tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-74487084380485974742024-03-13T13:27:36.210-07:00A Singaporean Poem BoxTC Laihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12308647123287028981noreply@blogger.comBlogger114125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7448708438048597474.post-27515284367513941802020-02-27T03:12:00.000-08:002020-02-27T03:12:04.759-08:00In Love with a Married Woman<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In Love With A Married Woman</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">- by TC Lai, 11 Feb 2020</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I am in love with a married woman</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The way she walks the way talks</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Even the way she holds her fork and spoon</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Are the little things I liked of a girl long ago</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You will never tire thinking back</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Of how you had wanted to say hi</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">If she would hold your hand</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Or maybe dance that dance you had in mind</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The big question</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The big occasion</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The honeymoon</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I look at this married woman and feel</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">All those memories</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And the ones only together with kids can make</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And wonder earnestly if she feels the same</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I wonder too of the work I need to do</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">To covet what that is not mine</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">If I need to run her husband over with a car</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Or just accost him in a dark alley</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">To get him to give up what is obviously</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A lost cause for him</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">For that married woman has given me a smile</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">That she might climb onto this adventure</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I am dreaming of and am punctuating</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">With lovely imagery</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">For the years ahead are still pretty long</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Then I get smacked on the head</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"Eh buddy, why are you staring at her so long?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">She's your wife, ain't she?"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"No lah, just thinking of an old song," I lied,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Embarrassed, but somewhat true</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Some married women are best left alone</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But there's only one I'd rather keep by my side</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Always.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The end</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(Note: A different take on the usual Valentines Day poem. :-))</span>TC Laihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12308647123287028981noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7448708438048597474.post-23396770957789548522019-09-11T00:40:00.000-07:002019-09-11T00:40:10.842-07:00Vulnerable Woman (aka Melania's Lament)Vulnerable Woman<br />(lit Easily Get Hurt Woman)<br /><br />
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- translated by TC Lai 11 Sept 2019 (a sing-along)<br /></div>
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OMG, my husband he's a bum</div>
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He can never ever do his sums</div>
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Run his business just like a Trump</div>
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Sooner or later we have to run</div>
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And don't talk to me about his sons</div>
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They are not twins but equally dumb</div>
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Love to chew and swallow their bubble gum</div>
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So they could fart and have some fun</div>
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They then very slowly </div>
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Blow them out their bums</div>
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"Mom! Dad! Come quick see what we have done</div>
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But you, but you</div>
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Oh my dear sons</div>
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Will be lifted nearer towards the sun</div>
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I think my job </div>
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As parent is over</div>
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Kids are gone and burned up by the sun</div>
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No need to wait</div>
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Eh, got my facial already booked at eight...</div>
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Now the fun has just begun</div>
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On how to get rid of that overgrown bum</div>
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Who's now staring intently at the sun</div>
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Oh why did I marry that sonofagun</div>
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Hold a pillow and shoot him with a gun</div>
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Or put rat poison in his fave Mac bun</div>
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Or drop him dead with a killer pun</div>
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Oh yeah, he'll miss it he's that dumb</div>
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I think my job</div>
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As wife is over</div>
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The love's gone and not a single crumb</div>
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Shud I call a lawyer and wait</div>
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Or just slam a toaster on his head</div>
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Once there was love</div>
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Or was it clothes, the business jets?</div>
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Or the jetset parties and Hollywood press</div>
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But he, but he</div>
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Promised me much </div>
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All a sham, finances on a crutch</div>
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A suspect I shouldn't become</div>
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Maybe the NRA has ideas and then some</div>
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Invite Dick Cheney over with a gun</div>
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My hubby might get some buckshot in his bum</div>
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Damn that Putin is handsome</div>
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And a bachelor with a big big mansion</div>
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Should I ask him do to a KGB run</div>
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To make me his wife Russia's No.1</div>
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La la la dee dum, oh just give me that goddamn gun....</div>
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TC Laihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12308647123287028981noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7448708438048597474.post-83825872991762780562019-05-27T18:42:00.001-07:002019-05-27T18:55:54.772-07:00Do Not Wish To Decorate Your Dream<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Link: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-YeIjY2LVg">Click here.</a><br />
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<u>Do Not Wish To Decorate Your Dream (</u><span style="font-family: "youtube noto" , "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">不裝飾你的夢)</span><br />
(Classic HK 1970s Cantonese song)<br />
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I rather heart-pain than decorate your dream<br />
Than you flip my heart like gymnast on a beam<br />
Rather I Trump-sad-face crawl back to my sins<br />
Like a fart thinning out with the wind<br />
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Don't you break my heart, break like iPhone screen<br />
Like shattered ice, bits reflecting everything.<br />
Hot passion naivety long ago became pain<br />
Only got what-what questions that remain<br />
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Who's Yun Yee, that fire in my loins!<br />
Who's Yun Yee, wah lun, me sibeh gong!<br />
Rather my heart long calendar non-stop pain<br />
Than let you turn it into a stretchy panty game!<br />
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Each and every sigh<br />
Goes into your cleavage dream<br />
Each and every coy laughter<br />
Echoes loud in your fat lip dream<br />
But the love I had for you once<br />
Has become failed plastic surgery in the bin<br />
