Happy New Year 2010 !

Shalala Air Passengers,

Captain TRAN make a Wish, for the new year 2010 :

That we are able to turn things and people around into

opportunities to give or to find with them

 love, joys, helps, happiness, ...

We always dream a big story, a big love, a big adventure, ...

while we know well

the story of people round us

the kind of music they like

the clothes they wear

the bleachers they are on

the food they like

the way they speak

...

"Dreaming about the day when you wake up

And find that what you're looking for has been here the whole time"

"Walk in the streets with you and your worn-out jeans

I can't help thinking this is how it ought to be

Laughing on a park bench, thinking to myself

Hey isn't this easy ?"

"If you could see that I'm the one who understands you

Been here all along so why can't you see ?"

So, I wish that this year 2010 fully belong with you.

Shalala Air Services

Captain TRAN

You're on the phone with your girlfriend
She's upset.
She's going off about something that you said
'Cuz she doesn't get your humor like I do...
I'm in the room
It's a typical Tuesday night
I'm listening to the kind of music she doesn't like
And she'll never know your story like I do'

But she wears short skirts
I wear T-shirts
She's cheer captain
And I'm on the bleachers
Dreaming about the day when you wake up
And find that what you're looking for has been here the whole time

If you could see that I'm the one who understands you
Been here all along so why can't you see
You belong with me
You belong with me

Walk in the streets with you and your worn-out jeans
I can't help thinking this is how it ought to be
Laughing on a park bench, thinking to myself
Hey isn't this easy?

And you've got a smile that could light up this whole town
I haven't seen it in a while since she brought you down
You say your fine
I know you better than that
Hey whatcha doing with a girl like that

She wears high heels
I wear sneakers
She's cheer captain and I'm on the bleachers
Dreaming about the day when you wake up
And find that what you're looking for has been here the whole time

If you could see that I'm the one who understands you
Been here all along so why can't you see
You belong with me

Standing by and waiting at your back door
All this time how could you not know
Baby...
You belong with me
You belong with me

Oh'
I remember you drivin' to my house in the middle of the night
I'm the one who makes you laugh
When you know you're about to cry
And I know your favorite songs
And you tell me about your dreams
I think I know where you belong
I think I know it's with me...

Can't you see that I'm the one who understands you
Been here all along
So why can't you see
You belong with me

Standing by and waiting at your back door
All this time
How could you not know
Baby you belong with me
You belong with me

You belong with me
Have you ever thought just maybe
You belong with me?

Are you lonesome tonight

I bought this painting at Saigon ( VietNam ) a year ago.

It's expensive for a native Vietnamese ( 100 Euros ).

In the showroom of the shop, no painting striked me really.

Then I went to inside, behind the showroom.

And there, among other paintings leaning on a wall, I saw "her".

The painting is quite different from the others.

After visiting 5,6 others shops. I came back and bought her.

The taxi driver was also struck by the lady of the painting and the scenery.

He said that she is so romantic and is waiting someone.

At Nice, I takes her to the framer.

The frame costs me as much as the painting ie 100 Eu ...

When he sees the painting, he calls people all round here to see the painting !

So I am very proud of my lady.

( may be she is a kind of my lady ? ... )

Tomorrow, Decembre 31 at midnight, no one is at home, she will be all alone ...

Merry Christmas !

Captain TRAN playing a barrel organ to raise funds for his Shalala Air Company !

Have yourself a merry little Christmas

Let your heart be light

From now on your troubles will be out of sight, yeah

Have yourself a merry little Christmas

Make the Yuletide gay

From now on your troubles will be miles away, oh ooh

Here we are as in olden days

Happy golden days of yore, ah

Faithful friends who are dear to us

Gather near to us, once more, ooh

Through the years we all will be together

If the fates allow

Hang a shining star upon the highest bow, ohh

And have yourself a merry little Christmas now

Oooh...

Faithful friends who are dear to us

Gather near to us, once more, ohh

Through the years we all will be together

If the fates allow, oh yeah

But 'til then we'll have to muddle through, somehow

Oh yeah, oh ooh oh

And have yourself a merry little Christmas now

Captain TRAN falling in love with Sifnos

I like very much Sifnos Island.

