A year of Dragon

Wishing you all the best to be yet to come ---

Listen here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XTBwvi0h2E&feature=related
Artist: Transition
Song title: Dui bu Qi

Another Day of Celebration

For all the prosperity to come ---

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The One

If I can write something today,
I want to write about you.
If I am writing something today,
I will be writing about you.
If I were writing something today,
It is all about you.

New Year to be Happy

Life is a short memory;
Time is a longest friend;
but Love is a life time happiness.

Merry 2011 Christmas

Wishing you all of
Happiness and a very Merry Christmas!

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Greeting the favorite season of the time

Another stretch of the loop;
The winding turn ---
Starting the days as a new again.
It is refreshing to leave certain pain and memories
behind the curtain of the time.
It is pleasing to embrace the another days
in the eyes of a new light and smile.
It is engaging to starting a new
with a light heart.
Let's forgive and
forget the unnecessary events.
Let go of the worries
and leave in the hand of healing time.

Listen the song here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmF2rsDHOZc

Lyrics:
Grown up Christmas List
Amy Grant

Do you remember me?
I sat upon your knee
I wrote to you with childhood fantasies
Well, I'm all grown-up now
Can you still help somehow?
I'm not a child, but my start still can dream

So here's my lifelong wish
My grown-up Christmas list
Not for myself, but for a world in need

No more lives torn apart
That wars would never start
And time would heal all hearts
Every man would have a friend
That right would always win
And love would never end

This is my grown-up Christmas list

What is this illusion called the innocence of youth?
Maybe only in that blind belief can we ever find the truth
No more lives torn apart
That wars would never start
And time would heal our hearts
Every man would have a friend
That right would always win
And love would never end
This is my grown-up Christmas list
This is my only lifelong wish
This is my grown-up Christmas list

image is from http://thebacksofmyeyelids.blogspot.com/2010/12/christmas-eve-eve-2010.html

Back Again

To rise again,
To be able to start a new again,
To end the glamor with fun and dignity.

I especially remember this song back again.
Just for you.

Listen Song here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jy_XwaqNv-I&feature=related

Seasons in the Sun by Westlife (not original version)

Songwriters: JACQUES BREL, ROD MCKUEN

Goodbye to you my trusted friend
We ve known each other since we
Were nine or ten
Together we've climbed hills and trees
Learned of love and abc s
Skinned our hearts and Skinned our knees

Goodbye my friend it's hard to die
When all the birds are singing
In the sky
Now that spring is in the air
Pretty girls are everywhere
Think of me and I ll be there

We had joy we had fun we had
Seasons in the sun
But the hills that we climbed were
Just seasons out of time

Goodbye papa please pray for me
I was the black sheep of the family
You tried to teach me right from wrong
Too much wine and too much song
Wonder how I got along

Goodbye papa it s hard to die
When all the birds are singing in the sky
Now that the spring is in the air
Little children everywhere
When you see them I ll be there

We had joy we had fun we had
Seasons in the sun
But the wine and the songs like the
Seasons have all gone

We had joy we had fun we had
Seasons in the sun
But the wine and the song like
The seasons have all gone

Goodbye Michelle my little one
You gave me love and helped
Me find the sun
And every time that I was down
You would always come around
And get my feet back on The ground

Goodbye Michelle it s hard to die
When all the birds are singing in
The sky
Now that the spring is in the air
With the flowers everywhere
I wish that we could both be there

We had joy we had fun we had
Seasons in the sun
But the hills that we climbed were
Just seasons out of time
We had joy we had fun we had
Seasons in the sun
But the wine and the song like the
Seasons have all gone
We had joy we had fun we had
Seasons in the sun
But the wine and the song like
the Seasons have all gone
We had joy we had fun we had
Seasons in the sun
But the wine and the song like the
Seasons have all gone

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p.s please visit this site for a very nice seasonal visual images

Fear, Pain, Joy, and Hope

In a circle of life, people say what goes around comes around. Is that so? Which one is going around and which one is coming around? If we can just tell the difference ---

Fear of losing --- losing love, losing possession, losing everything that you have staked in life for --- that fear would be consuming. I wish all in despair to be free from fear.

