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GUANTANAMERA
Original music by Jose Fernandez Diaz
Music adaptation by Pete Seeger & Julian Orbon
Lyric adaptation by Julian Orbon,
based on a poem by Jose Marti

Yo soy un hombre sincero
De donde crecen las palmas
Yo soy un hombre sincero
De donde crecen las palmas
Y antes de morirme quiero
Echar mis versos del alma

Chorus:
Guantanamera
Guajira Guantanamera
Guantanamera
Guajira Guantanamera

Mi verso es de un verde claro
Y de un carmin encendido
Mi verso es de un verde claro
Y de un carmin encendido
Mi verso es un ciervo herido
Que busca en el monte amparo

Chorus

I am a truthful man from this land of palm trees
Before dying I want to share these poems of my soul
My verses are light green
But they are also flaming red

(the next verse says,)
I cultivate a rose in June and in January
For the sincere friend who gives me his hand
And for the cruel one who would tear out this
heart with which I live
I do not cultivate thistles nor nettles
I cultivate a white rose

Cultivo la rosa blanca
En junio como en enero
Qultivo la rosa blanca
En junio como en enero
Para el amigo sincero
Que me da su mano franca

Chorus
Y para el cruel que me arranca
El corazon con que vivo
Y para el cruel que me arranca
El corazon con que vivo
Cardo ni ortiga cultivo
Cultivo la rosa blanca

Chorus
Con los pobres de la tierra
Quiero yo mi suerte echar
Con los pobres de la tierra
Quiero yo mi suerte echar
El arroyo de la sierra
Me complace mas que el mar

Chorus

note : i like this song, among numerous others..there's something bout it..dunno whAT.

i almost couldn't take the pressure of staying in school anymore during those few days of exams(actually it's just a test anyway) and a few had no choice but to hear my whining of wanting to marry a rich guy, not study anymore and just enjoy life ya knoe?scratch that...make it me having money flying down on my lap whenever i need it, and me living in a cute cosy hut by the beach surrounded by friends and family by the beach, waking up whenever i want and doing whatever i like.
It's like suddenly i could literally feel and touch the pressure and make sense of the shadows of fear flickering by.....*oooh..deep* But it's just a feeling and it passes...like everything else. Sometimes i DO feel like i'm taking on more than i can handle but i guess sometimes i just overestimate myself. I brought it all on myself anyway but come to think of it, the memories, both bile-bitter and revoltingly sweet, and the ppl i meet makes it all worthwhile and i hope learn something out of it all.
right now, i'm thinking wouldn't it be nice if everyone would be totally honest with each other? it's true when they say a human's mind is infathomable.

a quick note from the pearl of the orient

it's the 3rd day of chinese new year and i can safely say i'm having a blast..!
The reunion dinner was great with all the noisy bickerings and all the rushing towards the steamboat thingy...at first everyone was like grabbing everything in sight like we've haven't eaten for god knows how long but after that, it's actually physically impossible to lift ur butt of the seat.
after that......the annual Gambling Olympics officially started..with all its pompous glamour, i.e the tearing off of the cards' plastic wrapper and shouts of "lai lai lai! 21 ! 21 !" or "bacarat bacarat!" even as of now, there's a blackjack game going on riiiiight beside me..*sniff* lost a few games just now..cis..
but okla....won the pool money last nite..about 100 bucks? lol! but all my cuz are all bugging me to belanja starbucks..so back to square one la..
then we went house-visiting and angpau-collecting and weight-gaining.
my gawd! my life revolved around food these days!

"CAN'T" wait to get back and sit for the exams..
shit la.

tong tong tong chiang!

supposed to be studying but what am i doing here online-ing can someone please tell me?
besides the obvious reason : PROCRASTINATION
or sheer laziness. or to quote pn. sunita : ''sim mei....! enjoying life!''
anyways, since i am already here..

Happy CHiNeSe NeW Year !!!
wishing all of you all the good things in life!

yours truly will be in an island up north so do try not to miss me too much k?

muaks!