Original subtitles

"Catkins blowing in the wind Scattered all over in the wild"

"Catkins blowing in the wind Scattered all over in the wild"

"Floating as the wind goes, here and there"

"If only I could take you in my dream"

"Love is like floating catkins"

"Our fingers tightly knit, we'd fly together"

"Love is like floating catkins"

"Our fingers tightly knit, we'd spend our lives together"

"Love... Ah..."

Hey, everyone, my name is McDull

Right, that's me

When this happened, I was a Springfield Kindergarten boy

Class Lower B

Apart from being plump and a bit slow

I was basically an ordinary kid

That's why I never dreamed one day...

I'd be singing on stage with Perfect Andy

Mother of course was most surprised

What with my broken voice, my vulgar behaviour

She insisted I'd never go on stage

Much less performing together with Perfect Andy

Mother had good reason for such thinking

It's just embarrassing for me to tell

How's the kiddo doing?

Crap

Doc, he needs to crap, again

Right, I crap too

Crapping is healthy

Not that, he craps whenever Perfect Andy sings

I've the same urge listening to Perfect Andy...

Don't you?

I pee

Exactly, this urge to crap is the result of...

Being touched, having that little something

Stirring and stirring inside you

Stirring and stirring

You feel weird, and imagine your need to

Crap!

Not that, he actually produces turds, lumps of them

Well, what you call "turds" are in fact...

The explosion of his suppressed emotion

So, emotions are dark and chunky...

Which rolls tinkling out?

Indeed, emotions begin in a bright and chromatic form

But after being churned around from heart to liver to lung...

Being churned more and more, more and more

They become dark and chunky like fried chestnut

Dark and chunky they may appear

It's all tender and sweet once you crack it open

As long as we still have... Music!

To begin our story

We better go back to some months...

Before the Perfect Andy Concert

Pay up! Pay up!

A lot of things were happening then

Say, the stock index had shot up to 28,000 points

But then what did we kids know?

Morning, Head Master

Bye, Head Master

All we knew was Head Master acted strange

Disappearing all the time

The whole school fell into Miss Chan's care

Then the milk became thinner and thinner

The biscuits smaller and smaller

Miss Chan...

Pray tell, what's this dark and chunky thing?

Sugar-fried chestnut

Now repeat after me

Sugar-fried chestnut is brilliant!

Sugar-fried chestnut is brilliant!

Kids, it's fine if you can't crack it

You can always try again tomorrow

Now write you name clearly on your chestnut

And Head Prefect'll help me collect them

Pay up! Pay up!

Pay up! Pay up!

Time's up, go!

We're firm! We're beefy firm!

I have firm wrists today, thank you Alma mater!

My calves are firm, thank you Alma mater!

Our rice tickets are beefy firm, thank you Alma mater!

"Beefy Firm Kindergarten Alumni Fundraising Night"

Sorry, I got hold up at Mars

And can't make it to this meaningful event

As a gesture from the outer space...

I present you this

Thank you Alma mater!

"Payable to: Beefy Firm Kindergarten"

Thank you old boys and girls

Tonight, we've raised a total of $58,660,000!

Hey, wake up!

You'd get fired if they catch you sleeping

An oracle!

What did you see? The lottery numbers?

Close... the jackpot

What, porridge again?

You want lobster? They're cutting our electricity soon

Jackpot this is, trust me!

You go get some of those...

Dangling dandling stuff to dress up the school

What dangling dandling stuff?

Decorations! Loads of flashy, flashy light-bulbs!

No more electricity soon

You help pay up first

Shoot

Mother, are you coming to the Fundraising tomorrow?

Of course

I want to witness the closing of this shabby school

No! No way! Stay open, please!

What's with you?

After one semester, I'm going to crack my chestnut soon

Frock

Told you the electricity was going

This time it must work

After so many years, with so many students

Hea... Head Master

I thought you e... evaporated?

You cheeky boy! Owe you a few months' rent...

And I got the red-paint treatment!

That's Stan... standard procedure

You got the stuff to fill them up later?

Cost me few hundred bucks

This time, we're hitting the jackpot

What if you don't?