Pain of regret --- disappointment, a sense of loss of direction, of loneliness, --- that pain would be unbearable. I wish all in suffering to be free from pain.

Joy of light --- embracing the happiness, a flight of glee, of mindfulness and freedom, --- that joy would be boundless. I wish all in need to achieve that joyfulness.

Hope of spectrum --- flourishing the life, a leap to the infinity, beyond the wildest imagination, -- that hope would be destiny. I wish all in dream to realize that possibilities of hope.

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Disguise

Love
can come
in a way of disguise.

Love
can go
in a way of a new start.

Love
can stay
in a way of surprise.

Embrace, breathe, and smile;
The sun will shine,
When the disguise has fallen.

image is from http://www.isaactan.net/2011/03/venetian-carnival-masks.html

Thorn

Hardship makes us stronger.
One at a time --- stripping away the thorns.
I have cried in the rain
I have smiled in the sun and then
I have stayed silent in the snow.

A New Chapter

On the winding road, we do our turns.
At the cross road, we choose our ways.
Over the endless streams, we built bridges.
In this woodland life,
Sweet scent of wild flowers are everywhere;
in the soft breeze --- if one pays attention to it.
In this jungle of life,
Obstacles of thorns are everywhere;
on the way to reach for the beautiful flowers.
In this valley of life,
Natural resources are everywhere;
at the reach of our hands --- if one pursuit for it.

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Uncertainty

Uncertainty?
Incompetent?
Self-doubt?

Life has funny ways
to show the reflections.
The spectrum of life kaleidoscope is ---
strange and complicated.

At times.

Emotions have humorous ways
to show the weakness.
The variables of love and commitment is ---
disillusion and deceitful.

At times.

Logical heart has precise ways
to show the indifference.
The outcome of expectation is ---
unwavering and painful.

At times.

image is from http://moizhussainpk.blogspot.com/2010_11_01_archive.html

Because I Miss you

For those
whom I miss dearly ---
while we are
approaching into August;
the end of summer,
to embrace
the Fall to come.

Listen song here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-W445HyNok&feature=related

Lyrics: translation
Because I Miss You
by Jung YongHwa

Always the sky is exactly the same
And always the days are also the same;
The only thing that is different now is that
You are not here ---
I thought that I have letting you go,
Without anything left behind;

No! no! I still haven't been able to let you go,

Longing for you, I am longing for you,
Because I am longing for you ---
I call you, and calling you by myself everyday.

Missing you, I am missing you,
Because I am missing you ---
Now I just call out your name, like a habit,
Even today.

Day by day, I feel like I am dying,
So what could I do?

Love you, love you, --- I love you ---
Without even able to tell you these,
I have had to let you go like that.

Sorry, I am sorry ---
Can you hear me?
Could you be able to hear my late confession?

I love you.

the image is from http://la2bluey.deviantart.com/art/C-N-Blue-Jung-Yong-Hwa-152745977

Out in the Daze of the Haze

There I am
Looking through the bright window;
Window to the world,
The world that exist in the haze.

Here I am
Learning through the endless time;
Time as a fourth dimension,
The dimension that complete our life in the maze.

Where am I?
Wondering through my dreams;
Dream as a reality?
The reality that kept me in the daze.

Listen Song here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwZGHPqfDtc

Golden Haze
by Wild Nothing

Lyrics to Golden Haze :

Wild heart surrender to me
What does it take to be like you?
Golden haze hold out for days
Haven't seen you haven't seen anyone

Beautiful one
I wanna know what you are
Beautiful one
I wanna know what you are

(repeat)

*** possibly some errors, vocals are a bit fuzzy at times!
image is from http://www.digitalbattle.com/2008/05/02/haze-demo-may-6th/

It's Always You

Song of the day ---
that I would love to share.
Another significant milestone
in our love story.

