Rhapsody In Blue

My sister flew back to UK to continue her second year of studies there. She got me started (and finished in the same week) on Code Geass and Nodame Cantabile.

Code Geass is 'heavy' in the theme and plot development to me. I enjoyed Nodame better.

Now i got various symphonies stuck in my head.

I dug out many of my all soundtracks and dl into my handphone to listen.

Back to work.

Musing of A Year 5

at Graduate level classes, the students are more interested in proving the lecturer Wrong

If you are to write a story...

If you are to write a story, would you write "Return of the King" or "The Diamond Throne"?

Seasons of the Shape Shifters

Looking forward to Transformers. Not sure to catch in Shanghai, or to watch it in SG when i get back.

Ever Wonder how do Cloud pack his swords into one? Check this Out:


I'm reminded of

Kaoru Koganei 小金井薰 in Flame of Recca with his multiform weapon.

Hehez.

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Busy-ness, Hope and Wait

I'm super busy (a little more busy than usual).

I saw a friend's MSN comment which is 'hopeful'... - which i can do with some hope in my life.

I waited as the stipulated... but ... ... wasn't there...

Not a Natural People Type

“Therefore encourage one another and build each other up, just as in fact you are doing.”- 1 Thessalonians 5:11

Musings of a distracted Mind

Having tendencies to be easily distracted. Supposed to be doing school work at a friend's place. But dunno why i am blogging off at this moment with a boliao entry.

In an O R D - like mood.

"Well theres nothing I can do
I only wanna be with you
You can call me your fool
Only wanna be with you"

Working on a Sunday

Being the lazy person that I am, my friends would know that I would conveniently declare off on Sundays for the sake of observing Sabbath.

Right now I am supposed to be doing my NVC assignment at Jeryl's place, but ended up playing with the functionalities of the Microsoft Office OneNote 2007.

And this is the 'Blog This' function.

After some meddling and trying about, I realized and is pleasantly surprised that MS actually collaborating with the sites like Blogger to facilitate the blogging over their applications. Kudos to MS for this!

Okie, here's a picture of Nerdish Jeryl trying hard to do work last night! Enjoy!

Okie, needed to edit the post to get Jeryl's picture up on the net. Guess there's still room for improvement for MS Office Blog This function.

All I want is you

You say you want
Diamonds on a ring of gold
You say you want
Your story to remain untold

But all the promises we make
From the cradle to the grave
When all I want is you

You say youll give me
A highway with no one on it
Treasure just to look upon it
All the riches in the night

You say youll give me
Eyes in a moon of blindness
A river in a time of dryness
A harbour in the tempest
But all the promises we make
From the cradle to the grave
When all I want is you

You say you want
Your love to work out right
To last with me through the night

You say you want
Diamonds on a ring of gold
Your story to remain untold
Your love not to grow cold

All the promises we break
From the cradle to the grave
When all I want is you

You...all I want is...
You...all I want is...
You...all I want is...
You...

(Taken from U2 - All I want is you)

A Letter to Memories

Kite Lyrics
Artist(Band):U2

Something is about to give
I can feel it coming
I think I know what it is
I'm not afraid to die
I'm not afraid to live
And when I'm flat on my back
I hope to feel like I did

And hardness, it sets in
You need some protection
The thinner the skin

I want you to know
That you don't need me anymore
I want you to know
You don't need anyone
Or anything at all

Who's to say where the wind will take you?
Who's to say what it is will break you?
I don't know, which way the wind will blow

Who's to know when the time has come around?
Don't want to see you cry
I know that this is not goodbye

It's summer, I can taste the salt of the sea
There's a kite blowing out of control on the breeze
I wonder what's gonna happen to you
You wonder what has happened to me...

