很喜歡北宋的幾位名臣﹐倒不是他們有多麼才華橫溢﹐以文治天下。
而是他們很有人情味。
不僅流傳下很多他們幼年的經歷傳為佳話（如司馬光砸缸─這位先生後來可是權傾一時的名臣﹐再後來編寫了留芳百世的資治通鑒）幾位大人的愛情詩詞也是流傳至今的佳作。小時候吃鹹菜薄粥的範仲淹範大人還有一首幽默至極的牢騷詩。
絕對不是死板﹐與生活脫節的道學先生們。
下面貼一首王安石的詞﹐很喜歡:
千秋歲引
別館寒砧，孤城畫角，一派秋聲入寥廓。
東歸燕從海上去，南來雁向沙頭落。
楚台風，庚樓月，宛如昨。
無奈被些名利縛！無奈被他情耽擱！
可惜風流總閑卻！
當初謾留華表語，而今誤我秦樓約。
夢闌時，酒醒后，思量著。
北宋的士大夫
我們年少無憂時
The many of us spent 10 hrs at wan's house yesterday...
a casual but very very fun 21st..
the guys loaded their cardboard body kit on wan's family wagon. and then all of us decorated the bonnet into a colourful piece of artwork.. filled with messages and photos.
Then wan drove andrew, wei, brian, and ken on a ride in his cardboard car.. with a luggage named jeremy loaded at the back.
The boys were waving to all the passing cars and bicycles and ppl standing around... and did gd for the traffic for making most cars slowing down in shock... LOL
And wan's mum cooked more for us... Steph made pink fairy floss for all of us with her fairy floss machine.
Wan made a very touching speech in front of his bday cake, then around midnite, each one of the law ppl went d&m and made a speech for wan as well...
當我們老去﹐我們依舊會記得這曾經的一天﹐記得我們年少無憂時。
Remembering Marie A.
Haven't blogged for a while, but finally found some time today. Friday morning is pretty much my full-on not working only playing around day. (other days not much work done either... just not so full-on having fun)
Being quite busy this week... due to some unpleasant problems. But i guess when one aspect of things goes too disastrous u naturally go into a self-protective mode and tune out majorly on that part and won't think much about it. It isn't a bad thing to do when u seriously don't have a solution to the problem.
Writing is really good medicine. when i sit in front of my story my brain can almost shun away everything else and just concentrate on that. Wish I can do that with my actual uni work...
so yes added another approx 10000 words to it.. now the count is 82000 something... i hav a feeling it will reach 100000...
i guess it reali helps me to make the decision that i won't abandon writing in my life in the future...
how did it start?
to be honest i think it really started from this blog... for once i realised that the many thoughts in my brain actually sound interesting if i put them down.. and ppl actually want to read it... and that i hardly ever lose enthusiasm on it... one of the very very few things in life that i can actually perservere...
so yes finally sent the 1st 5 chapters to a website, posted the 1st chapter on a discussion forum... if interested u can check my chinese blog sometime soon... mite post it there as well...
very silly slamdunk story.. but i love it... i think its reali cool.
but i know my skill is quite poor..... so for quality reading, i will recommend a masterpiece I read this week. So touched in the end... growing up can be this beautiful.
its also a slamdunk fanfic.. but you can just read it as a growing up story.
titled Marie Marie
can read it here:
http://post.baidu.com/f?kz=26290281
or here:
http://www.52sd.com/dispbbs.asp?boardID=49&ID=2686&page=1
because of the story, i went online and searched madly for Bertolt Brecht's poems... then can't find it... and then the next day went up all the way to Baillieu second floor's dusty shelfs to get the poetry collection from 1976...
and there it is, the beautiful poem:
Remembering Marie A.
It was a day in that blue month September
Silent beneath a plum tree's slender shade
I held her there, my love so pale and silent
As if she were a dream that must not fade.
Above us in the shining summer heaven
There was a cloud my eyes dwelt long upon
It was quite white and very high above us
Then I looked up, and found that it had gone.
And since that day so many moons, in silence
Have swum across the sky and gone below.
The plum trees surely have been chopped for firewood
And if you ask, how does that love seem now?
I must admit: I really can't remember
And yet I know what you are trying to say.
But what her face was like I know no longer
I only know: I kissed it on that day.
As for the kiss, I'd long ago forgot it
But for the cloud that floated in the sky
I know that still, and shall for ever know it
It was quite white and moved in very high.
It may be that the plum trees still are blooming
That woman's seventh child may now be there
And yet that cloud had only bloomed for minutes
When i looked up, it vanished on the air.
From My Utmost for His Highest
Yes one of my rare moments of overwhelming enthusiasm to blog...
not realli, just that have long wanted to post up some bits of My Utmost For His Highest.
