Ladies and gentlemen, this is the moment that we all, mainly the husby and I, have been waiting for. Put your hands together now for the truly wonderful, always delightful, downright awesome... T&E's annual vacation! *cue confetti rain & blaring trumpets*
What makes this year's trip all the more special is that it marks our first trip out of Asia.. AND.. with it we are celebrating our tenth anniversary! That's right: 10TH ANNIVERSARY/Ulangtahun Kesepuluh/第十週年! *cue balloon rain and laser show*
It's amazing we lasted so long! All those friction finally caused some sparks and got the fire going hehe.. God surely has had a hand in preserving us and carrying us through the downs of our lives, and we are forever and ever thankful (esp to fam and friends who saw us through the whole journey)! We have grown so much, especially the past few years. We've also made regrettable decisions and mistakes, which have taught us valuable lessons on love and life. And I pray for the next ten years to be better, that our love for each other will continue to grow and that we will be a blessing to others whose paths cross ours. *cue some 90s power ballads*
So, where are we headed? Most, if not all, of you would already know cos I've been mentioning my anticipation and excitement of this trip (good news are meant to be shared ma :p) But if you don't, let's just say that it's to an island not that far away. An island so vast it's a continent unto itself. Haha.. *cue joke rimshot and sound of crickets*
Hari Raya came and the four-day break will be over by today.. boo hoo! i'm happy to say that it's been a busy few days, with me cooking Dad his birthday dinner on Saturday (which turned out rather yummeh if i may say so hehe!)(hopefully, i'll post photos in the next blog) and visiting Zul on Sunday (it's kinda a tradition by now)(we got to play a few rounds of Taboo, which i've missed so much!), and the impromptu tea session with M&S at Publika, and getting my toes holiday-ready by painting them in some brightshades I've never tried before (and since i couldn't decide, i have orange on the left foot and red on the right), and also getting a lot of housework in between (i just spent three hours plus cleaning my kitchen). w00t!
anywayyy, a few nights back, i managed to listen to one hour's worth of radio interview between Lee Hom and a Hong Kong DJ. if you knew me, that was no mean feat, because it's almost next to impossible to get me to listen to an audio file of someone talking without me tuning out within the first five minutes *hashtag ADD* hehehe.. what's more, that interview was in Mandarin, which required my almost complete attention.. so woohoo! ah, why are you not surprised! :P
this song 你和我 You and I is one of Lee Hom's songs that i've listened to and liked for years. it's from his Unbelievable album which came out 9 years ago in 2003. what was I doing then?
at this point, i think i've come to accept the fact that the main appeal of Lee Hom's songs is in their simplicity and general positiveness. really, they are like honey for an ever-optimist bear like me! heh. i have a colleague who tells me that he doesn't like any tune that's upbeat or happy. he looks nothing like a melancholic soul but he just finds himself drawn to dark and depressing songs and movies. i don't think that's very healthy so i try to convince him to try something lighter.. it hasn't worked yet haha!
of course one could insist that that's how the world is really like so why try to sugarcoat the unpalatable bitterness of harsh reality? ah, but don't i know better? have i not ranted enough about the vileness of human nature and cried in despair at the bleak state of morality of this age? if anything, the images in my head are too lurid.
BUT.
despite it all, we are NOT without hope. there has got to be something that makes sense, above the sheer madness that's happening around us. i can't see it but there HAS got to be. and it's this faith i have in me, the hope that comes from and lies in God alone, this is the steel rope by which my sanity hangs.
it's hard being an optimist in this time that we live in. sometimes being one makes me feel foolish, an ignoramus, cold even. but i'd rather that, than having to stare defeated and hopelessly into the present and the future. which i do sometimes. sigh. make haste, Lord.
mm, how did i end going up there? haha..
so yeah, while i still enjoy me some Damien Rices and Adeles, i really appreciate Lee Hom, Jon Foreman, Adam Young, Derek Webb, Matt Thiessen, and many, many other singers/songwriters who don't leave their listeners wallowing in despair without dropping them a hint of a lifeline.
