The Rose

I heard this song for the first time on the plane which is the theme song for the
movie April's Bride...I only realise later it was originally sang by Bette Midler, and many artistes had sang this song..in fact I found it had been sang by 8 different artistes. It is a lovely song and I could only find one not sang by Bette Midler but by Emi Fujita, she sang beautifully. The lyrics itself is exceptionally lovely.

Love of such statue and beauty. If you reflect deeper, God made man in His image, if such is the capacity of man's love, we ought reflect the most perfect love God is. Love sacrifices.

Hope you enjoy the song :)

The Rose

Some say love it is a river
That drowns the tender reed.
Some say love it is a razor
That leaves your soul to bleed.

Some say love it is a hunger
An endless, aching need
I say love it is a flower,
And you it's only seed.

It's the heart afraid of breaking
That never learns to dance
It's the dream afraid of waking
That never takes the chance

It's the one who won't be taken,
Who cannot seem to give
And the soul afraid of dying
That never learns to live.

And the night has been too lonely
And the road has been too long.
And you think that love is only
For the lucky and the strong.

Just remember in the winter
Far beneath the bitter snow
Lies the seed that with the sun's love,
In the Spring becomes the Rose

The Rose - Emi Fujita

Hey got a Chinese translation..pretty cool..

The Rose ──若是爱。

有人说爱是一条河流，
带着甜蜜和苦涩怅然的流向往昔。
有人说爱是一把刃，
会在灵魂上，留下伤口。
有人说爱是需要，
无论何时何地。
我说，爱是一朵花，
而你，是唯一的种子。

心如此易碎，
却从未停歇。
这是一个关于成长的梦，
直到你学会包容和付出。


夜晚总是那么孤独，
这条路一直那么长。
但只要你相信，
爱，是唯一的救赎。
只有经历了痛苦，
才会懂得坚忍和珍惜。

谎言的种子，
会在阳光的照耀下，
成为，下一个春天。

To walk where you won't walk

Inertia is a bad thing.

Because even things are not right, to decide to change seems ardous.
Unless the change is forced upon becuase the way things are becoming are unbearable.

This is my current situation. And because of the need to know liberation from stress and all, I realise that unless I uprooted from 8 years of routineness, my life would be predictable and the doldrums of things would persist.

My desire to see change is weak. But the push to depart from this difficult circumstances is getting greater. Hence I have decided to move.

This is difficult but necessary.

To walk where you won't walk.

没有说的话

Struggling with Faith

it is a strange things how strange thoughts could come about. I wanted to believe that is a spiritual attack and I believe it it.

Circumstances make you think in a certain direction.

Faith is not sight. I find that is the most amazing thought to have. When things are not happening right, when you do not see things right, your thoughts trickled to doubt. That is where I believe I have headed.

With every wrong direction, there is a need to gain back a right direction.

God points the sign and I must head the right way. The highway to faith again.

Hmm...It is a pertinent need. The necessary need. Struggling yet not despaired. Thank God for that.

It is in this doubt that the confidence in God will eventually bring me out of this.
I must understand all things work for good to those that love Him.

Though the devil commands all thoughts of evil, you shall worship God and Him alone. I will never turn stones to bread, for Christ is the bread of life. Listen to the devil, or succumb to the thoughts belonging to the flesh will reveal only a heart of stone. Eat of Christ's meat (bread) and drink His blood (salvation) and I shall He is risen in me. Hope is not far, hope is near in God.

Thank You.

April's bride

I dun usually shed tears but watching this movie on the plane changed that. The movie was based on a true story.
Story line is simple. A normal couple who met thru' work got into dating and both fell in love with one another. Girl was diagnosed with breast cancer. Having saw what her mum who died of ovarian cancer went thru in the course of her treatment, she did not want her boyfriend to witness the ordeal. She broke off and run away.

Her cancer got worst to the point she has to cut away her diseased breast. Her boyfriend soon found her recuperating by the sea. The girl didn't want her boyfriend to see her go thru' her fight with cancer but soon was convinced by her boyfriend's sincerity.

They battled the disease together. In the course of her deterioration, she was soon diagnosed to have a month of her life left. She was slowly slipping away. Her usual smile turned into agony of pain as the cancer spred to her body. Her friends told her boyfriend her child-hood dream was to be a beautiful bride in Summer which happens in June. But knowing she would not be able to wait till June. It was April. Her boyfriend arranged a church wedding for her. Though weak, she was elated to being the bride. It was a day of joy and she was touched by her boyfriend's love for her. A few days later, after being a bride, she died.

Her character was one of strength. During her treatment, she got the TV crew to film her ordeal and made an appeal to people to go for constant medical screening for breast cancer. Even if one is young, they is no gurantee that you would be h the next vicitm. She made also a recording for her boyfriend, thanking him for his undying support for her. A recording that would only be passed to him after she has passed away.

