这两天比较乐，因为终于有时间静下心来阅读。从看一直闲书到看研究资料，循序渐进，渐进佳况。虽然我知道这样的“好日子”不长，搞不好明天就结束，但是我还是非常享受找回宁静，找回阅读的能力的感觉。
专心工作、专心练琴、专心看书。专心关怀身边值得关心的人。
莫管他人对工作无益、对身心有害的胡言乱语。
友人生日，翻箱倒柜的，只找到了一张合适的照片当作礼物的点缀品。
我们聚在一块儿时都不太拍照。那张照片是因为给朋友送行才拍的。
周二的时候，中学老友来了个大聚会，因为老友从美国回来度假一周。彼此的新鲜八卦+ 旧日的陈年回忆说了一箩筐，就是没有拍照。
也许因为彼此太熟悉，所以总觉得没有拍照的必要。所以和好友的照片很多时候都是在国外拍的。
8月，我们几个终于要圆梦，一起出游了。到时候，一定要拍照！
一开始就是抱着试一试，不为青春留白的心态去参加HPT(Hark's Performing Team) 的遴选的。这个过程长达两个月，不过中间和战友一起练琴的过程还是挺享受的。忙里偷闲，硬挤出时间去学校和她一起练琴，除了是对自己的生活作息安排的一种极限挑战，也是一种生活调剂品。
居然入选了，有机会继续面对那台“魔咒”琴。也好，The Monk who sold his Ferrari说要克服心中的恐惧，专挑害怕的事情去做，挑战自我。工作是这样，生活中也是这样。我想，这是上天给我的一个机会吧。弥补遗憾，克服恐惧，挑战自我。加油！
I was really glad to be back for the prize giving cereomony.
I have always known the fact that I was leaving behind a bunch of great colleagues who fight on even more aggressively when the chips are down. We bond over positive complaints over delicacies at gardens, kayu and everywhere else. We complain but we leave the meal with positive thoughts and stronger comradeship.
Maybe not everyone saw it this way but I have enough people around me to know that this positive vibe is very much the triumphing card in that environment and anyone new will just get suck into this big culture there. If you don't, sorry, you will belong to that minority negative vibe group.
It was really great to be back there sucking in all the positive energy with old and new and ex-staff like me. And there were my lovely students, whether I have taught them or not, whom came up to me during refreshment to update on their current jc lives.And to find out where the hell i have gone to. Took the chance to explain things a bit to some concerned that I just needed to learn more new things, just as i have always encouraged them to take the step forward to try out things they never thought they could do. So it was really heartening to know my top gal who has been known to be the arty demure kind has taken on taekwondo as her CCA after failing to get into ODAC. She has taken the advice well, to go into JC to try something she didn't think she would try. ( I didn't think I would be doing what I am doing currently as well...)
And getting my best student thus far, in terms of leadership, humility, work attitude and everything to do the valedictorian speech was the most apt conclusion for him and me as I remember him coming into school as a fresh sec 1 kid in my class. How kids grew manz....
And as I soaked myself into all the positive energy (things always look good when it's once in a while, isn't it?) , I bring myself up to the high level again to charge towards all the tasks that I need to accomplish this deadline weekend and hope that I continue to carry my positive energy and positive outlook around anywhere i go, as I have always done.
这两天一直在和朋友的谈话中提到周末的新加坡，有好多地方都太吵了。尤其购物商场，人特别多，特别拥挤。咖啡座都满座，原本应该是悠闲地喝杯咖啡，看本好书，或者就是看着人来人往，但是周末的新加坡真的少有这个空间。除非你有车。因为好些周末还是比较幽静的地方，都不太方便。也许因为这样，所以幽静。但是，像我以前爱去的那些地方，人也渐渐多了。。。已经失去了以前的感觉。所以，若不是和朋友约会，我常喜欢我在家里。
两周前，在赫尔辛基喝了两次街头咖啡，如今特别想念那种气氛。凉爽的天气，带着相机，披上大衣，一天的学习结束后，大大老板就带着我们走透赫尔辛基市的街道。在赫尔辛基市最繁忙的十字路口喝咖啡，看人来人往，大家排排坐面对街道闲聊几句，然后又悠闲地谈学习心得、谈工作，欧洲的步伐放在一个新加坡人的身上显得多么不现实。然后脑子里老想着，他们是不是就这样生活着？一样工作，为社会做出贡献，但是该是你的时间，就是你的时间。可能是自己的工作习惯不好吧。也许如果学习同事那样，规定自己周末不工作，我想平时的工作效率会更高？
还记得在荷兰的时候，我们在广场和其他人一样，晒着温暖的日光吃午餐。人很多，但是就是很宁静。是文化的不同吧？我自认平时说话很大声，笑声更属豪迈爽朗型的。但是，在那一餐，我们大家都意识到，人其实很多，座位还有点挤，但是就是很安静，根本听不到其他人说话的声音。他们说话都这么笑声。我们下意识地也小声说话了。
是不是因为我们这里太多人大声说话了，所以大家都得跟着提高声量？
搭乘日本的地铁其实是一种享受。为了尊重他人，大家不用手机，没有人乱强迫你听他手机里的音乐，很多人都拿出书本阅读。这是我希望看到的。该吵闹的时候自有让你吵闹的场地，但是近日的岛国确实太拥挤、太吵闹了。
两周的欧洲行，除了工作上的学习，还学到了如何为自己的生命添加一点宁静的空间。
前思后想，还是决定把最近在荷兰的照片挂到这里。http://leatravel.shutterfly.com/
虽然上载速度有点慢，但是在还未找到更好的地方时，暂且将就。
而且，随着个人闲暇时间迅速递减，也许今后都要采取非常精简的分享方式。也许有些照片将一辈子不会有机会登上舞台，但是数码技术带来的革命从根本上就是要摄影的人也调整心态。
没有了胶卷的负担，是否就能随心所欲？不见得。
有了更多犯错的机会，是否就会能够更快成长？不见得。
数码摄影，真的是“数码+摄影”的解读吗？ 这是一位长者在旅途上给我的概念，让我突然发现自己原来是人们口中的purist，照片拍坏了就算了。排照片还鬼毛到追溯它的前后顺序，方便自己讲故事。
就因为很多事情，很多东西都可以用“不见得”来回答，所以这一次，我选择也尝试玩颜色。
就算是尝试弄懂自己长期以来都拥有，却无法物尽其用的软件的第一步吧。
荷兰/芬兰之行，我的DSLR的日子正式开始了。
My last movie was the Departures. That movie that made everything looked so beautiful and dignified. Then it was rush hours throughout, and rush hours always explain my disappearance from my blog. It's officially post honeymoon.
