Feeling of Whiskey

I have a friend who describes the feeling of drinking whiskey: "While sipping Whiskey, long forgotten scenes, memories, like the snowflakes in the snow globe, slowly rise in mind, and eventually sink to nowhere"

I like this quote.

你对我说我们只是擦肩而过....

Free Time, Free Time

This is a lazy afternoon. The sky is clear after a mild drizzle sometime back. Cars are zooming non-stop at the road outside of the house. Chinese New Year is coming, and today is the last working day for most office droids.

This year my family will have an early reunion dinner, on the 29th day of the lunar calendar, which is today. This is because every year at the eve of CNY (i.e. the 30th day), there are many interesting TV programs, but because of the reunion dinner, my parents would always be too busy to watch. This year the plan is to have the meal earlier, and on the new year eve we could relax and do whatever one likes. Good plan. :)

I am on my way to fully relax myself, and have concluded it is not a good deal to get myself stuck in front of the computer screen as what I used to do (but i am still blogging!). 

Now if PC and TV are out, what should I do then? The first plan is to try to do things I seldom do:  A few days I ago, I tried again to clear the cabinet filled with my college stuff, and for some unknown reason, I flipped the diary I wrote then, and that page was about one fine day when I was on duty at HKN lounge, and mak went in to buy a bottle of juice. Here it went all the memories got stirred up..., I knew she did it on purpose that day, I knew this was long time ago, and I know my chest is still painful now, damn the silly mak, and damn the silly me who still can't let the past go... Defeated, I hope next year I will finally have courage to clear those things away.  Yesterday, I dug out a Chinese detective novel and found it was pretty interesting. Today, I saw the GEB lying around in the book shelf. Hmm, maybe I should re-read this book? 

Another thing that concerns me is where I should go from now on? Start my business, or continue to work as an employee? My mom suggested I should get a girl and settle down, well, as if I am buying a chewing gum from grocery store... 

What a girl wants?

I saw the following post at Facebook, with title "43 things a girl wished her boyfriend knew", it reads quite all right, though I am not sure if all of these are true.

I need inputs from female readers out there. :)

#1 When you break her heart, the pain never really goes away.

#2 When she misses you, she's hurting inside.

#3 When she says it's over, she still wants you to be hers.

#4 When she walks away from you mad, follow her.

#5 When she stares at your mouth, kiss her.

#6 When she pushes or hits you, grab her tight & don't let her go.

#7 When she starts cursing at you, kiss her and tell her you love her.

#8 When she ignores you, give her your attention.

#9 When she pulls away, pull her back.

#10 When you see her at her worst, tell her she's beautiful.

#11 When you see her crying, just hold her and don't say a word.

#12 When you see her walking, sneak up and hug her waist from behind.

#13 When she's scared, protect her.

#14 When she lays her head on your shoulder, tilt her head up and kiss her.

#15 When she steals your favourite jacket, let her keep it and sleep with it for a night.

#16 When she teases you, tease her back and make her laugh.

#17 When she doesn't answer for a long time, reassure her that everything is okay.

#18 When she looks at you with doubt, back yourself up with the truth.

#19 When she says that she likes you, she really does more than you could understand.

#20 When she grabs your hands, hold hers and play with her fingers.

#21 When she bumps into you, bump into her back and make her laugh.

#22 When she tells you a secret, keep it safe and untold.

#23 When she looks at you in your eyes, don’t look away until she does.

#24 Stay on the phone with her even if she’s not saying anything.

#25 Don't let her have the last word.

#26 Don't call her hot, but gorgeous or beautiful is so much better.

#27 Say you love her more than she could ever love you.

#28 Argue that she is the best girl ever.

#29 When she's mad, hug her tight and don't let go.

#30 When she says she's OK, don’t believe it, talk to
her about it, because 10 yrs later she'll still remember it.

#31 Call her at 12:00am on special occasions to tell her you love her.

#32 Call her before you sleep and after you wake up.

#33 Treat her like she's all that matters to you.

#34 Don't ignore her when she's out with you and your friends.

#35 Stay up all night with her when she's sick.

#36 Watch her favorite movie with her or her favorite show even if you think its stupid.

#37 Let her into your world.

#38 Let her wear your clothes.

#39 When she's bored and sad, hang out with her

#40 Let her know she's important.

#41 Kiss her in the pouring rain.

#42 When she runs up at you crying, the first thing you say is; "Who's ass am I kicking today baby?"

#43 After she reads this, she hopes one day you'd read it too.

Good Post

I came across a good, touching article written by someone to commemorate the decease of his good friend. The writing is though a bit disorganized, it is genuine.

The article is here.

Have a nice weekend to all of you.

Lazy Sunday Noon

I just had my weekly badminton game this morning. I have been lazing around since after lunch.

Today is a little humid, there was a brief drizzle a few hours ago. Sun has been shy for most of the day. Here it goes again, my laundry is gonna take days to dry.

