The Last Goodbye

Can't quite see the end 
How can I rely on my heart if I break it with my own two hands? 
I heard all you said and I love you to death 
I heard all you said 
don't say anything

紅豆

红豆生南国，
春来发几枝？
愿君多采撷，
此物最相思。

One Art by Elizabeth Bishop

Chanced upon this poem in a movie I've watched on my flight back home:-

The art of losing isn’t hard to master;
so many things seem filled with the intent
to be lost that their loss is no disaster.

Lose something every day. Accept the fluster
of lost door keys, the hour badly spent.
The art of losing isn’t hard to master.

Then practice losing farther, losing faster:
places, and names, and where it was you meant to travel.
None of these will bring disaster.

I lost my mother’s watch. And look! my last,
or next-to-last, of three loved houses went.
The art of losing isn’t hard to master.

I lost two cities, lovely ones. And, vaster,
some realms I owned, two rivers, a continent.
I miss them, but it wasn’t a disaster.

—Even losing you (the joking voice, a gesture
I love) I shan’t have lied. It’s evident
the art of losing’s not too hard to master
though it may look like (Write it!) like disaster.

So in the movie Diaz talked about it with the professor, about how initially the writer lost “real” things like keys, and then she started losing metaphorical things like cities and contients. And Diaz talked about how this writer is faking nonchalance about losing, but actually she misses it all. (Ink Inc, 2007)

Stay - Rihanna

All along it was a fever
A cold sweat hot-headed believer
I threw my hands in the air I said show me something
He said, if you dare come a little closer

Round and around and around and around we go
Ohhh now tell me now tell me now tell me now you know

Not really sure how to feel about it
Something in the way you move
Makes me feel like I can't live without you
It takes me all the way
I want you to stay

It's not much of a life you're living
It's not just something you take, it's given
Round and around and around and around we go
Ohhh now tell me now tell me now tell me now you know

Not really sure how to feel about it
Something in the way you move
Makes me feel like I can't live without you
It takes me all the way
I want you to stay

Ohhh the reason I hold on
Ohhh cause I need this hole gone
Funny you're the broken one but i'm the only one who needed saving
Cause when you never see the lights it's hard to know which one of us is caving

Not really sure how to feel about it
Something in the way you move
Makes me feel like I can't live without you
It takes me all the way
I want you to stay, stay
I want you to stay, ohhh

Forgotten pictures + quote

'You closed your eyes. That was the difference. Sometimes you cannot believe what you see, you have to believe what you feel. And if you are ever going to have other people trust you, you must feel that you can trust them, too — even when you’re in the dark. Even when you’re falling.'

 (Tuesdays with Morrie, Mitch Albom)

Myth - Albert Einstein

Came across this  rumour regarding Mr. Albert Einstein. This had been refuted and argued that its a myth, a story. Many versions of it has been published as well, but the crux of it remains the same. Since it cannot be verified im gonna take it as that. These are some excerpts from this particular version that I really liked. The original story consists of an argument between a professor and a student (presumably Einstein in this case).

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Student : Professor, is there such a thing as Heat?
Professor: : Yes.
Student : And is there such a thing as Cold?
Professor : Yes.
Student : No, sir. There isn't.

 (The Lecture Theatre became very quiet with this turn of events )

Student : Sir, you can have lots of heat, even more Heat, Superheat, Mega Heat, White Heat, a Little Heat or No Heat.But we don't have anything called Cold. We can hit 458 degrees below zero which is no heat, but we can't go any further after that. There is no such thing as cold. Cold is only a word we use to describe the absence of heat. We cannot measure cold. Heat is energy. Cold is not the opposite of heat, sir, just the absence of it.


Student : What about Darkness, Professor? Is there such a thing as Darkness?
Professor: Yes. What is Night if there isn't Darkness?

Student : You're wrong again, sir. Darkness is the absence of something. You can have Low Light, Normal Light, Bright Light, Flashing Light. But if you have No Light constantly, you have nothing and its called Darkness, isn't it? In reality, Darkness isn't. If it is, were you would be able to make Darkness Darker, wouldn't you?

Paperman

Chanced upon this short animated film released by disney which got a academy award nomination! it's really pretty good and the female character is so darn cute~

Shall blog properly soon yeah :)

Happy

Someone once told me that you have to choose
What you win or lose
You can't have everything

So any turns that I can't see,
like I'm a stranger on this road
But don't say victim
Don't say anything

Try

Where there is desire
There is gonna be a flame
Where there is a flame
Someone's bound to get burned
But just because it burns
Doesn't mean you're gonna die
You've gotta get up and try

In Your Own Time

In your own time
There's no map to guide our way
So I say nothing, you say nothing
In your own way
Thought I could help you find your place
But I'm as lost as you are lost these days

Things are going to change, you know
The battles you have fought won't go to waste, you know
The things are gonna change,
It just takes time

Parting Ways (All Good Things Come to An End)

“I don't know how you say good-bye to whom and what you love. I don't know a painless way to do it, don't know the words to capture a heart so full and a longing so intense.”

