A Song a day: September 2012

Sunday, September 30, 2012

30th Sep 2012 (幾許風雨 – Roman Tam)

The song that I chose for today is “幾許風雨” by Roman Tam. This is one of my favourite by Roman. The direct English translation of the title is “Many storms”.

The lyrics are about the protagonist telling himself that he had went through many difficult and still standing today. It is really a song for younger people who haven’t gone through the ups and downs in their life. The protagonist in the song said that he had seen how people suck up to him when he was successful, and how people distance him when he became the loser. What we should learn is to fight in the most difficult time, to keep walking to our destination even in storm. Hope you will enjoy the song.

25th Jun 2012 (獅子山下 – Roman Tam)

幾許風雨 – Roman Tam

Saturday, September 29, 2012

29th Sep 2012 (Gangnam style - Psy)

The song that I chose for today is “Gangnam style” by Psy. I am sure many of you have heard of this song as it is so popular now. For those of you that don’t know Psy, he is a Korean. This song only came out a few weeks ago and it is a big hit worldwide.

I know know Korean so I am no idea what exactly the lyrics are a bout. But as far as I know, Gangnam is a district in Seoul. This district is full of rich people (guessing it is sort of like Beverly Hills in US). So this song describe the living style of those rich people in that district. Personally I quite like the beat of the song, and the repetitive lyrics make it very easy to stuck in your head. Hope you will enjoy it.

Gangnam style - Psy

Friday, September 28, 2012

28th Sep 2012 (還以為 – Ronald Cheng)

The song that I pick for today is “還以為” by Ronald Cheng. Ronald was quite famous back in the 90’s and very successful in his music career, but these days he focuses more on the filming side. Around a year or so ago, I was so attracted to Ronald’s songs, I found that a lot of his songs got that uniqueness that no other singer can sing the same song with the same feeling. So it is a pity that he hardly produce new songs these days. The direct English translation of the title is “I thought”.

The song is about love. At the beginning of the song, the protagonist said that his girlfriend had left him to fall in love with another guy. But later, she got dumped and she came back to him. So the protagonist thought that she would have change and would stay with him for the rest of her life. But not long after that he realised that she got another affair with another guy, though he played dumb, just so that he could stay with her. Hope you will enjoy the song.

29th Jul 2012 (晴天陰天雨天 – Ronald Cheng)

還以為 – Ronald Cheng

Thursday, September 27, 2012

27th Sep 2012 (貪,貪,貪 – Priscilla Chan)

Today I chose “貪,貪,貪” by Priscilla Chan. Priscilla is one of my all-time favourite singer. She was very popular in the late 80’s/early 90’s. These days she still sing (mainly live performance in mainland China), but personally I don’t think her voice is as good as before. This song that I chose today is one of her fast pace song (though with today standard, this is not really that fast). I think Priscilla strength is in slow pace song, so if you haven’t heard of her song before, I suggest you to click one of the links under related posts to get to her slow pace song first before listening to this one. The title in English is “Greedy, greedy, greedy”.

The song is about love. The protagonist said that she is not greedy when she was a kid. Her ambition could be easily fulfilled. But ever since she fall in love with this guy, she becomes greedy. She said that she wanted to have him all to herself. She is so greedy that she want every minute of his life to be spent with her. Hope you will like the song.

24th Jun 2012 (夜機 –Priscilla Chan)

11th May 2012 (千千闕歌 –Priscilla Chan)

貪,貪,貪 – Priscilla Chan

Wednesday, September 26, 2012

26th Sep 2012 (Google Me – MastaMic)

The song that I chose for today is "Google Me" by MastarMic. MastaMic is a rapper in Hong Kong. He is rather new, only started his career last year. This song is one of his first song. I guess I should have talk about him a long time ago to support him. He is the only singer that I know that produce music give it away for free. You can download pretty much all his albums (he called them Mixtape, but as far as I know they are all original songs) from his website (http://www.mastamic.com.hk/old/). I think he make his profit by do live performance.

I guess you can guess what this song is about from the title. As you would have guessed, it is a song that asks you to search for his name in google. The lyrics are not touching, but I really like this song. I guess I like the beat, and how it is so difference to the usual songs that I listen to. Hope you will like this song as well. If you like it, you should follow the link above to check out all his other songs.