I join my home lot

Shoot

"Block For Sale"

13771 calling console, we've a situation

A bunch of good-for-nothing appears

They're heading Tai Kok Tsui, over

Heading towards Tai Kok Tsui, over

Report exact location

Nearby Tai Kok Tsui $10 Shop

Opposite Lucky Seafood Restaurant, over

Just say Springfield Kindergarten, dummy

Springfield Kindergarten?

Right, Springfield Kindergarten

With its pitiful campus, even more pitiful teachers

Students there are the lowliest of the lowly

A waste of oxygen, over

A waste of oxygen? Over

To raise money to pay the rent

The school's hosting a Fundraising tonight, called...

"Hit the Jackpot or Join the Home Lot"

Targeted at the alumni

Old boys and girls alike, all shoddy creatures, will gather

Better dead than fed, over

Better dead than fed? Over

That Springfield Kindergarten...

I was there for less than a semester

That failed my promotion here

"Old man, you threw me in Springfield"

"Did you pick me up from a garbage field?"

Congratulations, Head Master

What a bunch of champion students!

You're too kind

I'm your District Councilor, Mrs Cheshire Wu

Tell your students to keep voting for me

Let's build our district together

I shall, I shall

Hey, Head Master, I'm Tic

Say, hair all gone, huh?

- I mustn't keep you from your guests - You're not

No worry, I've a secret formula

It works like magic

"No poo poo please"

Welcome everybody

Visit our school

Handicap, odds to home...

Hello, I'm Mrs Cheshire Wu

Your District Councilor

We've prepared a present

Put under your chair

Sugar-fried chestnut

Very nice

Chunky stuff

Stick to the script, ok?

Thanks to mother school

I first learnt the term "Pay Up" here

My colouring, too

Thank you, mother school!

We support you, Head Master!

My legs went limp earlier, I dropped into the shit-pit

Thank you, mother school!

The Filipino maid said, "$20 pork"

I cut it, "$22"

The maid said, "No, $20 pork"

So I cut it, "$18"

She said, "No, $20"

I learnt English and arithmetic here, thank you

So you think a kindergarten graduate is doomed

Good for nothing?

Now let's do

some positive thinking

You go: hey, there's no free meal on earth

I go: but you're in luck tonight

This Magic Cleaning Glove, nanotechnology, no BS

Kids, you know what nanotechnology is?

Forget I asked

But cleaning is something we do everyday

What can we trust? It concerns our wellbeing

But we have this!

You go to Harrods, to Selfridges and check

$188 for a pair of my nano-cleaning glove, no kidding

For how much am I selling this tonight?

I tell you later, in case you freak out

Cleaning window blinds is a fuss, no?

Only with regular cleaning cloth

But not our nano-cleaning glove

Retail price, $188

You check it out yourselves

But I tell you what, today is bargain day

And I'm going to shock you

Say no more, you buy from me today

I throw in a pair of cotton legging

Legging in summer

means rash, you say

Don't blink, you watch carefully

Not a trace of rash, right?

Oh oh oh, but why?

This summer heat can cook a sausage

Why not even rash?

But that's the magic of nano

You know how much it cost at Isetan?

No more or less, $188

Today it doesn't cost one cent

Holy Buddha, not even one cent!

You buy one pair of my magic glove

The legging comes free

But only tonight

The nano-legging for you

Not your sausage-legging

All less than $100

I shouldn't have said sausage, I know

Now you think if only I'd throw in some sausages too

Done! For my dear customers tonight

I introduce my nano-sausage

But what's the secret with this sausage?

You take a bite and you won't regret

Dear, I'm not exactly free to wander around outside

But, Head Master, I support you

"Freedom gone, freedom drown"

"Heartache, heartbreak, heart still strong"

"One step wrong, my sentence long"

"I sing you my song"

Parents on my left, audience too...

Sing along, loud!

Thank you everybody, tonight we've raised the sum of...

$367.40!

Thank you!

The beef's excellent tonight!

It's most delicious!

We support you, Head Master!

The fish ball, it's yummy!

We're here, Head Master!

