Brought me back to the question I asked myself many years earlier, “What value or economic contribution do I make to society as an #artiste, seems like zero?” And to which my friend enlightened me with a very simple and straightforward answer, “You make people #happy, or #laugh.” 🥳
It’s the old ancient debate (and long foregone conclusion) of the Arts vs the Sciences, and for which I was influenced to take up triple Sciences in secondary school, Economics in college, and to end up with English Literature (Humanities and the Arts) in NUS. Cos I was #wiredup that way, not how society wants you to be wired up! 😎 Trust me, you’re better at doing what you’re better at, not what others want you to be better in... cos you were made for that! And don’t let anyone tell you otherwise. 😊
Now, the last thing I need is for you to tell me I’m #essential (or #nonessential), or if it even matters at all, cos I’d know better anyway. 😉 And at least I could tell myself now, “Oh, I can see the value in that!” Off to the weekend! 😘 #happyweekend #loveyourself #youmakemesmile #wiredupthatway #notyourway #orthehighway #getoverit #forentertainmentonly #whysoserious #ourepiclittlelives
同時也有5部Youtube影片,追蹤數超過98萬的網紅KahoSei Channel from Canada,也在其Youtube影片中提到,冬になりかけのカナディアンロッキーへ行ってきました。二日目、バンフで散策、絶景温泉にはいりました。雪だるま作りに初挑戦、ちっちゃいけど。 Trip to Canadian Rocky, where winter is almost there. Day 2, we went for trekkin...
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No Forbidden Zones in Reading (Lee Yee)
German philosopher Hegel said, “The only thing we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history.”
In April 1979, the post-Cultural Revolution era of China, the first article of the first issue of Beijing-based literary magazine, Dushu [meaning “Reading” in Chinese]," shook up the Chinese literary world. The article, titled “No Forbidden Zones in Reading”, was penned by Li Honglin. At the time, the CCP had not yet emerged from the darkness of the Cultural Revolution. What was it like in the Cultural Revolution? Except for masterpieces by Marx, Engels, Lenin, Stalin and Mao, and a small fraction of practical books, all books were banned, and all libraries were closed. The Cultural Revolution ended in 1976, and 2 years later in 1978, the National Publishing Bureau decided to allow 35 books to be “unbanned”. An interlude: When the ban was first lifted, there was no paper on which to print the books because the person with authority over paper was Wang Dongxing, a long-term personal security of Mao’s, who would only give authorization to print Mao. The access to use paper to print books other than Mao was a procedural issue. The Cultural Revolution was already on its way to be overturned. The door to printing these books was opened only after several hang-ups.
“No Forbidden Zones in Reading” in the first issue of Dushu raised a question of common sense: Do citizens have the freedom to read? “We have not enacted laws that restrict people’s freedom of reading. Instead, our Constitution stipulates that people have the freedom of speech and publication, as well as the freedom to engage in cultural activities. Reading ought to be a cultural activity,” argued Li. It was not even about the freedom of speech, but simply reading. Yet this common sense would appear as a subversion of the paralyzing rigid ideas formulated during the Cultural Revolution, like a tossed stone that raises a thousand ripples. Dushu’s editorial department received a large number of objections: first, that there would be no gatekeeper and mentally immature minors would be influenced by trashy literature; second, that with the opening of the Pandora box, feudalism, capitalism and revisionism would now occupy our cultural stage. The article also aroused waves of debates within the CCP. Hu Yaobang, then Minister of Central Propaganda, transferred and appointed Li Honglin as the Deputy Director of the Theory Bureau in his department. A colleague asked him directly, “Can primary school students read Jin Pin Mei [also known in English as The Plum in the Golden Vase, a Chinese novel of manners composed in late Ming dynasty with explicit depiction of sexuality]?”
“All Four Doors of the Library Should be Open” was published in the second issue of Dushu, as an extension to “No Forbidden Zones in Reading”. The author was Fan Yuming, but was really Zeng Yansiu, president of the People’s Publishing House.
