Dear Mandy,

I absolutely love Joi Chua, and her songs, coupled with her wonderful voice, just give this whole calming and soothing effect. It's almost like in Canada.. having a nice cup of tea while watching the sunset, or observing the quiet tranquility of life around...

I was listening to her greatest hits album, and this song, 戀之憩, really stood out for me. Translated, it means the opening of love. The lyrics in Mandarin are as follows:

戀之憩

作詞：梁文福　作曲：梁文福　編曲：Terence Teo

什麼樣的溫柔　才能輕撫你的傷口
什麼樣的思念　才能遷走你的憂愁
什麼樣的擁抱　才是你寂寞的盡頭
什麼樣的守候　才能被你接受

你的眼是芬芳的醇酒　凝著許多記憶的深憂
我是未曾醉過的溫柔　淺淺一嘗就不能罷休
你的眉是幽幽的港口　蹙著許多靜靜的綢繆
我是一個情感的水手　短短一駐就不願再走

別再說你能不能夠　只是問你接不接受
啊無言的你可知否　並非回憶才天長地久


If you'd like a English translation, go to www.translate.google.com for an ungrammatical and somewhat incomplete translation, but it's a very very sweet song. That I really admit. =)
If you wanna listen to it, either youtube it, or ask me to send the song to u. =)

Joi Chua really is one of my favourite Mandopop artistes. =)

Dear Mandy,

I guess that even as the new semester is more than halfway through, we return to that ever daunting "essay and project season"... haha..

It's definitely not easy, and amidst the busy chaos of research, writing, I somehow realise that I'm also becoming increasingly more distant, and even, to a large extent, selectively sharing about myself even more than normal. It's actually rather funny, but I quite like that. Keeping things to myself never used to be a strong suite of mine, but of late, I think that I am doing that very often.

It's interesting to a large extent, but at the same time, I think that I just need time... =S

Dear Mandy,

This is a really really sweet song.. and a very wistful one as well....



The lyrics are as follows:

So Close- Jon MaLaughlin (Enchanted OST)

You're in my arms
And all the world is calm
The music playing on for only two
So close together
And when I'm with you
So close to feeling alive

A life goes by
Romantic dreams will stop
So I bid mine goodbye and never knew
So close was waiting, waiting here with you
And now forever I know
All that I wanted to hold you
So close

So close to reaching that famous happy end
Almost believing this was not pretend
And now you're beside me and look how far we've come
So far we are so close

How could I face the faceless days
If I should lose you now?
We're so close
To reaching that famous happy end
And almost believing this was not pretend
Let's go on dreaming for we know we are
So close
So close
And still so far