這首歌是在1996年BMG推出的合輯裡的一首歌。這張專輯也是我個人買的第一張專輯,陪伴了我無數個夜晚,也是我最喜歡的專輯之一,裡面的歌曲我覺得都還蠻好聽的,有 Queen (Heaven For Everyone),Wet Wet Wet (Somewhere Somehow),Ace Of Base (Beautiful Life),Bon Jovi (This Ain't A Love Song),The Cranberries (Ode To My Family),Roxette (June Afternoon),Bryan Adams (Have You Ever Really Loved A Woman), Mltr (That's Why),Boyzone (Coming Home Now),Janet Jackson (Runaway),Boyz Ii Men (Water Runs Dry),Blur (Charmless Man),Joan Osborne (One Of Us),Meatloaf (I'd Lie For You)。
這一首Meatloaf的I'd Lie For You (And That's The Truth),我想很多人都對這個團體沒有甚麼印象,因為主唱其貌不揚,但我不是外貿協會的會員(除了挑選Sweet之外)。歌詞我現在聽來也非常有感覺,再一次獻給Sweet baby。
I just found this album lying on my shelf, so I put it in the player. Though I had listened this song many many times, I got no feeling about it before.
Until now, at this moment, when I listen this song, everything that comes up in my mind is all about you. I feel this song is for us. I love you, sweet baby.
Adam
You know our love was meant to be The kind of love to last forever And I want you here with me From tonight until the end of time You should know Everywhere I go Always on my mind In my heart, in my soul, baby *You're the meaning in my life You're the inspiration You bring feeling to my life You're the inspiration Wanna have you near me I wanna have you hear me saying "No one needs you more than I need you" And I know Yes I know that it's plain to see So in love when we're together Now I know That I need you here with me From tonight until the end of time You should know (Yes, you need to know ) Everywhere I go You're always on my mind You're in my heart, in my soul When you love somebody 'Til the end of time When you love somebody Always on my mind No one needs you more than I
後來她有機會讀了一本小說《不存在的女兒》。她其實不常在誠品購書,但這本小說不一樣!當她flipped through the pages that男主角醉心於攝影,並透過補捉妻子的一顰一笑及身影表達自己對其說不出口的愛意和歉意這個段落時......因為被小說中攝影者的心意所撼動,她開始有那麼點覺得“也許照相是件好玩、有意義的事”,於是不加思索地買下這本書......她也不禁想像,假如有女人可以被一個男人這樣對待......oh一個帶著深情的目光、專心為他眼底唯一而攝影的男人......那該是多幸福的事阿!
那本小說可以是個伏筆。
之後她和他的第一次見面,擇期不如撞日地就約在她們通起簡訊的第一天以及距離她上課的不遠之處。在幽幽暗暗的咖啡店中,才甫認出他,她的目光一眼就被他身旁擺著的一個黑色小提袋給吸引了,wondering what it for and what it should be......直到他說,那是他的單眼相機他帶它去保養時,她腦海中不斷地浮現小說的情節,也好奇這男人以往都照些什麼,什麼樣的風景什麼人可以吸引他的目光?什麼時間什麼地點他一一地將快門按下?〈還os“阿!他從前的愛人肯定好幸福,畫面中的那個女人一定好美麗.....”〉
沒想到,爾後當她和他聊起這本小說時,她沒想到這個愛嗑電影卻不讀文學的男人竟然也看過一樣的作品!她還記得那時候,曾淡淡地提了有關攝影這部份,她說了有關自己,一個罹患鏡頭恐懼的人,也略述了那本書撼動她的部份......再一次地,她悄悄地盼望:假如可以成為愛人眼中唯一的風景,也許她那鏡頭恐懼症有機會不藥而癒。她其實瞭解,或許是她over sensitive和顧慮太多的性格使她在每一次的鏡頭前怯步,但她也深信,some where out there一定有個他,可以卸下她的面具、看見她的本質,並且真實地透過鏡頭捕捉每一個瞬間......
