A tragedy for Wei-N

Amy and friends

Marriage

The LAST SAMURAI

Captain Nathan Algren is a man adrift. The battles he once fought now seem distant and futile. Once he risked his life for honor and country, but, in the years since the Civil War, the world has changed. Pragmatism has replaced courage, self-interest has taken the place of sacrifice and honor is nowhere to be found--especially out West where his role in the Indian Campaigns ended in disillusionment and sorrow. Somewhere on the unforgiving plains near the banks of the Wa*****a River, Algren lost his soul.

A universe away, another soldier sees his way of life about to disintegrate. He is Katsumoto, the last leader of an ancient line of warriors, the venerated Samurai, who dedicated their lives to serving emperor and country. Just as the modern way encroached upon the American West, cornering and condemning the Native American, it also engulfed traditional Japan. The telegraph lines and railroads that brought progress now threaten those values and codes by which the Samurai have lived and died for centuries. But Katsumoto will not go without a fight.

The paths of these two warriors converge when the young Emperor of Japan, wooed by American interests who covet the growing Japanese market, hires Algren to train Japan's first modern, conscript army. But as the Emperor's advisors attempt to eradicate the Samurai in preparation for a more Westernized and trade-friendly government, Algren finds himself unexpectedly impressed and influenced by his encounters with the Samurai. Their powerful convictions remind him of the man he once was.

Thrust now into harsh and unfamiliar territory, with his life and perhaps more important, his soul, in the balance, the troubled American soldier finds himself at the center of a violent and epic struggle between two eras and two worlds, with only his sense of honor to guide him.

參考資料 http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1808439546/details; http://www.istacey.net/project/last_samurai/movie.htm

(Duch) Ik hou van je.--Dana Winner

ik hou van jou, alleen van jou

ik kan niet leven in een wereld zonder jou
Waar ik ook ben, ik hoor je stem
ik kan je zomaar niet vergeten
ik neem je in m`n armen
laat mij je hart verwarmen
ik wil je alles geven
ik hou zoveel van jou
Jij hoort bij mij
alleen bij mij
dat zijn die woorden,
die je eens tegen me zei
`k Ben zo alleen
waar moet ik heen
waar is die tijd van toen gebleven...
ik neem je in m`n armen
laat mij je hart verwarmen
ik wil je alles geven
ik hou zoveel van jou
Ik hou van jou, alleen van jou
ik kan niet leven
in een wereld zonder jou.
Ik hou van jou, alleen van jou
ik kan niet leven
in een wereld zonder jou.
Ik hou van jou

丹尼爾 --Love You Lately

You packed your last two bags. A taxi's 'round the bend.
You used to laugh out loud, But you can't remember when.
You lost your lies.
It's like your moving out of time,
And the whole word crumbles right beneath you.

So, I might've made a few mistakes, But that was back when you would smile,
And we would go everywhere,
But we ain't been there for awhile.
And this I know,
There's a place that we can go-
A place where I can finally let you know.

'Cause I'm the one that loves you lately. You and me, we got this great thing.
We're the only one's that around,
We're the only one's that around this Babylon.

I hope you find whatever you've been lookin' for.
Just remember where you're from and who you are,
'Cause there's a thousand lights that'll make you feel brand new,
But if you ever lose your way, I'll leave one on for you.

'Cause I'm the one that loves you lately.
You and me, we got this great thing.
So, come back and you sit down. Relax.
Everything's to see that you've come a long, long way,
And it's the place that you should be.

'Cause I'm the one that loves you lately. You and me, we got this great thing.
'Cause I'm the one that loves you lately.
You and me, we got this great thing.
And we're the only one's that around,
We're the only one's that around this Babylon.

