The Secret History of The World (Part 1)

It's been a long time since I tried love at first sight.... to a book haha...
Last Saturday, just happen to glance at the book "The Secret History of the World" and it captivated me. And two days ago when Mickey persuaded me to go Kinokuniya, I remembered the book and decided it shall belong to me.

Do not ask me why I like this book. I'm not sure too. Maybe because I love history. It never fails to intrigue me. And there's secrets as the book suggests. Secrets of history that are opposite to the truth on what we've always known. Truth that might never be proven. Yet it pricks the curiosity in me. I understand curiosity kills the cat... but being the cat... it has nine lives. haha...
Or maybe I find that there are many things in the world that are unexplainable, that Science is never able to explain. In one of the para of the introduction, it wrote:

"Induce in yourself a different state of mind and the most famous and familiar histories mean something very different"
In fact if anything in this history is true, then everything your teachers taught you is thrown into question.
I suspect this prospect doesn't alarm you.
As one of the devotees f the ancient and secret philosophy so memorably put it:
You must be mad, or you wouldn't have come here"

Yes indeed... maybe I'm indeed quite mad... Oops.
Haha it's getting late, shall continue another day... and I shall share Chapter 1.

Meeting with Stars...

It might seem strange but I do not have a lot of idols when I was young.

I guess I have only admitted one so far. And he's not a famous star.

Just a normal TVB actor whom I like because of a drama series.

In a way I liked him because of his character and chrisma inside the drama series.

Last night I was searching a photo of Hendersonwave for adietcokelover for our company's magazine (on our Southern Ridge walk held few weeks ago) when I chanced over this photo of 杜德伟, bringing it back memories...

This was taken few years ago, when I was still in my first job.

It was the first time I ever meet a star and have a chance to converse and had supper with.

It was in Goodwood Park Hotel I remembered. My ex manager (actually I was not technically in her team) was his great fan and she brought my senior, 小肥 and me to meet him.

He was not my idol actually. But I find him quite a nice person. He volunteered to treat us and was rather friendly with all his fans. He was not irritated or fustrated with all the photo taking.

He also politely apologised as he was a bit late as I believe he just rushed down after his work. I believe at that time he was in SIN filming.

Anyway, in the end, the next morning (I think), I even went to the airport to send him off. haha... quite an interesting experience since I've never tried before to send a star off at airport before. Seems like my teenage years are rather boring?? Anyway, from conversation, realised that there are a few of his fans that once even travelled all the way to overseas for his concert. They also brought him presents and posters. Some are even handmade presents... Rather sweet of them...

Seeing his photo, also reminds me of my ex-colleagues whom I've not seen for a long while. They're fun and very nice people who makes tiring work less difficult. Will always remember the fun times working with them... and the jokes shared. Will always remember the 杜德伟 song <<脱掉>> as it is often teased to be (or maybe it's the truth?) Kel Wee and TCH's love song in a certain office late in the night of a one fine day... few years ago.

Maybe will write about them in my blog someday...??

Haha... from emails, seem that a gathering is likely to be upcoming. Looking forward to this gathering and naturally fun that comes along with them... =)

散文 - 张小娴

我喜爱张小娴的散文.
感谢郑先生(在星期六时)借我的散文集<<收不起的思念>>.
特别喜爱以下这篇散文:

一个爱你的男人 - 张小娴

要知道一个男人爱不爱你，那还不容易吗?
爱你的那个人会给你尊严。
什么样的尊严?他让你觉得自己高贵。
他让你觉得你在他的世界里是最重要的。
你的地位不会排在他的事业之后。
他不会要你每天等他的电话,
却从来不说什么时候会打来，也不说会不会打来。
约会之后，他不会放心你独个儿回家。
不管已经多晚，也不管你往得多远，他会陪你走那段回去的路。
他不会让你总是孤怜怜地等他回家。
他不会认为你的工作比不上他的工作重要。
他肯定你的工作能力，支持你为梦想奋斗。
他不介意常常要等你下班等到很晚。
他不会要你为他放弃工作。
他不可以忍受他的朋友批评你和对你不好。
他会跟这些朋友绝交。
他不会在你面前盯着另一个女人看，
也不会对着你不停称赞另一个女人的美貌和智慧。
上床之后，他不会要你出去买点东西回来给他吃。
上床之后，他不会赶忙穿上裤子回家去。
他让你相信，你是他今生最幸福的际遇。
他把悲伤留给自己，把痴心留给你。

PS: 也感谢神秘人帮我输入这些华文词语.
因为他知道我输入华文词语速度超慢.
他又再次让我感动.

