Thursday, December 01, 2005

知らせ

Shirase
News

E.g.

いい知らせ, 悪い知らせ, 悲しい知らせ, うれしい知らせ
Good news, bad news, sad news, happy news

Tonight after work, I have 郭富城 - 愛的呼喚 playing in an endless loop. I have not listened to this song for a very long time. This is one of the very few songs I can sing from the beginning to the end. I did not realize this is a song from 1997!! That's the year when Hong Kong became part of China again. That's such a long time ago. I can't help but be amazed how time flies! Anyway, even though this is a love song, my mind actually wandered back to the days in elementary school when Masashi Naito (內藤村治) and Jacinta Fernandez were my good friends. The 3 of us were sitting next to each other and we just would not shut up, especially during art class. So one time, our art assignment in the 2-hour class was to craft something out of a piece of square, translucent piece of soap. We were given tools to cut and engrave the piece of soap. The 3 of us was having so much fun talking and giggling about everything that we totally lost track of the time we had left. So when the teacher walked by to check on us, he got pretty mad at us and we hurriedly do something to our soap. I came up with the idea of taking as much soap out as possible and just engrave some design on the outside. Of course a pot will be difficult so I decided that I will make a bath tub and add some herring bone pattern on the outside. :-P Masashi decided that he wants to do a free artistic form of nothing because to him that's art. Jacinta laughed at us and decided to just take it easy. Before the class was almost over, Masashi suddenly gave a loud cry. We did not know what happened until we saw blood all over!! :-O The ambulance came and rush him to the hospital. Before he went with them, he showed us his deep cut by flipping the big chunk of flesh away from the finger and gave us a wink. I almost fainted while Jacinta was cheering on him. I still vividly remember that day and will still smile and shiver thinking about that moment. Something I can't believe is how cool a kid can be at that age. A wink to the class before being rushed to the hospital for stitches!!? A 10 year old kid!! I think some people are really born to be COOLer and others!! :-) Unfortunately, we all moved on to different places after 6th grade and have not been in touch. :-( Those were really some golden days of my childhood!

So pick a song you love and play it in loops. It's the best way to take you back some good times in your life.

*是最好人生 is another great song on the same CD. 戰鼓 is a song I should remember to take with me to the gym , if I ever find time to go there after work. *sigh*