Al tocco dell' amore, ciascuno diventa una poeta: gepc friends connection a.k.a mooncake festival

Monday, September 28, 2009

gepc friends connection a.k.a mooncake festival

it is the first time i joined their performance in church...hehe, seriously, it was hilarious....
basically, the story is about the queen of the land far far away looking for the perfect husband who is handsome, rich and talented for her beautiful princess gaga. with the help of her personal secretary megan fork(that's me), we have our last 3 finalist: the richest man on earth, bill chua ( invented i-microwave with all sorts of functions including taking photos and sending emails yet could not heat up food and he is still working on it). 2nd candidate, milo jackson the king of pork and lastly, the simple and nerdy bak kut teh who is very "good" in maths(secretly admired by megan fork).then, bill chua demonstrated his arcade skills and lost to abuget(the country's 9 time winner of arcade games), milo jackson dance his signature movement and sang without mic and got kicked out, and bak kut teh counting maths using people(apples to him).in the end bill chua won for his flowery language, yet he found out that princess gaga is actually an extremely ugly and crazy girl so he quickly told everyone that he already has a girlfriend, miki cheong the prettiest girl on facebook. the queen then ask bak kut teh to marry the princess and as to keep his promise, he agreed. before bak kut teh kiss the princess, the real princess who is the maid stopped him and revealed the truth. the queen wanted to test the candidates to see who is truly sincere to love the princess. ( bill chua tried to convince the princess but was rejected and he was left with two "gorgeous" miki and yu fa)

from the left: milo jackson, yufa a.k.a fake princess gaga, bill chua, miki cheong and bak kut teh

the musical language..

Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. ~Berthold Auerbach
Without music life would be a mistake. ~Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
If the King loves music, it is well with the land. ~Mencius
All deep things are song. It seems somehow the very central essence of us, song; as if all the rest were but wrappages and hulls! ~Thomas Carlyle
A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence. ~Leopold Stokowski
Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons. You will find it is to the soul what a water bath is to the body. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes
If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music. ~Gustav Mahler
Why waste money on psychotherapy when you can listen to the B Minor Mass? ~Michael Torke
And the night shall be filled with music, And the cares that infest the day Shall fold their tents like the Arabs And as silently steal away. ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Day Is Done
He who sings scares away his woes. ~Cervantes
Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness. ~Maya Angelou, Gather Together in My Name
Were it not for music, we might in these days say, the Beautiful is dead. ~Benjamin Disraeli
Music is what feelings sound like. ~Author Unknown
There's music in the sighing of a reed; There's music in the gushing of a rill; There's music in all things, if men had ears: Their earth is but an echo of the spheres. ~Lord Byron
If I were to begin life again, I would devote it to music. It is the only cheap and unpunished rapture upon earth. Sydney Smith
Music is the poetry of the air. ~Richter
There is nothing in the world so much like prayer as music is. ~William P. Merrill
Men profess to be lovers of music, but for the most part they give no evidence in their opinions and lives that they have heard it. ~Henry David Thoreau
Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life. ~Ludwig van Beethoven
I have my own particular sorrows, loves, delights; and you have yours. But sorrow, gladness, yearning, hope, love, belong to all of us, in all times and in all places. Music is the only means whereby we feel these emotions in their universality. ~H.A. Overstreet
My idea is that there is music in the air, music all around us; the world is full of it, and you simply take as much as you require. ~Edward Elgar
Alas for those that never sing, But die with all their music in them! ~Oliver Wendell Holmes
Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. ~Charlie Parker
Life can't be all bad when for ten dollars you can buy all the Beethoven sonatas and listen to them for ten years. ~William F. Buckley, Jr.
Music cleanses the understanding; inspires it, and lifts it into a realm which it would not reach if it were left to itself. ~Henry Ward Beecher
Play the music, not the instrument. ~Author Unknown
Music's the medicine of the mind. ~John A. Logan
You are the music while the music lasts. ~T.S. Eliot
Music is the universal language of mankind. ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Outre-Mer
Music rots when it gets too far from the dance. Poetry atrophies when it gets too far from music. ~Ezra Pound
He who hears music, feels his solitude peopled at once. ~Robert Browning
You can't possibly hear the last movement of Beethoven's Seventh and go slow. ~Oscar Levant, explaining his way out of a speeding ticket
What we provide is an atmosphere... of orchestrated pulse which works on people in a subliminal way. Under its influence I've seen shy debs and severe dowagers kick off their shoes and raise some wholesome hell. ~Meyer Davis, about his orchestra
Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent. ~Victor Hugo
...where music dwells Lingering - and wandering on as loth to die... ~William Wordsworth, "Within King's College Chapel, Cambridge"
Music has been my playmate, my lover, and my crying towel. ~Buffy Sainte-Marie
Music is an outburst of the soul. ~Frederick Delius
Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory. ~Oscar Wilde
In music the passions enjoy themselves. ~Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, 1886
Music is one of the best ways to enjoy the present. It's not much fun to look forward to hearing music or to remember what a song sounded like last week, but music right now absorbs you and places you in the present moment. ~Sonnett Branche
Music is what life sounds like. ~Eric Olson
If this word "music" is sacred and reserved for eighteenth and nineteenth century instruments, we can substitute a more meaningful term: organization of sound. ~John Cage
Its language is a language which the soul alone understands, but which the soul can never translate. ~Arnold Bennett
Music expresses feeling and thought, without language; it was below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words. ~Robert G. Ingersoll
Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends. ~Alphonse de Lamartine
There is in souls a sympathy with sounds: And as the mind is pitch'd the ear is pleased With melting airs, or martial, brisk or grave; Some chord in unison with what we hear Is touch'd within us, and the heart replies. ~William Cowper
When words leave off, music begins. ~Heinrich Heine
Truly to sing, that is a different breath. ~Rainer Maria Rilke
Music is the shorthand of emotion. ~Leo Tolstoy
There is no truer truth obtainable By Man than comes of music. ~Robert Browning
Most people use music as a couch; they want to be pillowed on it, relaxed and consoled for the stress of daily living. But serious music was never meant to be soporific. ~Aaron Copland
What passion cannot music raise and quell! ~John Dryden
The joy of music should never be interrupted by a commercial. ~Leonard Bernstein
Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die. ~Paul Simon
Music, when soft voices die Vibrates in the memory - ~Percy Bysshe Shelley
A jazz musician is a juggler who uses harmonies instead of oranges. ~Benny Green
The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes - ah, that is where the art resides! ~Artur Schnabel
The pause is as important as the note. ~Truman Fisher
The city is built To music, therefore never built at all, And therefore built forever. ~Alfred Lord Tennyson
Silence is the fabric upon which the notes are woven. ~Lawrence Duncan
Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without. ~Confucius
Rock music in its lyrics often talks ahead of the time about what's going on in the country. ~Edmund G. Brown
Music can noble hints impart, Engender fury, kindle love, With unsuspected eloquence can move, And manage all the man with secret art. ~Joseph Addison
Music that gentlier on the spirit lies, Than tired eyelids upon tired eyes. ~Alfred Lord Tennyson
Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music. ~Ronald Reagan
The discovery of song and the creation of musical instruments both owed their origin to a human impulse which lies much deeper than conscious intention: the need for rhythm in life… the need is a deep one, transcending thought, and disregarded at our peril. ~Richard Baker
Music is the medicine of the breaking heart. ~Leigh Hunt
Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune. ~Frank McKinney "Kin" Hubbard, Comments of Abe Martin and His Neighbors, 1923
Country music is three chords and the truth. ~Harlan Howard
I think sometimes could I only have music on my own terms, could I live in a great city, and know where I could go whenever I wished the ablution and inundation of musical waves, that were a bath and a medicine. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Are we not formed, as notes of music are, For one another, though dissimilar? ~Percy Bysshe Shelley
Music, once admitted to the soul, becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies. ~Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
A song has a few rights the same as ordinary citizens... if it happens to feel like flying where humans cannot fly... to scale mountains that are not there, who shall stop it? ~Charles Ives
The pleasure we obtain from music comes from counting, but counting unconsciously. Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic. ~Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. ~Aldous Huxley, Music at Night and Other Essays
Music is love in search of a word. ~Sidney Lanier
It is incontestable that music induces in us a sense of the infinite and the contemplation of the invisible. ~Victor de LaPrade
Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life. ~Jean Paul Richter
Music is a friend of labor for it lightens the task by refreshing the nerves and spirit of the worker. ~William Green
Music is well said to be the speech of angels. ~Thomas Carlyle, Essays, "The Opera"
No good opera plot can be sensible... people do not sing when they are feeling sensible. ~W.H. Auden, Time, 29 December 1961

all about love

Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same. ~Emily Brontë

Poetry spills from the cracks of a broken heart, but flows from one which is loved. ~Christopher Paul Rubero