This charm, stick it up front

Nobody will dare disturb you further

This windmill is a token I prayed for you

This bowl of fish can block away bad luck

This banana, you won't famish

Great, we're left to eating bananas

Head Master, we're worthless... we can't even feed ourselves

You're a sweet lot, it's me who's worthless

What a sweet gathering

I'm Mrs Cheshire Wu

Your District Councilor, vote for me

I must get back to the office now

See you, Head Master, thanks

Enjoy your meal, goodnight

I'm on my way back

A total waste of time

I'm hanging up, don't want to break my neck here

"A haze of the wood flutters and palpitates"

"As if there's a dance of light and shadow"

"A haze of the wood chants aloud"

"As clouds and drizzle pick on the strings"

"Alas, happiness is like rain"

"It lasts no longer than morning mist"

"What counts is that when we fall..."

"I could dance with your simmering light"

This auntie Cheshire...

She happened to have a heart of music

Mother said she was a singer when young

What happened next...

Started with her uncontrollable urge to crap

Your students, they can really sing

But... singing doesn't cost a dime

Head Master taught us to sing with all his heart

And you worry about money with their singing?

Put together a choir and hit the jackpot!

Jackpot?

Sure, lots of commercial promotions

take place everyday

And they all need someone to perform

Such activities feed many people

But, with their awful bearing...

Will people want to see them sing?

- Not them, but the kids - The parents may not agree

Why won't they? It's summer holiday

Such activities take the kids off their hands

- All free of charge, they'll surely agree - Really?

You're not becoming a blubbering pawn!

Mother... I'm to sing!

Sing, blubber, it's all the same

And to blubber in public, no less

You'll get wind in your tummy

You get sick

And I get to pay the doctor's bill

So I end up being the blubbering fool

Do you think I'm stupid?

Head Master says it's a "sea and lake" thing

"A sea and lake thing"! Is he triad?

What a broken school this is

I must get you another school asap

Blubbering for the sea and lake!

If they must, go get a decent voice

Why take in a broken pitch like yours?

Head Master says my meaty built makes an enchanting voice

As if you sing with your fat ass

Meaty built and enchanting voice, what nonsense

"La, la, la..."

"La, la, la..."

"La, la, la..."

"La, la, la..."

"La, la, la..."

"Six piggies, six piggies"

"Six swinging piggy heads"

"Boil an egg, boil an egg"

"Boil an egg for me to eat"

"Goo goo... goo gooo"

"Boil an egg to sweeten my heart"

"Sweetened heart, sweetened heart"

"Boil an egg to ease my trouble"

As it turned out, after we finished our song

The parents all changed their minds

Maybe our singing actually touched them

Or whatever

Anyway, on this day

The Springfield Choir was formed

How fantastic is the power of music!

Lower abdomen...

Where you feel the pee waiting to pour out

Breathe with your lower abdomen

We practiced hard

And Head Master looked everywhere to find us a manager

He rather insisted that...

Only the best will do

"Golden Manager"

Hey, here's a demo tape for you to listen

A cassette tape?

Maybe the second best will do?

"Silver Manager"

Or the third best?

"Bronze Manager"

No worry, I've a pal who's connected north and south

He'll be able to help

"Traveling the world is a tricky path"

"I can imagine you doubting your choice now"

"What lies in front is a long way"

"Who says a decision is easy?"

"The future path is an unknown, please consider carefully"

"Pray tell, have you ever regretted?"

"Alas, it is too late to turn back now"

"Taking the path reduces one to tears"

"You shed tears, in reflection of your affection"

"Tears are dried, but past events linger"

"There's a vow inside that cannot be broken"

"I can only hope, we will meet one day"

"I can only hope, we will meet one day"

"I can only hope, we will meet one day"

Welcome, everybody...

I sing awfully, you mustn't mock me

You sing well

This's Plastic Manager, Big M

Plastic but not ballastic

Call me Big M

Head Master is an honour graduate at Music Academy

- He specialised in vocal art - I totally get it,

we're both men with a past

As one says...

Any port in a storm, a Mary finds a Tom

You tell me what's on your mind

The rest is for people like me with an ace up the sleeve

Or a duo up the stage

Or a trio up the...

