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Thursday, 22 May 2008
Congratulations to me 恭喜我

Infamous Sam called me to tell me of my nominations for the golden melody awards. They asked me for quotes and my current state of delirium. The awkward pause probably suggested that i wasn't entirely thrilled.
(最近）名声不太好的小杉打电话告诉我，我被金曲奖提名了。他们让我发表获奖感言以及表达我现在激动的心情。（而我在电话中）尴尬的停顿似乎意味着我算不上兴奋。

Truth is, I am out of touch with giving an answer pronto. The moving house, concert cum album preparations and ad hoc projects such as the Sichuan earthquake are really filling up my days. And I haven't even include my own rituals and habitual procrastination that take up a significant chunk of my time. Awards are great, but to celebrate at a time like this? Maybe it will take a while for the news to sink in, and at the actual ceremony, it might be a blast. Right now, I'm really not in the mood to shout from the top of my balcony.
事实上，我总是不会很快给出答案的。搬家的事情，演唱会附带着新专集的筹备，以及一些特别定制的计划，比如四川地震（的慈善计划），这些事情已经将我的时间占得满满的。这些还不算我例行公事要做的事情以及拖延的习惯，而这些也会占去我大量的时间。得奖是件好事，但是要在这种时候庆祝吗？也許需要一段時間我才會(因為這個新聞)慢慢興奮起來，也许到了頒獎典禮现场，我会真正興奮起來。而现在，我实在没什么心情（可以令我兴奋到）站在阳台上大声（公布我获奖的消息）。

I shall however, announce this blog in my fans' sites. It's been a while folks.
然而，我应该在我歌迷的网站上公开这个部落格。已经有一段时间了，伙计们

Howdy.
你们好。




Thursday, 19 June 2008

Stop and Stare
I think I'm moving but i go nowhere
Yea i know that everyone gets scared
but i've become what I can't be
Do you see what I see?

我驻足凝视
感觉到我的移动却没有方向
yea 我知道每个人都被吓到了
但是我已经成为我不会成为的
你们可以看到我所看到的吗？

(FYI,这段是One Republic名为Stop And Stare 的一首歌中的歌词）



Friday, 20 June 2008
A letter to you:
给你的一封信:

I don't mean to scare you, but indeed the scariest thing in the world is to be completely and utterly bored with oneself, not looking in the mirror, not eating, not exercising, not bothering with anything towards the well being of oneself.
我不是故意要吓你们，但是对自己彻彻底底得感到厌倦的确是世上最可怕的事情。就这样，不照镜子，不吃东西，不做运动，不关心任何有益健康的事情。

What else is left?
还剩下什么呢？

What next after the silence?
沉默之后又会是什么？

What does the silence mean?
这种沉默到底意味着什么？

New Picture for Abel's Profile

May be Abel should try this one? :P

对于Abel新留言Lovely stuff的翻译

Title:Lovely Stuff


（translated by Stelart, http://stelart.blogspot.com ）

Today I spent the whole afternoon making oxtail stew.

今天我花了整整一个下午去做焖牛尾。

First you heat up some olive oil in a casserole, fry some bacon cubes in this, add seasoned oxtail and brown them for a few minutes, taking care not to burn the bacon. Add carrots, leek, celery, sage, parsley and some red wine and oyster sauce. Let the alcohol bubble away, add water, cover it and let it stew in the oven for 3 and 1/2 hour.

首先要将橄榄油在沙锅里加热，后放入肉丝煎炒，再加上调过味的牛尾煎一段时间，注意不要把肉丝煎糊。然后加入胡萝卜，韭，西芹，鼠尾草，荷兰芹以及一些红酒和蚝油。让红酒沸腾蒸发掉后，加水直到漫过牛尾，再将牛尾在炉中炖三个半小时.

HOW CAN IT NOT TASTE NICE? Try cooking most meats for 3 hours at least and they all taste good.

它怎么可能不好吃呢？大部分肉做三个小时以上后都会十分美味的。

Serve it with mash potatoes.

和土豆泥一起端上餐桌吧。

I feel like Martha Stewart. In fact, I was just thinking about the most wonderful things in my life. Some of them aren't that accessible, but the simplest things that put a foolish grin on my face are actually readily available in stores!

