2007年2月24日土曜日

The Dawn Train

Even if a leaf withers in the end, the world would never change.
Even if a flower opens in the beginning, the world would never change.
You'll have to forget him while in love, if he is destined to go.
My impoverished silent love is blown away in the wind.

Run, the Dawn Train! Go penetrating this darkness!
Go casting away my prolonged wondering
In the dawning sky!

Even after many thoughts, love would be nothing but love.
Even if the Sun set in the east, a life would be nothing but a life.
When old stories disappear one by one like stardusts
and the eastern sky gets brighter, I will see a vast plain.

Run, the Dawn Train! Go penetrating this darkness!
Go casting away my prolonged wondering in the dawning sky!

(This is my poor translation of a Korean song I loved when I was in the late teen. I recently happened to find the original words on the Net. It feel it very strange that I can still sing this song almost 20 years after I listened it last time. Even though it is a melancholic song, I love it because I can see some hope in the part "Go penetrating this darkness!" Since I felt some significance in my re-discovery of this song after 20 year, I translated so that I could share with all of you...)

새벽열차

마지막 잎이 진다고 해도 세상은 변하지 않으리
처음 꽃이 핀다고 해도 세상은 변하지 않으리
헤어져야할 사람이라면 사랑하면서 잊어야지
가난한 침묵의 사랑 바람 속으로 흩어져 가네

달려가자 새벽열차야 어둠 속을 빠져나가자
늙어버린 방황을 새벽 하늘 속에 버리고 가자

아무리 생각해도 사랑은 사랑일뿐이야
해가 동쪽으로 진다고 해도 인생은 인생일뿐이야
별빛같은 지난 얘기들 하나 둘씩 사라지고
동녁 하늘이 밝아오면 넓은 들판이 나타나겠지

달려가자 새벽열차야 어둠 속을 빠져나가자
늙어버린 방황을 새벽 하늘 속에 버리고 가자

(한돌 / / 신형원 노래 VOL2 / 1987)

2007年2月19日月曜日

Dear God

Dear God,

When I took down the rusted ancient armour and the sword
Which many people believe are yours
I became free.

When I demolished the ancient fortress mighty but choking
Which many people believe is yours
I became free.

When I allowed myself feeling with my own feelings
Not with the ones many people believe are yours
I became free.

Now I am open and happy,
A lot easier to relate myself to my neighbours
Than when I was armed with
What many people believe is yours.

I am happy here and now.
It is better than living in the hell on the earth
even if I can go to the Heaven after I die.

So I love you, God.
I can feel your love better than when I was trying to
Reach you through what many people believe is yours.

Burn me in the eternal fire of hell
If you find me blasphemous.
It is far better than
Living in the ever-lasting hell on the earth
By enforcing what many people believe is yours
To my neighbours.

I walked out from Apocalypse.
Now I live in peace and hope.

Sincerely yours,

Pete

Egoiste


I opened today a bottle of Chanel's EgoistePlatimum that my sister had given me. As a northerner living in a subtropical city, perfume is a kind of necessity to me...

Egoiste smells good. But I feel a bit awkward liking Egoiste.

I am a student of A Course In Miracle (ACIM), in which Ego is treated almost like Satan... It seems quite the same as a Christian liking a product called "Satanist".

Well, this perfume did not put me in a moral dilemma. It simply gave me a chuckle...

Anyway, my awkward feeling was just my perception. And it is empty. So I can transform such a harmless perception into anything like a good chuckle that relaxes me...

BTW, A Happy Lunar New Year of the Pig to everyone! Live long and Prosper!

2007年2月14日水曜日

A Cold Day?



Amy (this cat) looks very cold, doesn't she? Nah, she is just hiding from my son.
Actually, it is not cold at all in Hong Kong now... It may be the warmest winter I have ever experienced in this city... Although I miss ice-cold weather, it maybe a nightmare for Amy...

2007年2月13日火曜日

Sieg Heil in the toilet?

Fühler is alive...

in some of your toilets...

controlling everyday...

the flow of flush water...


But I guess running or working for this company named "Hitler" requires helluvalot nerves, anyway...