今天电视剧播了谭咏麟的“谁可改变”令我想起小时候很多美好的回忆。百听不厌。
谁可改变（天师执位主题歌）
歌手：谭咏麟
作词：郑国江
作曲：顾嘉辉
编曲：陈辉阳
曾经说出今生不爱你
我共你是但有份没有缘
情切是你痴痴相恋
将心中爱念为我捐
如今我竟竟将心意转
那份爱念没有尽没有完
轮到你不瞅不睬
心中的爱念尽化烟能否改变
还想再等没法息爱念
但偏偏你回头也倦
烦恼是我流泪更无言
情逝去不再留半点
谁可以将将光阴倒转
再让往日复现眼前
能再共你漫步田园
心中的爱念为你牵求可改变
轮到你不瞅不睬
心中的爱念尽化烟能否改变
还想再等没法息爱念
但偏偏你回头也倦
烦恼是我流泪更无言
情逝去不再留半点
谁可以将将光阴倒转
再让往日复现眼前
能再共你漫步田园
心中的爱念为你牵求可改变
近在咫尺,远在天边, 相见而不相识。虽然单思无声又无形，但它却能使人茶饭不思，坐定不安。好无奈，好无助！
如果你已经和你生命中的另一半相遇，那千万要好好珍惜对方, 因为缘分可遇不可求。能在人海茫茫之中相遇和成为伴侣是一种福气，是由前生定的因果。
至于单身汉们，我坚信终有一天大家都会得到月老的眷顾。但愿有一天，天下的情侣都能终成眷属。
张洪量的“你知道我在等你吗”是一首经典之作。歌词又简单又直接，真的一针见血。很棒！
你知道我在等你吗
词曲: 张洪量
莫名我就喜欢你 深深地爱上你
没有理由 没有原因
莫名我就喜欢你深深地爱上你
从见到你的那一天起
你知道我在等你吗?
你如果真的在乎我
又怎会让无尽的夜陪我度过
你知道我在等你吗?
你如果真的在乎我
又怎会让握花的手在风中颤抖
莫名我就喜欢你深深地爱上你
没有理由 没有原因
莫名我就喜欢你深深地爱上你
从见到你的那一天起
你知道我在等你吗?
你如果真的在乎我
又怎会让无尽的夜陪我度过
你知道我在等你吗?
你如果真的在乎我
又怎会让握花的手在风中颤抖
莫名我就喜欢你深深地爱上你
在黑夜里倾听你的声音
你知道我在等你吗?
你如果真的在乎我
又怎会让无尽的夜陪我度过
你知道我在等你吗?
你如果真的在乎我
又怎会让握花的手在风中颤抖
莫名我就喜欢你深深地爱上你
在黑夜里倾听你的声音
A beautiful poem read by John Hannah, playing Matthew in Four Weddings and a Funeral.
Funeral Blues
WH Auden (1936)
Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone,
Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone,
Silence the pianos and with muffled drum
Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come.
Let aeroplanes circle moaning overhead
Scribbling on the sky the message He is Dead.
Put crepe bows round the white necks of the public doves,
Let the traffic policemen wear black cotton gloves.
He was my North, my South, my East and West,
My working week and my Sunday rest,
My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song;
I thought that love would last forever: I was wrong.
The stars are not wanted now; put out every one,
Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun,
Pour away the ocean and sweep up the woods;
For nothing now can ever come to any good.
With $2.6bn of cash, surely Blackberry could employ a decent programmer to write a code that prevents the leaked version of Android BBM from authenticating with the BBM server. Assuming the leak version is 1.0.1 and the stable to-be-released version is 1.1, how difficult can it be to write a code on the server side to reject connection from all versions below 1.1? It sounds fishy to be that Blackberry has decided to suspend the rollout to iOS users too if the unreleased version of Android BBM was the one causing the havoc.
From what I understand, BBM messages are not encrypted but scrambled using a global cryptographic key present in every Blackberry handset. For BBM to be cross platform, I presume that same cryptographic key has to be present in every iOS and Android app. Perhaps some Cryptologist managed to decrypt the key present in the app thus presenting a security flaw which needs to be patched before the rollout can resume.
