Teresa Teng II

Was feeling nostaglic all of a sudden and decided to listen to some classics. Yue liang dai biao wu de xin is an everlasting love song. This beautiful song was of course sang by a fabulous singer, Teresa Teng.

Teresa Teng was like the Madonna of Asia in those days. She captured the hearts of our parents and grandparents. Teresa visited Singapore in 1992 before her untimely death in 1995. She was 42. It's pretty strange that talented people usually do not live very long. Leslie Cheung jumped to his death in 2003 at 46. Marilyn Monroe died of drug overdose at 40. She's one of the very first Asian to enter the western music market.

If angels have voices, the female ones will sound like Teresa Teng and the male ones will sound like me. NOT! What audacity for me to compare myself with her. I cannot even be mentioned in the same breath as Teresa Teng.

For ppl who frequent Taiwan and have run out of places of interest to visit, why not visit Teresa Teng's tomb? She is buried in a mountainside tomb at Chin Pao San (金寶山; jinbaoshan, literally Golden Treasure Mountain), a cemetery near Jinshan, Taipei County in Taiwan. A memorial was built at the tomb with a statue of Teng and her stage clothes on display, with her music playing in the background. There is also a large electronic piano keyboard that visitors can play by stepping on the keys. The tomb is well visited by her fans, a notable departure from traditional Chinese culture shunning visits to burial sites.