I'm a man, I'm not a child...
A man who sees
The shadow behind your eyes

Who's to say where the wind will take you?
Who's to say what it is will break you?
I don't know, where the wind will blow

Who's to know when the time has come around?
I don't want to see you cry
I know that this is not goodbye

Did I waste it?
Not so much I couldn't taste it
Life should be fragrant
Rooftop to the basement

The last of the rocks stars
When hip hop drove the big cars
In the time when new media
Was the big idea

Sin City

Looks like amongst the J's that I like, only Johnny and Jose were with me in Shanghai.

Nope, I am not a chain smoker. But some business associates in Shanghai still believes in “研究” aka “烟酒”. I won't know what to do with it.

One Night in Beijing

不想再问你你到底在何方
不想再思量你能否归来么
想着你的心想着你的脸
想捧在胸口能不放就不放

one night in beijing 我留下许多情
不管你爱与不爱都是历史的尘埃
one night in beijing 我留下许多情
不敢在午夜问路怕走到了百花深处

人说百花的深处住着老情人缝着绣花鞋
面容安详的老人依旧等着那出征的归人

one night in beijing 你可别喝太多酒
不管你爱与不爱都是历史的尘埃
one night in beijing 我留下许多情
把酒高歌的男儿是北方的狼族

人说北方的狼族会在寒风起站在城门外
穿着腐锈的铁衣呼唤城门开眼中含着泪

呜………………我已等待千年为何城门还不开
呜………………我已等待了千年为何良人不回来

one night in beijing 我留下许多情
不敢在午夜问路怕触动了伤心的魂
one night in beijing 我留下许多情
不敢在午夜问路怕走到了地安门

人说地安门里面有位老妇人犹在痴痴等
面容安详的老人依旧等着那出征的归人

one night in beijing 你可别喝太多酒
走在地安门外没有人不动真情
one night in beijing 你会留下许多情
不要在午夜问路怕触动了伤心的魂(人)

one night in beijing one night in beijing
不想再问你你到底在何方
不想再思量你能否归来么
想着你的心想着你的脸
想捧在胸口能不放就不放

one night in beijing 你会留下许多情
不敢在午夜问路怕触动了伤心的魂

スタアの恋

It's one of those starry starry night (season). Quoting from the same friend from the previous:

"Stars should not be seen alone. That's why there are so many. Two people should stand together and look at them. One person alone will surely miss the good ones."--Dry (Augusten Burroughs)

Hubble turns 17, and gave us a beautiful picture.







Carina Nebula, off Carina, Argo Navis


"If I may, fly you to the stars... "

They found an earth like planet 20.5 light years away at Gliese 581. Who knows, if God willing, may one day, Man to walk amongst the stars.

Friendship

Became a Facebook Whore for a while. Trying to add all my friends and acquaintance to my network. Found some friends from the states whom i met at some conferences. Borrowing a quotation from this friend o'mine.

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"It's the kind of friendship that's easy to make in elementary school when you're six or seven. You let a kid have your swing and suddenly, he's your best friend... You never question it. You never say to yourself, 'Am I spending too much time with him?' 'Am I sending the wrong signal?' Then you get pubic hair and everything changes."-- Dry (Augusten Burroughs)

A Story to Share

Hi there,

The following story is dedicated to a dear friend of mine whose cheerful disposure brings Sunshine and Warmth to bleak city of Shanghai on the colder days.

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Once upon a time, there was a little Princess who was very unhappy
because she was not as pretty to look at as she thought a little
Princess should be. She sat in the garden and was sorrowful and cried a
great deal, because she felt sure that no one would ever make her a
queen.

One day, she sat by the wall of the garden with her hands in her lap,
and was looking very sad. An old woman, very bent and gray, and carrying
a bundle, passed along the road outside and looked over the wall.

'Why do you cry, little Princess?" she asked.

'Because I am not beautiful,' the little Princess replied, 'and so I
shall never be made a queen.'

"Why do you not go out into the world and find someone who can make you
beautiful?" asked the old woman as she started again on her way. And
this seemed like such a new adventure that the Princess went out through
the garden gate and started down the road.

Before the Princess had gone very far, she overtook a boy. He was
stumbling along the road as if it were hard for him to find his way. He
put out his hand and touched the Princess' silken sleeve.