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- the end (translated by TC Lai)TC Laihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12308647123287028981noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7448708438048597474.post-48547358516124740762019-04-18T10:47:00.000-07:002019-04-18T10:47:40.770-07:00Harm Sar Lei 咸沙梨Here's a ditty from a Singapore 60s singer, Seung Kuan Lau Yun (Cantonese). Back then funny ditties set to popular 60s pop (and rock & roll) were quite the rage in HK. They also made an impact in Singapore and Malaysia. Title Harm Sai Lei, nickname of the character in the song and was actually derived from a fruit delicacy from Guangdong - Chinese pear sprinkled with a salty-sour pumice, quite like guava slices sold at today's pasar malam. This song is nostalgic as it speaks of Singapore's original satay stretch that was located along Beach Road, outside on the pavement of the St' John's Ambulance HQ. It later moved to The Esplanade (aka Queen Elizabeth Walk) as Satay Club, and then to Lao Pa Sat. Now part of it is also at The Esplanade's Makansutra Gluttons Bay. (One time was also temporary revived in Sembawang (next to SSC) as Satay Club years back).<br /><br />This ditty was part of a three-song 45rpm vinyl, the cover of which is shown below. It shows the demolished National Theatre front. It also housed the popular Van Cleef Aquarium. Fort Canning.<br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The three-song vinyl link is here. The song begins at 4:49<br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPDGKj98V0w</td></tr>
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The solo song is here:<br />
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7BIKpS2b5M&fbclid<br />
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Translated lyrics (by TC Lai):<br />
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My nickname is Harm Sar Lei<br />
Three meals no diff - always with just lo-mei (stewed street food)<br />
This year I'm 44<br />
Still single and without a matrimonial home<br />
One night went out to Beach Road<br />
Was thinking of having satay<br />
Coincidentally at the next table was a modern (stylish) and pretty girl<br />
The more I looked, the more she resembled my decades-ago old flame<br />
Her name was Ou-yang Molly<br />
Speaking of Molly, she and I had a history<br />
She was staying at one end of the street, I - the other<br />
At times we went on dates (paktor), other times<br />
We went to the movies<br />
Our passion was hot, like over 100-plus degrees!<br />
It was really fun and exciting and we cared for little else<br />
But as the saying goes, Sorrow comes after Happiness<br />
When you think about, it's logical<br />
Not long after, the Japanese furiously bombed us<br />
One day bomb here, another day bomb there<br />
I heard a bomb fell right on Molly's house<br />
No one knew if she was alive or dead<br />
Now it's already over 20 years ago<br />
Anybody would have gotten over it<br />
But I don't know why I sooo liked her<br />
See other women I don't want to pursue<br />
Not Molly I don't want to marry<br />
So when I saw Molly there (at the next table)<br />
I rushed over and hugged her<br />
Wanted to pine about our long-lost love<br />
Kiss her all over and leave lovelorn tears<br />
Suddenly out rushed some big-sized dudes<br />
Without a word, knocked me to the ground<br />
Some wanted to break my bones<br />
Some wanted to skin me alive<br />
Even if it's just a case of mis-identity<br />
They shouldn't beat me up till so jialat<br />
But as they say, Good deeds seldom heard<br />
Bad deeds spread like wild fire<br />
Word got to my lousy manager<br />
He said I was a samseng-in-gentleman-clothing<br />
And promptly fired me on the spot<br />
You say lah, do I deserve that?<br />
Do I deserve that?<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'YouTube Noto', Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 14px; text-align: start;">咸沙梨 - harm sar lei - a smallish, brown skin Chinese pear with gritty but juicy flesh. Pumiced with a salt and sour plum sprinkle, hence </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'YouTube Noto', Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 14px; text-align: start;">咸沙梨 or harm sar lei (Cantonese).</span></td></tr>
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Zhang Xiao Ying - Singapore's original Queen of Ballads<br />
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- Translation: (Lyrics are a bit unusual! *wink)<br />
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<b>Three Dreams</b><br />
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The first dream<br />
You try to get into my panty<br />
But I was wearing pants<br />
Your hand got stuck in the zipper<br />
All the hair came off your hand<br />
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I try to forget you<br />
But the excitement drew me back in<br />
So I wore a bikini the very next day<br />
But you were far far away<br />
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Anyhoo I took a selfie of my cooch<br />
And think to whatsapp it your way<br />
But instead I sent it to my father<br />
Who said COME HOME RIGHT AWAY<br />
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The second dream<br />
You try to get into my suitcase<br />
We had planned a honeymoon<br />
You were a cheap bastard<br />
Paid for one ticket and a cheap motel room<br />
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I try to forget you<br />
But the excitement drew me back in<br />
So I wore the ring again next day<br />
But you were drunk outside the doorway<br />
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Anyhoo I wrote a short brief letter<br />
But no paper I could find<br />
Instead I used a tampon and lipstick<br />
And pasted 'BASTARD' up your behind<br />
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The third dream<br />
You try to get into my coffin<br />
Seeing I was lying in missionary<br />
Can't you see I'm already dead?<br />
To you even that is secondary<br />
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I try to forget you<br />
But the excitement drew me back in<br />
So I left my grave the very next day<br />
But you went and banged Mary from Amway<br />
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Anyhoo I left you a mudtrail<br />
That leads to the backyard shed<br />
There I sit with pail and shears<br />
To make you bleed when you next get head<br />
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<span style="background-color: #f2f3f5; color: #1c1e21; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px;"><u>三个梦</u></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f2f3f5; color: #1c1e21; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px;">第一个梦里</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f2f3f5; color: #1c1e21; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px;">你像抹朝霞</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f2f3f5; color: #1c1e21; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px;">可爱又迷人</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f2f3f5; color: #1c1e21; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px;">飘渺又婆娑</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f2f3f5; color: #1c1e21; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px;">我想追寻你</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f2f3f5; color: #1c1e21; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px;">追寻来作伴</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f2f3f5; color: #1c1e21; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px;">万里迢迢关山难</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f2f3f5; color: #1c1e21; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px;">我想忘却你未语悲先发</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f2f3f5; color: #1c1e21; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px;">醒来时不禁泪满腮</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f2f3f5; color: #1c1e21; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px;">泣无声空惆怅</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f2f3f5; color: #1c1e21; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px;">第二个梦里</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f2f3f5; color: #1c1e21; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px;">你像茉莉花</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f2f3f5; color: #1c1e21; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px;">馥香又秀丽</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f2f3f5; color: #1c1e21; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px;">清逸又多娇</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f2f3f5; color: #1c1e21; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px;">我想追寻你</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f2f3f5; color: #1c1e21; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px;">追寻来作伴</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f2f3f5; color: #1c1e21; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px;">蜂喧蝶舞闹嚷嚷</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f2f3f5; color: #1c1e21; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px;">我想忘却你未语泪双双</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f2f3f5; color: #1c1e21; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px;">醒来时不禁五更寒</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f2f3f5; color: #1c1e21; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px;">肠欲断心彷徨</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f2f3f5; color: #1c1e21; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px;">第三个梦里</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f2f3f5; color: #1c1e21; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px;">你像轮明月</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f2f3f5; color: #1c1e21; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px;">光彩又无私</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f2f3f5; color: #1c1e21; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px;">晶莹又圣洁</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f2f3f5; color: #1c1e21; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px;">我想追寻你</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f2f3f5; color: #1c1e21; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px;">追寻来作伴</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f2f3f5; color: #1c1e21; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px;">天长路远魂飞苦</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f2f3f5; color: #1c1e21; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px;">我想忘却你未语梦惊醒</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f2f3f5; color: #1c1e21; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px;">愿上苍断梦能再续</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f2f3f5; color: #1c1e21; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px;">莫令人催心肝</span>TC Laihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12308647123287028981noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7448708438048597474.post-46037878512882953162019-03-29T01:54:00.001-07:002019-03-29T01:54:42.488-07:00Autumn Come, Autumn Go<span style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , "utopia" , "palatino linotype" , "palatino" , serif; font-size: 15.4px; line-height: 21.56px;">Here's another classic Cantonese song with attempted translation (haha).</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , "utopia" , "palatino linotype" , "palatino" , serif; font-size: 15.4px; line-height: 21.56px;">Cao Loy Ya Cao Hue (Autumn Come, Autumn </span><span style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , "utopia" , "palatino linotype" , "palatino" , serif; font-size: 15.4px; line-height: 21.56px;">Go, Cantonese)</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , "utopia" , "palatino linotype" , "palatino" , serif; font-size: 15.4px; line-height: 21.56px;"><br /></span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rt-DqvMIToc" rel="noreferrer" style="background-color: white; color: #0000cc; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?<wbr></wbr>v=rt-DqvMIToc</a><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , "utopia" , "palatino linotype" , "palatino" , serif; font-size: 15.4px; line-height: 21.56px;">Translation:</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><br /><b>Autumn Come, Autumn Go</b></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , "utopia" , "palatino linotype" , "palatino" , serif; font-size: 15.4px; line-height: 21.56px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Hung hung long long Yip's dick outside my window</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Flapping in the wind giving me the chills</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">The quiet amplify this unholy wait</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Drip drip drip later into my uneasy dreamscape</span><br />
