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Thursday, October 27, 2005

I have a pail



There is a Chinese saying that describes people using a liquid container: Half a pail of water (Ban Tong Shui).

"Half a pail of water" is hurled at those with only half-baked skills, half-baked talents and half-baked achievements.

When the Chinese use "Ban Tong Shui" to describe someone, the choice of tone would inevitably be drenched in disdain and disapproval.
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Janster got some invitation to a bar opening gala thingy and dropped me an ad-hoc invitation when we met to catch up over dinner.

On our way there, he joked about how we were just two lame chaps who refused to conform; two half pails of water in the eyes of many from Island S.

I laughed and disagreed immediately.

"No, no, no, Jan, you've gotten it ALL WRONG. I'm not sure we even have water. Ok, maybe a few drops of sweat and spit But you know what, at the very fucking least, we have these fucking pails. We have arms. AND hands. AND these fucking pails.

Some people don't even have pails!

And someday, we'll find water, and when that happens, by god we'll scoop with vengeance!!!"

I spoke with the verve of a crazed politician. Punching and scooping air.

The cab driver seemed a little bit uncomfortable.
Jan-tha-man? He laughed heartily and enjoyed my silly aimed-at-no-particular-person diatribe.

Martin Luther King said, "I have a dream."

I say --- "I, have a pail."

We will.

In spring, I will swim. and take long walks. Alone.
In the summer, I will swim, and drink a lot of apple juice and orange juice.

In autumn, I will take long walks, and swim, and paint.
I will read. Slowly.

In winter, we will hide under the covers.

I will snowboard. And jog in the snow.

After exercising, we will have a hot creamy bowl of soup.

In winter, we will have steamboat; we will take looooong naps.

In spring, I will visit my friend.
I will drive over, and listen to Cubop in the car.
When I arrive, we will choose a quiet cosy corner, and listen to jazz.
We will have a good drink.

Wednesday, October 26, 2005

眼睛有醉意

They sold us a song. We bought everything.
They sold us a movie. We bought everything.
We couldn't rent.
You can't buy this from eBay.

After a few drinks, it feels a bit lighter.
Are you smoking again?
No.


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歌名:从今以后

歌手:信乐团 专辑:挑信

很开心
我们很开心
你的微笑开在泪里向天放晴
有回忆
有太多回忆
长途跋涉翻山越岭才到这里
很确定
已经很确定
不必多花一秒犹豫彼此就是唯一
有醉意
眼睛有醉意
如此忠于被爱撂成的勇气
从今以后除了感受不会再泪流
天寒地冻心却那么火热
从今以后抓住梦不再放手
彼此低落的时候
我会带你去看寮国
我一灰暗的时候
你眼中有阳光照着我

很开心
我们很开心
你的微笑开在泪里向天放晴
有回忆
有太多回忆
长途跋涉翻山越岭才到这里
很确定
已经很确定
不必愿多花一秒犹豫彼此就是唯一
有醉意
眼睛有醉意
如此忠于被爱撂成的勇气
从今以后除了感受不会再泪流
天寒地冻心却那么火热
从今以后抓住梦不再放手
彼此低落的时候
我会带你去看寮国
我一灰暗的时候
你眼中有阳光照着
找到执著的时候
我们会被人们记得

从今以后除了感受不会再泪流
天寒地冻心却那么火热

从今以后就算跌倒拍拍灰再走

如果醉倒的时候
要说爱你让你快乐

在你想走的时候
我会坚决把你抱着
从你爱美的时候
突然心中丧生硕果
我最光荣的时候
我希望你能看着

哦~
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Tuesday, October 18, 2005

The first autumn leaf

第一片落叶

吴韦材


喜欢做雕塑那位朋友,说他对第一片落叶总是很敏感。“不知该怎办好?秋天就这样来了,心里突然变得很不踏实。”

  他不只一次这么说。很明显,他还年轻,还处于那种能有大把时间伤秋,而且觉得不伤一下就仿佛对不起秋天的年龄。

  我却特别喜欢用另个角度看秋天。

   它是最富色彩和最迅速变幻的。一整年的时光,就只有在这个季节里时间可以烤成引人欲滴的艳红金黄。秋高气爽,那样的空气能教我开始细细计算今年到了这时 候自己已经做过些什么。并非开玩笑,就连“秋后算账”和“秋决”我都不觉得可怕。我已经习惯于周期性地结算自己。人生不就是一次一次结算然后再计划和再出 发?一年一年变化,没有自己秋后算账和杀掉秋前那个自己的勇气,也许才是可怕的。

