Feb 24 (M), 2014 Sing Sing A Song - Farewell and Commencement

送別 Farewell (with a brief English translation).
Original song writer: John Pond Ordway
Lyrics : 李叔同  (A monk master)

長亭外，古道邊   Somewhere - beyond the Rainbow,
芳草碧連天           the sky kisses the horizon.
晚風拂柳笛聲殘   Soft breezes indulging in the un-tuned melody,
夕陽山外山           the sunset is racing against the mountains.
天之涯，地之角   In the distant boarder and at the end of the earth,
知交半零落           my dear friends, where are you?
一瓢濁酒盡餘歡   Toss with this glass of sake for the rest of delight,
今宵別夢寒           tonight, leaving you in the frozen dream...

Note:
The original song writer was John Pond Ordway- a 19th century American musician (J•P•奧德威) who wrote the song titled Dreaming of Home and Mother. The song was popular in Japan. A Japanese musician 犬童球溪 modified it into Japanese version of 旅愁 (a nostalgic journey) and published in 1904. Monk Master Li (李叔同- 弘一大師) traveled in Japan as an oversea student (during 1905-10) who was inspired by this song and wrote the above lyrics .

J•P•奧德威作"夢見家和母親"（Dreaming of Home and Mother). 這首歌流傳到日本後，日本音樂家犬童球溪以原歌的曲調，填上日文的新詞，作成 "旅愁"。 "旅愁" 發表於1904年 後，在日¬本廣泛流傳。1905年至1910年，李叔同留學日本，接觸到了"旅愁"，被這¬首歌曲的優美旋律打動，產生了創作靈感，後於1915年在浙江省立第一師範學校任教¬時便以J•P•奧德威的曲調配上中文歌詞，作成了傳頌至今的" 送別"。


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Commencement  青青校樹  (仰げば尊し - To Sir, to Class, to Everything with Love)



A typical song for Commencement in Taiwan before 50s. The song was originated from Japan when its imperialism was on the rise.

Mandarin version:
1. 青青校樹　萋萋庭草　欣霑化雨如膏
筆硯相親　晨昏歡笑　奈何離別今朝
世路多歧　人海遼闊　揚帆待發清曉
誨我諄諄　南針在抱　仰瞻師道山高
2. 青青校樹　灼灼庭花　記取囊螢窗下
琢磨幾載　羨君玉就　而今光彩煥發
鵬程萬里　才高志大　佇看負起國家
聽唱驪歌　難捨舊雨　何年重遇天涯
3. 青青校樹　烈烈朝陽　宗邦桑梓重光
海陸天空　到處開放　男兒志在四方
民主共和　自由平等　任憑農工兵商
去去建樹　前行後繼　提攜同上康莊

Japanese version
1. 仰げば　尊し　我が師の恩
教（おしえ）の庭にも　はや幾年（いくとせ）
思えば　いと疾（と）し　この年月（としつき）
今こそ　別れめ　いざさらば
2. 互（たがい）に睦（むつみ）し　日ごろの恩
別（わか）るる後（のち）にも　やよ　忘るな
身を立て　名をあげ　やよ　励めよ
今こそ　別れめ　いざさらば
3. 朝夕　馴（な）れにし　学びの窓
蛍の灯火（ともしび）　積む白雪（しらゆき）
忘るる　間（ま）ぞなき　ゆく年月
今こそ　別れめ　いざさらば

Feb. 23 (Sn), 2014 Enough Snow for this Song 一剪梅 - Look ! That Snowy Plum Blossom!

一剪梅   Look ! That Snowy Plum Blossom! (with a brief translation).