<br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">At times it's Leong's scrotum</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">At times it is Ah Choon's scrotum</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Still the dicks swing like windchimes</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">outside my window</span><br />
<br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Lay folks ask me why I wait</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">How I can long for just one dick</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">I say that's how you surely make</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">A long distance relationship stick</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">You cannot just flip a prata</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">And tuckaway at a naan with sriracha</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">And when those dicks make you pine</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">For that other continent swine</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">You pinch your arm to make yourself numb</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">The thought of you feeling so dumb</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">But we women are like that</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Part our knees and our hearts are trapped</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Chorus</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Chow Loy he would come, Chow Loy he would go</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">(Is that his name? I forget)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Chow Loy he make my tears involuntarily flow</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Chow Loy he might come, Chow Loy he might go</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Chow Loy will he again make an empty show?</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Chow Loy he didn't come, Chow Loy he didn't go</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Chow Loy make me read his texts like a widow</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Chow Loy shud he stay, or shud he go</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Chow Loy sent me a dick-pic and I'm all aglow!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">秋来也秋去</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">- sung by Sally Yeh</span><br />
<br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">红红黄黄叶儿伴我窗</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">飘他方的你可有着凉</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">静问为何是你使我等待</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">怎么要千滴热泪滴进我梦乡</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">又是凉的秋 愁无尽的秋</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">知否当你远去后</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">牵挂到倦透</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">旁人常问何事要等</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">怎么可一世不爱别人</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">自问若忘掉你 都算应份</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">可惜每当叶落便念你更深</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">背着人心酸 人如愿相恋</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">推挡当世界再没秋季再算</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">秋来也秋去</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">秋风教人掉眼泪</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">何时才跟你可重聚</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">秋来也秋去</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">要到几多岁</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">方信你与我早早告吹</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">秋来也秋去</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">千千片红叶跌坠</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">如完成凄美的程序</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">秋来也秋去 我似秋空虚</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">只有信会跟你再共对</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">旁人常问何事要等</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">自问若忘掉你 都算应份</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">背着人心酸 人如愿相恋</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">秋来也秋去</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">何时才跟你可重聚</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">秋来也秋去</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">要到几多岁</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">方信你与我早早告吹</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">千千片红叶跌坠</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">如完成凄美的程序</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">秋来也秋去 我似秋空虚</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">只有信会跟你再共对</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">秋来也秋去 我似秋空虚</span><span style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , "utopia" , "palatino linotype" , "palatino" , serif; font-size: 15.4px; line-height: 21.56px;"><br /></span>TC Laihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12308647123287028981noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7448708438048597474.post-89926543917560784642018-12-26T05:23:00.002-08:002018-12-26T05:23:46.820-08:00Row Boat Cop<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: #eff1f3; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">RowBoatCop</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;">Row row row my boat</span></span><span style="background-color: #eff1f3; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;">Gently down the stream</span><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;">Verily verily verily</span><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;">Life is not what I've dreamed</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;">Row row row my boat</span><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;">I seemed to have another life</span><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;">Seemingly seemingly seemingly</span><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;">I had a kid and a wife</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;">Row row row my boat</span><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;">I also seemed to have a badassed gun</span><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;">Boomingly boomingly boomingly</span><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;">It shot up bad guys nicely on the run</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;">Row row row my boat</span><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;">My bottom's welded to the deck</span><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;">Chillingly chillingly chillingly</span><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;">My bionic dick is always cold and wet</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;">Row row row my boat</span><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;">Here's the unpleasant thing</span><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;">Rustily rustily rustily</span><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;">The salt water's getting into my seams</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;">Row...Row...Row my boat</span><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;">Oh I'm stiffening mightily</span><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;">Miserably miserably miserably</span><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;">I'm left stuck with no WD40</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;">Sit sit sit in my boat</span><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;">All sunbeat and weather toiled</span><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;">Bobbingly bobbingly bobbingly</span><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;">I've become an expensive ocean buoy<br /><br />- by TC Lai, 24th Dec 2018<br /><br />A poem written in response to that funny image posted to Science Fiction Singapore FB group. </span></span></span>TC Laihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12308647123287028981noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7448708438048597474.post-40083689004857880782018-12-01T23:48:00.000-08:002018-12-02T02:21:12.816-08:00Friend, Why So Stubborn?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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[Sung to The Sound of Silence]<br />
<br />
Hello Ho Ching my old friend<br />
I see you're in the limelight once again<br />
Wearing those same old blouse and pants<br />
Dignitaries must wonder about your fashion sense<br />
And it's a vision that's been badly seared in my brain<br />
It still remains<br />
Why, my dear girl, are you so stubborn?<br />
<br />
In fashion halls you walk alone<br />
Critics quietly throw a sartorial stone<br />
Cause you are the PM's wife<br />
They cannot criticise with this fake news vibe<br />
To say how they feel and why you must see the light<br />
With the fashion elite<br />
But my friend, you are stubborn<br />
<br />
Probably in the naked light you saw<br />
One ah soh thick at waist and more<br />
So a blouse and pants is best option<br />
No need slim figure for a svelte cheongsam<br />
But you know you at times look like an auntie on a sunday stroll<br />
They look better, I am told<br />
So please, don't be so stubborn<br />
<br />
I know it's not tattered nor knitted poor<br />
With slippers made by a MINDS affiliated girl<br />
But you must know we've seen it all before<br />
At dinners ONE, TWO, THREE and FOUR<br />
So can you please mix it up so we need not heave nor throw up<br />