Stop buzzing, won't you?

Can you arrange something for the kids to test the water?

Sure. Anytime. How 'bout tomorrow?

A mall in Shenzhen is eager to try things out

Tomorrow then

Tomorrow?

We didn't go yesterday, right?

- Cocky, be quick! - Get you

You're showing me this?

A dead space?

We've brought in gimmicks to boost the traffic

What traffic? And what gimmicks?

Say, this bin

You think it's a bin...

It's a man!

Tricky, huh, fooling everyone...

Fired!

And what's this thing doing here?

Applying for the Guinness Record of the World

Embracing a pillar for the longest time!

Gone!

Now, what on earth is this?

A very photogenic installation piece

You see, the whole set

of a pig's intestines is here

Drawing people to come and see

- Where're the people then? - People...

Floury, we need to heat up the mall

Done

No problem

What?...My son, he's blubbering!

Look, traffic!

"A spring breeze kisses me like an egg, egg, egg tart"

"A dragonfly on the water hops, hops, hops and nods"

"Drops of spring shower fall like grapes, grapes, grapes"

"All things are ready to grow, a wind to blow"

"Winter is over like a ripen apple"

"Rocking as gently as a farewell prayer"

"A spring breeze kisses me like a bean, bean, bean curd"

"A watery crook hurries watery, watery pass"

"A little frog struts like a boiled, boiled, boiled egg"

"All things are ready to grow, a wind to blow"

"Winter is over like a pumpkin"

"Rocking as gently as a napping nanny"

"A spring breeze kisses me like an egg, egg, egg tart"

"All things are bouncing about, I'm ready to take off"

"I'm ready to take off"

Ladies and gentlemen, the Springfield Choir

Traffic!

Ladies and gentlemen, the Springfield Choir

Bravo!

"My passion is like a pot of fire"

"Burning up the whole desert"

"The sun hides away from me"

"It's scared of me, the fire of love"

"You give me raindrops to moisten my heart"

"I bring you breezes to blow open your buds"

"Buds of love, belonging to you and me"

"The love between us is like a passionate desert"

"With me there, the desert will never be lonely"

"But filled with flowers of youth"

"I'm singing aloud, with you backing up gently"

"We're drunk in this river of love in the desert"

"A passionate desert"

Bye, Head Master! Bye, Miss Chan!

It's late, you go home now

I've a night shift later

Can you handle this or not?

Hit the jackpot or join the home lot

You fool, it's not funny

The bride's duck-footed

The groom has treacherous cheeks

And athletic feet

Poor couple!

We first wanted our wedding in Hongkong

At Disney

Candy adores Tweety

A thirty-something? Tweety? Yuk

But Tweety doesn't live at Disney

How would one know?

- What a puffy face - Poor couple!

We considered an underwater wedding

But Candy doesn't like the fish biting her toes

She doesn't know about fins

Told you she's duck-footed

And a bucket for waist

Poor couple!

Then I remembered our company mall

Which recently invited a bunch of kids to sing

And they're so cute!

Cute? A thirty-something? Yuk

With treacherous cheeks

Poor couple!

Now what're they up to?

I shudder to think

Poor couple!

"My love with you, it is white as snow"

"Destined not to be tainted with dust"

"Fabrications are forever nightmarish"

"Your heart must not shake"

"When you see snowflakes float"

"Snow here for me would already be deep"

"Lonely are two separated hearts, we must trust each other"

"Our true hearts have flourished an undying love"

"The wintry plum fears not the snow"

"You are stronger than the others"

"Hear not a word what the wind brings"

"Our hearts are sealed"

"When I see snowflakes float"

"My love for you deepens"

"One day, when I return, I'll reclaim"

"The true love our two hearts flourished"

"One day, when I return, I'll reclaim"

"The true love our two hearts flourished"

We've really hit the jackpot this time

They're singing for a commercial

"Car, car, car, car, car"

"There's a car, car, car, car, heading to you pa"

"Papa, papa"

"Car, car, car, car, car"

"There's a car, car, car, car, heading to you pa"

- "Watch out, papa, papa" - Good take

Pee-break for the kids

This's going to hit like shit

The electricity's gone

Ah, incidentally...