Google Me – MastaMic

Tuesday, September 25, 2012

25th Sep 2012 (下次下次 – Fiona Sit)

The song that I chose for today is “下次下次” by Fiona Sit. This song came out in 2007. The direct English translation of the title is “Next time Next time”.

The lyrics of the song are about love. The protagonist talk about that she had been hurt many times when she broke up with her previous boyfriends. But she told us that she will never give up on falling in love, because she know that one day she will found her true love and become the luck girl. She said that if she gave up on loving someone, then her dream will never came true. Although this song is about love, but I reckon that this theory also apply on many other things in life. If we give up without trying we will never have a chance of getting what we want, so in order to get what we hope for we need to have the courage to overcome the fear of failure. Hope you will like the song.

5th Jun 2012 (給十年後的我 – Fiona Sit)

下次下次 – Fiona Sit

Monday, September 24, 2012

24th Sep 2012 (願你今夜別離去 – Leon Lai)

The song for today is “願你今夜別離去” by Leon Lai. Leon was my idol in my childhood. From memory this song was a theme song of a very popular TV series starring Leon as the protagonist. Because of the TV series, this song was very popular. The direct translation of the title is “Wish you wouldn’t leave tonight”.

The lyrics of the song are exactly about wishing the girl not to leave. The protagonist and his girlfriend seem to misunderstand each other before, but tonight they are together. But the girl wanted to leave. So the protagonist wish that she could stay and hope that tonight will never end. Hope you will like the song.

15th Jul 2012 (無名份的浪漫 – Leon Lai)

6th July 2012 (只要為我愛一天 –Leon Lai)

願你今夜別離去 – Leon Lai

Sunday, September 23, 2012

23rd Sep 2012 (尋開心 – Bondy Chiu)

The song that I chose for today is “尋開心” by Bondy Chiu. This song is rather old, it came out in the 90’s. This song is one of my favourites by Bondy. The direct English translation of the title is “Search for happiness”

I think the lyrics are about sex. The song start off by saying that these couple just have sex. The guy felt guilty as he don’t like the girl (the protagonist). Though the girl felt very ok with it as she think that they are just looking for happiness/fun and she have got it through that, so she think that the guy don’t need to feel guilty at all. Hope you will like the song.

23rd Aug 2012 (自欺欺人 – Bondy Chiu)

尋開心 – Bondy Chiu

Saturday, September 22, 2012

22nd Sep 2012 (戀無可戀 – Leo Ku)

The song that I chose for today is “戀無可戀” by Leo Ku. This song is rather new, it only came out earlier this year. The direct translation of the title is “Nothing left to love”.

The song is about love. My understanding of the lyrics is that it is about the protagonist had fallen in love with his friend. But after they dated a few time, they realised that they don’t go well together, there don’t seems to be love between them anymore. So what seems to be moving their relationship one step forward actually taken them one step back. They don’t even feel righto be friend anymore. Hope you will like the song.

22nd Jun 2015 (愛得太遲 – Leo Ku)

1st Jun 2015 (無涯洞 – Leo Ku)

17th Apr 2015 (劇情需要 – Leo Ku and Kary Ng)

15th Feb 2015 (羅馬假期 – Leo Ku)

17th Jan 2015 (傷追人 – Leo Ku/Justin Lo/Jacky Cheung)

14th Sep 2014 (重複犯錯 – Leo Ku)

27th Aug 2014 (跳飛機 – Leo Ku)

9th Mar 2014 (任天堂流淚 – Leo Ku)

10th Oct 2013 (有心 – Leo Ku)

21st Aug 2013 (Can we try – Leo Ku)

16th Aug 2013 (愛與誠 – Leo Ku)

21st Jul 2013 (幸運鈴聲 – Leo Ku)

3rd Jul 2013 (天氣會變 – Leo Ku)

13th Jul 2012 (好人 – Leo Ku)

11th Jul 2012 (眼睛不能沒眼淚 – Leo Ku)

7th July 2012 (歡樂今宵 – Leo Ku)

2nd Jun 2012 (十蚊雞流浪記 – Leo Ku)

1st Jun 2012 (錢錢錢錢 – Leo Ku)

27th Apr 2012 (一光年 – Leo Ku)

戀無可戀 – Leo Ku

Friday, September 21, 2012

21st Sep 2012 (睡火山 – Andy Hui)

The song that I chose for today is “睡火山” by Andy Hui. This song was only released earlier this year, it is one of the songs in his newest single (I am guess that you would refer it as a singer, it only contain 4 songs, but it also include a novel.) I quite Andy’s newest single. The direct English translation of the title is “Sleeping volcano”.