It's not goodbye--Laura Pausini

Now what if I never kiss your lips again
Or feel the touch of your sweet embrace.
How would I ever go on?,
Without you there's no place to belong
Well someday love is going to lead you back to me,
But till it does I'll have an empty heart.
So I'll just have to believe some where out there you're thinking of me
Till the day I let you go,
Until we say our next hello its not goodbye.
Till I see you again
I'll be right here remembering when.
And if time is on our side
There will be no tears to cry on down the road
There is one thing I can't deny its not goodbye
You think I'd be strong enough to make it through
And rise above when the rain falls down.
But it抯 so hard to be strong when you've been missing somebody so long It's just a matter of time I'm sure,
Well time takes time and I can't hold on,
So won't you try as hard as you can
Put my broken heart together again?
Till the day I let you go,
Until we say our next hello its not goodbye.
Till I see you again
I'll be right here remembering when.
And if time is on our side
there will be no tears to cry on down the road
there is one thing I can't deny its not goodbye
It's not goodbye.....
Till the day I'll let you go,
until we say our next hello its not goodbye.
Till I see you again
I'll be right here remembering when.
And if time is on our side
there will be no tears to cry on down the road
And I can't deny it's, not goodbye
Its not goodbye
Till I see you
I'll be right here remembering when
Time is on our side
No more tears to cry
And I cant deny
It's not goodbye
Goodbye
no more tears to cry
It's, it's not goodbye.

http://yeyu.mtlc.cn/夜雨正狂/夜曲集璀/Laura%20Pausini-It%27s%20not%20goodbye.wma
http://blog.xuite.net/fannelai/laurapausini/8649489

http://www.wretch.cc/blog/kaechyun&article_id=4504117

Faithless--one step too far

Album: Outrospective
With thanks to Paul Saramet & Jasja Glasbeek & Sister Bliss
[Dido]
You can sleep forever, but still you will be tired
You can stay as cold as stone, but still you won't find peace
With you I feel I'm the meek leading the blind
With you I feel I'm just spending wasting time
I've been waiting I'm still waiting
I've been waiting
I've been waiting
I've been waiting
I'm still waiting
I'm with you (with you)
It's always one step too far
One step too far
You can walk too far but still you won't be found
You can look down on the world but still you won't find love
You won't find love
[Maxi Jazz]
Only with mellow
Are you thin enough to slide through,
Don't let nothin' ride u,
If the sun or the moon would give way to doubt,
They would immediately go out.
Only one swallow doesn't make a summer
But u gotta start somewhere (maxi's bit)
[Dido]
I've been waiting
I'm still waiting
I've been waiting
I've been waiting
I've been waiting
I'm still waiting
I'm with you (with you)
It's always one step too far
One step too far
I've been waiting
I'm still waiting
I've been waiting
I've been waiting
I've been waiting
I'm still waiting
I'm with you (with you)
It's always one step too far
One step too far

Freedom from the known(2)

2006/8/31上午 9:34
page 30>>
You have to be your own teacher and your own disciple. You have to question everything that man has accepted as valuable, as necessary.

If you don't follow somebody you feel very lonely.Be lonely then. Why are you frightened of beong alone? Because you are faced with yourself as you are and find that you are empty, dull, stupid, ugly, guilty and anxious--a petty, shoddy, secondhabd entity. Face the fact; look at it, don't run away from it. The moment you run away fear begins.

page 32>>
Now where do we begin to undrstand ourselves? Here and I, and how am I to study myself, observe myself, see what is actually taking place inside myself? I can observe myself only in relationship because all life is relationship. It's no use sitting in a corner meditating about myself. I can't exist by myself. I exist only in relationship to people , things and ideas, and in studying my relationshipto outward things and people , as well as to inward things, I begin to understand myself. Every other form of understanding is merely an abstraction and I can't study myself in abstraction; I am not an abstract entity; therefore I have to study myself in actuality--as I am, not as I wish to be.

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突然想到王小慧的一句話：我可以放棄別人眼裡所任為珍貴或是重要的東西，而我最珍惜的卻是對自己而言重要的東西!
From eyes to eyes, I see beautiful sights from her.