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Sunday, May 28, 2006

Qi Li Xiang


Last nite went to the 3rd Novena..it was another wonderful experience. Arrived there at 5.10 PM. People were already waiting in front of the function room. Met Eddy n the others when I was going to the bathroom. Then Ladies came not so long after that. We waited and we were allowed to enter the room at 5.40 PM. The stage was big. N then Rhea called me, asked me to “baby-sit” her friend from Bogor. She was wearing black “New Springtime” polo shirt, white pants that reached to her knees and a pair of sneakers. She looked gorgeous. When she talked the most prominent thing that I noticed was her exquisite scent. I didn’t know what she used but it’s veryyyyyy gooooddd… I really love her jasmine scent….so refreshinggg……..hmmmmmmmmm…. It was hard for me to focus on what she’s saying because I was drifted by her intoxicating scent. The feeling was so sublime. It made me want to breathe her scent over and over again. Her scent reminded me of Jay’s song (which I’m listening right now while writing this blog), Qi Li Xiang…or in English, Seven Mile Fragrance.

Common Jasmine Orange belongs to rutaceae, evergreen small bush. It has a lot of branches, leaves alternate, grizzled, has strong incense, in teachings you can still smell the fragrance from as far as 7 Chinese miles, therefore the name is Common Jasmine Orange (Seven Mile Fragrance, or in Chinese, Qi Li Xiang).

Common Jasmine Orange / Seven Mile Fragrance

The sparrow outside the window
Has a big mouth on the wire pole
You said this sentence
Has very much the feeling of summer
The pencil in my hand
Moves back and forth on the paper
I use a few lines of words to describe who you are to me

The taste of sanma
The cat and you both want to understand
The fragrance of first love is retrieved by us just like this
That warm sunshine
Is like the just picked bright strawberry
You say you are not willing to eat this kind of feeling

Chorus:
Rain falls for the whole night
My love overflows like the rain
Leaves fall in the courtyard
With my thoughts one thick pile
A few words of gossip
There is no way it can cool off my passion
You appear in every page of my poem

Rain falls for the whole night
My love overflows like the rain
The butterfly on the windowsill
Is like the beautiful chapters fluttering about in the poem
Shortly after
I write I always love you into the end of the poem
You are the only understanding I want

That which is full of ears of the rice plant
Blessed this season
And your cheek is like the thoroughly ripe tomato in the field
You suddenly say to me
The name of the Common Jasmine Orange is very beautiful
Yet this moment I only wanted to kiss your stubborn lips

Chorus twice

Rain falls for the whole night
My love overflows like the rain
The butterfly on the windowsill
Is like the beautiful chapters fluttering about in the poem
Shortly after
I write I always love you into the end of the poem
You are the only understanding I want


七里香
Qi Li Xiang

Composer: Jay Chou (周杰倫) Lyricist: Vincent Fong (方文山)


窗外的麻雀
chuang wai de ma que
在電線桿上多嘴
zai dian xian gan shang duo zui
妳說這一句
ni shuo zhe yi ju
很有夏天的感覺
hen you xia tian de gan jue
手中的鉛筆
shou zhong de qian bi
在紙上來來回回
zai zhi shang lai lai hui hui
我用幾行字形容妳是我的誰
wo yong ji hang zi xing rong ni shi wo de shui
秋刀魚
qiu dao yu
的滋味
de zi wei

貓跟妳都想了解
mao gen ni dou xiang liao jie
初戀的香味就這樣被我們尋回
chu lian de xiang wei jiu zhe yang bei wo men xun hui
那溫暖
na wen nuan
的陽光
de yang guang
像剛摘的鮮豔草莓
xiang gang zhai de xian yan cao mei
你說妳捨不得吃掉這一種感覺
ni shuo ni she bu de chi diao zhe yi zhong gan jue


雨下整夜
yu xia zheng ye
我的愛溢出就像雨水
wo de ai yi chu jiu xiang yu shui
院子落葉
yuan zi luo ye
跟我的思念厚厚一疊
gen wo de si nian hou hou yi die
幾句是非
ji ju shi fei
也無法將我的熱情冷卻
ye wu fa jiang wo de re qing leng que
妳出現在我詩的每一頁
ni chu xian zai wo shi de mei yi ye


