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These are the lyrics from KOKIA's new album - The Voice.
Wonderful singer. Every word pulls at the heart strings. She is one of the few singers that holds justice to the title The Voice.
KOKIA- Nani mo kamo ga hoshi ni natte ( Everything turns into a start )
hatred, conflict, suffering, even if we hurt each other
Ifwe look at the same sky after we were born again,
It will probably be only a blink of a bright moment
Where, instead of people being sacrified, justice that goes on with happiness
Alone, a life on a single person, if that life belonged to the one you love
Please imagine, as though it's your own pain
Everything turns into a star and passed on to the future
Everyone is someone's one day only
Justified events, that adults had sought reasons and let them pass
Though i was there, looking, the moment i turned a blind eye, i went down
Please imagine, as though it's your own pain
To regret every time you lose something, and shed tears for my short comings
The tears shed, as many as the number of stars, trying not waste them
Only an emptiness cuts the sky, and tears my heart
When everything turns into a star, would it all be forgotten?
Please look at the person beside you
Coincidence that you cannot simply call them a stranger
It's too far into the time to smile back anymore
I don't need love that seeks something in return
Please imagine, as though it's your own pain
Everything turns into a star and passed on to the future
Everyone is someone's one and only
KOKIA - Everlasting
Every moment I can feel you.
Wish You feel the same way.
If I show my secret garden you can touch to eternity.
It fill me in with scent rose.
everlastig memory.
Glow my life, you give me a heart to love.
What I feel please stay forever.
Someday I know it may fade away
Still we ask for forever.
find our sign in this music.
everlastig memory.
only my love, truly given eternal life.
what I hold, keep breathing forever.
Love, where to come.
Love, ever lasting.
The world is Saturated with light of love.
Glow my life, you give me a heart to love.
What I feel please stay forever.
only my love, truly given eternal life.
what I hold, keep breathing forever.
Someday I know it may fade away
Still we ask for forever.
I will be doing a review of this album on The Ukulele Ensemble. Please visit this great page.
Saturday, April 12, 2008
This is a photo I took of the sakura trees blooming on the Old Aberdeen Campus.
Amazing isn't it.
A whole different continent and era away and Sakura trees still bloom as beautifully as they would against the quiet backdrop of a village in Japan in the Edo period.
Seems like I'm romancing and being poetic today.
Today is a day of reflection I suppose ( or perhaps as a vain attempt to put of revising my neurology stuff...sighz...I feel a tension headache coming on just thinking of that.)
These days I sit at home since the need to go to Cornhill ( the local mental hospital) for my psych rotation has been obliterated after I've fulfilled my obligatory tasks for this block.
The weather has been pensive.
With snow, wind, thunderstorms and good old rain.
Yes...Spring was supposed to be here since the beginning of March but the temperatures are still dancing around 6-10 degrees celsius and the weather is just as unpredictable as ever. A definite testament to honouring the fickleness of the Scottish weather. Just like a broad on a Saturday night at the hottest clubs in New York.
These days I'm confounded by the stuff people tell me.
It's unbelieveable. Some of it disgusts me. And yet some of it still manages to incite some form of interest in my being.
Me and my flatmate were discussing boyfriends and relationships the other day.
She says people find it weird if you tell them that you've never had a boyfriend before and you're in your twenties.
I say it's only the regular joe or Jill that roams the streets of Singapore that would say something like that.
Not being pretentious or a snob for saying this but: yes, my dear flatmate is a true blue singaporean. Though she's been here four years just like I have, it seems that old habits die hard.
Oh well, forgiveable I suppose since wats the point to Singapore and it's charms if it doesn't brainwash you eh?
The point is, I don't see what a bf does for you.
Sure if the guy's really sweet and supportive and respectful and all that, maybe that would be great because it could possible be a symbiotic relationship.
But if you just want to have some 'eye candy' ( trust me most are either gay or freaking narcissistic) to drape yourself on then I don't see the point to it all.
It takes time, effort and a whole lot of investment to make a relationship work.
But I suppose, if there's a future in it then I say, show all your cards and call your banker to start investing.
But if it doesn't look good and not up to your BASIC standards ( ok, so I have been criticised for having high standards..but still...aim high and the parabolic pull of gravity brings it down to reality) then I don't see why you should just settle for any Tom, Dick or Harry. ( awful names by the way :P)
And so I posed this question to my dear flatmate, '' Fair enough if it's a good looking person who's never been in a relationship that gets the quizzical looks but if it were a below average looking person, everyone will just give sympathetic smiles and nod knowingly. Is this not just a case of double standards then?''
And she was like '' But some not so good looking pple have got bfs! And their Bfs aren't so bad looking at all.''
Well....I have nothing else to say because the point of the conversation has obviously changed from what I thought would be a potentially stimulating conversation to another mundane run of the mill 'ah lian' chat on '' Look! I got boyfren you got or not?''
It's like telling me, '' I've got the latest minolta, have you seen it yet?'' Piss off.
The presence of a beau has throughout the centuries been a sort of status quo in society.
Particularly women. And NO, I'm not into bra burning or bracelet smashing or even that pro women's right. Because I believe that you need to generate the movement within yourself instead of depending on some movement. And yes, I'm very much heterosexual for those of you wondering.
As you can see from the above, these days you have to cover your bases and clarify your own position (and even sexuality) before you can make such statements.
Maybe I'm just very much a career minded, overly competitive person. But I find no fault in that. yes, I would like to settle down some day. But I prefer to take it at my own pace.
Right now, I'm enjoying myself. And I'm doing as I please. I appreciate my lack of desperation and I absolutely loathe people telling me shit about settling down and telling me green tinged tales on how they envy their friends having beaus and all. If they've got so much time to sit and complain to me about wanting something, they might as well get off their lazy bums and go get it.
That's wat I would do if I ever reach that stage.When the Sakura petals dance and twirl, fall is near....and whence thou bloom and stir.....perhaps....spring is near