Lyrics:

It's Always You
by Frank Sinatra

Whenever it's early twilight
I watch 'til a star breaks through
Funny, it's not a star I see
It's always you

Whenever I roam through roses
And lately I often do
Funny, it's not a rose I touch
It's always you

If a breeze, caresses me
It's really you strolling by
If I hear, a melody
It's merely the way you sigh

Wherever you're near me
You dare me to be untrue
Funny, each time I fall in love
It's always you

Listen here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzFQo32493Y&feature=related

Dream

I don't know why I dreamed of you.
Back then, in time ---
Why can't I remember?
Why did I try not to recall my dream?
May be I didn't want to remember you.
Forgive me.

Elders used to say
One is not supposed to dream of
the other in a finely dressed up manner ---
Because if that is the case, the person in dream might be
suffering from the loss of blessing in health.
May Health cherish you.

I wish you are doing alright without any sickness.
The dream makes me reassure that you were thinking about me.
I hope that you are in the thoughts of the pleasant days;
And remembering the beautiful memories.
May you be happy.

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Tug of War

Greed
the growing pain---
On the first attempt to fight;
Mine!!!
that was the Pride
Who wanted to fight the greed.
No matter;
the light of realization came much later ---
Nothing is better.

Grasping the Moments

--- is how I lived my life --- how I am living my life --- and how I want to grow old living my life --- grasping little moments coming by. If success is going to be measured by what you've wanted --- how you've tried --- and what you are having --- , the degree of success of life is boundless. In that sense, --- I am satisfy and content with my life.

Looking through the long glass window on the side of the crowded room --- I was carried into the thoughts and wonders. The sun is out today after much cloudy windy, and gloomy cold winter days in past week. Everything seems so alive in the brightness of the sun. The grasses look greener, the leaves left over from the Fall season looks brighter with orange, red, yellow, and brown hues. I can see one small tree with upright brown branches --- as if it is a tree of life.

If it is considered to be a tree of life, --- it is sad in the picture of my imagination because most of the branches are bare. Some colorful leaves are trying their hard clinging onto the small brown branches. The wind is still indifferently blowing in any direction causing the leaves fluttering in the wind --- reflecting the sunlight --- and the leaves even look so happy and luminous.

Are they trying to hold onto the branches?? Or are they being careless --- enjoying the time being??? --- The way the leaves turn and flutter in the wind in so many directions ---- reminds me of parallelism of how different individual life events can be --- no matter which one family you grow up from --- no matter how one school we were in studied together --- no matter which career we get into ---each and everyone of our lives could be so different in so many ways ---

Life is amazing and it is very worthwhile to be living --- no matter how tough it is --- no matter how boring it is ---. Life itself has so many wonderful treats --- surprises --- and the best part is that we never know what or how it is going to be next. --- Actually, we live in the imaginations --- trials and errors --- correcting and progressing life.

As much as we are striving for the sets of goals --- as much as achieving those goals are more satisfying --- the times that we stood by and take some time to look around, look back, and looking forward to the future are fun and loving too. What can be more wonderful than just living the life --- grasping the little moments --- putting them together like pieces of puzzles to draw the most wonderful picture of an individual Life.

January 12th, 2011: 2:00pm

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Smile In the Heart

Smile
Shinning over me
There you were
Under the shade of old oak tree
Sheltering the heat of summer.

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Fairy Tale

Love was not at the first sight, rather more of a first shyness.
You were there --- in front of me
with a bouquet of pink roses tied with a bright pink ribbon.
It was awkard to look in your eyes.
I was shy and just smiling away.

Love was not the first touch, rather more of an understanding.
You were quiet --- by my side
with a pile of books all of which I would love to read to no end.
It was comfortable to be next to you.
I was content and just wondering my destiny.

Love was not the conquer all, rather more of acquiring bit by bit.
You were patient --- together with me
with a shinning armor over a white horse.
It was my fairy tale come true.
I was loved and all that I wanted to be.

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