i'm a liiiitttttlllllleee obsessed with chinese-stuff.

Mando-pop, canto-pop, taiwanese drama, chinese mags, manga in Chinese (so that i can learn to read the language) ;-p, cookery books and almanack-reading and ... chinese books, books, books. it's not a large collection of odds and ends books. i have a huge vcd and dvd collection AND a humongous CD collection. But i love finding nice chinese picture books and find it extremely satisfying that whenever i finish a full-length books.

i'm not happy i'm more like a banana, yet i'm glad i'm aware of it and continue on my journey of finding my roots.

Meantime, i stumbled upon these two books that are chinese nursery rhymes (the picture book has the shorter versions, while the booklet has the full song). The plus point which i find so ingenuous and touched by the publisher's attention to detail, is a CD which introduces and explains about chinese traditional musical instruments, the sound it makes, how it is played and each nursery rhyme is performed in full. (comments were that the music is SO traditional, 'chinky' - simply lovely, i'm not a big fan yet i embrace it because this is as it should be). Oh, and the booklet accompanying the CD has the complete lyrics, pencil drawings of the instruments and music score, what else can i ask for?

Brilliant, ya. Wait, the crunch is this - hardcover, plus CD and booklet at only less than RM30, the real reason i love those chinese books. Definitelywill keep an eye on this publisher.

SONG FOR A MOOD
Rain/Fireflies - sorry can't translate very well and give credit, only that these are respectively track one and track fifteen in the Granny's Bridge (Wai-buo qiao) CD. The dialogue is between a grandfather and his grandchild whom he takes to listen to a rehearsal of a chinese orchestra.