On 4th of July 2017 when Park Sihoo-ssi’s Japan Official Fan Club posted the lone news article that gave me confirmation that he would accept the KBS drama, I felt this indescribable joy.
But on the other hand, I also felt as if I were standing on a long, endless road. Looking back and looking forward, I saw what has been a long march and that ahead, it would be another long march. For me, for us, yes, and more so for Park Sihoo-ssi. Since that fateful day in 2012, when I first set my eyes on the Princess Man on TV, our paths have crossed, our destinies became entwined.
Him, you and me!
The road started easy. An audience and actor TV drama relationship. But then tragedy struck and the going got tough. That was when the tough got going! And that relationship changed to include other fans. A long, tough march along a precarious road that we saw no end. One hurdle after another, one battle after another, hand-in-hand, the relationship bloomed and grew, stronger. Star and fans together we marched. And finally we saw the light of the day on Independence Day 2017!
Such indescribable joy!
But the road ahead looms, long and undulating, still no end in sight. It would be another long march forward. No smooth ride, no inkling of what we will encounter round the next bend. Victory or defeat, we have yet to see. But bond together we must, in unity, as one and with tremendous strength and endurance! Star and fans, a long march ahead with one aim in mind!
For sweet victory! Him, you and me, together! Are you ready! Let’s go!
PS: Rarely do I listen to Chinese music, but I came across this one a while back which I thought appropriately summed up that feeling on that long, winding road…that long march of the past and what I think would be like in the future. A good time to share that feeling…read the lyrics at the end of this article. The lyrics of the English version of the song on Youtube didn’t quite make the cut, so I translated it instead.
Youtube Video – Original Chinese version of The Ordinary Road by Pu Shu 平凡之路, 朴树演唱
Youtube Video – English version of The Ordinary Road 英文版 平凡之路
漫长之旅
在2017年7月4日,看到施厚君的日本官方粉丝俱乐部分享了在韩媒的那唯一篇新闻报道让我认为施厚君已接受出演KBS电视剧时,我心里有一种难以形容的喜悦。
但更觉得我站在一条漫长而无尽的道路上。回顾和展望未来,看到走过的是一条漫长的旅途,而前方将会是另一条漫长的道路。对我,对大家,对施厚君来说,更是如此。自从2012年的那命运之日,当我在电视上看到“公主的男人”的第一眼,我们的路径就交差,我们的命运就被绑在一块。
妳们,我和他!
路径开始时是轻松容易,观众和电视剧演员之间的关系。但是,当悲剧发生并变得艰难时,加入了其他粉丝们,艰难把我们拉在一起,成为一家!一条漫长而艰难,没有尽头,岌岌可危的道路。一个又一个的障碍,一场又一场的战斗,手牵着手,关系绽放而坚固的成长。明星和粉丝们一起走下去,终于在2017年独立日,我们看到了光芒!
那难以形容的兴奋!
但前方的道路将还会是漫长,有起有伏,看不到尽头的。可能不会是顺利的骑行,看不到转弯会有什么遭遇。胜利或失败,还未知道。但我们一定要团结一致,同心协力,坚强坚持,增加我们实力!男神和粉丝们,有漫长的路途要往前进,有着共同的目标!
争取甜蜜的胜利!妳们,我和他一起!大家准备好了吗?一起努力,加油!
PS:我很少听中文歌曲,但不久前,听到了这首电影《后会无期》主题歌 平凡之路,由朴树演唱。歌曲描述了一条漫长,曲折的过去和未来的的道路,恰好总结了我目前的感觉,给大家分享。
Ordinary Road by Pu Shu
Wandering on the road, are you going this way?
Fragile and proud was what I used to to be.
Passionate but uneasy. Where are you heading?
Like a mystery and so silent. Are you really listening?
I have crossed the mountains and the sea, and through the sea of people.
I used to have everything but in the twinkle of an eye, everything disappeared in smoke.