The lyrics of the song describe the feeling of loving someone. The protagonist is so busy with his work that he had no time for his girlfriend (although the song didn’t say it, but I think they have broken up already). Now without her on his side, he finally realised how important she is to him. Hope you will enjoy the song.

12th Aug 2012 (苦中作樂 – Andy Hui)

29th Jun 2012 (我們的主題曲 – Sammi Cheng)

28th Jun 2012 (二人行一日後 –Andy Hui)
9th Jun 2012 (心照不宣 – AndyHui)

11th Apr 2012 (世界之最[我願意] – Sammi Cheng)

睡火山 – Andy Hui

Thursday, September 20, 2012

20th Sep 2012 (心理遊戲 – Daniel Chan)

The song that I chose for today is “心理遊戲” by Daniel Chan. This song was popular back in the 90’s and Daniel was doing very well in his music career back then. The direct English translation of the title is “Mental game”.

The lyrics of the song are about the protagonist is guess the true feeling of his girlfriend. In the lyrics, it seems that the girl don’t usually show her feeling to the guy. The guy just have to guess. He handed her a movie ticker once, but she never reply, so he don’t know whether to wait or not. He also can’t tell whether she is happy or sad. He is sick of this ‘mental’ game that the girl is play, but he have to keep playing because he is so attracted by this girl. Hope you like the song.

26th Apr 2012 (一萬年 – Daniel Chan)

心理遊戲 – Daniel Chan

Wednesday, September 19, 2012

19th Sep 2012 (所謂理想 – Raymond Lam)

The song that I chose for today is “所謂理想” by Raymond Lam (Lam Fung). This was a theme song for a TV drama that Raymond acted in. To be honest, I don’t quite like Raymond’s song, but this one is an exception. The English translation of the title is “So-call dream”.

The lyrics area bout chasing after dream. It discuss how someone can chase after their dream but at the end forgot everything else that they used to care about, like their love one. So this song discuss whether it is worth to protect our dream when we have to scarify so much for it. Hope you will like this song.

所謂理想 – Raymond Lam

Tuesday, September 18, 2012

18th Sep 2012 (這雙眼只望你 – Prudence Liew)

The song that I chose for today is “這雙眼只望你” by Prudence Lau. This is the Chinese cover version of the song “Can’t take my eyes off you” by Frankie Valli. The English translation of the title is “These eyes only look at you”, which pretty mean the thing as the original English title.

The lyrics of the song talk about love. It said that the protagonist can’t takes his eyes off the girl that he love. He wanted to fall in love with this girl and that he want to spent the rest of his life with her. Hope you will enjoy this song.

這雙眼只望你 – Prudence Liew

The original version:

Can't Take My Eyes off You - Frankie Valli and The 4 Seasons

Monday, September 17, 2012

17th Sep 2012 (Today – Gigi Leung)

The song that I chose for today is “Today” by Gigi Leung. I accidentally heard this song from my mp3 player today and it reminded me a lot about my friends. This song came out in 1999, back then it was a big hit.

The lyrics of this song are about the protagonist finished her final year of school and about to leave. She is saying good bye to all her friends. Back in the 90’s, as internet wasn’t popular, it was quite hard to keep in touch with school friends. So leaving school really feels like saying the final good bye to school friends. The song though mentioned that although it was the last day, but they were all happy as they think through all the happy time that they had. They believe that one day they will meet again. They said good bye to each other and head off to follow their dreams. Listening to this song really reminded me all the happy time that I had with my friends back in high school and primary school. Hope that you will enjoy this song as much as I do.

27th Aug 2012 (花火 – Gigi Leung)

Today – Gigi Leung

Sunday, September 16, 2012

16th Sep 2012 (黃色大門 – Joey Yung)

The song that I chose for today is “黃色大門” by Joey Yung. This song came out in 2006. Back then I have no idea what the lyrics was about (even today, I still don’t fully understand the lyrics) but the melody and the way Joey sing this song make it very attractive. Many people said that this song correspond to Hocc’s “紅屋頂” (meaning “red roof”, this song came out in 2007), as the lyrics and the style of the song are very similar. Most of all both songs were written by the same song writer and the lyrics were written by the same guy as well. The direct English translation of the title is “Yellow door”.