At your sartorial sense<br />
When your salary, can buy you a few Mercedes Benzes<br />
<br />
You know it is quite insane<br />
To be out always in same garment plan<br />
What if a waitress wears the same exact garb<br />
You gotta run and hide under a tarp<br />
To avoid the shame you need to think more than just a little bit<br />
Not dress like a robotic twit<br />
So, my friend, why are you so stubborn?<br />
<br />
Do you see me wear the same old clothes<br />
At work, conferences or meeting my blokes<br />
There's a time for every choice<br />
A suitable design par for any course<br />
So don't tell me Singapore fashion is such an utter bore<br />
We have MOMA fashions galore<br />
But my friend, you are stubborn<br />
<br />
- by TC Lai<br />
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<i>Note: Apparently the clutch bag she's holding in the pix is made by an autistic child from a Pathlight school. It is a great thing to do, but why not make it a gift to the other First Ladies?</i>TC Laihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12308647123287028981noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7448708438048597474.post-63668308307007569492018-11-21T21:07:00.001-08:002018-11-23T02:37:26.119-08:00I Bought A Secondhand Diary<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />
<b>I Bought A Secondhand Diary</b><br />
<br />
I bought a secondhand diary<br />
Because I was just too fuck lazy<br />
To pen down thoughts for the day<br />
<br />
What the rain might mean<br />
Running down the window pane<br />
Or wilted leaves dancing in the wind<br />
<br />
I bought a secondhand diary<br />
Thinking to be somebody else<br />
Who had lived a life quite extraordinary<br />
<br />
A mountaineer who scaled The Seven Peaks<br />
Or a diver who lunged the darkest deeps<br />
Or a prostitute who gave out Veteran Day freebies<br />
<br />
Oh, what stories she might tell<br />
Of men who braved bullets in a Man-made hell<br />
Of men who cum and weep and open-eye sleep<br />
<br />
I bought a secondhand diary<br />
Wondering who had held the pen<br />
Was it a man or woman or gender-bend?<br />
<br />
Wooing a pretty wife or handsome man<br />
Deciding if, indeed, you were born to bend<br />
Forever keeping closet secrets from family & friends<br />
<br />
I bought a secondhand diary<br />
It came with a pretty bookmark<br />
Did that person's life ended or upended hence?<br />
<br />
To that page I turned<br />
And was greeted by a script<br />
So elegant and poised, and dignity-filled<br />
<br />
"I too had bought a secondhand diary<br />
And compared it to my new blank one<br />
I had not a wit, how to write one sweet<br />
<br />
"Haphazard was the old, and bunchy<br />
Stuffed with notes and pictures aplenty<br />
Scribbled over lines and margins... as if life on-demand<br />
<br />
"It was a fascinating collage<br />
For which my life can never be<br />
Getting messy, crazy and rules-bound free?<br />
<br />
"I soon wrote into my new expectant diary<br />
And decided to live my life... A little free"<br />
<br />
I did buy that secondhand diary<br />
And bought a new one too<br />
Hoping someday I might give someone pause<br />
<br />
That living the lie of a life<br />
Might be pretty quick and easy<br />
Impresses no one but the reader he<br />
<br />
But I look at my new diary<br />
With its blank pages beckoning me<br />
Do I still have a life to script and explore?<br />
<br />
Though my hair is white<br />
And my nails thick and hard<br />
And veins a little too blue and angry<br />
<br />
I need, I need, to forge ahead<br />
To leave this world a thing<br />
Even if it is a half-written diary!<br />
<br />
For a reader to continue the journey<br />
Especially one who's thinking...<br />
<br />
Of buying a secondhand diary<br />
<br />
- TC Lai<br />
<br />TC Laihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12308647123287028981noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7448708438048597474.post-24371692651545370722018-08-25T22:06:00.000-07:002018-11-22T01:15:22.068-08:00Crying Sand - 哭砂<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4YkHQrPt2I">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4YkHQrPt2I</a><br />
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Crying Sand<br />
- Translated by TC Lai<br />
<br />
You are my most miserable lan-sai<br />
Make me both happy and scared of tomolo<br />
You said you must be free like stardust<br />
Sometimes get naughty and make me boo-hoo<br />
<br />
Rather see me cry-cry<br />
Than boss my "bye-bye"<br />
Really you are more like bak sai<br />
Than stardust in my eyes<br />
<br />
You are my most miserable indecision<br />
Giving up the sea is like asking you to die<br />
What's so freaking great about the ocean<br />
"Can eat, can bathe, can shit...<br />
Really really, you must give it a try!"<br />
<br />
Aledy hard to come see me<br />
Yet you are always ready to leave me<br />
A handful of sand drop between my fingers<br />
Do I now have to masturbate to be free?<br />
<br />
Chorus:<br />
Wind blow come the sand<br />
Gets lodged in my teary eyes<br />
Heng ah, I'm Ubering on this highway so I won't die!<br />
<br />
Wind blow come the sand<br />
Gets lodged in my achy heart<br />
At least can clean out those clotty, fatty plaques<br />
<br />
Wind blow come the sand<br />
Gets lodged in my foggy mind<br />
Rubbing like sandpaper, an Alzheimer-ridding enzyme<br />
<br />
Wind blow come the sand<br />
Oh, how it makes me cry<br />
See, it's been hinted this relationship will never ever fly<br />
<br />
You are my most miserable indecision<br />
Giving up the sea is like asking you to die<br />
What so freaking great about the ocean?<br />
"Can eat, can bathe, can shit...<br />
Really, really you must give it a try!"<br />
<br />
Already hard to come see me<br />
Yet you are always ready to leave me<br />
A handful of sand drop between my fingers<br />
Do I now have to masturbate to be free?<br />
<br />
<Repeat chorus>TC Laihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12308647123287028981noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7448708438048597474.post-69070500502433914652018-08-05T21:00:00.000-07:002018-08-05T21:04:42.465-07:00We Are Singapore 2018<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />
<h2>
We Are Singapore (2018 version of the 1987 one)</h2>
<h3>
(or Ngoh Dei Ng Sor (Cantonese)// We Not Dumb/Stupid)</h3>
<br />
There was a time when people said<br />
that Singaporeans are smart, and we believed it<br />
<br />
There was a time when the place was sui-sui and<br />
awesome-neat, super slick<br />
<br />
We allowed bike-share, many and cheap<br />
Let people leave their bikes everywhere<br />
On the streets and up the trees<br />
<br />
This is my country, this is my street<br />
This is my future, it's making me sick<br />
This is my family, these are my friends<br />
Tripped by yellow bikes, saboed by dollar rents<br />
<br />
Singapore our homeland, this is where we belong<br />
All of us united, to deny those Ah Longs<br />
Who have used this bikeshare, so they could then launder<br />
Millions of unmarked dollars, back to gangs in Hong Kong<br />
<br />
There was a time when the place was sui-sui and<br />
awesome-neat, super slick<br />
<br />
We allowed bike-share, many and cheap<br />
Let people leave their bikes everywhere<br />
On the streets and up the trees<br />
<br />
Chorus:<br />
This is my country, this is my street<br />
This is my future, it's making me sick<br />
This is my family, these are my friends<br />
Tripped by yellow bikes, saboed by dollar rents<br />
<br />
(Read)<br />
We the citizens of Singapore<br />
Pledge ourselves to not be stupid people<br />
Regardless of fitness or entrepreneurship<br />
To not perpetuate the same indignity<br />
Based on consideration and common sense<br />
So as to achieve orderliness,<br />
natural beauty and no eyesore to our nation<br />
<br />
(Repeat chorus)TC Laihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12308647123287028981noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7448708438048597474.post-31366548985978025722018-07-28T09:00:00.003-07:002018-07-28T09:16:00.131-07:00I Bought a Secondhand Orphanage<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />
I Bought a Secondhand Orphanage<br />
<br />
I bought a secondhand orphanage<br />
You know, with secondhand orphans<br />
The ones that will wring you with pity<br />
Coz they were leftover butt uglies<br />
<br />
I bought a secondhand orphanage<br />
Now thinking what I should do<br />
Should I start a clothing factory<br />
Or one that makes branded sporting shoes<br />
<br />
I bought a secondhand orphanage<br />
Thinking it belonged to an Asian large family<br />
But when sister no look like brother<br />
I knew I was suckered into something funny<br />
<br />
I bought a secondhand orphanage<br />
Thinking it was property fantastic<br />
A two-storey building and garden of trees<br />
Fruiting oranges that turned out to be plastic<br />
<br />
I bought a secondhand orphanage<br />
The pics of which sure looked nice<br />
It was probably taken well before<br />
The war took the kids parents' lives<br />
<br />
I bought a secondhand orphanage<br />
Where things are not what they seem<br />
The bedrooms have no beds<br />
And the kitchen has no sink<br />
<br />
I bought a secondhand orphanage<br />
With no secondhand matron<br />
She had run off with the caretaker<br />
With promise of a Cebu Island tan<br />
<br />
I bought a secondhand orphanage<br />
Full of faces that have never cried<br />
Happily they all crowd round me<br />
Happily they too pick my pockets dry<br />
<br />
I bought a secondhand orphanage<br />
Now missing a wallet and passport<br />
But damn am I not having fun<br />
Chasing kids turning crime into sport<br />
<br />
I bought a secondhand orphanage<br />
Where we now sit and pant<br />
Butt ugly faces with sweat and dirt<br />
Knowing that I am their only saint<br />
<br />
I bought a secondhand orphanage<br />
Plainly now given a second chance<br />
To turn these butt ugly faces<br />
With brains that will someday charm<br />
<br />
I bought a secondhand orphanage<br />
That I turned into a firsthand school<br />
Teaching hacking skills to seven year olds<br />
By ten they turn health offical faces blue<br />
<br />
I bought a secondhand orphanage<br />
That carries out first-rate hacking jobs<br />
No one is quite safe from us<br />
Behind Anonymous is how we rob<br />
<br />
I bought a secondhand orphanage<br />
In a country that was once pretty rural<br />
But the kids fancied themselves Robin Hood<br />
Robbing the rich to give to the poor<br />
<br />
I bought a secondhand orphanage<br />
That is now considered Shangri-La<br />
It sits next to a cloud<br />
A center of cloud that is full of data<br />
<br />
I bought a secondhand orphanage<br />
That now trades in secondhand info<br />
Data culled by seondhand orphans<br />
