The people meet each other like the duckweeds

     Last week, I got my first tour group in my new tour guide career. It’s not like what I expected a chinese tour group or a foreign tour group. It’s a graduated trip of a junior high school student. I don’t have any experience of leading a tour group. Maybe to have a domestic tour group is fine in the beginning. Like what our professor said : In this industry, the reputation is very important. If you screwed in the beginning, unless you got a good travel agency would like to train you, otherwise, you will have less chance to have your second one. The domestic tour group isn’t my target but maybe it’s a good trainning lesson for me.

The school who had a graduated trip

      It’s a big tour group which has 650 students ,50 teachers and 18 tour leaders in it. They’re the third grade of the junior high school and will graduate in a half of year. In my group, there are only quarter of them come to Taipei first time their life. In my era, it would be 80%. The travel is a lot easier than before. It means I need to offer them more information they might not know. It’s my first group, I want only success and happy group. My confidence told me that I can make it.

The crowded restaurant

        During the three days being with the students, I seem got a short term brotherhood with them and it recalled me some memories when I studied in the junior high school.  Every movie needs a happy ending. A tour group needs one, too. Since we lived in Chien-tan youth activity center one night, when we’re young, almost all the travel activities are elected by an association called “China youth corp.”. The “Chien-tan youth activity center” is their base in Taipei. In their activities or tour groups, the last songs they would always sing will be “ The people meet each other like the duckweeds”. (萍聚) It’s kind of old fashion. However, I preferred said it’s classical. A song could be sung more than 1,000 times and people still like it usually has its owned value. I order this song by kareoke machine as the last one this group sang on the bus in our way home. I saw a happy ending on their faces. I knew one day they will know why I play this one to be the last song during this graduated trip. Here is the lyric of this song.

The Queen's head - the tour point we visited

Chinese lyric:

不管以後將如何結束, 至少我們曾經相聚過

不必費心於彼此約束, 更不需要言語的承諾

只要我們曾經擁有過, 對你我來講已經足夠

人的一生有許多回憶, 只願你的回憶裡有個我

People meet each other like the duckweeds

Translation :

No matter how our relationship will be end one day.

As least, we ever met this way.

Don’t bother to tie down each other. I don’t need any promise from you either.

As long as we ever belong to each other. It’s good enough for us.

There are many memories in one’s life.

I only wish I’m one part of your sweet memories.

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The Album of this song

Here is the online video of  “The people meet each other like the duckweeds“.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5Y6pR_ZY50

For more photos of this trip, please see the link below :

http://www.flickr.com/photos/orpheuslin/sets/72157622909983746/

The students waited for the bus

      After we sang this song, I told to the students : Please remember this moments. One day, when you laid on in your bed. You will remember this. Now, you’re one of this tour group. I hope the memories of this tour group will become one part of you. If so, I think it worths any penny you spend in this trip.

If there were one day

      I think you hear my pray. The last two years, I think you hear me asked you “Why?” more than 1,000 times. Maybe, my sincerity touches you or maybe you just felt over the top and want to stop me bothering you by this question. The best way to answer the “why” question is to put people in the same position. 

      Back to  the moment two years ago, “I can’t change the world to meet your expectation and I can’t change what you think. Playing piano is the only language to balance the two inharmonic worlds. In the moment, we are in the place sweet like heaven. Can’t you read me? Do you know I hope we can play a perfect  Duet.  Why don’t you hold your Urhu when I played my piano? Does all the sweet will turn to sour when the music died?” In front of the apartment door you said : ” Don’t change the lock. I will be back in any moment.”

 

        Back to the moment two days ago,” I’m not a mean person and you’re the boss I repect the most in my 10 year working experiences.  However, this job won’t bring me anywhere. I’m not the person for this position and I knew I can be someone better somewhere else. We’re both nice persons but it just doesn’t fit. I will always miss this company and your kindness but this step destined to walk out.  For my owned good and for your owned good, too, you deserved a better employee and I deserved a better career. It’s sad you even don’t want to make any eye contact when I said I will leave this company. In front of the factory you said: “Come back to visit us anytime you would like.”