It was teary. It was touching. The protrayal of the treatment, her detrioration, her family and friends support really displayed the ravages of what cancer can do. Above that was her boyfriend undying support for her. He stood by her and fulfil her every lifelong wish. She couldn't fulfil his, to be the lovely wife and mother. Yet her boyfriend didn't mind that. It was a love unconditional.

I wrote a song with the emotions that was etched. There is another side to it. It is a true story. I hope there isn't any dramatisation.

Love is to be celebrated. The ending is sad. But does anyone need to make an inquest of the power of love, I think this story showed it clearly.

Love can only be celebrated. Love brings hearts close. And with a test like this, only refines the love to be real. Like real gold, only through fire is the mire purged that whatever that stands become all the genuine, all the precious. Love is more precious than gold. Gold can be bought, love can't.

This indeed is a great movie.

For the record, I watched it again on my return flight.
The tears were no less.

Departure lounge

As I sit right in front of the plane, the nose of the plane facing me directly, perhaps by less than a hundred metres, I can't help but think of the amount of work that is still undone. Yet again the thought of flying away somehow alleviate that thought.

Going to US is never an enjoyable trip, simply it is long and arduous. The only comfort I can get is that it is a SQ flight.

I do miss Singapore. Perhaps it is the sights and sounds. But I think mostly, the people.

Japan is having typhoon. Thankfully or not thankfully, it struck the south coast not the north where the plane would be making a transit landing. A part of me wished I did not have to make this trip but another part says, go, take the rest. Bipolar disorder, is that a sign? Haha...dun think so, seems so exagerrating. But really, time always seem to press itself against what is available.

Liverpool has been on a losing streak recently. Rightfully so. Given the strength of squad. Its form also dismay. The team that gives its supporters a longsuffering feel. Dread bbut yet loyal. Why? I sometimes ask. Perhaps that dodgy spirit in them that keep tell me "Dun give up, they made it one day"

Supporting Liverpool has taught me something about life. Hope.

Hope keeps a person.

45 min more, I would be going. Hope will keep me.

And I believe that Hope places a person to live on no matter what life becomes or becomes not.

Hang on.

The pride of life

13 Then one from the crowd said to Him, “Teacher, tell my brother to divide the inheritance with me.”
14 But He said to him, “Man, who made Me a judge or an arbitrator over you?” 15 And He said to them, “Take heed and beware of covetousness,[b] for one’s life does not consist in the abundance of the things he possesses.”
16 Then He spoke a parable to them, saying: “The ground of a certain rich man yielded plentifully. 17 And he thought within himself, saying, ‘What shall I do, since I have no room to store my crops?’ 18 So he said, ‘I will do this: I will pull down my barns and build greater, and there I will store all my crops and my goods. 19 And I will say to my soul, “Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years; take your ease; eat, drink, and be merry.”’ 20 But God said to him, ‘Fool! This night your soul will be required of you; then whose will those things be which you have provided?’
21 “So is he who lays up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.”
Luke 12:13-21

1Now there were some present at that time who told Jesus about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mixed with their sacrifices. 2Jesus answered, "Do you think that these Galileans were worse sinners than all the other Galileans because they suffered this way? 3I tell you, no! But unless you repent, you too will all perish. 4Or those eighteen who died when the tower in Siloam fell on them—do you think they were more guilty than all the others living in Jerusalem? 5I tell you, no! But unless you repent, you too will all perish."
Luke 13:1-5

Jesus gave these 2 parables back to back. In my own opinion, it is a very sharp rebuke towards our very INDIFFERENT atitude towards God. Very indifferent. We will tomorow laid on a golden platter. We need to change that mindset.

Many disasters has struck in recent weeks and it seems like one huge tsunami, disasters one after another. Jesus had said when you see earthquakes...natural calamities, He says these are birth pangs that my return is imminent.

When Jesus returns, repentence would not be permissible but judgement.

My friend, if you would to see all the disasters around, scores of bodies dead, and you assume that life will go on, think again to the thousands who thought likewise would have their life snuff out suddenly abruptly.

Let not kid ourselves. Life is fragile. Face it.
Our hearts and mind are bent towards sin. So unless you press yourelf to believe, and have faith that indded we are in the very real LAST days. The stage seems set for Christ imminent return. Too many signs, and if God willing the rapture could come soon.

Meanwhile I hope you take a moment to reflect, is life all to it about festives, travels and being alive?

The soul seeks answer and till you reoncile God who is spirit, you will find that you act as a headless person, seeking but not finding becuause yo sought not God Himself. God deals with you spiritual and also physically in His provision. Yet a tthe end of us, we can experience the love of God and with grateful heart, say "Thank you My Lord."