有感。

有些事不能說，因為說了沒比沒說的好
有些事不想說，因為說了也不會變更好

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有些事看起來好像是那樣其實並非那樣
只不過是你想多了，不能怪什麼。
有些人看起來好像是這樣其實並非這樣
只不過是你想錯了，不能怪別人。

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有時候會突然想起一些久違的感覺
一直督促自己微笑不去在意那些事
停下想想再問問自己這樣真的好嗎
也許這也不失為更適合我的方式吧
我用盡正面的想法鼓厲自己要勇敢
都已走到這里不行的都已不怎樣了

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今天下午我故作瀟洒地對你說了那句話
我在那瞬間才發覺自己原來是

非

常

惆

悵

the other end of the wheel.

to me, Vivian Maier's photos do not only make time stood still for the moment captured by her but they even make time disappeared. i feel no difference between us even though it's more than half a century away. the way she took her own self portraits, the looks in the people's eyes, the body languages... i see similarities between people in that era and people nowadays. or i should say, she was way ahead of her era.

"well i suppose nothing is meant to last forever. we have to make room for other people. it's a wheel. you get on you have to go to the end. and then somebody has the same opportunity to go the the end and so on. and somebody else takes their place."

through her photographs, i see "the wheel".

*kuan, thanks so much for sharing such inspiration with me!

at a curious t.p.

my first visit to a curious t.p. for a group show which i have taken part. it's definitely a shop worth visiting. and oh! thanks to kuan, sin and ck for dropping by to support!

first attempt of hand stitching an illustration.

...and i almost died from stitching! it's therapeutic to do stitching but not when you are rushing for deadline. :-/

ミナを着て旅に出よう (wearing Mina and go traveling) is the title of a book i read long ago. it's written by Akira Minagawa, who is the designer behind the fashion brand, Mina Perhonen. the book was basically about how he turned himself from a long distance runner to a part-timer in the fish market and finally a fashion designer. in the fish market, he observed life and got inspired. Akira Minagawa puts simple motifs which you can find in everyday life onto fabrics. he is a fashion designer with the spirit of a long distance runner, who believes in making fashion that has stamina to cross through lapse of time without losing its charm.

i wonder why most fashion only focus the beauty and vibrancy on the young ones while the old ones seems to be neglected most of the time. to me, an elderly like my grandmother, who is a long distance runner in her own journey of life, deserves wearing Mina Perhonen with long distance runner's spirit. what you see on the canvas is a picture i took of my grandmother on a trip to the southern part of the world. the first picture that captured her laughing so happily hard.

sling's back in singapore.

sling has surprised me with her short come back in singapore over the may day long weekend. she is now working as a film director in kuala lumpur. we met up and spent our time together just like those good old days when she was still living and working in singapore. maybe she is too relax with me, she looked sleepy most of the time. the above picture is the only picture i could take of her smiling with "pretented-excitement". it may look like a very mild excited expression on her face, but that's actually her max already.

this is the best picture she could "easily" take of me using her iphone. muahahaha... actually, there are many other ugly pictures we took of each other but it's not very good to post any of them here.

oh my, after all these years, we still behave like we were very young.
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