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I love this iconic Christ The Redeemer statue of Jesus...so welcoming and beautiful.

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Again , spot on, one of the reasons I've become a Lambert's fan is his quasi-operatic pipes, which , btw, can't be reduced to high range, falsettos only, there are also the modulations of the voice that make a rock/pop singer's voice be easily compared to an opera singer. Under no circumstances oversinging.
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It's not complicated to type an OT above my post, but I'm still missing a Personal Thread, last time we 'met" we had a brief convo about ...surnames ! lol I earnestly declare that I'm envious of you for having a family name connected to nature, the man who was on the top of your family tree must have been a hunter, a wood -cutter, or simply... a bird-watcher lol (I am one) My family name is one of the most common Romanian surnames, popa=priest+the suffix escu, many surnames were created that way, the man's job, birth place +escu, ean.

Hey Pan.....Thanks for your interesting insights above; ahh so your surname too has a legend. Romania calls to my mind Dracula! my favourite sparring match for Glampire. lwl! You are rather perceptive about my surname, Lam, meaning forest, that it's connected to woodcutter, hunter, bird-watcher lwl!


Name origin...Wikipedia

King Zhou of Shang (reigned 1154 to 1122 B.C.), the last king of the Shang dynasty, had three uncles advising him and his administration. The king's uncles were Bi Gan, Jizi, and Weizi. Together the three men were known as "The Three Kind-Hearted Men of Shang" in the kingdom. Bi Gan was the son of Prince Ding, son of King Shang and, thus, was King Zhou's uncle.

Zhou was a cruel king, but his three uncles could not persuade him to change his ways. Failing in their duty to advise the king, Weizi resigned. Jizi faked insanity and was relieved of his post. Only Bi Gan stayed on to continue advising the king to change his ways.
"Servants who are afraid of being killed and refrain from telling the truth are not righteous" he said. This put him in danger of incurring the king's wrath. Bi Gan stayed at the palace for three days and nights to try to persuade the blood-thirsty and immoral king to mend his ways.

The stubborn king would not relent and had Bi Gan arrested for treason. Upon hearing this, his pregnant wife escaped into the forest and went into labor there. With no one to help her, she gave birth to a boy in the rocky cave in the forest.
Before long, King Zhou was overthrown and killed by King Wu of the Zhou dynasty. King Wu knew about the courageous court advisor Bi Gan and sought his wife and child. When he found them, he honoured them in respect of Bi Gan. The mother and child were restored to the royal family. The new king conferred the surname Lin/Lam (meaning forest) on Bi Gan's son.

p/s Looks like I descended from a line of kings! lwl! Thanks Pan!

Lam ( 林 ) Cantonese...quite pictorial, looks like trees. Lin ( 林 ) Mandarin.
Same written Chinese strokes but sound different in language phonetics...according to the spelt names.

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Are the royal descendants addressed with Your Majesty, too ? Joking! Half. Singapore, like Romania, is a republic, do young people know that their country was, once,a glorious kingdom? Ours don't care.
My late father was a great admirer of Zhou Enlai, a great diplomat and a visionary , he used to say, who spoke Mandarin.I lived under the impression that Mandarin was kind of language spoken by gods lol, now , in a prosaic way, wiki informs me that Mandarin is Standard Chinese! What's the truth?

Pan.....Wahh, your father admires Zhou Enlai; even I don't know this iconic figure; only through Wikipedia. My aged Mom lived through this era and before that, so she knows China's history vividly.
Singapore was founded by the British in 1819; Sir Stamford Raffles literally bought over the little island from then, Malaya as he wanted a centralised port of call for trade between China and India and the east and west. This phenomenon remains true to this day.
So Singaporeans including me, do not have a strong foundation of Chinese history; unless some deliberately study the subject. English is our first main working language and Malay, Mandarin, Tamil as second languages.
So yes, Mandarin is a standard/official language in Singapore, and of course China. And that brings me to... why Hong Kong is fighting tooth and nail to preserve their standard/national/working language which is Cantonese not Mandarin. They are afraid Mandarin will slowly edge it out. I studied Mandarin in school as a second language, English first language. I love Cantonese, my mother-tongue more than Mandarin and hope it never dies.

Pan, now I understand more clearly why you want a personalised thread so badly. You like to delve into the ins and outs of happenings, history etc. which may not interest other commenters.

Pan, the ancient Chinese Emperors were addressed as Huangdi / King (Mandarin).

Ghost Town is up to #48 on Spotify. Yeah! Keep streaming GT on loop!!!