What is life?

Enjoyable song that I enjoyed all along. by Franz Ferdinand.

So if you’re lonely
You know I’m here waiting for you
I’m just a crosshair
I’m just a shot away from you
And if you leave here
You leave me broken, shattered, I lie
I’m just a crosshair
I’m just a shot, then we can die

I know I won’t be leaving here with you

I say don’t you know
You say you don’t know
I say… take me out!

I say you don’t show
Don’t move, time is slow
I say… take me out!

I say you don’t know
You say you don’t know
I say… take me out!

If I move this could die
If eyes move this could die
I want you…to take me out!

I know I won’t be leaving here (with you)
I know I won’t be leaving here
I know I won’t be leaving here (with you)
I know I won’t be leaving here with you

I say don’t you know?
You say you don’t know
I say take me out

If I wane, this can die
If I wane, this can die
I want you to take me out

If I move, this could die
If eyes move, this could die
Come on, take me out

I know I won’t be leaving here
I know I won’t be leaving here
I know I won’t be leaving here
I know I won’t be leaving here with you

A beautiful song by the Fray. Gotta love piano rock bands:

"How To Save A Life"

Step one you say we need to talk
He walks you say sit down it’s just a talk
He smiles politely back at you
You stare politely right on through
Some sort of window to your right
As he goes left and you stay right
Between the lines of fear and blame
And you begin to wonder why you came

Where did I go wrong, I lost a friend
Somewhere along in the bitterness
And I would have stayed up with you all night
Had I known how to save a life

Let him know that you know best
Cause after all you do know best
Try to slip past his defense
Without granting innocence
Lay down a list of what is wrong
The things you’ve told him all along
And pray to God he hears you
And pray to God he hears you

Where did I go wrong, I lost a friend
Somewhere along in the bitterness
And I would have stayed up with you all night
Had I known how to save a life

As he begins to raise his voice
You lower yours and grant him one last choice
Drive until you lose the road
Or break with the ones you’ve followed
He will do one of two things
He will admit to everything
Or he’ll say he’s just not the same
And you’ll begin to wonder why you came

Where did I go wrong, I lost a friend
Somewhere along in the bitterness
And I would have stayed up with you all night
Had I known how to save a life

Well you could have guessed, our country has flooded with foreign workers doing work that no one else would do: housekeeping, construction, waiting at tables at a local coffee shop and so on. It’s not that is a problem or something, while our country has an open door-policy to welcome foreign workforce, it inevitably has created a new community within our already diverse Malaysian community.

Well, this is what I saw opposite my house. Two of my neighbours across the street both have foreign maids to babysit their kids. While the kids are at play, the maids are chatting away as they collect their laundry outside their yards. I was there thinking: that’s the same activities housewives like my mom and her neighbours did few years ago! I wonder where are the mothers and the whole "community spirit" gone to.

When it is nice and dandy to include a new element of our community, sometimes they are the ones causing the problem in the society. A lot of cases of petty crimes are mostly invovled foreign workers, stirring up the not-so peaceful community here.

Foreign workforce: A growing community I say.

Yes it’s now 2007, i had pretty much a year filled with ups and downs back in 2006 and I expect this year will be better.

I slowed down my blogging habits nowadays… seems to be nothing much to complain about in life. perhaps i gained a better perspective of how i view life? perhaps, perhaps…

i am turning 20 in 3 months, means i have a "transitional period" between an adult and teenager. Yea, i hate the feeling lost of sense of belonging, not a teen and also an adult that is.

Anyways, life is still worthy to life with challenges to face like family, work, relationships, friends and financial (apparently it is a main issue of being a unemployed student). See what life does to a late teenager! Or a teenager has to do to his life? Either way it is a demanding 2007 ahead…