Wednesday, March 27, 2019

閒居2019/莊峻華


閒居2019/莊峻華

愛美外出旅行,我正好掌理內外,打掃春季落地高樹花瓣,橡花和
香楓花,黃色花粉,舖蓋老車,撒滿走道和街道,非常難看,我當
員外多時,只管割草,冬季落葉,愛美看不慣,自行處理,對面鄰
居三位,見我難得勤奮,前來招呼,他們都在指揮庭院工人,作春
天種植佈置工作。

早上散步,與佛瑞斯特愛犬招呼,不巧牠見到另外隻愛犬,罕瑞克
通過,衝出吠叫,查克緊張護愛犬,我連忙飛奔架別,查克抱怨,
我想此為愛犬一種招呼方式,我和查克提到後天之巴拿馬運河行,
在洛城,也將與大學同學相會,還有奧斯汀行,割草與採桃,做該
作之活動。

春天清晨稍涼,但箸布夾克,則甚舒適,遇見許多愛犬,一一招呼,
這是一日之高潮,幾隻愛犬,多時不見,原來主人旅行去也。回家後
,我開始整理行李,這次我將帶兩件行李,稍多衣服和穿鞋,多帶頂
草帽,蓋箸禿頭,琳兒寄來毛桃相片,不知三週後,能否採收?

對面法國太太瑪莉,給我一把枇杷,順便聊天,講到新加波之水果,
剛好有三對六隻愛犬路過,一陣騷擾,原來已經午後,一位美麗女士
,前來探望母親,住在城中,我憶起同位小姐,六年前也是攜愛犬路
過,時間飛馳,我們已遷居近七年矣。

我將努力寫作,描寫我在美國,如意之生活,昨夜和老隊友,網球三
局,我們都是七十許到八十年紀,回家後,元兒食慾好,我再補煮一
打水餃等他,清晨發現,他未碰白菜炒肉絲,下午,我又要準備一盤
菜,以便他夜班,今夜過後,我將大政奉還,郵輪旅行去也。

Listen to an old Japanese song Miako no ame ni/Carlos pueblo


Listen to an old Japanese song Miako no ame ni/Carlos pueblo

The song, Miako no ame ni, literally means At the rain in the Capital.
I assume the Capital is Tokyo, the largest city and the capital since the Edo
Era. It is composed by Toru Funamura, a very famous songs writer in the
current time, words by Ou Yoshida who is a famous poet of the time, and
first sung by Ichiro Toba. I was attracted by this song 20 some years ago
when I found a video on You Tube performed by Toba and a young lady
whose name was identical spelling with Chiako Naomi. It was sung by two
of them both with guitars. Later, I found more videos by Funamura himself,
Chiaki by herself, and the first hit by Toba. There is a piece collected by
someone for all three in series on a video.

Yoshida’s poem is following a 5 characters rule in a line in Japanese. It is what
my understanding of Chinese classic. It is very pretty even though I am still far
away from understanding in Japanese yet I can tell. It is the tune and melody
that attracted by me. I was brought up during the time not far from the end of
the War in the vacuum of in music in Chinese civilization. What I learned was from
the loud speakers of records stores on the main street of a small town in Taiwan.
They were all Japanese songs.  Listen to old Japanese songs bring back my memory
of my childhood and admiration.

Chiaki has been retired ever since her husband’s death. I love many of her hit songs,
i.e. Shitsure no watashi, is a song about a boat ride across a small river outside of
Tokyo. A young couple was across the small river to enter the capital for luck. She was
one of many famous singers made it after the original hit. I made a special visit one
year when I visited Tokyo. The boat piers are still standing there, one side is Shitsure
with garlic greens farm and the other side is a township famous for preserved Edo era
architecture.

A few of old Japanese hits were lost or perished in Japan, yet are born again in Taiwan,
for instance, two of Frank Nakai’s old hits, Yokiri no Dairikkudo literally means On a foggy
night of the #2 national Highway; and Watsuteraretamachi that I translate to an abandon
street. Both come back alive in Taiwan and the later became a theme song of the movie,
a city of sadness about a story of the 228 massacre in Taiwan by Nationalist Chinese on
February 28, 1947.
   



