thread of hope的八卦，PTT、PINTEREST、YOUTUBE和Yahoo名人娛樂都在討論

Just a gentle reminder that each bead, each thread from their sacred woven cloth, the intricacy of their headgear, each bear MEANING and significance.

A reminder that the indigenous people are the ones who are born into a lineage of wealth carrying with them the teachings of their ancestors, and that wealth comes in the form of wisdom and connection to this beautiful planet of ours, the wisdom that you and I may have forgotten.

Here are a few strong warriors who bring with them that wealth of knowledge wherever they go. With their messages strong so you and I can listen and discover more about US. ALL OF US.

I am from Sarawak and have Sabahan familial ties and I too carry an immense pride with me during my travels around the world. In whatever way I can. Through my songs, through the accessories I wear that were given to me, through my bright eyes whenever I speak about where I was born.

These beautiful Bornean women make me prouder everyday. Seeing their journey into full force and bloom.

I will not speak unkindly here about the unkind words someone has placed on the peoples’ sacred garment (coz I expressed most of it on Twitter). But I do hope this has all been a learning journey for us all.

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สาวโสดอย่าเพิ่งหมดหวัง!

ถ้ารักพังนัก ขาดกำลังใจ จะไปทางไหนดี เลี้ยวเข้าหาองค์เทพเลยดีกว่า เคยเขียนเรื่องนี้ “ไหว้พระ สละโสดจริง” ลงคลีโอ ปรากฏว่าเกิดปรากฎการณ์สาวๆ ตามไปไหว้กันจริงๆ ล้นหลาม หลายคนแอบบอกว่า “ภายใน 1 เดือน มีผู้เข้ามาในชีวิตจริงๆ” เลยอยากเล่าอีกครั้งค่ะ เรื่องราวของท่าน เทพเจ้าด้ายแดง

เริ่มจากไปฮ่องกง ตื่นเช้าๆ ประมาณก่อนเก้าโมง เดินทางไปเลย วัดหวังต้าเซียน ใครแวะซื้อดอกไม้สดได้ เลือกดอกที่ชอบ สีที่ชอบ ไปด้วยใจ ไปไหว้เทพกันที่วัดนี้! ในวัดหวังต้าเซียนมีองค์เทพศักดิ์สิทธิ์อยู่หลายท่านด้วยกัน แต่สาวโสดที่อยากขอพรเรื่องความรัก แนะนำว่าให้ตั้งจิตนิ่งๆ เดินไปตรงหน้าท่านเทพเจ้าด้ายแดงกันเลย มีกิมมิคขลังๆ เล็กน้อยตอนไหว้ด้วย..

เทพเจ้าด้ายแดงท่านเป็นเทพที่มีชื่อจีนว่า เทพเจ้าหยกโหลว แปลว่าเทพเจ้าแห่งความรัก ท่านมากัน 3 องค์ สีทองอร่าม สังเกตดีๆ จะมีสายโยงกันเหมือนเป็นด้ายสีแดงใหญ่ๆ เชื่อมท่านทั้ง 3 องค์ไว้ องค์กลางคือองค์ท่านเทพ ดูอาวุโสหน่อย ในมือท่านเหมือนถือตำราอะไรสักอย่าง ข้างซ้ายท่านเป็นเทพเจ้าสาว และข้างขวาเป็นเทพเจ้าบ่าว

ก่อนไหว้มีพิธีกรรมเล็กๆ ท่องไว้เลยว่า “ห้ามทำด้ายหลุดมือเด็ดขาด” ถ้าไม่ชัวร์แนะนำให้ซ้อมให้ดีก่อนไหว้ท่าน ข้างหน้าท่านจะมีป้ายบอกวิธีสอดด้ายแดงที่นิ้ว ไม่ต้องกลัวว่าจะทำไม่เป็น ทำได้แน่นอน และตรงนั้นจะมีลุงคนหนึ่งคอยยืนแนะนำด้วย ไม่ชัวร์ก็เดินไปถามลุงเลย

นิ้วที่ใช่คือ นิ้วนางมาแตะนิ้วโป้งทั้ง 2 มือพร้อมกัน แล้วเอานิ้วก้อยมือขวาสอดรูของนิ้วนางข้างซ้าย เอานิ้วก้อยมือซ้าย สอดรูนิ้วนางข้างขวา เช่นนั้นแหละ… เมื่อนิ้วพร้อมแล้ว คราวนี้ก็มาถึงใจเรา