Three things will last forever--faith, hope, and love--and the greatest of these is love. :: 1 Corinthians 13:13 (NLT)
親愛的聽眾朋友我是你的代班DJ 想找你陪我一起聊聊這世界
整天的工作重覆疲憊的畫面 麻木你的感覺
耳邊才剛剛聽到仇恨要靠理智解決 謾罵和子彈卻在那頭滿天飛
學了一輩子的愛沒勇氣說出來 彌補那些傷害
dearest listeners, I will be your substitute DJ for today
now that you're with me, let's talk about what's going on around the world
all you do is work the entire day, and the repetitiveness and exhaustion make you feel numbed
we have just heard about a hostile situation that requires wisdom for a solution
abuse and bullets are flying pass just above the head
having learned about love our whole life, but lacking the guts to say it even to cover pains and hurt
你和我 在世界同一座擂台 別懦弱 拿出勇氣對待
讓眼淚流出來不是因為失敗
幸福那個夢 就看你和我 你和我 你和我
you and i are living on the same stage in this world
don't be a coward, just summon your courage
let your tears flow freely, but not because from defeat
that blessed dream we have depends on you and i, you and i, you and i
美麗的主播說的都不是美麗的新聞 彩色的報紙能讓鮮血更逼真
當媒體播報的全是絕望的氣氛 誰該負點責任
the beautiful anchorperson has no good news to deliver
the colorful newspaper describes the bloodshed so vividly
when all that the media have to broadcast are gloom and doom
who should be held responsible?
那麼多的人只敢窩在網路裡面生存 慢慢都忘記電腦螢幕沒靈魂
科技的發達讓人的距離被拉開 再也拉不回來
so many people hide and only dare to live their lives online
they will slowly forget that the computer screen is lifeless
the advancement of technology seems to create a gap between human beings
one that we might not be able to close (but)
你和我 在世界同一座擂台 別懦弱 拿出勇氣對待
讓眼淚流出來不是因為失敗 幸福那個夢 就看你和我
你和我 你和我 你和我（我們做得到yeah)
you and i are living on the same stage in this world
don't be a coward, just summon your courage
let your tears flow freely, but not because from defeat
that blessed dream we have depends on you and i, you and i, you and i
你和我也沒什麼不一樣 該學習地球如何分享
為什麼我們會忘記怎麼擁有簡單的大愛 That's right 你和我 我們都要做的更好
you and i are not very much different
we need to learn how to share this earth
how could we forget what it's like to have simple great love
that's right, you and i, we need to do more
重覆 chóngfù - repeat
疲憊 píbèi - beaten / exhausted / tired
仇恨 chóuhèn - to hate / hatred / enmity / hostility
謾罵 mànmà - to hurl abuse / to deride / to call sb names
彌補 míbǔ - to complement / to make up for a deficiency
懦弱 nuòruò - cowardly / weak
主播zhǔbō - anchorperson
逼真 bīzhēn - lifelike / true to life / distinctly / clearly
氣氛 qìfēn - atmosphere / mood
螢幕 yíngmù - screen of a computer/TV
發達/发达 fādá - develop
i sang back-up in church on Sunday for the first time after about 8 months of not singing. but it was at a different church, with a different team.
so was i excited? i don't know. was i nervous? mm not really.. about being on stage, yes, about singing, no. how did it go? erm it went normal. i might have sung a bit louder than i should. :\ i don't really know what to feel about it, but i miss my old team. i miss worship leading. i miss the whole.. experience.
anyway, i won't be able to sing often as the hubby goes preaching at other churches quite frequently (about 2-3 times a month) and i do go with him. but i will try to commit to once a month. honestly, being away so often makes it more difficult for me to settle into this new church (i still have trouble with many names and i find it embarrassing to have to ask again) but deeper down inside, i relish the fact that we are not there all the time, because the thought of getting to know a whole load of people makes me wanna just crawl into my closet and stay there till everyone leaves.
but i know it's inevitable.. it's times like this that i really wish my sanguine side would just take over and charm the socks off everyone. but the introvert part of me just decided it would be in charge.. so yeah.
oh well, the good thing is the people don't look like they are going to bite :D what i also like here is that there are people closer to my age, but whom i've not really spoken to yet. i'll just go with the flo' now.
anyways, this happened on Sat during practice. there was this backup singer who was with me, a young boy. i was chatting with him in between practice, and asked if he was studying and where. he said he's in form 6 and i found out that we were from the same alma mater -- st john's. and i was like "oh cool.. i went there too! gosh i'm your senior by many many years... let's see... that was way back in 96/97..." and then i jokingly asked, "so were you born yet?" and as he every so briefly paused to think, i was like "uh oh.." and he said "erm.. oh yes i was.. i was born in 1994."
and i was like -_____________________-
and then i was like T____________________________T
and i am still like T____________________________T
Good morning! It's the wee hours of a Saturday morning and I am still awake, barely so, but enough to be typing this. I am up because it's the weekend, and every effort must be made to streeeetch it.