我觉得我自己像是Martha Stewart（美国富婆，急功近利，后被判入狱，重返家庭后，开始无忧无虑的家庭主妇生活，但她注定是不平凡的女性，于是，“玛莎•斯图尔特家庭用品公司”诞生了，销售的产品几乎无所不包。2001年，公司年收入达近3亿美元，斯图尔特成为“全美第二大女富豪”。）。事实上，我刚刚在想我人生中最美好的事。他们有的并不是那么容易实现，但是有些最简单的事情，它们可以让我傻傻的裂开嘴笑，而且总是在那里触手可及。

YUP, unbelievable as it may seem for someone of my age and gender, I am a sucker for little material things.

是的，对于一些在我这个年纪的女性这似乎难以置信，我对这些小事物情有独钟。

Like stickers, and beautiful cards.

比如贴纸以及漂亮的卡片。

I will like to periodically share some items I love in this blog so that more people may partake in the same joy!

我很愿意在这个博客里定时的分享一些我喜欢的东西，这样感兴趣的人就可以分享到同样的乐趣了！

1. Swell Gel

Plant & Plant出品的一种凝胶

Plant n Planet
Level 3 Centrepoint Shopping Centre

Plant & Planet一家新加坡的公司
先得坊购物中心3层

Even before I started working, I remember walking into this rather nondescript place and oohing over the pure ingredients in their products. This very handy gel is good for insect bites, but I like to bring a little jar with me and use it when I feel hot and stuffy. The eucalyptus oil is refreshing and it has no unnatural ingredients such as mineral oils or parabens.

我记得就连我开始工作之前，（都会）去这个无可名状的地方并为他们产品中纯粹的成分感到惊讶。这种好用的凝胶对蚊虫叮咬很有效，不过我喜欢让自己的用法有所不同，在我感到很热和呼吸困难时用它。这种桉树油十分清爽而且不含有任何非自然的成分，比如矿物油或者甲苯酸酯类的添加剂。

2. Bioderma
(make up remover and moisturizer for sensitive skin)
Available at most guardian pharmacies

贝德玛 （卸妆洁肤水以及针对敏感皮肤的防敏修护霜）
在多数药店都有出售

This french brand is actually more popular than you think. I was recommended to use it by a HK chanteuse's make up artiste and found out that another TW chanteuse uses the same product. It removes make up gently and leaves no gross oily residue.

事实上这个法国品牌比你想象的要流行。它是一个香港歌手的化妆师推荐给我的，然后我又发现另一个台湾歌手也在用同样的产品。它可以温和的卸妆并且不会留下那些令人厌恶的油油的残余物。

The moisturizer was a lucky hit. Last week, I had an unexplainable allergy to everything in my closet. My eyes turned puffy, my skin broke into rashes and I felt stuffed and bloated. BUT WHAT'S A GIRL/MAN NAMED ABEL TO DO? So I took a shot at this moisturizer and my skin cells are ALL SUPER HAPPY. I can feel the cells drinking in this gentle skin loving cream.

那个防敏修护霜是一个幸运的偶然发现。上星期，我无法解释的对我橱柜里所有的东西过敏。我的眼睛浮肿起来，我的皮肤上突然出现皮疹，我感觉好像被填充并且肿胀起来一样。但是一个叫Abel的女生抑或是男士该怎么做呢？于是我尝试了这种防敏霜，它使我的皮肤细胞都变得超级快乐起来。我可以感受到细胞吸收这些温和的呵护皮肤的乳霜。

3.Egg Cartons
Available at most super markets/wet markets

纸质蛋托
在多数超市和菜市都有出售

These things are very handy when you are trying to plant stuff. They break down naturally, and therefore can be transfered straight to the soil with little distress that can occur from transferring the delicate saplings.

当你尝试种东西的时候这种东西十分有用。他们自然分解，因此在可以在转移中保护脆弱的树苗的同时可以直接转化为土壤

4.Water Bottle
Steal from your niece whatever

水壶
从亲戚家的小孩那里抢来

I got my pale greyish pink one from stella mc cartney for adidas. I like to make a bottle full of ice cold Ribena with a dash of organic apple cider every night before I sleep. It's my comfort drink.

