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[0:04] calls of the Asian Koel

[0:06] When the white apparition arrived at this land, 
       
       the fragrant scent of the Aquilaria, came in waves,
       
       they granted us the name; Fragrance Harbour 

[0:38] In Cantonese: 好啦，切一刀，心想事成啊
       會考成功！唔係會考啊，DSE成功！哇，幾多念力！一定成功啊，掂啊！

translation* "Alright, make a cut, and may your wishes come true. Great success in your GCSEs! Not GCSEs, DSE! Wow, look at all the willpower you're getting, you will definitely succeed!

[0:54] pork chopping in the wet markets 

[1:15] cicadas at the Sasuke Inari Shrine in Kamakura

[1:24] Ringing and hakushu (ceremonial clapping), common practice done 
       when praying at shrines in Japan. 

[1:26] We were born in this land, through the 
       
       dark mist and furries
       
       Barricades come down on us, but… 

[1:45] 港鐵 緊急廣播 (MTR Emergency Announcement)

note* announcement played at the Prince Edward station during the 31 August MTR station incident, where Hong Kong police indiscriminately attacked passengers while arresting protesters who were returning home.  

[2:01] 光復香港 時代革命 Liberate Hong Kong, revolution of 
       our times

[2:08] 你地點做人爸爸架，你都有細路架,你做咩咁打啲細路啊？收隊啦!夠啦,
       煙霧彈我都食咗咯！我食左你地幾野煙霧彈嫁啦，我都有負出代價㗎...
       一人行一步啦好冇？好冇啊？

translation* How can you act like this when you too have kids! Why are you treating the young like this! Enough already! I've already been hit by your smoke bombs, I have also bear the consequences... Meet me halfway, please? (taken from viral video of woman standing in front of armed police in 2019)

[2:27] Our mother marched on, and stood with her feet 
      
       digging into the ground 
      
       Grasping onto the last dreams, 
      
       She was just… by herself
      
       Where were you… Where were you when we needed help 

[2:47] MTR Emergency Announcement in English

[3:12] Police：冷靜！冷靜！行開！

translation* Calm down! Calm down! Move aside!

[3:24] Protestor: 你有咩道理講啊，你攞住支槍同我地講道理，堵路？
       你地唔出黎我地就唔堵路啦

translation* You're trying to reason with us when you have a gun in your hand! Obstruction? If it weren't for you guys, we wouldn't be blocking the roads! 


[3:33] I have slowly forgotten my tongue 
       
       my ways of saying 
       
       we drift in and out of the shadows,
       
       where silence strolls, our vibrants hearts, 
       
       now, in a city of fallen dreams

[3:48] 香港人 加油! 香港人 加油! 

translation* Hong Konger, keep going! Hong Konger, Keep going! (taken from video of a kid leading protest slogans on top of a footbridge) 

[4:07] Protect the children! 

       Children are the future

       but what if we don’t protect our future? 

       What will this land become 
    
       for the children who stood for us? 

       When 2047 came, our children were put into cells

       stuck at the bottom of wells

       is this really their fight?

       Liberty without democracy! they said…

       我同你，都失去左靈魂

translation* Me and you, we have both lost our souls.

[4:53] When the white apparition left this land

       The fragrant scent of the pepper spray, came in waves…

       and they granted us the name…