I like it so much that I call it She.

I compare her as the sister of Santorin.

While Santorin is an international top model in town,
Sifnos is her sister in countryside.

She is so beautiful that she don't need make-up.

Every thing is simple but nicely simple.

On the next post, you can see my pictures.

But for now, I declare my love to my beautiful Sifnos Island !

I've been really tryin',baby

Tryin' to hold back this feelin' for so long

And if you feel like I feel,baby

Then come on,oh come on

Let's get it on

Let's love,baby

Let's get it on

Sugar,let's get it on

We're all sensitive people

With so much to give

Understand me,sugar

Since we got to being

Let's live

I love you

There's nothing wrong with me

Lovin' you,baby no no

And givin' yourself to me could never be wrong

If the love is true,oh baby

Don't you know how sweet and wonderful

Life can be

I'm asking you baby

To get it on with me

I ain't gonna worry

I ain't wanna push

I won't push you baby

So come on,come on,come on,come on,come on baby

Stop beatin' round the bush

Let's get it on

Let's get it on

you know what I'm talkin' about

Come on baby,hey hey

Let your love come out

If you believe in love

Let's get it on

Let's get it on,baby

This minute,oh yeah

Let's get it on

Please get it on

So come on,come on,come on,come on,come on darlin'

Stop beatin' round the bush

Gonna get it on

I wanna get it on

You don't have to worry that it's wrong

If the spirit moves,ya

Let me groove ya...good

Let your love come down

Get it on,come on baby

Fedralita : All I want ...

Graphic of Fedralita titled "All I want ..."

Really very nice and meaningful graphic.

( ... as in the good old days :) ...  )

Also the text is very beautiful.

Congratulation Fedralita !

Happy Christmas to you !

Now you have just to have a little prayer for your characters (  or for yourself  :) ...  )

The morning I wake up, before I put on my makeup

I say a little prayer for you

While combing my hair now and wond'ring what dress to wear now

I say a little prayer for you

Forever and never you'd stay in my heart and I will love you

Forever and ever we never will part oh how I love you

Together together that's how it should be to live without you

Would only mean heart break for me

I run fot the bus dear, while riding I think of us dear

I say a little prayer for you

At work I just take time and all through my coffee break time

I say a little prayer for you

Forever forever you'd stay in my heart and I will love you

Forever and ever we never will part oh how I love you

Together together that's how it must be to live without you

Would only mean heartache for me

My darling believe me, for me there's no one but you

Please love me too

I'm in love with you

Answer my prayer

Say you love me too

Fedralita : Miss Ojo

Runaway  Half-Face ! Today is Chritmas day ! Time for gifts.

Yesterday, Aurelie 8 years old, showed me a video that she tops 5 stars.

1st gift for you.

I saw why, why I die?

why I laugh, why I cry?

Here are the SOS

of an earthman in distress

I have never been grounded

I would rather be a bird

T'm wrong in my skin

Better see the world upside

best seen from above

I always confused the living

with comic

I like cravings metamorphoses

I feel something

which attracts

which attracts

which attracts upwards

the great lottery of the universe

I have not drawn the correct number

'm wrong in my skin

I do not want to be a robot

metro boulot dodo

I saw why, why I die?

reason why I cry I cry?

I think catch waves

come from another world

I'm wrong in my skin

Runaway Half-Face, 2nd gift for you.

It's a true story.

Jeanine, now in JC's sky, had a lot of affection for me ( she found me rather exotic ).

She told me that, when she was very young, she visited her parents's tomb every day.

She was so young when her parents died.

Every day, she visited the graves and didn't stop crying.

One day, a thought was coming in her heart saying:

"I love you. And I will love you. I'll give you the love that your parents cannot give to you".

Instantly, she knew that God was speaking to her.

Since then, she stopped visit the tomb and stopped crying.

In her adult life, she was teacher and took care of the young children.

She died 3 years ago.

In the peace of the love of God.

