"You've Got To Find What You Love"

For reasons as I am writing about Steve Paul Jobs recently, who is the co-founder and chief executive officer of Apple Inc. I am glad to know that Steve loves photography and music. For a long time Steve's home was only decorated with large black-and-white photographs. And he describes himself as an audiophile: after he became rich, one of the only pieces of furniture he bought was a US$100,000 stereo system.
Now we start from Steve's early years. After Steve graduated from high school in California, he enrolled in Reed College in Portland, Oregon. As he had dropped out the normal classes of Reed College, he could dropped in auditing a calligraphy class that he interested in. Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country. He said, "I learned about serif and san serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great." He later stated, "If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts." It has a great influence on all the Macintosh line of computers, the iPod, the iPhone as well as the iPad later on. The Macintosh became the first commercially successful small computer with a graphical user interface. He continued, "And since Windows just copied the Mac, it's likely that no personal computer would have them. If I had never dropped out, I would have never dropped in on this calligraphy class, and personal computers might not have the wonderful typography that they do."
Steve loves The Beatles. He has referenced them on more than one occasion at Keynotes. He has also described his business model as The Beatles in the magazine 60 Minutes. But his favorite musician is definitely Bob Dylan, whose tunes he played throughout his youth with his guitar at home. He would discuss the lyrics with his friends. In an unauthorized biography, The Second Coming of Steve Jobs, Steve dated Joan Baez during the late 1970s and early 1980s. A number of sources have stated that Steve had considered asking Baez to marry him. Some people believe he dated Joan Baez mostly because she was Dylan’s ex. I remember when I had to record the song "Diamonds And Rust" that was originally sung and composed by Joan Baez, I had just noticed about that.
"I'm convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. You've got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle."
So, "keep looking until you find it."

Dots 點滴

Steve Jobs, "You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards."
你不能把生活的點點滴滴在這刻串連起來；只有當你在未來時回顧，你才會明白那些點滴是如何串連在一起的。

The Wizard of Oz

Title character of the 1900 book by L. Frank Baum, who tells the Tin Woodsman, "A heart is not judged by how much you love but by how much you are loved by others."

遺失手提電話

今天在外地終於遺失了一部手提電話。「終於」是因為以前一不留神手電就會不見了，最離譜的一次是一天內先後連續遺失兩部！自此以後變得加倍小心，有幸這數年來再也沒有發生過同類事件，於是這部N82一用就用上好幾年——直至今天。
雖然早陣子想過轉用iPhone，但始終沒有實際行動；雖然iPhone有很多我喜愛的功能，但我對這部N82有感情，有更多我喜愛的東西．．．
當然有點失落，患得患失，或者是時候終結，好像終止一段莫名關係，是解脫？

forever young．forever love 青春與愛情

不經不覺已經到了二零零九年的十二月，回想起大約半年前開始構想製作新的一輯英文發燒唱片，結果找來已認識多年的Band友麥皓輪先生(Holun Mak)和他合作無間的音樂好拍擋葉建華先生(Keith Yip)一起監製了《forever young．forever love》這張英文HiFi大碟。他倆是香港樂壇以致發燒唱片界屹立超過二十年而真正懂音樂的少數資深唱片製作人。

「青春」與「愛情」相信是人們一直不變的思考議題。
古詩有云：「只要人心活著，青春總有來時。」青春可比喻美好的時光、珍貴的年華。
在此專輯裡收錄了一首點題作品〈Forever Young〉，其中歌詞道：
「Youth's like diamonds in the sun, and diamonds are forever...」意思是：
「青春就像陽光下的鑽石，而鑽石是永恆的．．．」

那麼何謂愛情？在不同時代有不同的定義。現代定義為:「兩個人基於一定的物質條件和共同的人生理想，在各自內心形成對對方最真摯的仰慕，並渴望對方成為自己終身伴侶的最強烈、穩定、及專一的感情。」很抽象吧?我也似懂非懂。我們都渴望擁有青春，更想擁有愛情，把最美好珍貴的統統留住。我不介意唱別人的歌，能觸動心弦的就是好歌，即使已有成千上萬各有特色的版本，珠玉在前，還是值得一唱再唱，百花齊放。再者現今科技發達，由編曲、彈奏、演唱、錄音，到混音及母帶後期製作，每一部分皆可更上一層樓，精益求精，那怕是再舊的老歌，也可再次勾起點點回憶，甚或當作新歌亦未嘗不可，這樣好歌或許傳揚更久遠，就是永恆。

Try To...

