Istanbul (not constantinople)

i've loved this song for the longest time.
just haven't been able to get the mp3 for it.
the first video is in spanish i think. i think.can't quite make out what he is singing. but he gets A+ for entertainment and voice quality. :)
the second video is a cartoon. really cute. :)




Istanbul was Constantinople
Now it's Istanbul, not Constantinople
Been a long time gone, Constantinople
Now it's Turkish delight on a moonlit night

Every gal in Constantinople
Lives in Istanbul, not Constantinople
So if you've a date in Constantinople
She'll be waiting in Istanbul

Even old New York was once New Amsterdam
Why they changed it I can't say
People just liked it better that way

So take me back to Constantinople
No, you can't go back to Constantinople
Been a long time gone, Constantinople
Why did Constantinople get the works
That's nobody's business but the Turks

Istanbul (Istanbul)
Istanbul (Istanbul)

Even old New York was once New Amsterdam
Why they changed it I can't say
People just liked it better that way

Istanbul was Constantinople
Now it's Istanbul, not Constantinople
Been a long time gone, Constantinople
Why did Constantinople get the works
That's nobody's business but the Turks

So take me back to Constantinople
No, you can't go back to Constantinople
Been a long time gone, Constantinople
Why did Constantinople get the works
That's nobody's business but the Turks

Istanbul

chinese songs are getting stuck in my head...

看不见你的笑我怎么睡得着　

你的声音这么近我却抱不到

没有地球　太阳还是会绕　

没有理由　我也能自己走

你要离开我知道很简单　

你说依赖是我们的阻碍

就算放开但能不能别没收我的爱　

当作我最后才明白

-周杰伦 ： 彩红 

如果要让我活 让我有希望的活

我从不怕爱错 就怕没爱过

如果能有一天 再一次重返光荣

记得找我 我的好朋友

－ 五月天 ：孙悟空

and so are english songs..

Bye bye love

Bye bye happiness, hello loneliness

I think I'm-a gonna cry

Bye bye love, bye bye sweet caress, hello emptiness

I feel like I could die

Bye bye my love goodbye

There goes my baby with someone new

She sure looks happy, I sure am blue

She was my baby till he stepped in

Goodbye to romance that might have been

I'm-a through with romance, I'm a-through with love

I'm through with a'countin' the stars above

And here's the reason that I'm so free

My lovin' baby is through with me

- ray charles : bye bye love

I will beg my way into your garden

I will break my way out when it rains

Just to get back to the place where I started

So I can watch you back all over again

Hold on to whatever you find baby

Hold on to whatever will get you through

Hold on to whatever you find baby

I don't trust myself with loving you

Who do you love?

Who do you love?

Who do you love me or the thought of me? me or the thought of me?

Hold on to whatever you find baby

Hold on to whatever will get you through

Hold on to whatever you find baby

I don't trust myself with loving you

- john mayer : i don't trust myself

Alone again tonight

Without someone to love

The stars are shining bright

So one more wish goes up

Oh I wish I may

And I wish with all my might

For the love I’m dreaming of

And missing in my life

You’d think that I could find

A true love of my own

It happens all the time

To people that I know

Their wishes all come true

So I’ve got to believe

There’s still someone out there who

Is meant for only me

I guess I must be wishing on

Someone else’s star

It seems like someone else keeps getting

What I’m wishing for

Why can’t I be as lucky

As those other people are

I guess I must be wishing

On someone else’s star

I sit here in the dark

And stare up at the sky

But I can’t give my heart

One good reason why

Everywhere I look

It’s lovers that I see

It seems like everyone’s in love

With everyone but me

I guess I must be wishing on

Someone else’s star

It seems like someone else keeps getting

What I’m wishing for

Why can’t I be as lucky

As those other people are

I guess I must be wishing

On someone else’s star

- bryan white : someone else's star

they sound pretty emo. but i'm not.

somehow they keep sticking to me. 

and i need to inject a lil bit of hairspray and planetshakers in to balance things out. haha.

i guess i'm just going through a pensive state once again. :)

I heard story just the other day,

About man who gave His life away for me

Complicated yet it seems so clear

If I open up my heart, it be so near to me

I believe in You

I believe in You

I heard story just the other day,

About man who gave His life away for me

Complicated yet seems so clear

If I open up my heart, it be so near to me

I believe in You

I believe in You

I believe in You

I believe Your word as set me free 

with all that I am

I will live my life for You

I believe

I read a story just the other day

About the way You healed blind man, made him see

Here I stand crying out to You

all i need is faith to see a miracle in me

- Planetshakers : i believe

first things first..

