Nostalgic songs (Cover Version) Eun Bin had sung during 1st Bingo Fan Party 2023 in Korea and Japan.

 1. Walk With Me - 1st Bingo Fan Party Seoul, Korea 9/4/2023

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Official video by Han All - Walk With You

Lyrics Han All – Walk With You 가사  - Lyrics courtesy of https://mykpop.jspinyin.net

우리 손잡고 걸을 때
기분 좋은 햇살이 우릴 비출 때
너와 함께 맞춰 걷는
이 발걸음은 이렇게도 가벼워

발 맞춰 걸을 때
한 걸음씩 너에게 맞추어질 때
나의 마음도 점점
너로 물들어져 스며들어

우리 함께 걷자
느린 걸음이라도 괜찮아
서로를 재촉하지않는
느릿한 걸음으로말야

우리 함께 걷자
힘이 들면 잠깐 쉬어가자
빠르게 가지 않아도 돼
호흡을 맞춰 우리 함께 걷자

빠른 발걸음에
숨이 차 오를 수도 있을테니까
조급한 마음은 두고
서로의 발걸음에 맞춰

오래오래 걸을 수 있게
오래오래 함께할 수 있게
우리 함께 걷자
느린 걸음이라도 괜찮아

서로를 재촉하지않는
느릿한 걸음으로말야
우리 함께 걷자
힘이 들면 잠깐 쉬어가자

빠르게 가지 않아도 돼
호흡을 맞춰 우리 함께 걷자
오래오래 걸을 수 있게
오래오래 함께할 수 있게

Hangul / Romanized / Romanization

uli sonjabgo geol-eul ttae
gibun joh-eun haes-sal-i ulil bichul ttae
neowa hamkke majchwo geodneun
i balgeol-eum-eun ileohgedo gabyeowo

bal majchwo geol-eul ttae
han geol-eumssig neoege majchueojil ttae
naui ma-eumdo jeomjeom
neolo muldeul-eojyeo seumyeodeul-eo

uli hamkke geodja
neulin geol-eum-ilado gwaenchanh-a
seololeul jaechoghajianhneun
neulishan geol-eum-eulomal-ya

uli hamkke geodja
him-i deulmyeon jamkkan swieogaja
ppaleuge gaji anh-ado dwae
hoheub-eul majchwo uli hamkke geodja

ppaleun balgeol-eum-e
sum-i cha oleul sudo iss-eultenikka
jogeubhan ma-eum-eun dugo
seoloui balgeol-eum-e majchwo

olaeolae geol-eul su issge
olaeolae hamkkehal su issge
uli hamkke geodja
neulin geol-eum-ilado gwaenchanh-a

seololeul jaechoghajianhneun
neulishan geol-eum-eulomal-ya
uli hamkke geodja
him-i deulmyeon jamkkan swieogaja

ppaleuge gaji anh-ado dwae
hoheub-eul majchwo uli hamkke geodja
olaeolae geol-eul su issge
olaeolae hamkkehal su issge

Walk With You – English Translation

When we walk in hand
When a pleasant sunshine
Walking with you
This step is light

When walking
When I told you
My mind is getting more
I wandered with you.

Let’s walk together
It’s okay to be slow.
Unrecessed
Saying to a slow step

Let’s walk together
Let’s take a break for a while
You do not have to go quickly.
Let’s walk together with respiration

Fast steps
I can breathe.
Personal heart
To meet each other’s steps

I can walk long for a long time
I can be together for a long time
Let’s walk together
It’s okay to be slow.

Unrecessed
Saying to a slow step
Let’s walk together
Let’s take a break for a while

You do not have to go quickly.
Let’s walk together with respiration
I can walk long for a long time
I can be together for a long time

                                                                                                

2. Voyage - 1st Bingo Fan Party Tokyo, Japan 26/5/2023

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Original Singer - Voyage by Ayumi Hamasaki

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cOddZfaxSg

Lyrics Ayumi Hamasaki – Voyage - Lyrics courtesy of https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics

離れられずにいたよずっと
見慣れてる景色があったから

いつかまたこの場所へ来ても
同じ空を同じ様に見て
美しいと言えるのかと
僕は考え過ぎたのかも知れない
少しの眠りについてまた明日急ごう

怖がって踏み出せずにいる一歩が
重なっていつからか長く長い
道になって手遅れになったりして
そのうちに何となく今の場所も
悪くないかもなんて思いだして
何とか自分に理由つけたりした