Cuppa has been relatively quiet and busy these few days. My regular blog readers most probably will know why: I am busy tinkering with OpenSolaris. My latest project is to get Qt 4.6 compiled. The process is not straightforward and still work-in-progress. For now what I can share is SunStudio 12 cannot compile Qt cleanly. More specifically, the Sun compiler obviously doesn't like the C++ codes in Qt which are quite gcc-biased. After some thoughts, I decided to bite the bullet and get gcc 4.3.4 and friends in my box. After that, things aren't very pretty as well. So far I have patched a few bugs in 'configure' and few Makefiles. The compilation is still running at the background now.

Hmm, how should I end this blog post? Put one extra period? I think this makes sense.

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Now I start understand why you can both hate and love someone at the same time... ;)

Don't Want to Close My Eyes...

Amazing Song

I came over Minnie Riperton's "Loving You" when watching The Simpsons 'Mapple' store episode, and boy, I was amazed.

The Simpsons no doubt is funny as usual, but the song played, even though only for a few seconds, impressed me enough that I searched it up and down for the singer and lyrics. Initially I thought the song name was "Take me away" and I found one by Avril Lavigne, but nope, not it. Yucks.

The Simpsons:



Here is the Minnie Riperton's song. If she were alive today, she will beat almost every female singer out there hands down. Nowadays these so called 'singers' just can't sing, they only know how to act sexy. That is true in the west as in the east.

隐形人

This is a Chinese song which touches me, the character set is Chinese Simplified (GB2312).

I am still not in position to translate this, but the meaning is close to Shakira's "Underneath Your Clothes"....


歌曲：隐形人　歌手：孙燕姿

无论你肯或不肯
我都选择等
等到你结束好久
探险的旅程
要是没有寂寞陪衬
没有途中的灰尘
你怎会向往家门
你越是想要诚恳
其实越残忍
伪装不了你对我
漠视的眼神
你不许我听信永恒
不许我迷信我们
不许我奋不顾身
多想化成隐形的人
掩饰我伤痕
给你我的体温
好帮你驱走寒冷
看不见也能感受心疼
我想化成隐形的人
隐藏我的泪在翻滚
我在你凌乱世界
留下的指纹
对你是没心跳的一个吻

朋友都于心不忍
责备我愚蠢
但他们都回避我
执着的眼神
可知我对爱的虔诚
可知我迷信我们
可知我难得放任

多想化成隐形的人
掩饰我伤痕
给你我的体温
好帮你驱走寒冷
看不见也能感受心疼
我想化成隐形的人
隐藏我的泪在翻滚
我在你凌乱世界
留下的指纹
对你是没心跳的一个吻

多想化成隐形的人
掩饰我伤痕
给你我的体温
好帮你驱走寒冷
看不见也能感受心疼
我想化成隐形的人
隐藏我的泪在翻滚
我在你凌乱世界
留下的指纹
对你是没心跳的一个吻

Old Shirt

Time to be sentimental: this shirt has followed me a long way. From US and back, then to Ireland, Hong Kong, and most recently, Singapore. I usually keep it in my luggage and bring it everywhere I go. However after this Singapore trip, I think it will be kept in the luggage for a long time, if not forever.

This is the closest I can get.

一只猫的简约爱情（转载）

我第一个中文贴子。原因简单，平时都是在公司灌水，用中文太显眼了。

在西祠发现了一个好贴子:

一只猫的简约爱情（转载）

曾经走过很多孤单的日子，
风是透明的，
天空是蓝色的，
草儿是绿色的。
孤单的我，
总是寂寞而写意地享受一个人的浪漫，
那是多么清纯和风清云淡的日子啊。

有时候需要一个人，
在寂静的夜里，
倾听那心的碎片飘落的声音，
那不是我伤心的哭泣，
而是剥落过去的忧伤，
让时间舔舐自己的伤。


在梦里，
我会带着心爱的翅膀，
离开这个忧郁的城市，
随着风，
伴着星光，
飞到属于我内心深处那很久很久以前的那片绿洲。


每一颗流星都寄托着我往昔的一段心事，
不想细细的数，
只想看到它们在我眼前飞过，
然后向它们许下一个恒久不变的愿望。


遥远的星河里，
有没有我想要的那一颗星星。
也许只有在那里，
我才能找到那遗失很久的回忆？
在那里，
泪水会不会也象星星那样闪闪发光？


梦中的天堂，
是不是和我想象的一个模样？
是不是没有寂寞和孤单？
会不会遇到远方的你？
你在哪一个城堡里等我？


每次在异乡抬头看故乡的月亮，
总会想起你，
是不是你也在地球的另一边看着同样的一个月亮？
如果是，
请让月亮稍个信给我，
告诉我你的心还是一样的透明。



很希望在那片风清云淡的天空下遇到你，
不需要那么无间，
远远地看着你，
衬着蓝天碧草地你的身影，
很温馨，
让我很感动。


如果可以，
想轻轻地拥你在怀里，
在这个不属于自己的城市里，
想和你写一篇关于猫的，
不需要很绚丽的文章。
可以吗？