My dance and my music- Time After Time (finger style)

Hahaha, my playing + my dance!!!

Enjoy!!

My playing with my Fender Guitar!

Well how are you guys?
Haha, as usual been bz. :(
Anyway thought of sharing my playing style with you with my favorite guitar- Fender!!

Have fun ya!!!

As I'm Leaving by David Gray

It's been a while since I last found a song I loved so much that I had to post it here.

 

This song is by David Gray, titled "As I'm Leaving". Apparently it was featured in the movie Ladder 49, but I guess I didn't really pay attention to the song then. It's also featured on CSI, as Gil Grissom was leaving the show, but I haven't watched that episode yet.

 

I recently heard this on someone else's blog, and I loved it so much I went everywhere online to look for it. It's a simple song, but so haunting and beautiful and emotional.

 

There's no official video clip that I can find on Youtube, but here's a video clip featuring another movie. I don't know what movie this is, and I'm not sure if the song was actually featured in it...

 

Enjoy!

 

Love is in the Air

Since it's Valentine's Day, I thought it would be appropriate to post about our marriage registration today. =)

Yes! Lone and I have registered for marriage, we're legally married now!

Please don't cry, Johnny Depp, you know you'll always be in my heart! =D

No, we didn't register today, can you imagine registering on Valentine's Day, and forever after having to share your anniversary with every other couple in the world and paying exorbitant prices for a nice dinner and/or flowers and chocolates?

Nope, don't want that.

I'm actually not a fan of Valentine's Day, and I make sure Lone *never* buys me flowers or anything at all on this day. Do you know how many books I could buy with that money? Wasted on flowers that are going to wilt and die?

LOL!

Ok, let me clarify that I'm actually quite the hopeless romantic, and I love romance and love stories perhaps even more than the average girl! I just don't think there's anything romantic about our now very VERY commercialized Valentine's Day, though I actually love Valentine's Day itself.

But I digress! Today isn't a day for me to complain about the commercialism of a perfectly great Saint's day that was ruined by the modern man, today is a day for me to tell the world that we're no longer single. =)

But always available!

Anyway, we've registered, but the wedding dinner is only going to be held next year in January because we couldn't get any good dates this year.

I wanted to post the pictures of our registration too, but I have no idea where Lone put them. We'll ask him to post the pictures later, ok? =)

Happy Valentine's Day, everyone!

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I still love you, Johnny Depp! Hugz and kisses! =D

Lion Dance - Chinese New Year Feb 2009

 

 

 

 

Chinese New Year for me , I guess is getting less and less fun...

Why?

Compare back to late 80's and early 90's , we as small kids , can get to play all kinds of fireworks.

And you hardly to see "the red floor" in front of every houses , or shops beside streets.
What I mean here is every houses they played with red firecrakers ( with loud noise if you have any idea which I'm talking )

But now government has banned. :(

Why? I think because now days people they are not handling with cares, some of them trying t b "smart" and modify to make a bigger bomb. But end up they "boom" their fingers, or worse ~ burn their own house.

Is because of this , those who knows how to "handle with care" are missing to having good time with fireworks during Chinese New Year. I am sad about this.
I used to hurt my self, but I had learned! And I would say y generation is consider the "LAST BATCH" of kids who get to play fireworks.

I can't share with my kids in future, and even my grand child. :(

If only may be bring them to China , and buying all the fireworks for them to play!

And also when I was kid, during Chinese New Year , all of us went back to hometown to meet up all relatives, grandpa and grandma always welcome us. In home town I get to see cow, goat, horse , and more, we climbed up coconut tree to get some of those. We have fish catching session in a small stream, play with ants, of cause FIREWORKS.

Fireworks is not only for festival celebration. To me is meant a lot. Is gathering.

We play and fun together with fireworks. We having match with wireworks (see who has the most colourful one, or whose one fly higher..) things like that...

But we know the danger, never simply modify if you don't know.

And today , fireworks is GONE!



Ask: Why banned the beautiful "part" of this culture?

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Back to another story, after many years, recently we went to Edmund's new home, he was having birthday party + Chinese New Year party . We went to visit him. He was my band member - lead guitarist.(Back to 1996~1998)

We had good time with lion dance, fireworks. Check out the video ya?

There's one part I really enjoyed it.

During two "Lion" having dancing , Edmund placed the "ang pow" aka pocket money on top of tin of beer. There's four of those.

And the lions have to drink before "collect" the "ang pow".

End up , lions got drunk!!!! Hahaha!!

Last, cheers and Happy Chinese New Year once again!

Show, don't tell... well, kinda

You know what's the best thing about having a blog?

 

You can say anything you want, preach all you like, talk about what you ate for breakfast, where you went last Friday, and pretend to yourself that people are actually interested in what you have to say.

 

Or perhaps you don't even care if people are interested in what you say, you're just happy that you get to say whatever you want in the first place.

 

I'm actually one of those people.

 

I have lots to say. I think that I'm a very well-informed person and that my opinions are very damn important. =P

 

And most importantly, I love to lecture.

 

Poor Lone!

 

Luckily for him, I have many blogs! And I can lecture in my many, many blogs, so I don't actually lecture him as much as I probably would without a blog. =)

 

Anywayyyyy, it just occurred to me because I was reading an author's autobiography about her writing and the way she writes. In the book, she repeats the often mentioned RULE of writing: "Show, don't tell."

 

I realized that I would make a really lousy writer, because I love to tell! And I have no idea how to show!

 

Then I started to really, really appreciate my blogs, because I'd probably die if I didn't have an avenue for my thoughts and my urge to lecture people about my opinions!

 

LOL!

 

And I remembered that I haven't been blogging here as much as I should have, and I decided it was time to show this blog some TLC with more blog posts, so...

 

here I am!

 

Like I said, I think my opinions are very damn important, so I'll impose one on my blog now. =P

 

I was saying earlier that the good thing about blogs is that you get to say whatever you want, and I think that's a very good thing.

 

Not just for me, mind you. For everyone else too.

 

We, as social human beings, usually need someone to talk to, a sounding board, an avenue for our thoughts... and sometimes we just need someone to just listen.

 

We all know how important it is to be a good listener because we've all loved it when we found a person who is one.

 

The point is, sometimes in real life, you don't find someone who you can talk to about things that really matter to you, because mostly you talk about mundane things, or things that you have in common.

 

In fact, sometimes it's not even about the things that matter, sometimes you just want to talk about what you ate for breakfast because it's the first time you fried an egg for yourself and you're so proud you just want to tell people about it.

 

But of course, tell someone about it in real life and they may just look at you blankly and smile.

 

Write about it in your blog, however, (and add pictures!) and you get kudos and congratulations from your online readers.

 

I remember when I wrote and posted pictures about the time I cooked for my family. I was so proud and happy that my aunt and some of my friends actually commented on it. (Thanks, guys!)

 

But even if you don't get a response, that's ok too, because a listener doesn't have to comment, and you will still feel that your words are being heard, because there are plenty of blog readers who lurk and read without commenting.

 

The important thing is that you feel like your thoughts and opinions are validated. Just by blogging. Because we all need to feel validated as human beings.

 

Don't you agree?

 

Oh, well, it doesn't really matter if you don't, because I do think my opinion on this matter is *very damn important* anyway. =D