I have just finished watching: (1) an old French movie, the 1955 Les Diaboliques, which is not that scary by today's standard.. but maybe it was because I read the synopsis and found out how the movie ended. That was a stupid move on my part. I wouldn't call it groundbreaking, but apparently it made quite a splash when it was first released.
I've been on a movie watching spree lately, inspired by a colleague of mine who is a movie buff and his aim is to watch the entire list of movies from *IMDB Top 250 Movies* (he claims that he has covered half of the movies in the list)..
If you know me, you'd know that I don't watch many movies.. even those really famous ones like Fight Club or The Godfathers. I wonder how his passion have somehow rubbed off me. The strange thing about this colleague, when face to face, is hardly articulate (come to think of it, even on Skype he isn't exactly smooth), but when he talks about movies, he gets really chatty about it. I guess that did it for me.
Now I try to make it a point every weekend to watch one of the movies he had recommended (basically from the list), and so far I have watched Memento [2000], The Shawshank Redemption [1994], Rashomon [1950], Casablanca [1942], Princess Mononoke [1997](halfway) -- okay, I don't know why I'm watching all these super old movies haha.. didn't realise it. While those movies were ground breaking back in those days, I can't really appreciate them now. But I'm still curious enough to want to watch.
I doubt that I would want to finish the list, cos I'm never really into dramas (which the list has quite a few), but I realised that I do enjoy most psychological thrillers (Inception, Shutter Island), so last weekend, I searched for a list of must-watch Psych Thrillers and downloaded the ones which I think I might like. Can't wait to see those shows... the next movie in line is The Usual Suspects.
But first, I'll need me a few Community episodes first. Have I ever mentioned here how much I love Community? It's a whole lot, bordering the line of fanatigirlism. Actually I think I have already overstep that line. But let me talk about it some other time. But just so you know, I am crazy, like KUH-RAYYY-ZAYYY about the show. ;)
(2) an interview with Lee Hom from 2010, and I am a happy camper because I found the interview footage, which is rare these days as
he hasn't have any new projects lately (he's been spending 2012 on his Music Man 2 tour and is currently in Harbin (that's northern China, bordering Russia and I think North Korea.. the hubby was there just a few months ago :) for a concert this weekend.) and
I have watched most of the rest of them haha!
Today I have two songs by Lee Hom here, which shares the same melody and theme (separation/broken hearts) but are different language and lyrics-wise. It's said that the Mary referenced in the English song is the name of his ex-gf who broke up with him when he chose music over her. He's said before that they had been together before he became famous, but once his career took off, he couldn't have the time to spend with her and it took a toll on the relationship. He said that she's now happily married, and seemed to express regrets over not being able to commit. Anyway, it's quite straight-forward what he was trying to express via the English song.. it's very simple and the way he sang it here is very heartfelt, and what gets to me most is that first line of the chorus (And Mary says she's gonna be OK) -- I couldn't really shake it off.. Maybe it's the way he sang it, or the way I imagined it, it's makes me kinda :( every time I hear it.
I am rather indifferent to the Chinese version thou' but this was one of his more well-known songs back then (it's from 1999). A karaoke staple, I guess.
Anyways, it's layyte (3:49AM)! Imma call it a night. Thank God I've got nothing on tomorrow -- the only agenda is to clean my house. Say what? Yeah, you heard me ;) Night night.
Mary Says
How long has it been since I held you near？
How long will it be till I have you right here？
You say that it hurts I can't disagree
But how can I hold on to someone who's leaving me?