The performance fees we made, is it possible...?

Say no more

You and me, we're hooked with a string

A string that links to our hearts

From our hearts to our wrists

From our wrists to...

What about the money you owe us?

Excuse me

My dad's cousin, she died

What? Who?

"Mary is my dad's cousin"

"Thirty-something, smooth like hell"

"Mary is my dad's cousin"

"Who looks a bit like... you!"

"Mary is a little doggy"

"Cutesy cutesy, fluffy like hell"

"Mary is a little doggy"

"Watch out, she does... bite you!"

"Mary is my seventh aunt"

"Double-boiled egg, slimly like hell"

"Mary is my seventh aunt"

"Beware, she's such a... bomb!"

You're here

Let me introduce, Mr Boss, Head Master

I need to pee

Go then

Where's the loo?

You ask me? Go find it yourself

Please...

What?

Please, where's the loo?

The loo? What exactly is your purpose?

Do you want to pee, to poo...

To wash your hands, a sauna or a spa?

Ay?

Tell you what, you go straight down

Turn left at the end

Go all the way down

At the end, there'll be four doors

Pick one and see if it fits you

But that's far

Not really, you in a hurry?

Wait here for the shuttle bus then

It comes every 15 minutes

15 minutes?

But it takes that long to go around our house

Or you can take a horse

I can lend you a horse, a thoroughbred

I can't ride

Can you swim?

I breaststroke a bit

Good, you go five rooms down

Inside, there's a jacuzzi

On the other side of the jacuzzi, there's a loo

Be careful, though

That's a fierce pool

You have fins?

Sharks have been sighted

But I only want to pee

Arh, stupid you

Can't you go home to pee?

Where do you live?

Tai Kok Tsui

That's close by... hop on a taxi

And save the trouble

You take the lift next to the main door

Go to ground floor, and... voila, ciao!

I thought you wanted to pee?

Why're you standing here?

To... get a taxi

"Easter, and Mid-autumn"

"Happy holiday, everybody"

"Another year goes around... us!"

"Happy birthday, lucky girl!"

"We wish you, smooth like silk"

"Happy birthday, oh happy birthday"

"Everybody truly loves... you!"

Thank you for having us here, little people!

And many thanks to our birthday girl

Miss Babe!

Pray tell, why such a long pee?

It turned to no. 2

May I introduce...

The Springfield Choir

Yes! Bravo!

"We're spring time, the flowers of spring"

"We're the flowers of spring time"

"We're flowers, spring is our mother"

"Ah, we're the flowers of spring time"

"Tiny morning glories, bla-la-la, la-la-la-la"

"Tiny hibiscuses, tiny lilies,"

"We're flowers, spring is our mother"

"Ah, we're the flowers of spring time"

"Tiny orange trumpets, bla-la-la, la-la-la-la"

"Tiny roses, tiny peonies, open up to embrace mother"

"We're flowers, loving our mother"

"We're flowers of spring time"

Say, you must be Miss Chan

What brought you out here?

Are you Hymn?

Head Master's so proud of you

Our token student who studies Architecture at HKU

I quitted

Being a magician is much more fun for me

Fun?

As an architect, we'd all end up building houses like this, no?

Look how ugly they're

But I dream owning one of those

Imagine...

If only I'd get rid of all this in a blink

Now that'd be awesome!

For the 10th Top of the Commercial Pops

Finalists for the Education Division are...

"Cut my toenails, cut my toenails"

"Before my meal I cut my toenails"

"Click, click, click..."

"Ay, I can go on sail!"

"Friends hike and we cut our toenails"

"Classmates barbeque and we cut our toenails"

"Click, click, click"

"Ay, we can go on sail!"

"I go to supermarket with my mother"

"I want sausage she gives me banana"

"I want sausage she gives me banana"

"You eat banana, it beats eating sausage"

"You eat a banana, it beats the sausage"

"I grab the banana, eat it in one gulp!"

