2 ships sailing in opposite directions

Sounds like a long and meaningless phrase literally,

however, metaphorically, it's meaningful.

This phrase 1st struck me back in secondary school, when i was a student. If i am not mistaken, it was said to my class then by my form teacher. That it was fated for people in the class to meet. we were just like ships sailing in different directions, time and fate brought us together, and we meet and intercept each other at the same particular time of our life. though the times spent together was short, however events that happened during the common time created memories for the involved parties which could possibly last forever. after the short time frame spent together, we continued our life journey in different directions to move on to different phases of our life.

Doesn't dat sound familiar?

Doesn't dat happen to all of us humans at different times of our lives?

There is a Chinese idiom which fits the description so well:

萍水相逢

There is a Chinese song which was written more than 20 years ago dat fits this theme perfectly.

I shall attempt to translate this song into English for the benefit of many:

Title: 萍聚 (similar meaning as 萍水相逢)
Singer: 李翊君

别管以后将如何结束
no matter what may happen in the future
至少我们曾经相聚过
at least we have intercepted each others life before
不必费心地彼此约束
there is no need to restrain yourself or put up a false front
更不需要言语的承诺
nor make any verbal promises

只要我们曾经拥有过
so long as we have the common beautiful memories together
对你我来讲已经足够
to us, that's already sufficient
人的一生有许多回忆
we may have dissimilar beautiful memories in each of our mind
只愿你的追忆有个我
hopefully i would have a place in your mind when you indulge yourself in reminiscence of your memories


This song is simply classic, and i believed it would have been a popular graduation song back in the older days, perhaps 20 years ago.

Managed to find the mtv on you tube, perhaps it was filmed only years after the song was released. The singer looked less young in the mtv as compared to the album cover....lol

Enjoy the song and video

Back to studying and maybe work......