This blog is partly devoted to the sharing of my learning of the English language (my well mastered mother tongue is Chinese and I am not an English teacher) and its *cultures*, partly to the current significant trends in Canada and in the world, and partly to my own random thoughts and little life. I am not religious, but I am somewhat interested in Christianity and Buddhism, among other personal interests. Welcome. And, have a good day.
Tuesday, November 30, 2010
Nostalgic - Vintage music videos - ABBA - Fernando
Two versions of the lyrics:
http://goo.gl/WvAgq
&
http://goo.gl/IjMp6
This particular song is ABBA's "biggest selling single of all time, selling 6,000,000 copies in 1976 alone." The English version of the song in the above videos "presents a vision of nostalgia for two veterans reminiscing in old age about a lost battle that they participated in during their younger days fighting under Emiliano Zapata in a battle of the Mexican revolution of 1910." (Cited from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernando_(song) )
Wendy wench (Part 1)
(Anime from http://goo.gl/djN0G)
With a pony tail fluttering behind her head
Reminiscing about the braid she wore yesterday
She mindlessly flushed the tube out with the clear water
Which she had carried down from the hilltop with cypresses
Wikileaks.org is another undermining cut on news organizations' roles
If a mysterious and tremendously discussed website, Wikileaks.org , can dig out important, enlightening and current information for and present it to the public, what are the values that traditional news outlets bring forth to the society?
And have the values been diminishing for years? You bet.
And have the values been diminishing for years? You bet.
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