作詞：娃娃; 作曲：陳怡

真情像草原廣闊   True love shares with the grand horizon

層層風雨不能阻隔   Even the tempest won't separate

總有雲開 日出時候  Be patient for the Sun rising again

萬丈陽光照亮你我   The rays of hope shine through them

真情像梅花開過  True love is like the snowy plum flowers blossoming

冷冷冰雪不能掩沒  Icy snow will not block the will of blooming

就在最冷 枝頭綻放   Exuberantly flourish  in the coldest days

看見春天走向你我   Welcome the Spring to embrace

雪花飄飄北風嘯嘯    The snow flakes are dancing with the howling Tundra winds

天地 一片 蒼茫     The whole world is buried in the gloomy scene

一剪寒梅 傲立雪中   But you, the dear Plum blossom, proudly stands tall in the snowy grim

只為 伊人 飄香  Sprinkle the flagrance, only for thy

愛我所愛無怨無悔   Genuinely share love from the bottom of the heart without regrets

此情 長留 心間    The everlasting love, stays strong, always, on my mind

Feb. 22 (Sa), 2014 Micro BioPsychoPolitical Lens#1- On Gaddafi’ Sex Dungeon

                     Bio-psycho-sociological Imaginations.

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What a great love story to share on this Valentine's Day!!
有錢/權人終成眷鼠!!!
An excellent news for the Free-Market Huggers and the Perfect Competition Romancers :
Comcast will be married with Time Warner via a 45 billion dowry deal for the 30 million customers' well being ??!! http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/daily-ticker/comcast-to-acquire-time-warner-cable-143000745.html

Comcast and Time Warner Cable merger: What it means for consumers
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Comcast wants to acquire Time Warner Cable for $45 billion.
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Pedagogical Recipes – sharing! What happened in your Vernacular Sociology class#9 (Feb 13, 2014).
Main themes- Socialization and Social Interaction: How Bio-genetics (positive and negative) and Socio-cultural Forces (positive and negative) shape who and what you are and may be from a renowned CEO's perspective:


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Crystal Huang Coming Monday will discuss the above photo from the following 2 true but "anecdotal" stories (personally, I do admire Mr.Gates's entrepreneurship, ingenuity, and success- just borrowing some ideas for classroom activities, nothing personal !)

Here they go:

Story one- I shared a video with my sociology students about Anita’s story last Thursday, who was born into in a lowest and poorest social CASTE in India, even in the 21st century (seemingly, not her mistake- a negatively Ascribed Status), no education, living in a patriarchal society, sold as a young sex slave and then adult prostitute and finally died with AIDS. [Obviously, there was a negative cultural capitals embedded in a highly stratified society/social institutions with a very meager or almost 0% of upward social mobility. Downward or horizontal mobility is the norm].

 Wow, was her death a biggest MISTAKE of hers (a negatively Achieved Status - soc jargon !)    ???!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Story two- one of my fb friends from Taiwan posted the following story to critique Mr. Haru's "wrong attitude" which caused his failure. Seemingly Prince/King Charles is luckier than Mr. Haru, for Charles has a powerful mother and a not-so-week Kingdom waiting for him to reign???

Briefly translated that serendipitous encountering here- An unexpected meeting happened when Prince Charles visited a town and accidentally met with his childhood classmate Mr. Haru who was born into a business-successful upper class ( +White, Male Race,  positively ascribed statuses) with a very expensive and glorious academic degree (partially ascribed and partially achieved positive statuses) and successful writing/sport careers [the rich cultural capitals reinforcing individual efforts nurtured by the abundant upward social mobility opportunities/life chances embedded in a elite-supporting system],

But due to his 2 marriage failures and alcoholism (negatively achieved statuses??), he ended up being poor and might have a slim chance to die poor, since he has a terrific prenatal care and nutrition as a child with a healthy and robust early cognitive-physical-sociopsychological development...and so on so forth (does his case happen more often than Anita's ???).

"一九九七年十二月，英國路透發出一張英國查爾斯王子與一位街頭遊民合影的照片。這是一段驚異的相逢！原來，查爾斯王子在寒冷的冬天拜訪倫敦窮人時，意外遇見以前的足球球友。這位遊民克魯伯．哈魯多說：「殿下，我們曾經就讀同一所學校。」王子反問，在什麼時候？他說，在山丘小屋（Hill House）的高等小學，兩人還曾經互相取笑彼此的大耳朵。

