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Last week, I went to Shanghai Concert Hall, watched a musical show PIAF-une vie en rose et noir.

The show brought forth the life and artistic career of Édith Piaf who is almost universally regarded as France’s greatest popular singer. She was born in a very poor family in a high-immigration district. She has a distinct personality and voice. Her singing which made her successful in career, also reflected her life. Among her songs are “La vie en rose” (1946), “Hymne à l’amour” (1949), “Milord” (1959), “Non, je ne regrette rien” (1960), “l’Accordéoniste” (1941), “Padam…Padam”, and “La Foule”.

The show was mainly performed by French singer Nathalie Lhermitte. She singed near to 20 of Piaf’s songs. Accompanied by Aurélien Noël on the accordion, Nathalie’s performance was full of emotion, took us into the heart of Piaf. With the anecdotes told by Ribia Matignon, the show also explained how an street acrobat’s daughter, grew up in a brothel, became a famous singer around the world. Just like the name of the show, Piaf’s life was recurring on the stage with full of passion and tragedy.

The songs in the show:
L’Accordéoniste
Les amants d’un jour

Mon légionnaire
Padam, padam
Le prisonnier de la tour

Les trois cloches

La vie en rose
Mon dieu
L’homme à la moto

Milord
La foule
A quoi sert l’amour?

Non, je ne regrette rien

L’Hymne à l’amour
Mon manège à moi
T’es Beau, Tu Sais

A photographer took some photos of the show: http://www.pbase.com/johnzhang/piaf

And, I took some photos of Shanghai Concert Hall:

Reference:
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Édith_Piaf
http://www.andorra.ad/en-US/Events/Pages/Piaf_andorra_2009.aspx

The Terminal is one of my favorite movie, I watched it many times. I appreciate the performance of Tom Hanks, I appreciate much more the great personality of Viktor Navorski: the patience of “light green”, the optimism of “fifty-fifty”, the generosity of “keep the change”, the patriotism of “it’s home”, the perseverance of “I wait”.

I quote here my favorite review about this movie.

Egoless waiting, 25 December 2004
Author: jjll from United States

I have to say it is a great one that first shows the meaning and beauty in our life about waiting and promise. Amelia is waiting for her dream to come true for eighteen years, for herself; Navorski’s dad was waiting for something he honored so much for his life; and here comes Navorski, who waits for making his father’s left dream come true, for fulfilling his promise, for the woman he fell in love, in a “crack” between the US and his own country.

He has done everything for others around him. If there is a great example of “egoless”, he is one. Letting go ego, is the greatness that even Amelia found out when she gives up and scarifies something most important in her life to help Navorski.

This simple story conveys some wonderful philosophy for people living in this country busy around everyday for business, families, and so on, to slow down and reflect on something. As the retired officer said to officer Dixon, there is something we can learn from Navorski.

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Previously…

感叹：
oh my god
oh, no!
Wow!
Holy smoke!
so weird
Come on…
awesome!
seriously?!
that’s amazing!
you have no idea
are you kidding me？
please!

问候，打招呼：
whats going on?
what are you doing here?
hey dude
What’s up?
can i buy you a drink?

谈判：
we need to talk…
hey, listen, we need to talk…
what do you want?
i promise you
i swear……
Trust me

插话：
you know…
you know what…
well…
actually…

其他：
I love you,honey/sweetie/daring/dear/mum/dad.
Oh, you are so sweet
sure
absolutely
I don’t know
thank you

脏话，倒霉：
oh shit
what the fuck
what’s hell going on
you son of bitch
go to hell
jesus christ
it sucks
screwed up
crap.
idiot
damn it
For god’s sake,……..
Scrow you.
you are an/a asshole/jerk.