworthy, insecure or lacking in self-esteem,
then it may be because there’s a hook somewhere in us for that negativity
to latch on too, a place where it can land that triggers all these hidden
self-doubts.

How do we unhook from negativity? Rather than adding fire to fire by
being equally as negative, we can overcome negativity with loving kindness..
When we extend kindness toward ourselves as well as toward the person we
are having a challenging time with, then an extraordinary thing begins to
happen: the hook within us begins to dissolve. This means there is nowhere
for the negativity to take hold or to land. By embracing ourselves with
kindness, we are strengthening and reinforcing feelings of self-empowerment,
worthiness, and personal value. Sending kindness to our adversary transforms
them so they are able to release the conflict. It also acts like a shield
so that any remaining negativity does not penetrate. It cannot land.

For e.g. if someone often pick on you, instead of reciprocate the same action
and make thing worse, we can show our kindness to that person.. soon, that
person will change his attitude toward you.. you may ask why must i show
kindness to someone who pick on me? the answer is simply because it affect
you and only you can turn the table around.. if you can make life happier
for yourself and the other person, why not? if you have the knowledge and
kindness to make life better for everyone, why not?

its time for you to unhook yourself..

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Thursday, 19 May 2011

legend.. juz like beyond..



もう独りで歩けない
時代の風が強すぎて
Ah 傷つくことなんて
慣れたはず だけど今は

Ah このまま抱きしめて
濡れたままの心を
変わり続ける この時代に
変わらない愛があるなら

Will you hold my heart
涙 受け止めて
もう壊れそうな All my heart

Forever Love Forever Dream
溢れる想いだけが
激しく せつなく 時間を埋め尽くす
Oh Tell me why

All I see is blue in my heart

Will you stay with me
風が過ぎ去るまで
また 溢れ出す All my tears

Forever Love Forever Dream
このままそばにいて
夜明けに震える心を抱きしめて
Oh Stay with me

Ah 全てが終わればいい
終わりのないこの夜に
Ah 失うものなんて
何もない 貴方だけ

Forever Love Forever Dream
このままそばにいて
夜明けに震える心を抱きしめて

Ah Will you stay with me
風が過ぎ去るまで
もう誰よりもそばに

Forever Love Forever Dream
これ以上 歩けない
Oh Tell me why Oh Tell me true
教えて 生きる意味を

Forever Love Forever Dream
溢れる涙の中
輝く季節が 永遠に変わるまで
Forever Love

English pronunciation (Roomaji)

mou hitori de arukenai
toki no kaze ga tsuyosugite
Ah... kitzu tsuku koto nante
nareta hazu dakedo ima wa

Ah... kono mama dakishimete
nureta mama no kokoro wo
kawari tsuzukeru kono toki ni
kawaranai ai ga aru nara

Will you hold my heart
namida... uketomete
mou... kowaresou na all my heart

Forever Love, Forever Dream
afureru omoi dake ga
hageshiku setsunaku jikan wo umetsukusu
Oh! Tell me why

All I see is blue in my heart

Will you stay with me
kaze ga sugisaru made
mata... afuredasu all my tears

Forever Love, Forever Dream
kono mama soba ni ite
yoake ni, furueru, kokoro wo dakishimete
Oh Stay with me

Ah... subete ga owareba ii
owari no nai kono yoru ni
Ah... ushinau mono nante
nanimo nai anata dake

Forever Love, Forever Dream
kono mama soba ni ite
yoake ni, furueru, kokoro wo dakishimete

Ah... Will you stay with me
kaze ga sugisaru made
mou dare yori mo soba ni

Forever Love, Forever Dream
kore ijou arukenai
Oh! Tell me why, Oh! Tell me true
oshiete ikiru imi wo

Forever Love, Forever Dream
afureru namida no naka
kagayaku kisetsu ga eien ni kawaru made

Forever Love

English translation:

I can't walk by myself anymore
The winds of time are too strong
Ah, what a wounding thing
I should have gotten used to it. But right now...