'Where are you going?' he asked.

'I am going to find someone who will help me be beautiful. I am not
pretty enough to be a queen,' the Princess said.

'Wait a while and and help me,' said the little boy. 'I am blind, and I
cannot find my way home.'

So the Princess took the blind boy's hand in hers and walked along with
him, leading him very gently, until they came to the cottage by the side
of the road where he lived.

Then the Princess went on, hurrying, for she felt that she had lost a
lot of time. But before she had gone very far, she saw a little girl
standing by the edge of the woods and crying. When the little girl saw
the Princess, she looked up and asked, 'Where are you going?'

'I am going to find someone who will help me be beautiful. I am not
pretty enough to be a queen,' the Princess said.

'Wait a while and help me,' said the little girl. 'My mother is ill, and
I went to the dairy to fetch her some milk and eggs, but I have no
money, and they say that I must pay.'

The Princess pulled from her silk bag a bright gold piece. She had but
two of them to buy herself food on her journey, but she gave one to the
child. 'This is to pay for the milk and eggs,' she said. Then the little
girl laughed with happiness, her smile as bright as sunshine.

'Now I must make great haste.' thought the Princess. 'It is getting on
in the day and I am no more beautiful than when I started.' But she had
gone only a little way when she saw the old woman, who had spoken to her
in the morning.

'Did you do as I said?' asked the old woman.

Sadly, the princess replied, 'Yes, but I am still ugly to look at.' And
she dropped her head.

'Oh no, you are not,' the old woman said. 'Look!' And she held a mirror
before the Princess' face.

A strange thing had happened. The Princess' eyes had grown bright as
stars, her hair as shining as the gold piece she had given away. She had
grown beautiful as a queen.

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I guess there's nothing mentioned about our dear little princess being skinny in the story.
The moral of the story is more readily used as a reminder to myself I guess, but so goes for you my friend. :P

All the Best! You'll be the Queen of the World someday!

I'll be there for you - Bon Jovi

For the Bros, who knows the STBNZ, here's the lyrics for one of my favourites.
Sing it as you mean it.
Remembering the crazy days singing on the bridge. We are short of going to the rooftop

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtzcOqv_P-4

I'll be there for you - Bon Jovi

I guess this time you're really leaving
I heard your suitcase say goodbye
Well as my broken heart lies bleeding
You say true love, it's suicide

You say you've cried a thousand rivers
And now you're swimming for the shore
You left me drowning in my tears
And you won't save me anymore

I pray to God you'll give me one more chance, girl

I'll be there for you
These five words I swear to you
When you breathe I want to be the air for you
I'll be there for you
I'd live and I'd die for you
Steal the sun from the sky for you
Words can't say what a love can do
I'll be there for you

I know you know we're had some good times
Now they have their own hiding place
I can't promise you tomorrow
But I can't buy back yesterday

And Baby you know my hands are dirty
But I wanted to be your valentine
I'll be the water when you get thirsty, baby
When you get drunk, I'll be the wine

I'll be there for you
These five words I swear to you
When you breathe I want to be the air for you
I'll be there for you
I'd live and I'd die for you
Steal the sun from the sky for you
Words can't say what a love can do
I'll be there for you

Solo

And I wasn't there when you were happy
I wasn't there when you were down
I didn't mean to miss your birthday, baby
I wish I'd seen you blow those candles out

I'll be there for you
These five words I swear to you
When you breathe I want to be the air for you
I'll be there for you
I'd live and I'd die for you
Steal the sun from the sky for you
Words can't say what a love can do
I'll be there for you

Outlooked 2003 - 2007

Hand very itchy. Install Office 2007 in my office computer.
Met with some problems with the POP connections.
Spent more time rectifying the problem than attending to some very very urgent matters in the office.

