Spent a few hours preparing the next shoot. Currently, I'm planning on Clark Quay at night, long exposure with wide angle on the buildings with colorful lights. Since the theme of the next competition I'm trying to go into is Color, it makes sense to take these buildings. It also obeys my general direction of taking more architectural photography. Wish me luck! Can't wait to see the photos that I'm going to take.

"Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence" is a movie set in the Pacific theater during Second World War. It's about the absolutely forbidden love relationship between a Japanese commander and his prisoner of war, a US male marine. And this song was used to sum up the whole show. There's a vocal version called "Forbidden Color" but I personally prefer the non-vocal piano version much more.

This piece has everything I love about music inside. Sadness, excitement, endless feelings and emotions, love, regret and finally, a sense of peace. It speaks of a love that must not exist. It's like the color magenta, combing two ends of the color spectrum. It is a color that's absolutely impossible to exist yet so beautiful when you see it. And everything ends so suddenly. It's almost like sunset, the majestic magenta of the almost-night sky. And suddenly, it disappears into an endless torrent of deep blue and black.

I can never comprehend how our eyes identify a mix of many wavelength into a single color. It's almost like magic. No matter how science advances, I wish we never find out answers to certain questions, questions like these. I love to seek information but I guess sometimes, we should just stop at some point and believe, have faith that what's going on right now is the best!