I was lost, disappointed and lost my direction
Until I saw that the ordinary is the only answer.
Are you are still dreaming about what your tomorrow will be?
Will it be better or worse? For me it is just another day.
I’ve ever ruined everything. I just want to stay away forever.
I have ever fallen into bottomless darkness, struggling to extricate myself.
I used to be like you, like him, like the wild weeds and wildflowers.
In despair, longing, crying and laughing, being ordinary.
Go ahead, just walk, even if you have ever been given anything.
Go ahead, just walk, even if you have ever given up everything.
Go ahead, just walk, even if you have ever missed anything.
Go ahead, just walk, even if you know.
I have crossed the mountains and the sea, and through the sea of people.
I used to have everything but in the twinkle of an eye, everything disappeared in smoke.
I was lost, disappointed and lost my direction
Until I saw that the ordinary is the only answer.
I’ve ever ruined everything. I just want to stay away forever.
I have ever fallen into bottomless darkness, struggling to extricate myself.
I used to be like you, like him, like the wild weeds and wildflowers.
In despair, longing, crying and laughing, being ordinary.
I have crossed the mountains and the sea, and through the sea of people.
I have ever asked the whole world and never got an answer.
I’m just like you, like him, like the wild weeds and wildflowers.
Somewhere, this is the only way I want to go.
Time is silent. It’s like that. Tomorrow is already in sight.
The wind blows. The journey is still long. What is your story so far?
平凡之路 – 電影<後會無期>主題曲
徘徊著的 在路上的 你要走嗎
易碎的 驕傲著 那也曾是我的模樣
沸騰著的 不安著的 你要去哪
謎一樣的 沉默著的 故事你真的在聽嗎
我曾經跨過山和大海 也穿過人山人海
我曾經擁有著的一切 轉眼都飄散如煙
我曾經失落失望失掉所有方向
直到看見平凡才是唯一的答案
當你仍然 還在幻想 你的明天
她會好嗎 還是更爛 對我而言是另一天
我曾經毀了我的一切 只想永遠地離開
我曾經墮入無邊黑暗 想掙扎無法自拔
我曾經像你像他像那野草野花
絕望著 渴望著 也哭也笑平凡著
向前走 就這麼走 就算你被給過什麼
向前走 就這麼走 就算你被奪走什麼
向前走 就這麼走 就算會錯過什麼
向前走 就這麼走 就算你會
我曾經跨過山和大海 也穿過人山人海
我曾經擁有著的一切 轉眼都飄散如煙
我曾經失落失望失掉所有方向
直到看見平凡 才是唯一的答案
我曾經毀了我的一切 只想永遠地離開
我曾經墮入無邊黑暗 想掙扎無法自拔
我曾經像你像他像那野草野花
絕望著 渴望著 也哭也笑平凡著
我曾經跨過山和大海 也穿過人山人海
我曾經問遍整個世界 從來沒得到答案
我不過像你像他像那野草野花
冥冥中這是我 唯一要走的路啊
時間無言 如此這般 明天已在眼前
風吹過的 路依然遠 你的故事講到了哪
Credits – Many thanks! Youtube Video of the Ordinary Road 平凡之路 (Chinese) by Timothy Mo, (English) by 黑屏幻幻; Photos – Park Sihoo Weibo, After Love the Movie 思念爱电影, Weibo
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施厚,我們這群愛你的人會一直陪伴你,無論前方的路途有多漫長遙遠,我們也會在你身邊,不離不棄地支持你,給你巨大的力量和支援.請你繼續加油,勇敢實現你的演藝夢,向著理想奮戰不懈吧!我們愛你.預祝你的新作品大受歡迎!