" Can a woman forget her nursing child, 

that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb ? 
Yes, these may forget, yet I will not forget you !
Behold, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands; 
your walls are continually before me." (Es49)

Basic Translation :
Will a woman give up the child at her breast,
will she be without pity for the fruit of her body?
Yes, these may, but I will not let you go out of my memory.
See, your name is marked on my hands; your walls are ever before me." (Es49)

Fedralita : Miss Ojo

Fedralita,

Last time it was a half woman, half died and shamely cigarette smoking.

Then it was a couple coming from nowhere

Then now it's a half boy, half face, a runaway boy.

All day long, they don't stop singing :

"something inside me die"

"something inside me die"

"something inside me die"

As you know Shalala Air Company support Fedralita,

and Vatican support Theresa Mother...

I know that you have a big heart Fedralita ...

Do I have to say to Vatican that a new Theresa is born ?

Of course, I could also support the new Fedralita-Theresa graphic style.

See :

Graphic of Fedralita titled by Shalala Air Company as

"Fedralita, the new dove of the Vatican"

I'm out of range

I used to care, but Things Have Changed

Fedralita,

I hurt easy, I just don't show it

You can hurt someone and not even know it

The next sixty seconds could be like an eternity ( of shame ... )

( for the official video see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMZlB7p3kpw )

Small trip in the Var ( south of France )

We had a small trip in the Var ( Sanary, SixFours, Cassis,  SeyneSurMer, ... )
I think this is the first time that I have to wear  bonnet and gloves !
It was so cold although it was one of the sunniest  place in Europe where the temperature was mild.
Sephora didn't want to come with us. She prefered to stay at Nice to be warm.
But Nice was snowed under !

Have a walk with us :
 http://picasaweb.google.com/TRANNICE/VarSanary6FoursCassis#

Christmas : JC Saviour of my sin

Six hundred years before JC, Isaiah had an inspired thought about the coming of JC.

In these chapters (52,53) , we learn a lot  about JC :

- the rejection of him as the messiah ( people expected a glorious messiah like king Salomon or David )

- the fact that nobody  understand  that  the so-called messiah that died as a condemned man

- ...  that  the so-called messiah has taken on him  our  sins and the sentence of God

- the peace with God got through his sacrifice for sin.

- some details are mentioned ( JC died between 2 murderers but buried in a tomb of a rich man )

- JC will be lifted to be a king.

Isaiah 52,53

See, my servant [JC] will do well in his undertakings,

he will be honoured, and lifted up, and be very high.

As peoples were surprised at him,

And his face was not beautiful, so as to be desired :

his face was so changed by disease as to be unlike that of a man,

and his form was no longer that of the sons of men.

So will nations give him honour; kings will keep quiet because of him:

for what had not been made clear to them they will see;

and they will give their minds to what had not come to their ears.

Who would have had faith in the word which has come to our ears,

and to whom had the arm of the Lord been unveiled?

For his growth was like that of a delicate plant before him,

and like a root out of a dry place: he had no grace of form, to give us pleasure;

Men made sport of him, turning away from him; he was a man of sorrows, marked by disease;

and like one from whom men's faces are turned away,

he was looked down on, and we put no value on him.

But it was our pain he took, and our diseases were put on him :

while to us he seemed as one diseased, on whom God's punishment had come.

But it was for our sins he was wounded, and for our evil doings he was crushed:

and he took the punishment by wich we have peace, and by his wounds we are made well.

We all went wandering like sheep; going every one of us after his desire;

and the Lord put on him the punishment of us all.

Men were cruel to him, but he was gentle and quiet; as a lamb taken to its death,

and as a sheep before those who take her wool makes no sound, so he said not a word.

They took away from him help and right, and who gave a thought to his fate?

for he was cut off from the land of the living: he came to his death for the sin of my people.

They made his grave with the wicked, and with a rich man in his death;

although he has done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth.

Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise him. He has caused him to suffer.

When you make his soul an offering for sin, ...

Fedralita : Pipps

Young lady, you are so pensive. It seems you are lost in your thoughts.

I say about you  :

" the heart has its reasons wich Reason knows nothing of ".