Now coldcalling Prime Minister So-&-So<br />
<br />
Buy back your data or the info will be sold<br />
<br />
I bought a secondhand orphanage, yo<br />
<br />
- by TC LaiTC Laihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12308647123287028981noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7448708438048597474.post-60593163429685859742018-07-18T01:54:00.002-07:002018-08-25T22:06:52.112-07:00One-Person Loneliness Two-Person Fault - 一个人的寂寞两个人的错<br />
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Click for <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3NdPnTHfOg">Youtube video</a>:<br />
<br />
Here's the somewhat literal translation of this once popular song. ;-)<br />
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一个人的寂寞两个人的错<br />
One-Person Loneliness Two-Person Fault<br />
<br />
说好了一起走<br />
风雨相伴不回头<br />
爱你我愿意去等候<br />
那怕再过几年秋<br />
<br />
Say aledy we together go<br />
Wind rain come we will not siam<br />
Think of your big dick so I wait<br />
Wait until CB drop you're never at gate<br />
<br />
为爱情孤军奋斗<br />
抛开世俗的信守<br />
相信真爱天长地久<br />
到最后却一无所有<br />
<br />
Your love I alone fight<br />
Discarding caution suspecting scam in sight<br />
Thot love will last like day long earth old<br />
One GE gone and you still no show<br />
<br />
一个人的寂寞两个人的错<br />
爱她为何还要选择我<br />
注定没结果还许下的承诺<br />
让我深深陷入感情漩涡<br />
<br />
One-person loneliness two-person fault<br />
Love another and me you conveniently forgot?<br />
Is it backside itchy or lanjiao jio?<br />
Alas, why I scratch and get hooked!<br />
<br />
一个人的寂寞两个人的错<br />
分手虽然是我先来说<br />
又耐何躲的过心痛的折磨<br />
这么多年生活改变却依然难过<br />
<br />
One-person loneliness two-person fault<br />
Break-up I say first but you never nod<br />
Now I kaobeh kaobu each night to cucumber<br />
Tried a volleyball but better with vegetable<br />
<br />
为爱情孤军奋斗<br />
抛开世俗的信守<br />
相信真爱天长地久<br />
到最后却一无所有<br />
<br />
Your love alone I fight<br />
Macham like Speaker's Corner shouting my rights<br />
Thot love last long long like ABBA song<br />
What All Is Said And Done, you're gone<br />
<br />
一个人的寂寞两个人的错<br />
爱她为何还要选择我<br />
注定没结果还许下的承诺<br />
让我深深陷入感情漩涡<br />
<br />
Someone litter whole block fault<br />
Step outside kenna hit by chopping block<br />
Kaneenabeh see-liao boh nang zai<br />
Close door cry-cry over kopi-O sui dai<br />
<br />
<Bonus lyrics><br />
<br />
Stupid me sompah(x2) love forever<br />
Like govt say give back CPF if ever<br />
Got meh? Hiaz, day long earth old<br />
All I get is the emptiness of one big hole<br />
<br />
One-person loneliness Internet fault<br />
I hope Interpol find and have you caught<br />
Put back the thousands I TT-ed over<br />
For a dumb locket with a four-leaf clover<br />
<br />
One-person loneliness Alzheimers fault<br />
Potting plants, walking dogs<br />
Or did I just walk the plant, potted the dog?<br />
Do me a favour give me an euthansia shot<br />
<br />
*Suck (softly)<br />
<br />
I mean, Fuck! (surely)<br />
<br />
One-person loneliness two-person fault<br />
Kaneenabeh don't let me catch that bloody sod... (fade)<br />
<br />
====TC Laihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12308647123287028981noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7448708438048597474.post-45342143558340433672018-07-16T06:40:00.001-07:002018-08-25T22:08:06.570-07:00Your Perfume is Poison - 香水有毒<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Your Perfume is Poison</span><br />
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- sung by Hu Yang-Lin<br />
- translated *parody lyrics by TC Lai<br />
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Your perfume is poison<br />
Make my tits hard for no reason<br />
Make me cream way down south<br />
And desirous of something in my mouth<br />
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Your perfume is poison<br />
Chasing bedbugs onto my pillow<br />
I dream of you as I stupidly scratch<br />
Waking up later to a big bald patch<br />
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Your perfume is poison<br />
Lingering over where you've been<br />
And I know you have sinned<br />
Judging by tissues you leave by the sink<br />
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Your perfume is poison<br />
Making our neighour dog bark<br />
Getting her all bothered and in heat<br />
And it's not just the four-legged bitch<br />
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Your perfume is poison<br />
It has oh--so tainted my nose<br />
I can't even smell my own fart<br />
Can only tell when folks edge apart<br />
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Your perfume is poison<br />
No need to get me at "hello"<br />
You got me at first whiff (and sniff)<br />
And now I'm like mourner attached to grief<br />
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Your perfume is poison<br />
How am I supposed to let go?<br />
Like totally kenna led by the nose<br />
A morning zombie to coffee and toast<br />
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Your perfume is poison<br />
Is there no antidote?<br />
Am I forever tagged your slave<br />
Like that simi Anatehsai gohchap shades<br />
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Your perfume is poison<br />
Don't think I will know any better<br />
Take me, take me please<br />
And put me out of my writhing misery<br />
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Your perfume is poison<br />
Now my brother wants to know<br />
"Sis, never see you like this before,"<br />
"Can he buy me some from whatever store?"<br />
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Your perfume is poison<br />
Is what I tell my brother<br />
It will make even grandmas stalk you<br />
And bak-chew tak star with superglue<br />
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Your perfume is poison<br />
The only way to get out is to leave<br />
Buy a one-way ticket to Timbuktu<br />
Find work in some smelly safari zoo<br />
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Your perfume is poison<br />
Working thru quantum entanglement<br />
Crossing space-time and orbital ground<br />
You feeling very up, I feeling very down<br />
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Your perfume is poison<br />
The only hope is that you drown<br />
In a vat full of wet concrete<br />
And put away like Fukushima radioactive shit<br />
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Your perfume is poison<br />
And I'm creaming once again.... (fade)<br />
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<br />TC Laihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12308647123287028981noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7448708438048597474.post-57702590346942925632018-05-15T17:43:00.001-07:002018-08-25T22:09:24.360-07:00Tsai Chin - A Lover's Tears (parody) - 情人的眼淚 <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>A Lover's Tears (Ironic)</b><span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline;"><br />- </span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'YouTube Noto', Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">情人的眼淚 </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline;">- sung by Tsai Chin</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"></span>- translated by TC Lai<br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">My lover boy he took my eye</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">He took my eye</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">My lover boy he took my eye</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">He made me cry</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">And now I cry without my eye</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Without my eye I cannot cry</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">My lover boy he took my eye</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">So glass eye now I must buy</span></div>
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My lover boy he took my sigh<br />
He took my sigh<br />
He took it whilst he was<br />
Rubbing my thigh<br />
I burp when I should sigh<br />
My lover boy he took my sigh<br />
Without a sigh<br />
Heck, where's my sex life?</div>
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Oh, how cruel is he<br />
Oh, how patient must I be<br />
Should I lop off a ear<br />
To be his dear?</div>
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Oh crap is this love<br />
Is this love<br />
Like Juliet poison Romeo<br />
Or Ms Piggy hitting Kermit<br />
Or Christian whipping<br />
Anastasia "ka-chern-jio"</div>
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My lover boy he took my dye<br />
He took my dye<br />
The dye I use on my hair<br />
So younger men would care<br />
And so now I without an eye<br />
And not so much a sigh<br />
And without my dye<br />
Young men would say bye bye</div>
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And me without a sigh<br />
Young men do not want to try</div>
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And without a physical eye<br />
I'm always buzzed by a fly</div>
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Buzzed by a fly....(fade)</div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">- by TC Lai, 30th April 2018</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">One Pan To Rule Them All</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">- TC Lai retouched 2 May 2018</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">(original date of composition must be some years back!)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In the Land of Odour, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">where a mighty flatulence had soured </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Out came orcs and goblins from their lair</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Into a better smelling place called the Shy-air</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">There lived the One Pan Bearer </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">who now looked a lot sicker</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">He had consumed a can of doubtful beans </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">His face a terrible sheen of pigeon-shit green</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Whence upon the door came a knock</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">"Hey Prodo, it's me, Dandruff the Dork!