我们的施厚啊,总是心疼他
还记得第一次看到施厚发在微博的这些照片那种不可名状的感触,总觉得里面藏着施厚的心语。那年,施厚在美国某个海岸边经过漫长的跋涉和思考后来到上海,外滩璀璨的夜灯下映照出施厚模糊的身影和清冷的眼神,那一刻我看到了一个理性和智慧的灵魂。前路布满荆棘和中伤,曾经的辉煌已不算什么,然这一切挡不住心的召唤,决心重启事业,施厚自当想清楚了所有。喜欢韩剧但很少着迷演员的我们,对施厚却入了心,行至今日已荣辱与共,真的只能用命运和缘份来解释,这样命运般的相遇,除了“不问来路和去程,只向归处”外,还能有其他的选择吗?!^^
Beautiful Beautiful Absolutely Beautiful, Nance, the song in Chinese and English. I can’t think of any more apt lyrics and tone of any other song befitting the mood and feeling right now. Not that I have heard of this song before. Thank you for finding this most beautifully aptly appropriate song moreover it has both Chinese and English. I believe PSH would have also been touched to his core and felt those words really described his situations and his journey. PSH fanship is similar to our real life, we do not know what’s going to happen next second of our life. Therefore we handle it with 平常心 (ordinary heart) to walk on the 平凡之路 (ordinary path), for, when we reach the end, that road will allow us to feel it wasn’t that ordinary after all, not that ordinary in the dearest spot of our hearts.
Perhaps you need to correct some typo error of your article, because I remember you knew of PSH way before 2015, was that 2012? 2015 was me, the year I stumbled on PSH’s path by pure one stroke of curiosity. That’s the reason the bottle of wine I brought to Miyazaki for PSH is of vintage 2015. I never mentioned that in my note stuck to the bottle. So I mentioned it here. That way I will always remember when I am in old folks home recollecting my fond memories. 🙂
Hi, thanks for pointing this out! Exactly right! This old lady writing this article at close to midnight has got her time mixed up. It has been a long march indeed and I didn’ t even figure it out when I reviewed what I wrote before posting it this morning! Old liao for sure….
Park Sihoo-ssi 박시후 씨 nothing to do with old liao, all to do with you are doing too much.
Oh I also like to ask, is the surname of the singer 朴? That’s same surname as our Park Sihoossi. How much more apt this song can get?
Yes, the singer’s name is “Park” too in Chinese
I want to go on and on talking about PSH especially this time of his journey. My 2017 New Year count down, the few seconds of farewell 2016 and welcoming 2017, my screen came up with PSH with that most relieved most joyful most proud smile of triumph, the moment his team won for the 1st time of selling all the cosmetics because Hwang Tai See engaged her natural honest skill on the housewives, that to me was a sign. I didn’t plan to have that scene appearing my tv at count down. I was with a very heavy heart and mind from Christmas 2016 to New Year because that’s the week we thought we really had to make the euthanasia decision to put Bob the dog down because he hadn’t been eating well and skipping his pain killers. While everyone partied into the new year, I sat alone in front of tv watching Bob’s asleep between the tv and me. There was nothing interesting on my tv, no fireworks nothing, so I decided to randomly play QOR and just click on one episode without really paying attention watching it. How the universe gave me this sign the very 1st thing I saw in 2017 was that triumphant smile of PSH in QOR. Bob was awaken 5 minutes before countdown too. And I knew no matter how much PSH’s road was blocked by all unexpected and sudden happenings both in his home country or beyond, my heart felt strongly that triumphant look on his face at the turn into a brand new year got to be The Sign telling me he will win he will get his break in 2017. Now, with a role in MGL and the chaebol son’s background, how telling that sign at 00 hour 00 minutes, and perhaps 05 second start of 2017?? We are people with our feet on our ground, we know this is only the beginning, as Nance said, it’s gonna be The Long March. But everything got to have a start, got to have a breakthrough. PSH’s days from this day onwards is gonna be very intense and tough and he got to watch every step very carefully. We are old enough to understand that, not that we are jumping with joy and declared our job’s done. It’s only the beginning. All clearly said on PSH’s t-shirt. LET’S TAKE THE PLUNGE! Or in Nance’s words : The Long March.
