.........I really don't know LOVE at all

...................
As ev'ry fairy tale comes real
I've looked at love that way
But now it's just another show
You leave 'em laughing when you go
And if you care, don't let them know
Don't give yourself away

I've looked at love from both sides now
From give and take, and still somehow
It's love's illusions I recall
I really don't know love at all

Tears and fears and feeling proud
To say "I love you" right out loud
Dreams and schemes and circus crowds
I've looked at life that way

But now old friends are acting strange
They shake their heads, they say I've changed
Well something's lost, but something's gained
In living every day

I've looked at life from both sides now
From win and lose and still somehow
It's life's illusions I recall
I really don't know life at all

(by Joni Mitchell/1969/BOTH SIDES NOW)

ABOUT THAT BLOG TITLE PHOTO

That photo was taken from the SQ flight to New Delhi on 29 Jan 2008, I quite like how that shot turned out.
It was a last minute trip for a site job but strangely I felt very relaxed throughout this 4-day trip. Everyday travelling for 2 to 3 hours to get to the job site sort of relaxes me even though there was always hell of a jam at the new Gurgaon toll-gates both ways. I travelled that Delhi-Gurgaon highway in the day, back the opposite direction late into the night everyday and never felt tired of the long journey.....strange indeed!
It was not the longest road trip by car I had taken, I recall the Tashkent to Samarkhand & Almaty to Bishkek trips in Central Asia (1990's) and also the Autobahn journey from Hanover to Rotterdam (circa. 2004/05) -- amazing road trips!
I saw, what still is today, the most beautiful lady at a restaurant in Bishkek. With regret I did not take any picture of her but her name is forever etched in my memory - "Mira" (pronounced as mai-ya).

好可爱的大熊猫！

这次中国之旅, 把成都当成过路站咯！都只待了一天，一天的。也没怎么计划到那里看看。

三月十二日从拉萨回到成都又过了一夜，隔天一早去了熊猫基地 (得感谢梦之旅李小姐的妥善安排！），下午就赶到重庆去登三峡的船。

还好去了熊猫基地，大饱眼福！要不然就会踢自己一脚！

熊猫打摔跤还是头一次看到！笑破肚皮咯！

TIME................

......it can be your best friend or your worst enemy.

......it keeps plugging away on its own course.

......it does not wait for anyone.

......yet it will always be there for you .........to use it or lose it.



......if only there is a time machine for us to travel back or forth in time

......we could change our past and our future

......we could right all the wrongs

if only..............................

And in the words of Joni Mitchell:
We're captive on the carousel of time
We can't return
We can only look behind
From where we came
And go round and round and round
In the circle game

There was an album by E.L.O. called TIME (circa. 1981).
Wiki info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_(Electric_Light_Orchestra_album)


It was the first album I listened to in full back in 1981. Most albums contain filler tracks that are forgettable but not this one. I listened to it again recently (2 days ago to be exact) and it sounds as if time had stood still, it seems to defy the years in between..........a truly classic album!

A penny in your pocket
Suitcase in your hand
They wont get you very far.......

Though you ride on the wheels of tomorrow
You still wander the fields of your sorrow.........

One day you're a hero
Next day you're a clown
There's nothing that is in between........

You should be so happy
You should be so glad
So why are you so lonely..........

21st Century Man

S.O.S.

Where are those happy days, they seem so hard to find
I tried to reach for you, but you have closed your mind
Whatever happened to our love?
I wish I understood
It used to be so nice, it used to be so good
So when you're near me, darling can't you hear me
S. O. S.
The love you gave me, nothing else can save me
S. O. S.
When you're gone
How can I even try to go on?
When you're gone
Though I try how can I carry on?

You seem so far away though you are standing near
You made me feel alive, but something died I fear
I really tried to make it out
I wish I understood
What happened to our love, it used to be so good

............from ABBA's "S.O.S."

............everything I wanted to say but words just failed me!!
.......thanks Benny Andersson & Bjorn Ulvaeus for this!!
(note: was listening to the version by Peter Cetera and Ronna Reeves)

TODAY..................

Today is the day where my whole life will be forever changed!
I am not feeling good, I could not sleep, I do not know which way things will turn........guess I can only wait for the time to come...........Ah! Yes! TIME.
What else can I do but to wait.............seems an eternity.

HORN OK PLEASE! is back!

A million thanks to Popagandhi (one of my favourite blog) who gave me the web directions to where HORN OK PLEASE! now resides in the blogosphere:
outtheresomewhere.net
Unfortunately the past fabulous posts of HORN OK PLEASE! were all gone now (...killed by iblog according to the writer, Jamie)...........I was fortunate enough to have enjoyed those and I will always remember those moments albeit only in bits and pieces but the impression it made on me will be a lasting one.................

Now on to "outtheresomewhere".................