King of the Birds, Lord of the Skies

King of the Birds, Lord of the Skies
Gather ye rose buds while ye may, old time is still a flying;
and this same rose that you see today, tomorrow will be dying.
CarpeDiem: Seize the Day!
- Dead Poets Society

Tuesday, April 3, 2007

我还能爱谁

Get to sing this beautiful song last week. But need a bit more practise.

歌手 : 许志安 专辑:我还能爱谁
中文词: 林夕


睡梦中的人不了解我的累
我也不原谅你的美
它让我体会
这个世界真的有
十全十美
却无所谓后悔
会妥协的人
不明白我自卑
就像我不容许我气馁
我真的以为
要感动最完美的玫瑰
如果要奉献我眼泪
除了你谁都不能给

见过你的美
我还能爱谁
我一路的追
意冷却不心灰
我的世界
走不出你背影的范围
没有你会面目全非

我还能爱谁

放弃其它玫瑰
这是一种愚蠢的智慧
困在只有你的堡垒
享受讨好你的滋味

Love Letter

My Dear Wife,

I thank you for listening to me. You have always been a great listener. I know that sometimes I might act as if I'm self-sufficient, as if I don't need anyone or anything. But beneath my 'I-have-everything-under-control' exterior dwells a needy little boy with concerns, fears, insecurities, and a need to be heard. Even when I appear tired, pre-occupied or crazy, sometimes I just want someone to talk to; someone like you, whom I can completely trust with all my inadequacies and shortcomings. Someone I know I can count on. That someone has always been you. Thank you, darling.

If you can, gently nudge me out, I'd love to talk to you and tell you everything that resides in these secret chambers of my heart. I know, communication seems to flow more easily for you women than it does for us men. We're not always comfortable saying how we feel, or even knowing how we feel. But you, my dear wife, you can draw me out. I know you're a good listener, and you usually have something wise and encouraging to say. I long so much for those intimate moments where I can pour out my heart to you and yours to mine; moments where your heartbeats sound clearer that the sound of the night. I really do need and like to talk to you.

Because I Love You,

Your Husband.

Today's Devotion

Ephesians 4:26-32 (New Testament, The Bible)

Verse 26: "Be angry, and yet do not sin..."


Is there a contradiction of terms here? "Be" and then "do not". What kind of exhortation is this? Can one really be angry, and yet not sin? I think so. I can be angry, and yet don't slam the door. The door is not at fault.
Lots of people have the ability and power to agitate and frustrate me. Really. But whether or not I express my anger when they do is entirely my choice. People don't "make me" angry; I allow myself to express my anger.
Truth is: No one, absolutely no one else can make me respond aggressively or inappropriately when I feel anger. It seems just exactly the opposite, that because my constant and chosen response to feeling anger has become so routine that it seems "automatic". It feels as if the person or event triggered my anger and caused my angry response but in actual fact I was just giving excuses. I set to 'auto-pilot' mode as far as anger is concerned. And that needs to be changed, and soon.
Reality is: so many of my responses to anger result from learned behavior. I learned it long ago, from people I grew up with and around. And the scary thing is that I learned it so informally and subtly that I was not even aware of it.
I have reflected and come to realise that anger is an inescapable fact of life. No one is spared. Even my Lord kanna before. It's there, read it. But the experience of anger is different from the expression of anger. What I feel about angry situation that arises, versus what I do with my anger, how I express it and manage it, is another matter.
The good news I discovered is that what I have learned I can also unlearn, and even relearn new responses. By the constant renewal of the mind and active obedient to the prompting of the Spirit, it is possible for me to manage my anger in a God-honoring way.

Here am I, I can do no other, so help me, God. May my outward expression reflects my inward obedience as a result of my upward experience.

Be angry, and not sin.

Funny Milton Berle's Humor II

A young man fills out an application for a job and does well until he gets to the last question, "Who Should we notify in case of an accident?" He mulls it over and then writes, "Anybody in sight!".

I'd rather be a could-be if I cannot be an are; because a could-be is a maybe who is reaching for a star.
I'd rather be a has-been than a might-have-been, by far; for a might have-been has never been, but a has was once an are.

Laughter is an instant vacation.

The company accountant is shy and retiring. He's shy a quarter of a million dollars. That's why he's retiring.

Poverty is not a disgrace, but it's terribly inconvenient.

- Milton Berle

Marriage Humor

You have two choices in life:You can stay single and be miserable, or get married and wish you were dead.
There was a woman who said,"I never knew what real happiness was until I got married, and by then, it was too late."
Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
Just think, if it weren't for marriage, men would go through life thinking they had no faults at all.
First guy says, "My wife's an angel!" Second guy remarks, "You're lucky, mine's still alive."
A Woman's Prayer: "Dear Lord, I pray for: Wisdom, To understand a man , to Love and to forgive him , and for patience, for his moods. Because Lord, if I pray for Strength, I'll just beat him to death."
A lady inserted an ad in the classifieds:"Husband Wanted". Next day she received a hundred letters. They all said the same thing: "You can have mine."
When a woman steals your husband, there is no better revenge than to let her keep him.

Hot 25 year old Blonde

Well, it's not a mid-life crisis, but here's how things worked out for me. Married 25 years, I took a look at my wife one day and said, "Honey, 25 years ago, We had a cheap apartment, a cheap car, slept on a sofa bed and watched a 10 inch black and white TV, but I got to sleep every night with a hot 25 year old blond. Now, we have a nice house, nice car, big bed and plasma screen TV, but I'm sleeping with a 50 year old woman. It seems to me that you are not holding up your side of things."
My wife is a very reasonable woman. She told me to go out and find a hot 25 year old blond, and she would make sure that I would once again be living in a cheap apartment, driving a cheap car, sleeping on a sofa bed.

Rolls vs VW

This VW Bug pulled up beside this Rolls at a red light, rolled down his window and asked the Rolls driver, "You got a telephone in that Rolls?" "Matter of fact I do, right here on the seat beside me." said the Rolls driver. "Me too," said the VW Driver,
"You got a TV in that Rolls?" The Rolls, "Yes I do, right here on the dash." "Me too," said the VW,
"You got a twin bed in the back seat?" Rolls, "No, I do not." "I do" said the VW as the light turns green and he takes off.
The Rolls manages to get the license number. The Rolls heads straight to the Auto Accessory Store not to let the VW Bug out do him. "Yes" the accessory attendant said, "We do carry and can install a twin bed in the rear seat of your Rolls." So, after about a week the Rolls driver picked up his Rolls with the newly installed twin bed and immediately set out to locate that VW Bug.
He finally located it parked in the park near the river. As he pulled up beside it he noted that the windows were all fogged over. Knowing what causes this he waited a few minutes. Finally he got out, walked over to the VW, knocked on the window, no response. He waited another few minutes, knocked on the window again. The window lowered a couple inches and the driver said, "Yes?" The Rolls driver said, "I wanted you to know that I have a twin bed in the back seat of my Rolls now."
The VW frowns and says, "You get me out of the shower just to tell me that?"