Don't speak, it speaks

When a relationship is to be broken, 

a perfectionlist will express clearly so that 

there is a clear ending for the relationship. 

Such a clear expression is 

good to the perfectionist, 

it can release his emotional burden, 

but it will in reverse add even greater 

emotional burden on the other if 

the other is not equally a perfectionist. 

If a relationship is to be broken, 

there will be another way 

to end the relationship: 

Don't speak, 

just leave gradually and quietly. 

It speaks.

No Doubt - Don't Speak

You and me, we used to be together

Every day together, always

I really feel that I'm losin' my best friend

I can't believe this could be the end

It looks as though you're lettin' go

And if it's real, well, I don't want to know

Don't speak, I know just what you're sayin'

So please stop explainin'

Don't tell me 'cause it hurts

Don't speak, I know what you're thinkin'

I don't need your reasons

Don't tell me 'cause it hurts

Our memories, well, they can be inviting

But some are altogether mighty frightening

As we die, both you and I

With my head in my hands, I sit and cry

Don't speak, I know just what you're sayin'

So please stop explainin'

Don't tell me 'cause it hurts, no, no, no

Don't speak, I know what you're thinkin'

And I don't need your reasons

Don't tell me 'cause it hurts

It's all ending

We gotta stop pretending

Who we are

You and me

I can see us dyin'

Aren't we?

Don't speak, I know just what you're sayin'

So please stop explainin'

Don't tell me 'cause it hurts

No, no, don't speak, I know what you're thinkin'

And I don't need your reasons

Don't tell me 'cause it hurts

Don't tell me 'cause it hurts

I know what you're sayin'

So please stop explainin'

Don't speak, don't speak

Don't speak, no

I know what you're thinkin'

And I don't need your reasons

I know you're good, I know you're good

I know you're real good, oh

La, la, la, la

La, la, la, la

Don't, don't, ooh, ooh

Hush, hush, darling

Hush, hush, darling

Hush, hush

Don't tell me 'cause it hurts

Hush, hush, darling

Hush, hush, darling

Hush, hush

Don't tell me 'cause it hurts

Oh, hush, hush, darling

Hush, hush, darling

After the day at the sunset of life

As now I have reached my old age, 

I know that not much big deal 

can be done anymore. 

I also learn that not many people will 

care or pay attention to what deal I do, if any. 

However, I still have the passion, 

I am always an enthusiastic onlooker to watch 

what others are doing. 

If anyone would so choose to chat with me, 

I am definitely willing to tell him about 

my insights towards life. 

人到晚年，可以做的事不多了。 

想做也沒什麼人會理會或留意了。 

若心還熱的， 

也只能冷眼旁觀人世事。 

若有誰會和我聊聊天， 

我一定會告訴他有關我能洞識的天機。 

When I was young 

listening to some songs about the elderly 

written by some young artists, 

I was not much impressed. 

When I am now old 

listening to these same songs, 

I surprisingly find that 

those some young artist had written 

very good songs on the elderly 

which I shared much: 

年青時聽年青人創作有關老人的歌曲歌詞， 

沒什麼感覺。到老時再聽那些歌， 

覺得他們寫有關老人的歌曲歌詞，寫得很好呢: 

Barclay James Harvest

THE POET

Here I sit watching the day out

No-one beside me who may doubt

All of the words that I could chose to say

So listen, believe, or be gone from this day

I need a friend to walk with me

And sit in the shade of an old tree

To think nothing much, just agree with my thoughts

To say nothing much, never tell what I ought

Watching the people pass by now

They just don't know why or know how

They don't seem to care about all that I've seen

They just walk on by never knowing I've been

Sitting up here where I'm wind blown

Only to ask and to be shown

Things that would make you believe what I say

I'll tell you myself and I'll show you some day

AFTER THE DAY

The eyes of night march slowly by

The last grain falls

The kneeling man just sighs

Protected by the one great wall

Of coloured parts

He probes his clouded mind

If he takes a look around him

Is there nothing left to see

Is there nothing left at all

After the day

With trembling hands he wipes his eyes

He tries to stand

But does not feel the need

The morning sun shines on

The multicoloured cross

Left standing through it all

If he takes a look around him

Is there nothing left to see

Is there nothing left at all

After the day

If he takes a look around him

Is there nothing left to see

Is there nothing left at all

After the day

Reasons for one' s speed of living

Every one is rushing forward!
Every time I slow down my steps,
I will be pushed aside.
Before I can take a look at them,
I am immediatley taken over and left behind.

Those who rush fast must have their reasons,
that I can understand.

I walk ahead slower,
I also have my own reasons.
I don't need to be understood, 
I will continue to move on at my own pace.

人人都擁著衝前，
我一慢著腳步，就被撥開。
我未及多看一眼，已被多人超前。
那些衝得快的人，有他們的理由，
我應該能體會。
我行得稍慢，其實也有我的理由。
我不必要你明白，
但我會繼續按著自己的步伐速度前行。

 

 

 

Mark Knopfler - Slow Learner

People say 'Where have you been?'
Or 'Where did you go?'
I'm a slow learner
I do everything slow
It's my way, has to be true
The world goes by me fast
But where you're concerned
I like good things to last
Where's the point in worrying
If we should start a little late
Where's the point in hurrying
When waiting feels so great?
I'm a slow burner
My last train left a while ago
I'm a slow learner
I do everything slow

So where's the point in worrying
If we should start a little late
And where's the point in hurrying
When waiting feels so great?
I'm a slow burner
My last train left a while ago
I'm a slow learner
I do everything slow

Yeah, I'm a slow burner
My last train left a while ago
I'm a slow learner
I do everything slow

Ashore vs Offshore

 

 

It is a signage for people offshore who have not yet landed.

