仰望 - 杨丞琳

如果能重来 我的答案
会不会更改 或是等待
守在你身旁 绝对不逃开
不让谁 将我们冲散

不怕风看穿 我的孤单
不怕雨纠缠 眼泪擦干
让回忆倒带 我将爱保管
别让我 一个人承担

这个失去你的遗憾 我会勇敢

仰望风 等待你回来
仰望雨 能安静听完
脸庞发烫 眼眶抵抗
不肯让你离开 丢下我流浪

仰望你 抱我在胸膛
仰望梦 能给我力量
不让爱逃亡 不让心你躲藏
不让我疯狂
让我坚强

无法预知 我努力
我必需 遗忘的疼痛
假装执着 我知道
我抬起头 会有你的守候

24 hours trip in Adelaide

Last weekend, I went to Adelaide for a short sweet escape.

Visited my best girl friend, collected my old memories, had some good time catching up with friends, released my stress, gained my laughs back.

I have to admit, I can't live without good friendships. It's not the quantity of friendships that matter in my life, but the quality of precious friendships which I have earned throughout my journey of life.

I'm fortunate enough to meet people who know you well deep in the heart than anyone else. No mind games between us, just pure simple body languages that speak our words out, naturally.

One of the best moments I enjoy the most in entire life is catching up with best friends. A few cups of tea together under a wonderful sunny day is amazingly ideal for our endless conversation. Believe me, those moments are beautifully priceless.

Indeed, it was a short and quick trip over the weekend. However, I felt more rejuvenated and recharged, getting ready for more stresses in my work ahead.

Cherish the friendships you have with your best ones, even though they are just handful.

Updates

Once you stepped into your career, your working life:

You don't blog, You don't read, You don't smile, and You don't feel like doing anything over the weekends

I know, it's kinda waste of precious time for letting your weekends go just like that, before heading to the same loop on Monday again. I understand the philosophy, just that I need some sort of motivation to keep me proceeding to consistent self-improvements.

Working life has never been busy as I'm working long hours per day to basically catch up and racing with project datelines. Indeed, it's an enormous pressure to keep our engineering designs out to the factory floor in order to keep the dedicated workers busy. It's a fortunate for me become part of the team/family in the small company, where we grow together. Laughters are always present in the office since there is a happy pie keeping us smiling and pumped.

Enough for work, good news is, my grandma came to visit me and my uncle family in Melbourne for a few weeks. It always feels good to see her again, with her sunny smiles and innocent talks. However, she's losing her memory slowly as she tends to forget things easily;  her medication routine, her recent actions, but not my name, yet. I guess this is the moment of truth about life cycle, isn't it? Our elders are getting older as the younger ones start to age. Overall, she's still fit and healthy, jumping and walking around like cute little girl.

Nothing is more important than our family, family is always our root, where we're born, raised and belong. Appreciate them and spend time with them regardless how busy you are, because every second counts, and it is irreversible.

And for those who have concerns about my personal life, I have finally met a girl; sweet, nice and understanding. Nothing special on how we both got hooked up, perhaps just the right timing and feeling that brought both of us together. A true relationship shouldn't be complicated like mind-reading games, but just a simple mutual agreement on how a couple decides to walk together, with holding hands, no matter how good or bad the road condition is. A new permanent passenger on my train ride of life :)

That's all I got to update at the moment. It seems like most of my regular blogger friends are being lazy bum too, haha.

Later.

