a sea of blue

i am talking to wayne recently and mayday comes into the picture. she is a fan of mayday and so am i! she is sharing with me about mayday song lyrics and how she is inspired by them. yes, they definitely have a lot of inspiring songs that i like and not to be missed to sing at ktv!

this reminded me of the mayday concert i attended in shanghai 2 years ago. it all started when i was assigned for a business trip to shanghai in july 2009 with cckk and coly. at that time, i was not aware that they would be having a concert in shanghai. it happened coincidentally when we were going to a convenience store near our hotel on one of the evenings. as we were nearing the convenience store, their dna concert poster pasted outside caught my eye. i still remembered that i grasped when i saw it! as i looked closer, i saw that we would still be in shanghai during the concert day! oh my gosh! it really got me excited to want to attend the concert! not a chance to be missed! i went to google on how to purchase the concert ticket. cckk and coly got influenced by me and wanted to go as well. hahaha!!! after a few phone calls and confirmation of our seats, we finally got the tickets delivered to the office! we were waiting for the big day to come!

it was all crowded when we made our way to the hongkou football stadium on 4 july 2009. fans were swarming from all over and roadside peddlers were selling light sticks to the fans. this was getting excited by the minute! when we were seated, we could see a sea of blue when everyone lighted the blue light sticks. it was moving. i was really amazed by the impact that mayday had created from their music to the fans out there. their pursuit of dreams, passion, perseverance and hard work were all in their music, bringing them to where they were today. they deserved the crowd and applause.

the concert started with a loud bang and continued throughout with fast and slow songs. the energy was high on the stage as well as off the stage. the fans knew their songs by heart and were singing alongside with them. it sounded like a massive ktv session. we could not miss to join in the fun! their songs somehow resonated with many of us, as if they understood how we felt and the struggles to go through. it felt like emotional release and therapy to sing their songs out loud! it was an awesome concert!!!

a small episode happened when we came out of the stadium after the concert ended. as the train station was no longer in service, we had to take a cab back to the hotel. there were so many people waiting for cabs and we took a long walk down some unknown roads until we finally managed to grab a cab.

one of the songs that became our theme song during the trip was 春天的呐喊 (scream of spring)! pay particular attention to the lyrics! hahaha! really suited us because we ended up working in shanghai for 7 weeks due some unexpected delays. needed a song to vent out the work stress!

nevertheless, it was all worth it for mayday concert!  i hope one day, i could attend their concert in their home ground, taiwan! it would be a totally different experience… = )

p/s: cckk and coly, those were the good memories!!! except for the work part... =p

crowd gathered outside the stadium

crowd seated inside the stadium

a sea of blue!

春天的呐喊!

