hey gals, i’d read all of your heartfelt replies to my BLOGGER post. will be lying if i say i weren’t touched and flattered.
and, particularly, am struck by how well you gals write! i really like CUITHIL‘s precise choice of words to deliver her message effectively; she’s usually grammatically flawless too! unlike me, i usually have tons of typo and other careless mistakes coz i don’t do drafts, and i don’t vet my own writing before i hit PUBLISH. yea, i just blog rightaway and then hit PUBLISH when i finish. terribly bad habit acquired looooooong time ago. anyway, just wanna say i’ve read everything, but hey gals, don’t be unduly alarmed, i was just thinking out loud. will give a ‘proper’ reply-post to that one, ya?
now moving on to flowers… i’d meant to blog a serious one about this… but even before i could get around to that, something more light-hearted surfaced. and i just gotta share with you.
yea, it’s about living like flowers.
STARLINGs who follow our forum should have read about how wuri hyun joong wanted us, his fans, to live like flowers.
that’s not the first time he’s said that. i also remember when one of his fanclubs in korean (miclub, i believe) created that scholarship for the underprivileged children in his name, they’d also spoken about how they’re trying to heed his advice and live like flowers.
i’d pondered about what exactly he had meant by that, and i’d asked that question HERE. thereafter, STARLINGs like christine and nanet gave me some interesting and stimulating replies HERE.
in particular, CHRISTINE had posted,
Live like the flowers
March 6, 2008 by C.A.Margonper
In an ancient buddhist monastery, a young monk asked the master, “Master, how do I do not to be upset with people Some speak too much, others are ignorants. Some are indifferent, I feel hatred coming from those who lie and I suffer from the insults some throw at me.”
“Live like the flowers.” the master advised.
“How is it like to live like the flowers?” the student asked.
“Watch the flowers.” the master continued, pointing at the flowers growing in the garden. “They are born in the dirty earth, yet they are pure and perfumed. They extract from the evil-smelly manure everything that’s useful and healthy, not allowing the earth’s sourness to stain the freshness of their petals.
It’s fair to be troubled by your own faults, but it’s not wise to allow the vices of others bother you. Their defects are theirs, not yours. Reject all the evil that comes from outside and accept whatever good that comes in your way. When you achieve it, you’ll be living like the flowers.”
so christine’s take was, “He may want his fans to blossom beautifully into a useful person, be happy swaying in the wind, able to withstand trails and tribulations. In our journey through life, do no evil and whatever occassions we graced, may we give a lasting beautiful image.”
and NANET‘s reply to this, “If I venture a guess, I think he means, live a beautiful and meaningful life.
For me it means…to live each day as if it were your last. Flowers are the same. Like you said, pink princess, sometimes flowers last a season or even beyond; sometimes they don’t.”
then a few days passed, and an email arrived in my inbox. it was from a japanese BYJ fan. she had the english translation of a post on a charity deed that some of the japanese fans had carried out, and she was asking if i would post it on LOVEBAEYONGJOON.com.
basically, what happened was that a certain japanese fan-group, PESASA had been doing this charity event for seven years running, and they do it twice every year, once during valentine’s day in february, and another time in august for my YJ’s birthday. this time would be the 13th time they’re doing so. talk about peseverance!
there’s a lovely korean-japanese story on humanity behind this charity event; if you’re interested, click HERE to read more.
in the letter addressed to my YJ to tell him about this charity event, the ending part was actually this,
We look forward to the “Message! To Asia” event at Tokyo Dome on December 14 this year as well as the drama “Dream High” scheduled to start on January 3, 2011.
Please keep smiling and live like a flower always.
Once again, happy birthday!
From,
PESASA (BYJ and LSH Supporters in Japan) MARInet
live like a flower…???
did i read right? or maybe it’s a common-enough saying amongst the korean and japanese? so perhaps if i were to ask the japanese BY-fans, they might be able to shed some light on the exact and definitive meaning of live like a flower or living like flowers…???
here’s an extract of my email exchange with the japanese fan.
bb: hey, tell me, what does MARInet mean when she says, ‘live like a flower’? is it a common saying in japanese? or in korean, perhaps?
BYJ fan: Frankly, I’m not quite sure what she meant, but she was happy with my (english) translation. Hopefully, YJ would interpret it in a way that would make him happy^^
bb: hee, i’d asked because kim hyun joong always tells his fans to live like flowers! and he recently just said it again ^^
so i’m wondering is someone amongst the PESASA fans is a leader fan too…
BYJ fan: HAHA! So that’s it! You leader fans^^
My Heart is a ST★R
bb ♥
Hi5
Hi5 pink princess.. me too, I love how cuithil writes. She’s always straight to the point and her choice of words are, as you put it, precise. She does not beat around the bush. I certainly don’t have that gift. I tend to ramble on and on and on and on. But that’s me.. take it or leave it. hahahaha
.. and, most often, I don’t vet what I write too. Did you notice when i addressed you as ‘pink process’ once. I was laughing so hard when I saw my post. I don’t know how long before I noticed it and edited my post.
Cheers and live like a flower!!
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