Japanese songs and rubbish talk

I was watching Reply 1988 when I heard a tune, only about 3 bars it has an almost similar tune to something I’ve heard before. 

For the life of me, I kept thinking “OMG! This tune is so so familiar” and I could continue humming to another 5 bars of the song. Thankfully Google mic could pick up my humming and immediately showed me the title of the song - 二人でお酒を (Futari de osake o). I remember it was a male voice when it was played donkey years back. Freaking 34years ago!! I can’t believe I can still vaguely remember this when most times I forgot what I ate the day before. 

It was played in my Japanese language class! 

I can’t really remember the lyrics but as I listened to the song by 杉 良太朗 （Sugi Ryotaro) and looked at the lyrics. Dang! My せんせい must have been one drinker 🤣. 

Then I slowly recall another song - Yubikiri by Koji Tamaki. It’s difficult to find the song by Google so I typed in the first 6 lines to look for it. I knew that song’s lyrics much much better. 

If you read then you’ll know why 😝

Lyrics :

青い空
白い雲
丸い帽子
飛んでゆく
飛んでゆく
追いかけても
黒い髪
赤い服
小さな靴
駈けてゆく
駈けてゆく
息をきらし
さよなら
さよなら
言わないで

遠い鐘

長い影

やさしい声

あと少し

もう少し

ここにいたい

金の星

銀の月

静かな風

ゆびきりはこれきりで我慢しよう

さよなら

さよなら

また逢える

さよなら

さよなら

また逢える

Definitely can remember this lyrics better. 

I wonder if I had gone to learn Japanese and be a Japanese speaking crew in SQ, would the lessons be as interesting as this? Can sing 🎤 or the really serious studying kind? 

Then when I was learning Japanese, Chage and Aska was quite popular. I picked up more words, especially kanji which is difficult. There was no such thing as internet to look for Romanized lyrics, I had to copy the lyrics on the cassette cover sleeve into a notebook, listened and kept stopping and playback many many times to get the words. Flip the dictionary, yes the Japanese to English dictionary coz no such thing as Safari or Google in 1991! Then find the meaning of the words. I listened to only 3 songs to get the lyrics and I was exhausted 😂, I never bothered to listen to their other songs. 

To the girls

When came to the girls, I exposed them Japanese, German, French nursery songs (coz kids learn fast) when they were growing up. No progression with French or German coz I wasn’t sure of the language myself. I concentrated on Japanese more. At that time too, lil’ one was in Shichida so was able to expose more Japanese songs to her. But alas! That gila playful girl listened but that’s it. 

Che-che

Not sure if that sparked the interest in che-che when she was much much older. She was crazy over the boy bands and …. her Japanese is better than mine for sure. 

When she mentioned she can take foreign language in her units, I told her to learn another language which is more useful. Japanese can only be used in Japan. But she has another idea “why learn another language when I already know one and can ace it?” True enough, she did well for those units 😂 bringing up her GPA. Uni didn’t offer her Masters for Japanese 🤣 but two others specialities. (She deserves the curtain string lor!) Aiyah! If she wanted to master Japanese, immersing herself into the country would be the best way.