楊千嬅《二》數

「想從空幽的眼圈，逐公分那樣轉，為你點算著疲倦。
願歳月難被我數完，地老天荒能轉多少個圈。」
可惜時間有限，會令我們分開，但感動的是彼此的肯定，令我知道我們唯一要克服的難關就只有時間。 

「同偕到老還餘下多少步，還能捏著你再抱幾秒鐘擁抱，
還能與你再聽幾多音樂，還能伴著你再跳幾世紀的舞。誰又會知道，誰願意知道。」
既然是未知又不能控制的，就無須擔憂，只需要珍惜和你的每一秒就足夠了。 

「隨每下心跳繼續數...繼續數。只願延續下去數得到蒼老。」
 聽你的心跳，是我最喜歡做的事。:')

 

楊千嬅《一》可惜的水瓶座

從來也不理解作為水瓶座有什麼可惜，直至那一次，我明白到水瓶座在一段感情裡是有多令人煩厭。

 「誰人待我好、待我差，太清楚。」
 計算，計算他待誰較好，計算他花錢和誰晚飯較多，計算他用時間陪誰較長。計算，總帶著或多或少的質疑。而其實心底裡清楚知道，這些質疑是荒謬的。 

「心裡羨慕那些人，盲目到不計後果。」
 不計較，只要心知那人總和你一起，什麼也真不重要。不要計較小小的瑕疵，忽略了最重要的。盲目，其實是信任的表現吧。

Next Step (Revised and Reblogged from NOV 2012)

These two weeks I took study leave for the professional assessment next week. We have to pass 9 papers in total in order to be called an ‘Architect’. Yes… 5 years of study is not enough to be recognized.

I can hardly focus at home. (I am at home now so I am writing this entry) So sometimes I have to study in a café or such. There is emerging number of nice cafés in the city. Nice in terms of the decorations and spaces, not necessary the coffee. :P By the way, I have tried Movenpick’s coffee in a French restaurant at North Point, it was really good.

After studying a small portion of the unorganized materials I am a bit tired. And I do not know why I am doing this anymore. I feel it is kind of meaningless. All I can think of now, is all the stuff that I want to do after the exam. What I want to do next.

Am I being quite negative sometimes? I think I should pick up my momentum again, try to force myself back to the mood of studying. Till next time.

Summer Break (Revised and Reblogged from SEP 2012)

I went to Kansai again last month! This time it’s mainly for the music festival that I wanted to attend, Summer Sonic. My companions were not enthusiastic about it though, they just wanted to relax. Turned out the music festival was alright, not very exciting because the musicians weren’t the powerful live band type. That included The Cardigans, Garbage, Rihanna, Kesha… Luckily I still had Foster the People and they were great! We also had some near death experience.. The weather was so bad and we could clearly see strokes of lightning happening near us with dramatic scream from some Japanese girls.. And people were packed in a stadium just like refugees.. Other days were so great.

My friend drove us to some place that I’ve never been to. We went to 和歌山 and had very nice grilled seafood at 黑潮巿場. We also went to 丹後, which is on the north of Kyoto near the seaside.  久美浜 had some really nice beaches and hotspring. And 天橋立 is famous for it’s white wine and soba. The trip was relaxing. I like the countryside of Japan more than the cities. Kyoto was still fine, just a little boring for me now. Its contemporary side was more attractive to me this time.

Head South (Revised and Reblogged from AUG 2012)

Last month I had a brief weekend break to Singapore with our colleagues. It is actually more like a site visit for work but I would like to consider it a relaxing weekend instead. I quite enjoyed spending time with my colleagues, so I had fun in this trip.



We have this nice theatre commercial complex project in Singapore (bottom right image). Although I did not take part in its realization, I am quite proud of our team for achieving this.

Dex and Em (Revised and Reblogged from AUG 2012)

One Day, is probably the only film that I watched after I read the book. And I realized now why people always say the same comment about adapted film, ‘The book is way better than the film.’ Still, I know it’s a bit unfair to say that, since people read the book before the film, and people only watch the film because the like the book. So it’s difficult for the film to meet the reader’s expectations. An adapted film is just a way to publicize a good book.

I’ve wanted to write something about One Day for a while. But I did not have the time to tidy up my thought… I still don’t. So this would be quite random.

When I was reading the book, I realized, the more you care and trust someone, the more fragile you appear in front of that person. I’ve experienced that recently. But it’s kind of a blessing to have someone to show your fragile side to.

Jason Mraz (Revised and Reblogged from JUL 2012)

Last weekend I went to Jason Mraz’s ‘Tour is a Four Letter Word’ concert. It was full house but I got 2 tickets on the forth row with my best friend! Feeling lucky.

His songs are very good for weekends, chilled and relaxed. I also like his simple and truehearted lyrics. There’s nothing pretentious about him, which is difficult to do when you know you are popular.



There are some very positive and cheerful songs in his latest album. ‘The Freedom Song’, ‘Living in the Moment’, ‘Everything is Sound’, ‘Frank D. Fixer’ etc., these are some nice attitude to live our lives.
He also performed a few old songs, ‘Remedy’, ‘You and I Both’, ‘Mr. Curiosity’, ‘Bella Luna’, ‘Lucky’, ‘I’m Yours’, ‘Make It Mine’, ‘Only Human’, ‘A Beautiful Mess’ etc.



It was so so great! Probably one of the best concerts I’ve been to. He may not be as entertaining as Jamie Cullum, or as charming as John Mayer, but he is so down to earth and truehearted. I guess that’s why he is so popular in Hong Kong. We were stuck in this pretentious world every day. His music helps us to escape from it. No matter how short that time is, it still helps.

Oh, one more thing, Jason and the band kept throwing their guitar picks to the audience as souvenirs. I got one too. Gonna frame it.. haha

Cherry Blossom (Revised and Reblogged from APR 2012)

It’s been a long time since my last entry... Life is busy in these few months: work, exams, and life itself. I have made some significant move in my life…

I’ve traveled to Kansai with my parents in the Easter holiday. I can’t even remember when’s my last time to travel with parents before that. The trip is quite nice. I just hope I didn’t make the trip too rush for them.

 

We didn’t plan to go there for Sakura. The cherry blossom was a total surprise to us! My parents went crazy and took so many photos of the flowers. It was the whole purpose of the trip, to make them happy. There was this great Sakura tree in the Imperial Garden. We took our only family portrait in the trip.

 

I’ve been to most of the places before this trip: Osaka, Kyoto, Uji and Nara. But there’s also some new experience for me. I went to 嵐山 and 龍安寺 for the first time.  And we went to Gion to see Maiko dance. It was a bit hilarious. Since it was the cherry blossom period, 清水寺 was opened at night. It was nice in spite of the bad weather. we were cold and wet but overall it's still enjoyable. I spent a night in the capsule hotel, 9 Hours. I loved it there.

 

The last bit of our trip is a visit to 桂離宮. It was the best Japanese architecture we saw in the whole trip. It inspired modernist architects in last century and it’s probably still influential. The garden and buildings are full of surprises. Your perception of the garden changed with every step you took along the path. The spaces, partitions, columns, are all clean and with some graphical quality in it. Every bit of it gives a little trace of modern design, which makes me believe, this can be the origin of modern architecture.