Valley of Dreams

Friday, February 25, 2005

Finding Neverland

Sometimes walking along can be magical as well, you never know what you are going to encounter, just like in "Before Sunrise". I'm so glad we can bear our hearts to each other, to let each other into our innermost secrets, maybe that's really what sharing's all about. This song is for you..

时间的味道 - 林志炫
词: 易家扬

某年某月某一秒 整个世界忽然停了格 回到
第一副棒球手套 我的初恋女孩养的猫 杂货店里寻宝
总在期待 成人的色彩 爸爸的花领带
如今感概 童年的自在 再也回不来
回忆 是人生的第一张电影票 爱情 是心中的一些惊叹号
年龄 是真相的一把拆信刀 连时间也有 味道
走回以前的学校 小孩们在操场上奔跑 欢笑
找到弹珠和书包 可是回到童年的隧道 再也找不到

Recently, I commented to one of my colleague that she's very 天真, but surprisingly she became paranoid, thinking that that is a round-the-bush way of saying she's dumb..

Its rather sad that as we grow older, we gradually lose that magic of being young, where everything seems like its through a kaleidoscope.. Indeed, when was the last time we could simply laugh, cry and dance like noone's watching.. When was the last time we could hug one another like we're forever friends without inviting disapproving stares from people.. When was the last time we could tease, poke and make fun as if we're in our own neverland?

As Iggy once told me, it takes more courage for one to truly be oneself... And as Chiayi says it, Sometimes the most matured kind of happiness is the simplest and most child-like.. I say, growing up is simply a child getting wiser about life and what it has to offer, not a child gradually losing himself..

Friday, February 18, 2005

Never say Goodbye

Words unspoken, thoughts unexpressed. Yet if you get to see through my eyes, I know you will see my soul. I know, for it is so familiar to you, you will see the lonely self within me, withdrawn from this ugly world.. the smell of medicine, the sight of that abandoned old lady, so haggard and shrunken, pushing the rubbish truck, the sounds of cynical sneers, hollow laughter, and the unseen societal pressures. and then we will find solace and comfort.

Never Say Goodbye - Hayley Westenra

If I could take this moment forever
Turn the pages of my mind
To another place and time
We would never say goodbye

If I could find the words I would speak them
Then I wouldn't be tongue-tied
When I looked into your eyes
We would never say goodbye

If I could stop the moon ever rising
Day would not become the night
Wouldn't feel this cold inside
And we'd never say goodbye

I wish that our dreams were frozen
Then our hearts would not be broken
When we let each other go...

If I could steal this moment forever
Paint a picture-perfect smile
So our story stayed alive
We would never say goodbye


We for one know very well that ignorance is bliss, and yet we also know that even so we rather rather choose to be aware and strive to be enlightened (just like the matrix) because it is only then that we can truly treasure all the little things that makes living for that moment so much more worthwhile