田劲--我真的用心爱着你

One of an 'IDOL' caliber Singapore singer back in the early 90s. Kinda of missed some of his great songs which finally came to my ears when his best hits collection CD was released which I've bought a copy. The memories of my primary school days reali came back though...his thai style songs, and his sentimental songs reali made him famous then. Hope to see him appearing in some of those "Come Back" concerts. Some of his famous songs which I could recall are like 爱我不难，碎花如雨随风飞，就是要爱你，将真爱送走，让我潇洒地醉， etc, and also not forgetting this song which I truly like alot: 我真的用心爱着你...if i din remember, that was the hit song from his final album some time in 1993 or 1994 if my memory did not fail me. I am typing out its lyrics from my memory now, hope they are correct:

我真的用心爱着你 -- 田劲

当我决定要一生爱你 偷偷收起狂野的心

虽然我一切都很努力 依然是留不住你

你总是说我不懂得爱情 这并不是让你离去的原因

或许这是个漂亮的借口 你从来没有爱过我

我要如何如何对你说 创痛的心已不能言语

藏在我胸口却未曾告诉你 我真的用心爱着你

我要如何如何忘掉你 创痛的心有太多记忆

藏在我眼中那闪烁的泪光 我真的用心爱着你

Think of it, he should be in his 40s by now!!!!!!!!

Great music is to be shared. You may listen to the song here. but it's not downloadable, with copyright considerations.

wo zhen de yong xin ai zhe ni - 田劲tian jin

Names continued

The previous post inevitably brought back some other memories of names of which were laughed lots at among us. I recall during my Uni days when we talked about this chinese by the name of 郭万龙 (Kok Wan Long), which simply means thousands of dragons. sounds like a masculine and POWERFUL name though.

There was one occasion when he was in US when he fell sick and needs to go and see a doc. As usual he registered his name and waited for his turn for consultation. When the nurse calls out his name, there was a sudden commotion about his identity and everyone was searching for this person, when he finally stood up and walked towards the consultation room, everyone, especially the women, was looking at him with awe and eyes wide.

Guess what did the nurse say?

Nurse: WAN LONG KOK (since the westerners like to call people by their given name followed by their surname), you may go in to see the Doctor.

You understand y the commotion????

Lesson Learnt: even if you dun intend to give your child a christian name, think twice too, before you give him/her a name, make sure it dun mean anything else bad in any language in any permutation.....which may result in him living in shame and embarassment for the rest of his/her life...