PeculiarMe Boulevard

COMMONPLACE is NOT commonplace

2007-08-11T22:34:00.000-07:00

The Lounge Bar "COMMONPLACE" now has been becoming one of my haunts.

I love lying on the sofa and sitting against the window, holding the Russian Blue Sashmi. It also reminded me of those whom I spent time with. Laughters and Tears seem to come back sometimes. Merging in the memory, I feel like getting strength to go forward.

Yesterday, I had lunch with Zoe Lin and Ran there in COMMONPLACE. Ren has become very supportive of me, and I feel pretty staying with her.

I ordered Mixed seafood spaghetti with pesto sauce, and chose "Fried Spicy Chicken Wings" as appetizer, and "Happiness *3" for Common Cocktail.

Ren ordered Mexican Chicken Lasagna, Tamago Salad and Iced Black Tea; Zoelin had French Style Fried Pork Steak, Moon Shade Potato and Iced Milk Tea.

Have a Good time in COMMONPLACE, for me, it's no commonplace.

Chasing

2007-08-05T07:12:00.000-07:00

Insisting on those careless promises,
On hoping for another looking forward

Because that's all I could do.
You know what? I've been striving so hard.

I don't know why now I'm still thinking...
Instinctively following my consciousness,
Again and again.
I know there are rumbly roads, but I go ahead without fear.

Some day you'll catch up iwth you, someday.

I have too many reasons holding me back. So I can do nothing but looking at you.
When could those I've been chasing for my lifetime be written yoyr name down,
Existing for one moment,
Only once in my lifetime...
I've been preparing so many lines,
But I would never had the chance to say.

The Riverside Basketball Court

2007-08-04T23:11:00.001-07:00

Campus always has many interesting places...places that are interesting for different reasons to different people.

The place I want to talk about is a riverside basketball court. It’s difficult for me to tell you the exact position of that court. It’s just a normal court, one of the riverside basketball courts on my campus. Actually, there is nothing special about the basketball court, the reason why I want to talk about it because it means a lot to me.

The basketball court is the place where I shot my first movie. Last semester, I took “Film Writing and Directing”. The professor was a very famous director in Taiwan, who directed the movie “Blue Gate Crossing” when I was in high school, some of you may have seen that movie. So I was really exited to take that course at that time. The professor divided our class into several groups to come up with our own story and made it into a 20 minutes long movie.

And because there was a tight basketball game in our story, we had spent more than ten weekends there until the outdoor scenes were finished. Every weekend we started at 9 and got back at about 5. It’s hard to imagine how chilly and windy it was by the riverside, especially in winter. I got sick because of staying there for so long, and when I recovered from a cold, I would get sick again for the same reason. So…actually, I hate that place, but everything was started there.

I learned everything about filmmaking on that basketball court. I learned how to write a storyboard, how to shoot, and how to direct, and we tried our best to solve every unexpected problems we faced. Teamwork was also interesting. Although I really wanted to kill some of them at that time, thinking back right now, they were precious days. That basketball court is indeed the most memorable place for me on campus.

You have taken the finest knight in all my company!

2007-08-04T09:59:00.000-07:00

Had I known but yesterday

what I know today

I'd have taken out your two gray eyes

And put in eyes of clay.

And had I known but yesterday

you'd be no more my own

I'd have taken out your heart of flesh

And put in one of stone.

All or Nothing

2007-07-11T05:37:00.000-07:00

All or Nothing

C'est la Vie

2007-05-22T02:05:00.000-07:00

Live still goes on, so I have to move on.

Being Yorself

2007-05-11T18:47:00.000-07:00

Show your confidence.

Let the person know who you are.

Or you will be regretful for that.

Actually...

2007-05-11T18:34:00.000-07:00

Trusting my director and actors is important.

But anything more than that is dangerous.

Left It Behind

2007-05-11T18:32:00.000-07:00

That's quite an experience to go through this staff.

And I knew that I've left it behind.

Silence is Deafening

2007-05-11T18:29:00.000-07:00

I am still defending him...

What's wrong with me?

Chris was right.

"Silence is deafening."

"Silence speaks volumes."

I was waiting because I didn't wanna believe.

There is no excuse I can make for him now...

《The Two Eternity》

2007-05-03T10:24:00.000-07:00

My script will be on stage!

BE HONEST

2007-05-02T02:53:00.000-07:00

I had previously thought that I would be stressed out.

But I didn't.

I feel great about myself.

Now...

I'm ready to go back to the earth.

BE HONEST.

《Believe It Or Not (Miracle World)》

2007-05-02T00:55:00.000-07:00

Believe It Or Not (Miracle World)

One of the most impressing films I've ever seen.

《The Road Not Taken》

2007-05-01T07:12:00.000-07:00

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,

And sorry I could not travel both

And be one traveler, long I stood

And looked down one as far as I could

To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,

And having perhaps the better claim,

Because it was grassy and wanted wear;

Though as for that the passing there

Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay

In leaves no step had trodden black.

Oh, I kept the first for another day!

Yet knowing how way leads on to way,

I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh

Somewhere ages and ages hence:

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-

I took the one less traveled by,

And that has made all the difference.

《Music and Lyrics》

2007-04-30T08:45:00.000-07:00

"Music and Lyrics" comes up in a second-round theater.

I suggested on Chris' going.

"I would never watched chick flicks," said Chris.

"It's not a girls' movie," I fought against.

"Hugh Grant and Drew Barrymore? Give me a break!

Definately chick flick."

That Makes Me Me

2007-04-29T06:17:00.000-07:00

I was forced to look inside me, and see what it is.

That makes me me.

That makes me beautiful.

And...

I found it.

《Confession of Pain》

2007-04-29T05:49:00.000-07:00

"Have you ever loved me?"

"Yes."

"No. You liar."

Your whole life is a lie.

Then...

How will you go on when you know there is no coming back?

2007-04-28T08:27:00.000-07:00

It is not a path less trodden

But one that NEVER trodden.

Liar

2007-04-28T03:29:00.000-07:00

EVERYTHING you know is a lie.

PostSecret

2005-09-18T03:08:00.000-07:00

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