By the way, I thought I better clarify it here, so that no bad example is set , or giving misconstrued meaning whenever I said I ought be be focus on my work, but PSH’s got me here talking away. Whenever I say that, I am doing work that my husband doesn’t need to pay me, even though they are work involving my professional expertise, meaning not domestic house chores. kekeke. I never cheat on paid work hours. So don’t ever quote me as example of not working but yakking all the time here kekeke. In PSH fanship, we only want to encourage what is fair and what is credible. Walk The Talk, remember?
“The great tests prepare for great giftf” thanks to this ordeal that shook him, psh is today a star unlike any other. Perhaps it would be today a little pretentious, proud of its success and feeling above all people (as are the stars) thus forgeting the education it has received. But this trial gave him great gifts: one of the Gifts that life gives him through this ordeal is to embrace the values of his parents. And the other great gift : to have instead of fans, of real friends, people who really love him as a member of their own family. And this great gift is not given to everyone!
In return he also gave us a great lesson in life. In any case, I am amazed by it: it is not to be defeated but fight. Without letting the bitterness sharpen his heart, without giving way to hatred, he returned quietly, steps after steps. He fought gently but with force of mind. Really this is what I admired the most on him when I discovered him there is few months ago. i still admire him for that;
I wondered whether he acted by force or by naivety? But on seeing him on stage in Tokyo, I really discovered a humble man with strength and a very good mind.
Yes I admire him a lot of.
Your article today is really very beautiful and Chai Hua comments too.
I too, like everyone else, have experienced high moments and low moments. But ‘what does not kill us makes us stronger’. These trials made me more humble in the face of life, and more peaceful also in the face of the tortures I demanded of myself and of life. I have learned to welcome it more peacefully: and since then I have been filled by her. As I have faith, of course by life I speak of God.
Thanks Nance for your concern about PSH’s long march ahead, after his coming back to K. entertaiment. And this is our concern too.There is always a moment that separates the past from the future, and this moment is now for PSH. This moment means a long march ahead for him. “The chief beauty about time is that you cannot waste it in advance. The next year, the next day, the next hour are lying ready for you, as perfect , as unspolsed, as if you have never wasted or missapplied a single moment in your life. You can turn over a new leaf every hour, if you choose.”[Arnold Bennet] PSH’s long march ahead it’s about starting over again and creating something better, not wasting any moment. It is in his power to absorb the energy and possibility of today and make his long march ahead more easily. He has in his power the ability to begin his world over again with hope and confidence. Park Si Hoo, whatever you can do, or dream, you can. Begin it with boldness, genius, power and trust, and your long march ahead will be easy and successful. Good luck on your long march in K. entertainment!
OH How Much I like your words Stefania!! I want to read this 10 times. Now rushing off to evening walk as I just doing a quick checking in ….big thumbs up on the beauty of future time, how clever these words are.
Thanks Chai Hua. i’m absolutely sure that his future will be gorgeous,, as he is himself.
We have been marching along together with PSH for a long time already. We have overcome many obstacles with the new role in KBS “My Golden Life” as a result! A mere victory as Korean people tend to be very stubborn and won’t give in easily. However, KBS stand tall and offered PSH a role again and finally, he can make his hill up again to new victories in Korea! Of course, we will accompany him, because we are not naive! This is just the first step on another long, long march! This is what I like about the Chinese song Nance! From a certain interval it expresses the happy feeling to continue on the long march. Step by step, shoulder on shoulder. Thanks for the English translation, but when music speaks to my heart, words are not really important. I have a lot of CDs with music from foreign artists I don’t understand a word of their language, but when the music feels good, it feels good with me too! This new development in PSH’s career feels good and I will follow him as long as it will be necessary! After darkness the light always returns. It is a given no one can change!