While the lyrics sounds like a fairy tale, it is a lot deeper and darker than that. I think the lyrics are about a girl who like to think and dreams about different things. But as she grow up, she realised that other people will see these ideas as something weird, so she keep this secretly in her heart, but she wish one day she can tell her love one about all these. Hope you will enjoy the song.

19th Jun 2012 (未知 – Joey Yung)

4th Jun 2012 (抱抱 – Joey Yung)

黃色大門 – Joey Yung

Saturday, September 15, 2012

15th Sep 2012 (我是外星人 – Yan Ng)

The song that I chose for today is “我是外星人” by Yan Ng. This song came out in the early 00’s. It was the first song that I heard from Yan, but it is also the last song from her that I remember. These days, she don’t produce any albums, I think she focus more on TV show now. The direct translation of the title is “I am an alien.”

The lyrics of the song are about a girl is very attracted to a guy. She had never fallen in love before (because of this she said she is an alien, though she could really be a real alien, but never explained in the song). So throughout the song, she go through her feeling, and how she always think about this guy. Hope you will enjoy the song.

Related posts:
22nd Oct 2013 (點解問點解 – Yan Ng)

我是外星人 – Yan Ng

Friday, September 14, 2012

14th Sep 2012 (我懷念的 – Stefanie Sun)

The song that I chose for today is “我懷念的” by Stefanie Sun. I seriously don’t listen to that many mandarin song, but this one is surely one of those that I listen quite often. The direct English translation of the title is “What I missed”.

The lyrics area bout the protagonist misses her ex-boyfriend. At the beginning she asked the boy why this girl sent a message to her phone, the guy just looked down and didn’t answer. This marked the end of their relationship. She then go through a list of things that she missed about him. At the end of the song, she realised that she loved him so much that she realised that she can’t take the answer of the question, so it probably turn out better for her that he didn’t answer the question. Hope you will enjoy the song.

我懷念的 – Stefanie Sun

Thursday, September 13, 2012

13th Sep 2012 (無聲仿有聲 – Nicholas Tse)

The song that I chose for today is “無聲仿有聲” by Nicholas Tse. This song is one of my favourite from Nicholas. The English translation of the title is “Silence is more eloquent than words”.

The lyrics are basically about the protagonist don’t like to speak much and a lot of people (especially his girlfriend) misunderstood him. So instead of explaining himself, he decided to kiss and hug her to show his love to her. Hope you will like the song.

無聲仿有聲 – Nicholas Tse

Wednesday, September 12, 2012

12th Sep 2012 (自卑 – Vivian Lai)

The song that I chose for today is “自卑” by Vivian Lai. This song came out in the late 90’s, it was quite popular back then. The direct English translation of the title is “Self-abased”.

The lyrics of the song are about the protagonist is self-abased. She was afraid to show her feeling toward the guy that she loves. She is worries that she is not good enough for him, so she think that she will be rejected. So she decided to keep her feeling to herself, as that way she would be hurt and she can at least stain retain a bit of hope and joy of loving someone. Hope you will like the song.

31st Jul 2012 (自動消失lonely days – Vivian Lai)

自卑 – Vivian Lai

Tuesday, September 11, 2012

11th Sep 2012 (甜蜜如軟糖 – Amy Chan)

The song that I chose for today is “甜蜜如軟糖” by Amy Chan. Amy these days mainly focus on the TV drama side of her career, but she used to sing as well. This song was from the 80’s. I personally found this song very funny, perhaps it wasn’t that funny back in the 80’s. But anyway, the meaning of the song is somewhat adult only, so I think it was created ahead of its time. The direct translation of the title is “As sweet as jelly drops”.

The lyrics of the song are about sex. It uses candy as a metaphor as sex. It talks about the protagonist (a girl) who said she love sweets (i.e. sex). This guy that she see, she think that he got an eyes that looks like a candy, so she can’t resist him. To her, he is like a candy with liquor in it that could make her a bit drunk. He is also like a toffee, that would stick to her skin. Now it is the morning, and she wish she could quit this candy addiction, but because of this guy, she just can’t.