And Mary says she's gonna be OK
She tells me things are getting busier these days
[She tells me things will be much easier someday]
And Mary says she's gonna be alright
You know how much I miss her in my life
[You know how much I'm missing her deep inside]
Goodbye yesterday, I see my dreams walking away
And Mary looks just like she did before
Except she don't love me, she don't love me anymore
I could shake your hand or I could kiss you goodbye
But I just might break down looking in your brown eyes
So what happens next do I listen to my mind or heart？
I don't know where to start feeling alright again
淚流手心 Crying Palm
雲飄在天空 浪在海流動
這世界太多 無法掌握的夢
你站在風中 你是自由的
生命有太多 不得不分的痛
Clouds are floating in the sky, waves are in motion in the sea
In this world, there are too many dreams that are beyond our grasp
You are standing in the wind, you are a free soul
In this life, there are too much pains that cannot be shared
當你將離別握在我手心
我聽見愛被悄悄捏碎的聲音
你不懂你不要的我的心
會隨你鬆開的手而喊停
When you are leaving, don't hold on to my hand
I am listening to the sound of love being quietly shattered
You do not understand that you don't want my heart
But it will just follow your loosening grip and cry for it to stop
我試著微笑 試著擁抱 在每一秒
我不想看見閉上的眼睛
害怕你最後 化成淚流出手心
I try to smile and try to embrace every second
I don't want to see closed eyes
Afraid that you would eventually become a crying palm (Ed: I don't quite get this part)
你給過的承諾 我怎能不放手
當你誠實訴說 他的愛多遼闊
這是我的手 它牽過你往事中度過
這段漫長的路 不該走到寂寞
The promises that you have once gave, I cannot let go of them
When you spoke frankly about how great his love is
This is my hand which has held your past
This long road ahead should not be one of loneliness
Lee Hom was in town last week (*cue fangirl scream* but I was surprisingly nonchalant about it).
As the ambassador for World Vision Malaysia's 15th Anniversary (that's this year), he flew in to participate in the 30-Hour Famine event organised by WVM. So yup, he and I walked on the same land for that few hours he was here (although technically, if he was in China, we would also still be on the same piece of land.. but on Sunday, we were less than 50km apart :D but afaik, it was just a touch-and-go visit (a friend who works for WV posted on FB that he came from and left for HK on the same day).
I kinda knew he was coming (from the fan club ;) but decided to give the event a miss, mainly because I feel weird if my motivation for charity is due to one man (And not doing anything is a better alternative? No, it's not. Okay, I haven't figured myself out). This reminds me, I still have not signed up to sponsor a kid, which I've been meaning to do since.. many months ago. Mm, I'll get to it... by this month? :P
Lee Hom has been active with World Vision for a long time now and had visited Laos and Sierra Leone a few years back to raise awareness about the state of poverty in those countries. He personally sponsors over 20 underprivileged children with World Vision and frequently participates in fund-raising campaigns for disaster relief. Sometimes I can be wary of celebs and their causes, but I think even if they do it to bring attention to themselves, it's still publicity for the cause and any reminder should be welcome, because we are quick to forget. And it's better than not doing anything at all. But anyways, I don't think he's like that at all!
This song 自己人 One of Us was written after his trip to Sierra Leone (it even has a short track of SL kids singing the chorus of a hymn before he chimes in). The video shows snippets of his trips, and if I ever wondered how he was like when he was there, I found *this entry* written by a media member who was also there with him, and yeah I know, everything I unearthed from the Net seem to paint this picture of a guy who is like so nice and so talented and just so amazing right? Hahaha.. But it really warms my heart to know there are people like this, and there are many people like this!
I like this song a lot. It's simple and sincere, very much like him. I guess. ^__^
上帝你在哪里 人们被什么疏离
饥饿战争暴力 天堂的眼泪 是否流干了
太阳晒他肩膀上 跑得快但他不知道方向
家被烧完回不去 多少悲伤震撼大地
God, where are you? what is dividing mankind?
famine, wars, violence
the tears of heaven, have they ran dry?
the sun is shining on his shoulders
he is running fast but he has no idea where he is going
his house has burned to the ground, he has no home to return to
how much pain is there in the shattered world
看见你 听不见我声音
被抛弃 太多黑暗的回忆
如何搜寻 所有的希望
都在哪里 在哪里
i'm looking at you, can you hear my voice?
i have been abandoned, too many dark memories
where can i look to for hope
where is it? where is it?
为什么 为什么 明明都是自己人
为何把自己当成了敌人
远方的 孩子们 通通都是自己人
自己人的爱不该再疑问
why? why? aren't we all on the same side?
why make ourselves the enemy?
children from faraway places
all of them are our own
we shouldn't have to question the love we have for our own people
野心变了贪心 自私泛滥成疾病
即便领了高薪 还买不了幸福的婚姻
老公回来了脾气差 老婆从没梦过怎么会是他 边哭着边报警
欺骗了朋友 欺骗自己 如果没有了谁输谁赢
ambitions turn into greed
selfishness left unchecked becomes a disease
even a higher salary cannot buy a happy marriage
the husband comes home with a bad temper
the wife never dreamed that this could happen to her
she is crying as she makes a police report
lying to friends, lying to oneself
if everything's gone, who would be the loser, who would win?
