Tuesday, March 24, 2020

A-Mei, Queen of C-Pop

I listen to a lot of female artists in K-Pop but my first "love" will always be A-Mei. Her Chinese name is 張惠妹 and she's been singing for 24 years. She has many famous songs. When I'm forced to sing something at karaoke in China, I usually sing one of her songs. Here is one of her latest singles:


Full Name 連名帶姓 - A-Mei 張惠妹

The song's been out for a bit over two years and has ~67 million views. The lead in the music video is Selena 任家萱, who is one of the three members of S.H.E, another famous C-Pop group.

零七年 那一首定情曲的前奏
要是依然念念不忘 太不稱頭
早放生彼此 好好過 都多久

你怎麼像標本 杵在我心裡頭
後來的那幾個 又沒做錯什麼
他們口中自私的我
犯了偷竊時間的錯 複製貼上你的愛

也很精彩的你 不甘寂寞
這圈子不太大 多少聽說
欣賞你流浪 像是種信仰
我真這麼想

再被你提起 已是連名帶姓
謊稱是友誼 卻疏遠得可以
多少人愛我 偏放不下你 是公開的秘密
只剩你沒拆穿我

再處心積慮 終究事不關己
哪來的勇氣 我就是不灰心
我且愛且走 其實在等你 是僅有的默契
你會不會又錯過 我沒有把握

算不清 多少個跨年夜一起過
要是依然念念不忘 太不稱頭
早放生彼此 好好過 都多久

你怎麼像標本 杵在我心裡頭
後來的那幾個 又沒做錯什麼
他們口中自私的我
犯了偷竊時間的錯 複製貼上你的愛…

Monday, March 9, 2020

Steven L Glasgal

I'm not really sure what to write since this is a new experience for me.

I was browsing the Wall Street Journal app and saw an article about Twitter's CEO and Elliott Management. Many years ago, while I was still in graduate engineering school, I helped out a couple of guys with their startup companies. One of the guy's dad loaned us some money through his company but it turned out to be Elliott Investments LLC. Anyway, I thought I'd Google the two guys and to my surprise, searching for Steven returned some terrible news. It turned out he committed suicide back in 2016. Here's is a newspaper article about him and his tragic family history. At first I thought I had the wrong Steven since nothing ever happens to people I know. However, the article give a quick biography and i had work for/with Steven at Social Awearness Clothing Company from 1996 through 1997. Before that, there was a apartment newsletter company and I was their main graphic design contractor. I haven't talked to Steven or Jon (the other partner) after I left the company in 1997 so it's been almost 23 years. I don't know if the clothing company is still in business or what Jon is doing now.

It was pretty shocking to find out that someone you worked with daily for over a year took his own life. The tragic story about his parent's murder happened in 1983 but I didn't know anything about that when I met Steven. Here is a newspaper article about the trial of his brother Russell in 1984.