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Was recently talking about ISMM again, and figured I'd translate the theme song (in which Wei Yanzi raps about staying up to read RPS of himself and Gu Yiliang) for a friend. Haven't heard it in a while but it's still a bop and listening to it still makes me smile.

Ty to llonkrebboj for going above and beyond with beta-reading and pretty much teaching me how to read. :P Really enjoyed reading their notes and comments! Learned a lot from that. Going through a feedback process also forced me to slow down and marinate in the lyrics a bit.

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Notes: I'm still not really sure about the second verse but it's the less important one so I guess I can let it go.

Tools: made the srt on Video Captions app, and the thumbnail on Affinity Photo app

I also made Chinese/pinyin captions (which will show up if you select Chinese as your subtitle language)! I then made the mistake of hitting the "auto-translate" button which made my work feel (as always) quite useless and redundant. Not that it's gonna stop me, but you know.

Audiodrama extra where Lu Feng gets An Zhe to do a little teaching demo.


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Poem: 偶成 by 戴望舒

Poem translation by Rita Wong & Andrew Wong (link below contains translation notes)
https://modernchinesepoems.blogspot.com/2016/03/dai-wangshu-lines-completed-by-chance.html

如果生命的春天重到，
古舊的凝冰都嘩嘩地解凍，
那時我會再看見燦爛的微笑，
再聽見明朗的呼喚——這些迢遙的夢。

這些好東西都決不會消失，
因為一切好東西都永遠存在，
它們只是像冰一樣凝結，
而有一天會像花一樣重開。

If spring in life arrives again,
The old, stale and stagnant waters would thaw, and thaw into streams;
Thence, I would see again, the beaming smiles,
Hear again, the clear, cheery calls----ah these my distant, distant dreams.

These things bright and beautiful, surely, could never be gone,
Because all things bright and beautiful, do forever exist, survive;
They are, like water turned ice, just frozen,
And someday, like flowering trees, they shall blossom again and thrive.