看见你 听不见我声音
发现你 并不爱惜你自己
不要忘记 所有的希望
还在这里 在这里
i'm looking at you, could you hear my voice?
i realise that you don't love yourself
don't forget, all your hopes are here, they are here
疏离 shūlí - to become alienated / estranged / alienation / set wide apart
饥饿 jī'è - hunger / starvation / famine
暴力 bàolì - violence / (use) force / violent
震撼 zhènhàn - to shake / to vibrate / to shock / to stun / shocking / stunning / fig. mind-blowing
搜寻 sōuxún - to search / to look for
敌人 dírén - enemy
贪心 tānxīn - greedy
野心 yěxīn - ambition / wild schemes / careerism
泛滥 fànlàn - to be in flood / to overflow (the banks) / to inundate / to spread unchecked
即便 jíbiàn - even if / even though / right away / immediately
KLCC Park has a nice running track that's about 1.3km in circumference. For the longest time that I have been working here, I had never bothered using it, despite it being less than 100m from the entrance of my office building. But earlier this year, my comp's management decided to get us a little more into shape, so once a week on Wednesday, we can go down at 5pm for a jog.
And I am happy and even surprised at myself for having been a regular at the park (except for three weeks when I had classes at BCM and that couple of weeks when I was sick and that week when I strained my muscles from the fire drill exercise and that week... okay, I hope you get the idea: If i could, i did =)
On my first run, back in April:
I wore an large old tee shirt and a pair of shorts which I had to keep pulling down cos it was really embarrassingly wrinkly. I went home and dug out something more appropriate and I've been wearing the same top (grey baby tee) and bottom (black yoga pants) since.
I didn't have proper shoes other than my old Sketchers which wasn't made for running and by the first month, both shoes koyak. And I had no intention of salvaging them anymore. Happily, I managed to get a new proper pair of running shoes from Spore when I went down there for a quick hol with my parents in May! Muaks to my sis who partly sponsored them. Hahaha.. It's a pair of New Balance that looks something like this on the right (I can't be sure, they all look the same to me).
"cotton candy" :D
I didn't have music in my ears, and the sounds of nature bored me.. I'm one of those ppl who focus better with music and I think I do it more often than I should, but I always have earbuds in my ears (especially in the office. Even when I am not playing any songs. Haha..) So I started carrying my iPhone, but knowing how clumsy I could get, I was nervous too to be running with the phone in my hand... And so, in the same trip to Spore......... I erm kinda cajoled my Dad to buy me a iPod shuffle. Hahahaha.. I felt embarrassed for getting him into the deal (my sis thought I was unbelievable), but at the same time, I was giddy like a little girl whose dad got her a giant cotton candy. *more nervous laughter* I run mostly to a mix of songs from the Chinese singers I've been listening to lately, but also some of the older songs that I like. My favorite for now would be Mayday's 星空. The tempo is just PERFECT for my pace, so I do tend to loop that song to keep me going when I am slowing down.
I didn't run. I did not have the stamina at all! I did manage to do brisk walking.. for most part. The best thing is, once I got into doing it regularly, it became easier. I managed to run one round non-stop after a month. And happily, last Monday, I ran about 90% of the 4 rounds (that's 5.2km)(and I did it in 45mins -- which is nowhere near good by any standard except mine, and I am very, very proud of this lazy ass. Hahaha..) Anyways, I have always covered four rounds, never more cos I still tak larat, never fewer cos I didn't wanna waste the effort of bringing my exercise gears.
Starting this week, I am going to try to run twice weekly. It's tiring but I think I might have just discovered an antidote for my insomnia: exhaust myself so that I'd be so tired and crash early. Let's see if that works. I don't know if I really enjoy running (I mean, all I really wanna do is laze around at home watching TV shows and movies), but it makes me feel less guilty about all the food I eat, and for that reason alone, I'm good. :D
Btw, I just saw this vid this morning on the basics of jogging. I think I have kinda been following the do's and don'ts, but it's always good to know.
