the moon and me

Why am I taking the topic 'moon'? Because I love it so much.

Since I was a kid, I've been adoring moon a lot. It's not just because I loved astronomy, it's more because the moon is so beautiful to be seen. Shiny, round, bright, surrounded by the dark blue night sky....

Based on my likeness to moon, maybe that caused me liking every thing about moon. Sailormoon, Moonlight Sonata (Beethoven), Clair de Lune (Debussy), Moon River (Henry Mancini)... I like them all. I also love seeing the moon in the night, whether it's full or just crescent moon.

Claire de Lune is my most favourite piece ever, and seems like it illustrates the moon perfectly for me. Composed by Claude Debussy, it is the third movements from the 'Suite Bergamasque'. Clair de Lune, named after a poem by Paul Verlaine's poem 'Clair de Lune', is the most popular above all movements. It is told that Debussy made the piece by having the poem in mind. Some sources told that Suite Bergamasque was composed during his period of study, then he revised the work before publishing it.

Anyway, let's try to read the poem (I'll write the English translation of the poem, since I don't understand French) while listening to the piece.

Clair de Lune

Your soul is a chosen landscape

Where charming masked and costumed figures go

Playing the lute and dancing and almost

Sad beneath their fantastic disguises

All sing in a minor key

Of all conquering love and careless fortune

They do not seem to believe in their happiness

And their song mingles with the moonlight

The still monlight, sad and beautiful

Which gives the birds to dream in the trees

And makes the fountain sprays sob in ecstasy

The tall, slender fountain sprays among the marble statues

design, all of sudden!

I've just got a work to do today, a design work, after months away absent.

Well, I don't do the whole design anyway, just making some alternatives & 3D modelling. But since my friend gave me a folder full of interior images, my design brain suddenly moved on a bit. Well, maybe it's true that my design instinct will never fade.

My brother's just got a new bedroom, and out of nowhere a thing occured in my mind:
"Fill the walls with writings!"

Yeah, I've decided to put the blue ocean colour on one side of its wall. The rests are boring, and I haven't got any other ideas. My dad's gonna buy him some racks and cupboard, or just a credenza. Well, that sounds too ordinary, doesn't it?

So I'm thinking of putting handwritings all over the other 3 sides of the walls!

Whatever writings, in random order... that sounds cool, eh? It's sooo.... contemporer and YOUTHFULL. We may put our fave lyrics, poems, or just random words on the wall. Look at the example on the left, I wrote Secret Garden lyrics on it.

Anyway, YES, you have to WRITE them down on the wall with small painting brush.

Patience makes perfect.

what the world needs now

I'm opening this page with Andrea Ross.

Have you ever heard about her? For them who haven't, just read her profile at www.andreaross.com

I started to know her accidentally, when I borrowed my sister's mp3s. I found Andrea's album, Moon River. Because I'm a big fan of Henry Mancini's Moon River - & also Breakfast at Tiffany's - so I copied the album. I was lucky, I think, 'coz the songs are wonderful! They're all remade, but I don't see anything wrong for it.

One of them titled 'what the world needs now is love'. Yeah, this world's really lack of love. If there's enough love for everyone, not just for some, then there'll be no wars or fights. Here are my fave lines of this song:

Lord, we don't need another mountains.

There are mountains and hillsides enough to climb,

there are oceans and rivers enough ch to cross, enough to last 'til the end of time.
Lord, we don't need another meadows.

There are cornfields and wheatfields enough to grow,

there are sun beams and moon beams enough to shine. Oh listen Lord, if You wanna know.

Yes, God created this world with enough mountains, rivers, meadows... But people destroyed them. Now we don't have enough rivers or meadows. The lack of love made us lost those what God gave us. This song made me think a bit more about life, about what we're really lack of. But then, who could produce love and spread it all over the world? I'd love to give as much love as I can, though I don't achieve much. Giving is much better than achieving. So, spending life by giving love is enough, isn't it?