ホントはねたったの一度も 理解しないままで
全てがわかった フリをしていたんだね

離れられずにいたよずっと
見慣れてる景色があったから

何だか全てがちっぽけで
小さなかたまりに見えたのは
仰いだ空があまりに果てなく
広すぎたからだったのかも知れない
君のとなりにいたからかも知れない

頭ではわかってるつもりでもね
すれ違うどこかの誰かのこと
振り返ってながめてはうらやんだり

ないものねだりをいつまで 続けていくんだろう
そう思えたのは 君に出会えたからでしょ

全てはきっとこの手にある
ここに夢は置いていけない
全てはきっとこの手にある
決められた未来もいらない

全てはきっとこの手にある
動かなきゃ動かせないけど
全てはきっとこの手にある
始めなきゃ始まらないから

Romanji Translation

Bokutachi wa shiawase ni naru tame kono tabiji o yuku n da
Hora egao ga totemo niau

Iro aseru koto naku yomigaeru hakanaku utsukushiki hibi yo

Mabushii umi kogareta kisetsu mo
Yuki no maiorita kisetsu mo

Itsu datte furimukeba anata ga ita

Bokutachi wa shiawase ni naru tame kono tabiji o yuku
Dare mo minna ienu kizu o tsureta tabibito nan darou
Hora egao ga totemo niau

Nando michi ni mayotta no darou
Sono tabi ni atatakai te o

Sashinobete kureta no mo anata deshita

Bokutachi wa kono nagai tabiji no hate ni nani o omou
Dare mo minna ai motome samayou tabibito nan darou
Tomo ni ikou akiru hodo ni

Bokutachi wa kono nagai tabiji no hate ni nani o omou
Dare mo minna ai motome samayou tabibito nan darou
Tomo ni ikou akiru hodo ni

English Translation

We travel this road to find happiness
See? You look good with a smile on your face

These beautiful, fragile days are reborn, unfaded

In the season of dazzling burned seas
And in the season of dancing snowflakes
Whenever I turned around, you were there

We travel this road to find happiness
Everyone is a traveler, carrying his own never-healing wounds
See? You look good with a smile on your face

How many times have I gotten lost?
Every time, the one who extended his
Warm helping hand was you

At the end of this long path, what will we think?
Everyone is a traveler, wandering about in search of love
Let's go together until we tire of it

At the end of this long path, what will we think?
Everyone is a traveler, wandering about in search of love
Let's go together until we tire of it

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A Message to Heaven

There were a few reasons why I made this trip to Korea.

Firstly, it was for my mum, as a remembrance trip for her. She had always wanted to visit Japan and Korea. My sis brought her to Japan a couple years back before Covid.

My sis had suggested Jeju trip to go with my mum before Covid but I was putting it off as I thought we could make it later.Alas, my mum couldn't and I had felt bad about it ever since.

Then, there was another reason for me to visit Korea. My son has just finished his course in February and will be starting work in May.

Once work has started, there will be less opportunity to travel for long period, So, I thought since he is having a break at the moment, let's travel on a backpack.

And here we were.

On many mountain trails, there are temples one can visit in Korea. For many senior folks, they will hike to the temples to offer prayers, offerings etc. For tourists, we can offer donations about KRW10,000 and write on a clay plate some of the wishes we would like to convey to our love ones who had passed on.

I had the opportunity to do so at Seoraksan and also at Jeju. When I first wrote mine for my mum at Seoraksan, it was with the thought to let my mum know that we all missed her.

Missed her calling to me in the middle of my classes.

Missed her doing her exercises with her YouTube video.

Missed her sitting at her usual sofa using the phone and randomly calling people and sending weird messages.

Missed her walking to the kitchen in the wee hours of the morning to drink some beverages.

Missed the fact that she had been holding fort for many years keeping everyone together.

Ever since the day she passed away on 2/1/2022, I had never had a single dream about her. No messages, no conversations, no flashbacks. Nothing.

That night, after I had written my message on the clay plate at Seoraksan, I had a nice dream of seeing her sitting on her bed with her shorter than usual hair and smiling. I gave her a big tight hug. We didn't say anything to each other but it was enough to see her smiling at me.