我有一个stella McCartney为Adidas设计的浅灰粉的水壶。每晚睡觉前，我喜欢弄满满一瓶冰镇利宾纳和一点有机苹果酒混合的饮料。它使我感到安慰。

(Stella McCartney 著名时尚设计师http://www.stellamccartney.com/）



ok that's all I can think of right now. With the economic downturn and the streets of Singapore turning eerily quieter, one of these simple pleasures might just make your day a little brighter.

好了，这是目前我所能想到的所有东西。在这个经济低迷，新加坡的街道变得有点恐怖的安静的时期，这些简单的乐趣或许恰恰可以使你的日子变得好过一点。

Status Transfered

I thought i was in my dormitory when i woke up yesterday morning.

It's bizarre.My own room,a space which i built piece by piece,a small world where i pured all my tears and laughter,all my fears and hopes,a place where I store all my treasures,now turns out to be a unexpected scene after three weeks university life.

When I went through my room,there's an unexpected fresh and obsolete smell which i suddenly felt,I can't figure out if it's sorrow,fear,hope or happiness .I felt the antipathy of my high school life.I felt the dismay of my dream of being a designer.I felt the upset of can't making myself study in the last month before final exam.I also felt my struggling for NTU and a fictitious paradized Singapore life,felt my satisfaction of painting and creating.And CD covers emerged form the open drawers,posters blured the outline of the walls,Stefanie Sun's charming and powerful voice mixed with the smell of my room,and also my past 5 yrs journey.The 5 yrs of dreaming,the 5 yrs of antipathy,pain and dismay,once so near then suddenly thousands of km away.All I smelt in my room,the smell of memories.

How long the process was and how quick the result died away.I wonder how all those passed so fast,and how quick i was changed.

However,regardless of all my random thoughts,I'm not a person who clings to the past.After the death of the remembered future,I can still find my dream my motivation,though I haven't.Anyway,I seems transfered my status successfully.The road ahead might be long and winding, but it surely will take us to another plane, another world, another moment to cherish.

Links for some fab websites

Photoshop essentials
Fab tutorials on photoshop.

Well Wedicated
A design resource,very inspiring.

Color Lovers
color&design community

Birthday Card

I designed this for my roommate yesterday.She want to make it into a birthday card for her boyfriend.
It's a sun,a rose,a universe of love
the pic was taken by my lousy digi camera,so the color is not very real

it's the first time i really give other ppl my design&painting.it's a hard time,u know?it's always hard for an artist to leave their satisfying works to others.But i've promised,so...

Get out of this house

You act like a baby, you talk like a fool
Get out of this house

Go
back to your mama, go back to high school
Get out of this house

Go
jump in the lake, go jump out the door
Get out of this house
I've had
all I can stand and, I can't stand no more
Get out of this house
Get out
of this house

this piece is from Shawn Colvin-A Few Small Repair-Get out of this house

I found it useful.Just imagine,when u quarrel badly with someone u don really care,u both don wanna speak with each other when u two happen to be left in the same room.You definitly wanna him/her to leave,u may sing this piece of the song which can be a clear indication.Is it very rude?But u were just singing a song.

Boring n stupid? well,I was just practised the piece this morning,but i wander if she can understand what i sang in english.

She's not a ppl which i don care,but her brainless behaviors dose really annoy me sometimes.It's always like that,u badly quarreled with someone who live under the same roof with you.Few min later, u two can just be as usual.

true picture of cufe

CUFE: Central University of Finance And Economics

Paralympic Games Spectator Mission

昨天我们学校组织去看残奥会，想去便可以去，没人还有10元的伙食补助，是让我们去冲人数的吧。反正这几天很清闲，当然义不容辞的去帮这个忙了；）



我们3:20pm坐校车出发，大约4:10pm到达奥运主题公园





然后一堆人过安检，大概有些人第一次过安检，带了好多乱七八糟的东西，不想被没收又跑回车里放。这样全部人都搞定又花了不少时间。每次参加活动等待都是不可缺少的一部分



因为奥运主题公园目前是不开放的，所以看到鸟巢大家都十分兴奋，纷纷拿出相机拍照。


和吴雨玲在鸟巢前合影，她是我同宿舍的新同学，来自四川绵阳中学，是一个可以把地震经历讲的很搞笑的人。比较经典的话就是：“大家好，我叫WU Yu Ning, Zhang Ai Ning（张爱玲）的Ning"。