สำคัญคือใจต้องนิ่งๆ อย่าสงสัย อย่าคิดไม่ดี โดยเฉพาะอย่าคิดว่า อย่างเราไม่น่าจะเจอคนที่ใช่หรอก บิ๊วด์ศรัทธามาเอ่อๆ ในใจไว้เยอะๆ และต้องเปิดใจหนักๆ เลย คือต้องอย่าตัดสินตัวเอง และอย่าตัดสินใคร คิดว่าคนรักที่ดี เขาอาจมาในแบบที่เราไม่คาดฝัน และเราเจอเขาแน่นอน มีลิสต์ผู้ชายที่เราอยากให้เขามาเป็นคู่ไว้ในใจนะ แนะนำว่าเอาที่สมน้ำสมเนื้อ คนดีมีน้ำใจ ช่วยเหลือเกื้อกูลเรา เป็นเพื่อนที่ดีสำหรับชีวิตเรา ร่วมทุกข์ร่วมสุขไปด้วยกัน และรักเราที่เป็นเราอะไรแบบนี้

นิ้วพร้อม ใจพร้อมแล้ว เริ่มทำนิ้ว แล้วเดินไปหยิบด้ายแดงมาสอดตามนิ้ว เอานิ้วชี้และนิ้วกลางหนีบด้ายไว้ ห้ามปล่อยด้ายหลุดมือนะ เดินมายืนหน้าท่านเทพ เคารพองค์อาวุโสตรงกลาง 3 ครั้ง ตั้งนะโมตัสสะด้วย 3 จบ และสำหรับผู้หญิง เราต้องเดินไปขอคู่ที่องค์เจ้าสาวก่อน ก็เดินไปตรงหน้าท่าน แล้วไหว้ท่าน 3 ครั้ง แล้วตั้งจิตขอผู้ชายคนนั้นกับท่านเลย ลงดีเทลไปเลยนะ เสร็จแล้วเดินไปที่รูปปั้นเจ้าบ่าว ใช้มือลูบที่เท้าท่าน 3 ครั้ง ถึงตอนนี้ก็ยังห้ามปล่อยด้ายนะ ใช้มือที่จับด้ายทั้งสองลูบเท้าท่าน 3 ครั้ง ประมาณว่าท่านได้โปรดเมตตา ส่งผู้ชายคนนั้นมาทีเถอะ

แล้วก็ปล่อยมือออกได้ เอาด้ายแดงผูกไว้ที่เชือกตรงไหนก็ได้ หรือจะผูกให้สูงๆ เอาให้ใกล้หัวใจท่านที่สุดนี่ล่ะ เป็นอันเสร็จพิธี ทำใจนิ่งๆ ไปยืนต่อหน้าองค์เทพทั้ง 3 อธิษฐานซ้ำอีกครั้ง ขอให้คำขอของเราเป็นจริงด้วยเถิด

สังเกตนะว่าตอนนั้นถ้าอยู่ดีๆ มีลมพัดวูบมา หรือมีฝนพรำ หรืออะไรแปลกๆ ก็แล้วแต่ อาจแปลได้ว่าท่านรับรู้แล้ว หลังจากนั้นก็ศรัทธาต่อไป เชื่อเถอะว่าผู้หญิงอย่างเรา มีคู่ดีๆ ได้แน่นอน ขอแค่เปิดใจ และลองมองคนที่ไม่คิดจะมองดูบ้าง เขาอาจมาเหนือ ดีขึ้นๆๆๆ จนเราต้องพูดกับตัวเองว่า “ดีนะที่ไม่มองข้ามเขาไป” ลองดูนะคะ :)
Single ladies don't lose hope!

If love is broken, where should I go? Turn to the goddess. " pay homage to the real bachelorette " to Cleo. It turns out that there is a phenomenon. Girls follow each other. Many people secretly say " Within 1 months, there are people who come in life. " so i want to tell you again. The story of the red God.

Starting to leave Hong Kong. Wake up early before nine o'clock. Let's go to wat hope ta Sian. Anyone who can stop by to buy fresh flowers, choose your favorite color. Go with your heart. Let's go to pay respect to the In wat hope ta Sian, there are many holy gods together. But single girls who want to ask for love, suggest that you to keep your mind to walk in front of the red thread God. There are a few magical gimmick while paying respect too..

