The subconscious mind works in weird ways!
C spilled the cranberry sauce and it went flying across the kitchen and splattered an unbelievable number of surfaces, including the curtains. Surprisingly, the cranberry-sauce bowl did not shatter. But everything in the kitchen was now flecked or dyed red.
As I was cleaning it up, I started humming a Chinese song I used to hear on the radio when I was studying in Taiwan, long ago. I hadn't even thought of it for ten years or more. Suddenly I realized that the words I was singing, 只是朱顏改, meant, "Everything turned crimson."
Funny how the brain works, innit?
On another note, I LOVE the Philippe Starck quote about France. He's spot on.
Posted by: Alison | 17 January 2008 at 06:41
Amusing how popular Teresa Teng was with the Japanese when that song evokes a specific imagery to Chinese who eyewitnessed the Japanese in China - the blood and human tissue draped Chinese buildings three stories high and yes, everything did indeed turn red.
Posted by: Cleo | 31 March 2012 at 17:38