"Car, car, car, car, car"

"There's a car, car, car, car heading your way pa"

"Papa, papa, papa"

"Car, car, car, car, car"

"There's a car, car, car, car heading your way pa"

"Watch out, papa, papa"

Now comes the moment of truth

The winner of 10th Top of the Commercial Pops

Education Division, is...

by the Springfield Choir

How cute you're!

You fatso!

Come on, say a few words

Don't be shy, tell us how you feel

I... feel a crap churning down!

"Car, car, car, car, car"

"There's a car, car, car, car heading your way pa"

"Papa, papa, papa"

Maybe there wasn't any crap churning down...

Maybe I was just touched

Actually I had no idea how to be "touched"

I just felt this churning inside

As if I'd break into tears, or giggle like mad

It was weird

After the ceremony

We went for celebration dinner

We kids expected lobster, but it was not to be

Though everybody was happy

A toast to you, Head Master!

Yes, let's drink up!

The electricity!

Now?

Head Master has a few words to say

Right, let's give him a big hand!

Well... actually...

Regarding the electricity at school...

Well said!

Folks, clap your hands!

Let's dig in

Drumstick for you

Please

Let's eat

Head Master wants to know

When're you handing over our money?

Not now, let's eat first

Say no more

We're men with a past

"If there's a will, there's drill!" Right?

I'm on this, pronto

Excuse me

Hey... Aunt Seven, she's dead!

You people... enough is enough!

So, at the celebration dinner

Miss Chan left in a fury

I gallantly finished off her dessert

Yummy

After the award

We were poured with performing offers

Big said we needed to expand

With each audition...

Members of our choir grew

Maybe we can do an IPO...

With more kids came heavier workload

Miss Chan left us and didn't come back

Everything fell into Head Master's hands

And then...

We've hit a real jackpot

Perfect Andy's Concert...

They were looking for kiddo singers

And we were invited for an audition

Perfect Andy... my Crap Idol!

Of course we worked hard to nail the job

We missed Miss Chan

If only she were here

His lung contorts, his liver contorts...

All his intestines contort, he's fine

You call that fine?

Fine

So, is he going to wake up or what?

Try calling him beside his bed

Maybe that'll wake him up

Head Master, we support you!

I was kidding

What did you think?

I'm a doctor, not a shaman

Head Master, you've been trying hard enough

Just fold the kindergarten up

And it's not like this is the first time

The school has been folded up many times before?

Yup, it just kept returning with a different name

In my days, it was called Winter Duck

But there weren't enough students

So it was closed

And Summer Cock came after that

"Cock in summer, cock in summer"

"Goo goo growls, goo goo growls"

"Quickly, bring an air-con"

"Quickly, bring an air-con"

"End the heat, end the heat!"

It was Autumn Cricket when I started there

It only changed to Springfield when I left

And it kept moving as he couldn't pay the rent

Boy, talk about living in fast lane!

Right

Every year we thought we'd be the final class

But every time he kept struggling back

"Beautiful dreamer, wake unto me"

"Starlight and dewdrops are waiting for thee"

"Sounds of the rude world, heard in the day"

"Lull'd by the moonlight have all pass'd away!"

"Beautiful dreamer, queen of my song"

"List while I woo thee with soft melody"

The mates from Music Academy

We all changed jobs long ago

Only this silly man held onto his dream

Of setting up his choir

Imagine, it wasn't an easy time for anybody

Who had the leisure for music?

But he insisted, saying...

Music, particularly the singing of children

Is the blossoming gift from heaven

Now look where this gift has led him

Even Miss Chan jumped ship

Jackpot time!

Audition for the Perfect Andy Concert tomorrow!

What, he's still playing dead here?

Let him play dead

He'll enjoy the jackpot better

But who's taking the kids to the audition?

Wake up, you, wake up

I'll do it

"Twilight time, clouds are low"

"Little old man lifts his hoe for taro"

"Dig and dig, did and dig"

"Deep in the soil appears a loach"

"E-ar-huh-do... that's delicacy!"

"Twilight time, clouds are low..."

Conductor... my lower abdomen

It's churning

No churning until this is over

Now we do warm up

You dumplings! Which school are you from?