  第一片落叶,没错是个讯号,它除了提醒我趁早赶好一些 备稿然后打开地图或跑到火车站售票处看能跑多远就多远,它还用瞬息万变的色彩漩涡提醒我光阴的催急与短暂。是的,秋天只要一开始,一切都在变。树在变,水 在变,风的气味在变,我对一切的看法也每年都在变。只要能抓住这个变化多端,我就感觉自己前面应该还是有趣的,因为这想法往往就是精力和精神的来源。

   后来我似乎找到这位朋友对秋天感到有点恐惧的原因。也许因为他是个纯粹金牛座。土属星座,惯于踏实,一加一就等于二,相信世上只要坚守就真有牢固这回 事。秋天的种种戏剧性及难以预测他都不感兴趣,而且秋天还没真正开始他就着手想像冬天的萧索,并且提前担忧。以前我或许也有过这样的角度,至少在东方人崇 尚稳定的社会里我就受过不少这样的思想教育,幸亏我出轨得快。一加一并不一定就等于二,就算暂时等于二也没什么值得庆祝。一切都有个应该的答案那生命就太 无趣了。李白之真正可爱并不只是他的诗情出奇,而是他生命里一切是如此快速难料地抑扬顿挫。我是空气星座,弥漫总是模糊不清的,因为模糊不清,样样才会有 可能发生。

  叶子临终之前,急着要吐露的最为美丽。即便是那么短暂,能率性发挥就已无怨无悔。这时我也明白为什么自己从来不热衷于任何殿 堂、保障、使命、藏存,或任何自欺欺人的永恒。我看这种种冠冕堂皇的概念只觉得都是人类文明带来的自我安慰。因为实际上根本没有那样的存在。就算是有,诸 如此类都是人类自己筑造的最深牢狱。我觉得,愿意相信永恒的人,就很难再有变化。

  我还没想好秋天要去哪里过日子,但那地方应该有树林和 有水影,出其不意的摇曳和交融,才是秋天的讯息。说真的,延绵山脉虽像一幅幅变色地毯我还没多大兴趣,我宁可到一个充满人们生活烟火的河谷盆地,一个丰收 的农庄,或是一些心情散漫的阡陌,看看秋天如何交织在身边伸手就可接触的片片涌动色彩里。

  当然,还是有人习惯把秋天看成绝句,我说的那位朋友就是。但,为何不也试试看成是飞舞的序幕呢?

  第一片落叶之所以美,就因为它比其他落叶都懂得提早放手。

Wednesday, October 12, 2005

The Act

The Act
By: William Carlos Williams (1883 - 1963)

There were the roses, in the rain.
Don't cut them, I pleaded.
.................They won't last, she said.
But they're so beautiful
..................where they are.
Agh, we were all beautiful once, she
.................. said,
and cut them and gave them to me
..................in my hand.

Hope

gravitas charolastras :

Hope is as much a belief, as it is an assumption,
Hope is as much about faith, as it is about prayers.

dreamers' delight

dreams last a season...
but yours have no rhyme or reason.

No chance,
only the length of a dance,
only the time, of a tune.

dreams last a day....
but rain, clouds and rainbows go away.

we sit, we walk,
we laughed, we talked.

cycling, skipping, running along,
a quaint countryside.

an orange sorbet.
a summer afternoon.
an old chair.

very comfortable.

Wednesday, October 05, 2005

Labels and life..



When you go to www.noisesingapore.com, and type in "Ng Khoon Chuan" in the "Search by Artist" section, you will find my selected-for-showcase artwork "Box Republic."

So...according to NoiseSingapore's panel of judges, and other criteria set down by the National Arts Council, "Ng Khoon Chuan" is a "Young Artist."

That is one label you can slap on me: Young Artist.

There are others.

When you turn on your TV set this sunday, and tune in to MediaCorp channel 8 at 9am, you will see me dancing around with children and communicating to the kids' audience at home.

Another label you can stick onto my face: Kids' TV showhost.

If you continue watching from 9.30am to 10am, you will catch a reality TV competition called "Little Entrepreneurs 2," a program that pits 10 - 12 year olds against each other as young capitalists.

When the credits come on, you will see my name under the "Producer" title.

Yup, another label: TV producer.

So far, so good? The labels don't look horrific.

Young Artist.
Kids' TV presenter.
TV producer.

hey, there are more!
Co-founder of a small sg-based web solutions start-up.
Copy editor and web-designer
Web-writer

Sounds like a very full and nice basket, no?

I have been very busy accumulating labels.
I have been so blindly, happily accumulating labels that I forgot some of the more important and meaningful ones.

I even grew NUMB to some of them:
Thoughtful Son. Warm Brother. Sensitive Friend. Caring lover....

How sad,
I allowed one Big Black label to cover them all: Arrogant, Egoistic, Bastard.

Yes, no one is perfect. But I was consciously wilful.

