Who Makes You Feel sung by Dido

I don't touch you the way I used to
I don't call and write when I’m away
We don't make love as often as we did do
what couldn't wait now waits and usually goes away

But listen and think when I say it
Oh but listen and think when I say it
Who makes you feel the way that I make you feel
Who loves you and knows you the way I do
Who touches you and holds you quite like I do
Who makes you feel like I make you feel

I don't mind if you come home late
I don't ever ask you
where you've been
I just assume if there's a problem
you'll tell me

But listen and think when I say it
Oh but listen and think when I say it
Who makes you feel the way that I make you feel
Who loves you and knows you the way I do
Who touches you and holds you quite like I do
Who makes you feel like I make you feel
Who makes you feel like I make you feel
Who makes you feel like I make you feel

Being weak when I am strong
Being seen, who you are
Being sad and love's not alone

But listen and think when I say it
Oh but listen and think when I say it
Who makes you feel the way that I make you feel
Who loves you and knows you the way I do
Who touches you and holds you quite like I do
Who makes you feel like I make you feel
Who makes you feel the way that I make you feel

Who loves you and knows you the way I do
Who touches you and holds you quite like I do
Who makes you feel like I make you feel
Who makes you feel like I make you feel
Who makes you feel like I make you feel
Who makes you feel like I make you feel

Who makes you feel……..

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Ok lets reflect on this song. To me its a cool song. Yeah, its a love song or a frustration song or a sad lover's song or a song about someone trying to make another understand/remind/reassure about the feelings that they have. Its saying everything and nothing at the same time. Cool....

My translation to the lyric is, she's trying to reassure her lover that she still loves him and eventhough they don't do things together, she will still be there for him. She's telling him that she will not ask him or push him to talk. She wants him, on his own free will to open himself up to her, if there are things that need to be talked about (cool, I believe in that too.. actually it takes time for me to open up).

Ok to me the things that make a relationship are these: trust, respect, understanding, getting to know, accepting the person for who they are, a dash of sacrifice, a little bit of compromising, care, honesty, comfortable with each other, lots of forgiveness, patience, giving space, letting each other grow, supportive, live in the present, look forward to the future and let the past stays as the past (a memory, an experience). Sharing a life together. Going through and facing all the happiness, hardship, obstacles, sadness, arguments, the phase, the craziness, disagreements and disappointments together. Holding hands, standing by each other side and facing life together (the ride of life!). Able to see the other growing old with you. Lets be sensible and realistic, nothing is easy or uncomplicated or simple when it comes to any relationships. Its how you handle it and willing to make it work, together. In the end its sharing. Sharing a life..

COMPETE, CONQUEST AND ALWAYS BEING RIGHT...

These are the things that make the human race ‘tick’. They give a meaning to the sad pathetic meaningless lives in this world. Wouldn’t you agree with me? (I can actually hear some disagreements after the paragraph was read.) Give it a thought for a minute. When was the last time you did not compete? Who or what was your last conquest? The last time you have a smirk on your face when you have findings of an argument on a topic, as to proof that you were right? Done thinking? I have the strongest feeling that the answer would never be ‘I never…..’. Most of you will agree with me but then you would say life is not pathetic or meaningless. It is exciting, challenging and fun. *psch* yeah right… So why are there so many suicidal, homicidal, depressed and crazy people around?

But….

If we don’t compete (you’d say), we will be losing out on that promotions, games, matches, getting the best… yada yada yada = (what I hear) I WIN! YOU LOSE! Selfishness. Self-centered…. Yes you can compete but how you do it shows who you truly are. Will you let others win once in awhile?

Conquests of the unknown, heights, fears,… is to make you a better and stronger person. Conquest of a country or a place or a person,… War, compete, mind games,.. Well, it benefits the conquered because you will make it/she/he to have a better life… yada yada yada = I’m The Best! Bow you down to me, The Conqueror! Does not your conscience surface to hunt you, for the people that you have to kill, stepped on, hurt and the breaking of their spirits? Do you have any conscience in the first place???

It is not a sin for Always Being Right, in finding, knowing and pointing out the truth. Yep, no sins there. It is good to share the information that you’ve found with the person and OTHERS around. At least you set the record straight…. Bla bla bla di da = I’m RIGHT! You are WRONG! How would you feel if you were the one who got it wrong? And the other person points it out with a smirk on his/her face in front of everyone? So what if you knew you were right? Sometimes … Silence is Gold.

Being humble is one of the most respectful and most worthy of being. It does not mean that you are a loser or lower than anyone in the world. It shows how knowledgeable and understanding you are about the shortcomings of the human race. Not too humble though, not to the point that will make you look like a dolt. Moderate humbility (hehehee.. I like making up words, as far as people understand what I’m trying to say).

Anyway, you are who you are. You have the right to be a pretentious goodie two shoes who in truth is a bad to the bone person. Or a someone who have goodness in every single cell person, and you are trying hard to stay afloat in this world with your beliefs. Don’t try too hard to please people and deceive them. To make them believe who you are not. It would eventually shows. You can fool a majority of them who are shallow but there are a few whom you can’t.

Just Thoughts ~

Its 2am now... so I have insomnia. *psch!*...

