Times of Your Life

Was on the way sending my younger brother to school, listening to the radio and got all my senses awaken from the dropping eyelids, side-bending body and the half conscious mind when a song called ''Times Of Your Life'' broadcasted in the radio. I struggled hard to open my eyes, and focus on all my attention to listening to song, as if the song has some magnetic waves that trigger some action potentials in the neurons, and become resonance with my soul and mood. I knew that i need to listen to the song.

''Times Of Your Life'' - a classic hit in 1975 by Paul Anka, with beautiful melody and touching lyrics that can draw the tears out of your eyes and the taste of missing out of your heart. However, the version that i listened in the car was not sung by Paul Anka, but a new version by Joanna 王若琳, a Chinese artist with such soft but powerful voice, i was surprised to know that it was a female Chinese artist and not someone from the west after the DJ introduced at the end of the song. You wouldn't know nor believe it was sung by female Chinese artist. A must listen song by all the classic lovers.

Good morning, yesterday

You wake up and time has slipped away

And suddenly it's hard to find

The memories you left behind

Remember, do you remember

The laughter and the tears

The shadows of misty yesteryears

The good times and the bad you've seen

And all the others in between

Remember, do you remember

The times of your life (do you remember)

Reach back for the joy and the sorrow

Put them away in your mind

The mem'ries are time that you borrow

To spend when you get to tomorrow

Here comes the saddest part (comes the saddest part)

The seasons are passing one by one

So gather moments while you may

Collect the dreams you dream today

Remember, will you remember

The times of your life

Gather moments while you may

Collect the dreams you dream today

Remember, will you remember

The times of your life

Of your life

Do you remember, baby

Do you remember the times of your life

Do you remember, baby

Do you remember the times of your life

By: Joanne 王若琳

Times of your life - 王若琳JOANNA (Wang Ruo Lin)

Ogre Metamorphosis

Been some time since i wrote here. Probably sleeping too much and such sedentary life have retarded the growth of neurons in the frontal cortex of my brain, in exchange for the enlargement of the neurons in my brain stem and medulla. The result, obviously - my creativity and imagination gradually evaporating, which in turn metamorphoses me into a little ogre with not much ideas in mind, probably worse than Shrek. And worst of all, the holidays are still long way to go.

But to think the other way around, holidays are good, at least i can do things, not following the tight schedule and i can play games, best of all i have the high speed internet here, compared to the hostel slow-turtle-like type of speed that probably one would fall asleep before the word ''Google'' appears in the screen. But are these really good reasons for sacrificing my precious neurons? Of course no, though there are one more thing that is worthy for me to undergo this ''ogre-metamorphosis'', something called family.

It's 2009, and it means a new page in my life chapters and since i don't possess Charmed One - Phoebe's witchcraft power to see future, nor Doraemon's time machine, and of course i will not have a tomorrow's newspaper drop in front of my door with a cat beside so that i can the save the world from maybe accidents, murders, thievery, robbing and answers for exam questions perhaps? So, it all comes down to i don't know what will happen tomorrow nor in the future. But there is one thing that i do have, the control of my body and mind. I believe that if i am to plant a sunflower seed, i will definitely get sunflower and not oranges, provided if i know what i am doing and some good extra environmental factors, it will definitely be sunflower, and not oranges nor rambutans. Well, it's not some special power, but it's good enough, no?

And you ll just need to believe in yourself...