Yong Qi 勇气

Love needs strength.
Love needs courage.
Love needs faith.
For some reason, I fell in love with this song when I first heard it many years ago.

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source.
It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.
-Anais Nin

You are The Empress

Beauty, happiness, pleasure, success, luxury, dissipation.

The Empress is associated with Venus, the feminine planet, so it represents,
beauty, charm, pleasure, luxury, and delight. You may be good at home
decorating, art or anything to do with making things beautiful.

The Empress is a creator, be it creation of life, of romance, of art or business. While the Magician is the primal spark, the idea made real, and the High Priestess is the one who gives the idea a form, the Empress is the womb where it gestates and grows till it is ready to be born. This is why her symbol is Venus, goddess of beautiful things as well as love. Even so, the Empress is more Demeter, goddess of abundance, then sensual Venus. She is the giver of Earthly gifts, yet at the same time, she can, in anger withhold, as Demeter did when her daughter, Persephone, was kidnapped. In fury and grief, she kept the Earth barren till her child was returned to her.

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KITARO - Matsuri

In the mood for music. This is one song that's so popular with wedding dinner. The opening dish song. So sick of it when it's heard in restaurants but at home with a good sound system, this is beautiful.

I really like this song because of the drums. Go to 3:30 and the drumming session is so beautiful. Every hit on the drum seems to pierce through my heart. And that sensation is indescribable. Love it to bits. No wonder I have the disease of the heart. LOL.

"Numbers" game has affected our young

A Letter to The New Paper, April 30, 2007 by Low You Keng

I refer to the article, "Have we become a nation of numbers?" (The New Paper, 20 Apr).

Is our daily life measured, guided and governed by quantity? Our usual and typical conversation revolves around subjects like money-generating stocks, bonuses, sought-after condominiums, top-ranking schools, examination marks, latest handphone features, and their like.

Our society is so obsessed with quantity that we pile mountains of food on our plates at buffets and eat like the hungry ghosts in the seventh month. It's no wonder my colleague from the UK says people here live to eat.

In the A-level results announced in March, we witnessed students crying their hearts out, not because of poor scores, but because they had lower grades in comparison to their classmates. These days, our students' objective is to pass examinations, not learning.

Living in a life of quantity has repercussions for our young, who demonstrate an ill-mannered, calculative mentality and inconsiderate behaviour, and who doesn't feel a sense of shame or responsibility, even after causing the death of someone.

Has our remarkable economic progress turned us into a nation without substance and character?

There's an old maxim: Those who live by the gun, will die by the gun. Businesses that preach numbers will die in the name of numbers.

Similarly, those live, eat, sleep, breathe and obsess with quantity, will also die and eventually be buried by quantity.

This really gets me thinking. I am still thinking.

Yanni Tribute Concert - Nightingale

I can't resist posting another one of his music. This is really beautiful.

yanni - within attraction (live! at the Acropolis)

I love Yanni's music. It's New Age. When I went to his concert in Melbourne back in the 90s. That was one of my most precious memories beside watching Pavarotti and Julio Igelesies Concerts. Just listen to the drummer. Gosh... I can .... His music can really bring out all sort of emotions in me.

The drummer in action.

yanni (live! at the Acropolis) - marching season