Decided to share my findings with the online community. See below link and try to find my pseudonym. :P

http://www.roundtripsolutions.com/blog/2007/02/19/208/problem-with-outlook-2007-email-receive-is-broken/#comment-916

If you jump I'll break your fall

...When you feel all alone
And the world has turned its back on you
Give me a moment please
To tame your wild wild heart

Let me be the one you call
If you jump Ill break your fall
Lift you up and fly away with you into the night
If you need to fall apart
I can mend a broken heart
If you need to crash then crash and burn
You're not alone...

(Crash and Burn - Savage Garden)

The Origin of the Heart Shape

Saw this picture online and saw some trivial stuff.

Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. 1 Cor 13:8

And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love. 1 Cor 13:13

I'm very off the context with the above quotations, but i hope i get to illustrate my point.

So Love on...

Love,
Giin

Season of Lent

The Season of Lent started last week on the Ash Wednesday. I was not able to drop by the service, because I was still in Beijing.

Anyway, it's 40 Days to Good Friday. Let see if I can make a dedication to the covenant with these 40 days. Please pray for me that God will grant me a vision. More importantly, I found areas in my life that i can do with more discipline. I hope i can make a change in a small area within this 40 days.

Here is some information on Lent i found on the net. For your viewing pleasure.

Lent is a season of soul-searching and repentance. It is a season for reflection and taking stock. Lent originated in the very earliest days of the Church as a preparatory time for Easter, when the faithful rededicated themselves and when converts were instructed in the faith and prepared for baptism. By observing the forty days of Lent, the individual Christian imitates Jesus’ withdrawal into the wilderness for forty days. All churches that have a continuous history extending before AD 1500 observe Lent. The ancient church that wrote, collected, canonized, and propagated the New Testament also observed Lent, believing it to be a commandment from the apostles.

Lent began in the apostolic era and was universal in the ancient church. For this reason, Lent is observed by the various Presbyterian, Methodist, Lutheran, and Anglican denominations, by Roman Catholics, and by Eastern Orthodox Churches.

It is much easier to explain who stopped observing it and why.

In the 16th century, many Anabaptists discarded all Christian holy days, on the theory that they were Roman innovations. That was their best information at the time, but today we know that they were wrong. In the late nineteenth century, ancient Christian documents came to light. The Didache from the first century, the Apostolic Constitutions from the third century, and the diaries of Egeria of the fourth century; all which give evidence of the Christian calendar and holy days. The Didache and the Apostolic Constitutions were written in the east, which denies it ever recognized the institution of the papacy. Egeria was a Spanish nun, but her writings also describe practices in the east. All of these documents came to light 300 years after it was too late for the groups who had already discarded Christian holy days.

In many cases, however, Rome was the last place to observe the holy days. For example, the idea of moving All Saints Day to November 1 did not reach Rome until 700 years after it originated in England, and the idea of celebrating Holy Week as Palm Sunday, Maundy Thursday, and Good Friday, was quite elaborate in Jerusalem before the early fourth century but did not spread to Rome until the 11th century. Advent began in medieval Gaul and spread to Rome from there. Lent, on the other hand, appears to have originated in the apostolic age. The Apostolic Constitutions attribute the observance of Lent to an apostolic commandment. We can’t verify that, but we also can’t disprove it.

The Anabaptists gave rise to or influenced the Amish, the Mennonites, the Baptists, the Puritans, and the Plymouth Brethren, and this is why the Puritans made Christmas illegal in Massachusetts at one time. In the 19th century, the established denominations were slow to spread west of the Appalachians, so people who did not observe Christian holy days took up the slack. This means that most of the religious groups that were formed in the United States in the 19th century do not have a custom of observing Lent. This environment has had some influence on individual congregations in denominations that have historically observed the Christian holy days—so you will occasionally find a Methodist church that does not observe Lent.

Gradually, the holy days have returned to the churches that had lost them. The restoration quickly began with Easter. Christmas followed in the 19th century, and Advent and Holy Week became widespread among them in the 20th century. Lent is mounting a come-back in the 21st century.

(from www.kencollins.com)