Apple and Pixar CEO Steve Jobs gave his Stanford commencement address in 2005. Although much has been written about it, take the time to read through the transcript. The first of three stories that he tells talks about how the things that you learn and take time to investigate may have long term impact on what you do. His particular example is about taking a calligraphy class in college and later working on the typefaces for the Mac saying " it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college. But it was very, very clear looking backwards ten years later." It's a long clip,but I think everyone should watch it.It takes a lot of wisdom for the speaker to say something like that.
Adam
I am honored to be with you today at your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. I never graduated from college. Truth be told, this is the closest I've ever gotten to a college graduation. Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. That's it. No big deal. Just three stories. The first story is about connecting the dots. I dropped out of Reed College after the first 6 months, but then stayed around as a drop-in for another 18 months or so before I really quit. So why did I drop out? It started before I was born. My biological mother was a young, unwed college graduate student, and she decided to put me up for adoption. She felt very strongly that I should be adopted by college graduates, so everything was all set for me to be adopted at birth by a lawyer and his wife. Except that when I popped out they decided at the last minute that they really wanted a girl. So my parents, who were on a waiting list, got a call in the middle of the night asking: "We have an unexpected baby boy; do you want him?" They said: "Of course." My biological mother later found out that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school. She refused to sign the final adoption papers. She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would someday go to college. And 17 years later I did go to college. But I naively chose a college that was almost as expensive as Stanford, and all of my working-class parents' savings were being spent on my college tuition. After six months, I couldn't see the value in it. I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out. And here I was spending all of the money my parents had saved their entire life. So I decided to drop out and trust that it would all work out OK. It was pretty scary at the time, but looking back it was one of the best decisions I ever made. The minute I dropped out I could stop taking the required classes that didn't interest me, and begin dropping in on the ones that looked interesting. It wasn't all romantic. I didn't have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends' rooms, I returned coke bottles for the 5¢ deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the 7 miles across town every Sunday night to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple. I loved it. And much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on. Let me give you one example: Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country. Throughout the campus every poster, every label on every drawer, was beautifully hand calligraphed. Because I had dropped out and didn't have to take the normal classes, I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this. I learned about serif and san serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great. It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can't capture, and I found it fascinating. None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life. But ten years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me. And we designed it all into the Mac. It was the first computer with beautiful typography. If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts. And since Windows just copied the Mac, its likely that no personal computer would have them. If I had never dropped out, I would have never dropped in on this calligraphy class, and personal computers might not have the wonderful typography that they do. Of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college. But it was very, very clear looking backwards ten years later. Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life. My second story is about love and loss. I was lucky — I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4000 employees. We had just released our finest creation — the Macintosh — a year earlier, and I had just turned 30. And then I got fired. How can you get fired from a company you started? Well, as Apple grew we hired someone who I thought was very talented to run the company with me, and for the first year or so things went well. But then our visions of the future began to diverge and eventually we had a falling out. When we did, our Board of Directors sided with him. So at 30 I was out. And very publicly out. What had been the focus of my entire adult life was gone, and it was devastating. I really didn't know what to do for a few months. I felt that I had let the previous generation of entrepreneurs down - that I had dropped the baton as it was being passed to me. I met with David Packard and Bob Noyce and tried to apologize for screwing up so badly. I was a very public failure, and I even thought about running away from the valley. But something slowly began to dawn on me — I still loved what I did. The turn of events at Apple had not changed that one bit. I had been rejected, but I was still in love. And so I decided to start over. I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life. During the next five years, I started a company named NeXT, another company named Pixar, and fell in love with an amazing woman who would become my wife. Pixar went on to create the worlds first computer animated feature film, Toy Story, and is now the most successful animation studio in the world. In a remarkable turn of events, Apple bought NeXT, I returned to Apple, and the technology we developed at NeXT is at the heart of Apple's current renaissance. And Laurene and I have a wonderful family together. I'm pretty sure none of this would have happened if I hadn't been fired from Apple. It was awful tasting medicine, but I guess the patient needed it. Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith. I'm convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. You've got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don't settle. My third story is about death. When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: "If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right." It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: "If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?" And whenever the answer has been "No" for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something. Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart. About a year ago I was diagnosed with cancer. I had a scan at 7:30 in the morning, and it clearly showed a tumor on my pancreas. I didn't even know what a pancreas was. The doctors told me this was almost certainly a type of cancer that is incurable, and that I should expect to live no longer than three to six months. My doctor advised me to go home and get my affairs in order, which is doctor's code for prepare to die. It means to try to tell your kids everything you thought you'd have the next 10 years to tell them in just a few months. It means to make sure everything is buttoned up so that it will be as easy as possible for your family. It means to say your goodbyes. I lived with that diagnosis all day. Later that evening I had a biopsy, where they stuck an endoscope down my throat, through my stomach and into my intestines, put a needle into my pancreas and got a few cells from the tumor. I was sedated, but my wife, who was there, told me that when they viewed the cells under a microscope the doctors started crying because it turned out to be a very rare form of pancreatic cancer that is curable with surgery. I had the surgery and I'm fine now. This was the closest I've been to facing death, and I hope its the closest I get for a few more decades. Having lived through it, I can now say this to you with a bit more certainty than when death was a useful but purely intellectual concept: No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true. Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary. When I was young, there was an amazing publication called The Whole Earth Catalog, which was one of the bibles of my generation. It was created by a fellow named Stewart Brand not far from here in Menlo Park, and he brought it to life with his poetic touch. This was in the late 1960's, before personal computers and desktop publishing, so it was all made with typewriters, scissors, and polaroid cameras. It was sort of like Google in paperback form, 35 years before Google came along: it was idealistic, and overflowing with neat tools and great notions. Stewart and his team put out several issues of The Whole Earth Catalog, and then when it had run its course, they put out a final issue. It was the mid-1970s, and I was your age. On the back cover of their final issue was a photograph of an early morning country road, the kind you might find yourself hitchhiking on if you were so adventurous. Beneath it were the words: "Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish." It was their farewell message as they signed off. Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. And I have always wished that for myself. And now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for you. Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. Thank you all very much.
雖然她偷偷地當起了小偵探,但事實上第一次見面之後她真的覺得一切應該就這樣結束了......with that funny and interesting joke!? ohohohno...that's not a joke but a formal and serious self-introduction actually! Whereas小小考生哪敢奢望故事可以繼續發展呢?
( 累了SWEET,今天玩得太開心,伸個懶腰先,The story is to be continued maybe...)
Bryan Adams 是我從國中開始就非常喜歡的歌手,沙啞的嗓音是他最大的特色 這首歌也是我非常喜歡的一首,獻給我最愛的Sweet。 I can't resist your sweetness.....
I can't believe this moment's come(這一刻終於到來) It's so incredible that we're alone(沒想到我們卻孤軍奮戰) There's so much to be said and done(我們要說到做到) It's impossible not to be overcome(儘管戰勝的機會渺茫) Will you forgive me if I feel this way(你會在我感到失落時體諒我嗎?) Cuz we've just met - tell me that's OK(你說絕對會成功的) So take this feeling'n make it grow(就抱持著這種精神奮戰下去) Never let it - never let it go(不要放棄,絕不放棄) (Don't let go of the things you believe in)(不要放棄你的信念) You give me something that I can believe in(你給我堅持的力量) (Dont'let go of this moment in time)(別現在就放棄) Go of this moment in time(現在要勇往直前) (Don't let go of things that you're feeling)(不要放棄你內心的感覺) I can't explain the things that I'm feeling(我百感交集) (Dont'let go)(不要放棄) No, I won't let go(不,絕不放棄) Now would you mind if I bared my soul(你介意我坦承自我嗎?) If I came right out and said your'e beautiful(如果我當面稱許你的美麗) Cuz there's something here I can't explain(我當下無法解釋這種感覺) I feel I'm diving into driving rain(彷彿衝向傾盆大雨裡) You get my senses running wild(你讓我思緒狂亂) I can't resist your sweet, sweet smile(你甜美的笑容令我無法招架) So take this feeling'n make it grow(就抱持著這種精神堅持下去) Never let it - never let it go(不要放棄,絕不放棄) [Chorus:]I've been waiting all my life(我用盡一生去等待) To make this moment feel so right(等待此刻的美好) The feel of you just fills the night(就讓這種氣氛瀰漫整個夜晚) So c'mon - just hold on tight(緊緊抓住此生此刻)
這是一首很好聽很好聽的歌,好像電影配樂用過很多次的樣子, 雖然很感傷,但卻是我內心想對Sweet表達的,I will be the answer....