关于我们

我在翠绿的稻田中
凝视远方落下的太阳
你在蔚蓝的天空下
抬头看着飘来的云裳

音乐在我耳中回荡
影子在我身后拉长
疑惑在你心中滋长
绝望在你的心里扩张

我在前 你在后
你在听 我在说
我不走 你不动
你不说 我不懂
于是你总不轻易告诉我
你在想 为何我总是看着远方

我在前 你在后
你在听 我在说
我不走 你不动
你不说 我不懂
于是你总不直接告诉我
你已知道 会有那么一天

我在属于我的王国
企图打造一座天堂
你在属于你的城堡
开始堆砌高大的城墙

音乐曾是彼此桥梁
泪水在旋律中荡漾
画面竟然超出想象
绝望在我的心里扩张

我在前 你在后
你在听 我在说
我不走 你不动
你不说 我不懂
于是你总不轻易告诉我
你在想 为何我总是看着远方

我在前 你在后
你在听 我在说
我不走 你不动
你不说 我不懂
于是你总不直接告诉我
你已知道 会有那么一天
转身走向远方

于是蓝天褪去白云裳
于是黑夜笼罩在我身上
而我仍在翠绿的稻田中
凝视着远方落下来的太阳

这一切关于我们 关于不说
关于等待 关于守候
于是我们 不再开口
而我仍在翠绿的稻田中
凝视着远方落下来的太阳

The Joy of Cooking

Cooking is always stress-free for me.

Ever since I started to live in overseas on my own as  humble student, eating-out was not a economically-feasible option for every single meal. Therefore, I started cooking, utilizing all my observations throughout the many years as assistant in my grandmother's kitchen. 

She is my beloved, my inspiration, my guru and my grandma, who raised me with delicious and nutritious house dishes which has made who I am today. 

Unlike other overseas students who have fears in messing with the cooking utensils and raw ingredients, I love to enjoy and explore the endless flavors that could be done in countless ways through cooking. 

I also love to shop for fresh food in market while generating ideas about what and how to cook with those smiley and healthy food. 

Yeah, I sounded like an auntie, didn't I? Try it out yourself, let it be a non-stress session, let your creativity side of brain develop more, and most importantly, ENJOY!!

轻松的周末

工作以后，永远期待周末的来临。绞尽脑汁五天，只希望能够利用周末的空档来休息一下，接触工作范围以外的东西。

终于发现早睡早起的好处，精神感觉特别清爽。和舅母享受咖啡、逛一逛菜市集、吸收久违的阳光等等。还有，我终于发薪水了！从毕业后的第一份正职赚取的血汗钱，真的感触良多啊。

踏入工作生涯以后，发现人生不应该就这样如此得过且过直到退休为止。一段精彩的人生，莫过于让自己的时间过得轻松快乐之余，也别忘了让其更充实和精彩。工作为了生活，生活为了享受，享受为了让人生过得无悔。

把握时机，为人生挥上缤纷的色彩吧！

A day to realise my dreams

Booked an overnight ticket to Singapore, touched down in the next early morning, with interview session a few hours later, interviewed and jumped on the return flight on the same day. Undoubtedly, it was definitely one of the craziest things I have done in my life.

If you are lost on what I was talking about, I was attending a cadet pilot interview held by the Singapore Airlines. I know I know, this is the job a million men would kill for, but apparently there are not many spots available, which means tough competition. Having been given this interview opportunity is a blessing for me, but shame to say, I under-performed myself in the interview, which could possibly bury my another chance with disappointment.

Anyway, I tried my best, as I was able to keep my head in the game even I had a long-haul flight prior. Regardless of the outcome, I had a wonderful experience and this would definitely trigger my determination to pursue this career more seriously. Most importantly, I made the choice without regrets by not letting this opportunity slipping away.

One thing for sure, I had fully understood the ancient Chinese saying, "养兵千日，用军一时。" It is crucial that we are always prepared and trained for any opportunity  that might come in future.

Well, I guess I still have a long way to go await another opportunity then. Life still goes on, I still have my good job in Melbourne, and it is obviously not the end of the world yet. Treated this opportunity as a bonus or blessing towards my life. With or without it, I am still a fortunate person who is still breathing and smiling through my life as usual.

May everyone is blessed with life-changing opportunities, which would bring more colors to your life. 

Cheers mate.