There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved. It is God's finger on man's shoulder. ~Charles Morgan

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,
And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
~William Shakespeare, Mid-Summer Night's Dream, 1595

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself. ~Jean Anouilh

A bell is no bell 'til you ring it,
A song is no song 'til you sing it,
And love in your heart
Wasn’t put there to stay -
Love isn’t love
'Til you give it away.
~Oscar Hammerstein, Sound of Music, "You Are Sixteen (Reprise)"
(Thanks, Krystel)

Love is not singular except in syllable. ~Marvin Taylor

You don't have to go looking for love when it's where you come from. ~Werner Erhard

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place. ~Zora Neale Hurston

Love unlocks doors and opens windows that weren't even there before. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966

Love is the poetry of the senses. ~Honoré de Balzac

Love is the greatest touch-up artist of all. ~Robert Brault

The arms of love encompass you with your present, your past, your future, the arms of love gather you together. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Southern Mail, 1929, translated from French by Curtis Cate

I need the starshine of your heavenly eyes,
After the day's great sun.
~Charles Hanson Towne

Loving is never a waste of time. ~Astrid Alauda

On a cloudy night, when nothing seems above, still, there is love. Always love. For something, from someone. It's never done. Never. ~Jeb Dickerson

Love does not care to define and is never in a hurry to do so. ~Charles du Bos

What "love" is I don't know if it's not the response of our deepest natures to one another. ~William Carlos Williams

I learned the real meaning of love. Love is absolute loyalty. People fade, looks fade, but loyalty never fades. You can depend so much on certain people, you can set your watch by them. And that's love, even if it doesn't seem very exciting. ~Sylvester Stallone

The heart has its reasons that reason knows nothing of. ~Blaise Pascal, Pensées, 1670

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet. ~Plato

Love floods us with hope. ~Jareb Teague

Life only starts when love comes. ~From the movie Bill of Divorcement, 1932

True love stories never have endings. ~Richard Bach (Thanks, Bonnie)

I love you as you are, but do not tell me how that is. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

When you're attracted to someone it just means that your subconscious is attracted to their subconscious, subconsciously, so what we know as fate is two neuroses knowing that they're a perfect match. ~Jeff Arch, Nora Ephron, and David S. Ward, Sleepless in Seattle

The eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love. ~Margaret Atwood

You really shouldn't say "I love you" unless you mean it. But if you mean it, you should say it a lot. People forget. ~Author unknown, attributed to an 8-year-old named Jessica

Nobody has ever measured, even poets, how much a heart can hold. ~Zelda Fitzgerald

Ah! a blessing beyond all fate
My sole mate 'tis my soul mate.
~Pixie Foudre

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves. ~Victor Hugo

Once a man has won a woman's love, the love is his forever. He can only lose the woman. ~Robert Brault

Anyone can catch your eye, but it takes someone special to catch your heart. ~Author Unknown

Love is missing someone whenever you're apart, but somehow feeling warm inside because you're close in heart. ~Kay Knudsen

You know when you have found your prince because you not only have a smile on your face but in your heart as well. ~Author Unknown

Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less. ~Julins Gordon

To the world you might be one person, but to one person you might be the world. ~Author Unknown

Love is the silent saying and saying of a single name. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960

If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I. ~Michel de Montaigne

If I had a single flower for every time I think about you, I could walk forever in my garden. ~Claudia Ghandi

The simple lack of her is more to me than others' presence. ~Edward Thomas

When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible. ~Nora Ephron, When Harry Met Sally

Al tocco dell' amore, ciascuno diventa una poeta

Monday, September 28, 2009

gepc friends connection a.k.a mooncake festival

my one and only God...

my other worlds

yeah me

she..

roses

her thoughts...

what love is...

she says...

sky.heart

the Love He taught us...

them...

the musical language..

all about love

listen to the music