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Or Dork "the Sort" who is wise and all</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">A wizard who still fiddled under his overalls</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">"Say, I have here a library book</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Tells of your One Pan Wonder and a Martha cook </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">says it can indeed summon the deadliest arts</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Much better than that Isengard fella, Cuisinart</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">"Ooh, Old Cui panned up something not quite swell</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Gave me the runs from Bree to Rivendell</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">"Even The Nine Wraiths gave up on the scent</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I must admit I farted out quite the stench</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">But, oh well, let's go find that larder room</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Whence once they forged the One Pan at Mount Doom</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">"For things are finally afoot</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Folks are hawking hosin sauce to chinchalok</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Orcs and goblins robbing foodies along the way</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I tell you, things are getting sibeh sway</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">"If we do not act LIKE NOW</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Souron "the Foul Mouth chef" will scowl</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">And huff and puff he will</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Send up oven flames from that biggen' hill</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">"And heat up this One Pan Wonder</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">A non-stick, ceramic-coated killer</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">"And sift and flap and he'll be a "ya-ya" king</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">All of us will become his spellbound underlings</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">And be served makan from his Kitchen's Hell</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Until stomachs are upset, minds become swill</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">"And our desire for fab food bid bye-bye</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Gone to the Grey Havens like those Eldar guys</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">"So quick, come with me on this journey</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Across the clumpy Milkwoods to Michelin Bree</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Where a stranger of a ranger called A'Hawthorn</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Is sharpening his knife and removing feet corn</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">"See, he's walked a thousand miles hungrily</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Touting Makansutra's new spiritual journey</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">So he could return to his Condo Land a wise king</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Able to instruct his Pinoy maid exotic foodie things</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">"But not until tested he is with that evil rounded wonder</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">That One Pan non-stick that's nothing but trouble</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">For recipes are no good if you are under its spell</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">That owning that One Pan will surely make food sell</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">"Did not the old songs sing?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">That sumptuous meals take practice to wring</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Every bit of taste and flavour</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">To take one's palate to a place of splendour!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">"So Prodo, hurry up and pack</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">We from here must leave like thunder crack</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">And Pantwise Greedy we will bring</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">For he who is now outside the window listening</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">"Pantwise you fool! </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Words of the One Pan Wonder is not cool</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Say you deny all that's been heard</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">That, that...old-style cooking is worth singeing a beard</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">"A roaring fire, an iron skillet</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Is all a chef needs to muster up</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">What your grandmother fed your mother</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">And your mother is feeding you and your brother!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">"Yes, yes, Dandruff the Dork</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I swear I swear I'd never heard your crock</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">About that verily Ein-Pan-Wunder </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">That seems to make meals so much easier</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">"I swear I'll stick to Prodo</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Like an old iron skillet to sizzling bacon</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">And never leave his side</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Just like Jack and Ennis in Brokeback Mountain</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">"Hey, hey Pantwise</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Keep him in your pants if you must</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">As long as he is far far away</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">From Souron's Doom and Lust</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">And so with that and a thunder clap</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Dandruff, Prodo and Pantwise left </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">And of course they did bring along</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Merrycock and Peepen so we could all...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Some day...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Turn their adventure into a One Pan Wonder song </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The end</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">(A story that grew very much in the telling! Haha....Thanks to Matt Tan of SBM for reminding of this silly ditty done on a whim. ;-))</span>TC Laihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12308647123287028981noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7448708438048597474.post-70347964300568356522017-02-13T20:53:00.001-08:002017-02-13T20:53:29.726-08:00I Remember...<br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I am happy she is found</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">But finding doesn't mean meeting</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I am terrible when profound</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Saying things I don't really mean</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I am seldom is the clown</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Perhaps one day, I'll come around</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I am cranky when down</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So you better not hang around</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I am here but not around</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I much prefer to hang about town</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I am senior and not sound</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">That is what they keep telling me</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I am not yet in the ground</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And still happy she is found</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The end. By TC Lai</span>TC Laihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12308647123287028981noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7448708438048597474.post-83544733908580490802017-02-13T20:23:00.000-08:002017-02-13T20:23:24.407-08:00Pine Ning<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />
<br />
I have a love<br />
She is far away<br />
<br />
I have a love<br />
She burns yet very near<br />
<br />
I have a love<br />
I can't get to<br />
<br />
I have a love<br />
I can only warm inside<br />
<br />
There is a love<br />
That sits away<br />
<br />
There is a love<br />
I imagine every day<br />
<br />
There is a love<br />
But what will she say?<br />
<br />
There is a love<br />
And will she slip away?<br />
<br />
Love is love<br />
No matter where<br />
<br />
Love is love<br />
No one can say<br />
<br />
Love is love<br />
Coz I deem it so<br />
<br />
Love is love<br />
Coz you made me so<br />
<br />
The end. - By TC LaiTC Laihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12308647123287028981noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7448708438048597474.post-53442194763164891862016-02-14T09:03:00.000-08:002017-02-13T19:31:08.160-08:00Poem For An Old Love<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">To my darling:<br />
<br />
When the love has grown old<br />
And ardent kissing has stopped<br />
What is there left to say?<br />
When misshapened bodies in bed<br />
Make spooning awkward<br />
What is there left to say?<br />
When a touch of the hair<br />
Feels coarse and strange<br />
What is there left to say?<br />
When the starlight in our eyes<br />
Has faded and dimmed<br />
What is there left to say?<br />
There's plenty I want to say<br />
And I will say it with a hug<br />
A hug that's long and silent<br />
A hug that burns with the<br />
warmth of my love unsaid.<br />
For today and perhaps....<br />
Till the next bad fart in bed.<br />
- Much love (and advance apologies accepted!)<br />
<br />
- by TC Lai</span></div>
TC Laihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12308647123287028981noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7448708438048597474.post-29375673236150554062015-12-21T03:07:00.001-08:002016-02-14T09:06:10.303-08:00So This Is Christmas<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">(sung to the tune of So This Is Christmas)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
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<span style="color: #141823; font-family: trebuchet ms, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 16px; white-space: pre-wrap;">And a so-so New Year
Then when it gets better
There's plenty to cheer
It's already Christmas
What have you done?