I show your picture to my colleague, Joelle.

She says: "she is thinking"

Ok, let say you are thinking with your heart :)

"I can't change my past, but I can change my future."

Fedralita : Shalala Air

Fedralita mentions Shalala Air Company in her blog.

http://www.fedralita.blogspot.com/

Fedralita,

I'm delighted !

I just receive a letter from the Director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art of New York !

As I am named in your gallery, he informs me that, I am also invited to the inauguration ceremony of the exposition of your graphics !

Spendid !

I'll be with you !

I start to buy a dinner jacket with a bow tie and a nice shoe and a double cuff. My wife will help me for the color of the shirt.

For the interview, of course, I let you the honour.

Thank you a lot  :)

I am flying ... See ...

Some days, Hollywood studios will also interest in the link of the 2 blogs ...

They will have imagination for a successul film ...:)

I'll be too old to see that but you could.

Publier le message

Elvis and some Gospel songs

Short NEWS

Captain DutchFlyers sended me a mail :

Hi Captain,

Long time no see.

Such a busy work, especially in late of this year. Don't even have enough time to relax.

I've always tracking you shalaair blog, but it's seem a little bit leave out recently. You're busy too.

Because of going nowhere these days, I've decided to warm-up my camera by using it at my garden.

Here's the result, my first time trying close-up :-)

http://picasaweb.google.com/dutchflyer/CloseUpTempting#

Hope chance to sail to the ocean again :-)

Have a nice day, Captain

Mirian will take  some photos for me of the daily way of life of the Brazilians in her town.

Marcelle keeps sending me beautiful PPS


Phaedra has a lot of works to finish.
She go to bed late, and wakes-up early at 4 AM.


Fedralita is taking care of a runaway baby ! He doesn't want to return to his family home !
On the phone, the mom cries and moans.
So Fedralita have to take care of the mom and her lost baby.
Fedralita, you have a big heart !


Anne Marie and me, were are visiting the south of France for 4 days.
I would like to visit Sienna ( around Florence ), but the forecast is bad.


Captain TRAN don't get ahead with his speech on Happiness.
He is too dreamer and disorganized !
( however interesting question : His God have to help him or he have to help his God for the speech ? )


No Internet for 4 days for me.
So keep in touch with Elvis.


Shalala Air Passengers, have a nice days.
Captain TRAN

Elvis I love you so much !!!

Rich out to Jesus

You'll never walk alone

The Wonder of You

Lead me, Guide me

Fedralita : Pipi & Spatzil

Graphic of Fedralita titled "Pipi & Spatzil"

Hey couple !

Where do you come from ?

You look so mixed-up !

You look so rural !

I hardly believe that you can be in Fedralita's gallery !

Where do you come from ?

In what world are you living ?

Watch my couple in the video !

They are so glamour,

They are so sexy,

They are so famous,

They have so many fans,

They are so star.

( except fidelity ... but they agree ... ).

...

This morning the preaching at the church is on the theme : "Zacharias: Your prayer is heard !" (Luke 1)
God has granted a child to Zacharias&Elizabeth, loyal God's servants.
After so many years.
...
So...
What is THE prayer in your heart years after years ?
What is THE prayer in your life years after years ?
What is THE trouble, the shame, the weigh in your life years after years ?
...
Couple, I apologize to you !
May be you are not looking for a Las Vegas style life !
May be you are looking for a granting from God ?
Be blessed !


Captain TRAN trying to sum up a very little part of the preaching of Nicolas TERNISIEN, using a graphic of Fedralita.
( it's too difficult trying doing summarize the preaching that was so wonderful and powerful this morning ).