Still some pages r so deep and profound that when i read it i get reali lost, but i won't give up trying. and wat i can already understand i post up and share.
The Conditions of Discipleship
If the closest relationship of life clash with the claims of Jesus Christ,He says it must be instant obedience to Himself. Discipleship means personal, passionate devotion to a Person, our Lord Jesus Christ. There is a difference between devotion to a Person and devotion to principles or to a cause. Our Lord never proclaimed a cause;He proclaimed personal devotion to Himself. To be a disciple is to be a devoted love-slave of the Lord Jesus. Many of us who call ourselves Christians are not devoted to Jesus Christ. No man on earth has this passionate love to the Lord Jesus unless the Holy Ghost has imparted it to him.We may admire Him, we may respect Him and reverence Him, but we cannot love Him. The only Lover of the Lord Jesus is the Holy Ghost, and He sheds abroad the very love of God in our hearts. Whenever the Holy Ghost sees a chance of glorifying Just, He will take your heart, your nerves, your whole personality, and simply make you blaze and glow with devotion to Jesus Christ.
The Christian life is stamped by "moral spontaneous originality",consequently the disciple is open to the same charge that Jesus Christ was, viz.,that of inconsistency.But Jesus Christ was always consistent to God, and the Christian must be consistent to the life of the Son of God in him, not consistent to hard and fast creeds. Men pour themselves in to creeds, and God has to blast them out of their prejudices before they can become devoted to Jesus Christ.
21st and weddings
perhaps i do hav an obsession with weddings...
seems now every 21st i go or get invited to i tend to associate it with a wedding...
got an invitation to something in Golden Pebble.. the reason why i said something is that also i am sure it is a 21st, i keep on thinking that its actually a wedding... yes Golden Pebble(i am sure some of u remember golden pebble... someone at church last yr had wedding dinner there) LOL
and yesterday went to brian's 21st... the chandeliers and finger food and drinks remind me again of a wedding... especially since kat was wearing a sari... *sweat*
I must be hallucinating... really hallucinating...
just like how sally can dream about yi qiu getting married... (hahahahaha)
but to be serious when would most if not all ur frnds feel obliged to gather together for you apart from a 21st, wedding, or a funeral?
so after a 21st... ppl either gather for ur wedding... or ur funeral.
assuming most of us wil get married.. still that would be the last time U SEE most of ur frnds gather for u.
depressing thoughts yeh?
i remember wat chris wrote on my 21st card: u think ur life is going to reach higher peaks? think again! its all downhill from now onwards...
(now ppl already 21 are all nodding in agreement.. and those not yet 21 r prob staring at me in horror... all freaked out. )
Just kidding.............. ^0^ LOL
In memory: Buzzer Beater
Buzzer beater is made into an anime! *lets open a champagne bottle to celebrate*
The first time i read Buzzer Beater I was fourteen.
i was really touched by the story... so simple, so random but so real... the choice Hideoyoshi made in the very end.
when i was 14 15, almost laughable, but most manga i read made an impact on my life, made me laugh or cry,made me into what kind of person i would become.
now nothing seems to be able to make such an impact...
but i was glad for it... reali glad for those priceless brain food i had. ^0^
Just want to celebrate a manga now coming to a much wider audience!!!!
anyone interested abt yn's anime craze can find buzzer beater online here.
http://www.itplanning.co.jp/bbch.html
post forum, story, My Utmost for His Highest
well... in rmh atm...
something interesting happened recently is that i am now one of the masters in a chinese posting forum...
on Slamdunk... (everyone: sif anything else!)
wat we do? posting up comments and stories and pictures of our fav characters... then everyone else drool all over it...LOL
mainly bc i am now almost 9-5 on the net... and the mac i use has safari not IE and therefore no msn... (unlike hc, dora, and etc etc who r always online....lol)
trying to study some anatomy... hopefully i can... lol
still prizing my fav "manga book".
my story is going well. although i hav the fear that it may go longer and longer and i wil hav to cut stuff down... perhaps i will post up a chapter or sth on my chinese blog sumday... just so u guys won't think i am just making it up and reading hentai instead..... wahahahahahaha...
writing a long story it really feels like....... bringing up a child...lots of effort and stress... but the joy of seeing it grow is mammoth...
and reading My Utmost for His Highest by oswald chambers again. First time i read it is in first year... just knew its a good spiritual book.. but at the time... din reali understand most of the stuff...
but now reading again... found so many inspiring words...
maybe wait til i get home and post up some inspiring paragraphs! *grin*
(tiff........ have u read the copy i gave to u yet? *sniff*)
^0^ have a great day!