In the old days, there was a shorthand for the three Chinese characters for “library”: “book” within a “mouth”. The four sides of the book are all wide open, meaning that all the shackles of the banned books are released. “No Forbidden Zones in Reading” explains this on a theoretical level: the people have the freedom to read; “All Four Doors of the Library Should be Open” states that other than special collection books, all other books should be available for the public to loan.
The controversy caused by “No Forbidden Zones in Reading” lasted 2 years, and in April 1981, at the second anniversary of Dushu, Director of the Publishing Bureau, Chen Hanbo, penned an article that reiterated that there are “No Forbidden Zones in Reading”, and that was targeting an “unprecedented ban on books that did happen”.
Books are records of human wisdom, including strange, boring, vulgar thoughts, which are all valuable as long as they remain. After Emperor Qin Shihuang burned the books, he buried the scholars. In history, the ban on books and literary crimes have never ceased.
Engraved on the entrance to Dachau concentration camp in Germany, a famous poem cautions: When a regime begins to burn books, if it is not stopped, they will turn to burn people; when a regime begins to silent words, if it is not stopped, they will turn to silent the person. At the exit, a famous admonishment: When the world forgets these things, they will continue to happen.
Heine, a German poet of the 19th century, came up with “burning books and burning people”. There was a line before this: This is just foreplay.
Yes, all burning and banning of books are just foreplay. Next comes the literary crimes, and then “burning people”.
I started working at a publishing house with a high school degree at 18, and lived my entire life in a pile of books. 42 years ago, when I read “No Forbidden Zones in Reading” in Dushu, I thought that banned books were a thing of the past. Half a century since and here we are, encountering the exact same thing in the freest zone for reading in the past century in the place which enlightened Sun Yat-sen and the rest of modern intellectuals, a place called Hong Kong.
Oh, Hegel’s words are the most genuine.
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One Song a Day - The Affair of the Mirror and the Flower 鏡花緣. Translation and song link in the bottom.
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I like reconstructing Chinese literature and present them in my own lyrics. I even wrote a whole album this way - ‘Requiem for Flowers’. Ancient heartache and longing are universal, some nuances just cannot be presented in a few words in English though. There are a lot of love related objects we keep using to reflect the depth of love. I have to confess, it is a fine line between indirect and passive aggressive. This is one of my personal favorites.
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The Affair of the Mirror and the Flower
(Chet Lam)
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Before the Spring flowers and autumn moon are gone
The flower in the mirror has waken up and fallen into the water
Faces will grow old, deepest heartaches will fade
Somehow someone never wants to forget
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The affairs of the heart have finally died off
It only takes one more second for me to throw it all away
Butterflies desire to soar in pairs
Yet happiness could not take them across the ocean
They have to part after all
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Life goes on
Flower has already fallen for someone
Death goes on
Dawn has come before the heart snow melts
I watch the skies fall, flowers reappear
The warm wind blows again
Who will still care about what happened in the past
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My heart has come down after the wind left
The flower in the mirror has waken up and fallen into the water
The evening frost climbs up my hair
Dyeing the dark hair white
Your laughters still linger in the air, but you are nowhere to the found
All has to come to an end
You must have forgotten all of this already
I should too forget all of this already
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我喜歡把古詩詞拆散再重組,更用這個方法創作了一整張專輯《花訣》。氣象,物件,自然現象,所有本身沒有情的東西,一旦用某種角度排序,就極具指向性,描述最遠古的情感與企盼;一個「愛」字都沒有的情詩,會更顯情感的濃烈,溫婉細膩,這也是我的創作一直奉行的信念。跟你分享我其中一首最愛的創作:《鏡花緣》。
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鏡花緣
(曲詞:林一峰)
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春花秋月何時了
鏡花醒覺水裏凋
容顏會蒼老
椎心刺骨的一切亦退消
卻跨不過奈何橋
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幾番心事都已平復了
只差一秒便忘掉
蝴蝶盼雙飛
一次幸福怎可以敵過滄海
始終告別了
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生的生 花已為誰落過了
死的死 心雪未溶又天曉
空見天地流轉曇花再現了
樓台又東風 往事(故人)知多少
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風吹心動 都已平靜了
鏡花醒覺水裏凋
暮雪染青絲 不見舊人的歡笑
這一切應該已完了
你應該已忘了
我應該也忘了
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#chetlam #林一峰 #一日一首林一歌 #花訣 #RequiemForFlowers
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https://instabio.cc/ChetLamMirrorFlower
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冬になりかけのカナディアンロッキーへ行ってきました。二日目、バンフで散策、絶景温泉にはいりました。雪だるま作りに初挑戦、ちっちゃいけど。
Trip to Canadian Rocky, where winter is almost there. Day 2, we went for trekking and Upper hot spring. We made a snowman for first time, even it's tiny..