Fedralita : The story

Graphic of Fedralita titled "Story"

Standing at the door of the Pink Flamingo, crying in the rain

It was a kind of so-so love and I'm gonna make sure it never happens again

You and I, it had to be the standing joke of the year

You were a sleeparound, a lost-and-found, and not for me I fear

I tried to make it work, you in a cocktail skirt, and me in a suit, well it just wasn't me

You're used to worry-less and now your life's a mess, so insecure you see

I put up with all the scenes and this is one scene thats gonna be played my way

Take your hands off me

I don't belong to you, you see

Take a look at my face for the last time

I never knew you, you never knew me

Say hello, goodbye

Say hello, wave goodbye

Under the deep red light, I can see the make-up sliding down

Hey little girl, you will always make-up, so take off that unbecoming frown

What about me? Well, I'll find someone that's not going cheap in the sales

A nice little housewife, who'll give me a steady life and won't keep going off the rails

Take your hands off me

I don't belong to you, you see

Take a look at my face for the last time

I never knew you, you never knew me

Say hello, goodbye

Say hello, wave goodbye

We've been involved for quite a while now, and to keep you a secret, it has been hell

We're strangers meeting for the first time, ok? Just smile and say hello...

Say hello, then wave goodbye

Say hello, then wave goodbye

Say hello, then wave goodbye

Say hello, then wave goodbye

Say hello, wave goodbye

Say hello, then wave goodbye

Say hello, say goodbye

Goodbye...

We can have a poll  :

- Are the lyrics terrible ?

- Are the lyrics desperate ?

- Are the lyrics cruel ?

- Are the lyrics a reality love ?

Whose to blame :

- the fate ?

- the naivety ?

- the lack of will ?

- the blindness ?

- the youth ?

Well, well, ...

As TRAN de Nice, I have my opinion ...

As Shalala Air Captain, I really enjoy the sweet melody and the eloquence of the lyrics.

And Fedralita's fans are delighted to know her instant mood with her graphics !

Fedralita, you are always welcome to express your feelings !

Post Scriptum about the lyrics :

My opinion is that is life but not love !

It is a kind of "so so love", so a very low cost love !

It's just a meeting, but a meeting kind of "just smile, say hello and goodbye"

But we are so sentimentally !

Sometimes I photograph a little waterfall and have a posing so that it could be a Niagara waterfall.

So we want to see the ocean of love what is, sometimes, just a duck pond !

Look how the former lover is called :

"you are a joke", "a sleeparound", "a lost-and-fond" ...

She (or He) can name his former like that because, simply, she has never been in love with him !

Yes this story is true life, but not true love.

As we are in a true life, somethings are very true :

tears : " crying in the rain "

despair : " I'll find someone that's not going cheap in the sales "

wrath : " It has been hell "

and of course, even it doesn't written...injury and wounded pride !

Shalala Air Passengers, we are informed :)

But ... we are so sentimental.

And we are so love deficient.

And a love trap is so tempting...

See you again in 2,3 weeks !

Enjoy !

Fedralita : Sorrow

My Fedralita is in sorrow !

It's the first time that there are tears in her drawings.

She puts under stress her fans !

And I'm no good to treat tears ( so blood like ! ).

I can just say to Phaedra the affection and the love of my God.

"For the mountains may be removed

 and the hills may shake,

 But My lovingkindness will not be removed from you,

 And My covenant of peace will not be shaken.

 Says the LORD who has compassion on you." ( Isa54:10 )

Captain TRAN's confession

Captain TRAN's confession

L'Eden me manque.

J'ai encore le goût de mon Dieu, mon Créateur.

Je me souviens encore du bruit de ses pas.

Quand il venait me voir vers le soir.

Je ne savais pas ce que c'était la peur.

Je ne savais pas ce que c'était la tristesse.

Je ne savais pas ce que c'était la peine.

Il n'y avait que des moments de bonheur.

Il n'y avait que des moments de valeur.

Il n'y avait que des moments de vie heureuse.

Tu remplissais le temps.
Tu remplissais l'espace.
Tu remplissais ma vie.
Merveilleusement.

L'Eden me manque.

J'ai encore le goût de mon Dieu, mon Créateur.

Encore un temps, un peu de temps peut-être.

Encore un temps, beaucoup de temps peut-être.

J'irai rejoindre mon Dieu, mon Créateur.

J'irai avec mon Roi, mon Seigneur et mon Berger.

Car Il s'est chargé de mes fautes.

Car Il s'est chargé de ma condamnation.