Set up a half-assed tree
With leaves aledy turning brown?
Have a happy Christmas
Be on your best show
When toes are stepped on
Rmbr, you've five more to go!
A very merry Christmas
Western food's a big deal
From sweet honey-baked hams
To cornish hens and oxtail tail stews
Have a happy Christmas
There's a new Force in town
The war is not over
And the old rebel gang is still around!
And this is Christmas
So drink up and sing
Or stay plastered in a corner
And snore till New Year rings</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span data-offset-key="4v68r-0-0" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span data-offset-key="4v68r-0-0" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">- by TC Lai</span></span></div>
TC Laihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12308647123287028981noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7448708438048597474.post-6135576688161329482015-12-07T20:23:00.000-08:002015-12-07T20:23:31.384-08:00My Banglatime<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-kdpqz9v8c7Q/VmZaV2hJy2I/AAAAAAAAByc/i5HJQ_dBPvk/s1600/BanglaMaid.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="275" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-kdpqz9v8c7Q/VmZaV2hJy2I/AAAAAAAAByc/i5HJQ_dBPvk/s320/BanglaMaid.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Part-time lover? Maids and their Bangla construction worker BFs.</i></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">[Sung to the tune of My Valentine, by Martina 'Pinoy' McBride and Jim 'Bangla' Brickman] ;-)<br /><br />My Banglatiine</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If there was no work</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Free on rest day</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I would want to see you</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And if there were chores</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Madam want to pay me more</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I'd give that up for you</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">[Chorus:]</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And even if the sun refused to shine</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Even if your shirt still smell of grime</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I would hold your hand</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Until the end of my Maids Free Time</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You're all I need, my love, my Banglatine</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">All of my dusting life</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I have been waiting for</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Your calloused hand on my calloused knee</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You've opened my eyes</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And showed me how to enjoy Bangla hospitality</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">[Chorus:]</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I've dreamed of this in my small bedspace before</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But in my dreams you're a Bangla hair so blond</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I will give you my heart</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Until it's back to Madam Time</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You're all I need (for now), my love, my Banglatine</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">[piano solo:]</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And even if the sun refused to shine</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Even if your shirt still smell of grime</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I would still hold your hand</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Until the end of Maids Free Time</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">'Cause all I need is you, my Banglatine</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Oh oh oh...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You're all I need, my love, my Banglatine</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The end. - by TC Lai</span><br />
<br />TC Laihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12308647123287028981noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7448708438048597474.post-15348656723052894102015-10-18T08:33:00.000-07:002015-10-18T08:33:12.843-07:00I've Never Been To Me<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />TC Laihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12308647123287028981noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7448708438048597474.post-27138853480597441192015-08-04T09:55:00.000-07:002016-03-18T13:06:39.051-07:00Malaysia Really Boleh-sia<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">"Malaysia Boleh" means Malaysia can...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Have a premier that walks crooked/slant</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Hiding state funds right under our noses</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In his own accounts like fed by hoses</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">How come a prime minister can act like that</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">He can, becoz we stupid let him wear two hats</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">As Finance Minister he signs all the cheques</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">It's like giving a fox, key to the turkey nest</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">"Suka suka pocket a few millions</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">What, wife, did you say "billions"?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Oops, I must have heard so very wrongly</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">For a colored diamond does cost quite aplenty!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">"Nebermind nebermind if people ask</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">We'll just say it's from the land of dust</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">For what is a billion to those folks</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">when they have been longtime oil-barrel crooks</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">"So what if it ends in my bank account</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">One name is better than two names down</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Like this I can spend at will</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Keeping people quiet so secrets are not spilled!"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The shenanigans have long been going on</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The 1MDB, vote buying, defence funds gone </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">But hey, we are the ruling elite </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">It is our birth right to make "subjects" bleed</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">But not so much that they will revolt</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In little, little bits so they'll continue to work</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In Boleh Land, in Boleh Land</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Where promises are porous like shifting sand!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">A prime minister stealing funds </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">An AG lapdog spreading cow dung</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">To mask the putrid smell from Putrajaya</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Blaming foreigners as avid government topplers</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Who are they trying to kid?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Telling fantastical stories to 3-yr-old kids!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Oh yes, they prefer loyalty to smarts</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">No wonder they are closing ranks like mafia retards</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Alright, so they'll keep up with the pretences</span><br />
<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms, sans-serif;">Causing you to question your senses </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">If I slap you you look the other way</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I raise my hand again, YOU better walk away!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This is getting from ridiculous to sublime</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">A whole nation sanctioning a national crime</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Now the doors are opened and thieves let loose</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">All wanting to be Blameless Najibs and Ninja Jho Lows</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">For if the beam of the house is not straight</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Can you blame the doorway being crooked?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">It's a Chinese proverb that says it best</span><br />
<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms, sans-serif;">This premier will put upstanding Malays to the test!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The end - by TC Lai, 4 Aug 2015</span>TC Laihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12308647123287028981noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7448708438048597474.post-74131609786904159262015-08-03T00:55:00.000-07:002015-08-03T00:55:13.196-07:00Little Vase Little Dot<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /><br />Lao Lee went to Lao Beijing</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And met the Little Vase</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">He was old and ashen </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And smoking very fast</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">But Lee kept quiet</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">For he was but a guest</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Knowing that a Little Dot </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Will one day put China to the test</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">"You speak of people owning homes</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Of supermarkets full and fresh</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Of flushing toilets with hinged doors</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And people wanting to be their best!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">"This I've got to see</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">How Communism is not Communism</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">How one party is not one party</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Yet it succeeded without any Maoism!"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So Little Vase flew to Little Dot</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And was offered a drink</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It had lemon and sugar cane</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Indeed on a warm day, truly a splendid thing</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">"My, my what is this terrific stuff?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Cane we surely have, but isn't it for walking?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Or smacking naughty children's behind </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">When they cannot behave or stop talking?"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">"Ah," said wise Old Lee, somewhat wise</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">"Children we have and talk they can</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">But not anyhow about the Thunder Folk</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Or they get sued, no need any re-education camp!"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Little Vase nodded in agreement</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Of how that is truly magnificent</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Nobody yearns to lose money</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">That's hard earned and without malfeasance</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">"Ah, now I see, the fines and laws you have</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Is to let the people understand</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">That what you have earned and built</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Shouldn't be destroyed by some silly rant"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">"It's a good way to keep loudmouths in check</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Without imprisoning nor exiling them</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">For when the tummy is full</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">You are contented and not want to play the fool!"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And then Little Vase was offered</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">A rather rich and spicy dish in laksa</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It reminded him of a troublesome place</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Faraway in Tibet with a township called Lhasa</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">"Hmm, they are both quite the same</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Making me bothered and sweating at the brow</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">But it is a colorful and different dish</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Can China embrace this and not be selfish?"