京都

我非常喜欢京都。

2006年夏天的京都第一印象颇让人失望。记忆中的京都少了东京的喧哗、璀璨，除了清水寺、银阁寺、金阁寺之外，就只有长长的哲学之道在我脑海中挥之不去。处在一片迷蒙的京都并没有如东京一样，让我心头为之一震。但是回来之后让我念念不忘的，竟然是先前“平淡无奇”的京都。

东京人觉得京都（人）太做作，美得虚假。京都人则排外，认为自己才是“正统”，要力保自身的文化传统，就得排除所有外来影响。这点我同意。要不是这样，京都怎能保留着那典雅的气息？

然而，在你认为京都美得虚假，不切实际的同时，你很难不被她的细致倾倒。

我想，京都的魅力就在于此。


走在白川，仿佛回到隔世


常寂光寺的孤寂，让人听见心跳，确定自己原来还活着……


坐在平等院凤翔馆外的木质长廊听雨……一切尽在不言中。


龙安寺——空气中充满了禅味

京都是不需要言语，不需要文字来形容的。只要放缓脚步，静下心，睁开眼，就能细细品味……

迎接2008!

2008年对我来说，真的是新的开始。很害怕，却又有些期待。感觉像是电脑的hard-disk "crashed"了，一切得重来。YQ则说，换个角度看，电脑obselete了，就该换台新的，功能好一些，外观也漂亮一些。

原本打算在2007年的最后一天定下新年新希望，但是最终还是没能静下心好好去思考。过去几天过得迷迷糊糊，忙着聚会、整理照片和玩Super Mario Galaxy，累都累死了，哪来的时间想未来。哈哈。

刚才YQ问我明天打算怎么过，我说我不知道。不过，我会珍惜这段长假，以及五年来，第一个“非蓝色”的1月1日。:)

We are back!

After spending 14 days in Japan, we are finally back in Singapore.

This is one of my longest trip and it's kind-of special. I somehow feel that this is going to be my "last" long overseas trip as I doubt I'm ever going to have enough days of leave to allow for such luxury anymore. It feels weird too to return from a vacation without having to report for work in the near future. I feel quite uncertain about the future but YQ is more optimistic. He says I should take this chance to rest and think about what I really want to do. Hmmm, what if I want to slack forever? Haha!

We had fun in Japan though YQ thinks it's too tiring. Will update on our trip again. :)

我们要飞了！

最近老觉得累，可能是晚上睡不好的缘故。常清晨四、五点就醒来，然后翻来覆去好久才入眠，早上七点又醒了，搞得我变成了一只肥熊猫。

明晚，我们将飞往大阪，盼了好久终于盼到了！行李还未收拾好，所幸行程已拟定得七七八八，只需根据当时的天气和心情做些调整就行了。我是杞人忧天派，因此开始担心起天气的问题。冷一点无所谓，可千万别下雨！京都红红的枫叶也别太早凋落，希望我们赶得及瞧一眼，拍几张照片留念，我就心满意足了。

真希望能快点抵达日本！

December is here!

Today is the first day of December. This means that in a month's time, we will bid farewell to 2007.

The rain adds a nostalgic touch to the atmosphere. Year end is the time for reflection and occasionally, I will think about what happened in the past 11 months, or even events that happened years ago. As for lessons learnt, hmmm, I have failed to think so in-depth yet.

YQ is coming back tomorrow night. Yeah! I thought I would have enjoyed my one-week freedom but it wasn't what I had imagined. I think it is still better to have him around so that I have someone to vent my frustrations. Ha Ha. Eating alone is quite meaningless too. I have to admit that I have lost some (luckily not all) of my ability to be alone.

Hmmm, I wonder what he has bought for me. Ha ha!

The past few days passed by rather quickly as I was really occupied. Met up with Hui, ML, Ban, ZW, MS, Gwen & DP. I also did a lot of shopping (Orchard, City Hall, Marina Square, Vivo, Suntec, GWC) and visited the dentist. Oh yes, I managed to buy donuts from Suntec's Donut Factory (no queue!) for my mum yesterday.

I need to work faster on the itinerary though. Not very productive. Hee!