Caresse de la Brise;: 5月 2011

2011年5月24日星期二

[gLee(k)] Admiring Chris Colfer :)

http://virtualreflection.wordpress.com/2011/02/12/chris-colfer/#comment-380

Thanks to this blog, I got to know so much more about my favorite Glee actor, Chris Colfer. :)

http://blog.yam.com/rupertmickey/article/36965317
and this.

.. 我好喜歡你. 請繼續發光發熱啊, 男孩! :)

http://hoshiru.pixnet.net/blog/post/34929273

Darren Criss 也好可愛....俏皮到不行.. 夢裡我會想要坐在他旁邊聽他彈吉他, 唱歌, 看他陶醉時可愛的小動作, 度過一個美好的一天... 多舒壓啊!

http://hoshiru.pixnet.net/blog/post/34570563
Criss brothers info.

http://hoshiru.pixnet.net/blog/post/34844525
Darren singing vids.

2011年5月19日星期四

[Inspirations] J.K. Rowling's Speech at Harvard 2008 Commencement

http://www.elise.com/weblog/archives/007264jk_rowling_gives_commencement_speech_at_harvard.php

http://harvardmagazine.com/2008/06/the-fringe-benefits-failure-the-importance-imagination
Full text speech reference

Quotations:

"What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality."
-reflections, empathy, maturity into action = change.

"We do not need magic to transform our world, we carry all the power inside ourselves already, we have the power to imagine better."
-imagine the views, taking the steps to commit, action.

"Not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters."

The benefits of failure ... "the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me. Had I really succeeded at anything else, I might never have found the determination to succeed in the one arena I believed I truly belonged. I was set free, because my greatest fear had already been realised, and I was still alive, and I still had a daughter whom I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life."

- realizing what is important, realizing what is still there, realizing your own strength and qualities that still sustains you to be all right... = things aren't that bad.

J. K. Rowling has a beautiful soul too.

2011年5月16日星期一

[Lyrics Translations歌詞翻譯] 我最親愛的-張惠妹 (My Dearest by A-mei)

Songs always condenses a lot what can't be said.. so the song, filled with emotions and words unsaid, is sung. Beautiful Taiwanese aborigine & pop singer A-mei's song, "My Dearest".

我最親愛的(My Dearest) -張惠妹 A-mei

很想知道你近況

I really want to know how you’re doing recently
我聽人説還不如你對我講

Hearing about it from other people, how about you tell me sometime
經過那段遺憾

After that period of regret
請你放心　我變得更加堅強

Please be assured, I’ve gotten stronger
世界不管怎樣荒涼

No matter how desolate the world is
愛過你就不怕孤單

There’s no reason to fear loneliness as long as I've loved you

我最親愛的　你過的怎麼樣

My dearest one, how have you been?
沒我的日子　你別來無恙

Those days without me, how have you been since?

依然親愛的　我沒讓你失望

Still, my dear, I have not let you down
讓我親一親　像過去一樣

Let me kiss you for a while, just like what we would used to do

我想你一定喜歡

I think you must like the fact that
現在的我學會了你最愛的開朗

I've learned to be more cheerful lately
想起你的模樣

Now that I think of your face
有什麼錯

What other mistakes are there
還不能夠被原諒

That can’t be forgiven?
世界不管怎樣荒涼

No matter how desolate the world is
愛過你就不怕孤單

There’s no reason to fear loneliness as long as I've loved you
我最親愛的　你過的怎麼樣

My dearest one, how have you been?
沒我的日子　你別來無恙

Those days without me, how have you been since?

依然親愛的　我沒讓你失望

Still, my dear, I have not let you down
讓我親一親　像朋友一樣

Let me kiss you for a while, just like what friends would do

雖然離開了你的世界

Although time in the world after leaving you
比一起還漫長

Seems longer than the times we’ve been together
我們總能補償

We can always make it up
因為中間空白的時光

Because the empty times in between
如果還能分享

If that can still be shared
也是一種浪漫

It’s also romantic…
關係雖然不再一樣

Although this relationship is no longer the same
關心卻怎麼能說斷就斷

How is it possible to terminate our care for each other completely?

我最親愛的　你過的怎麼樣

My dearest one, how have you been?
沒我的日子　你別來無恙

Those days without me, how have you been since?

依然親愛的　我沒讓你失望

Still, my dear, I have not let you down
讓我親一親　像親人一樣

Let me kiss you for a while, like what a family member would do

我最親愛的　你過的怎麼樣

My dearest one, how have you been?
沒我的日子　你別來無恙

Days without me, how are you since we parted?

依然親愛的　我沒讓你失望

Still, my dear, I have not let you down
讓我親一親　像過去一樣

Let me kiss you for a while, just like what we would used to do

2011年5月11日星期三

[Art]/[Tribute] May, 11th - Martha Graham's Birthday

"There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all of time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and it will be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is nor how valuable nor how it compares with other expressions. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep yourself open and aware to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open.

... No artist is pleased. [There is] no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is only a queer divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martha_Graham

The first part of the quotations (the parts before the new line of ...No artist is pleased) is one of the quotations that I gathered for my IB Theatre Arts journal entry... whenever I read her quotation, I would feel there's a valid reason - a reason for existence - a reason to be remain who I am - a reason to let myself shine without much fear...

This is not to say I'll become egotistical, but the small boost of self-confidence was really important in letting myself go, letting myself free of my fears/concerns of how others might've viewed me.

After all, how can you give up when you haven't even tried?

A shriveled blossom is not beautiful. It's only beautiful when it shows the world its color(s). (visuallyl and characteristically speaking)

Thank you - Martha Graham... for your words of wisdom, guidance, your contributions as a truly amazing dancer:

"I have spent all my life with dance and being a dancer. It's permitting life to use you in a very intense way. Sometimes it is not pleasant. Sometimes it is fearful. But nevertheless it is inevitable."

This leads me to a thought that can be related with this quotation from Hamlet:

Hamlet:

Why then 'tis none to you; for there is nothing either good or

bad, but thinking makes it so. To me it is a prison.

Hamlet Act 2, scene 2, 239–251

For those who didn't regard arts as something that could be great, useful, worthy to be a career, I wonder what have caused them to think so?

As proven by Martha Graham, she can dance to greatness -

Art itself (visual or performing) is good - but it seems like in many societies, people's prejudicies have labelled art to be something worthless to pursue...

I wonder if one day people would give more attention to how art changes the world, gradually.

Changes happen - but it needs to be noticed to have impact.

I'm thankful to have you in this world, Martha Graham.

Dancers, dance on! (Professionals and amateurs alike!)

Artists (Dreamers), dream on.. the world needs your expression. ;)