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Saturday, August 07, 2004

GoldenYears


Hi, just got my Blog set up!
Had wanted to create one for some time but didn't get to doing it until now.
Thought for some time about what my blog title should be. The first one that came to my mind was "Shiok" for I find blogging new and exciting. It gives me a venue to express myself without caring whether people like what I say or not. To me it is really "shiok'! By the way "shiok" is a Malay word meaning "great!" or "wonderful" or "tasty". Unfortunately "Shiok" is not available.
The next one I chose was "GoldernYears".
Why "GoldenYears"?
I looked up several dictionaries for the meaning of "golden years". None of them has this
expression. But I wasn't worried for I was thinking
in Chinese! "Golden years" is the literal translation of the Chinese expression: 黄金年华 (huang jin nian hua) meaning "twilight years like the golden sun shining with all its glory before disappearing into the horizon!
By now you must have guessed that I'm an old man!
Let's now turn our attention to this expression "Golden Years".
Let us take a look at the people in their so called golden years.
Are they all having a glorious time, like the setting sun's golden beams piercing through the clouds, before fading away?
No. The majority of them do not have a golden time.
The flattering term is used just to make elderly people feel good.