--Mother's Day 2012--

I miss you so much,
your laugh, your smile, your touch.
You always brightened my days
with all the smiles you sent my way.
I need you as my angel
to always be at my side.
I need you as my angel
to give me peace of mind.
I like to think your near to me
to know that you are there.
Even though I can not see you,
I feel that you are near.
Please do not forget me mom,
for you are always in my heart,
my thoughts and prayers.
I love you.
-Your Son........

--清明2011--

清明時節雨紛紛，路上行人欲斷魂。
借問酒家何處有？牧童遙指杏花村。
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南北山頭多墓田，清明祭掃各紛然。
紙灰飛作白蝴蝶，淚血染成紅杜鵑。
日落狐狸眠塚上，夜歸兒女笑燈前。
人生有酒須當醉，一滴何曾到九泉。
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~http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/清明

--農曆新年 香港 舞獅 1999 ~ 12years ago...same Rabbit year in Hong Kong--

--Bung Fai Paya Nak (Naga Fireballs over Mekong River) 2010--

--8th Years.....--

--There's Nothing Like A Mother--

--The Hitter--

Come to the door, ma, and unlock the chain
Well, I was just passin' through and got caught in the rain
There's nothing that I want, nothing that you need say
Just let me lie down for a while and I'll be on my way

I was no more than a kid when you put me on the Southern Queen
With the police on my back, I fled to New Orleans
Well, I fought in the dockyards for the money that I made
I knew the fight was my home and blood was my trade

Baton Rouge, Ponchatoula, and Lafayette town
Well, they paid me their money, ma, I knocked the men down
I did what I did and it come easily
Restraint and mercy, ma, were always strangers to me

I fought champion Jack Thompson in a field full of mud
Rain poured through the tent to the canvas and mixed with our blood
In the twelfth, I slipped my tongue over my broken jaw
I stood over him, pounded his bloody body into the floor

Well, the bell rang and rang and still I kept on
'Til I felt my glove leather slip 'tween his skin and bone

And the women and the money came fast and the days, I lost track
The women red, the money green, but the numbers were black
I fought for the men in their silk suits to lay down their bets
Well, I took my good share, ma, I have no regrets

I took the fix at the state armory with John McDowell
From high in the rafters I watched myself fall
As they raised his arm, my stomach twisted and the sky it went black
I stuffed my bag with their good money and I never looked back

Understand, in the end, ma, every man plays the game
If you know me one different, then speak out his name

Ma, if my voice now you don't recognize
Well, just open the door and look into your dark eyes
I ask of you nothin', not a kiss not a smile
Just open the door and let me lie down for a while

Now the gray rain's fallin' and my ring fightin's done
So in the work fields and alleys, I take all who'll come
If you're a better man than me, then just step to the line
And show me your money and speak out your crime

Now there's nothin' I want, ma, nothin' that you need say
Just let me lie down for a while and I'll be on my way

Well, tonight in Stockyard, a man draws a circle in the dirt
I move to the center and take off my shirt
I study him for the cuts, the scars, the pain man nor time can erase
I move hard to the left and I strike to the face..............

--清明時節雨紛紛，路上行人欲斷魂....--

在人们的印象中，无论东西方、海内外，祭祀先人都是一种很肃穆很庄严的仪式，为的是表达内心深处的怀念，一束鲜花，亦或一把纸钱烧起的一缕飘向天空的青烟，都承载和寄托了一片哀思，人们都会依据当地的习俗用各种方式来表达出这一人类真实的感情。
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还有几天就是中华民族的传统祭祀先人的节日清明节了，清明时节，天气转暖，进入春耕的季节，春耕之前，过去长期处于农耕社会的中国人，都会在此时候想到先祭祀自己的先人，企盼保佑五谷丰登，所谓“清明时节雨纷纷，路上行人欲断魂”这句杜牧的诗在中国是家喻户晓，千百年来，一代又一代的中国人都会特地在这清明的同一天用各种方式祭祀自己的故去的亲人以及祖先或英烈，以这种方式印证了生生不息的中华民族代代相传的顽强生命力；于中国人而言，也许我们都会印象深刻的就是后人们举家上山挂青，倒上白酒，并烧纸钱也就是常说的冥币.