When I was in Jeju, an opportunity came for me to write my second plate. This time, I thought it will be a nice closure as Jeju was the place she had wanted to visit. And so, I did.

It felt really good to be able to fulfill my late mum's wishes.

To be very honest, I would not have thought of Korea as a backpacking designation as I have closer affinity to Japan more than Korea. However, recent events, that seemed fated to happen, made me consider travelling to Korea.

In fact, during the planning of this trip, a surprise fan party for Park Eun Bin was announced which coincided with the travelling schedule of my trip and hence I was able to attend the fan party on Korea for the first time ever.

In all, it seemed that I had come a full circle from having fan activities with Park Eun Bin to Korea backpacking trip to remembrance trip to Jeju to sending a message to heaven and fulfilling my mum's wishes.

I am unsure what will come next but for sure, memories of my mum will forever live on in my heart.

Hope you are having a great time in heaven, Mummy. I will live my life to the fullest and be happy for the remaining journey of my life. See you in heaven in the future. Take good care of yourself and don't worry about us.

In Memory of Hong Hong - You had lived a good life.

 Time flies. A year had gone by.

Hong Hong died at home at 3pm on the 23rd of February 2022.

In just a blink of the eye, 13 years had passed.

Hong Hong and her siblings were born in 2009 at our lane.

In 2011, I was trying to get them adopted.

Here's their story, written in 2011.

This is a story about Clever, Hong Hong and Bobby. They grew up along Anggerik Aranda 31/29. They weren't abandoned by their parents. It's just that being canine, unlicensed ones, their parents were captured by MBSA two years ago. Since then, residents of 31/29 have been taking care of them by feeding and sheltering them whenever possible. As they are females, they have all been neutered (at 9 months old) to ensure no unsolicited attention from other male canines.

Bobby (a female but named such), in human being's term, is like an autistic child. She was traumatised by her parents' abduction at an early age and is extremely afraid of human. She is very attached to Nike (the male Alsation, living in the first house, two doors away). It's extremely difficult to capture her, even MBSA has failed many times.

Clever, as she was taken away from her mum at birth(someone adopted her and didn't want her after a few months) and was whining and pining for her for the initial few weeks..... she is pretty hyper, short fused and likes to chase cars.... and strangers.... so I am terribly sorry if anyone here has been chased or barked by her. However, her bark is worse than her bite, just give her a shout and fierce look,she will run off....... She is a very good watch dog though..... and very obediently comes back to the house after she has done her share of running for the night. She doesn't eat much but more frequent than usual (three small portions), not choosy about her food and she's fine with water. She isn't the lovey dovey type though.

As for Hong Hong, she is definitely the prima donna type. Loves to be cuddled, will know how to win back your heart after being naughty. She will look at you with her almond shaped eyes and lift her paws and rest them on you...... She's awfully afraid of thunder and will hide behind you or try to get into the house whenever it rains cats and dogs. She hates water and chooses her food)

For months now, I have kept Clever and Hong Hong in my house. Sometimes they do escaped but they will still head home for food. Bobby, she's outside, she has been taking care of herself. I just feed her dinner every evening.

Actually, the three of them are part of a litter of 8. We have managed to get the rest adopted.....

It is with a heavy heart that I have to put Clever and Hong Hong up for adoption. One of the main reasons is, my son and I are acute bronchitis sufferers and having dogs in our compound aren't helping with our condition. Secondly, I am having some muslim students coming to my house for classes next year and it is not convenient for the dogs to be around.......

Hong Hong can be a really good companion dog and Clever, a good watch dog.....

If you know of anyone who is looking for such dogs, please let me know.... my contact no is 017-8810246.

Only serious inquiries will be entertained. Thank you very much for your kind attention.

BTW, April, one of their siblings, is staying at one of the neighbour's house along 31/29 too..... so actually 31/29 is a doggy's lane..... most of us love dogs, and because of them, we are a closely knitted neighbourhood..... we know each other well and watch out for one another..... Hope adopting Hong Hong or Clever will bring such atmosphere to your neighbourhood too.... Cheers.....

13-year-old Hong Hong

Heart failure

Fluid retention

Immune system down

Not eating much

Pale

To think that she used to be so robust, a prima Dona, always looking for ways to escape, able to climb fences etc.

Life is a cycle. Life is short. Life is a journey.