Revise the Song Need You Now 改寫歌詞"我需要你"

Thinking I will have so many things to do this week, I was so stressed last night.


I have two speeches, two assignments, one presentation, one paper, and some activities to go. I could not sleep well and ended up to sleep in the couch in the living room around 11pm. While I was half sleepy, the song "I need you now" was playing from my laptop. Then, when I woke up around 2 am, I heard this song again. Therefore, to keep myself awake to do some work, I revised the song for fun. Having some entertainment like it, I was sober until 5 am. Then, I dozed off for an hour. Mm.. not sure how to describe this kind of life, but I surely don't want it too often.


Song " Need You Now" by Lady Antebelum
(Black words: original lyrics; green words: revised lyrics)

Picture perfect memories scattered all around the floor
Reachin' for the phone 'cause I can't fight it anymore
And I wonder if I ever cross your mind
For me it happens all the time
Paper, perfect memos scattered all around the floor

Reaching for the food cause I can’t stay up anymore

And I wonder if I ever clear my head

For me it happens all the time

It's a quarter after one, I'm all alone and I need you now
Said I wouldn't call but I lost all control and I need you now
And I don't know how I can do without
I just need you now
It’s a quarter after one, I’m all alone and I need food now.

Said I wouldn’t cook but I lost all control and I need food now

And I don’t know how I can do without

I just need food now.

Another shot of whiskey can't stop looking at the door
Wishing you'd come sweeping in the way you did before
And I wonder if I ever cross your mind
For me it happens all the time 
Another shot of whiskey can’t stop gurgling at the night

Wishing you’d come cooking me the food you did before

And I wonder if I ever clear my head

For me it happens all the time.

It's a quarter after one, I'm a little drunk and I need you now
Said I wouldn't call but I lost all control and I need you now
And I don't know how I can do without
I just need you now
It’s a quarter after one, I’m a little hungry and I need food now.

Said I wouldn’t cook but I lost all control and I need food now.

And I don’t know how I can do without

I just need food now.

woah woaaah.

Guess I'd rather hurt than feel nothin' at all

Guess I’d rather dream than feel hungery at all

Happy Birthday? 生日快樂?

I have decided to break my discouraged mood due to Friday's bad performance on my speech during the weekend and get ready to study hard from today. Unexpectedly, I got a phone call from my sister. My family only calls me during the weekend except emergency. They won't call me on the week days. I tried to get on skype as fast as possible. Once I got on it, I got "Happy Birthday" from my father, mother and sister. It was my mother who remembered today is my lunar birthday, so she asked my sister to call me. That was really touched.

當我在週末決定要打破因星期五演講不利而有點失志的情緒時，今早接到妹妹的來電，只有緊急的時候我家人才會在非週末日打電話給我，所以我趕緊上skype，結果家人每人一句「生日快樂」，原來是老媽想起今天是我農曆生日，叫妹妹打電話給我，真的很感動…

When you used to some routines, for example to celebrate birthday with your family, you don't feel those routines are so special that you really appreciate them. Only when you don't have your routine or lost it, you will come to realize that actually you are blessed when having it.

當你很習慣一些「例行公事」時，譬如每年和家人一起過生日，
你不會覺得有什麼特別，也不會特別去珍惜
只有當你失去或不再擁有時，你才會去感受到那份幸福


Usually I don't actively celebrate my birthday, but not today. I bought some chocolate to treat my students in Chinese class. Certainly, we reviewed "shengri" by the way. I was happy while seeing students eat chocolate and have energy for class. I think it is because I did something different on my birthday: make myself and others happy.

Keep going, Kelly. Jiayou!

通常我並不會特別主動去慶祝我的生日，但今天不一樣，
我買了巧克力請中文課的學生吃，當然也順便複習一下「生日」囉
不知道為什麼我覺得很高興，也許是因為我在我的生日做了一點不一樣的事：讓我自己和別人快樂。

Kelly~繼續加油啊！

(CT) Group Discussion & Frosty Ground 分組討論和結霜的大地

It was white on the ground, not snowing, but frosty. Although it was very cold, I feel very happy and excited without a reason. I think it may be I do not have to go somewhere to see beautiful frosty ground, but here. It was a pity that I did not bring my camera with me.

早上起來上課看到白白一片，不是下雪，而是結霜了，

雖然很冷，但莫名地覺得幸福，因為我不用特別去別的地方看遍地結霜，這裡就有了。

(可惜的是我沒有帶相機)

Today we had a group discussion to decide what to share with rest of the class what you have learned. However, we talked about why the teacher would assign us the presentation. (Sigh and speechless...)

A: I don't know what I have learned.

B: No one will have interests hearing other people's stories.

What surprised me was that when we talked about "relationship", what came to their mind is the relationship between their boy friends, but not to me. Therefore, I don't know if that means I am getting older, or they are young.

今天的上課是分組討論，下次上課要上台分享我們目前所學到的，

而當我們一開始討論的是為什麼老師要給我們作業，(無言…)

A: 我根本不知道我學到了什麼？

B: 不會有人想要聽我的故事…

令我訝異的是，我們這一組裡，

似忽沒有人關係良好：和他們的男朋友，

而且一討論到「關係」，他們馬上想到的是與男朋友之間的關係

嗯~真不知是我老了，還是他們太年輕了…

Honestly, I have learned a lot from this class for sure.

Plus, I think the purpose to share your story is not the story itself but the lesson or critically thinking you have learned from your experience. Meanwhile, the rest of the class may learn some thoughts by your experience and stimulate them to have some critical thinking. While discussing, I felt like the era of being a young college student was so far away from me.

說實在的，我目前學到了很多，

而且我想老師要我們分享的目的不是你的故事，

而是希望你從你的故事學到了一些批判性思考

也能帶給同學一些不一樣的想法

唉！在討論的同時，我真的覺得我離年輕的大學時代好遠好遠~~