--Will You......?--

I don't think you will
ever fully understand
how you've touched my life
and made me who I am.

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I don't think you could ever know

just how truly special you are
that even on the darkest nights
you are my brightest star.

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I don't think you will ever fully comprehend

how you've made my dreams come true
or how you've opened my heart
to love and the wonders it can do.

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You've allowed me to experience

something very hard to find
unconditional love that exists
in my body, soul, and mind.
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I don't think you could ever feel
all the love I have to give
and I'm sure you'll never realize
you've been my will to live.
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You are an amazing person
and without you I don't know where I'd be.
Having you in my life
completes and fulfills every part of me.....

--Time to say goodbye - Andrea Bocelli & Sara Brightman--

Time to Say Goodbye, known as Timeless in Europe, is Sarah Brightman's most popular album, released in 1997. (In the European edition, the song "Time to Say Goodbye" goes before the encore tracks). The SACD 5.1 version released by EMI is entitled Time to Say Goodbye and follows the American track listing. The album has sold 1.4 million copies in the U.S, and 13 million Copies Wolrdwide.
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~http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_to_Say_Goodbye_%28album%29

--On My Way HOME~Enya (1996)--

"On My Way Home" is a single by Irish New Age artist Enya from the album In Memory of Trees. The song achieved considerable success, but less than other singles by Enya. The song was released as the second single from the album and reached #26 on the UK singles charts in December 1996.
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The song refers to Enya's own "Orinoco Flow" with a lyric from said song being sung in "On My Way Home" (turn it up, turn it up, turn it up, up, adieu).
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~http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_My_Way_Home_%28song%29

--Mama~Vitas (2003)--

Mama (Мама, sometimes translated Mother or Mom) is a Russian album by Vitas. It was released in 2003, simultaneously with The Songs of My Mother. Both albums were a tribute to his late mother. Songs from these albums featured heavily in the setlist of Vitas' extensive world tour The Songs of My Mother, performed at hundreds of venues in several countries from 2004-2006.

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The song The Star from this album won a Russian People's HIT prize in 2003. He performed the song Starry River accompanied by its composer Alexandra Pakhmutova on piano at a concert in honour of the composer.

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~http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mama_%28Vitas_album%29

--How am I supposed to live without you (1983)--

"How Am I Supposed to Live Without You" is a song originally recorded by Laura Branigan in 1983. The song was recorded later the same decade by its writer, Michael Bolton.
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The second single from Branigan's second solo album Branigan 2, it spent three weeks at #1 on the Billboard Adult Contemporary charts. It was a Top 10 hit on the ARC Top 40 chart and peaked at #12 on the Hot 100. Branigan's single also hit the #1 spot on the Adult Contemporary charts in Canada. This success came without benefit of a music video. Branigan performed the song on the syndicated music countdown show Solid Gold in the autumn of 1983 and on the popular holiday special Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve.
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Michael Bolton co-wrote the song, and Branigan's record was his first major hit as a songwriter. Bolton, whose own recording career would not take off until 1987, went on to co-write the rock ballad "I Found Someone" for Branigan's Hold Me album in 1985, and she also recorded his song "It's Been Hard Enough Getting Over You" in 1993 for Over My Heart. Though Branigan 2 went out of print in 2004, Branigan's original version appears on the albums The Best of Branigan (1995), The Essentials: Laura Branigan (2002) and Laura Branigan: The Platinum Collection (2006).
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~http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_Am_I_Supposed_to_Live_Without_You

--When a Man Loves a Woman--

"When a Man Loves a Woman" is a song recorded by Percy Sledge in 1966 at Norala Sound Studio in Sheffield, Alabama. It made number one on both the Billboard Hot 100 and R&B singles charts. It was listed 54th in the List of Rolling Stone magazine's 500 greatest songs of all time. The sidemen for this recording included Spooner Oldham, organ; Marlin Greene, guitar; Albert "Junior" Lowe, bass and Roger Hawkins, drums. The song is credited to Calvin Lewis and Andrew Wright, who played bass and keyboards with Sledge. However, the song was in fact written by Percy Sledge himself, but he gave it to Lewis and Wright.

