a walk to remember
yesterday i went for a walk in changping park with two girls and one guy from my university class, holding cups of warm 珍珠奶茶, and it was a very nice walk. the two girls and i linked arms for part of the way, which i found comforting, and nice - just like when they say 出去玩玩 - and we spent some time trying to identify the different flowers which were starting to bloom.
we came to a tree which might have been covered with cherry, or peach blossoms, and since none of us knew what they really were the lone male amongst us said we should just call it 那个毛毛虫树 na4 ge4 mao2 mao2 chong2 shu4, that caterpillar tree. the flowers were positioned in rows on branches (no camera, no photo) and really did look somewhat like caterpillars.
trust boys to come up with such unromantic names.
if the flowers are starting to bloom for spring, why isn't the temperature following suit?
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i haven't been blogging for some time (is two days very long?) because the other day i felt so bad about downloading songs from baidu that i went out to the shops and bought original faye wong and zhang hui mei cds. they're very cheap, between S$4-S$6 for one, and despite the fact that some of them look Rather Dodgy, they're really originals - except for one which i bought from our movie uncle at a shop near school. he kept telling me it was original, and boy, did it look original.
upon closer examination, however, we found that it was not. original cds have a code imprinted in the small inner circle and can be identified by online tools for ripping cds as well as windows media player. if it's original all the song names should appear when you insert the cd and begin ripping it.
anyhow, those were extremely boring technicalities that i felt i had to explain to you. since i bought the cds - two days ago - i've been ripping music to my trusty zen stone plus and have been Absolutely Lost in faye wong and ah mei's songs. the sound you get from cds, whether original or pirated, is also much better than anything you can download, which way of getting music is more of a luck of the draw thing and depends on the quality of the sound file uploaded.
jinni and i were at a cafe opposite our apartment studying on monday, the day after i got my cds, and after a while i just left my work and sat staring out of the glass wall at the street, listening to song after song, some more than once, looking at people living their lives on that short stretch of pavement.
chloe you're so dreamy la jinni said. i told her she should have tried to manipulate me into doing more things with her, like going to school with her for a night lecture, which would've meant leaving at 1630 and we would've been caught in rush hour traffic, and staying back another night in school with her to listen to some talk. things like that, which i'm normally too lazy to do.
for some strange reason i really like faye wong's cantonese songs, even though i don't understand them. except, of course, the bits which sound vaguely like mandarin.
i think chinese is a very pretty, unpretentious and descriptive language, chief adjective being unpretentious. maybe that's why i like these songs so much.
just to be annoying, bet you haven't thought of this song for some time:
BAD BOY, BAD BOY
你的坏让我太无奈
我要和你说 bye bye bye bye bye bye byeeeee
yesterday i went for a walk in changping park with two girls and one guy from my university class, holding cups of warm 珍珠奶茶, and it was a very nice walk. the two girls and i linked arms for part of the way, which i found comforting, and nice - just like when they say 出去玩玩 - and we spent some time trying to identify the different flowers which were starting to bloom.
we came to a tree which might have been covered with cherry, or peach blossoms, and since none of us knew what they really were the lone male amongst us said we should just call it 那个毛毛虫树 na4 ge4 mao2 mao2 chong2 shu4, that caterpillar tree. the flowers were positioned in rows on branches (no camera, no photo) and really did look somewhat like caterpillars.
trust boys to come up with such unromantic names.
if the flowers are starting to bloom for spring, why isn't the temperature following suit?
***
i haven't been blogging for some time (is two days very long?) because the other day i felt so bad about downloading songs from baidu that i went out to the shops and bought original faye wong and zhang hui mei cds. they're very cheap, between S$4-S$6 for one, and despite the fact that some of them look Rather Dodgy, they're really originals - except for one which i bought from our movie uncle at a shop near school. he kept telling me it was original, and boy, did it look original.
upon closer examination, however, we found that it was not. original cds have a code imprinted in the small inner circle and can be identified by online tools for ripping cds as well as windows media player. if it's original all the song names should appear when you insert the cd and begin ripping it.
anyhow, those were extremely boring technicalities that i felt i had to explain to you. since i bought the cds - two days ago - i've been ripping music to my trusty zen stone plus and have been Absolutely Lost in faye wong and ah mei's songs. the sound you get from cds, whether original or pirated, is also much better than anything you can download, which way of getting music is more of a luck of the draw thing and depends on the quality of the sound file uploaded.
jinni and i were at a cafe opposite our apartment studying on monday, the day after i got my cds, and after a while i just left my work and sat staring out of the glass wall at the street, listening to song after song, some more than once, looking at people living their lives on that short stretch of pavement.
chloe you're so dreamy la jinni said. i told her she should have tried to manipulate me into doing more things with her, like going to school with her for a night lecture, which would've meant leaving at 1630 and we would've been caught in rush hour traffic, and staying back another night in school with her to listen to some talk. things like that, which i'm normally too lazy to do.
for some strange reason i really like faye wong's cantonese songs, even though i don't understand them. except, of course, the bits which sound vaguely like mandarin.
i think chinese is a very pretty, unpretentious and descriptive language, chief adjective being unpretentious. maybe that's why i like these songs so much.
just to be annoying, bet you haven't thought of this song for some time:
BAD BOY, BAD BOY
你的坏让我太无奈
我要和你说 bye bye bye bye bye bye byeeeee
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