it's a sad rainy evening in the city

it's been some 18 days straight days of continual blog posts.. i amaze me! i am very very pleased in fact. and IF i don't pressure myself to churn out daily posts, i should be able to continue doing this.. it makes my day! the only thing is, the list of vocab is growing way faster than i could catch up.

aside from posting here, i've taken to buying those checkered exercise books and writing the characters out. it's really time consuming and tiring, and the only reason i do it is because i want to recognize the shape/outline of those characters. right now the words are too small on the computer screen for me to see the finer strokes.. and due to my fondness for traditional Chinese (which is dwindling with each word i write hehe), and the necessity to know the simplified version, i've got A LOT of writing to do.. and i am very slow at it. not sure if i would sustain the practice, but if anything, i would bet against me. haha..

so yeah, i need to catch up before i get left behind for good.. i am assuming this is what i would be doing if i signed up for class, so doing it on my own is the prudent thing to do, right? DIY/cheapo ftw!

anyways, i know i said that i was going to lay off the sappy songs for now, but i'm feeling really dejected right now. SIGH. all because of one man. and for what's happening, somebody's gonna get a hurt real bad! if you primarily speak English and have no clue as to who I am talking about, I suggest a holiday anywhere outside of the rock you've been hiding under. hehe..

i am referring to none other than the inimitable Russell Peters. i was really excited about going once his KL show was confirmed.. especially cos the hubby had wanted to go too (it's rare that we share a common performance interest).. and since i knew that tix sale starts today at 9am when i wldn't be in the office yet, and that zul was equally gung-ho to attend, i asked him to help w the purchase.. and so there he was, sitting steadily in front of the computer since 8 this morning andddd of course, the site was unable to handle the traffic it was getting and he kept getting booted out from the queue. just to keep us in the race, i thought i should also down to Rock Records KLCC to get hold of the tix. was there at 10 sharp and was #20 in a queue that never moved in the 45 minutes i stood there, only to give up when we were told that only RM338 tix were for sale. by afternoon, only the platinum tix (RM438 apiece) were available. woe is me!

so yeah, as I wallow in the aftermath of having my hopes dashed, let's listen to 愛錯 (Loved Wrongly), one of wlh's more well-known songs, which is still very singable 8 years after its debut. I prefer the concert version over the music video (but if you are a fan of Van Ness Wu, or cute sweaty men battling it out in a boxing ring, do google for the vid).

I like how he hits every note just so nicely, even effortlessly, here (if I haven't told you before, I've a weakness for male falsetto).. he could be singing about roast pork or the inflation for all i care. 烤猪肉啊啊啊, 为什么啊那么贵啊? 是因为通货膨胀吗? 啦啦啦。。。 sumfink like that.

you know what, I NEED A HOLIDAY. sigh~


毫不留情 háo bù liúqíng - no mercy
逃脫 táotuō - escape (reminds me of Dory in Finding Nemo trying to pronounce this word.. "es-ca-pay" =)
整 zhěng - whole (i've always thought that this is written as 正.. rupa2nya they are different words :P)
降落 jiàngluò - land/ing, descend/ing
翻開 fān kai - turn over
仔細回味 zǐxì huíwèi - carefully ponder


北風毫不留情 把葉子吹落
脆弱的她選擇了逃脫
葉子失去消息 風才感覺寂寞
整個冬天 北風的痛沒人能說
the north wind is merciless
in blowing the leaves off trees
a fragile girl decides to escape
the leaves were not heard from again
and so the wind feels lonely throughout winter
no one is able speak of the pain that it bears

我從來沒想過 我會這樣做
從來沒愛過 所以愛錯
我從哪裡起飛 從哪裡降落
多少不能原諒的錯 卻不能重來過
i've never thought that i would do such things
i've never loved before, that's why i loved wrongly
i landed where i had lifted off (i.e. i never progressed beyond where i started)
there are many unforgivable mistakes, there's no way to start over

翻開回憶角落 完美的生活
以為幸福都可以掌握
仔細回味當初 那個故事背後
Oh 原來是我 犯下從沒承認的錯
i turn over a corner of the memories: a perfect life
i thought that i could hold on to the happiness
i carefully ponder about the beginning, the background of the story
i realised that it was me who had committed mistakes i've never admitted to

在這少了你的世界
Oh 找不回那些感覺
其實我不想道別
那些過去
without you in this world
oh i could not retrieve those feelings
i actually did not want to say goodbye to the past



愛錯
王力宏

北風毫不留情 把葉子吹落
脆弱的她選擇了逃脫
葉子失去消息 風才感覺寂寞
整個冬天 北風的痛沒人能說

我從來沒想過 我會這樣做
從來沒愛過 所以愛錯
我從哪裡起飛 從哪裡降落
多少不能原諒的錯卻不能重來過

翻開回憶角落 完美的生活
以為幸福都可以掌握
仔細回味當初 那個故事背後
Oh 原來是我 犯下從沒承認的錯

我從來沒想過 我會這樣做
從來沒愛過 所以愛錯
我從哪裡起飛 從哪裡降落
多少不能原諒的錯卻不能重來過

在這少了你的世界
Oh 找不回那些感覺
其實我不想道別 ( 道別 )
那些過去

( 我從來沒想過 我會這樣做 從來沒愛過 所以愛錯 ) 從來沒有愛過那麼認真
( 我從哪裡起飛 ) 從哪裡 ( 從哪裡降落 ) 降落
( 多少不能原諒的錯卻不能重來過 )

( 我從來沒想過 我會這樣做 )
( 從來沒愛過 ) 愛過 ( 所以愛錯 ) 所以愛錯
( 我從哪裡起飛 ) 愛錯愛錯 ( 從哪裡降落 ) 愛錯 baby
( 多少不能原諒的錯 ) ooh 請你原諒我的 愛錯