只有當你用生命去感受生命，那生命才是屬於你的。

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 :)

每次带着不同的心情来到这里，带走的总是一种很平凡却又很特别的平静

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.

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.

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The news that shocked me in the morning. Yesterday, I was just listening to Billie Jean on youtube. For all the courtsuits and scandals that suddenly seemed so insignificant, the world mourns the passing of the one and only King of Pop.

I’m not a fan of MJ but it’s impossible not to know his songs. It’s everywhere and i hear it all the time. On radio, on tv. It’s so common that it’s almost a given, that this man and his music is always there, whether is it during a dancing saturday night, a geography class or a dance competition. And to realise that his music has revolutionalized pop music. And all these people who are always imitating his moves, his dances, either in awe, in respect or in mockery.

For a star that has soared so high, higher than anyone has ever reached in this generation, his last moments were probably an extremely lonely one. RIP Michael Jackson. The legacy you’ve left behind, the music that changed the world. The world is still broken, but there are now people who are inspired and living the words from Heal The World.

I was attracted to the poignance of the title. Familiar tune, and this is a cover by Younha.

Many people have traveled all over the world, but very few people, if any, have been entirely honest to yourself.

好感动。
很感动。

似乎长得越大，失去的东西越多。
曾经和你很近很近的人，抱着自己追求的理想越走越远
自己也抱着自己的理想，把距离越拉越远
所谓的改变，或许是一种失去

走着走着，眼前的事与物开始越来越模糊
所谓的梦想理想，已腐朽成回忆里的痕迹

世上的人这么多
可是怎么这么多人感到寂寞孤单？
看似渺小，甚至无助的自己
曾经曾经为一件事，一个人，燃烧着
可能自己就是别人的太阳？

Just finished watching Gran Torino. Another brilliant movie that left me in a turbulence of after-thoughts. This time, it’s a little different from the usual feeling that i get. It’s less fixated and less focused. But it probably bugs me twice as much as usual. I’m thinking the effect might not entirely be due to this film.

I’m slowly getting accustomed to the notion that certain movie only clicks when you’re in the appropriate mood during the day. On this day, Gran Torino is a brilliant movie. Clint Eastwood is masterclass!

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Waiting for something is an uncomfortable process. Days have gone by with my indulgence in mundane monotony of work, I realised that I’ve lost count of the days and hours. At the start, I was counting with the enthusiasm of a child. Gradually, all but some of those dissipated into the vacuum emptiness that echoes between my ears. And the heart sinks as the footstep slows to the pace of directionless walking. Perhaps I’ve already lost sight of what’s ahead already.

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for some good laidback music, Jason Reeves has got a good playlist.

when you sing with genuine emotions, your voices reaches far away.

some things, some people, passes you by just once in your life. will you grab it with all you’ve got or rather live with a life of unfulfilled possibilities?

a question that’s more difficult to ask than it seems – do i think you forgot me?