送走 2022 send off

心情最不穩定、低落的五月,發現香港電台播放嘅國劇竟然是沒有納悶愛國主題,驚喜地追看有《延禧攻略》裏飾演皇后的
秦嵐,以及已經在劇集在香港播放前兩年離世的高以翔。雖然不算是爛劇,也不會是不能不看的大製作。只不過在那個時空,任何提及愛情的媒體都會引起感觸。我也在比較那年輕男演員的猝死和自己爸爸的離世。就以這一旋律、兩詞的樂曲,送別2022吧。

“we are all alone” was a mainland chinese tv series aired on rthk in the month of may, right after my dad’s funeral. what caught my attention were the actress who starred as empress in the very popular “the story of yanxi palace”, the actor godfrey gao who, in real life, had died of cardiac arrest while filming some exercises sequences for a tv show two years earlier. i stuck around for the show not because it was very well written / acted, but by virtue of the lack of heavy patriotism-unlike many of the series shown on rthk of late-and the deaths of the main actor (in real life) and of the series’ third protagonist’s (very apparent) suicide (in the story line, not real life). the one melody and two sets of lyrics / interpretation / singer and the plot of friendship, love and kinship etc. did provide some much needed distraction for me when i was very down. so i bid adios to the bad omens / memories of 2022 with these two songs

《意中人》王子異 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LjfqNgiER0

《怪你過分美麗》顏人中「去愛你」情感版 主題曲 https://youtu.be/iGWMUWe8luU

multi-lingual worldcup?

fifa worldcup came and gone. if you had listened to:arhbo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8laLiWolGg,
you would have correctly predicted three of the final four teams by simply tracking the languages used.

indeed see / hear for yourself in this planned(with moroccan team in mind?) closing ceremony:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNRB7OCo8Wo

despite all the human rights violations too obvious to list, parts of africa and the arab world did get galvanized.