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It was later covered by Michael Bolton in 1991, whose version also reached number one on the U.S. pop and adult contemporary singles charts (Bolton also received a Grammy Award for this song). Barbara Mandrell recorded a Country version of the song that same year. The song has also been recorded by Art Garfunkel and Luba.
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Sledge's version was also a top ten hit in the UK peaking at number four on its initial release and peaking at number two in 1987 after it was featured in a Levi's Jeans commercial. The song makes use of a commonly used descending bass line chord progression as in Bach's "Air on a G String".

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~http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_a_Man_Loves_a_Woman_(song)

--You Raise Me Up ~Josh Groban (2002)--

"You Raise Me Up" is a popular song in the inspirational mould. The music was written by Secret Garden's Rolf Løvland and the lyrics by Brendan Graham. The song has now been covered more than 125 times.
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The song was originally written as an instrumental piece and titled "Silent Story." The melody is based on a traditional Irish tune (especially the opening phrase of its chorus), the Londonderry Air, which is best known as the usual tune to the 1910 song Danny Boy. Løvland approached Irish novelist and songwriter Brendan Graham to write the lyrics to his melody after reading Graham's novels. It was originally released on the 2002 Secret Garden album "Once in a Red Moon," with the vocals sung by Irish singer Brian Kennedy, and sold well in both Ireland and Norway. Originally, Brian Kennedy was supposed to follow Secret Garden on their Asian tour in 2002, but fell ill, and could not attend. He was replaced by Norwegian singer Jan Werner Danielsen, who also later recorded the song together with Secret Garden, but it was never released.
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~http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_Raise_Me_Up

--Mother~John Lennon (1970)--

Mother, you had me but I never had you,
I wanted you but you didn't want me,
So I got to tell you,
Goodbye, goodbye. ~
Farther, you left me but I never left you,
I needed you but you didn't need me,
So I got to tell you,
Goodbye, goodbye. ~
Children, don't do what I have done,
I couldn't walk and I tried to run,
So I got to tell you,
Goodbye, goodbye.
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Mama don't go, Daddy come home.
Mama don't go, Daddy come home.
Mama don't go, Daddy come home.
Mama don't go, Daddy come home.
Mama don't go, Daddy come home.
Mama don't go, Daddy come home.
Mama don't go, Daddy come home...

"Mother" is a song by British musician John Lennon, taken from his 1970 album John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band. An edited version of the song was released as a single, in the US only, in 1970. This version later appeared on Lennon's 1975 compilation Shaved Fish, as well as on the 1997 compilation Lennon Legend: The Very Best of John Lennon. The single edit of this song is significantly shorter (about 3:38) than the album version. This version cuts out the beginning tolling bells as well as some of Lennon's more guttural screams that intensify at the ending of the song. The B-side features "Why" by Yoko Ono.

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Though the song is called "Mother", it is actually a cry to both of his parents, who "abandoned" him in his childhood - father Alf Lennon left the family when John was an infant, and mother Julia was hit by a car and killed on the street by an allegedly drunk-driving off-duty policeman, when her son was 17. Lennon bemoans the loss of his parents singing lyrics such as "Mother, you had me/but I never had you"; "Father, you left me/but I never left you"; "I needed you/you didn't need me"; and "Mama, don't go/Daddy come home". It is one of three songs which Lennon wrote for his mother, along with "Julia" and "My Mummy's Dead". The song begins with the sound of a church bell ringing ominously, signifying death.

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Although Lennon said that "Mother" was the song that "seemed to catch in my head," he had doubts about its commercial appeal and he considered issuing "Love" as a single instead. "Love" was eventually released as a single in 1982.

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Lennon was inspired to write the song by a period of using primal therapy, which works on the assumption that the patient has several defences which must be stripped down to reveal the "real person". Lennon's wife Yoko Ono worked on this with Dr. Arthur Janov, originally at their home at Tittenhurst Park for a period of three weeks and then at the Primal Institute, California where they remained for four months. Lennon described the therapy as "something more important to me than The Beatles."

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~http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother_(John_Lennon_song)