I mean the honeymoon feeling when switching on to a new jobscope. Have been busy throughout actually but the freshness of having a little more autonomy on my weekends time, having a little more autonomy on my daily after dinner time, which i used to read and talk, having a little more autonomy on the pace at which i clear work over weekends and more time for friends family and sorts, it was truly a honeymoon feeling as I juggled the expectations of the new job and the chance for me to stretch my ability a little further.
Have been busy with THE trip, as Steven just labelled it on my fb. It's been quite some time since we started preparing for it and it's been the main item on my job plate for a while. Looking forward to the trip itself not only because it will bring me to new places, meet new people, see systems which i have read sooo much about but have not seen with my own eyes, but also to be finally at the execution part where everything can be brought to a closure upon return, sharings, presentations and sorts and we go on into the next step.
90% ready. will leave the 10% for things on the road though i will try to cut the ratio down to 5% by tomorrow.
On the other hand, there's been quite some meetups recently with old friends. Everyone has progressed on and moved on in life. I should too, so first it's this job, which has been interesting so far (but i am not making any comparision cos my previous job scopes has been very interesting as well :) I simply enjoy new things.
Alrightz, further updates laterz...it gonna rain...so i got to be off on more errands.
I thrive on Optimism and despise those who survive on cynicism.
那些爱冷嘲热讽，讥诮他人的人并不知道，这样的行为只不过暴露了他们内心的不安。在我认识的，真正有真材实料的大家里（而我却是很幸运，有机会认识他们），那些真心的大家在碰到需要帮助的人时总是不吝于分享，而且也会很谦虚地在引导他人时，不以赐教者的身份自居。
这一周，我又认识到什么是真正虚怀若谷的人，同时又看到那些自以为“愤世嫉俗”很了不起，实际上却不晓得他们正在浪费生命说些无用的话的人。是鲁迅吗？说过，说些没用的东西，倒不如事实在在地干。
我为那些人感到悲哀。
And I thrive on Optimism. I believe if Optimisim in the face of adversity didn't exist, the Singapore today would not have exist!
最近真的比较忙，工作上写的非常多，所以变得很懒的写日记。有点怠惰。好几次已经开启页面，但是打没两行字就变得语塞，要不然就是原先计划写的，思绪突然被打断，然后就不了了之。买了千多元的相机也还没有机会好好摸索，就随便拍了一些技术上“见不得人”的照片。。。。不管是文字上还是照片中，都是无语状态。
不过今天友人在FB上留下了一段专给我们写的留言，怀念昔日学警团的快乐时光，网上突然一群朋友都被感染，开始怀念过去。随后又发现另一个老同学把他小学的照片FB了。我知道这是我下一步要做的。等忙完这个礼拜吧。
下午和旧同事一起去唱$10 KTV，开始的疯狂一直持续下去，结果我放弃提早回家的念头，最后陪他们一起找SBC主题曲。原来不同群的朋友，都爱做同样的事。其实youtube 上有我们要找的东西，所以回来后又趁着今夜的怀旧风找来了飞跃银河的MTV，这次把它FB上去了。。。一下子就有了好多回响。
这是我们小时候的记忆，借用新谣里的一首歌名，我称之为“岁月的歌”。
在我写着这则特别的日记的当儿，FB上又增添了好几名队友的留言。队友KB人在国外，借一首歌，献给我们一则非常窝心的手札。这是他给我们的一首新的岁月的歌，陈绮贞的《下星期去英国》http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxmvHanUI7k&feature=related
同样人在国外的KQ更绝。。。回应我们的是
而我找来了我们唱了千百遍的《最高峰》。原不属于我们的年代，但绝对是我们的“岁月的歌”！
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