On 18th September 2013, Blackberry released a press statement that “BBM will be available as a free download for Android smartphones running Ice Cream Sandwich and Jelly Bean (Android 4.x) beginning at 7AM EDT on September 21. BBM for iPhones running iOS 6 and iOS 7 will become available for each market on the App Store schedule of 12:01 AM local time on September 22.”
7AM EDT on September 21st came and gone but the rollout of BBM on Google Play did not launch as planned. iPhone users in Australasia, Asia and certain regions of Middle East were able to get their hands on BBM for iOS until it was abruptly withdrawn by the company.
14 hours into the launch, Blackberry made an announcement via its blog that the launch of BBM for Android and iPhone has been suspended due to issues with leaked android versions of BBM. Blackberry claims that “these issues have not impacted BBM service for BlackBerry”. If that was the case, I wonder why they decided to suspend the rollout of the app for iPhone users too.
I can’t help but feel that whilst there is monetary value in BBM, it is diminishing rapidly by the incompetency of Blackberry senior management. No one can plan for all eventualities but the least one can do it is ensure timely and constant communication to the public.
It is ironic that the tagline for BBM on Twitter is “BBM is for active, real conversations. It’s free, instant and always connected. Your messages are delivered and read in seconds. You trust it. You control it.” In this instance, BBM is inactive and definitely not something that users can either trust or control.
This is one instance where silence is not golden.
So true….
The FTSE 100 Index (“footsie”) and Dow Jones Industrial Index (“dow”) are meant to be barometers of the health of the UK and US economy respectively. Given the interdependence of both economies, it is hardly surprising that both indices move relatively in sync.
DJI
Both indices reached their peaks (post 2003) in 2007 before the onset of the financial crisis. The Dow closed on Friday, 1st March 2013 at 14,089.66, up 0.64 percent for the week and within striking distance of the all-time peak of 14,164.53. The gain came despite US$85 billion in federal budget cuts known as the sequester that kicked in on Friday, 1st March 2013.
I am not a financial guru but if the Footise and Dow are meant to provide an indication of the health of the economy, then why is unemployment rate stubbornly high and high street store closures increasing by the day? I definitely don’t feel that the outlook today is any better than that of 2007.
I reckon the ample supply of cheap credit by Central Banks has lots to do with this rally. If the indices are dislodged from fundamentals then an equity bubble is created. But as John Keyes famously said “The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent.”.
After 1 month with my Blackberry Z10, I have thrown in the towel and switched to an iPhone. As a loyal Blackberry user for the past 9 years (7230 -> 8700 -> 8310 Curve -> 8900 Curve -> 9700 Bold -> 9800 Torch ->9790 Bold -> Z10), it wasn’t an easy decision to make but ultimately the mind won over the heart (I will surely miss the blinking red LED light).
Prior to the launch to Z10, many Wall Street analysts and early reviewers commented that Blackberry has done too little too late. I have disagreed. Perhaps it is because I really wanted Blackberry to succeed. Blackberry has never been known as a platform for apps (the java based OS is archaic) but it has several unique selling points such as BBM, excellent battery life and reliable email system that makes it as great “smartphone” until the arrival of Apple’s iPhone.
The Z10 comes with a new OS which is supposedly great at multitasking but in my experience, it puts such a drain on the battery life that makes the handset unusable. I understand that Blackberry has push through an OS update that rectifies the short battery life issue and Gmail integration bug but sadly this has come too late for me.
Blackberry will always have a soft spot in my heart. Maybe one day I will using a Blackberry again but given the escalating cost of handsets, switching between handsets and platforms isn’t cheap so Blackberry will need to do lots more before I will reconsider adopting the platform again. A QWERTY keyboard, BBM and the iconic red LED light isn’t enough in this day and age.
P.S. I am pleasantly surprised with the battery life of the iPhone 5 (maybe setting up the phone as a new device helps).
P.P.S. Whatsapp and Skype are still not available on the Blackberry ecosystem for Z10 at the time of writing.