A Brand New Year Ahead


第一次看到这片景色，就想到‘野百合也有春天’这首歌。一片细细碎碎的紫红色， 撒落眼前，引人遐思。

今日是二零零九年的最末一日。明天是新的一年开始。就以这绿中带红的小照为勉吧。
祝愿来年绿能多用，炭量大减。地球常青！

风雨随缘

近日常见一些年轻人，终日长嘘短叹， 始终都是为了情感的纠结。他们就是看不到情感到底只是一种心态上的感觉罢了。

如果我们站远一点来看的话，或许事情就不会严重了。世上有意义的事， 一大把，为何就粘在那一小点上打转呢?

永别了，一个时代的歌手--吴鶯音



今早阅报，得悉歌手吴鶯音己病逝美国。一大清早便心情沉重。
记忆中最早听到她的歌曲，是六七岁时，那时家貧，父母只能租用一具丽得呼声，一家大小便靠这小音箱得些许便宜的娱乐。我便是在这时开始听到她的歌曲。那时常播的歌有：我想忘了你，泯江之夜，断腸红等。當时我並不特别喜欢她的音色。大概是她的鼻音太重吧。

可是自已越老却越喜爱那浓浓的鼻音。或许是她的特色吧。加上原有的时代音乐，以及十分有意思的歌词；她的歌充份的表现出當时的时代风貌。夜深人静时，重听她的歌，恍若重坠时光隧道，一切前尘往事，故人遺境，纷然涌現。唏嘘难己。

今悉她仙逝，又怎能释怀？
别矣，那把牵人愁腸的声色！

The Cicadas

Every hot season, if you walk into the cooling shaded plantation, such as the Botanical Gardens, you would not miss the ear piercing sound made by the cicadas. In my whole life, the first encounter with it was in Raub area, it flew into the place where I stayed. A huge insect in deed. I was a bit hesitated to chase it out of my room, as I do not know whether it bites or not.

Surprisingly, two days ago I went to Alexandra Butterfly Trial to take some shoots, along my way as I searched for butterflies, I heard the same piercing sound around me. I made a search and found this littel cicada on a tree trunk, making it happy sunny day song.

In Chinese, the proper name for this insect is '蝉‘, same pronunciation as Zen in Buddhism. Therefore, the Chinese also called it 'Zhi Liao'. That means knowing everything. This insect is a poetic creature, as there were many poets written poems on it.

The scientific information of this insect is as follow:
The eggs are laid in twigs. The newly hatched young drops to the ground and, burrowing into it, feeds by sucking the juices of roots. It lives in this way for some time (the duration depending on the species), its appearance changing but slightly. Finally, it digs out by means of its enlarged front feet, crawls on a tree-trunk or some such thing, splits down the back and liberates the adult.

The adult male "sings," often very loudly and shrilly, by vibrating membranes stretched over a pair of sound-chambers situated, one at each side, near the base of the abdomen.

蝶不恋花

Dragon Fly (A Poem in Chinese)

Life is but a show
This clip is adopted from:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7kDrgQ-A2I

人生就是戏。
原唱者：姚莉。
现唱：蔡琴

This is one of my favorite oldies. The title of this song is 'Life is all but a show'. Originally sang by Yao Li. But the singer here is Cai Qing. I like this song because when I first heard about it, I was around 11 or 12 years old. At the time my younger brother just passed away. It gave me a sense of reality in life. Until today, I hear it again, it still gives me the same feeling. Life is like a show, I am only acting in different act during different time frame. The good, the bad and the ugly; all in one. No one is saint in this world, as no one is an absolute devil! Right?

Two strange shots taken on 9 Dec 2009 at CSC Club House, Bukit Batok Singapore


The background of these shots look like there is a tsunami approaching. But in fact, these were the cloud formation before a downpour.

A Colorful City

The Christmas Deco in front of a shopping centre

City scene

The Colorful taxis on the road

Famous Bangkok hawkers

Where there are beauties, there will be slumps.

Modern design in buildings

Street corner stall

The Road Side scene

Wires in the air.

Colorful walls

Hard Rock Cafe Bangkok

Central World

Pathuwan Princess Hotel at a distance

Bangkok Sports Science Centre

MacDonald in Thai posture

Trapped and Frozen in Time

There is a weird thinking in me: How good if I could be frozen in time and be there forever! It is not only me that be frozen, there should be all the things and events that are around me be frozen too. Then, life would be much more simple and easy. There will be not variabilities, no changes, and no disappointment.

Living in a so-called Developed Country, things are constantly changing. Authority said they were changed for good. But people's feeling stated the other way or in doubts. Then the anxiety and depression grow. Suicide cases increased. People like us just watch the tragedy happening and could not do anything. Sad!

Paragon Under Water World, Bangkok

These are the photographs taken at Paragon Under Water World Bangkok on 23 Nov 2009 while I was there for Asia Fitness Convention. All shots were taken with Canon S90, with either shuttle priority or aperture priority. Most shots were using existing light, with high ISO.

一首小诗

Sentimental song by Zhang De Lan 张德兰

有时，真的怀疑当局四十年前，取消方言節目，是否是件善事。看官，你只要悄为用心看看字幕上的词，你必会吃驚，

它是那么的貼切且有意思。加上顧家辉的曲，張德兰幽怨的歌声；不令人唏嘘一番，都甚难矣。

迥望自己一生，驚见歌里竟然恍佛看到自己的身影！你呢？

Plants found at Bukit Timah Reserves, Singapore

Went to this place few days ago. The last time I paid a visit was years back. This time I equipped with Canon S90, which is a compact little camera and tried to capture animals and plants in that area.

These were the shots that I have captured during the trip.