New Chapter

There I go again, finally being able to settle down peacefully to continue posting on my blog. Honestly, it has been a hell of a year to me; from the home vacation in the early year, to the graduation ceremony in April, to the long-butt-cracking job hunting for three months upon the ceremony, to the sprinting superman rushing up and down the Australian soil for job interviews, and here I am, finally pinned down a permanent engineering job in Melbourne in the early August.

I went home before my job commencement, to fully-utilize my one-week window of spare time to have some family moments and catch up with close friends, and I returned to Melbourne after that to initiate my working life. I had the best week of my life, enjoying my tight schedules of friends gatherings and family times. The good times were shared and I was energized with the loves and blessings from my hometown. 

I felt blessed as everything went well for me eventually; I have got a wonderful and challenging job that suits my interest, despite a little bit low pay,  I have also got a team of friendly and helpful colleagues, including my understanding and easy-going bosses, therefore it makes up my comfortable working environments. Undoubtedly, the working pressure is always existent as we have projects dateline to adhere, but the laughters in workplace would definitely kill the germs off.

Thanks to my dear Aunt Lee Leng whom I stay with in Melbourne, she has inspired me a lot in understanding the true meaning of our life should be. As our life is short, we must chase and realise the dreams we are after throughout the timeline. Live the life as colorful as possible, be optimistic that everything will be alright and most importantly, live without regrets. Appreciate the gifted opportunities or fight for one, try your very best to achieve them, regardless of how the outcomes would be. You do not wish to be upset with things that you have missed out before, do you?

Here I am, in the new chapter of life after all these years of adaptions and survival. It is time to be fearless and realise the dreams and ambitions which are long-waiting in my to-do list.

To my life, ultimate dream job, my family and friends.

我们之间

有时候，犯贱地把自己沉溺在虚拟的世界，幻想我们之间在现实无法实现的距离。这不断继续往伤口上撒盐的举动，承受得心甘情愿。

何必呢？

我们之间，距离多么遥远，是时候，放下，离开这片让一次又一次心碎的伤心地。

那是我唯一离开的理由。

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白天黑夜之间 交错着最美的句点
可惜日出的天 可惜日落的天 只在一瞬间
在 你和我之间 从平行线到交汇点
可惜你在改变 可惜我在改变
听不见 也看不见
我们之间 填不满的空缺
装载所有的苦或甜 绕一个圈
爱在心的边缘
我们之间 距离多么遥远
后来才发现 我和你一条线
就能分两个世界

在你和我之间 从平行线到交汇点
可惜你在改变 可惜我在改变
听不见 也看不见

我们之间 填不满的空缺
装载所有的苦或甜 绕一个圈
爱是兜兜转转倒不了中间
我们之间 距离多么遥远
后来才发现 我和你一条线
就能分两个世界

白天黑夜之间 交错着最美的句点
我们之间 距离多么遥远
我和你一条线
就能分两个世界

如果有如果

这世界 如果有如果
如果一切重头
如果你再说你爱我
习惯阿 熟悉的温柔
turn around turn around turn around

怎麽还是 一个我
雨滴滴答答的坠落
还有什麽说不出口
泪不停不停的滑落
习惯没有你的角落

I want to sing a song for you
sing for myself
没有你的天空 没有云朵
you are my everything
and I really love you
在泪乾了以后 想听你说 爱我

想太多 如果有如果
如果永远爱我
如果最后能到最后
一个人 该习惯什麽
turn around turn around turn around
习惯晚安自己说

雨滴滴答答的坠落
还有什麽说不出口
泪不停不停的滑落
习惯没有你的角落

I want to sing a song for u
sing for myself
没有你的天空 没有云朵

you are my everything
and I really love you
在泪乾了以后 却还记得

还记得青苹的酸甜
酸到心里没有感觉
梦太美 回忆太心碎
再多给我 一点点的勇气

I want to sing a song for u
sing for myself
没有你的天空 没有云朵

you are my everything
and I really love you
在泪乾了以后 想听你说 love you

这世界 如果有如果
如果一切重头
如果你还在
请 说你爱我

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如此清澈的声音，犹如天使的呼唤，轻松却充满伤感。