#Katherine Ho

[black-is-no-colour]

Vogue Hong Kong August 2023. All, Maison Margiela by John Galliano, Co-Ed 2023 collection. Photographer Royal Gilbert, Model Havana Liu, styled by Katherine Ho

#Maison Margiela #Margiela #Maison Margiela by John Galliano #John Galliano #Galliano #Katherine Ho #Royal Gilbert #Havana Liu #fashion #fashion shoot #editorial #Vogue #Vogue Hong Kong #Vogue HK #model #style #fashion photography #fashion magazine

[unreliablesnake]

#katherine ho #yellow #crazy rich asians #Youtube #i only started crying when this came on #i usually begin around can't help falling in love

[iamkateygretchen]

dancing all alone 🇨🇳☀️

Look created by: Grayson

#chengdu 2021 #fisu games #dancing all alone #tetris beat #katherine ho #c-pop #hollywood in your pocket #chinatown #manhattan #siriusxm hits 1 #fifty fifty #western dance #230808 #p: instagram #p: facebook

[yuangler]

yellow (crazy rich asians)

Breaking away from gufeng for like four minutes to offer an English version of a Chinese cover of a Chinese version of an English song.

One math lady meme later — um, isn’t that just the original English song? What is this, a game of Google Translate Telephone?

Not so. See, the Chinese Mandarin cover of “Yellow” in Crazy Rich Asians (2018) uses lyrics from 流星 (Shooting Stars) by 郑钧 (Zheng Jun). Though the melody follows “Yellow” by Coldplay, the meaning is quite different, and lovely enough that I feel it worth trying to express back in English.

Somewhat ironically, the color yellow never comes up here. (Well, I guess there’s 黄昏, but that gets flattened into dusk in translation.)

Lyrics below the cut!

Notes:

Based on the Katherine Ho version

Lyrics are matched syllable-to-syllable

Part of my pseudotranslation series. Not intended as a rigorous translation. My primary motivation is not linguistic precision, but something far more nefarious: karaoke

Winds refers to the weather phenomenon and should be pronounced as such

Archived on AO3

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流星 / shooting stars

Vocalist: Katherine Ho - 何光玥 Lyricist: Zheng Jun - 郑钧 Arranger: Brian Tyler

Katherine Ho version: [ link ] [ link ] 

Zheng Jun version: [ link ] [ link ]

Original piece “Yellow” by Coldplay.

English lyrics (below): yuangler - 鱼安

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LYRICS

我想知道 流星能飞多久 它的美丽是否 值得去寻求

I want to know How long the stars can fly Chase beauty through the sky— Is it worth a try?

夜空的花 散落在你身后 幸福了我很久 值得去等候

The evening blooms Behind you, they alight They’ve brought me much delight It is worth the time

于是我心狂奔 从黄昏到清晨 不能再承受（哦哦）

And so my heart beats fast From dusk to dawn it lasts ’Til I might just die (just might)

情愿 坠落在你手中 羽化 成黑夜的彩虹 蜕变 成月光的清风 成月光的清风

Descend In your hands I would go Ascend To rainbows in the gloam Turn in- -to moonlit winds aglow To moonlit winds aglow

幸福 跳进你的河流 一直游到尽头 跳进你的河

Into The galaxies of you A joyous rendezvous Swim all the way through

[ Repeat x3 ]

幸福 （幸福 跳进你河） 跳进你的河流 （幸福 跳进你河） 一直游到尽头 （幸福 跳进你——） 跳进你—— ——的河

Into （Swim through, swim through the stars） The galaxies of you （Swim through, swim through the stars） A joyous rendezvous （Swim through, swim all the—） Swim all the— —way through

我想知道 流星能飞多久 它的美丽是否

I want to know How long the stars can fly Chase beauty through the sky

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note - on the galaxies

OK, so I am trying not to make a habit of explaining my translation choices on fun pseudotranslation projects that already take too many creative liberties.

But I feel very strongly about this hyperspecific thing!

I really want to talk about it!

Here is the deal. For this version of “Yellow”, every English interpretation I’ve seen translates 河流 into “river”, which... isn’t wrong! It is quite correct. The problem with this rendering is that it smothers a lot of context.

See, what is known as the Milky Way in English is often called the Silver River (银河) in Chinese. “Shooting Stars” (流星) more literally means flowing current of stars in Chinese. You may notice that these two terms each share a character with the aforementioned “river” (河流), which is not an accident. Culturally, stars are associated with rivers!

Meanwhile, English doesn’t really come with the same cultural associations, so translating 河流 as river is probably just going to confuse people. Like: hey, the entire song is packed with star/night motifs, the title itself is “Shooting Stars” — what’s with the weird and sudden river/swimming metaphors? Well, it’s all the same metaphor in Chinese. It’s only mixed-up in English!

Hence my choice of using galaxies instead of rivers. To me, it makes the song feel much more cohesive. (I also like how galaxies sounds like galax-seas. Stealth water pun!)

#crazy rich asians #yellow by coldplay #katherine ho #流星 #郑钧 #bilingual karaoke #pseudotranslation

[callisto00]

THEY'RE ENDGAME NO ONE CAN TELL ME OTHERWISE

( credits to: @/odairhee on Twitter❗️)

#xo kitty #to all the boys trilogy #xo kitty cast #sang heon lee #anna cathcart #noah centenio #lara jean covey #katherine song covey #lana condor #kitty x min ho #min ho x reader #jenny han

[sam-crevellari]

I’m starting to see people saying that Kitty’s bisexuality “feels forced” and I’m getting mad. As a bi girl myself, it was amazing to see it! Of course, everything has its faults, but overall I loved how they managed everything.

