孙燕姿

半句再见

电影 六弄咖啡馆 主题曲
作词：吴子云
作曲：李偲菘

一张照片 半句再见 尘封的纪念
用眼泪 把你复习一遍

残缺的诗篇 遗忘的誓言
谁脑海 有张忘不掉的脸

微红的眼 微亮的天 好一次失眠
回忆 轻易带走了时间

有些从前太执念 那痕迹太明显
而故事 被遗憾 画上了终点

为何不放 既是过往云烟
想要遗忘 怎么反复挂牵
往哪里找安慰 会简单一些
更多更详尽歌词 在
我被思念制约 快乐显得卑微

怎么不放 早是过往云烟
越想遗忘 越是反复挂牵
而你在心里面 要怎么道别
说这半句再见 已过了多少年

无解

一端在彼 一端在天 两端成直线
直线 永远画不出个圆

有些从前太尖锐 谁脚步太遥远
让结局 被遗憾 写下了句点

醉难写的歌 (Brutally Honest)

作词：巴思亮、刘永康、江育岑
作曲：巴思亮、刘永康、江育岑
编曲：巴思亮

告别了一个季节
天空泛起了一丝疲惫
思绪随着那片落叶
掉进成堆的无解

孤单的旋律线
遍寻着能宣泄的字眼
又陷入了一场枯竭
等待再一次失眠

若这阵风
能够毫无保留
将我的思念吹送
到你的耳中
不需要说太多
也许是一首歌

夜已深
我还醒著
醉意渐散去了
走不出来
想你的无奈

我关上灯
擦去泪痕
歌还不够完整
对你的爱
若说出来
你还能不能明白

在过去这些年
你可曾来过几场表演
偶尔还是会喝太醉
偶尔还是弹断弦

被困住的下雨天
望着窗外模糊的视野
又涌上了一股纠结
你已经走得好远

更多更详尽歌词 在 ※ Mojim.com　魔镜歌词网 
若这脆弱
实在无药可救
就随着这脉动
配上几瓶啤酒
有好多话想说
也许是一首歌

夜已深
我还醒著
醉意渐散去了
走不出来
想你的无奈

我关上灯
擦去泪痕
歌还不够完整
对你的爱
若说出来
你还能不能明白
难得如此的坦白

若有场梦
能够予取予求
我想再次感受
在你的怀中
当我醒来之后
那会是一首歌

夜已深
我还醒著
醉意全散去了
走不出来
想你的无奈

我关上灯
擦去泪痕
当这首歌完成
对你的爱
已说出来
你还能不能明白
难得我如此的坦白

“This kind of certainty comes but once in a lifetime.” Several times I was asked what I look for in a girl. I avoid answering. That’s for me to know and for everyone else to not know. But in all honesty, do people really know?

 I have this absurd notion – perhaps we all know not know who are looking for until we found it. When two people click, I think the science behind it is too complicated for the human mind. Yet it happens, and the two perhaps share an innate understanding of each other, an unexplainable connection and with it comes a mutual trust that allows them to confide in each other, and in time to come, commit to each other.

 I don’t believe in soul mates. There are millions of people in this world. It would be terrible if it is true. It would be like finding a drop of ocean in a vast ocean. But I think that there will always be two person whose personalities complement each other perfectly. In the Bridges of Madison Country, the protagonist comes to face a dilemma. What if you found that certainty too late? What if one chooses to settle for lesser earlier on and found that person later on?

As I browse through the movie reviews, I notice that there was minimal mention of adultery or unfaithfulness. Maybe it’s because she chose her husband and her family in the end, out of duty and loyalty, and has to face that loneliness and agony for the rest of life? Maybe deep down, many viewers understand that when it comes to affairs of the heart, not everything can be reasoned logically anymore. Is it morally selfish and socially unacceptable to spare oneself emptiness and void for the remaining long years to come?

 In the end, it doesn't matter which decision Francesca made. Follow her heart, and she’ll spend herself living in regrets of abandoning a loyal husband and her kids. Stay, she has condemned herself to loneliness and a lingering thought of what her life might otherwise be. Would it be better that she has never met him in the first place?