王子的同學，淪落街頭，這是一段無奈的人生巧遇。曾經，克魯伯．哈魯多出身於金融世家、就讀貴族學校，後來成為作家。老天爺送給他兩把金鑰匙─「家世」與「學歷」，讓他可以很快進入成功者俱樂部。但是，在兩度婚姻失敗後，克魯伯開始酗酒，於是逐漸把他從名作家推向街頭遊民."
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D Eby MSpitz And if you die from cancerous tumors all over your body from eating food made with GMOs, thats Bill Gates' fault.
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D Eby MSpitz I hate that he is one of the major investors for monsanto - and that he and monsanto are hiding away billions of normal seed from around the world so when GMO seed kills off all regular crops and there are no more normal seed left - he and monsanto will be the only resource left to have regular seed. We will be at their mercy.
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Jo Neverdahl Hayes At first it sounds like a true statement. But in reality I don't think so. But it's also not an excuse not to try.
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Could it be the fault of the Sociological Imagination?
WHY and HOW is so hard to allude to the PRE-conditions of human destiny for being blind to the institutionally constructed realities?

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Breaking News. UAW's great loss...

"Workers, DARE-NOT to unite, you lose 'nothing', but ________???"
Anyway, indeed, here is USA, NOT EU...
The Volkswagen plant workers in Chattanooga, Tenn., have voted NOT to join the UAW (United Auto Workers)...

The neutral stand of Volkswagen, the aggressive Anti-Union pressures from the loving-caring-patriotic politicians and tax incentive, plus the !@#$%^&Mindset of the workers, what can you say????

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Feb. 14 (F), 2014 Sing Sing A Song 愛的真諦 Love is patient; Love is Kind

Wooow, what a shameless bragging - My greatest contribution to 2014 Valentine's Day - Sing Sing A Love Song !

This year's Valentine's Day and the Far-Eastern Lantern Festival fall on the same day!
The lyrics of 愛的真諦 was adopted from Corinthians 13:4-8 -

"Love is patient, love is kind.
愛是恆久忍耐、又有恩慈

Love is not envious or boastful or arrogant or rude.
愛是不嫉妒,愛是不自誇．

It does not insist on its own way;
愛是不張狂．

it is not irritable or resentful;
不作害羞的事.

it is the universal golden rule- treat others as you want to be treated;
不求自己的益處．不計算人的惡．

and rejoices in the truth.
不喜歡不義．只喜歡真理

It is accommodating and inclusive,
凡事包容．

never losing the faith on humanity and thriving for the better future;
凡事相信．凡事盼望, 凡事忍耐, 凡事要忍耐.

Whenever and wherever there is love, there is life and hope"
愛是永不止息．
- (with minor changes from the original verses).

As a lay-Buddhist, I like these verses from Corinthians.
So I decided to sing it on this Valentine's Day and share with you !!!

Feb. 13 (Thursday), 2014 Sing Sing A Song 倆忘煙水裡 (Cantonese Song 天龍八部 六脈神劍主題曲- Try-to-Remember)

Happy Valentine's Day + Happy 元宵節= 20140214 !! 20140214 !!

My mother tongue is Taiwanese. So don't be surprised that some unique Cantonese sounds  might make you think - what's that?? :) !       

天龍八部 六脈神劍主題曲- 倆忘煙水裡 The theme Song of 天龍八部

作詞：黃霑; 作曲：顧嘉輝

男：女兒意 英雄癡 吐盡恩義情深幾許
Male: Your affection, my love for you, our mutual devotion and trust is unfathomable.

女：塞外約 枕畔詩 心中也留多少醉
Female: The oath made in the frontier, the poems hidden in the pillow, now are hanging around my drunken heart.

男：磊落志 天地心 傾出摯誠不會悔
Male: The integrity, the heroic heart, I never regret to reveal my genuine love for you from the bottom of my heart.

女：獻盡愛 竟是哀 風中化成唏噓句
Female: My devoted love to you ended in sorrow that was gone with wind in the melancholic sighs.

男：笑莫笑悲莫悲 此刻我乘風遠去
Male: Don't laugh at me for this endless sadness. I am riding with the wind to a place where no one knows.

女：凝悲 忍歎 無 可奈
Female: Enduring the suffering and sighs, the pain is unbearable.

男：往日意 今日癡 他朝倆忘煙水裡
Male: Reminiscing my love for you, and now attached to you even deeper, in the long run, learn to forget and bury them in the misty lagoon...