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">"Heheh," smiled wise Old Lee smiling</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">"That has Peranakan and Indian flavors</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">"Of Malay and Chinese tastes...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Quite a good symbol of our struggles and labours!"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Just then an epiphany hit Little Vase</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">He rocked a little, lambasted by indisputable truths</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">"My, my, isn't this what China needs</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">A people together giving the dragon back its tooth?"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And so when Little Vase returned home</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">He threw his little red book aside</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">For long it has been about one man</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Who had starved millions like some genocide</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Who was vain and power mad</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Destroyed folks in his decade-long cultural rage</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">When what he should have done</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Is engineer a New Economic Age </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">To let people work for their just rewards</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Dictated not by state nor ideology</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">For people are best when put to the test</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">To make beautiful a future for their progeny</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">"We'll tax them and China will rise</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">From poverty and backwardness</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">To a nation of fast workers and makers</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Producing hand phones to that Prada dress</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And so Little Vase boarded his plane</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And took one last look at Little Dot</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Sometimes a mole on a face</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Can indeed change a person's fate a lot!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The end - by TC Lai</span>TC Laihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12308647123287028981noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7448708438048597474.post-5878798715770691982015-07-30T09:12:00.000-07:002015-10-29T12:17:21.915-07:00The Courtship of Jibby and Rosmah<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">[Sung to the tune of Don't Cry Joni - By Conway Twitty and Joni]</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Najib (in earnest):</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Rosmah, Rosmah will you marry me?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I'll be rich some day you'll see.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Using all my cunning just for you.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">On your fingers a colored diamond or two</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Rosmah (delighted):</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Jibby, Jibby is that really true?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">You'll work that hard till face turn blue?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Easier if you're Prime Minister</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">or sign the cheques as Finance Minister too.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Najib (beaming):</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Rosmah, Rosmah you are really great</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Give me ideas so I won't have to sweat</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The first million I will give to you</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And some commission to that fella Jho Low</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Rosmah (curious):</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Jibby, Jibby who is that fellow?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">He always want to go shopping too</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Aiyah, I buy women undies he also want to see</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">He always say never mind, he is your buddy! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Najib (assuring):</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Rosmah, Rosmah oh please don't fret</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Jho Low's the guy who will make us set</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">A life of luxury beyond anyone's belief</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Coz we both wear the same pair of briefs!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Rosmah (relieved):</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Jibby, Jibby now I rest easy</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Not many people get to see my huge panties</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">If Jho 'Moonface' Low is truly your pal</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Anything you both do I shall not tell. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Najib (beaming):</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Rosmah, Rosmah now that's my girl</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Stand by me and the world's a whirl</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Of parties and cruises with Hollywood guys</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The rest of Malaysia can go and die!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Rosmah (with caution):</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Jibby, Jibby you must refrain</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Let the world think you're an incorruptible saint!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The billions you'll take is for society</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The in-bred fellas at the UMNO Party</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Najib (grateful):</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Rosmah, Rosmah again you speak of truth</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">How can I be PM without your tikus tooth</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">To bite and chew those who are against me</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">You must certainly be my First Lady!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Rosmah (shyly):</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Jibby, Jibby you make me blush</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I shall marry you but let's not rush</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I still have a divorce to settle you know</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">With that Farid Emir who is so very poor</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Najib (agreeing):</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Rosmah, Rosmah I also same boat lah</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">We shall ditch our better halves and be ringgit gila</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">In this world of fast cars and personal jets</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Who wants to remain a "kampungyet"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Rosmah (agreeing):</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Jibby, Jibby you speak the truth</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Having money means no aching tooth</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Let's go all out to make a life for ourselves</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And with this Jho Low boy who says he's the best!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">(Najib and Rosmah hold hands and walk into the sunset. Jho Low, barely a toddler, follows in his diapers. That guy's a prodigy!) The end. - by TC Lai ;-)<br /><br />Disclaimer: This is fiction. Any resemblance to anyone is pure coincidence.<br /><br />Translation: <br />- kampungyet - kampung monkey (literal/derogatory; meaning poor/backward folk); </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">- tikus: rat - Rosmah's nickname, for when she has this mean look; </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">- "share his briefs" - Cantonese saying for to be in the same boat/co-conspirator.<br /><br />Comment:</span><br />
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I think the question on everyone's mind right now in Malaysia is, what now brown cow? With Muhyiddin removed, the AG dismissed, and the media clammed down, the probe into 1MDB is pretty much dead. Najib has surrounded himself with party minions and is carrying on as if the 1MDB hoohah was nothing but a foreign stir-up. Najib is doing the "Let's carry on and not get distracted" strategy, hoping that with time (and other distractions, like another plane disappearing?) the 1MDB debacle will slowly fade from public interest. "Hey, trust me, the billions in my account is there for some good reason!" he seems to be telling his people. But if accounts of insider trading is true (the RHB takeover, with $300M pocketed), then Najib has to worry of being hauled to court once he is no longer in power. When that happens, the cards will really fall for those close to him, and the whole 1MDB affair will be laid bare. Najib can never let this happen. He and his family will have to flee Malaysia to avoid jail time! So, more the reason for him to cling to power.<br />
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Besides the "let's carry on as usual" approach, what can Najib do? Continue to be a Robin Hood to the poor and uninformed masses? Continue to give out handouts and subsidies? It has worked in the past, and this time round, with a couple of billions at his disposal, he can say, "See? I did it all for you." After all, he is the PM, FM all rolled into one. There's no accountability to hold him back. And it is a good excuse to use on the gullible. And Najib's stoic behaviour exudes that hey, I've been wronged and doing the best I can! Certainly he has shown that he is not the sort to jump up defiantly and say hey, I'm innocent! Najib has said he is a transformational leader. I bet in his private moments, he knows what is at stake and is wondering how to transform this horrid situation into something long term.</div>
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At the moment, he, Jho Low (and others) are the criminals. His party is backing him despite this fact. How long can it last, one wonders. AS LONG AS HE IS IN POWER. In some ways, it bears semblance to Saddam Hussein's rule. It's tribal, it's personal. </div>
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But what can any right thinking politician do? Keep quiet and let things be. Najib keeping mum about 1MDB is better than seeing UMNO self-destruct and lose the next election. So the preferred line will be: the govt is under siege from forces bent on bringing it down. Close ranks and defend it. We'll sort out the 1MDB when Najib is ready (though not likely to happen). Najib has to be indicted for 1) Mismanaging the 1MDB; 2) Party to siphoning money from 1MDB to God knows where!; 3) Receiving questionable and large sums into his own private accounts (he is a civil servant, so why is this allowed? In China Xi Jinping would have him arrested already.)<br />
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But I think a HUGE moment has arrived for Malaysia. For long the bumiputra policy has not worked, the racial lines remain deep, the education of the young a misguided mess. More than ever, Malaysia needs an LKY-esque leader. Malaysia needs rebuilding, reforming, and resensing. But who will stand up? Who is capable? And in late LKY's words, Who has the gumption? - TC Lai<br />
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<i>Additional note:</i> The other question that begs answering is: Is Najib corrupt? Or better yet, is he corruptible? On the surface, he seem quite naive to have millions deposited in his very own name. Did he think all bank transactions are secret? Or was he thinking of just parking those millions in his account to earn temporary interest before the funds are used. If you read the reports carefully, there's been money laundering, there's been insider trading. Did he think Jho Low his "fixer" - able to move funds here and there at will? Don't forget, with someone controlling those funds, it can disappear over night, siphoned off to God knows where, converted to paper value. Maybe Najib is just one dumb thief. If he wasn't Finance Minister, I don't think this would have happened, at least not with such ease and swiftness. - TC</div>
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