Let the ghost gasp

My day was Priceless.

Explain why?

That is also one of my uncountable reasons to love life, its surprises each day, both good and bad!

1. I was supposed to attend a Halloween party as a friend's but bailed because I found out the crowd would be enormous and a lot of drinking would involve.  Not my thing, I just don't enjoy any kind of craze like that.  Went for a stroll and good meal in Korean Town instead, loving the Manhattan view across the river.  How would I know a change of plan could turn out to be much better!

2. Was supposed to take 'darker' pictures but I didn't know how to express 'dark' expressions.  Smiling is my thing and I've been doing it too often my whole life.  Now I know how I'm labelled as the cheerful one (:

3. Wondering about the amount of 'friendliness' I should put in each interaction with others, especially guys.  I only met some people for few times, hang out with few of them for a bit, just being friendly, you know.. Now another one came to me expressing how they wanted to try to be 'more than friend'.  How disappointing.  I'm losing more and more guy friends!

4.  I lost 3 pounds in a week with my fruity smoothie and white meat only diet. Yay!

I'm going for a hayride now!

What did you do on Halloween? Did you get to wear a costume?

Jacket & tights - Anthropologie, mini dress - Macy's, shoes - forgot

Manhattan view from Ford Lee, NJ

It was my brother's birthday.  My sister and I did a little messy singing as a present.  Because he likes Taylor Swift and black horse, we sang Taylor's 'white horse' as 'black horse' to him.  I was actually saying 'beloved brother' but I didn't know how it sounded 'blood brother' in the video.  Heheh, so silly!  Do you think I sound like A MAN?

"I remember"

I remember making love on a Sunday, bright golden hearts in a fresh cut grass in May.  I remember making out on an airplane, still afraid of flying, but with you I'd die today.  I remember the smell of your skin forever.  Love us being stupid together.

You're stuck in my mind, all the time.

I remember Monday making your eyes red, still don't know what it is that I said.  I remember thinking this would never end, even when you're gone your eyes running through my head.

"Over and over"

I recently really like this song called 'over and over' by Rachael Yamagata, but the lyrics always confused me. But now, I think I got it all figured.

I really thought I was okay

I really thought I was just fine

But when I woke this time

There was nothing to take me back to sleep

To take you off my mind this time

And I keep saying over and over and over and over again

Let it rain, let it rain

I need to hide within a storm, so have the lightening come

Bring the winds that scream, spill the fog all over town

Break through every door, strip away the trees

Raise the rivers high, just help me drown

Hold me in your standstill ground, and I will sink down

And you’ll be washed away

It is the moment when we need a catharsis, to get rid of all the emotions, that we may not realize that we have.

"Horizon"

Somewhere along the way, when something died down, it could be something we own, couldn't have, or the feeling we have strongly for a particular person.  And our world turned upside down, and we were left searching for balance again.
This is the phase in life where we are searching for our horizon.

Rachael Yamagata conveyed it stunningly in her song, Horizon.  It's about feeling, though.

The last time I laid my eyes upon you

You were blowing kisses and I was waiting in the car

Something had died, yet everything around kept turning

Don’t even know where you are

Somewhere along the line we lost our horizon

I’ve been looking round, up and down to no avail

Someday I hope to find the horizon

I’ve been all around the world yet nothing is clear

The last time I held you, it was head to heart

The curtain was drawn, I left you sleeping so sound

If I had known forever after we would stay apart

I would have whispered all the things I can’t tell you now

I don’t believe in you, like I so wanted to

I hope you’d ask heavens above, to forgive all the damage you’ve done

And if I did teach you anything at all

I hope that you learn how to love

But I doubt if I’ll ever talk to you, after now

Miss Zooey Deschanel

Finally made it to my first She & Him concert last Friday, I would say.. Zooey is worth all the enviousness any girl, including me, have on her.

I personally like Volume 2 better than Volume 1, some of my favorites from Volume 2 so far are in the sun, brand new shoes, and thieves.

Yes, I recorded this with my Sony Cyber-shot DSC-W370

Life in Mono

Great Expectations, with Ethan Hawke and Gwyneth Paltrow, 1998, I still remember.  I was in my last year of junior high.  Rented the VCD (yes, 1998 was the VCD era) without my parents' acknowledgement.  Well, until daddy found out, it was rated PG-13, got shut down, but I still managed to finish the movie when daddy was not around.  That was how memorable this movie is, not the PG-13 part, but I personally think that's the best of both Ethan and Gwyneth, as of today.

Life in mono, one of the movie's feature soundtrack, is actually the most memorable part, at least to me.  It expresses a lot of feelings, both the melody and lyrics.  Recently my sister re-watched the movie again, so we listen to this song, again and again.

The stranger sang a theme, from someone else's dream

The leaves began to fall, and no one spoke at all

But I can't seem to recall, when you came along

Ingenue, I just don't know what to do

The tree-lined avenue, begins to fade from view

Drowning past regrets, in tea and cigarettes

But I can't seem to forget, when you came along

There are many interpretations regarding the lyrics.  I buy this one more, it's about meeting this person, for a short period of time, and we were left with a feeling that we don't even know when it started yet we couldn't forget.  Well, that is the hardest part, to forget.

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