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�?�?�台 | Ju Hua Tai | Chrysanthemum Flower Bed
Artist: Jay Chou
Album: Yi Ran Fan Te Xi (Still Fantasy)
Rating: 4 out of 5
Media: CD
Genre: R&B
Year: 2006

Thanks to jay-chou.net! The movie might’ve sucked big-time, but you’ve gotta love the song!

妳�??�??�?�??�??�??弱中帶�?�
ni de lei guang rou ruan zhong dai shang
Your tears glistens with weakness admist the pain

�??�?��??�??�?�?�??�?�住�?�?
can bai de yue wan wan gou zhu guo wang
The ghostly white curved moon hooks onto the past

�?�??太漫�?��??�?�結�?��?�??
ye tai man chang ning jie cheng le shuang
The night is too long and has crystallised into frost

�?�誰�?��?��?�?�??�?��?��??�?�??
shi shui zai ge lou shang bing leng de jue wang
Who is in the attic [filled with] cold hopelessness

�?��??�?�?�?�??�?��?�?��??�?
yu qing qing tan zhu hong se de chuang
Rain gently bounces off vermillon window

�??�?�??�?��?�?�??被風吹�?
wo yi sheng zai zhi shang bei feng chui luan
I have (written) my life story on paper (only to be) blown into a mess by the winds

夢�??�?�� �?��??�??�?��?縷�?
meng zai yuan fang hua cheng yi lv* xiang
The faraway dream has become really faint

�?�風�?�?��??妳�??模樣
sui feng piao shan ni de mo yang
The wind has dispersed the image of you

*this is romanized as lv, but pronounced as lu

�?�?�?��?�??滿�?��?��??妳�??�?容已�?�?
ju hua chan man di shang ni de xiao rong yi fan huang
Chrysanthemum destroyed A whole floor of pain your smile has become faintly yellow

�??�?�落人�?��?��??�??�?�?�?�?躺
hua luo ren duan chang wo xin shi jin jin tang
People are heartbroken when the flower falls My thoughts lay quietly (aside)

�??�??風�?�??�?�?�央�??妳�??影子�?�不�?�
bei feng luan ye wei yang ni de ying zi jian bu duan
The north wind is chaotic the night is still young your shadows can’t be cut

�??�?�??�??孤�?��??�?��?面�??�?��??�?
tu liu wo gu dan zai hu mian cheng shuang
Just leaving me lonely doubled (when I stand) by the lake

�?��??已�?�??�??�?落�?�?��??
hua yi xiang wan piao luo le can lan
The flower has already come late, drifting down brillantly

�??謝�??�?�?�?�??�?��?不� �
diao xie de shi dao shang ming yun bu kan
the wilted morals an unbearable fate

�?��??�?�渡�?�??�?�?�??�?��?
chou muo du jiang qiu xin chai liang ban
(If you are) sad don’t cross the river worries* broken into two

�??妳�?不�?岸�??�?輩子�?�??
pa ni shang bu liao an yi bei zi yao huang
In fear that you can’t get back on shore and will sway for a lifetime

*this literally means splitting the top and bottom of the word “chou” apart into two words “qiu” and “xin”

誰�??�??�?山�??馬�?聲�??�?
shui de jiang shan ma ti sheng guang luan
Chaotic sounds of horse hoofs (in) whose territory?

�??�?身�??�??裝�??�?��?��?�?
wo yi shen de wu zhuang hu xiao cang sang
My armory shouts out the wear of time

天�??微微亮�??妳�?聲�??�??
tian wei wei liang ni qing sheng de tan
The sky is starting to light up your voice is sighing

�?�?�??�?��??�?此�?�?
yi ye chou chang ru ci wei wan
A night of disappointment is (said) in such a roundabout way

REPEAT�?�?

Good food, good shopping, super lousy weather!

New things we found:
1. Azabu Sabo @ Marina Square - a Japanese dessert shop (same floor/wing as Topshop, Zara) that has very nice homemade ice-cream
2. Chocolat Factory @ Vivocity - Yummy chocolates, the Pocket Tubes are extremely addictive…I bought the ones containing orangebits covered with chocolate…almost half the tube is gone!
3. Crocs @ Marina Sq and Vivocity - yes, it’s been around for awhile, but it’s the first time I’ve seen so many people wearing it (in Singapore)! We finally succumbed and bought a pair each. Best of all, they have really cute buttons that you can buy to customize your shoes!
4. SALE! ‘Nuff said.
5. Nokia 7390 - Cheaper in Singapore at $648! But it’s very plasticky
6. Dian Xiao Er @ Marina Square - a restaurant that is famous for it’s herbal duck
7. Muji @ Paragon - minimalist heaven!
8. Ember @ Hotel 1929 - Superb food, excellent service!

Familiar places we visited:
1. Din Tai Fung - Superb xiao long bao
2. Jollibean and PinLe - my fav peanut pancake and soya beancurd. I had one bowl everyday (even ta pau on our last day to eat in the car!)…plain, with barley, with grass jelly…either way, it’s delish!!
3. Tony Romas - PORK ribs *drool*

Piccies!