The Red Thread God. He is a Chinese name of Jade God. It means the gods of love. He comes 3 Golden Buddha. Notice well. There will be a big red thread. Connect All 3 of them. The middle one is the Lord. Look senior in his hand. It's like holding a book. On the left side is a God and the right side is a God.

Before paying respect, there is a small ritual. Let's remember that " do not lose your hand if you are not sure, I recommend you to practice well before paying respect to him. You will be a sign to tell you how to put red thread on your finger. Don't be And there will be an uncle to introduce me. If you are not sure, just walk to ask uncle.

The right finger is her finger to touch all 2 thumbs at the same time and put the pinky finger on her right hand in her left finger. Put her left finger on her right finger... when the finger is ready, this time comes to our heart.

The important thing is that you need to be calm. Don't doubt. Don't think bad things. Especially don't think that we shouldn't meet the right person. Big faith in my heart and you have to open your heart. Don't judge yourself and don't judge anyone. Think that you love. Well, he may come in a way we didn't expect and we met him for sure. There is a list of men that we want him to be a couple in our heart. I suggest that they deserve the good people, generous people, help. We are good friends for our lives. Let's join together and love us for being us. Something like this.

Fingers are ready. My heart is ready. Start making fingers. Walk to pick up red thread to put the finger and middle finger and middle finger. Don't let the thread fall off. Walk to stand in front of the senior goddess in the middle 3 times. Mot cuddle sasa with 3 ends and for women, we have to walk to ask for a couple that the bride first, then walk in front of him and pay respect to him 3 times and ask that man with him. So I posted it's good. Let's go. Walk to the statue of the groom. Use His Feet 3 times. Until now, you still don't let go. Use both hands to touch your feet 3 times. It's like you have mercy. Send that man. Come on.

Then let your hands go. Put Red Thread on the rope anywhere or tie it high. Put it close to your heart. This is done. The ceremony. Stand in front of the 3 Gods. Pray over again. Ask for our request. It's true.

Notice that if there is a wind blowing or rain or something strange, it may translate that you know. Then believe me that a woman like us can have a good couple for sure. Just open your mind and look at those who doesn't think. I will look at it. He may come north and better that I have to say to myself "it's good that I don't ignore him" Let's try. :)Translated

【《金融時報》深度長訪】

今年做過數百外媒訪問，若要說最能反映我思緒和想法的訪問，必然是《金融時報》的這一個，沒有之一。

在排山倒海的訪問裡，這位記者能在短短個半小時裡，刻畫得如此傳神，值得睇。

Joshua Wong plonks himself down on a plastic stool across from me. He is there for barely 10 seconds before he leaps up to greet two former high school classmates in the lunchtime tea house melee. He says hi and bye and then bounds back. Once again I am facing the young man in a black Chinese collared shirt and tan shorts who is proving such a headache for the authorities in Beijing.

So far, it’s been a fairly standard week for Wong. On a break from a globe-trotting, pro-democracy lobbying tour, he was grabbed off the streets of Hong Kong and bundled into a minivan. After being arrested, he appeared on the front pages of the world’s newspapers and was labelled a “traitor” by China’s foreign ministry.

He is very apologetic about being late for lunch.

Little about Wong, the face of Hong Kong’s democracy movement, can be described as ordinary: neither his Nobel Peace Prize nomination, nor his three stints in prison. Five years ago, his face was plastered on the cover of Time magazine; in 2017, he was the subject of a hit Netflix documentary, Joshua: Teenager vs Superpower. And he’s only 23.

We’re sitting inside a Cantonese teahouse in the narrow back streets near Hong Kong’s parliament, where he works for a pro-democracy lawmaker. It’s one of the most socially diverse parts of the city and has been at the heart of five months of unrest, which has turned into a battle for Hong Kong’s future. A few weekends earlier I covered clashes nearby as protesters threw Molotov cocktails at police, who fired back tear gas. Drunk expats looked on, as tourists rushed by dragging suitcases.

The lunch crowd pours into the fast-food joint, milling around as staff set up collapsible tables on the pavement. Construction workers sit side-by-side with men sweating in suits, chopsticks in one hand, phones in the other. I scan the menu: instant noodles with fried egg and luncheon meat, deep fried pork chops, beef brisket with radish. Wong barely glances at it before selecting the hometown fried rice and milk tea, a Hong Kong speciality with British colonial roots, made with black tea and evaporated or condensed milk.