The people ashore cannot read the signage at all, 

nor do they really bother to read it at all. 

_______ 

Chinese Translation 

給未上岸的人看的告示牌， 

上了岸的人怎會看得到？

或想著要看？

It is my fate to meet you

Some people you meet

may change your life!

Meeting these people

is your fate.

So your life changed by

meeting these people

is also your fate.

———————— 

 西野カナ『君って』

Kana Nishino “Kimitte”

吶 還記得麼？你對我說過的話
點亮了我胸口深處的微光
如果那個時候 沒有你在身邊
也許就沒有今天的我了吧

怎麼了？不像你了呢
低沉著臉
你說一個人會手足無措的事
兩人一起分擔就不會恐懼了
你呀 你呀
很想哭出來是吧
看看那些湧現的回憶吧

而我 而我
雖然還很笨拙
現已甘願接受一切
因為你在身邊
彼此談論過的夢想
雖然還遙遠的難以看到
努力絕不會白費的


你如此對我說
因為努力了所以不想輸
一同爭取的話定會實現夢想吧

你呀 你啊
無論何時都很堅強呢
看看那些湧現的回憶吧

而我 而我
雖然還很笨拙
此刻卻不想再掩飾脆弱

因為你在身邊
無論發生什麼
即使身歷痛苦 即使陷入迷茫
無論處於怎樣的黑暗中 

只要好好陪伴彼此身邊

與你相遇那天起
我的生活改變了


 

From terminus to terminus

由總站到總站。。。

 

Tonight I needed to take a subway ride 

from the terminus Chai Wan to 

the other terminus Kennedy Town 

of the MTR for a work assignment.

Watching the MTR stop and run；

watching people board and unboard 

thorughout the whole long journey, 

I felt a bit tired and lonely.

But as the journey was from end to end, 

it made me feel full and complete.

—————————————————————— 

Chinese Translation 

今夜因工作需要, 

坐一站由柴灣到堅尼地城的地鐵旅程。 

看著車開車停，人上人落... 

旅程因遙遠而漫長， 

看著有點疲倦落寞。 

但終站到終站， 

感覺工整且完滿。

The bottom-line of a professional (Professionals 2）

Who is a professional in a specific field?

A professional in a specific field is 

a person who is tested and assessed to 

have attained the required level of 

expertise in that field, 

such that he is qualified to 

represent the profession by 

providing services at or above 

the required level of expertise.

A sensible professional would 

defend and protect himself to avoid 

falling below the standard of professionalism. 

This is the bottom-line of a professional.

A professional will cease to be 

considered a professional if 

he acts below this standard for any reason, 

even just once,

in the eyes of 

both professionals and non-professionals.

______________________________

Sting - Shape of my heart.

Leon The Professional.

"Shape Of My Heart"

He deals the cards as a meditation
And those he plays never suspect
He doesn't play for the money he wins
He don't play for respect 
He deals the cards to find the answer
The sacred geometry of chance [Studio version:]

The hidden law of a probable outcome [Live version:] 

The hidden laws of a probable outcome

The numbers lead a dance 
I know that the spades are the swords of a soldier
I know that the clubs are weapons of war
I know that diamonds mean money for this art
But that's not the shape of my heart 
He may play the Jack of diamonds
He may lay the Queen of spades
He may conceal a King in his hand
While the memory of it fades 
I know that the spades are the swords of a soldier
I know that the clubs are weapons of war
I know that diamonds mean money for this art
But that's not the shape of my heart
That's not the shape, the shape of my heart 
And if I told you that I loved you
You'd maybe think there's something wrong
I'm not a man of too many faces
The mask I wear is one 
But those who speak know nothing
And find out to their cost
Like those who curse their luck in too many places
And those who fear a loss 
I know that the spades are the swords of a soldier
I know that the clubs are weapons of war
I know that diamonds mean money for this art
But that's not the shape of my heart
That's not the shape of my heart
That's not the shape, the shape of my heart 

Sting - Sounds Like Art

Hidden in The Rooster Bar of John Grisham (2018)

 

John Grisham - The Rooster Bar

 

This book tells you a story of three young people

who had made the very wrong decision

to take the law courses in a diploma mill and

each to suffer huge debts for the courses!

There is such a chain of law schools

whose entry requirements are not high but 

whose tuition fees are very high.

Lack of tuition fees, no problem!

the law school will help students borrow hugh sum of money

very easily to support
them to pay tuition fees and lead an easy-going student living!

However, after graduation,
a student can hardly find a job related to the legal profession with the diploma obtained!
Without securing a good-paid job, the student can also hardly
  repay his huge debts!

 How the three young people mentioned above 

escape and get out of this life dilemma is the story of this novel!

Somewhere you can borrow easy money, don’t go there to borrow,

“no free lunch to go for a diploman mill for your study!" 

 

 

Chinese Translation

 

這書講述三個年青人，

錯入了間學店讀法律而欠下一身巨債的故事！

讀法律而欠下一身巨債的故事！

有這樣的一所連鎖法律學店，

入讀要求不高，學費卻很高，

但學店會幫學生很易就借到很大筆錢，

交學費和生活！

但學生畢業後很難憑其畢業文憑，

找到與法律專業有關的工作！

 

於是窮一世也難以償還巨債！

 

上述那三個年青人，

如何逃離這個人生困局，

就是這本小說的故事！

 

甚麼地方容易借錢，不要去亂借，

“無咁大隻咕咕隨街跳！”