只有當你用生命去感受生命，那生命才是屬於你的。
Four, thirty-three
American composer, John Cage, composed a rather unconventional piece of music titled 4’33″. During the four minutes and thirty-three seconds, not a single note is played. It wasn’t silence that was played. Instead, you listen to the sounds of the environment, something most people usually neglect.
Everyone’s talking about final year projects, job-hunting, graduation trip. It almost seems like the next few months is already panned out in front of me, even if i wasn’t extremely concerned about it initially. The number of times I’m asked about it ensured that I had given them enough thoughts. Too much maybe.
We’re obsessed about moving, even though we know that taking a moment out of moving will do us every good. When we are on step 24, we are already thinking about step 30 and step 35.
The next step will be important. It’s like arriving like a giant interchange with many buses to take. What’s my next bus? I should be catching my next bus soon if I do not want to be late for my next appointment. But perhaps, I should take my 4’33″ break first. Being a little late is fine, as long as I know my directions :)
Zee Avi
Stumbled across this indie singer on youtube. Really like the rawness of her voice. Sounds really like Joanna王若琳, which can’t be a bad thing =) Cool sound for a sleepy morning, a lazy afternoon or a sleepless night.
Zee Avi is now based in US, was from Malaysia. Can listen to her songs on her website. Tried to buy her album online but it’s only sold on iTunes and Amazon (both freaking US biased). Thankfully, I found my copy from HMV which turns out to be the one and only copy on the rack.
remembering MJ
It still seem like a news that’s not so real. Because his voice is still very much audible when I tune in to the radio stations, his dance moves is still very much played out on MTV the last few couple of days. Probably a few more days or weeks before this piece of news becomes part of the ‘Memories’ and ‘History’ section. I didn’t expect his passing to have a bigger than expected effect on me but it did. For a life no greater than any other lives lost in Iran at the moment, so why does my tears flow when i listen to his songs on youtube? I guess it’s the one that has moved you personally that leaves you feeling really sad about his passing and there’s no grander reason than this.
It saddens me. But I’m glad that his music lives on. Music don’t usually save lives, but it has the ability to change lives if you allow it to. Whatever names that people prefer to call him, I’d rather remember him for the many songs he gave us, the most fitting way in which MJ should be remembered as.