作词: 阿信  作曲: 怪兽

不要叫我比赛 不要再看我成绩单 

不要再无奈 不要再忍耐 不要再让我伤肝

天天都火腿蛋 天天都排骨鸡腿饭

我需要扭转 我需要意外 我需要感觉存在

当阳光很冷淡 心情很吉普赛

没人能挡住我 跟平凡掰掰

方向盘指向南 一路都不转弯

除非我看到沙滩 看到大海看到未来

爽要呐喊 不爽更好喊

压力要甩 忧郁要推翻
爽要呐喊 用力的呐喊
喊到流汗 喊到没遗憾
一生能有几次跟世界宣战

不想再当模范 不想要再当乖乖牌

我只想摇摆 我只想旋转 我只想阂到腿软

让冬天被打败 让春天冲上了舞台 

让热血变红 让天空变蓝 让我把无聊炸开

看羚羊草枝摆 我爱上大自然

来不及等泪乾 来不及防晒

浪漫只怕太慢 痛快只怕太快

快让我看到沙滩 看到大海看到未来

爽要呐喊 不爽更好喊
压力要甩 忧郁要推翻
爽要呐喊 用力的呐喊
喊到流汗 喊到没遗憾
一生能有几次跟世界宣战

当阳光很冷淡 心情很吉普赛

没人能挡住我 跟平凡掰掰

方向盘指向南 一路都不转弯

除非我看到沙滩 看到大海看到未来

爽要呐喊 不爽更好喊

压力要甩 忧郁要推翻

爽要呐喊 用力的呐喊

喊到流汗 喊到没遗憾

一生能有几次跟世界宣战

一生能有几次终於没人管

一生能有几次跟世界宣战

things are created twice

i went for a leaders conference last weekend at johor bahru. it was a fun and relaxing yet reflective weekend. there was one activity where the organizer gave us different colours of plasticine, those that we used to play when we were young, and wanted us to create something using the plasticine. i totally had no idea what to create and got stuck! until he said that we were responsible adults and should be able to carry out a simple task like this, did i finally calmed myself down to start thinking and doing. eventually, i molded a book (named life), a pencil and a coffee cup with a saucer!

he said something at the end of the activity that left a deep impression in me. he said, “things are created twice, one is created in your mind and one is created in reality.” how true! as i reflected back, i did had the images of the book, pencil and coffee cup with a saucer in my mind before i started to mold them out one by one.

on a bigger context, we often create many things in our minds, our dreams, the kind of lifestyles we want to live or the things that we want to do. however, how many do we really create in reality? we are stopped by some unknown fears and get stuck in our minds. as time passes, we tell ourselves that it is alright, it is just a faraway dream and it becomes long forgotten. maybe we just need to understand the in between, of what it takes to put dreams into reality. understanding what is stopping us and overcoming the obstacles one by one. otherwise, what else is there to do? 

my book (named life), pencil and coffee cup with saucer!

re-org

re-org stands for reorganize in short. i heard it from a friend of mine who kept saying this during our trekking trips. he would say to re-org his bag, re-org the group and whatsoever. therefore, for the past 1 week, i was busy reorganizing my stuff at home. i started to flip through my 4 ikea boxes and bookshelves to see what could be thrown away. what amazed me was that i still kept my polytechnic notes 10 years ago! talking about holding onto old things, i was holding them real tightly! time to let them go! it was a tug and war between discarding and retaining the things. with more and more things piling but less and less space, some things just had to go. out went the long obsolete lecture and training notes, the unread magazines, the useless mailers from the banks and other stuff to make space for new things.

the headache part was how to reorganize the rest of the things that managed to survive the destiny of discard (at least for now). it called for immerse discipline and energy to keep clearing, cleaning and reshuffling things around. finally after 1 week of hard work, a new lease of life was injected into the long dead bookshelves! until the next re-org.

it definitely feels lighter when things are neat and tidy. my room looks more zen now! hahaha! physical clutters cleared!

my pile of old old notes!

i am back!

i am back! after 3 years, 6 months and 3 days of disappearance! i am starting to blog again! it all started when my friend, zee, who was sharing excitedly about her blog and decided to re-blog again! sort of inspired me to revive my blog too! 2 things would remain, the blog name and use of small letters. i am still aligned to mastering the art of simplicity in my life and use of small letters seem to make every word equal.

my gosh! time flies!!! a brief update, i have recently quitted my internal auditor job (briefly mentioned in my entry dated on 23 december 2007) and finally granted myself a break first before i move onto other things. there are definitely a lot of changes over the span of 3 years, 6 months and 3 days, even the runaway princess (entry dated on 28 january 2007) has come back to her homeland once again. in fact, she has been working in the same company with me for the past 1 and ½ year. this time, it is my turn to run away. =p

i am definitely excited to blog more about the memorable events that happened over the past 3 years. no more writing of “would”, “could” and “should”, but more free flow writing! yeah!

as a new start, i aspire this blog to have a viral effect in the internet world, create a refreshing wave of expression and a new addiction where you can’t wait to go home for your dose of fun-ness and craziness! may this blog prosper! huat ah!