Beefy Firm Kindergarten

That's a nice one! Is your school recruiting?

I'm listening in

You may begin

Sing well, or no pee

Now, one a two...

Maybe I shall do it

Miss Chan!

Liberation!

Take this easy

Just do it the way Head Master teaches you

"Catkins blowing in the wind. Scattered all over the wild"

"Floating as the wind goes, here and there"

"If only we could stop here and be together"

"I'll be the braised pork"

"I'll be the braised pork"

"I'll be your braised pork..."

"Braised together with you, my pickled mustard"

"I'll be the braised pork"

"I'll be the braised pork"

"I'll be your braised pork..."

"Braised together with you, my pickled mustard"

Doc, I need to crap

Crapping is healthy, I crap too

Not that, heaven knows why

Listening to that fatso sang

I wanted to crap

Don't be silly, that is no crap

That's being touched

Maybe you've been a professional far too long

You've forgotten how to be touched

By that warm stirring inside you

Go and find the fatso

Together, you two will sing for a stirring end

You keep stirring, till everyone wants to...

Crap!

"Love... Ah..."

"I'll be the braised pork"

"I'll be the braised pork"

"I'll be the braised pork"

"Braised together with you, my pickled mustard"

"I'll be the braised pork"

"I'll be the braised pork"

"The braised pork for you"

"We'll make a perfect item"

That's $48,800, after a seasonal discount

Like that, my broken voice...

Ended up singing in a China tour

On stage, I kept hearing this little...

Tinkling inside me

I imagined the bells of angels were like that

The day Head Master was released

Miss Chan didn't see him home immediately

She thought, as we were all there

We'd march up to Big's office to collect our money

Counting our fee for the China tour...

She believed the school'd survive for some years

We hit the Jackpot!

And who would you be?

The Head Master's Money Collection Team

Head Master...

Here... this must be for you

"The hill may burn, I take to the urn..."

"I lost in stock, I sail to a shoe shop. Bye!"

What? Where does that leave us?

To join the home lot

Apparently, during the time of the Andy tour

The stock index had fallen over 10,000 points

Mother claimed, if not because of me

She'd have eloped too

Babe moved out of her luxurious house

She said, the loo in her old house

Was bigger than their new apartment

I visited her once, the place was much smaller

But even then...

Their loo was still bigger than our flat

As for Miss Chan, she was reduced to a miserable shadow...

Wrapped in a gloomy cloud

I thought she was worried for the school

Then I heard from the others

She was in love with Hymn the magician

But then he did a Houdini

And disappeared into the vast

After all our doings

Just when we thought we had lit up the sky

With numerous stars glittering

Someone somewhere stumbled

And kicked off the socket

The darkness sent all angels home to slumber

Big left us with one unfinished business

He had signed us for a performance in Macau

We didn't plan to go at first

But Head Master said, a deal is a deal

He also said, let there be a final bet!

But betting with what, and whom?

My mind boggled!

"The day will be over soon, me and you watching the sunset"

"Lying under the clouds on the hilltop, we greet an overture"

"The night falls rapidly"

"Dust and ash float in the air, leaves hovering"

"Traces of the car from yesteryear can no longer be recognised"

"The constellation has changed"

"Though the sun also rises"

"If I shall not come back after taking off"

"Will you finally notice my existence?"

"Looking at the ceiling, a dream we once made up comes back"

"I cannot be there by your side"

"I'm willing to turn into a breeze and drift away"

"I'm tired. I must go home and rest"

Maestro, long time no see

And you're...?

The Springfield Choir

Great, right on time, Springfield

You're on next

To be able to perform here

It is our greatest honor, thank you

Coming up next...

We have a children's choir from Hongkong

Please welcome the Springfield Choir

We were kids, but one thing we did understand

We'd put in extra effort for our farewell performance

"Car, car, car, car, car"

"There's a car, car, car, car heading your way pa"

"Papa, papa, papa"

"Car, car, car, car, car"

"There's a car, car, car, car..."

What on earth has Big got us into?

"Car, car, car, car, car"

What a powerful performance

Few months ago, I was working with my best friend

Fernando de la Macau, the world's greatest living baritone

- Pre-producing a documentary... - De la Macau?