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Went there for lunch last week, was too lazy to blog about it till now!

Ginger is situated in Central Market, next to the food court on the first floor. The restaurant is quite big, and was about quarter-filled when hubby and I arrived at lunch-time.

The menu had a long list of dishes and ala-carte items to choose from…mostly Thai style dishes, I think. I settled on the pineapple fried rice while hubby had fried mee-hoon and we ordered a plate of fried baby kai lan with salted fish to share. While waiting, we were served a bowl of prawn(?) crackers that came with a warm bowl of peanut sauce…very nice!

The service was pretty efficient and our food arrived in no time. The portion was really huge, and best of all, my pineapple fried rice had huge crunchy prawns, and portions of raisins, pineapples, cashew nut and sliced cucumber surrounding the fried rice. Hubby said that his fried noodles were pretty good, and he managed to polish off almost everything on his plate despite the huge portion! As for the baby kai lan, for some reason, the cook decided to add chilli padi (birds eye chilli) to the dish, and it was so spicy! We alerted the waiter, and they took it back to the kitchen and cooked another order for us without the chilli.

We also ordered desserts…Pearl Sago Cendol, which was basically cendol with sago …and my favourite Thai dessert…water chestnut with jackfruit in coconut milk. Unfortunately, Ginger fell short when it came to their desserts. The coconut milk was extremely diluted, and there was absolutely no taste at all to the dessert! Thumbs up for having lots of jackfruit in my water chestnut dessert though…as most restaurants are very stingy when it comes to the jackfruit!

Hopefully, they’ll improve on their dessert, else we’ll probably have our mains there and hop over to the nearby Precious Old China for their superb Sago Gula Melaka!

Stopped by at MPH last night before the movie. Bought these four books, which I’ll be bringing with me to Singapore tomorrow:

1. Mindgame by Yang-May Ooi

In MINDGAME, the career of ambitious young lawyer Fei-Li Qwong looks set to sar as she steers her major clients to the successful launch of their visionary sanitorium. Piers and Ginny Wyndham claim their Centre for Mental Health and Excellence will revolutionise Asia�??s health care practices. Fei is proud to be part of the team.But Fei�??s professional success masks a turbulent private life as she tries in vain to reconcile her Western education and outlook with the restrictions of life in Kuala Lumpur and the feminine qualities of charm, modesty and family-mindedness demanded of tranditional Asian womanhood.Her problems have only just begun. As she begins to uncover the dark reality behind the Wyndhams�?? public front, Fei finds herself drawn deep into a pall of intrigue and murder to a secret experiment that could enslave Asia under a terrifying new tyranny.

2. Angela Carter’s Book of Fairy Tales

Once upon a time, fairy tales weren’t meant just for children, and neither is Angela Carter’s Book of Fairy Tales. This stunning collection contains lyrical tales, bloody tales, hilariously funny and ripely bawdy stories from countries all around the world from the Arctic to Asia - and no dippy princesses or soppy fairies. Instead we have pretty maids and old crones; crafty women and bad girls, enchantresses and midwives; rascal aunts and odd sisters.

This fabulous celebration of strong minds, low cunning, black arts and dirty tricks could only have been collected by the unique and much-missed Angela Carter.

3. Eragon by Christopher Paolini (hope the book is much better than the sucky movie…so sucky that I’m not even going to bother doing a review!)

When Eragon finds a polished blue stone in the forest, he thinks it is the lucky discovery of a poor farm boy; perhaps it will buy his family meat for the winter. But when the stone brings a dragon hatchling, Eragon soon realizes he has stumbled upon a legacy nearly as old as the Empire itself.

Overnight his simple life is shattered, and he is thrust into a perilous new world of destiny, magic, and power. Can Eragon take up the mantle of the legendary Dragon Riders? The fate of the Empire may rest in his hands…

4. Eldest by Christopher Paolini

Eragon and his dragon, Saphira, have just saved the rebel state from destruction by the mighty forces of King Galbatorix, cruel ruler of the Empier. Now Eragon must travel to Ellesmera, land of the elves, for further training in magic and swordsmanship, the vital skills of the Dragon Rider. It is the journey of a lifetime, filled with awe-inspiring new places and people, each day a fresh adventure. But chaos and betrayal plague him at every turn, and Eragon isn’t sure whom he can trust.

Meanwhile, his cousin Roran must fight a new battle back home in Carvahall - one that puts Eragon in even graver danger.

Will the king’s dark hand strangle all resistance? Eragon may not escape with even his life…

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Ostentatious. “Kwa cheong”. Breasts that jiggle like jelly. Jay Chou looking like the Monkey King. Gong Li with gold talons.

Don’t like the story, maybe it’s too deep for me.

Dubbed in Cantonese, of all things!!

Two guys in front of us talking non-stop. Another man coughing like he was gonna drop dead any moment.

Wasted yet another two hours of my life.

I love the theme song though!