HELLO KAI TAT!

hahaha. :)

work has been good. :) still am not winning our sudoku challenges, still have not updated my logbook, still have not finished my report.

but..it is really fun working with the whole bunch of them. :) 

we went to shokudo for dinner the other night. kailong came too.

 the food was uber sedap.

i kept laughing at kailong though. his mannerisms just amuse and tickle me so much.

真的是我的开心果。

my FYP has been finalised! though i have forfeited my 2 months holiday to complete majority of the experimentations. This equates to me having little to do for the rest of my final year! :) 

I'm really grateful for this opening. 

today, lion twin laopo kenneth and i went out for dinner. brought them to shokudo (can you tell how impressed i was by my first visit?). but alas, this time round, the food didnt taste as good as i remembered it to be. and the service wasnt as efficient in clearing our plates.

pretty drastic change in such a short period of time.hmm.

but the company was fun! :) this dinner was a sort of farewell to lion. cos he'll be leaving for perth on saturday. 

my SLR battery died on me. because why? because our "dear" kenneth teo was happily snapping photos of the entire place when shir and i went to order.

roar. that monkey.

thankfully shir also brought her camera.

kenneth teo. stop trying to cheat a drink out of me you monkey! roar!chikekdara!

it felt like one of those days when the inevitable need to grow up looms abovehead.

i really don't want to grow up so fast.

soon, we'll  be hitting the age when your friends one by one get married, get jobs, achieve dreams and compromise on some.

i'm glad that You'll still never change and You will still call me Child when i'm walking with a cane. :)

Went for Twin's auditions with shir on saturday. must say i'm really proud of him.

It really takes alot of one to follow one's dream. but i must say, the satisfaction of fulfilling them is priceless.

Sometimes the things that he says reminds me of principles that i let my foot slip away from.

"I want to make music that will bring hope to people."

me too.

Though our target groups and audiences are different, that's what I cling on to every time i walk off stage after a worship set that didnt go smoothly.

"I'll do better next time. I'll prepare my heart more next time. I'll let You have all control."

I know I havent been keeping my motivation seriously recently, getting a lil habitual to choose songs and go through worship.

but Lord, i want to bring it higher. i really want to be a emptied vessel used by You so that others can reach out to You as You reach out to them. to bring hope to them in their darkest hour. to know they are not alone.

If our greatest need had been information, God would have sent us an educator.

If our greatest need had been technology, God would have sent us a scientist.

If our greatest need had been money, God would have sent us an economist.

But since our greatest need was forgiveness, God sent us a Saviour.

He became like us, so we could become like Him.

Angels still sing, and the star still beckons.

He loves each one of us like there was only one of us to love.

Faith is trusting what the eyes can't see.

Eyes see the prowling lion. Faith sees Daniel's angel.

Eyes see storms. Faith sees Noah's rainbow.

Eyes see giants. Faith sees Canaan.

Your eyes see your faults. Your faith sees your Saviour.

Your eyes see your guilt. Your faith sees His blood.

Your eyes see your grave. Your faith sees a city whose builder and maker is God.

"i only jump into big arms"

the very same arms that defeated death are the arms awaiting you.

Next time you wonder if God can forgive you, 

(remember that) the very hands nailed to the cross are open for you.

with such moving statements made. 

how can max lucado not become my newest must-read.

He is really blessed to be a teacher.

:)

i have not been called to the wisdom of this world, but to a God who is calling out to me.