Swing swing~

..:: *+ Small Talk +*::…
Jay Chou is out with his new album – Jay Chou on the Run (我很忙). Go check it out, download, or more recommendable, buy original CD, if you really a fan of his and support anti-piracy campaign that government keeps on talking about. Below is the list of the songs in this album.

1. 牛仔很忙
2. 彩虹
3. 青花瓷
4. 阳光宅男
5. 蒲公英的约定
6. 无双
7. 我不配
8. 扯
9. 甜甜的
10. 最长的电影

The songs are all nice. Just that I prefer 彩虹 and 蒲公英的约定. The music is simple and the guitar chords and tabs, to me, should be very simple to master. So far both of these songs have been de-chorded at 吉他谱. I’m now waiting the tabs. =D should be real soon!

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I used to hate playground a lot. It is a place where a lot of kids playing see-saw, swing, some strolling paths for jogging, lake, fountain, small human-made water fall, exercise machines, skateboard/roller-skate ground, maybe, and some sticks that children love to climb about.

To me, it is a place where people waste their time, or maybe they really have that much time to waste. I seldom go to park, nor do I show interest in it. Therefore mom and dad seldom bring me there also, partly because they are quite busy all the time. Being in a low-moderate income family, my parents don’t even have a lot free time to bring us to this kind of place – they have to work hard to earn money to support this family of four children. Nevertheless, I feel love from them… touched by them. I am really happy to be in this family.

Anyway, when I came to INTEC, I liked to go to the park beside my hostel. I remembered a lot of us celebrated a lot of events there; from birthdays, moon cake festival, and Malays’ festivals to dating. Yeah, it was a place where I and she used to date. That’s the main reason why I love that park. We used to sit there and gaze at the stars above, counting each and every one of them. Sometimes when a plane passed by, she would tell me about she never been into a plane before and wanting to try it once. That was when I would cheer her up by promising to bring her to Kuching; a promise that she gave up; a ticket that burnt in the mid air.

That was the reason why I liked that park. But since the break up I began to fall in love with another park, which is next to my block inside my hostel. It is not a very large one - only 2 swings, a see-saw, a slide, and short walking paths with tiny stones – but it is special to me. I gained something from this tiny little place.

It is a place where I realized that I’ve been far left-behind since I was a little kid. I could not swing a swing without using my feet. Laugh at me. Just laugh at me. I’m alright with it, as that day, when I, Jacky and other friends were there, a lot of them laugh (friendly and gentle laugh, not those feeling-hurting type one) at me. I never know that we can swing the swing without the need of using feet. I didn’t even have the skill a kid in park can do. These kids are better than me. And since then I’ve been going to the park whenever I free or when I feel depress and sad, just to practice how to swing a swing. I just tried it a few minutes ago. I’m getting grip on how to swing better =D

The thing I wanted to bring out is that, learning process can happen anywhere. I can learn how to swing a swing from a park. Likewise in our daily life, learning process is continues, not necessarily in school or college only. I gained a lot from Campus Alive, Akasia Badminton Hall, the so-called Dataran Cemara, and perhaps, the very me myself. There is nothing such as “there’s nothing to learn”. It’s the matter of whether we notice them and pick them up. Knowledge is like food, the more we pick up, the further we can go. We must not to only pick the sweet or the tasty or expensive one, if possible, pick up everything. We might even be able to share part of our food with friends that we gain along the road.


Vincent