Seriously, this song is really like adult only, I wonder why back then no one complain about it. Hope this song will bring you some excitement :p

p.s. the MV is very funny, it really worth watching.

Related posts:
11th Jul 2015 (震盪 – Amy Chan)

甜蜜如軟糖 – Amy Chan

Monday, September 10, 2012

10th Sep 2012 (運 – Justin Lo)

The song that I chose for today is “運” by Justin Lo. This is one of my favourite. The direct English translation of the title is “Luck”.

The lyrics of the song discuss what luck is. This song tells us that whether we are lucky or not depends on our view. For example, it mentioned that the protagonist missed his flight, but later that night he saw on the news that the plane was crashed and the pilots were dead. Even if he caught the flight, he would be living on an island by himself for a few years until someone save him. Viewing it like this makes him feel that he is lucky to miss his plane. So what it is trying to say is that lucky or not depends on how we see it. Just remember that there will always be some reward along the way waiting for us. Hope you will like this song. If you are experiencing difficulties in your life now like me, I hope this song will give you some hope in overcoming the difficulties.

30th Jun 2012 (好人 – Justin Lo)

4th May 2012 (貝殼 – Justin Lo)

運 – Justin Lo

Sunday, September 9, 2012

9th Sep 2012 (寵物 – Terence Chui)

The song that I chose for today is “寵物” by Terence Chui. Terence is a singer from Macao. The song for today is one of his famous songs when he was singing in Hong Kong. The direct English translation of the title is “Pet”.

This song is about the relationship between a couple. The protagonist said that his relationship with his girlfriend is going downhill. He remember there when they were happily together, he had a feeling that this could happened one day. Now he felt that his girlfriend is ignoring him while he is still trying to be with her. He said that only pet know his feeling. Hope you will enjoy the song.

寵物 – Terence Chui

8th Sep 2012 (皇后大道東 – Ta-Yu Lo and Ram Chiang)

The song for today is “皇后大道東” by Ta-Yu Lo and Ram Chiang. Ta-Yu was a singer from Taiwan, though he also sing some Cantonese song in Hong Kong in the 90’s and this song is one of this most famous Cantonese songs. The Direct translation of the title is “Queen’s Road East”.

The lyrics of the song are about Hong Kong. It was written when everyone in Hong Kong were worried about the future of Hong Kong when it was given back to China. This song mainly talks about these feeling in a humour way. Hope you like this song.

Other Ram related posts:
9th Nov 2014 (相逢何必曾相識 – Ram Chiang and Rita Carpio)

2nd Nov 2014 (舊朋友 – Ram Chiang (蔣志光), Rita Carpio (韋綺姍), Chilam Cheung (張智霖), Maple Hui (許秋怡), Sarah Wong (黃寶欣) and 甘子輝)

11th Aug 2014 (傾心 – Raidas)

皇后大道東 – Ta-Yu Lo and Ram Chiang

Friday, September 7, 2012

7th Sep 2012 (不知所措 – Terry Lin)

The song for today is “不知所措” by Terry Lin. Terry was part of a group called “優客李林” (in English the name is “Ukulele”). They were quite hit in Hong Kong in the 90’s. This song is one of their famous songs. The English translation of the title is “lost”.

The song is about the protagonist got dump by his girlfriend. He still love this girl but the girl doesn’t love him anymore and had already found a new boyfriend. So the protagonist sadly walk away, knowing that there is no chance that they will be together again. Hope you will like this song.

不知所措 – Terry Lin

Thursday, September 6, 2012

6th Sep 2012 (天鳥 – Lowell Lo)

The song that I chose for today is “天鳥” by Lowell Lo. Lowell was quite famous back in the 80’s, these days he is seen more as a person that promote ecofriendly lifestyle. This song is one of his most well-known songs. The direct translation of the title is “bird”.

The lyrics of the song are about viewing our world differently. It says that when we are unhappy or when we are angry at the world, everything became negative. We will miss the beauty of the world. So to enjoy our life and see the beauty of our world we should release our anger and sadness and then our world would suddenly felt difference. Hope you will like the song for today.

Related posts:
11th Jun 2013 (陪着你走 – Lowell Lo)

天鳥 – Lowell Lo