Tuesday, March 26, 2019

聽歌都の雨に/莊峻華


聽歌都の雨に/莊峻華

因微軟字體不熟,加上不會輸入平假名,因此有困難寫上文題,但
仍不減我對此歌之喜愛,歌名漢譯概曰,在都市之雨中,是歌曲家
船村徹譜,吉田旺詞,詩詞類似五言絕句,我只能猜測,若是超過
五字者,多半是日語中之句尾助字,好像幫助壓韻,但日本詩實在
,不講究壓韻,我需要有舊制高中程度,始能體會曲中詩意,但仍
舊不減我對此歌之愛慕。

網誌上有一片,集合船村徹,千秋直美,和島羽一郎三歌手之表演
,船村本人作曲,也能歌,島羽為首唱歌手,千秋為船村提挈,我
20年前,先聞島羽和一年輕女孩歌,兩人坐立吉他,島羽稍多,小
女孩,也是平假名自號,拼音似千秋,我剛一直找不著記錄,她另
一首成名曲似是居酒屋,因聞合唱,網誌帶來千秋版,船村版,和
島羽版,千秋有很多歌,我甚喜愛,其中一首是失切船渡,我到東
京旅行,還特別坐火車到該河渡,很多慕名者來搭搖船過河,河堤
下是大蒜農田,一望無際,對岸是古鎮,仍是熱鬧,我曾作心得報
告。

為這種名曲吸引,主要是日本歌曲之傳統音調,就是戰後日人離台
,國民黨中國人禁止,仍舊無法填補真空,心靈之真空,當然美國
暢銷歌曲,歌劇,古典音樂等,填滿少年時代之精神,日本演歌,
從過去虎尾街頭,電唱機之放送,一直到現在,不僅是我而已,一
兩曲在日本已煙沒,像永井佛蘭克之棄街,夜霧中之第二國道,在
台灣仍是熱門,棄街為悲情城市主題曲。

當然,悅耳最重要,了解詩詞其次,女歌手有優勢,貌美歌喉能吸
引人,千秋成名甚早,夫君過世後,洗盡胭華,息影歌藝壇,僅留
名曲於後人知音。

 



Passing through the Panama Canal/Carlos Pueblo


Passing through the Panama Canal/Carlos Pueblo

Finally, I have my first opportunity of passing through the Panama Canal
and will be in the weekend. I text my Spanish teacher for my regret of missing
her class on Saturday yet I am going to take my Spanish final among those
Spanish speaking ports which I am passing by. I also inform Rhea of my coming
to the Star to see her; however, she is on vacation in Manila and is not going
back to the Star but the Bliss. I double check it that my ship is the Bliss not the
Star after all. I shall miss her, she will get on the ship when I disembark in Los
Angeles on the same day.

I am going to send my e-mail to some of my daughters on board to say hello
and I may see them again on the ship as often as the cruise liner to transfer
their job assignment. Just 9 days after I come back home and a quick trip to
Austin, Texas to do my house chore for Michelle, I am taking off again to
England for 4 weeks. I ask Justin, my cruise agent to monitor the Spirit at
Rome for a back to back to avoid some difficulty of land travel. I am getting
Old to do such hardship.

I miss you all and hope to see you again.

Monday, March 25, 2019

巴拿馬運河行/莊峻華


巴拿馬運河行/莊峻華

今日下午,例査郵輪廣告,發現巴拿馬運河行有特價,於是査機票,
價錢符合所求,於是電話郵輪代理,買下船機兩票,這是一15日海
上旅行,我誤會是星號,通知愛女莉雅,她說要我下船日,始低正確
之極樂號,我仍舊懷念這位美麗甜蜜之姑娘。

此艘郵輪較新較大,以後將跑阿拉斯加線,可搭四千乘客,我想此行
當作我之西語課期中考,所經過海港,都講西語。

回家後,需要馬上到奧斯汀割草,希望採桃,回來後,就準備搭機到
英國,這是四週,我希望能搭上,羅馬啟航之精神號,最好連續兩次
重複一共三週,如此,我就無需到處流浪英國。

Chinkoukulo or Jukoukulo/Carlos Pueblo


Chinkoukulo or Jukoukulo/Carlos Pueblo

When I was at my senior high school, this was in the early 60’s, my
Maiden great uncle told me the Japanese word of Chinkoukulo, literally
means slaves of Chinkouk or Manchu Dynasty. It was because that Taiwan
had been a colony of Manchu Dynasty for generation. According to Chinese
traditional politic, the conquerors are always as masters and the conquered
are always slaves. Citizens or people who are under the dictators’ rule are
belonged to the masters as different classes of slaves. Chinese slaves systems
have been more sophisticated than the western slaves records. There is never
any human right civilization established in any of the Chinese tradition in
history. According to what I read of the report of the United Nations, Slaves
are still existed in China and I have met one self- claimed modern Chinese slave
at Frankfurt International Airport on his way back to China from a Caribbean
construction project. Now, I learn Japanese and I can say it as Jukoukulo, as the
Chinese slave. All Chinese are slaves of the current Communist regime in Beijing.