There is a Chinese saying – 不在乎天长地久，只在乎成经拥有。But really, is a moment of happiness worth a lifetime of suffering? Sometimes, isn’t it better to not have since it’s impossible to lose what you ever have?

the difference

In dreams, the stuff could change to meet our needs and wants. In reality, it’s our expectations and desires that have to be adjusted to meet the hard truths, even to the extent of creating illusions to blind us from the harsh reality. No, it’s not escaping. It’s basic survival instinct.

the course of life

There comes a time, I suppose, when you see the people around you, the people you called your friends or acquaintances, entering into relationships, and you found yourself not really surprised anymore. Instead, you acknowledge the couple and congratulate them. And I think for me, that time has long passed. I guess maybe it’s because for a considerable part of my life, I grew up having slightly older friends and I guess gradually I have come to learn that boy-girlfriend relationships and marriages and perhaps even divorces are inevitable phases of life.

With Facebook, we learn about the ‘relationship statuses’ of the people around us even more quickly, perhaps even instantly, which I’m pretty happy about since I can stay updated without taking a more proactive role of trying to stay updated. At least there isn’t the chance of meeting a couple and say ‘hey I didn’t know u guys are together’, only to get a reply, ‘erm… that’s an eternity ago’. There is a lower possibility of calling a friend’s partner by his or her ex’s name. low possibility cos shit happens.

It’s the speed of how lives progress that I must get used too. Pretty soon, it’ll be weddings I’m attending, housewarming parties I’m invited to and baby showers I’m going, though that really depends on how much effort I’m willing to spend in making my social life an existence, as well as how tolerable my people skill actually is.

There’s always a certain fantasy associated with thinking that far ahead. But life from beginning to end generally is about the same. Live, reproduce and die. That’s destiny, although some may skip the second phase. Without a doubt, I’ll get to that point in time, and start to wonder why everything seems to be a déjà vu.
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Libya

The past decade have seen a suddenly spike of violence and political changes. Perhaps the greatest irony, one that no one expects, is that years of resentment in the Middle East towards U.S. for the invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan has turned to what seemed to be now a hopeful glance at America for leadership and support.

Indeed, astonishingly, the past few months have seen the uprising of the people after torrid years of corruption under tyrants and irresponsible leaders. What never fail to amaze me is that the desperate desire for democracy spike after a man (Mohamed Bouazizi) lit himself on fire to express his hopelessness with oppression in Tunisia. Eqypt followed after, and thankfully, the leader resigned gracefully. In Libya, it was different too. Col Qaddafi refuses to budge, and wages war on his people. NATO, UN, and the United Arab Emirates, shocked by the use of violence sanction a no-flight zone in the country yesterday, which was received with gratefulness by the rebels. The bombing of yet another Middle Eastern country by America planes have begun. Paradoxically, it is one approved by many countries and even the UN Security Council, but and yet it is one that U.S. is reluctant to enter and eager to get out.

This is no surprise either. This year marks the anniversary of a ten-year occupation Afghanistan and seriously, no can foresee when U.S. can get out of that shithole. That, as well as the military presence on Iraq soil has added shamelessly to the tremendous deficit that U.S. has found no answer to. I suppose today’s wars is different from the wars fought 500 years ago. Then, the losers become slaves. The winners do whatever they like. Today, the winners, no doubt for humanitarian reasons, end up protecting the losers from their own fanatics. War is costly. U.S. learnt that the hard

the new entertainment

2009 marks the advent of social media sites and by 2011, today, their popularity has increased tremendously. Facebook and Twitter are probably 2 of the most visited websites today, and it’s always amazing how some people actually update the details by the hour.

Is self-disclosure the new entertainment?

I find it extraordinary how the desire for privacy seems to have waned over the last couple of years. In Facebook, it’s almost fascinating how much information we can find about our friends. Almost gone are the days, at least for people my age, when one gets surprised after seeing a couple on the streets and realizing that they are attached. Why this phenomenon?

Does it provide a sense of self-importance, a feeling of one’s significance?
Not long ago, the new trend was blogs and online diaries. Are facebook and twitter, software that allows real-time updating and instant links to other people, evolutions of those?

What is it going to be like to stay connected to this digital age 50 years later?