The world don’t smile
The world don’t smile
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RokTabs

 

If you don’t smile, the world will stop smiling at you. It is a give and take. People are selfish. They would try to avoid anything that will make them feel uneasy, things that will not make their day. The world is cruel. The world is not that friendly. The world will only be friendly with the person who is friendly to the world.

Take things easy as it comes. Take things easy as it goes. Take things the way it is. Just take it. We cannot control what comes to us. But we can control how to take it. Many times we take it harder than it actually comes. Why? Because it concerns with the set of value, the set of hopes, the set of aspirations that we have. We protect our territory. We guard it with fear and aggression. We just hope that we would be right at all time while we are not really bothered whether it would wrong someone; yes, as long as it is proven to us that we are right, even by ourselves, alone.

A Door

A house where we feel we belong, where we love, is called “home”. Our home is the place we find most comfortable to live in. We can do whatever we want (and people around us will accept because we grow up and are taught what to or not to do as a norm in our home.). We dare push boundaries sometimes because we know how much rules can be bended.

 

Imagine yourself owning a house, you will decorate it the way you want with furniture, kitchenware, paintings, ceramic tiles, etc. You will not allow when something awkward (or you think it is awkward) to invade into your home – funny furniture, funny paintings etc. When you go shopping your mind will start to scan at the products that you want to see fit into your home.

 

Our mind is our home. We are comfortable with the color we paint. We are comfortable with the curtain style, the armchairs, the wall, the kitchen, bed sheets etc. We will not allow something “off” to be a part of our home unless it gets the role in making “our home” ours.

 

 

I Will Plant Flower This Weekend.

I was born on July 21st 1964. It was the luck as I was told to have me born in the family. We did some rice trading, up from provincial towns to the city. The business was all right before I was born, sufficient enough to care well for a family to live comfortable life. After I was born, on the very day I was born, my dad for the first time got a contract to export rice to Europe. After that first contract, the business started to expand. Now our business covers, name it, A-Z, an airlines, beverage factories, properties, telecommunication, department stores, chained supermarkets etc. I cannot even count if some one asks me on the spot. I know all of them, of course, but it takes some certain amount of time to count and recount to make sure that I will not miss any. Never mind, I never bother to count them anyway.

 

You Beat Me to Shine

Darkness steals the light
In your eyes thunder strikes
I dance I sing I tap I fall
I want you to know how much I try
You beat me to shine

Darkness steals the night
In my mind thunder strikes
Every day every night, I sweat
Never want you to see my mind, I cry.
You just deem that I can shine

Darkness leaves, the light shines
My dark corner hides
I dance I sing. I tap
Laughter, sheer, joy in front of my eyes.

Now I shine as you mold me to shine
Daylight, my glory rises
I shine as bright
Every night I sing, every night I tap, every single night I fly
Your eyes are in my mind
I hide the darkness, now I shine

I search for love, I long for caring tenderness
I look at all eyes around me,
I look at all the stars surround me
I just realize not a friendly eye I can really see

Darkness widens, my mind, sinister night
In their eyes thunder strikes
I dance I sing I tap and I fall
They just laugh at the sight
I can’t shine, I cry
I can’t really shine as bright,