A Love poem by Ono no Komachi

夢ぢには
あしもやすめず
かよへども
うつつにひとめ
見しごとはあらず
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A line-by-line translation:
in [my] dreams / along dream paths
without resting my legs
[I] go often [to you]
in the real world, a single glimpse
is different.
**************(Komachi: she lived in the 9th century)

A Song from our Singapore Artists - 感動每一刻

~Every Touching Moment~

선덕여왕 "Balbambalbam"

좋아하는 것 남한 연가... A Very Lovely Korean Song that I like. It is a song from the Korean drama series "Queen Seon Deok 善德女王", hope you enjoy it too.
相当动听的韩国歌曲,希望您也喜欢... この幸せな歌のようにまた望まれる ..........~Iris

바람꽃 (Windy Flower) OST 콘서트

相当动听的韩曲,希望您也喜欢 I love this song, very touching & tenderly soft
좋아하는 것 남한 연가 ~ Iris

Bizarre Behaviour of Singaporeans????

Bizarre Behaviour of Singaporeans
- observations made by a German national who has lived in Singapore for 9 years.

44 years of economic and material success have spawned some very strange behaviours among Singaporeans.
They spent so much to buy a house or flat, furnished it up like a palace, but spent their time outside, most of the time at work. And the maids are the ones enjoying the million-dollar or multi-million-dollar assets..
Then they pay so much, the highest in the world, for a car only to park at home. Too expensive to drive, too many ERPs and car park charges to pay. And they are encouraged to park their cars at home and take public transport, being cheaper and more convenient.
And when Singaporeans travel, instead of seeing the places, they went shopping. The best part is that they would head for the cheapest bargains, buying stuff that they could get in Chinatown or pasar malam, at even cheaper prices. But they are still happy that they got a bargain.
And while the heartlanders are busy trying to make a life here, being told to bust off if they are not happy, which they could not, the rich and presumably very happy and contented citizens are buying up properties overseas just in case they need to make that escape from this paradise.
While many Singaporeans are thinking of jumping ship, or preparing to jump ship, hoards of new immigrants are rushing in to take their place in this paradise.
And to top it all up, they keep complaining about the govt and all the policies that they found unpalatable, but come every election, they will vote and return the govt to power.
Strange Singaporean behaviours! ....................or is it seige mentality ?

黃小琥 - 沒那麼簡單

黃小琥 - 沒那麼簡單这首歌赤裸裸地唱透我的心声...~海绮
词:
没那麽简单 就能找到 聊得来的伴
尤其是在 看过了那麽多的背叛
总是不安 只好强悍
谁谋杀了我的浪漫

没那麽简单 就能去爱 别的全不看
变得实际 也许好也许坏各一半
不爱孤单 一久也习惯
不用担心谁 也不用被谁管
感觉快乐就忙东忙西
感觉累了就放空自己
别人说的话 随便听一听 自己做决定
不想拥有太多情绪
一杯红酒配电影
在周末晚上 关上了手机 舒服窝在沙发里

相爱没有那麽容易 每个人有他的脾气
过了爱做梦的年纪 轰轰烈烈不如平静
幸福没有那麽容易 才会特别让人着迷
什麽都不懂的年纪
曾经最掏心 所以最开心 曾经

想念最伤心 但却最动心 的记忆

Kim Nam Gil - THE CLASS Making Film

Previously posted about my recent favorite artiste "Kim Nam Gil".......

人生自古谁无死

“人生自古谁无死”，这句话似潇洒但却让我心好疼。这无常人生的命之脆弱往往只在一瞬间就消散既失，挥一挥手、不带走一丝尘灰、不带走曾经的灿烂与精彩，留下亲人哀泣独唱着悲歌。悲恸的消息传自干妈口中毫无真实感。。。胸口闷疼、头痛剧烈，这时的我才发现自己忘了呼吸、泪也不知何时已湿满面。
我敬爱的干爸爸，请您一路好走，您的风范音容永宛在。
Goodbye Dad...... I will always miss you.

Michaelangelo's Amazing Paintings on the Sistine Chapel

The Creation of Adam is a section of Michelangelo's fresco Sistine Chapel ceiling painted circa 1511. It illustrates the Biblical story from the Book of Genesis in which God the Father breathes life into Adam, the first man.
Michaelangelo 1475 - 1564:
Michelangelo was one of the most inspired creators in the history of art and, with Leonardo da Vinci, the most potent force in the Italian High Renaissance. As a sculptor, architect, painter, and poet;


Michaelangelo exerted a tremendous influence on his contemporaries and on subsequent Western art in general. A Florentine-although born March 6, 1475, in the small village of Caprese near Arezzo-Michelangelo continued to have a deep attachment to his city, its art, and its culture throughout his long life.
Michaelangelo's Paintings On The Sistine Chapel have always amazes me.
The Pictures shown on my blog relates a thousand words of my thoughts towards his amazing art >>>>>>

Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci & his Art

Paintings namely : "Monalisa", "Last Supper", "Leda and the Swan"
Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci(April 15, 1452 – May 2, 1519), was an Italian polymath: A Painter, Sculptor, Architect, Musician, Scientist, Mathematician, Engineer, Inventor, Anatomist, Geologist, Cartographer, Botanist and Writer.
Leonardo has often been described as the archetype of the Renaissance man, a man whose unquenchable curiosity was equaled only by his powers of invention. He is widely considered to be one of the greatest painters of all time and perhaps the most diversely talented person ever to have lived. The scope and depth of his interests were without precedent and "his mind and personality seem to us superhuman, the man himself mysterious and remote". However, that while there is much speculation about Leonardo, his vision of the world is essentially logical rather than mysterious, and that the empirical methods he employed were unusual for his time.