“I always order this,” he beams, “I love this place, it’s the only Cantonese teahouse in the area that does cheap, high-quality milk tea.” I take my cue and settle for the veggie and egg fried rice and a lemon iced tea as the man sitting on the next table reaches over to shake Wong’s hand. Another pats him on the shoulder as he brushes by to pay the bill.

Wong has been a recognisable face in this city since he was 14, when he fought against a proposal from the Hong Kong government to introduce a national education curriculum that would teach that Chinese Communist party rule was “superior” to western-style democracy. The government eventually backed down after more than 100,000 people took to the streets. Two years later, Wong rose to global prominence when he became the poster boy for the Umbrella Movement, in which tens of thousands of students occupied central Hong Kong for 79 days to demand genuine universal suffrage.

That movement ended in failure. Many of its leaders were sent to jail, among them Wong. But the seeds of activism were planted in the generation of Hong Kongers who are now back on the streets, fighting for democracy against the world’s most powerful authoritarian state. The latest turmoil was sparked by a controversial extradition bill but has evolved into demands for true suffrage and a showdown with Beijing over the future of Hong Kong. The unrest in the former British colony, which was handed over to China in 1997, represents the biggest uprising on Chinese soil since the 1989 pro-democracy movement in Beijing. Its climax, of course, was the Tiananmen Square massacre, when hundreds, perhaps thousands, of people were killed.

“We learnt a lot of lessons from the Umbrella Movement: how to deal with conflict between the more moderate and progressive camps, how to be more organic, how to be less hesitant,” says Wong. “Five years ago the pro-democracy camp was far more cautious about seeking international support because they were afraid of pissing off Beijing.”

Wong doesn’t appear to be afraid of irking China. Over the past few months, he has lobbied on behalf of the Hong Kong protesters to governments around the world. In the US, he testified before Congress and urged lawmakers to pass an act in support of the Hong Kong protesters — subsequently approved by the House of Representatives with strong bipartisan support. In Germany, he made headlines when he suggested two baby pandas in the Berlin Zoo be named “Democracy” and “Freedom.” He has been previously barred from entering Malaysia and Thailand due to pressure from Beijing, and a Singaporean social worker was recently convicted and fined for organising an event at which Wong spoke via Skype.

The food arrives almost immediately. I struggle to tell our orders apart. Two mouthfuls into my egg and cabbage fried rice, I regret not ordering the instant noodles with luncheon meat.

In August, a Hong Kong newspaper controlled by the Chinese Communist party published a photo of Julie Eadeh, an American diplomat, meeting pro-democracy student leaders including Wong. The headline accused “foreign forces” of igniting a revolution in Hong Kong. “Beijing says I was trained by the CIA and the US marines and I am a CIA agent. [I find it] quite boring because they have made up these kinds of rumours for seven years [now],” he says, ignoring his incessantly pinging phone.

Another thing that bores him? The media. Although Wong’s messaging is always on point, his appraisal of journalists in response to my questions is piercing and cheeky. “In 15-minute interviews I know journalists just need soundbites that I’ve repeated lots of times before. So I’ll say things like ‘I have no hope [as regards] the regime but I have hope towards the people.’ Then the journalists will say ‘oh that’s so impressive!’ And I’ll say ‘yes, I’m a poet.’ ”

And what about this choice of restaurant? “Well, I knew I couldn’t pick a five-star hotel, even though the Financial Times is paying and I know you can afford it,” he says grinning. “It’s better to do this kind of interview in a Hong Kong-style restaurant. This is the place that I conducted my first interview after I left prison.” Wong has spent around 120 days in prison in total, including on charges of unlawful assembly.

“My fellow prisoners would tell me about how they joined the Umbrella Movement and how they agreed with our beliefs. I think prisoners are more aware of the importance of human rights,” he says, adding that even the prison wardens would share with him how they had joined protests.

“Even the triad members in prison support democracy. They complain how the tax on cigarettes is extremely high and the tax on red wine is extremely low; it just shows how the upper-class elite lives here,” he says, as a waiter strains to hear our conversation. Wong was most recently released from jail in June, the day after the largest protests in the history of Hong Kong, when an estimated 2m people — more than a quarter of the territory’s 7.5m population — took to the streets.