Ah, hold me like this
My heart, damp as it is,
In this continually changing time
If there's a never-changing love

Will you hold my heart
Catch my tears
All my heart is ready to break

Forever Love Forever Dream
Only overflowing thoughts
Terribly, sorrowfully bury all time
Oh Tell me why

All I see is blue in my heart

Will you stay with me
Until the wind passes
All my tears start to overflow again

Forever Love Forever Dream
Be with me this way
Hold my trembling heart in the dawn
Oh Stay with me

Ah, I wish everthing were ended
Nothing is ended, in this night
Ah, what a loss it is
There's nothing at all...only you

Forever Love Forever Dream
Stay close with me this way
Hold my trembling heart in the dawn

Ah will you stay with me
Until the wind passes
More than anyone else, close with me

Forever Love Forever Dream
I can't walk farther than this
Oh Tell me why Oh Tell me true
Tell me what it means to live

Forever Love Forever Dream
Amidst overflowing tears
Until the shimmering season changes to eternity
Oh Forever Love

Chinese Translation

已無法再獨自前行
時間之風太強
啊　受傷這樣的事
已經習慣　但如今…

啊　一直緊緊擁抱著
被濕潤的心
若有不變的愛
就能將時間化為永恆

Will you hold my heart
請接住淚水
似乎已毀去All my heart

Forever Love Forever Dream
只有滿滿的回憶但是
埋葬所有激烈的痛苦的時間
Oh Tell me why

All I see is blue in my heart

Will you stay with me
直到強風遠去
仍然奪眶而出的　All my tears

Forever Love Forever Dream
一直在身邊
擁抱著顫抖的心直到天明
Oh Stay with me

啊 如果全部都結束最好
這沒有盡頭的夜晚
啊　失去全部
一無所有　除了你

Forever Love Forever Dream
一直在身邊
擁抱著顫抖的心直到天明

Ah Will you stay with me
直到狂風遠去
已無人比你更適合

Forever Love Forever Dream
只能前行至此
Oh Tell me why Oh Tell me true
告訴我　生存的意義

Forever Love Forever Dream
在滿溢的淚水中
直到光輝的季節永不改變
Forever Love

Forever Love by X Japan
Written and composed by Yoshiki
Released: July 8, 1996

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Thursday, 12 May 2011

what is love?

one cant explain love wholly.. a rough idea:

love is when u reali understd ur partner, accept his/her gd n bad,
accept them and still want to live with him/her for the rest of ur life..
you believe he/she is the one for u this life time, you'll always
tink for him/her b4 urself..

love is not sacrifice though it seem so on the surface.. when u truly love
a person, whatever u do for him/her is out of love, not sacrifice..
cos u'll nvr see it as sacrifice..

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Wednesday, 11 May 2011

Meditating on a Rose

You are not in the world, the world is in you. Get closer to the real creator
inside you by meditating on a rose.

To say that you are the creator isn’t the same as to say that your ego is.
The ego will always remain attached to your personality, and certainly your
personality doesn’t create everything around you. Creation doesn’t happen on
that level.

Get a beautiful red rose and hold it in front of you. Inhale the fragrance and
say to yourself, “Without me, this flower would have no fragrance.” Take in
the glowing crimson color and say to yourself, “Without me, this flower would
have no color.” Stroke the velvety petals and say to yourself, “Without me,
this flower would have no texture.” Realize that if you subtract yourself from
any sensation—sight, sound, touch, taste, smell—the rose would be nothing but
atoms vibrating in a void.

Now consider the DNA that is inside each cell in the rose. Visualize the
billions of atoms strung along a double helix and say to yourself, “My DNA is
looking at the DNA in this flower. The experience is not an observer looking
at an object. DNA in one form is looking at DNA in another form.”

Now see the DNA begin to shimmer and turn into invisible vibrations of energy.
Say to yourself, “The rose has vanished into its primal energy. I have vanished
into my primal energy. Now only one energy field is looking at another energy
field.”