大约4:45pm我们来到鸟巢脚下。白天里，鸟巢真的会比较好看，但是玲珑塔和水立方就不敢恭维了。


我很喜欢这些放在草坪上灯的造型。


入场前我又去水立方和玲珑塔那边逛了一下



鸟巢和水立方之间拥挤的广场


我6:10pm入场，当晚是田径比赛


颁奖后升国旗，中国共获得5金，也就意味着我唱了5遍国歌，貌似我高中三年一共都没唱这么多遍。

因为我刚好在颁奖台的正前方，所以拍到的大多是颁奖部分。我的疑问是，为什么大部分白人残疾选手都又帅又有型。




美丽的荷兰选手，其实我最喜欢的是他们队服手臂上那只郁金香。


英国选手很酷的hairstyle,那个摄影师要给他拍照，他起初以为是要拍奖牌，就摆了一个pose，结果摄影师告诉他转过身去，原来是要拍他的头，很好笑。


从我拍的照片可以看出我站的真的很近，其实基本上就在第一排。那群摄影师就在眼皮底下，还有一个中国的摄影师给我拍了一张特写，不知会不会上报，好像有点糗的感觉。


兴高采烈的李岩松和他的教练，他本来是跑第一的，后来不知什么原因成绩被取消了，白围着国旗跑了一圈。



再来几张体育馆里的照片



de dang!!刚出体育馆刚好碰到这位冠军，本来是没反应过来的。 就对着推着她的人竖了一下大拇指，他也笑着回了一个。后来才想到好像应该合影一下，就又跑上去。他们人都很好，说ok ok,one pic is ok.就帮我拍了一张。我刚拍完一会儿，他们走到一群学生周围，被认出，结果遭到围攻，还好有治安人员。



还碰到一群刚比完赛心情很high的运动员在边走边唱歌。虽然不知道具体是谁，但是被他们的心情感染自己也很happy和感动起来。就上去找那个戴帽子的合影，他很高兴答应还又拉了一个说："This is my friend."我们就一起合影。结果就围上来很多人拍我们，郁闷 有什么好拍的，于是他们当时也不知道看那个相机了，总之没看我的。


9：30pm 我离开体育馆




之前有人告诉我，残奥会十分惨不忍睹，看了心里会很难受。可是我完全没有觉得，反而觉得男帅女靓，个个都很有型。他们的精神面貌和运动员气质让我完全意识不到他们是残疾人。
真正的残疾是精神的残疾。

Lasting Heritage of High School

English Version: coming soon...LeeAnn don waste ur time to read chinese version,ur study must be busy.
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做梦往往通往我们的潜意识，我们没有办法去有意识的控制我们的潜意识。某种程度上，也不能控制我们的梦境，这有时候是我们的梦境成为一种有趣的经历。但也有的时候，我实在不能说是enjoyable的，就比如昨天晚上的梦境。

该死。。。我梦见我被中央财经大学录取只是高二一次模拟的预期结果，而接下来要继续进入高三学习，而不是中财！！！然后我又看到个子不高又古灵精怪的数学老师。。。奇怪，为什么我只看到数学老师，大概是因为当时数学总是有最多的做不完的作业。。。然后我便固执的拒绝上课，一种相当崩溃，无奈，盲目，极端又自暴自弃的状态，就像我高中提前回家的那段日子。

要知道，明天我就要去大学开始我的新生活了。梦里得到又失去的感觉真是糟糕，比失去更糟糕的是要继续上高中。很多长辈都说过，即便高考过去几十年，他们都仍然会偶尔做到关于考试的备受煎熬的梦。这是中国高中教育给人们留下根深蒂固而持久的遗产。而我想我不会这样严重，忘记那段时光好了，well，高中里我的并没有很努力，也没有很累到，但是那种一天24小时被固定安排以及完全被忽视的作为人的特权令我感到窒息。

无论如何，事实是我要开始大学的征程，而且会一直往前，往前，直到 find my destiny.