Raised in a deeply religious family, he used to travel to mainland China every two years with his family and church literally to spread the gospel. As with many Hong Kong Chinese who trace their roots to the mainland, he doesn’t know where his ancestral village is. His lasting memory of his trips across the border is of dirty toilets, he tells me, mid-bite. He turned to activism when he realised praying didn’t help much.

“The gift from God is to have independence of mind and critical thinking; to have our own will and to make our own personal judgments. I don’t link my religious beliefs with my political judgments. Even Carrie Lam is Catholic,” he trails off, in a reference to Hong Kong’s leader. Lam has the lowest approval rating of any chief executive in the history of the city, thanks to her botched handling of the crisis.

I ask whether Wong’s father, who is also involved in social activism, has been a big influence. Wrong question.

“The western media loves to frame Joshua Wong joining the fight because of reading the books of Nelson Mandela or Martin Luther King or because of how my parents raised me. In reality, I joined street activism not because of anyone book I read. Why do journalists always assume anyone who strives for a better society has a role model?” He glances down at his pinging phone and draws a breath, before continuing. “Can you really describe my dad as an activist? I support LGBTQ rights,” he says, with a fist pump. His father, Roger Wong, is a well-known anti-gay rights campaigner in Hong Kong.

I notice he has put down his spoon, with half a plate of fried rice untouched. I decide it would be a good idea to redirect our conversation by bonding over phone addictions. Wong, renowned for his laser focus and determination, replies to my emails and messages at all hours and has been described by his friends as “a robot.”

He scrolls through his Gmail, his inbox filled with unread emails, showing me how he categorises interview requests with country tags. His life is almost solely dedicated to activism. “My friends and I used to go to watch movies and play laser tag but now of course we don’t have time to play any more: we face real bullets every weekend.”

The protests — which have seen more than 3,300 people arrested — have been largely leaderless. “Do you ever question your relevance to the movement?” I venture, mid-spoonful of congealed fried rice.

“Never,” he replies with his mouth full. “We have a lot of facilitators in this movement and I’m one of them . . . it’s just like Wikipedia. You don’t know who the contributors are behind a Wikipedia page but you know there’s a lot of collaboration and crowdsourcing. Instead of just having a top-down command, we now have a bottom-up command hub which has allowed the movement to last far longer than Umbrella.

“With greater power comes greater responsibility, so the question is how, through my role, can I express the voices of the frontliners, of the street activism? For example, I defended the action of storming into the Legislative Council on July 1. I know I didn’t storm in myself . . . ” His phone pings twice. Finally he succumbs.

After tapping away for about 30 seconds, Wong launches back into our conversation, sounding genuinely sorry that he wasn’t there on the night when protesters destroyed symbols of the Chinese Communist party and briefly occupied the chamber.

“My job is to be the middleman to express, evaluate and reveal what is going on in the Hong Kong protests when the movement is about being faceless,” he says, adding that his Twitter storm of 29 tweets explaining the July 1 occupation reached at least four million people. I admit that I am overcome with exhaustion just scanning his Twitter account, which has more than 400,000 followers. “Well, that thread was actually written by Jeffrey Ngo from Demosisto,” he say, referring to the political activism group that he heads.

A network of Hong Kong activists studying abroad helps fuel his relentless public persona on social media and in the opinion pages of international newspapers. Within a week of his most recent arrest, he had published op-eds in The Economist, The New York Times, Quartz and the Apple Daily.

I wonder out loud if he ever feels overwhelmed at taking on the Chinese Communist party, a task daunting even for some of the world’s most formidable governments and companies. He peers at me over his wire-framed glasses. “It’s our responsibility; if we don’t do it, who will? At least we are not in Xinjiang or Tibet; we are in Hong Kong,” he says, referring to two regions on Chinese soil on the frontline of Beijing’s drive to develop a high-tech surveillance state. In Xinjiang, at least one million people are being held in internment camps. “Even though we’re directly under the rule of Beijing, we have a layer of protection because we’re recognised as a global city so [Beijing] is more hesitant to act.”

I hear the sound of the wok firing up in the kitchen and ask him the question on everyone’s minds in Hong Kong: what happens next? Like many people who are closely following the extraordinary situation in Hong Kong, he is hesitant to make firm predictions.

