知音难寻

伯牙善鼓琴，鍾子期善聽。伯牙鼓琴，志在高山，鍾子期曰：「善哉！峨峨兮若泰山。」志在流水，鍾子期曰：「善哉­！洋洋兮若江河。」──伯牙所念，鍾子期必得之。　　伯牙游於泰山之陰，卒逢暴雨，止於巖下。心悲，乃援琴鼓之：初為霖雨之操，更造崩山之­音。曲每奏，鍾子期輒窮其趣。伯牙乃舍琴而歎曰：「善哉！善哉！子之聽夫志。想象猶吾­心也，吾於何逃聲哉？」　　子期死，伯牙謂世無知音者，乃擗琴絕絃，終身不復鼓。

知易行难

今天在报章上读到李资政在爱妻的灵堂前说了一句话‘节哀顺变，知易行难’，寥寥几个字充分道出了心中的思念与不舍，透露着‘十年生死两茫茫，不思量自难忘’的唏嘘。每年都有许多对新人找到自己人生的伴侣，从爱情的殿堂步入结婚的礼堂，然而其中却有许多对最终从爱侣变成怨侣，留下人生的烙印和遗憾。因相爱而牵起对方的手，却因理解而分手，由此可见要在茫茫人海中找到与自己相知相契，相惜相怜的另一半有多么的难得。失去了这样的一个伴侣和一起奋斗的伙伴心中的悲痛实非言语笔墨所能形容，若非身处其境便无法体会。在旁的第三者也只能默默劝道’节哀顺变，得到的回应亦只能是‘知易行难’了。

唉！人生充满了变数，生离死别亦是常道。因此更要懂得珍惜眼见人，莫待故人已逝才来后悔莫及。在这里我要献上一首歌词，希望正在看这段文字的朋友们如果碰上了这样的爱情，切记要好好珍惜，别让它成为擦肩而过的遗憾。

人浮游在世不只自己
才令我一生好奇
寻求被爱的滋味终於碰倒你
全赖你我先欣赏自己
权力与金钱怎黱可媲美
谁拦截也挡不住我
在行近你如

何能让我触动你
如何描述可感动到你
要与你抱拥相恋一世纪
从来没在乎你美与不美
是永不更改我愿意给你爱
风霜都替你遮盖

你会看清楚和了解我
未被人潮掩盖
若你不安心我做你的浮台
冲不散对你的爱
世界有色彩凭这点爱
可否捉紧我齐齐来跨过小障碍

谁愿意作假讨好大家
情愿两口子喝茶
平凡地并肩生活比一切优雅

难道爱简单都不能吗
难道我感情要给规管吗
从前没你的生命似灵魂腐化

如何能让我感动你
明明沉睡都可望到你
到老了也许通通不记起
能同揩白头我太有福气
愿永不更改每日献给你爱
世界有色彩凭这点爱
双手一触碰问你爱不爱

-完-

Oh Singapore, you're so fine !

By the title, one might suspect I'm gg to pay a tribute to our young nation with her 45th birthday just round the corner. Oh no no no no no. That's not what I'm about to say. What I wish to discuss or rather complain here is the 'fine' spirit of Singapore which has recently seeped into a new corner of this little island ! Yes! For the clever ones, the MRT trains !!! It so happens that I glanced at the TV today and so happens that I saw this news on channel U's 11pm news where a reporter was invited to go on these spot-check rounds with a MRT staff on the trains. Not to mention that I hardly consider this news important enough to be put into a clip and shown on a golden 30mins of news time, but what's disturbing is that the MRT staff not just go ard disturbing adults, but also went round dishing out warnings (maybe fines =Z) to mothers whose babies are so cute and innocently sucking on their milk bottles (regardless of their content). He kindly offered to bring them to the staff office of the next station to let the babies finish their unfinished business BUT they have to stop their action of drinking now cos it's fineable by law. (to which a mother replied no need cos she needs to rush to destination). Hmm... very fine example of law enforcement, very fine haul for the staff that day & a very fine alternative solution given, all's fine, except... I wonder if the babies will be fine if the bottles were wanked away from them (that incidentally wasn't shown on the clip). Heaven knows, the cuties might just turn into bawling monsters the next moment if they were inflicted with thirst and hunger. The point is aren't we becoming too fine that it's become inflexible ? I dun mind if adults have to bear with the thirst for a ride that can sometimes last longer than an hour (on an island less than 50km in length) cos our physique should be still fine with that, but it's NOT FINE to extend that rule to teethless babies. That just adds another discouraging factor to have babies. Who knows, maybe the next time the news clip will show a poor brute on the verge of a heart attack but got fined for taking his pills with water. Saved life but burned pocket. Tsk tsk tsk.
To cut the alr very long story short, I think as our nation steps into its 45th year of independence, we ought to rethink about some of our methods of doing things. Law is good, but I hope we all bear in mind that 法外有情. Do not let our reputation as a fine city spread get a booster to its pun.

Best Photos of Year 2010 - by Kenneth

Courtesy of Kenneth's Camera....

从因缘看聚散

从佛教的角度来看，世间的生灭聚散离不开‘因缘’二字。在芸芸众生中，因为累劫累世所种下的因，因此埋下了今世邂逅的果。所谓‘百年修得同船渡’便是如此。然而若要这份缘份开花结果则需得要等待机缘成熟。因缘和合之后便促成了今日的相遇。这是一种conditional probability吧，因而更显出每一次的相遇相知是多么的难能可贵，要格外的珍惜。然而在无常的世间，万法是刹那生灭的。有合便有离，有聚便有散。虽然心中不免充满感触，但也要看开。所要坚信的是今日相遇所种下的因，将成为明日再相见的果。对所有将要和REC Lab说再会的人，在此我送上万二分的祝福。相信我们会在不久的将来再度聚首。到那时之前，大家要各自珍重喔。



最后，送上两句歌词。‘人生的际遇千百种，但愿知心常相重，人愿长久，水愿长流。’

Rabbits !!!!!!!!!!