Sunday, August 5, 2012
after reading this and for what they have done, i hope that these men will be inflicted with a flesh-eating genitalia disease that will very slowly and excruciatingly consume their private parts (and during this time, they will not being able to kill themselves and or have access to painkillers). and when they finally die of old age with their d*mned d**ks all ravaged by the disease, they can rot in hell forever and ever. same goes to any pedophile who has not been caught.
and for the kids... sigh... i can only pray for strength to face tomorrow and every day after.. that they could somehow be able to live a full, functional life. i wish someone could erase their memories. ;-(
i just love this live version of Lee Hom's 2001 hit song 安全感 Sense of Security. the original version was rather subdue, but here, with the electric guitar and that bass... i just love it! [mm i generally like songs that sound like this] and it fanned that flame of fervent desire to see him live in concert.
speaking of the sense of security, God knows how terrified I am about that when it comes to my job. i've spoken about this many times before and like a broken record, here it is again: the period after i quit the bank in 2009 was the worst in my life, bar none. although it was only a short three months, it felt like three eternities. i remember waking up and having nowhere to go but to the next room to work on some of the part-time editing jobs i got. i still rber sitting in the dimly-lit room feeling hopeless and helpless and urgh. i don't rber going out much, because every time i drove out it would mean petrol money and i was conscious of every cent that i had (but i did go down to Spore once to leech off my sister hahaha)(and i got a lot of free meals from sympathizing souls -- thank you!). i didn't cry much about it if at all. but i was depressed.. but as i read my old blog entries from that time, i sounded way better than i rber feeling. heh.
i realised that i had attached a lot of my self-worth to having a job. i knew even then that i shouldn't but i did. and the echoes of miss nomer's esteem-busting words kept haunting me. for what it's worth, i can truly identify with people who lose their jobs, especially breadwinners.. it can be an emotionally-crippling time, no matter how supportive the people around you are.
i will always fondly remember how much i played owl city's songs back then. he was still unknown then so his music was freely available on his Facebook page. i must have heard vanilla twilight and saltwater room and dear vienna and fireflies a million times. his songs were like a buoy to my sinking spirit and drifting soul.. he's a really good boy ;)
i'm just forever and ever and ever thankful i pulled through that period. i didn't do it on my own strength because i had none.. it was the husband, the friends and family, and of course God my fortress and shield.
these are just snippets of what i remember from that time. it could have been different, for all i know.
anyways, three years down the road... job security still ranks high on my priority list. i wanna stay in this same job forever. it's comfy and it's convenient, and oh, they just gave me my parking card! but i think it's now or never. imma take a DEEEEEEP breath... and exhale... cos I'm not going to hold it while the next job takes its time to come along.
maybe i'm meant to stay, maybe i'm meant to go. i'm just happy that i'm not afraid anymore that if it happens to be the latter. :) thank you for keeping me in prayer. ;)
看着天 一边开车一边打哈欠
DJ 报时说 清晨六点 想到见你就不累
Oh 这些年 我还留着你的高跟鞋
也会嫉妒今天谁的吻 有落在你的唇边
looking at the sky, driving and yawning
the DJ says that dawn will be at six
the thought of seeing you took my fatigue away
all these years, i still kept your high-heeled shoes
and envy whoever that's planting a kiss on your lips today
Oh 亲爱的 你家的路怎会越开越远
Oh 天知道 怎么办 我们都失去了方向感
Oh 亲爱的 你是否也在等着那一天
心的距离 能缩短 找回遗失的安全感
[心的距离 能缩短 让我给你安全感]
dearest, why is the road leading back to your home getting further and further away
God knows why we have lost our sense of directions
dearest, are you also waiting for that day
for the distance between our hearts to be shortened
and for us to rediscover that lost sense of security
[allow me to give you the sense of security]
Oh 忘不了 曾经爱得那么的狂野
不管经过多少的错觉 爱情留下的余味 依然这么浓烈
亲爱的 你是否也在等着那一天
心的距离 能缩短 帮助我找回遗失的安全感
i cannot forget the passion we once shared
it doesn't matter how much mistaken feelings we have to overcome
for love leaves a strong aftertaste
dearest, are you also waiting for that day
for the distance between our hearts to be shortened
and for us to rediscover that lost sense of security
嫉妒 jídù - to be jealous / to envy / to hate
唇 chún - lip
缩短 suōduǎn - to curtail / to cut down
It's amazing we lasted so long! All those friction finally caused some sparks and got the fire going hehe.. God surely has had a hand in preserving us and carrying us through the downs of our lives, and we are forever and ever thankful (esp to fam and friends who saw us through the whole journey)! We have grown so much, especially the past few years. We've also made regrettable decisions and mistakes, which have taught us valuable lessons on love and life. And I pray for the next ten years to be better, that our love for each other will continue to grow and that we will be a blessing to others whose paths cross ours. *cue some 90s power ballads*