“Lots of think-tanks around the world say ‘Oh, we’re China experts. We’re born in western countries but we know how to read Chinese so we’re familiar with Chinese politics.’ They predicted the Communist party would collapse after the Tiananmen Square massacre and they’ve kept predicting this over the past three decades but hey, now it’s 2019 and we’re still under the rule of Beijing, ha ha,” he grins.

While we are prophesying, does Wong ever think he might become chief executive one day? “No local journalist in Hong Kong would really ask this question,” he admonishes. As our lunch has progressed, he has become bolder in dissecting my interview technique. The territory’s chief executive is currently selected by a group of 1,200, mostly Beijing loyalists, and he doubts the Chinese Communist party would ever allow him to run. A few weeks after we meet he announces his candidacy in the upcoming district council elections. He was eventually the only candidate disqualified from running — an order that, after our lunch, he tweeted had come from Beijing and was “clearly politically driven”.

We turn to the more ordinary stuff of 23-year-olds’ lives, as Wong slurps the remainder of his milk tea. “Before being jailed, the thing I was most worried about was that I wouldn’t be able to watch Avengers: Endgame,” he says.

“Luckily, it came out around early May so I watched it two weeks before I was locked up in prison.” He has already quoted Spider-Man twice during our lunch. I am unsurprised when Wong picks him as his favourite character.

“I think he’s more . . . ” He pauses, one of the few times in the interview. “Compared to having an unlimited superpower or unlimited power or unlimited talent just like Superman, I think Spider-Man is more human.” With that, our friendly neighbourhood activist dashes off to his next interview.

This video will show you how to grill Yakitori (skewered chicken) with gas Yakitori grill! Of course you can use your BBQ grill!

On the weekend, there was a small festival at our residence (condo) and my darling (chef TJ) was assigned to cook Yakitori. Thanks to my darling, I did nothing but could shoot this video! I hope you like it!!!

It was very interesting to know how to become a Yakitori vendor! hehe

In the very beginning of the video, I will show you what other food stalls were there at the festival! So, please watch carefully ;D

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Yakitori

Difficulty: Very Easy
Time: 10min
Number of servings: as many as you want

Necessary Equipment:
bamboo skewers
yakitori stove

Ingredients:
boneless chicken thigh (or any meat of your choice)
yakitori sauce or salt

Directions:
1. Cut chicken into bite-sized pieces (remove the skin if you prefer).
2. Thread chicken onto skewers (with long onion if you prefer).
3. Tare (Sauce): Begin grilling the chicken on both sides without the sauce. When the meat is done, dip into the sauce and grill lightly. However, sometimes it gets too smoky if you grill with the sauce, so we didn't grill it with the sauce but dip it into the sauce to finish. Ebara's Yakitori sauce works amazingly delicious in that way!
4. Shio (Salt): Sprinkle some salt on the chicken and grill the chicken on both sides until done.

We used Ebara Yakitori Sauce (エバラ やきとりのたれ) - for professional use.
The household use looks like this :D
http://www.ebarafoods.com/products/syouhin_details.php?hbkid=1&briid=1&shgid=78&shnid=165

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Miyuki Nakajima / "Ito" (Tapestry)
Music/Lyrics: Miyuki Nakajima
English Lyrics: Rebecca Butler Watanabe
Released 1998

リクエストにお応えして、中島みゆきの「糸」を英訳で歌いました♪　気に入っていただけると嬉しいですヾ(≧∇≦*)ノ

By request, my English version of Miyuki Nakajima's "Ito". Ito literally means "thread," but the title has been translated officially as Tapestry, which I think is a better title :) Miyuki Nakajima is a well-known folk singer-songwriter in Japan and someone I respect. I hope you like my English cover.

Here is my cover in the original Japanese with English subs:
日本語カバー（英語字幕付き）はこちらです↓↓
https://youtu.be/NLXrMJHuHsI?list=PLApCBvx19ZL3one6goFVoWgUTIrPNfl3T

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Lyrics

Why do we come into each other’s lives?
Maybe we’ll never know, maybe it’s just meant to be
When will we next cross paths with someone new?
Maybe we’ll never know the answer to this mystery

Where have you been ‘til now?
How did you live before?
Under the faraway blue sky
Separate lives are brought together

You are like a vertically-sown thread
I am like a horizontal one
And we weave a tapestry
One whose destiny could be
To wrap around somebody cold
Keeping them warm