Courage To Love

Thought of writing about "Courage to Love" in Chinese.
But the Chinese software is really giving me issues.
Hopefully I'm able to translate my thoughts into English accurately...

Recently went to meet up with various friends.
Through conversations, I've discovered that we've all somehow changed.
In one way or another.
In the past, our attitudes and mentality towards love were somewhat different.
We might be afraid then. But not as afraid as now.

Perhaps it's our mentality on refusal to lose.
Perhaps we've subconsciously regarded that a failure in love means failure in life.
Perhaps we feel we're no longer young.

Somehow we've forgotten the simple joys we experience when we fall in love.
Is it because we have matured over the time?
Or is it because we think and rationalise too much that we've become more complex?

Love requires courage.
Because somehow someone needs to make the first step.
And time awaits for no man.
Even if failure awaits, at least there's no regrets in years to come.

In my view, the worst in life about love is not the rejection or failure faced.
Because there's confirmation and closure in the relationship.
The worst is that two persons love each other and yet still fail to come together due to a lack of courage.
Because regrets will await when the truth prevails.

Wish all my friends success in love.

I've always liked this song. Love to sing this in KTV:

勇气 By 梁静茹

终于作了这个决定 别人怎么说我不理
只要你也一样的肯定 我愿意天涯海角都随你去
我知道一切不容易 我的心一直温习说服自己
最怕你忽然说要放弃 爱真的需要勇气 来面对流言蜚语
只要你一个眼神肯定 我的爱就有意义
我们都需要勇气 去相信会在一起
人潮拥挤我能感觉你 放在我手心里 你的真心
如果我的坚强任性 会不小心伤害了你
你能不能温柔提醒 我虽然心太急 更害怕错过你

Chinatown

Sunday, 1 Sept 08

Went photo-taking at Chinatown with 神秘人.

I mostly took black-and-white photos this round since I've to submit black-and-white photos for my assignment (as my black-and-white photography course is ending). Results of photos will only be seen in hard copies after I've finished developing them.

Nevertheless, I still took some digital photos with my Canon IXUS 85 IS since I can't resist taking colour photos! haha... anyway I think I will take more if I've brought along my Nikon baby (DSLR). But I don't like my bag to be too heavy. So I only brought along my sleek normal digital automatic camera...

Anyway few photos to share with all:

下雨天

不知为何,下雨天总是让我感到有点伤感.
或许是我因为我喜爱阳光,怕冷的关系吧.

我不喜爱在雨中撑伞.
即使是与情人在雨中漫步.
因为我注重健康多过于浪漫.
担心他是否为会因此而着凉生病.

在雨天,我会僮憬自己像电视剧的情结一般,
坐在咖啡厅与情人一起喝着热咖啡.
望出那朦胧的窗外,看着人群撑伞的点滴.
因为他的双手像热咖啡一般会带给我温暖.

在雨天独自一人时,我喜爱窝在床上阅读小说.
特别喜爱张小娴的散文.
因为她用简短的散文表达了现今都市男女的爱情心态.
因为我在她的散文里感受到她即使看透了很多事,
她还是选择相信爱情及承诺.

让我与你分享她的一些感触吧:

(散文: 一直都等你)
女人最伟大的行为, 莫过於为一个男人蹉跎岁月.
男人最放心不下的, 是有一个女人一直在等他.


(散文: 男人在早餐说的话)
是女人的爱情令女人忠心, 却不是男人的爱情令男人忠心.
令男人忠心的,不是爱, 而是义.


(散文: 困着我)
爱是在我浪蕩之后, 最想回去的地方.
爱是在我自由自在的时侯, 心里最牵掛的人.
爱是他放手, 他纵容, 我却不肯远走天涯, 甘愿受困.

Writing my Blog in Chinese

Well well.. my blog is usually written in English instead of Chinese since I do not have the software to write in Chinese. It's very time consuming and tiring when you have to write in Chinese by using the hanyu pinyin dictionary.

Now don't laugh at me when you realise how I wrote those Chinese characters in the past... haha but anyway thanks to 神秘人, I realise that there is this website that could help me write Chinese at an efficient speed!

http://www.nciku.com

So most likely when my mood strikes, I'll write my blog in Chinese!
Well that's because at certain times, emotions could be more clearly described when written in chinese.

So my dear friends with good command of chinese, pls tolerate my standard of chinese k?

Especially my dear friends 贝儿 and Cool-san. Now I've to add 神秘人 in the list too after this morning. haha...

Cheers!