Starry Starry Night…

I first heard this song in secondary school, when I went for a musical by some school or society. Quite a nice song. So here it is, the lyrics:

Vincent (Starry, Starry Night)
Language: English / Music and Lyrics by Don McLean

Original lyrics

Starry, starry night,
Paint your palette blue and gray,
Look out on a summer’s day
With eyes that know the darkness in my soul.
Shadows on the hills,
Sketch the trees and daffodils,
Catch the breeze and the winter chills
In colors on the snowy linen land.Now, I understand
What you tried to say to me,
How you suffered for your sanity,
How you tried to set them free.
They would not listen.
They did not know how.
Perhaps, they’ll listen now.

Starry, starry night,
Flaming flowers that brightly blaze
Swirling clouds in violent haze,
Reflecting Vincent’s eyes that shine of blue,
Colors changing hue,
Morning fields of amber grain,
Weathered faces lined in pain
Are soothed beneath the artist’s loving hand.

Now I understand
What you tried to say to me,
How you suffered for your sanity,
How you tried to set them free.
They would not listen.
They did not know how.
Perhaps, they’ll listen now.

For they could not love you
But still your love was true.
And when no hope was left in sight
On that starry, starry night,
You took your life as lovers often do.
But, I could have told you, Vincent,
This world was never meant for one as beautiful as you.

Starry, starry night,
Portraits hung in empty halls,
Frameless heads on nameless walls
With eyes that watch the world and can’t forget.
Like the strangers that you’ve met
The ragged men in ragged clothes,
The silver thorn, the bloody rose
Lie crushed and broken on the virgin snow.

Now I think I know
What you tried to say to me,
How you suffered for your sanity
How you tried to set them free.
They would not listen.
They’re not listening still.
Perhaps, they never will.

If you like, go find out more about the story… Hmm…

Strange thing, but I tend to look into my English songs folder when, let’s say, something happened…

Ok, got 2 of my modules. I am all prepared to die this coming semester. It’s die, dying, or dead. So… erm…

Argh. What am I trying to say?

Maybe it’s the wall.

Haiz.

Yeah, I should just keep quiet sometimes too… or rather, just keep myself away. Far far away…

But I don’t think I can…

I shall just off my computers and go to sleep. But before that, publish this entry…

And then, something interesting I found when I was searching for entry titles with the word “night” in it. Found the entry that contained the content of an email forward, and I scrolled, and read:

To My Friends Who Are…………AFRAID TO CONFESS
???????????
Love hurts when you break up with someone. It hurts even more when someone breaks up with you. But love hurts the most when the person you love has no idea how you feel.
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Oh well… Haiz…

Tutorial on how to make a nice nice star using Adobe Photoshop:

create a new file.
use the shape tool, select the ellipse tool, press on [ctrl], and drag to create a perfect circle. Apply gaussian blur on the circle.
create a new layer. Select the pencil tool. Click and hold on 1 point, and while pressing on [ctrl], draw a straight line. Do another straight line perpendicular to it, ie crosshair.
Use gaussian blur on the crosshair.
align the 2 layers, and while pressing shift, right click and select the other layer, so that they are linked.
From the menu, select “merge layers”.
Tada! Star!

My star was created on a dark blue background, and a white foreground colour to draw the lines. Change the colours as you desire…

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