You Make Me Happy You Make Me Sad

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ai dao jin tou fu sui nan shou
ai you you hen you you
wei he yao dao wu fa wan liu
chai you xiang qi ni de wen rou
ge wo guan huai wei wo jie you
wei wo ping tian xu duo chou
zai shen ye wu jin deng hou
du zi lei liu du zi ren shou

duo xiang shuo sheng wo zhen de ai ni
duo xiang shuo sheng dui bu qi ni
ni ku zhe shuo qing yuan yi jin nan zai xu nan zai xu

jiu qing ne gei wo duo yi dian dian shi jian
zai duo yi dian dian wen hou bu yao yi qie dou dai zhou
jiu qing ni gei wo duo yi dian dian kong jian
zai dou yi dian dian wen rou bu yao rang wo ru chi nan shou

ni zhe yang yi ge nu ren rang wo huan xi rang wo you
rang wo gan xin wei le ni fu chu wo suo you

you ran wo gan xin wei le ni fu chu wo sou you

-- Sung by Emil Chou. Original music by Chage & Aska.

Having found this song and listening to it again really brought me down memory land and that has to be way back in 1991-1992 when I was just starting out middle school. How I miss those yesteryears when all then a teenager wanted was to be free. Well, in sought for that freedom I was then rebellious, mischievous, cynical, and all that darah muda's syndrome.

Anyway, the Tshung Tsin dormitory was where this song was constantly heard playing especially during Sundays (when we were all trapped in the dorm hoping for those friends who owns cars to sneak us out) while we the tenant aka penghuni took our sweet time, instead of studying, loitered on the porch trimming our fingernails, chit-chatting, day-dreaming while interrupted by other noises that came from those diligently scrubbing their laundries. Ah, memories...

Having found this song and listening to it again really brought me down memory land and that has to be way back in 1991-1992 when I was just starting out middle school. How I miss those yesteryears when all then a teenager wanted was to be free. Well, in sought for that freedom I was then rebellious, mischievous, cynical, and all that darah muda's syndrome.

Anyway, the Tshung Tsin dormitory was where this song was constantly heard playing especially during Sundays (when we were all trapped in the dorm hoping for those friends who owns cars to sneak us out) while we the tenant aka penghuni took our sweet time, instead of studying, loitered on the porch trimming our fingernails, chit-chatting, day-dreaming while interrupted by other noises that came from those diligently scrubbing their laundries. Ah, memories...

Occasionally, couple of my friends and I would sneak out from the dorm and go for karaokes. Since this was one of my favorite song, I like to sing along to the music whenever it was my turn to go on stage. Entertainment those days were nothing compared to what we have now. We thought karaoke parlors were one of those cool places to chill and to have late night delicious supper.

I remembered once when we didn't ask permission from the deans to go out. It was way past midnight plus it was pitch dark and the school's dormitory was on top of a small bushy hill just behind the school and it was quite a long walk up. Therefore we decided to turn off the car engines and headlights once we drove pass the hilly part so the driver could drop us just slightly a few meters away from the dorm in avoidance of creepy, crawly animals. We didn't want to wake our deans...thus the best way was to take off our shoes (the darn road was not paved, full of unconsolidated mixture of rock fragments) and mince slowly to the dorm's door. When we merely took our fifth steps, something rather big (I thought was a tiger) jumped out from the bushes with eyes as big as a lamp post. So I thought but no. They were not starving wild animals and heck the eyes were not stupid lamp post. With two heavy voltage (must be) torches clutched on their hands, the deans caught us red-handed!!

Long story short, the next day our study hall time was taken away from us in order to give way to a week of endless moving boxes, scrubbing and washing. We girls were lucky for having quite a small dorm otherwise scrubbing and washing the entire school would be too embarrassing. Nevertheless, it didn't teach us a lesson. It just got us wiser! Wink

So as I said, this song brought back tons of memories which I surprisingly have forgotten until today. They say, music always finds a way to bring old memories come alive. How true...