Purposive without Foresight

今天从新闻里听到小虎队为春晚进行的排练， 不由自主泪流满面。 我会唱的歌至少有一半是李子恒先生写的， 他的歌有一种直指人心的温暖和天真， 承载我几乎全部的童年和少年记忆。 80后90前的一代人有缘听李老师的歌长大， 真的很有福气！
嫁给外国人最郁闷的事情之一就是， 对牢老公唱李老师写的情歌， 老公却不能领会。 这几天我给儿子唱的歌都是李老师写的歌， 歌声中我童年和少年的人和事一一浮现。 我一定要教儿子中文。 希望将来的儿媳能有福气听我儿子唱李老师的情歌给她听。
这篇文章先在这里开个头， 有时间慢慢写。

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Months ago my mother-in-law sent us a newspaper from Tübingen. It says in Tübingen, several middle schools start to offer Chinese as foreign language course, and students can take the Chinese exam for Abitur (you can understand it as Germany’s SAT of high school children). I thought the children would need some special staff paper [...]

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Aria the Animation opening song:

Undine
Translated to English by Stain
The gentle wind brushing against my cheeks while rocking to the sound of the waves,
I can feel my body relaxing.
I close my eyes, and can see the direction the wind is taking.
Now let’s row, towards the shining waves.
A smile is immediately brought to my face.
Hey, tell me, [...]

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For readers do not read Chinese: the content here is too difficult for me to write in English or German. Too much Chinese mentality and nostalgia here. Sorry for my clumsiness.
老公去奥国公干， 一个人在德国的家里过中国的春节。 对牢南窗新装的竹簾突然乡情泛滥， 給我们的工作间起了中国名字。 我们住的小街在老城区，一百年前的格局，窄窄的黑石板街道两边是连排的红砖老公寓， 像是两堵高墙。 只有我们工作间的南窗对面有一道窄窄的缝隙， 晴天中午时分投来耀眼的阳光。 眼睛怨电脑屏幕上的内容没法辨认， 心里却是喜欢这温暖和一瞬间满屋子的澄莹通透。 我把工作间叫凿壁斋，一来应景， 二来愿效古人凿壁偷光之孜孜 （太喜欢玩Civilization了， 玩物丧志啊玩物丧志）， 惟愿勤能补拙而已。 如果在中国， 免不了要请人赐字， 然后装裱。 以我现时的处境只能从简。 斋名用550磅颜体打印，直接糊在门上， 足够端庄大方。 新置的文竹兰花等等， 一一起了名字， 贴在花盆上。 [...]

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Maybe due to the rainy and bleak sky in this late spring in the Netherlands, recently I have been in a nostalgic mood. “From the green moss” is a series of curfew for my good old days. I looked at the internet, was astonished that actually many have similar feeling/memory patterns. This series also [...]

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Just listen and watch.

At the birthday, to myself.

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Last Friday my boyfriend Dirk travelled all the way from Eindhoven to my apartment and we spent really nice serveral days together. I could never forget how I was drawn by happiness when he sent “Robert Schumann, Kinderszenen, opus 15, nr 7″ to me as a lullaby in mp3 format via SMTP protocol. He has [...]

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Tonight I went to downtown for Hudson Shad’s concert “Dinner for one”. I’m so happy I did go there despite of the bulky homeworks to do, bulky books/lecture scripts to review and my great anxiety for the coming final exams.First of all, it was a wonderful acoustic experience. All the five singers are professional vocalists. [...]

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Long long ago I was talking about a music CD Between Heaven and Earth in the Meaningless Drivel board of javaranch’s big moose saloon.The English song “Warriors in Peace” in the CD was sung by an Indian singer Sunitha Sarathy. Last month her friend saw my comment about her vocal performance and sent the [...]

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