Some days we wonder why this life goes on
And so the edge of our tapestry begins to fray
Sometimes we stumble chasing after dreams
Until the future seems out of reach, so far away

“What could this single thread
Ever become?” I said
That was before I realized
What was beyond the scope of my eyes

You are like a vertically-sown thread
I am like a horizontal one
And we weave a tapestry
One whose destiny could be
To cover up somebody’s wound, helping it heal

You are like a vertically-sown thread
I am like a horizontal one
And when finally we cross
With the thread that’s meant for ours
We weave a tapestry they call happiness

Here's my first german song! I finally got to sing my (other) mother language! :) Hope you like it, I enjoyed recording this song very much! (Please click "Show more" คลิกดูคำแปลไทยด้านล่างนะคะ) Also thanks to all the fan arts! :D

Hier ist ein Deutsches Lied fuer euch! Ich hoffe es gefaellt euch allen, mir hat das aufnehmen sehr viel spass gemacht! :D Bitte nicht vergessen gefaellt-mir zudruecken, kommentieren, teilen und subscribe zu druecken! Vielen Dank! :D

English-Thai Translation.
Hangs On a Silken Thread (ฟางเส้นสุดท้าย)

Everything is not turning in circles
This is only the wind which drives you crazy
Wearing you out like a grain of sand in the claws of the time

ทุก ๆ อย่าง ไม่ได้หมุน เช่นวงกลม
แค่สายลม พัดกระหน่ำ ทำเธอคลั่ง
ขยี้เธอ แหลกเช่นทราย ให้ภินท์พัง
ทรายที่ขัง อยู่ในกรง แห่งเวลา

I have seen all this before
Happens one more time
It hurts so much again
This time I simply try not to look at it

เคยมาแล้ว ที่ต้องเจอ เรื่องแบบนี้
เคยมาแล้ว ที่ต้องหนี ช้ำครั้งก่อน
เจ็บอีกครั้ง เพราะเธอ ไม่อาทร
ไม่อยากย้อน หันไปมอง ให้ปวดใจ

Maybe no winter will come anymore
I don't want winter anymore
Maybe no winter will come anymore
I don't want winter anymore

อาจไม่มี เหมันต์ ให้ฉันเศร้า
ไม่อาจทน ปวดร้าว ใจเหน็บหนาว
อาจไม่มี เหมันต์ ของสองเรา
ฉันไม่อยาก ให้หน้าหนาว มาอีกเลย

And every breath hangs on a silken thread
Only as long as we are here
And every breath follows a red thread
Only as long as we are there

ลมหายใจ ฉันแขวนอยู่ บนเส้นด้าย
บนเส้นฟาง เส้นสุดท้าย ที่บางใส
เดินตามรอย เส้นสีแดง นำทางไป
นานเท่านาน ที่สองใจ อยู่ร่วมกัน

What can I do
I can't ignore it
Appearances are not deceptive
I should not lose control
Something has to lead me out of this emptiness

สิ่งใด ๆ ที่ฉัน ทำให้ได้
จะทำให้ ไม่ละเลย ให้เสมอ
ประจักษ์แจ้ง แก่หัวใจ ใช่หลอกเธอ
ฉันต้องไม่ หลงเพ้อ หากเธอลวง

I follow my own tracks
Maybe no winter will come anymore
I follow my own tracks
I don't want winter anymore

ต้องมีสิ่ง พาออกจาก ความอ้างว้าง
ฉันตามทาง รอยตน ที่ยังเห็น
อาจไม่มี เหมันต์ อย่างที่เป็น
ไม่อยากเห็น เหมันต์ อีกครั้งเลย

And everything hangs on a silken thread
and is directed by the silken thread

ทุก ๆ สิ่ง แขวนบนฟาง เส้นสุดท้าย
ขับเคลื่อนไป ด้วยฟาง เส้นสุดท้าย

And every breath hangs on a silken thread
Only as long as we are here
And every breath follows a red thread
Only as long as we are there

ลมหายใจ ฉันแขวนอยู่ บนเส้นด้าย
บนเส้นฟาง เส้นสุดท้าย ที่บางใส
เดินตามรอย เส้นสีแดง นำทางไป
นานเท่านาน ที่สองใจ อยู่ร่วมกัน

I don't want winter anymore

ฉันไม่อยาก มีเหมันต์ นั้นอีกแล้ว...

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