Alright fine, I got the idea from somewhere else.
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Looks like the Sichuan aftershocks have reached the blogosphere in literary form. Alternate translation posted at Blue Sky – Tony.
The Road to Heaven is Too Dark
Author unknown [via Andrew Revkin]
孩子
快
抓紧妈妈的手
去天堂的路
太黑了
妈妈怕你
碰了头
快
抓紧妈妈的手
让妈妈陪你走
妈妈
怕
天堂的路
太黑
我看不见你的手
自从
倒塌的墙
把阳光夺走
我再也看不见
你柔情的眸
孩子
你走吧
前面的路
再也没有忧愁
没有读不完的课本
和爸爸的拳头
你要记住
我和爸爸的摸样
来生还要一起走
妈妈
别担忧
天堂的路有些挤
有很多同学朋友
我们说
不哭
哪一个人的妈妈都是我们的妈妈
哪一个孩子都是妈妈的孩子
没有我的日子
你把爱给活的孩子吧
妈妈
你别哭
泪光照亮不了
我们的路
让我们自己
慢慢的走
妈妈
我会记住你和爸爸的模样
记住我们的约定
来生一起走 |
Child
Hurry up
Tightly hold your Mom’s hand
The road to heaven
is too dark
Mom is afraid that
you hit your head
Hurry up
Tightly hold your Mom’s hand
Let Mom keep you company
Mom
I am afraid
The road to heaven
is too dark
I cannot see your hand
since
the wall collapsed
it took the sun light away
I cannot see
your lovely eyes again
Child
You can go
the road in front of you
has no sorrow any more
there are no books that you cannot finish reading
and your father’s fist
you have to remember
my face and your father’s face
let’s finish walking this road together in our next life
Mom
do not worry
the road to heaven is a bit crowded
I have a lot classmates and friends
we all say
don’t cry
anyone’s Mom is our Mom
any child is Mom’s child
the days without me
give your love to the children alive
Mom
don’t cry
tears cannot light up the road
our road
let us
walk slowly
Mom
I will remember your face and father’s face
remember our appointment
of walking together in our next life |
The great thing about taking too many classes with problem sets is that one can still find room to procrastinate wildly between nights of not getting enough sleep. My reward for being behind in lecture? Migrating this blog from wordpress.com to my own host, and using the open source version of wordpress to hack up my own little theme for it.
Probably my only motivation for making the move — let’s be honest, it’s not like my readership is causing me bandwidth problems — is that I just hated the themes on wordpress.com. There’s nothing worse than having the same look as hundreds of other blogs, except maybe having the same look as hundreds of ugly blogs. Simple, readable designs (like the one on my favorite blog) are the ones I like best, and hopefully your eyes will agree.
Start reading the latest posts at http://jueseph.com/blog.