Before coming to the United States in 1975, I was under the Nationalist Chinese
Rule as a Jukoukulo and the slave master was Chiang Kai-sek who was deceased
In April of that same year before my departure of Taiwan in August yet Taiwan was
still continued under the slave martial laws. I have experience as a Chinese slave for
years. In 1989, Chiang’s son died and a Taiwanese slave succeeded him as a defacto
master, or President of the Republic of China occupied in Taiwan. He gradually improved
the human right condition in Taiwan by lifting the martial laws and held a national
election in 1996 to make a mandate of ruling. Taiwan is still a colony of China, the ROC.
Taiwanese enjoy certain degree of freedom yet still heavy affected by traditional
Chinese slave philosophy among education, media, and basic constitution, etc. Human
Right in Taiwan is much better off than in China under the communist rule.

Recently, the Chinese controlled media in Taiwan advocate the benefit of trade between
Taiwan and China, they call them cross Formosan Straight. Representatives of Hong Kong,
Macau, and China sign import agreement with a newly elected Nationalist Chinese mayor
Of a southern city of Taiwan under a banner of 92 Consensus and One China Two systems.
The KMT, the Nationalist, promote a peace treaty or agreement with China for the future
benefit of Taiwan. Taiwanese concerned have pointed it out the consequence of treaties
with China such as Tibet, Hong Kong, and Macau, etc. I firmly believe that under Chinese
rule we are going to be a slave again, a Jukoukulo of the People Republic ofChnia worse off
than a colony of the ROC.



Sunday, March 24, 2019

清國奴或中國奴/莊峻華


清國奴或中國奴/莊峻華

高中時代在台灣,我就聽聞清國奴一詞,是帝國日本人,形容中國
人,在滿清統治時代之地位,我是看過無數書籍電影,愛新覺羅氏
征服中國,把所有中國人,當作奴隸,這是事實,這些奴隸中,倖
者考取功名,可以在朝廷,取得恭敬磕頭,自稱奴才之官位,所以
日本人稱漢人為清國奴,後來中國解放,共產黨專政,也是將國民
當作奴,和台灣人一樣,都是中國奴,很可憐台灣人,還有一部份
,爭先恐後,想當中國奴。

甚麼是奴?就是過去之征服者,戰勝後人材兩得,土地沒收,現在
之中國,1949年擊潰國民黨蔣介石,全國土地沒收,1987年後,因
為外資開發土地,開始放租沒收土地,就是國民購屋,也是70年為
限,無明法處理如何善後。中國人沒有遷徙自由,北京很多工作機會
但外地人,不能自由出入。貪官污吏,只要容許於共產黨,可以高枕
無憂,比過去中國朝代更腐敗。中國想併吞台灣,好處甚多,甚想如
法泡製中國,西藏,新疆,香港,和澳門,說是台獨是梅毒,真是不
倫不類,有失中國自豪之文明。

從蔣介石到台灣,台灣人從日本奴,變回中國奴,後來之中華民國奴
,和1895年前之清國奴相類似,一直到1996年,奴才頭稍有智慧,
將台灣改成總統選舉制,直接公民投票授權,但是整個宗主國憲法,
據曰仍不容變更,我姑且信之,因歸台灣仍是中華民國之殖民地,仍
舊是中國奴,因為中華民國仍然是兩個中國之一,所以台灣人仍舊是
中國奴,中國文明中,從來沒有人權之概念,人民就像牲畜一般,趕
來趕去,我一生嚮往台灣獨立,中國人在台灣,在中國,在全球,侮
辱台獨比梅毒還可怕,我真是要還牙這匹中國奴,中華民國奴。

我在全球遇見許多來自中國者,多半有禮貌,而且也容忍我之國土分
裂說,這是中國文明之萌生,我期待在我有生之年,中國人不再是中
國奴,台灣人不再是中華民國奴,聽這群家生奴,搖尾乞憐於匪,台
灣命運,附匪為奴,抑或當家作主,取決於全民,與中國人無涉。