MICHAEL JACKSON: "This Is It"

“The Grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.” (Allan K. Chalmers)

This is Grand.

METALLICA: "Master Of Puppets"

Some opportunities are golden; others are merely gold-plated. It takes a knowledgeable goldsmith to find out the difference. Or just some common sense, that helps too. Deep inside, we know the answers to seemingly unsolvable questions. It’s just a matter of wanting to know them sometimes. Our hands are tight, fearful to acknowledge a feeling, as if we are puppet players who let our puppet-on-a-string wait to perform, safely behind the curtain.
So why practise a skill, if you don't intend to use it? Why fall in love, if you don't dare to tell the other person? Why be happy, if you don’t want to smile? A stage is pointless without actors climbing onto it; a pool need not be dug out if no one plans to swim. We only make sense through others. On our own, we don't need mirrors. We only need them to resemble others. Vanity is an indistinct puddle of shattered dreams; a dark pool of betrayal to oneself. Pure essence reflects in dazzling sunlight on a mountain river. A hand reaching for the rocks on the sea bed; they wear a see-through dress of ice-cold water. Seek out a flat one, pick it up and throw it away as hard as you possibly can. See how many times you can make it bounce before it sinks to its new destiny.

ALANIS MORISSETTE: "You Learn"

Knowing comes through learning. Wisdom comes through letting go what you think you know.

(read somewhere)

OWL CITY "Fireflies"

...losing the pedals while racing downhill at an incredible speed...

I'd like to make myself believe
That planet Earth turns slowly
It's hard to say that I'd rather stay
Awake when I'm asleep
'Cause everything is never as it seems

(extract from lyrics "Fireflies" - Owl City)

JOHN HIATT: "Have A Little Faith In Me"

It's so surreal... a big, strong guy like you. Struck by fate, randomly abducted from this world, pushed under water from behind, without notice, before you could even take a breath. I wish I could pull you up now, but there are more qualified persons out there to do that. So let's have faith in them.

JOHN LEGEND: "We Just Don't Care"

HILARY DUFF: "Shine"

If ever you held wisdom
Pour it onto me
Enlighten me
Like a sun its shadow
Burning my skin
Without mercy
Foreverly unforgettable
Until the end of times
Disrupting the illusion of harmony
Of a simple word that rhymes

刘德华 : 忘情水 (ANDY LAU: "Wang Qing Shui")

Love
A bundle of you
Holding me tight
In the warmth of candle light
Is where we find the truth about ourselves
Dust laying on shelves
So we wipe
Some enchanting vibe
Cheer the gods
That reign and rule
We’re just lovers, fools,
Illusion drools
A whisper of dreams
In moonlight’s beams
Where the finger touches the sky
in you am I

BLACK EYED PEAS: "Gone Going"

“I don't care where you come from. It’s all about where you are going.”

MADONNA: "La Isla Bonita"

New Caledonia