My family has been amazingly tolerant, my close friends have been kind.
But my girl, she has decided --- Enough is Enough!

She has decided to slam the door in my face, and leave me to understand the consequences of my nonsensical actions.

"Wake me up, when September Ends" --- I never thought this lyric would fit me so aptly. The series of events that took place between the end of Sept and the start of October, between my girlfriend and me, had me finally sobering up to the hurt I cause people with my emotionally brutish ways.

My colleague, a mother of three, perceptively summed it up for me:
"There is a child, an adolescent and an adult in all of us.
When we are in front of the ones we love most deeply, we become children.
And sometimes, children would do anything for attention."

Yes, and I became the horrible boy that kept bullying the sweet timid girl...for her attention. I hurt her deeply and now that i understand the pain I've caused, it is perhaps too late to feel regret, and make amends.

But life, if you live long enough, wisely enough, will always be, you realize, this loooooong mysterious puzzle that can only be unravelled by Time.

Yeap.

Time.

Only time can tell, if there are 2nd chances, redemption or re-births down the road. Or if there will even be a road.

Meanwhile, new labels will keep coming, because seasons change, and the florist in spring will become the swimmer in summer.

The urgent things, will constantly threaten to crowd out the important.

We will rush to meet deadlines, and forget many things.

But that's life, and human nature, and how they work. The important thing, is, I guess, to keep reminding yourself to have a humble gratitude for all that you receive.

We have to learn...
we have to move on... and hopefully, the canvasses we painted --- be they gothic, childish, childlike, painstaking or plain, will all look beautiful --- will all look beautiful in retrospect.

I Hurt.

Monday, October 03, 2005

那女孩对我说 She told me...

她说。。。曾经。。对她最好的人, 是我。
她说伤害她最深的, 也是我。

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那女孩对我说
歌手:义达 | 作曲:李偲菘
| 填词:易家扬

心很
空 天很大 云很重

我很孤单
却赶不走

捧着她的名字
她的喜怒哀乐
往前走多久了
一个人心中只有一个宝贝
久了之后

她变成了眼泪

泪一滴在左手
凝固成为寂寞

往回看。。。有什么

那女孩对我说
说我保护她的梦



这个世界对她这样的不多

她渐渐忘了我

但是她并不晓得

遍体鳞伤的

我一天

也没再


。。。爱过。。。

那女孩对我说, 说我
是一个小偷
偷她的回忆
塞进我的脑海中


(我不需要自由。。。)

只想背着她

的梦
。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。一步步向前
走。 她给的永远不重


一个人心中只有一个
宝贝
久了之后
她变成了眼泪

泪一滴在左手凝固成为寂寞。。。。

往回看有
什么?

那女孩对我说
说我保护她的梦
说这个世界
对她这样的不多


她渐渐忘了我

但是她并不晓得遍体鳞伤的我




一天也没再。。


。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。爱过


那女孩对我说
说我是一个小偷
偷她的回忆塞进我的脑海中

我不需要自由只想背着她的梦一步步向前走

她, 给的, 永远不重


那女孩对我

说我
保护她的梦
说这个世界对她这样的不多


她渐渐。。。
忘了我。

但是她。。。
并不晓得。

遍体鳞伤。。。的。。。

我一天也没再。

。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。爱过

那女孩对我说
说我
是一个

小偷
偷她的回忆


进我的脑海

我不需要,
自由只想背着她。的。

梦一步步向前走。

她给的,永远不重

Saturday, October 01, 2005

tears...and tracks

軌跡
Composer: Jay Chou (周杰倫)
Lyricist: Huang Jun Lang (黃俊郎)


怎麼隱藏

我的悲傷

失去妳的地方

妳的髮香

散的匆忙

我已經跟不上

閉上眼睛

還能看見

你離去的痕跡

在月光下一直找尋那想念的身影


如果說分手是苦痛的起點

那在終點之前

我願意再愛一遍

想要對妳說的

不敢說的愛

會不會有人可以明白


心裡的眼淚

模糊了視線

在我。。。忘记之前。

照顾你 care.....

你本来就不是一个身体很强健的女孩。。。所以,到冷一点的地方,我要记得带外套。
你说冷的时候, 要赶快把你抱紧。

你不爱吃辣。 为了保养嗓子,和皮肤, 你也不吃煎炸。所以不要为你点什么鸡扒,油条。
叫个鱼片汤吧。鱼片要新鲜。 汤要因为材料鲜甜, 而不是充满味精的假甘甜。
或者点个猪肉粥也可以。不要皮蛋。可以加颗鸡蛋。

你爱七分熟, 圆圆满满的蛋黄。
面汤, 泡面里有一个这样在刺破时会有香浓蛋汁的蛋黄,你会很开心。

你爱吃 “统一” 牌的 “鲍鱼鸡汤” 口味快熟面。但要提醒你尽量少吃。

你最爱位于 CUPPAGE 的 “KEN 拉面”店里头的MISO拉面。想庆祝的时候, 可以到那里去。
你也很爱 SUSHI TEI 的 SALMON BELLY SOUP. 庆祝什么开心的事时, 也可以到那里去,顺便点个UMECHOYA 日式梅酒助兴。

你爱吃。 享受吃。吃, 会令你觉得满足.
吃完了, 你还会很可爱地把小小圆圆, 微微隆起的小腹秀一下。
(这或许是天下最美丽可爱的 little round tummy.)