As for music.. I like listening to good music... Any kind, if its good to my ears, I will favour it. But then it all depends on the mood. Wanted to say 'occassion' but then...... 'occassion' music usually depends on the mood too.. Really.

For me I would prefer jazz and blues. I like it ~ smooth, sensuous, cool, relaxing. Oh, I like other types of music too. But jazz & blues are like, 2am in the morning, listening to Katie Malua, Blues In The Night, or Tracy Chapman, At This Point In My Life, or Sade (my all time favourite singer!), Somebody Already Broke My Heart (no joke, its playing right now while I'm typing this!), very calming. I know its a bit, um.., low, but then to me its calming and make me think about a whole lot of things. HMMmmmm....

My favourite! when its raining outside, this is what I always do; a cup of hot coffee, a good book, soft jazzy or blues music in the background, sitting on my white sofa by the big open window.... The soft sound and smell of fresh rain, the coffee, the book, the music.... the atmosphere.... its like Heaven on earth... For those of you who have been to my place (picture), you know what it is like. You can imagine yourself having a rainy day at a place like mine. Beautiful isn't it...?

Yeah, you can call me a romantic... a true blue romantic. Believe it or not.. I am. I have to accept that I am one (saying this with laughter of disbelief that I've confessed, acknowledged it, at last!), just like any other girls out there. The only problem is, I don't usually show it or ask for it or hint or whatever other girls do to get it known.... I have a bad habit of holding back (maybe due to some reasons), what I truly wanted to do was ~ to hold, to caress, to kiss the hair at the nape, to give flutterfly kisses all over the face, the shoulders, the palm of the hands.... To touch lightly.., trailing.., explore the face with my fingertips; the curve of the brows, the bridge to the tip of the nose,.. the soft lips.., the chin.., the jawline..... and then kissing those soft lips....

....*sigh*....
heheheee... Nice right? Romantic? I know what to do. What need to be done. How it's to be done. What to say. These are advises I give to my friends. As for myself... I get stumped, can't even move, can't say the things I want to, can't express myself in any way about how I truly feel... thats when I am with the affection of my heart..... Well, back to the music!

Diana Krall is another favourite of mine. Imagine this! Bought 2 cds of hers and both are gone! Even my Red Hot Chilli Peppers - Californiacation, 2 of those, both dissappeared! My Alicia Keys, gone (went to her concert in 2004. She's pretty! Pretty HOT!)... Nevermind. Now, whatever cds I have, I save it in my pc. Not only will it be saved, I can use WMP to choose all the music I want to play at that moment. Oh! I listen to Portishead (too bad only 2 albums)... Ying&Yang, Gotan Project, MC Solar, Gorrillaz, The Streets, Duke Ellington (one of the best!), Michael Buble, Cold Play, Missy Elliot, Oasis, Quincy Jones, Simply Red, Metallica (went to their concert. All I can say is WOW!) Sting, Katie Melua, Louie Armstrong, Dean Martin, Barry White (*sigh*!!! the voice! the voice!), Chris Isaak, The Fugees (salute to them!), James Blunt, Kanye West, Lighthouse Family, Moby, U2, Black Eyed Peas, Fatboy Slim, Dido.... lots and lots more...

As you can see my taste in music is very diverse. Hey thats me... I even listen to some classical (thanks Uncle Halim & Sven, for introducing me to them) and a little bit of opera (thanks Sven, eventhough I don't understand but the vibe, volume, strong voice, of the singer.. wow!)
I'm going to start on my blog all the links to my favourite singers and bands websites (if I can find them or if they are available).

Yeah... I'm going to do all of that.

AGORAPHOBIA by Linda Pastan

Ok this is a really good poem. Read it and see if you can understand what she was really saying. It can be telling something else besides her attachment to her house. Its more than that. That is why I found this poem in the 'Relationship' category. Well thats what I think, as I read this poem to the end. Before she start her poem, she include a poem from Shakespeare.

"Yesterday the bird of night did sit,
Even at noon-day,
upon the marketplace,
Hooting and shrieking." —William Shakespeare

1.
Imagine waking
to a scene of snow so new
not even memories
of other snow
can mar its silken
surface. What other innocence
is quite like this,
and who can blame me
for refusing
to violate such whiteness
with the booted cruelty
of tracks?

2.
Though I cannot leave this house,
I have memorized the view
from every window—
23 framed landscapes, containing
each nuance of weather and light.
And I know the measure
of every room, not as a prisoner
pacing a cell
but as the embryo knows
the walls of the womb, free
to swim as its body tells it, to nudge
the softly fleshed walls,
dreading only the moment
of contraction when it will be forced
into the gaudy world.

3.
Sometimes I travel as far
as the last stone
of the path, but
every step,
as in the children's story,
pricks that tender place
on the bottom of the foot,
and like an ebbing tide with all
the obsession of the moon behind it,
I am dragged back.

4.
I have noticed in windy fall
how leaves are torn from the trees,
each leaf waving goodbye to the oak
or the poplar that housed it;
how the moon, pinned
to the very center of the window,
is like a moth wanting only to break in.
What I mean is this house
follows all the laws of lintel and ridgepole,
obeys the commandments of broom
and of needle, custom and grace.
It is not fear that holds me here but passion
and the uncrossable moat of moonlight
outside the bolted doors.