雨下整夜
yu xia zheng ye
我的愛溢出就像雨水
wo de ai yi chu jiu xiang yu shui
窗台蝴蝶
chuang tai hu die
像詩裡紛飛的美麗章節
xiang shi li fen fei de mei li zhang jie
我接著寫
wo jie zhe xie
把永遠愛妳寫進詩的結尾
ba yong yuan ai ni xie jin shi de jie wei
妳是我唯一想要的了解
ni shi wo wei yi xiang yao de liao jie

那飽滿
na bao man
的稻穗
de dao sui
幸福了這個季節
xing fu liao zhe ge ji jie
而妳的臉頰像田裡熟透的蕃茄
er ni de lian jia xiang tian li shu tou de fan qie
妳突然
ni tu ran

對我說
dui wo shuo
七里香的名字很美
qi li xiang de ming zi hen mei
我此刻卻只想親吻妳倔強的嘴
wo ci ke que zhi xiang qin wen ni jue jiang de zui

This song is especially dedicated for Rhea, the Jasmine Scent Girl…


The Catholic Youth Revival theme for last nite was Celebrate Love n Life, emphasizing the youth and sex. There was a video which showed the abortion process explicitly. It’s quite…shocking and utterly heartrending. The topic was brought excellently by dr. Lia B A.

The event was right on the schedule. It finished at around 9.30 PM (because we used a function room so the timing was quite tight). As usual we took some pictures and then I knew why Rhea asked me to “baby-sit” coz she had to sell some souvenirs…went down the parking lot with Ladies n friends. N the other surprise that I got was when I was in the queue to pay for the parking. I saw a beautiful girl (and some other people…but I didn’t really pay much attention to them…lolz) who’s selling flowers. And when I got a closer look, I quickly recognized her as Susan, my junior at high school. She wore turquoise shirt n jeans. Wow…she’s still beautiful though her hair was shorter. I wanted to say hi, but I didn’t do it. Instead, I just looked at her from my car. Her face contour was flawless. She has this elegant beauty aura, just by standing there, looking the cars (and maybe hoping some of the car window would open and the person inside buy the flowers she’s selling). Her eyes, cheek, nose, lips…I could only admire them.

So many beautiful girls…lolzzzz…. Reminded me of Gigi’s song, Diva which a part of the lyric was something like this…. “Kau adalah keindahan, yang singgah dalam kesunyian malamku”… Women really are a beauty created by God…. ;p

Neri Per Caso – Donne

Donne in cerca di guai
Donne a un telefono che non suona mai
Donne in mezzo a una via
Donne allo sbando senza compagnia
Negli occhi hanno dei consigli
E tanta voglia di avventure
Se hanno fatto molti sbagli
Sono piene di paura
Le vedi camminare insieme
Nella pioggia o sotto il sole
Dentro pomeriggi opachi
Senza gioia né dolore
Donne pianeti dispersì
Per tutti gli uomini così diversi
Donne amiche di sempre
Donne alla moda
Donne contro corrente
Negli occhi hanno gli aeroplani
Per volare ad alta quota
Dove si respira l'aria
E la vita non è vuota
Le vedi camminare insieme
Nella pioggia o sotto il sole
Dentro pomeriggi opachi
Senza gioia né dolore
Donne

// English
Neri Per Caso - Women

[Women in searching for troubles]
[Women on a telephone which never rings]
[Women in the middle of a street]
[Women on a list without company]
[In their eyes they have advices]
[And many wishes of adventures]
[If they have done many mistakes]
[They are bursting with fear]
[You see them walk together]
[In the rain or under the sun]
[In a dull afternoon]
[Without joy nor sorrow]
[Women in lost planets]
[For all people so different]
[Women as ever friends]
[Women are fashionable]
[Women against ordinariness]
[In their eyes they have the aeroplanes]
[To fly to the high altitude]
[Where they breathe the air]
[And the life isn't empty]
[You see them walk together]
[In the rain or under the sun]
[In a dull afternoon]
[Without joy nor sorrow]
[Women]

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