2009年10月29日星期四

人生难得是欢聚

今年十一月底,某独中的部分老同窗将有一次大团聚,邀请我也参加。恰好我班高中老同学也在该月中旬重聚后,飞往西马半岛;再上金马仑、云顶高原,让我重温往日旧梦。原想旅游后,个人再逗留都城一段时间;陪陪那里的两个小外孙,满足一下“含饴弄孙”之瘾。那样的话,就将错过鹅江畔的大团聚了。举棋不定之际,耳边又响起老同学重聚时常想起的那句话:“人生难得是欢聚,惟有别离多。”

是的,人生难得是欢聚,我能不赶回?“问君此番来不来”,来时莫徘徊!还记否当年来往学校时,摆渡我们过江的渡船?(恕我先打个小广告,此船将出现在拙著《风雨同舟话当年》的封面上。自我宣传,罪过罪过!)船上载满手扶脚踏车的师生,只有一对共乘一辆摩多车的老师,算是最威风的了。还记得他们是谁吗?天机不可泄露,不过真的很想知道的话,找上我时,也只好偷偷告诉你了。

有一次上船时,有位高中女同学,不知怎的,一不小心,竟连人带车一起掉进伊干江!幸好有位正在河边洗澡的马来青年看到,见义勇为,立刻跳下水,把她救起。不幸的是,此位好学生,后来也在那场轰轰烈烈的运动中壮烈牺牲了,令人唏嘘不已!乱世儿女,是“生不逢时”,还是见证了历史的伟大时刻?谁来评说?其实,从深层来看;人们真该认清英殖民主义者的阴险本质,铭记他们在世界各地所造的孽,才不会为其所谓“绅士风度”的假象所蒙蔽。

今天,以脚踏车代步的人,已是少之又少;但在上世纪五六十年代,那可是最流行的代步工具了。你见过一个身高马大的银行家,骑着一辆高高的脚踏车去上班吗?我见过,当年有位本地著名银行的领导人,就乐此不疲。有人在笑“古早”的人太落后了,但他是否听说过,由于环境污染,有些国家又在鼓吹“骑脚踏车”代步了?无论如何,我们还是忘不了那一段骑着脚踏车到处溜达的日子。尤其是放学后,路经江边马来甘榜时,可以享受那种边踏脚车边聊天的特有情趣。对面江的胶树林里,我们的铁马,更是日日奔驰在那通往学校的羊肠小道上,留下了无数记忆的痕迹。

当然,你更忘不了放学后,你们为增建新校舍所做出的贡献。为了节省一些打地基的费用,学校发动同学们在课后,用脚踏车去载泥土填地基。大家都热烈参加,谁也不落人后,充分发挥了华校“自力更生”的精神。建立起来的新校舍,虽然没有今天的“富丽堂皇”,那里面却有着我们不少的血与汗!

俱往矣,多少记忆,昨夜梦魂中。“人生难得是欢聚”,重聚的机会,你要珍惜。我们不敢狂言,要在昔日扑实无华的鹅江畔,“煮酒论英雄”,除非所指“英雄”是那些在政海中兴风作浪的狗熊!且学那江渚上的白发老渔樵,“一壶浊酒喜相逢,古今多少事,都付笑谈中”!

难忘怀那淳朴的土生鹅,悠游于清清江水中的自得;谁料得到,雍容华贵的舶来天鹅,带来的却是黄泥汤滚滚!满腹哀怨的拉让江何时起波涛?除妖孽,卷走一切害人虫,人民才得享清平。问白云,白云急速飘走;问江水,黄泥汤呜咽不语!我的朋友,你别再问了,还是赶紧磕头“感恩”吧!

欣逢同窗大团聚前夕,献上不成章法的“新潮”对联一副;不成敬意,聊表心意而已:

忆当年 共砚光民豪情壮,
看今朝 聚首鹅江笑语欢。


人生难得是欢聚,惟有别离多;问君此番来不来,来时莫徘徊!

29.10.2009

4 条评论:

  1. "THE PARTING" (Song of Farewell by Li Shu Tong)

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UkT1AZlriA&NR=1

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwcaE3XBlD8&feature=response_watch

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rpkrme2mCcI&feature=related

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  2. "THE PARTNG" (Classical Version)

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UkT1AZlriA

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  3. When reading your peotic blog post it reminds me of Henry Van Dyke's "Home Sweet Home" :

    I read within a poet's book
    A word that starred the page,

    "Stone walls do not a prison make,
    Nor iron bars a cage."

    This is true, and something more :

    You'll find wherever you roam,

    That marble floors and gilded walls
    can never make a home.

    But every house where love abides
    and friendship is guest,

    Is surely home, and home, sweet home,

    FOR THERE YOUR HEART CAN REST.

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  4. I recall once a lady whom I once admired but too timid to "chase" told me this: Once she was cycling in front in the small lane surrounded by rubber trees and I happened to be going in the same direction at a discreet distance . I was having a sweet daydream until she came to a junction and then she turned into another lane.I of course had to go straight so as not to appear to follow her. Lter, she was hoping that I would be following her and even waited for some time not far from the junction. But I was to know until she told me many years later giving out a sigh that she lost my sight as if losing her heart.... .

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