Sunday Serenade: waiting outside the lines

This is quite an inspirational song, sung by a teenager.. telling us to seize the day and take a chance.. A meaningful song.. "Waiting outside the lines" by Greyson Chance..

Waiting Outside the Lines
You'll never enjoy your life,
Living inside the box
You're so afraid of taking chances,
How you gonna reach the top?

Rules and regulations,
Force you to play it safe
Get rid of all the hesitation,
It's time for you to seize the day

Instead of just sitting around
And looking down on tomorrow
You gotta let your feet off the ground,
The time is now

[chorus]
I'm waiting, waiting, just waiting,
I'm waiting, waiting outside the lines
Waiting outside the lines
Waiting outside the lines
[end of chorus]

Try to have no regrets
Even if it's just tonight
How you gonna walk ahead
If you keep living blind?

Stuck in the same position,
You deserve so much more
There's a whole world around us,
Just waiting to be explored

Instead of just sitting around
And looking down on tomorrow
You gotta let your feet off the ground,
The time is now, just let it go

Don't wanna have to force you to smile
I'm here to help you notice the rainbow
'Cause I know what's in you is out there

[chorus]

I'm trying to be patient (I'm trying to be patient)
The first step is the hardest (the hardest)
I know you can make it,
Go ahead and take it

I'm waiting, waiting, just waiting
I'm waiting

[chorus]

You'll never enjoy your life
Living inside the box
You're so afraid of taking chances,
How you gonna reach the top?







Have a great week ahead! Live life large but stay safe...

Sunday Serenade: someday (ok)

My trip back to Malaysia for CNY allowed me to get in touch (sort of) with the English pop music scene as my sis listens to songs on top of the charts.. thus I was 'acquainted' with songs that are relatively new.. and this is one of them..

Here's Someday (OK) performed by Joe Brooks. Enjoy!





Have a great week ahead! Be safe!

Poetry Solace: Of dreams before waking

Continuing with another poem from Adrienne Rich..

Dreams before Waking
.........
What will make it for you?
You don't want to know the stages
and those who go through them don't want to tell
You have your four locks on the door
your savings, your respectable past
your strangely querulous body, suffering
sickness of the city no one can name
You have your pride, your bitterness
your memories of sunset
you think you can make it straight through
if you don't speak of despair.

What would it mean to live
in a city whose people were changing
each other's despair into hope? ---
You yourself must change it. ---
what would it feel like to know
your country was changing? ---
You yourself must change it. ---
Though your life felt arduous
new and unmapped and strange
what would it mean to stand on the first
page of the end of despair?

(1983)



Enjoy your weekend! Stay safe!

Sunday Serenade: better than i know myself

"Better than I Know Myself" is the song I would like to share this weekend.. it's by Adam Lambert.. I like his songs because he sings with an intensity that I can relate to..

Better than I know Myself
Cold as ice
And more bitter than a December
Winter night
That's how I treated you
And I know that I
I sometimes tend to lose my temper
And I cross the line
Yeah that's the truth

I know it gets hard sometimes
But I could never
Leave your side
No matter what I say

[chorus]
Cause if I wanted to go I would have gone by now,
But I really need you near me to
Keep my mind off the edge
If I wanted to leave I would have left by now,
But you're the only one that knows me
Better than I know myself
[end of chorus]

All along
I tried to pretend it didn't matter
If I was alone
But deep down I know
If you were gone
For even a day I wouldn't know which way to turn
Cause I'm lost without you.

I know it gets hard sometimes
But I could never
Leave your side
No matter what I say

[chorus]

I get kind of dark
Let it go too far
I can be obnoxious at times
But try and see my heart
Cause I need you need now
So don't let me down
You're the only thing in this world I would die without

[chorus x 2]







Have a great week ahead! Stay safe and be happy!

kittens II

After Tom and Jerry, there was Garfield and Kopi.. :) These two little kittens were only a few weeks old when they came over to our garden.. Dad said that their mum must have given birth in the tiny shed within our backdoor neighbor's compound.. They were just so adorable!

There shouldn't be any surprise as to what name I gave the orange-colored kitten.. :) 'Garfield' just popped into mind.. Garfield in Chinese is 加菲猫, with 加菲 sounding similar to 咖啡, which means coffee, so I named the greyish/black kitten 'Kopi' which is the Malay word for coffee.

These two little rascals were having tons of fun in my dad's garden.. running around, playing tag, pawing the soft earth, rolling and tumbling on the tarps my dad put up for shading his vegetables.. it was strangely therapeutic for us to watch them having so much fun and being so wide-eyed to everything around them..

Garfield & Kopi: "Aaahh... this is Life... "

Yummy yolk...

Garfield: "Peek a boo..."       Kopi: "......"

Kitty Obstacle Course 101

sibling love...

One thing that's different between Tom and Jerry and Garfield and Kopi was that the latter pair was not afraid of me and my camera.. I was able to take their photos really up close..

Garfield: "haven't you seen a cute kitten before?"

Garfield: "Take my no-shadow paw!"

ready to bounce..

"I won't get wet hiding here.."

Although Kopi was more shy than Garfield, I still managed to get some pretty good close-ups of it too..

"I like the smell of pandan.. I like to stretch too..."

"Zzzzz zzzzzz"

"Mum.. I can't get down... Help?"

Alas, both of them disappeared a few days before I came back to Taiwan.. one fell off the wall into the compound of a neighbor with 3 very fiece dogs.. :( while the other disappeared  overnight, most probably 'cat-nap' by someone... :( :(   

Even though I can only hope that both of them are in a better place/hands right now, I am grateful for the fun and joy they brought us during those few short weeks..