I mean, have you seen Han Yuri? It’s impossible to stay straight if that woman exists, come on

#xo kitty #katherine song covey #kitty song covey #yuri han #min ho #kitty x yuri #kitty x min ho

[xoastro]

in desperate need of xo kitty fics… specifically min ho ones…

#xo kitty #sang heon lee #min ho #kitty song covey #katherine song covey #tatbilb #to all the boys ive loved before #min ho x kitty #min ho x reader

[pureblisswrites]

It's not even been a week yet and I already see people being homo/bi phobic because they don't like Kitty X Yuri just 'cause they wanted her to end up with Minho even though it was pretty one sided? Kitty and Yuri's dynamic was so well done and new compared to the enemies to lovers plot they were going with for Minho and Kitty. But of course people always have to hate wlw storylines. The amount of people wishing she'd atleast end up with Dae if not Minho even though her and Dae had no chemistry as a couple? Astounding and disappointing but not surprising.

#xo kitty #min ho x kitty #yuri x kitty #kitty covey #netflix #katherine song covey #yuri han #sang heon lee #kitty x yuri #kitty x min ho #dae x kitty #wlw ship #wlw #xo kitty spoilers #lesbian #bisexual #pureblisstalks

[wickedlarkspur]

i honestly loved xo, kitty SO MUCH more then i thought that i would but like i don’t know which characters i ship more. kitty and yuri are really cute!! yuri and juliana are so adorable!! kitty and dae. kitty and minho are really sweet and fun together!! q and florian are really cute even with everything going on at the end and also the platonic relationships are sooo awesome too!! like kitty and q were so fun and kitty and alex had like an amazing sibling vibe going on and dae and yuri were so sweet i did not think that i would like this show that much

#xo kitty #kitty song covey #katherine song covey #yuri han #min ho #dae heon kim #q

[myrandom-fandomlife]

i want minho x kitty endgame SO bad

#and i have hope bc the peter k parallels are unreal #xo kitty #kitty song covey #katherine song covey #minho xo kitty #minho x kitty #kitty x min ho #kitty x minho #min ho x kitty

[dollophead-wizards-on-adventures]

Min-ho unwittingly cock-blocking his friends is just a whole vibe

#xo kitty #min-ho #dae #kitty #katherine song covey #to all the boys i've loved before

[black-is-no-colour]

Sophie Thatcher, photographed by Royal Gilbert and styled by Katherine Ho for Vogue Hong Kong April 2023

#Sophie Thatcher #Royal Gilbert #Katherine Ho #fashion #fashion shoot #editorial #Vogue #Vogue Hong Kong #Vogue HK #model #style #fashion photography

[bluecrusadearcade]

the way kitty and min ho met at the airport and now he's on the flight taking her back home and confessing his love for her

#xo kitty #katherine song covey #min ho #min ho × kitty

[luminouslumity]

Watch "How All You Wanna Do Works in Six (It's Britney)" on YouTube

This! This is why Howard's song is my favorite from the musical! Also, it's just nice seeing her finally get justice at all. I also just learned that Britney has her own jukebox musical, so that's cool, too!

#six #six the musical #catherine howard #katherine howard #howard ho #britney spears

[poppletonink]

Review: XO, Kitty

★★★★☆ - 4 stars

"I told you I know matchmaking."

With XO, Kitty, Jenny Han has yet again created another amazing rom-com full of diversity for teenagers to enjoy. Wonderfully whacky and cheesy in the way every To All The Boys film is, this creative show tells the tale of the youngest Covey sister - Katherine "Kitty" Covey - as she endeavors to find herself (and love) in Korea. After discovering the school her mother attended as a young woman is also the school her boyfriend Dae attends, Kitty applies upon a whim for a scholarship and, to her surprise, is accepted. A mix of a K-drama and your stereotypical rom-com, XO, Kitty is an interesting depiction of the uncertainty of teenage love and life in the modern world. Unexpectedly, as it was something that was certainly not advertised by Netflix upon XO, Kitty's release, is its amazing discussion of the heteronormativity of society. Between all of its bizarre plot lines and comedic gags, this show has a brutally important message of inclusivity and acceptance and, at the forefront, that love is boundless. An extremely dramatic show (in what is frankly an unrealistic way), and with an eccentric cast of characters, it is safe to say this show is bound to make you laugh and smile with how utterly hilarious it is. A binge-worthy Gen-Z-coded TV show, XO, Kitty is utterly perfect if you need a light-hearted comedy to keep you going.

#xo kitty #kitty covey #katherine covey #anna cathcart #min ho #min ho x kitty #yuri x kitty #dae x kitty #q and kitty #minyeong choi #gia kim #sang heon lee #anthony keyvan #kdrama #romcom #netflix tv series #film and tv #tv show review #romance #romantic drama #xo kitty netflix #to all the boys i've loved before #tatbilb #covey sisters

[luci-hemwin-evanson]

Can.. people... maybe... 👉👈

Update/write Min ho x Kitty fanfics on AO3

#theres literally a fanfic whos just misskng one chapter and it hasnt been updated since July 😭😭 #it was my favorite #min ho x kitty #xo kitty #katherine song covey #kitty song covey #min ho