Car Il a donné sa glorieuse vie pour ma pauvre vie.

Mon Eden m'attend.

Ma Maison m'attend.

Mon Dieu et mon Créateur m'attend.

Ma course terrestre n'aura été qu'une parenthèse.

Le Malin l'a ouverte, mais mon Berger la refermera, à jamais.

( translation in Egnlish is into the Comment )

- * - * - *

Translation in French of the Lyrics

En cette saison ou le temps change a chaque instant
En cette saison ou les feuilles se fanent
Ou la terre s'emprègne de l'odeur de la pluie
Mes yeux se remplissent de larmes et je pense a toi
Tout me manque,tu me manques et j'en soufre
Et l'odeur de mesk elil me manque aussi

En cette saison ou le soleil disparaît
Oû les oiseaux quittent leurs nids
Oû la terre s'imprègne de l'odeur de la pluie

Tout me manque, tu me manques et j'en souffre
Et l'odeur du mesk elil me manque aussi

Les rues de mon enfance;

que je connais par coeur me manquent

Tout me manque,tu me manques et j'en souffre
Et l'odeur de mesk elil me manque aussi

tout me manque ,tu me manque ,tu me manque tout me manque...

( Mesk elil :Jasmin de nuit ; elil veux dire nuit , mesk galant ,galant de la nuit
en faite c'est une plante; le jasmin il en existe beaucoup en Algerie. )

Tonton Henri, a Giant

March 16, 2007, Tonton Henri received a very high honour from the government.

He received the title of the working hero of the nation.

He is the 30th man, from the begining of the VietNam history, to get this honour !

From the glory to the disgrace, and,

from the disgrace to the honour,

I compare him with Maximus (Russell Crowe) of the film "Gladiator" !.

He was like a general, then like a slave that became a hero !

Re-starting from nothing ( see his book "Nguoi o lai" ),

he successed to build the factories and product medecines for the VietNam in a very hard time.

His motto is "dare to think and dare to do" !

He is inventive and in the same time,  he is a scientific.

He works relentlessly, sleeping only 3 hours a day.

He has a tremondous memory.

He designed himself the building of  his 2 factories !

As a fast decision-maker and men leader, he is easily  hot passionate.

The factory decided to give him a day off a week for not putting under stress the employees !

He has a great love, and a great admiration, for his ancestors.

He has mobilized all resources for restoring the dilapidated tombs of the ancestors.
He is very proud to be able to achieve this work.

He has a passion of discovery,
he is a rare man that has visited all the villages of VietNam.

Just retired, he is writing his life !

He is already at the chapter 7.

He thinks that he will end the 5 chapters left next year.

May be he is writing in french ?.

He says that the book will be translated in Vietnamese and in English.

Fedralita : Winter comes

( Graphic of Fedralita titled "Winter comes ... with La Roux" )

From now on, the beautiful song "Cover my eyes" of La Roux

has also this very original graphic of Fedralita !

Why is she so decrepit and only half body ? See the lyrics :

"When I see you walking with her

I have to cover my eyes

Every time you leave with her

Something inside me dies.

Hold me please

I'm trying hard to breathe

I'm just surviving"

Hope no link with Phaedra :)

No wonder I'm scared

To look in your eyes

You've turned me away

So many times

You can take it away

At any given moment

It's hard to believe

While you're in this disguise

So would you hold me please

I'm trying hard to breathe

I'm just surviving

So would you hold me please

I'm trying hard to breathe

Stop me from crying

When I see you walking with her

I have to cover my eyes

I have to cover my eyes

Every time you leave with her

Something inside me dies

Something inside of me dies

No wonder it hurts

To sit by your side

There's a different song

I can play you tonight

We can break the pattern

We can change the colour

It's just a little sacrifice

You don't need to worry about the others

It's all in your mind

So would you hold me please

I'm trying hard to breathe

I'm just surviving

So would you hold me please

I'm trying hard to breathe

Stop me from crying

When I see you walking with her

I have to cover my eyes

I have to cover my eyes

Every time you leave with her

Something inside me dies