Try to appreciate and please people around you, especially people who care about you.

I Really Care About...

Show your care to the one you really care.

長久關係（二）

不同的人在不同的時間、空間，對不同的事物會有不同的體會或見解，有效的溝通是一段健康關係的長久之重要關鍵。

長久關係

一段關係的長久取決於默契。

等價相對論

想念對方的同時，對方可能也同時在想你；
你是愛對方的，對方也應該是愛你的；
你在生氣時，對方可能比你更生氣；
若感覺被傷害了，對方也可能同時受傷害．．．

Leave and Love

"I have something to tell you
And I know it won't be easy
I've been thinking these past few days
It might be time to leave

You're like a stranger
Then you're a lover
Never the same always hard to believe

I'm caught between goodbye and I love you
Never knowing quite where I stand
I'm caught between goodbye and I love you
Falling both ways nowhere to land
So constantly stranded
I can't understand it
This double life you've handed me
Is like the devil and the deep blue sea

If we go on much longer
If my doubts grow any stronger
Then I may have to let you go
If only to survive

Give me a reason
Why should I stay here
I've tried so hard
Just to keep love alive......"

物極必反

一個晚上，幾個親密摯友飯後閒聊，天南地北，無所不談。其中有人提到《太極圖》，還認真地即席畫了起來．．．

太極是中國思想史上一個重要概念，是指宇宙最原始的基因，形成萬物的本源。《太極圖》原叫《無極圖》，跟據史書記載，《太極圖》有不同的闡釋，其中有一種簡捷的畫法：一條曲線將它分為兩半，形成一半白、一半黑；白代表陽，黑代表陰，白中有一個黑點，黑中又有一個白點，表示陽中有陰，陰中有陽。寓意陰陽對立但又互相聯結的統一體，蘊含和諧、對稱、平衡、循環、稳定等原理。

愈愛，可能壓力愈大，物極必反．．．

愛與害

永遠不要只用自己的方式去愛，因各人的感受不同，否則可能弄巧反拙，愛變成害。

超出你所想

總以為自己為對方付出很多，事實可能是對方默默付出的，早已超出想像。

放手 Let Go

愛不是擁有。

愛不是遊戲

愛不是猜心的遊戲。

反應

愛與被愛，
主動或被動，
無奈的是沒有互動。

患難見真情

在你軟弱的時候，最擔憂的，不離不棄，必最愛你。

交流

伴侶最重要是能分享和分擔，互相扶持和鼓勵，心靈滿足，不會寂寞。

愛是．．．

愛是一種發乎內心的情感，可能因為愛是情感之首位，所以愛是美術最普遍的主題。
愛是主動以真心對待某個人或物，使整體得到快樂。

「愛是恆久忍耐，又有恩慈；愛是不嫉妒，愛是不自誇，不張狂，不作害羞的事，不求自己的益處，不輕易發怒，不計算人的惡，不喜歡不義，只喜歡真理；凡事包容，凡事相信，凡事盼望，凡事忍耐；愛是永不止息。」—哥林多前書 13:4-7

多年前曾經在一個公開表演場合演唱前背誦過這樣的一段經文，相信很多人都會覺得似曾相識，即使不是教徒，亦可能從小就已經聽過或接觸過類似的台詞對白、詩詞歌賦，自己亦忘了是什麼時候對這段文字有印象，只依稀記得大概的內容，後來從朋友口中得知這是聖經新約全書內一段頗出名的經文，細看後從此愛上，還經常自我警惕，愛人如己，愛使生命更有意義。