Friday, January 20, 2012

步步惊心之当年的偶像

看《步步惊心》部分的感动来自见证吴奇隆和郑嘉颖从高处而降,又从低谷翻身。曾经的偶像蜕变为有层次的好演员。后天的努力终于匹配了先天的条件。如今再红,红的有理。

吴奇隆当年真是大红大紫。才华有限,但凭着外形虏获多少少女芳心。我小学毕业还和同学们大合唱他的《祝你一路顺风》呢。怎么转眼就20年了!长江后浪推前浪,90末期流行优质偶像,吴奇隆放弃了歌坛,进军影艺界,先去香港,后往大陆,一路浮浮沉沉,直到近年。再次窜红,吴奇隆反而以平常心对待。郑嘉颖也是。当年曾是歌坛力捧的新星,后来与师傅闹翻,转战台湾,出了首单曲《因为爱上你》就没下文。好像是演了一出大陆戏意外红了,无线热切重新追求,就这样慢慢成了视帝。事业又如日中天。

见他们又有好成绩,我宛如与失散多年的好友重逢般开心。永远不要小看命运。它能让你在绝望时,起死回生,再造奇迹。

Monday, January 02, 2012

享受孤独,害怕寂寞

其实我蛮喜欢一个人的。享受一个人的时间,以我的速度,做我喜爱做的事。我不喜欢被人或突来事牵绊。

上个月,在没有学生陪同下,偶尔独自闲逛台北,看得和逛得更多。我并不怕孤单,更曾想过如果今后终究单身,就必须要习惯孤单、享受自由。我觉得这个可能性颇大,因为我对结婚生子兴致缺缺。

喜欢那份独来独往的惬意,但无法否认,有时看到新奇的事物,当下希望有个朋友在身边同我见证。

矛盾的心情,依然我行我素的行径。我享受我的孤独,也乐于承认偶尔害怕寂寞的心情。

Saturday, November 19, 2011

心動

十二年前第一次在MTV频道听到这首歌,就十分喜欢。那是一部新电影〈心动〉的宣传曲,由我喜欢的莫文蔚主演。MV中的金城武演出年少轻狂的音乐浪子,帅毙了。

重新演绎经典并非易事,陈洁仪凭着深厚的舞台剧底子做到了。如果林晓陪唱出的是初恋的遗憾,陈洁仪唱出的时过境迁后“怀念的勇气”,少了悔恨,多了一份云淡风轻的释怀。

同样是曾经心动,不同的时间点回想,已是不同心情。



心動

詞:林夕 

有多久沒見你 以為你在哪裡
原來就住在我心底 陪伴著我的呼吸
有多遠的距離 以為聞不到你氣息
誰知道你背影這麼長 回頭就看到你

過去讓它過去 來不及
從頭喜歡你 白雲纏繞著藍天

哦 ~
如果不能夠永遠走在一起
也至少給我們懷念的勇氣 擁抱的權利
好讓你明白 我心動的痕跡

總是想再見你 還試著打探你消息
原來你就住在我的身體 守護我的回憶

Sunday, September 25, 2011

我對不起我


田馥甄在專輯內所攢寫:
"要選擇活在黑暗中
還是死在光明下?
膽小鬼 膽小得自愛 自愛得太膽小
在兩者當中怯懦的選擇太久
什麼也沒選到
什麼也不敢選
最後沒死過 但 也沒真的活過..."

我對不起我
詞:林夕

我給你的你用不著了
你也失去該有的快樂
付出的溫柔再不屬於我
你無福消受誰應該難過

沒事了 沒事嗎 堅強得太寂寞
腦袋空空 難道是我要的結果

愛給了我什麼 沒沉淪就超脫
愛不能傷害我 還是我沒愛過
我沒做錯什麼 卻把一切錯過
你是愛不起我 我也對不起我

不敢看你就嘗試看破
別讓傷口有機會發作
為小說劇情而驚心動魄
好證明淚腺還沒有萎縮

沒事了 沒事嗎 自愛得太寂寞
一身清白 難道是我要的結果

愛給了我什麼 沒沉淪就超脫
愛不能傷害我 還是我沒愛過
我沒做錯什麼 卻把一切錯過
你是愛不起我 我也對不起我

愛偷走我什麼 沒損失更失落
愛不能傷害我 是福氣還是禍
我沒膽量犯錯 才把一切錯過
你沒能留住我 我卻對不住我



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这应该是我的心声。“错过”与“受伤”一直是我所害怕的。于是,我的心不送人,没机会受伤,也没机会真心爱过。林夕大师又一次的神来之笔。

李雨寰一直是我喜欢的音乐人, 这歌的编曲跟《狂恋》一样迂回荡漾, very haunting。

The Passing of Ah Ma

I've always wondered how I would react to my paternal grandma's death. She's been immobile and senile for years. For the last 6 years or so, she's been well.... existing.

When she was well, she wasn't the most loving grandma. There was a missing maternal side to her. She was mostly critical, offensive, sarcastic in most of the things she said. Living with her, there were plenty of opportunities to bear the brunt of her evil tongue. She didn't like my maternal relatives and did little to hide that dislike. She wasn't extremely kind to my mother and saw her as a competitor for my dad's affection, who matured from a meek daughter-in-law, to one who dared to speak her mind, over the years.

But did she love us? Yes she did, in her awkward way of cooking unsavoury dishes when cooking wasn't her strength; in her way of attempting to speak to us in Mandarin which wasn't her strength; in her way of throwing allowances to us, because the act of giving wasn't something she'd naturally do.

I remember myself as a three-year-old, propped up on the shop counter by my grandparents. And my grandma would ask me the same line every other day -- “大小姐,你好吗?” And I would reply resoundingly with a “好!”

I cried as I watch my grandma die slowly on 11th Sep 2011, ten years after 911. It was a painful moment. A tear trinkled down her face. Unhappy when she was a sane person, I think she left this world with some regrets.

When someone close dies, a part of you dies with them. And you are never the same again. I will remember her as the grandma who was stern, shrewd but ultimately wanted best for this family.

RIP Madam Tan Mui. May you be happy, wherever you are.