A Lover's Concerto

How gentle is the rain
That falls softly on the meadow
Birds high up on the trees
Serenade the clouds with their melodies

Oh, oh!How gentle is the rain
That falls softly on the meadow
Birds high up on the trees
Serenade the clouds with their melody

Oh, oh! See there beyond the hill
The bright colors of the rainbow
Some magic from above
Made this day for us, just to fall in love

You'll hold me in your arms
And say once again you'll love me
And that your love is true
Everything will be just as wonderful

Now, I belong to you
From this day until forever
Just love me tenderly
And I'll give to you every part of me

Oh,oh! Don't ever make me cry
Through long lonely nights without love
Be always true to me
Keep this day in your heart eternally

You hold me in your arms
And say once again you love me
And that your love is true
Everything will be just as wonderful

Living in a world with less credit

Leverage was the mother's milk of Wall Street — and of Main Street — for the
past 20 years. Leverage meant debt, specifically the number of dollars you could
borrow for every dollar of wealth you had. It meant borrowing other people's
money to invest in something you wanted to invest in, or to buy something you
wanted to buy. On Wall Street, debt funded investments in pretty much everything
a financial firm could bet on, including the toxic mortgage-backed securities
that led the way into this crisis. On Main Street, it meant borrowing to buy a
house or a condo — maybe two — then perhaps borrowing again off the increasing
value of that property to pay for something else: a flat-screen TV, a new set of
golf clubs, your daughter's braces.

The debt binge was fueled by easy money and the belief that prices of assets —
those of houses in particular — never went down; only interest rates did. That
era is over. It will be replaced by what will be one of the more painful, and
consequential, economic chapters in our history: the great deleveraging of
America. On Wall Street, the largest financial institutions on the planet are
reducing their debt and trying to build up capital, which once upon a time was
the seed corn of their business, and now must be again. Retail banks like
Wachovia and investment banks like Morgan Stanley have been so burned by their
own reckless use of debt that only recently — and after unprecedented government
intervention — have they been willing to once again make the most basic
short-term loans to one another. The gradual thawing of the overnight-lending
market, which seemed to begin on Monday, Oct. 20, was the first sign that Wall
Street's credit markets were, however haltingly, regaining some sense of
equilibrium after the previous, harrowing month.

from TIME: http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1853129,00.html

dun really understand what all this means, but it sounds pretty scary. i'm taking econs now, find it quite interesting and hopefully it will help me make sense of what is happening now.

Every man is a moon, with a dark side he doesn't show anybody.
~Mark Twain

hard times ahead

Rough Seas

The sculpture of a sinking boat which sits in London's Thames river in front of the city's business center, seemed an apt metaphor for state of the global financial market on Tuesday.

taken from http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1845923_1774401,00.html

Busy busy

Think I must have had another entry with the same title somewhere… but it's really busy. Lab report every week, test, so much reading to do after lessons, esp analytical chem. The lecture is totally unenlightening. I always walk out wanting to throw up. Argh. Econs is quite interesting, I must say, but without any background and with the pace I can't follow.

I'm worried about next semester. Inorganic plus organic, PLUS physical chemistry which I'm really poor at.

Not to mention the all-too-horrible Singapore studies. Bleh.

luck

The man who said "I'd rather be lucky than good" saw deeply into life. People are afraid to face how great a part of life is dependent on luck. It's scary to think so much is out of one's control. There are moments in a match when the ball hits the top of the net and for a split second it can either go forward or fall back. With a little luck it goes forward and you win. Or maybe it doesn't and you lose.

~Chris Wilton, "Match Point"

touching song 《很爱很爱你》

《很爱很爱你》
想为你做件事让你更快乐的事
好在你的心中埋下我的名字
求时间趁著你不注意的时候
悄悄地把这种子酿成果实

我想她的确是更适合你的女子
我太不够温柔优雅成熟懂事
如果我退回到好朋友的位置
你也就不再需要为难成这样子

很爱很爱你所以愿意舍得让你
往更多幸福的地方飞去
很爱很爱你只有让你拥有爱情
我才安心(music)

看著她走向你那幅画面多美丽
如果我会哭泣也是因为欢喜
地球上两个人能相遇不容易
做不成你的情人我仍感激

很爱很爱你所以愿意不牵绊你
飞向幸福的地方去
很爱很爱你只有让你拥有爱情
我才安心

很爱很爱你所以愿意不牵绊你
飞向幸福的地方去
很爱很爱你只有让你拥有爱情
我才安心

之前听小S说唱这首歌时会不自觉流泪，后来自己唱唱果然如此。好感人。。。
很喜欢刘若英的歌词，非常有意思。说着伟大的爱情，即使你爱的人爱的不是你，也会为他感到高兴。这应该是爱的最高境界吧。。。

oldies

葉璦菱 - 愛我別走
作詞：王建青 / 作曲：王建青 / 編曲：陳志遠
男：哦　為何不回頭　用你那溫柔的眼眸
女：哦　為何不開口　對我說你並不想走
合：哦　為何不停留　再一次緊緊擁抱我　愛我別走愛我別走
午夜的愛難分難捨　午夜的情是那麼火熱
午夜的酒不要太多　午夜的人愛我別走

男：哦　為何不回頭　用你那溫柔的眼眸
女：哦　為何不開口　對我說你並不想走
合：哦　為何不停留　再一次緊緊擁抱我　愛我別走愛我別走
午夜的愛難分難捨　午夜的情是那麼火熱
午夜的酒不要太多　午夜的人愛我別走

在雨中 by 刘家昌 尤雅
(女)在雨中 我送过你
(男)在夜里 我吻过奶
(女)在春天 我拥有你
(男)在冬季 我离开奶
(女)有相聚 也有分离
(男)人生本是一段戏
(女)有欢笑 也有哭泣
(合)不知谁能 谁能躲得过去
(合)你说人生艳丽我没有异议
你说人生忧郁我不言语
只有默默的承受这一切
承受数不尽的春来冬去
你说人生艳丽我没有异议
你说人生忧郁我不言语
只有默默的承受这一切
承受数不尽的春来冬去

《当我想你的时候》演唱：千百惠
当我想你的时候 我的心在颤抖
当我想你的时候 泪水也悄悄的滑落
当我想你的时候 才知道寂寞是什么
当我想你的时候 谁听我诉说

我也曾醉过 也为你哭过
爱情如此地折磨 究竟是为什么
漫漫的长夜 我串起你的承诺
你要我如何接受 就这样离开我