That'd shed light on the man's music

Unfortunately, this film will now never be finished

Looking back, I wonder if he had this premonition

That he wouldn't be with us for long

During one session

He brought up the topic of his own funeral

He said he wished his funeral...

To be a splendid concert

I truly hope Music is the only track I leave

In this world

But not the ostentation and vanity we see around us

I was born in Macau, my maternal grandma was Chinese

When I was three, mother took me to Hongkong

And lodged me at her mother's place

I was alone, without friends

And spoke little Cantonese

Grandma put me in a kindergarten nearby

It was a crude establishment

All the students were of lowly origin like myself

However, at that school

I encountered a Head Master who truly loved music

Who let me realise my voice...

Was good enough for heaven

Living in Hongkong for that few months

Completely changed my life

Music has never left me since

And that is the biggest blessing of my life

How I wish I could tell this in person...

To my respectable Head Master

After I grew up

I went back to Hongkong a few times

But as I was young then

With my limited Chinese

I'd only remember the school's name was Duck related

Or possibly Chicken

I never found the school

By the way...

If I have a say of my funeral

Apart from all my great pals within the music world

What I'd like to hear most

Is the singing of children from Hongkong

As my life started there in the most wonderful way

It'd also be a perfect full stop to this life

Thank you, Head Master!

Back to Hongkong

Head Master searched hard under his bed

And rediscovered some cassettes

He played them again and again

Before finally selling them to the Golden Manager

Head Master was paid a fortune

Good for a couple of months' rent

Soon after our graduation...

The whole building was successfully sold

Springfield Kindergarten was turned into a luxurious block

Miss Chan married "treacherous-cheeks"

In my primary school days, the stock raised 10,000 points

Before dropping 20,000 points

Lately, it's back to 30,000 points

Car, car, car, car your pa!

Right, things change

Things change rapidly

The cassettes Head Master sold to Golden Manager

Was released worldwide

It became the bestselling classical CD in history

We pals from those days chipped in and bought one

We looked and looked

But couldn't find Head Master's name

That's the way the world is!

Which way, exactly?

At times, walking on the street

We'd see Head Master frying chestnut

But after a couple of years

He was seen no more

Some said he had indeed went home to join his lot

Some said he moved to an outlying island

Running errands for a school

I wouldn't know

As for the fried chestnut, every so often...

I'd search it out and squeeze it

And then one day

I couldn't find it anymore

That's the way the world is!

"A sun has scattered over the sea, A wind blows over the eggshell"

"But what is shining in my heart, Is still the dawn of yesterday"

"A moon is hanging over my shoulder The sky desolate, stars hiding"

"What is singing in my heart, Is still the youthful song from yesterday"

This is a colourful world

This is a shadowy world

This is a world filled with puffiness

This is a world built of callus

"A sun has retreated to the corner, I scratch my head, doomed in the room"

"But what is shining in my heart, Is still the thread of light from yesterday"

"This is a stormy time, When eggs throw themselves against the wall"

"Though what is singing in my heart, Is still the youthful song from yesterday"

It's with this setting, we, as grownups

When we're happy, or sad

When we're hopeful, or disappointed

Somewhere inside us

There's always a song stirring

Stirring and stirring

To give us strength when we're weak

A touch of tenderness when resolute

It's until then

That we come to a true appreciation

Of this silly Head Master from our past

Who had given us

The most precious gift in life

Thank you, Head Master!

"Riding on the wings of this song, My love, please come with me"

"To the shores of the Ganges, The most beautiful place on earth"

"Where courtyards bloom with crimson flowers, Tinted by a peaceful moon"

"Where a lotus waits in tranquil, For his beloved maiden"

"Where violets murmur in delight, Gazing up a sky of simmering stars"

"To all the music teachers in the world"

"Where roses confer in discreet, Their fragranted fables"

"Where soft and tender gazelles, Stay and pay attention"

"Afar, the sacred river never changes The holy waves wave forever on"

"I want to lie with you, In the shadow of a palm grove"

"Tasting love, tasting tranquility... Descending into this sacred dream"