Saturday 25 June 2011

“关”心

曾经,我的心不见了,但很庆幸不久后它回来了。
而今,心虽然没有不见,但它却被层层烦恼覆盖着。
我不停地钻、不停地钻,却始终找不到出路。
心不见了,会“没有心”。
于是,没有心上课、没有心读书、没有心考试、没有心做功课……
没有心做任何事情。
但是,被遮盖了,心,还在。
只是,被盖住的心,变得不“开心”了。
是不是,等乌云散开以后,就会“开心”了呢?
那要等到什么时候?
如果是乌云,我还能等它散开;但如果那不是风吹即散的乌云而是石头,
那找不到出路,是不是就永远被困在里面了呢?
心,我知道你没有不见,快点“开心”吧!

Sunday 19 June 2011

今天。。。

好久没来了。

最近都喜欢把文字留在笔记本上,再不然就是面子书。

整个下午,对着电脑。

本来该是要用电脑做功课的,最后还是……唉,不想提了。

看了某个今年认识的新朋友的部落格,感触蛮深的。

在学校里的多重身份,感觉像是寻获知音,尽管我们见面不多次,交谈也不多。

找回了继续奋斗的动力,不想再消极下去。

是的。其实最近那股对活着的热忱已经回来了,就只是……

一想到明年又要再次上演的烦人的事情,就觉得好烦。

算了吧,都说是明年了咯。

把握当下比较重要。

只能期待,不会有太多预料外的事情发生,我怕我会措手不及。




那些恼人的烦恼啊,只希望,我能一一克服。=)

Monday 6 June 2011

The Sound of Silence

“hello darkness my old friend
I've come to talk with you again
Because a vision softly creeping
Left its seeds while I was sleeping
And the vision that was planted
In my brain still remains
“Within the sound of silence
In restless dreams I walked along
Narrow streets of cobble stone
Beneath the halo of a street lamp
I turned my collar to the cold and damp
When my eyes were stabbed
By the flash of a neon light
That split the light
And touched the sound of silence
And in the naked light I saw
Ten thousand people maybe more
People talking without speaking
People hearing without listening
People writing songs that voices never share
And no one dare
Disturb the sound of silence
Fool said I You do not know
Silence like a cancer grows
Hear my words that I might teach you
Take my arms that I might reach you
But my words like silent raindrops fell
And echoed in the walls of silence
And the people bowed and prayed
To the neon god they made
And the sign flashed out its warning
In the words that it was forming
And the signs said The words of the prophets
are written on the subway walls
And tenement halls
Whispering in the sounds of silence”
——"The Sound of Silence", written by Simon Paul, recorded in Simon & Garfunkel's first album, Wednesday Morning, 3 AM

What u see above is the lyric of "The Sound of Silence". I accidentally heard this song once n fall in love with it miraculously. I love this song, no matter it's lyric or the melody, and also the melodious voice of Simon and Garfunkel. And this is what Simon said in an interview with Terry Gross of National Public Radio (NPR), "I think about songs that it's not just what the words say but what the melody says and what the sound says."

There was many types of interpretion from many people. Some says that the song was written after the asassination of John Kennedy. Some says that it's an 'anti-war song' as by the time it became popular, it was also the time when the Vietnam War was on.

Some says that the song is about man's lack of communication with his fellow man. Some says that it is about someone who has found truth, come to some kind of self awareness, truer perception of reality or something like that but at the same time he sees that most people are not singing from that hymnsheet. Some think that it is about a teenage angst or frustration.

At the same time, many people have various perspective towards the lyrics. Just take the sentence "people talking without speaking" as an example. Some think that this refer to the present ongoing of this world--people now can make a gesture or manner to let others know what he or she is thinking without speaking out a single word. Some think this means that the people communicate with each other through their hearts. There are also people say so, "In 1964, there was no mobile texting and net chatting going on so i doubt that 'talking without speaking' refers to this." There are still a lot of examples, but i think it's better to search for it on your own if you are interested.

Some people even found the parallel in litereture and movie. As example, the novel Steppenwolf written by Hesse.

Example 1 on Page 29 (of OWL's 1990 Steppenwolf reprint): Hesse's main character (Harry Haller) is walking alone at night in the rain. He writes:

"I trod the moist pavements of the narrow streets. As though in tears and veiled, the lamps glimmered through the chill gloom and sucked their reflections slowly from the wet ground."

Simon: "On restless streets I walked alone, Narrow streets of cobbled-stone"; "Neath the halo of an old street lamp".

Example 2 (on Page 37):
"I loitered as I wended my way homeward; turned up my collar and struck my stick on the wet pavement".

Simon: "I turned my collar to the cold and damp"

There's more too. During this night time walk, Hesse's character discovers a strange sign in the darkest of alleyways - a decidedly ELECTRIC SIGN... The NEON LIGHT in Simon's song - Only in the novel Hesse's sign says: "MAGIC THEATRE; ENTRANCE NOT FOR EVERYBODY; FOR MADMEN ONLY!"

Apart from that, "The Sound of Silence" has a lot of meaning in the movie The Graduate. The lyrics refer to silence as a cancer, and if people in the movie had just been honest and not afraid to talk, all the messy things would not have happened. Problems can be solved only by honesty.

Sooo, it's quite interesting for me, for the same lyric of a song can bring different meaning to different people. It's really a strange thing to find the meaning of a lyric besides listening to the song, right? Anyway, it's fun!

Hope u'll enjoy it.

Referance: http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=796

Friday 3 June 2011

心晴^^

步入假期的第……一、二、三……七天了。对,没错,是第七天,但却是我第一天真正感受到假期的快乐。

今天妈妈带着我们四个小瓜去麻坡,做了很多一年中没几次机会做的事情。我们去比萨屋、去看电影,更开心的是,买了很多很多的书!这些看似平常的事,很奇妙的,就这样让我一直以来郁闷的心情,无端端的就好起来了。

在车上,还是像平时一样吵吵闹闹。可是一路上就是很开心,不知道为什么,莫名的开心,就像之前莫名的心情不好一样,哈哈。

很希望你会看到这篇博文。远在东海岸的你,别再为我担心了,我已找回了开心生活的原动力^^其实想到你难得回家,我也不想去烦你的,可下午就是忍不住发了信息过去,希望没影响到你的心情。老实说,想念,真的会像池中的涟漪一样,慢慢扩散、慢慢扩散。这假期你过得还不错吧?记得你说过要请我们吃虾饼的,我没忘记过你说的话哦!

噢噢,妈妈在骂我浪费时间了,今天就先到这儿吧!