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Comment by José Balido on September 21, 2009 at 5:24pm

Welcome, Skip!

Comment by Bernard Cleary on September 2, 2009 at 4:48pm

Well, I'll start a discussion thread to post Mandarin songs I like. Maybe others will, too.

Comment by José Balido on August 28, 2009 at 3:55pm

The Discussion module certainly makes it easier to stay on topic; whether or not a thread is created in the way that you're thinking, I'm not sure. I will look into it!

Comment by Bernard Cleary on August 27, 2009 at 4:47pm

Re: Buddha riddle: Yes, I knew it sounded strange. Actually, that line is the key to the whole thing. Still not entirely satisfied, but your rendition definitely works better than mine!
BTW, would the creation of threads be facilitated by use of the "start a discussion" module that appears above? It only just occurred to me now!

Comment by José Balido on August 27, 2009 at 4:39pm

Re: the Buddha riddle, I agree, Bernie, it should be "the past, the present and the future." I also think "They can only have four times" sounds a wee bit off, so how about "It's only possible four times?"

And you thought translating legal documents was hard!

Comment by Bernard Cleary on August 27, 2009 at 4:38pm

Ah, OK, I didn't know. Now I know! So here's the other one (S.H.E.'s cover:)

Comment by José Balido on August 27, 2009 at 4:32pm

Hey Bernie,

Thanks for the song, it's beautiful as music and as poetry. You can embed the YouTube video right on the comment here, you know: just copy the code where it says "Embed" to the right of the video on YouTube, and paste it here in the comment. The result:

Comment by Bernard Cleary on August 27, 2009 at 4:29pm

And here is the music video of S.H.E.'s version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKjTyAt-zRU&feature=related

Not bad, but I'm a purist. I still prefer the original!

Comment by Bernard Cleary on August 27, 2009 at 4:00pm

So yesterday, I was idly browsing YouTube (what did we DO before YouTube?) and found one of my favorite songs from my time in Taiwan in the 1980s. The title is 夢田 (Dream Field, or Field of Dreams), and it comes from an album titled 回聲 (Echo), a collaboration that set poems by Echo Chan (pen-name 三毛, who died tragically in the early 1990s) to music, and joined the pop/folk vocal talents of 齊豫 and 潘越雲. It was a huge hit at the time, and I still enjoy both the lyrics and the music to this day. I understand that the song has been recorded again recently by a new pop trio called "S.H.E." Here is the original version with the best quality audio I could find on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUIMsMifbTc

The Chinese lyrics follow. When I have time, I'll attempt a translation, but it's poetry--REALLY difficult!

夢田

每個人心裡一畝 一畝田
每個人心裡一個一個夢
一顆啊一顆種子
是我心裡的一畝田

用它來種什麼
用它來種什麼
種桃種李種春風
開盡梨花春又來
那是我心裡一畝一畝田
那是我心裡一個 不醒的夢

Comment by José Balido on August 27, 2009 at 3:42pm

The only way to edit your past comment, I believe, is to copy it, paste it into a new comment, modify it, then go back and delete the old comment........... so the answer is: not too easily!!

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