Hey everyone with an innocent pure heart. Check out these rabbits. For the benefit of those without Facebook acct. I'm posting this link.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOV18WKNtgI

Memories-~~

Tired of typing my stuff, looked at my old emails and dug this out.. I really missed those pri sch days. Now I dread growing up-- something that I wanted very much when I was young... haha, perhaps to escape from studies ;p

Enjoy these

For those who born in the 70s and 80s. Fond memories......

1. You
grew up watching He-man, MASK, Transformers, Silver Hawk and
Mickey
Mouse. Not to forget, Ninja turtles, My Little Pony and Smurfs
too.

2. You grew up brushing your teeth with a mug
in Primary school during recess time. You will squat by a drain
with all your classmates beside you, and brush your teeth with a coloured
mug.The teachers
said you must brush each side 10 times
too.

3. You know what SBC stands for.

4. You pay 40 cents for Chocolate or Strawberry MILK every week
in class.

5. You watch a very popular Malay dubbed Japanese drama on RTM1
about schoolgirls who possess powerful skills in volleyball called
Meoro Attack.

6. You find your friends with pagers and handphone
cool in Secondary school.

7. SBS buses used to be non-airconditioned. The
bus seats are made
of wood and the cushion is red. The big red
bell gives a loud BEEP! when pressed. There are colourful
tickets forTIBS buses.The conductor
will check for tickets by using a
machine which punches a hole in the ticket.

8. Envelopes given to us to donate to Sharity
Elephant every Children's Day.

9. You've probably read Young Generation
magazine.You know who's
Vinny the little vampire and Acai the
constable.

10. You were there when they first introduced MRT
here. You went for the first ride with your parents and you
would kneel on the seat to see the scenery.

11. Movie tickets used to cost only $3.50.

12. Gals are fascinated by Strawberry Short Cake
and Barbie Dolls.

13. You learn to laugh like The Count in Sesame Street.

14. You longed to buy tibits called Kaka (20 cents per pack),
and Ding Dang (50 cents per box), that had a toy in it
and it changes every week
not forgetting the 15 cents animal
crackers and the ring pop, where the lollipop is the diamond
on the ring.

15. You watched TV2 (also known as Channel 10)
cartoons because
Channel 5 never had enough cartoons for you.

16. Hardy Boys, Nancy Drew, The Three
Investigators, Famous Five
and Secret Seven are probably the
thickest story books you ever thought you have read. Even Sweet
Valley High and Malory Towers.

17. KFC used to be a high class restaurant that
serve food in plates and let you use metal forks and
knives.

18. The most vulgar thing you said was asshole
and idiot and THE MOST EXTREME WAS 'super white'...you just
couldn't bring yourself to say the hokkien relative.

19. Catching was the IN thing and twist as the magic word.

20. Your English workbooks was made of some damn
poor quality paper that was smooth and yellow.

21. CDIS were your bestfriend.

22. The only computer lessons in school involved
funny pixellised
characters in 16 colours walking about trying to
teach you maths.

23. Waterbottles were slinged around your neck and
a must everywhere you go.

24. Boys loved to play soccer with small plastic
balls in the basketball court.

25. Teng-teng, five stones, chapteh, hentam bola and zero point
were all the rage with the girls and boys too...

26. Science was fun with the balsam and the
angsana being the most
important plants of our lives, guppies
and swordtail being the most important fish.

27. Who can forget Ahmad, Bala, Sumei and
John, eternalized in our
minds from the textbooks. Even Mr
Wally & Mr. Yakki. What abt Miss Lala??? And Zaki and Tini in
Malay Textbooks?

28. We carry out experiments of our own to get ourself badges for
being a Young Zoologist/Botanist etc.

29. Every Children's day and National day you
either get pins or pens with 'Happy Children's Day 1993' or
dumb files with 'Happy National Day 1994'.

30. In Primary six you had to play buddy for
the younger kids like big sister and brother.

31. We wear BM2000, BATA, or Pallas shoes.

32. Your form teacher taught you Maths, Science and English.

33. The worksheets were made of brown rough paper
of poor quality.

34. You went to school in slippers and a raincoat
when it rained, and you find a dry spot in the school to sit
down, dry your feet, and wear your
dry and warm socks and
shoes.

35. School dismissal time was normally around 1 pm.

36. There would be spelling tests and mental sums
to do almost everyday.

37. Your friends considered you lucky and rich if
your parents gave you $3 or more for pocket money everyday.

38. You see Wee Kim Wee's face in the school hall.

39. You freak out when the teacher tells you to line up
according to height and hold hands with the corresponding boy
or girl.

40. Boys like to catch fighting spiders.

41. Collecting and battling erasers was a pastime for boys.

42. Autograph books were loaded with "Best
Wishes", "Forget Me Not", and small poems like "Bird fly high,
hard to catch.Friend like you, hard to forget".

43. Class monitors and prefects loved to say "You talk somemore,
I
write your name ah!"

44. There were at least 40 people in one class.

45. Large, colourful schoolbags were carried.

50. You brought every single book to school,
even though there was one thing called the timetable.