你讨厌 二 手烟, 讨厌嘈杂的场合.

一点爵士乐, 一杯甜甜的鸡尾酒, 一堆温暖的微笑, 是你的 perfect night out.

你的眼睛容易因为空气干燥而出问题. 要记得替你带 eye-drops.
可以带你在清爽的夜风里漫步, 但不要太晚.
太晚, 对五脏六腑, 皮肤, 戴了很久时间隐形眼镜的眼珠子, 都不好

牵你的手的时候, 可以很轻, 很轻地亲吻你的手背. 你会感觉很甜蜜.

有时候可以背你, 你会哈哈说自己是 Koala Bear.

自己的胸部肌肉要锻炼好. 因为你喜欢捶打结实的胸部发泄生活的不满.

要提醒, 鼓励你改变脊椎姿势. 注意挺直身躯.
(担心你以后变祖母, 外婆的时候, 不能好好抱孙子!)
要提醒, 鼓励你多运动.
多运动....免疫力会增强. 你工作时间, 有时真的很可怕, 但又偏偏要处在最美丽的状态面对媒体, 或是观众, 所以要让身体更强, 才不会轻易病倒.

你真的爱说话, 所以要好好聆听.
但你却害怕别人对你说 long grandmother story.
所以"同你倾" 要直接, 可以的话,
重点出击.
你喜欢倾诉, 喜欢说话, 喜欢发牢骚.
要耐心听. 可以的话, 提供点子, 或是解决方法.

最.
最最
最重要, 要寻找你心灵疲惫, 或是受伤的蛛丝马迹. 赶快安慰.

安慰你的时候, 要让你知道,
这里有拉拉队, 有后援会, 有支柱, 有依靠, 有暖流, 有一股属于你的勇气.

要尊敬, 要顾到你的家人. 逢年过节, 要认真地表达心意.
敬老尊贤, 不是 "加分" 动作. 是基本 BASIC! 切记。

不要安排什么太阳底下的活动。 你会被晒黄!
可以在傍晚时分,拉你到公园, 看看花草。 呼吸新鲜空气
(趁没人时, 可以多偷亲你几下。 你会很开心)

逛完公园, 可以去唱 卡拉OK。
你好喜欢唱歌。 歌声, 也很棒!
(因为有训练, 有保养)
但卡拉OK 之前, 记得多买几瓶水, 然后 “偷运“ 进去。

卡拉OK 里头的那种粉圆 FRIED FISHBALL 是你的 RARE INDULGENCE。
可以开玩笑地阻止你吃, 但其实你自己的自律很好的。

不怕肉麻,
在最多, 最适当的时候,
贴近你的耳朵,
告诉你

“你是我的宝贝”

然后, 用心好好照顾

我伤害了她
最爱的她, 却让她那么受伤。

我任性时。。。太任性。 极端时, 太可怕。

我们。。。


怎么了?

不是深爱彼此, 疼惜彼此的吗? 为什么说了那么多毁灭对方的话?

我们都有错,可是, 我会勇敢,真实地举手,承认自己。。。有更大的罪过。

我错得太离谱了。
她需要鼓励, 你却冷言冷语。。。
她须要安慰, 你却忘了送上最温暖的拥抱。

我还记得把她的手握着, 轻轻亲吻的感觉。
我还记得她的贴心微笑。

为什么我那么鲁莽? 在气头上说出那么极端的话?
为什么。。。我纵容自己
那么践踏她对我的爱。。。那么随意地伤害她。

我真的好痛。 因为我终于明白她有多痛。她因为我承受了那么多。。。

原来。。。她真的被伤得很重。。。

为什么。。。我没有更好地为她着想?


我。。。。彻底地哭

真的很。。很。。。抱歉。。。。。。。
真的。 真的。真的。。。。。。。。。。。。。很清楚地体会到了自己制造的痛苦。


原来我们都那么脆弱。

I was a bastard

I loved her. So much. But I said spiteful, hurtful things. And my words caused so much destruction.
It was an awful rampage...

I was aloof,
asleep.

Now I am finally awake and I am torn apart by regret.

She says she will never forgive me.