       Yes, come back ….. If there were one day. 

        It reminds me a taiwanese song called “If there were one day”

Chinese lyrics (Excerpt only one paragraph)      

     如果有一天　我們再見面
　時間會不會倒退一點
　也許我們都忽略　互相傷害之外的感覺

　如果哪一天　我們都發現
　好聚好散不過是種遮掩
　如果我們沒發現　就給彼此多一點時間

     The translation

     If there were one day, we can meet each other again.

     Can we back to the moment before we started our angry words?

     Maybe, we can find out some other feeling besides hurting each other.

 

      If there were one day, we all will find out

      A sweet good-bye is just to relief our sense of guilty.

      If we can’t understand it, maybe it’s worthy to spend some more time for next time we meet each other.

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      When I was young, I only thought there is only good people and bad people can’t live or work together. Now I know, finally, some good people with good intentions also can’t  live or work together. Is it a prank from the destiny or the mercy from God? I start not to know.

       Here is the MTV of the song “If there were one day”

      http://www.wretch.cc/video/love04876&func=single&vid=4933994&o=time_d&p=1

      If there were one day

The butterfly is fascinated with a flower

      We taiwanese are enamored with the story of the butterfly and the flower. In Daoism, there is a story said by Jhong-Zi. One day, Jhong-Zi made a dream and became a butterfly in the dream. When he suddenly waked up, he was confused. He is wondering if he is a butterfly dreamed about being a humanbeing or if he is a humanbeing dreamed about being a butterfly. The butterfly is usually symboled the illusory and changeable life. The flower, in many country, symboled the untruthful dream or hope. When the illusory life meets untruthful hope, it’s always story.  

         The beautiful flower always makes people go to pursue. Like the lyric of the “wind flower” said ” Their beauty captures every younger dreamer who lingers near them”. Maybe a beautiful woman, maybe a dream of roving the world or a career without chance to turning back. It’s like the destiny that the butterfly flies to the flower. Some got what they want, but most don’t. This song stands by a friend’s point of view that seeing throught the complicated feeling of his friend who paid price for pursuing an reverie.  

Chinese lyric:

記得那盛開的花, 送給了多麼傻的她
花謝了, 有種冷冽的感覺
那愛情, 沉默啊

這些年, 蛻變的她
忘卻了, 眼淚的代價
炫耀她, 絢爛美麗的翅膀
找尋那 不謝的花

風,吹著, 說四季和心一樣
永遠反反覆覆的變化
雨 ,落著,  說愛情和風一樣
總是吹落盛開中的花

蝶戀花, 找不回的她
月光下, 冷卻的情話
雨淋濕了, 蝴蝶的翅膀
風吹走了, 嚮往已久的神話
她眼中有絕望的淚光

Here is the online link of this song.

 http://www.wretch.cc/video/l95887236&func=single&vid=6457737&o=time_d&p=0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOWTkclLlj8

Translation:

     I remembered the blooming flowers which I sent to my silly her. The season the flower faded, the chilly air is surrounded. Talking about the serious relationship, I turn to be silent.

     She changes a lot after all those years and  forgot how many tears she paid for the growth. She shows off her sparkled and beautiful wings. She is still not giving up for finding the immortal flower.

     When the wind comes, it said people’s mind is repeatedly changing  like the seasons and never will be end.  When the rain falls,  it said love is like the wind. The most blooming flower will be the first one fallen.

* Repeat

     The butterfly is fascinated with a flower. I can’t find her back. Our sweet talk is frozen below the moonlight.  The heavy rainfall punchs the wings of the butterfly. The strong wind splits the immortal legend she yearned for years.  I found out the despair tears holding in her wet eyes.  

Here is the MP3 file of the song:

符瓊音-超偶2-02-蝶戀花

      People is looking for an immortal flower. Does anyone in the world find one? So, what are you looking for?

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