Adapted from The Book of Secrets by Deepak Chopra (Three Rivers Press, 2005)

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Monday, 9 May 2011

The single most troubling idea that we absorb growing up is that the pursuit
of happiness happens out there. Most of us spend much of our lives seeking
something outside of us that will make us happy. Advertising lures us to
purchase fast cars and the latest high tech phone or gadget among the millions
of other marketing ploys that cement in us the tragic misunderstanding that
our happiness is out there somewhere waiting for us. Most of these messages
confuse us even further because the happiness that is sold is a paired happiness.
We believe that our relationships, like the stuff they accompany will also
make us happy.

Actually this is probably the single most lethal thinking error that kills
countless decent relationships. I sometimes lose my audience when I tell them
that relationships are not designed to make us happy. At their best, they are
our life’s work that provide the deepest mirrors into whom we are becoming
and offer up the safest environment to learn how to love better. Long lasting
relationships are not a product of luck; they are the courageous soul baring
efforts of two people committed to discovering themselves and each other.

Yet the happiest couples I have known over the years share one significant
common feature: both partners own themselves. They aren’t looking for someone
to complete them, and although they share their sorrows and frustrations in
life with their partner, they don’t expect their relationship to fix them.
This was a hard-earned lesson for me in the first decade of my marriage,
which I entered believing would cure me of my insecurities and fill up my
emptiness. The many ways that my marriage failed to do those things only
added to my disillusion and anger that my marriage wasn’t making me happy.
This turned into a blame game that slowly but surely consumed the intimacy
and fun we shared. It is still a wonder to me that we came out of it intact.

I was reminded of this painful past when my eldest daughter came home in tears
from her new shared home with her boyfriend. As she lamented about all the
ways she felt invisible and unappreciated in her relationship, I remembered
the crazy codependency that characterized many years of my early marriage.
Incapable of giving to myself, I poured all my best love into my partner and
the relationship expecting that it would be returned in kind. Mostly we don’t
get back what we give in love–this is a close runner-up in thinking errors
about relationships. In reality, each person gives what they have to give,
which is not necessarily what you want them to give. Believing that you can
control how your partner loves you and how they show their love is another
associated thinking error that generally leaves both people gasping for air.

- Wendy Strgar

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Thursday, 5 May 2011

下雨的窗边 忽然想起你的脸
思念背着后悔 还比忙碌让人疲倦

你走的那天 我的爱也闭上眼
日子像白开水 刻意过得平静而沉淀

明明是一样的思念 为什么要分隔两边
爱经过空间时间考验 只是不说没有不见

明明想牵手走更远 为什么只停在从前
不怕为相见飞跃世界 相爱的人不该分两边

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Wednesday, 4 May 2011

1998年台湾酒厂巡演截取



我可以很久不和你连络
任日子一天天这么过
让自己忙碌可以当作借口
逃避想念你的种种软弱

我可以学会对你很冷漠
为何学不会将爱没收
面对你是对我最大的折磨
这些年始终没有对你说

爱你越久我越被动
只因你的爱居无定所
是你让我的心慢慢退缩
退到你看不见的角落

爱你越久我越被动
只因我的爱不再为你挥霍
是我让我的心失去自由
却再也没有勇气放纵

被动－伍佰　作词：潘丽玉　作曲：伍佰　原唱：苏慧伦《Lemon Tree》

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Tuesday, 3 May 2011

In 2010, we saw floods in Pakistan, China and the United States, a massive
earthquake in Haiti, crippling heatwaves in Russia, and massive ice melts
in the Arctic…not to mention that it was the hottest year on record–yet again.

Now, only four months into 2011, we’ve seen massive earthquakes in Argentina,
China, Chile, and most notably, in Japan. And for the past week, horrendous
rain storms and tornadoes carved a trail across the Southeastern United States,
reducing homes and stores to piles of rubble, and taking the lives of over
300 people.

There is much that we still don’t understand about natural disasters, but as
the infographic below demonstrates, they are extremely powerful.



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