I will be the answer At the end of the line I will be there for you While you take the time In the burning of uncertainty I will be your solid ground I will hold the balance If you can't look down If it takes my whole life I won't break,I won't bend It will all be worth it Worth it in the end Cause I can only tell you what I know That I need you in my life When the stars have all gone out You'll still be burning so bright Cast me gently Into morning For the night has been unkind Take me to a Place so holy That I can wash this from my mind The memory of choosing not to fight If it takes my whole life I won't break, I won't bend It will all be worth it Worth it in the end 'Cause I can only tell you what I know That I need you in my life When the stars have all burned out You'll still be burning so bright Cast me gently Into morning For the night has been unkind
坎普拉曾說:「花上萬元瑞典幣設計一張桌子,肯定不是難事;但如果只能花100元瑞典幣(相當於台幣400~500元),恐怕沒什麼設計師做得到。」這種方式就類似一個當紅的美國真人實境節目〈Project Run Way〉(決戰時裝伸展台)——要以極受限的預算或材料,完成最實用美觀的設計,實在是對設計師的一大考驗。
我是個很不喜歡看綜藝節目的人,但看到以下這些影片卻讓我意外看見這些非專業人士,比起樂壇的"專業"人士更讓人值得讚賞。 至於評審的表情動作我也想要給他們評語:come on , give me a break! Adam
Bianca Ryan 11歲(2006年)的時候參加了「America's Got Talent」,當她表示她要演唱百老匯經典歌舞劇「夢幻女郎」插曲And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going時,評審哉提醒她這可是一首不好唱的經典曲子。但是當她一開口,那超齡的成熟表現,層次分明的歌聲與肢體律動,讓在座的評審與觀眾們無不讚嘆連連。此後Bianca在這個選秀節目一路過關斬將,據說在2006年8月17日拿到總冠軍,也出了唱片
6歲的Connie Talbot參加了「Britain's Got Talent」,缺了門牙的她笑起來很是天真。當她緩緩地清唱出電影「綠野仙蹤」的主題「Over the Rainbow」時,沒有修飾的音色宛如純真的天籟,連評審都忍不住熱淚盈眶....
Though I am quiet familiar with NTU campus, the experience of sitting on the high bench in front of 鹿鳴堂 is just my first time. I didn't know that the campus at night with warm and pale yellow street lights can be so beautiful, but even look more angelic especially with the beloved one. I think I was kind of dizzy after having a little drink. Whereas I know well that it was not the beer which functioned but the man embracing me so tenderly and affectionately that caused me dazzling...
Georege died in a fire. He's badly burn and can't be recognized.Thus, cop called his two friends, Mike and John, to identify George.When Mike came and saw the body. He told the cop "Flip him over."
Cop did what he said. Mike looked at George's butt and said "no, not George."Cop asked "how can u be sure?" Mike answered, "Cuz George has two assholes."Then it's John's turn. John said the same thing, "Flip him over."Cop fliped the body. John looked at George's butt and said "no, that's not him."Cop asked "how can u be sure?" John said "Cuz George has two assholes."
The cops were confused and called both Mike and John.The captain said "Are you sure that's not George."Both answered "Yeah". The captain said "cuz he has two assholes? how?"Mike and John said "Whenever three of us go to village, we always hear people said 'lo, there comes George with those two assholes!"
Before, I thought it is with the piling up of historical dribs and drabs can a one become what he is now; which means I viewed things and memories of the past as a necessary normal, without doubt. However, I don't know why I hold this thought no more, keep thinking over one's past which tortures each other all along. I think I am incapable of preventing myself from looking trouble. ( OK...I know, I've always done such a thing worrying myself for nothing. I know it well.) Apparently, salvation never happens to me. May anything be a remedy somehow? Is it said that " LOVE COUNQERS ALL"?
I wonder why LOVE turns out to be a terminal cancer?
Maybe you are the only one of its kind, to me, my dear.