taking the leap

就是你了 <3

心情溶剂

ah here we are, and the start of 13022012 marks the end of week 5.

it has been a busy week of performances, rehearsals after rehearsals.
with amplify and xqrj, this week really has been very very tight trying to juggle practices and yet keeping up with presentations and schoolwork at the same time.

i must say i'm relieved that it's over, and now it's the upcoming week 6 to look forward to, where i will need to work hard for lab research proposal and social psych's almost-as-heavy-percentage-as-finals midterm.

yet, i'm really glad to have been able to perform on both occasions.
amplify with sheares band was loads of fun albeit the crazy long practices (including one 4 hours straight); experiencing the y.i.h. open plaza with strait groove and the other performers was an evening well-spent.

and then xqrj was an eye opener, going to u.c.c. hall and experiencing the entire backstage thing; it was performing in front of a live audience and judges at a regional chinese songwriting competition after all.

zhenlin coming out champion really just topped everything off and made all the practices ultimately worthwhile.
really happy to be part of it all and i am thankful for the experience!
humbly speaking, i am grateful he chose me to be the on-stage guitarist for the finals when there are so many other better guitarists available.

i'd like to congratulate him here yet again!
although i've practiced the song thousands of times until i'm very sick of it already, i'm pretty sure the crowd and judges loved it... that's why it came out tops (:

14th XQRJ Grand Finals: 叶绿素

make it happen

let things be, or make it happen?

ah... make it happen.

this is a motto i will not forget.

walking along the high-tide line
watching the pacific from the sideline
wonder what it means to live together?
looking for more than just guidelines
looking for signs in the night sky

bigger than my body

this is a call to the colourblind

this is an i.o.u.

i'm stranded behind the horizon line

tied up in something true

yes i'm grounded, got my wings clipped

i'm surrounded by all this pavement

guess i'll circle, while i'm waiting

for my fuse to dry

someday i'll fly

someday i'll soar

someday i'll be so damn much more

'cause i'm bigger than my body gives me credit for 

maybe i'll tangle in the power lines

and it might be over in a second's time

but i'll gladly go down in a flame

if a flame's what it takes to remember my name

to remember my name, yeah

rooftops and invitations

"it is the mind which creates the world about us, and even though we stand side by side in the same meadow, my eyes will never see what is beheld by yours."

  - george gissing, the private papers of henry ryecroft, 1903


and she just might get you lost
she just might leave you torn
but she just might save your soul
if she gets you when she
gets you any closer
can you believe your eyes?