We think too much and feel too little

"We think too much and feel too little " - Charlie Chaplin

Elvis Presley & Martina McBride - Blue Christmas

Blessed New Year 2011 !!

I would like to wish everyone a Happy and Blessed New Year 2011 !!

It's still not quite sinked in for me that it is already 2011 ...

Anyway, just to share two great new year videos:

BLESSED CHRISTMAS 2010 !

BLESSED CHRISTMAS !

Wow, it has been 1 year 17 days since this blog was updated. Well, nowadays with facebook, most of my updates are done through my facebook at http://www.facebook.com/wongyaping.

For the first time in decade, I have much more free time before Christmas, but unfortunately I fall sick for a week and only began to recover today on Christmas Eve 2010. So, at about 9pm, I set up my Christmas tree in hurry while talking to a visitor and half awake, take a look:

Well, it's really messy, will tidy it up a little tomorrow. To those who knew, it's the same tree year after year, hopefully next year would be something different.

Well, Christmas is not about Christmas tree and all the 'celebration', Christmas is not Christmas if it is Christmas in our hearts, the tree and the rest are just the 'fun' factors.

Christmas is always a time to refresh ourselves, to reflect on the year about to end and re-evaluate our life goals. Most importantly, it is a celebration of the Greatest Gift for each one of us.

My Christmas prayer for everyone that we may live our lives to the fullness, wonderfully and meaningfully,

There is this one particularly Christmas Song which I like the most every year, here is one nice one from YouTube, enjoy and Blessed Christmas everyone! (lyrics below)



Here are the lyrics:

Christmas isn’t Christmas ‘til it’s happens in your heart
Somewhere, deep inside you, is where Christmas really starts
So, give your heart to Jesus, you’ll discover when you do
That’s it Christmas, really Christmas for you.

Jesus brings warmth like a winter fire, a light like a candle’s glow
He’s waiting now to come inside, like He did so long ago
Jesus brings gifts of truth and life and makes them bloom and grow
So welcome Him with a song of joy, and when He comes you’ll know….

That Christmas isn’t Christmas ‘til it’s happens in your heart
Somewhere, deep inside you, is where Christmas really starts
So, give your heart to Jesus, you’ll discover when you do
That’s it Christmas, really Christmas for you.

On Leave But Working..... Oh no,... again !

Oh no, again, I am on leave but working just as in 2008 and in 2007. :(

Hope this is the last year having to do this. :(

Make me Thy fuel, Flame of God.

"Give me the Love that leads the way
The Faith that nothing can dismay
The Hope no disappointments tire
The Passion that'll burn like fire
Let me not sink to be a clod
Make me Thy fuel, Flame of God"
— Amy Carmichael

If I Can Dream

Hi everyone, it has been a long time this blog has been hibernating (nope, it is not dead) because I have been real busy the last few months.

Well, just as in my previous two blog entries, i just want to share a video which I really enjoy...here it goes:

Celine Dion and Elvis Duet on American Idol 2007:


I have not been watching American Idol for long long time, I actually missed this back in 2007!!

This song was recorded by Presley in June 1968, two months after Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination, this song is based on the famous King's "I Have a Dream" speech

Elvis's original performance:


or (I can't seems to find a clearer version of this video):




There must be lights burning brighter somewhere
Got to be birds flying higher in a sky more blue
If I can dream of a better land
Where all my brothers walk hand in hand
Tell me why, oh why, oh why cant my dream come true

There must be peace and understanding sometime
Strong winds of promise that will blow away
All the doubt and fear
If I can dream of a warmer sun
Where hope keeps shining on everyone
Tell me why, oh why, oh why wont that sun appear

Were lost in a cloud
With too much rain
Were trapped in a world
Thats troubled with pain
But as long as a man
Has the strength to dream
He can redeem his soul and fly

Deep in my heart theres a trembling question
Still I am sure that the answer gonna come somehow
Out there in the dark, theres a beckoning candle
And while I can think, while I can talk
While I can stand, while I can walk
While I can dream, please let my dream
Come true, right now
Let it come true right now