― Laura Wiess, How It Ends

Why we shout in Anger

A Hindu saint who was visiting river Ganges to take bath found a group of family members on the banks, shouting in anger at each other. He turned to his disciples smiled and asked.

'Why do people shout in anger shout at each other?'

Disciples thought for a while, one of them said, 'Because we lose our calm, we shout.'

'But, why should you shout when the other person is just next to you? You can as well tell him what you have to say in a soft manner.' asked the saint

Disciples gave some other answers but none satisfied the other disciples.
Finally the saint explained, .

'When two people are angry at each other, their hearts distance a lot. To cover that distance they must shout to be able to hear each other. The angrier they are, the stronger they will have to shout to hear each other to cover that great distance.

What happens when two people fall in love? They don't shout at each other but talk softly, Because their hearts are very close. The distance between them is either non-existent or very small...'

The saint continued, 'When they love each other even more, what happens? They do not speak, only whisper and they get even closer to each other in their love. Finally they even need not whisper, they only look at each other and that's all. That is how close two people are when they love each other.'

He looked at his disciples and said.

'So when you argue do not let your hearts get distant, Do not say words that distance each other more, Or else there will come a day when the distance is so great that you will not find the path to return.'
-Spiritual Story by Unknown

PS: Chanced upon this while googling for stories sites like fictionpress. May post more of those I like.

Songs

Some of my favourites recently. Some are pretty old music already. But I love oldies :) There's more but I'm too lazy, really. My all time favourite is I Won't Let You Go by James Morrison. Never gets old.. (pun)

 Nights all I'm gonna drink some soup and enjoy the weather. It's the first day of school tomorrow. Cheers to new beginnings, and hopefully no more last minute revision =/



 Jessica Sanchez - Stuttering (Cover from AI) 

I ain't usually lost for words 
This has got to be a first 
And I'm tryna find the reason why 
I'm Stu- stu- stu- stuttering 




Phillip Phillips - Volcano (Cover from AI) 

What I am to you is not real
What I am to you, you do not need
What I am to you is not what you mean to me





Jessica Sanzhez - My All (Cover from AI)

Like a distant star
I'm wishing on tonight



赵咏华 - 最浪漫的事 

我能想到最浪漫的事
就是和你一起慢慢變老



James Morrison - I Won't Let You Go

When it's black, 
Take a little time to hold yourself,  
Take a little time to feel around, 
Before it's gone,
 
You won't let go,  
But you still keep on falling down,  
Remember how you saved me now, 
From all of my wrongs yeah

Don't Know Why

My heart is drenched in wine 
But you'll be on my mind 
Forever

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

'Human time does not turn in a circle; it runs ahead in a straight line. That is why man cannot be happy: happiness is the longing for repetition.'

Safe and Sound (The Hunger Games)

Don't you dare look out your window darling;
Everything's on fire
 The war outside our door keeps raging on
 Hold onto this lullaby
 Even when the music's gone, gone

The Pursuit of Happiness

'Don't ever let somebody tell you.. You can't do something. Not even me. You got a dream, you gotta protect it. People can't do something themselves, they wanna tell you you can't do it. If you want something, go get it. Period.'

Remembered this quote from the movie few years ago. Forgot about it but saw it on 9gag today and I still like it. There you go.

Road to Happiness

Your journey is called life, & your final destination is happiness & contentment. At the end of the journey, you will find strength & hope.

I wish you will find the strength to fight for your happiness one day. Against all odds. Against all odds..

And maybe you don't need to suffer anymore.

A Thousand Years

A Thousand Years - Christina Perri

Heart beats fast
Colors and promises
How to be brave
How can I love when I'm afraid
To fall
But watching you stand alone
All of my doubt
Suddenly goes away somehow

One step closer

I have died everyday waiting for you
Darlin' don't be afraid
I have loved you for a
Thousand years
I'll love you for a
Thousand more

Time stands still
Beauty I know she is
I will be brave
I will not let anything
Take away
What's standing in front of me
Every breath,
Every hour has come to this

One step closer

I have died everyday
Waiting for you
Darlin' don't be afraid
I have loved you for a
Thousand years
I'll love you for a
Thousand more

And all along I believed
I would find you
Time has brought
Your heart to me
I have loved you for a
Thousand years
I'll love you for a
Thousand more

One step closer
One step closer 

I have died everyday
Waiting for you
Darlin' don't be afraid,
I have loved you for a
Thousand years
I'll love you for a
Thousand more

And all along I believed
I would find you
Time has brought
Your heart to me
I have loved you for a
Thousand years
I'll love you for a
Thousand more

A trip to the dentist

"My dentist once told me that letting go is like pulling a tooth. When it was pulled out, you’re relieved, but how many times does your tongue run itself over the spot where the tooth once was? Probably a hundred times a day. Just because it was not hurting you doesn’t mean you did not notice it. It leaves a gap and sometimes you see yourself missing it terribly. It’s going to take a while, but it takes time. Should you have kept the tooth? No, because it was causing you so much pain. Therefore, move on and let go."