Dora Maar au Chat

This painting was painted by Pablo Picasso in 1941. Worth U$100.7Million. One of my favorite Picasso's art piece.

Massacre of the Innocents

painted by Peter Paul Rubens in 1611; now worth U$90.9 Million.
One of my favorite paintings.

Diana and Actaeon

This Painting was painted by Titian, worth U$70.6 Million in year 2009

Peasant Woman by VINCENT Van GOGH, 1890

This Painting was painted by Vincent van Gogh in 1890. Worth U$63.1 Million

Worth

The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for. ~Iris

Appreciate

If you have the opportunity to play this game of life you need to appreciate every moment. A lot of people don`t appreciate the moment until it's passed.

Love

Love looks not with the eyes but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind. ~ William Shakespeare

Secret of Relationships

You can completely transform any relationship, no matter what it's like right now.

Every single relationship you have is a reflection of how you feel inside about you. You are a magnet attracting to you all things, via the signal you are emitting through your thoughts and feelings. Every relationship you have and every interaction with every person, is a reflection of your own thoughts and feelings in that very moment.

To transform every single relationship you have in your life:
Fall in love with YOU!
Make lists of hundreds and hundreds of wonderful things about you. Keep adding to it every day.
Know that you are perfect. Do not think any negative thoughts about you.
Know that you are worthy and deserving of anything and everything you could possibly want in your life.
Focus on the wonderful things in every person. Look for only those things.
Do not blame or criticize anybody, ever.
Set an intention that you are going to see the best in everything and everyone.
Make your happiness the number one thing in your life. Happiness is an inside job.
Free yourself of the responsibility of trying to make other people happy. Respect and love them enough to allow them to take care of their own happiness.
Get your attention off those things in others that don't make you feel good.
Appreciate and love yourself in every moment you can.
Do not expect others to behave in a way you want, so you will be happy. Release yourself forevermore and know that you alone control your happiness and it is a choice, no matter what anyone else is doing.
Love and respect yourself completely.
Know that you are perfect right now.

HEALTH is the Secret...

You are a magnet attracting to you all things, via the signal you are emitting through your thoughts and feelings. To open yourself up and become a powerful magnet to wellness and health from wherever you are now:
Love yourself! Deeply, profoundly! Make lists of all the wonderful things about you. Add to it every day. Free yourself of any past resentments or disappointments you may be holding about you. Let go of any and all resentments from the past you may be holding of everyone and everything. See yourself as completely well in your mind and visualize yourself doing things in a complete state of perfect health.
Do not speak of your illness, or disease with others. Love and appreciate everything and everyone, and especially yourself. Know you have the power within you to heal yourself. Never criticize or blame yourself or anyone else for anything.
Be grateful for the wellbeing that is coming to you. See yourself as only well.
Be happy, knowing that in your state of happiness your body is healing itself.
As you appreciate, as you love, as you are happy, as you are grateful, you are summoning wellbeing and it is pouring through your body and disease is vanishing in the moment.
Laugh! Hire funny movies or recall any memories that make you laugh. Laugh your way back to health.
Make lists every day of all the things you are grateful for, including being grateful for your healing and complete wellbeing.
You must do whatever you can to remove your attention from disease.
Distract yourself from thoughts of disease, and put all of your focus and attention on doing things that make you feel good.

Make your happiness the number one thing in your life.
Resist nothing, love everything!

Know that there is no such thing as incurable. As you love completely and feel the joy within you, disease cannot exist. Know and accept that you are perfect as you are right now.

$The SECRET is Money$

Money is magnetic energy. You are a magnet attracting to you all things, via the signal you are emitting through your thoughts and feelings.

To become a powerful money magnet:
Be clear about the amount of money you want to receive. State it and intend it! Don’t think about how much you can earn, but how much you want to receive.

Fall in love with money. Most people do not love money, because they always feel that they don't have enough of it.
Visualize and imagine yourself spending all the money you want, as though you have it already.
Speak, act, and think from the mindset of being wealthy now. Eliminate thoughts and words of lack such as "I can't afford it", "It is too expensive". Do not speak or think of the lack of money for a single second.

Be grateful for the money you have. Appreciate it as you touch it.
Make lists of all the things you will buy with an abundance of money.

Do whatever it takes for you to feel wealthy.
Affirm to yourself every day that you have an abundance of money, and that it comes to you effortlessly.
Appreciate all the riches around you, including the riches of others. Look for wealth wherever you go, and appreciate it.
Be certain that money is coming to you.
Love yourself and know that you are deserving and worthy of an abundance of money.

Remind yourself everyday that you are a money magnet, and ask yourself often during the day, am I attracting money now or pushing it away with my thoughts?

Always, always pay yourself first from your wage, then pay your creditors. In that single act, you are telling the Universe that you are worthy and deserving of more.

Repeat over and over every day, "I am a money magnet and money comes to me effortlessly and easily."
Write out a check to yourself for the sum of money you would like to have and carry it in your wallet. Look at it often.
Do whatever it takes to feel good. The emotions of joy and happiness are powerful money magnets. Be happy now!

Love yourself!
Wealth is a mindset. Money is literally attracted to you or repelled from you. It's all about how you think.