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東京から2015年夏にCanadaに引っ越してきた男女の双子“KahoSei”のはじめての海外生活のあれやこれやをUPしていきます。「Kan & Aki's CHANNEL」「キッズライン♡Kids Line幼児チャンネル」「せんももあいチャンネル Sen, Momo & Ai Channel」「がっちゃんねる★TheGacchannel」などの有名Youtuber Kidsに憧れ、やりたいと言い出しました。そんな自称Youtuberな動画ブログです。
実際に動画を作ってみると大変であたふたしています。
観てくださってありがとうございます。
This is Youtube Channel about Japanese girl and boy twins KahoSei's life in Canada. On 2015 summer, Kahosei moved into Canada from Japan. It is our first time living abroad. This Channel started from Kaho's remark of 'I want to be like Kan & Akira (who is super Youtuber kids in Japan.)' KahoSei is not "super" Youtuber, but we are now Youtuber.
After started to update video, I noticed that it is very difficult and hard to make videos.
Thank you for watching our video! Sincerely.
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This is the story of Onfim, a little boy from medieval Russia whose doodles we have perfectly preserved on tree bark, right next to his homework. Wow! A bit of explanation from Wikipedia: Onfim (Old Novgorodian: онѳиме, Onfime; also, Anthemius of Novgorod) was a boy who lived in Novgorod in the 13th century. He left his notes and homework exercises scratched in soft birch bark (beresta) which was preserved in the clay soil of Novgorod. Onfim, who was six or seven at the time, wrote in Old Novgorodian; besides letters and syllables, he drew "battle scenes and drawings of himself and his teacher".
I usually don’t make videos about history like this one, but I had a ton of fun researching this topic and making this video. Hope you enjoy watching it as much as I enjoyed making it! If you’re curious to learn more about Onfim, I found these online links really helpful in gaining a broad understanding of the topic:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onfim (try Google translating the Russian version of this article, it’s much better)
https://lithub.com/onfim-wuz-here-on-the-unlikely-art-of-a-medieval-russian-boy/
The best book on the topic in English is Voices on Birchbark: Everyday Communication in Medieval Russia. For background reading about the society and its culture, check out Readings in Russian Civilization Volume I: Russia before Peter the Great.
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我不算是個多愁善感的人(小弟只是個思想簡單直接的男生),但有時候夜闌人靜時,總會想到以前,想起小時候的生活,想起家裡養的兩頭小狗,想起壯年時充滿活力的爸媽,想起自己因他們久出未歸而坐在鞋櫃上哭個不停,想起小學的生活,學校中做過的壞事,欠交的功課,作弄過的人,喜歡過的女孩,拒絕過的女孩...... 不知怎的,回憶中的東西,好像都經藍色玻璃紙過濾過一樣,帶點藍藍的,憂鬱的顏色。
今天我們再看一首 Shakespeare 的 sonnet,主題,正是晚間的胡思亂想。去片。
原文:
When to the sessions of sweet silent thought
I summon up remembrance of things past,
I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought,
And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste:
Then can I drown an eye, unus'd to flow,
For precious friends hid in death's dateless night,
And weep afresh love's long-since cancell'd woe,
And moan the expense of many a vanish'd sight.
Then can I grieve at grievances forgone,
And heavily from woe to woe tell o'er
The sad account of fore-bemoaned moan,
Which I new pay as if not paid before.
But if the while I think on thee, dear friend,
All losses are restor'd, and sorrows end.
小弟試譯為現代英文:
http://siuenglish.com/2011/08/06/莎士比亞的情詩6靜夜思/
蕭愷一
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