Friday, July 08, 2005
oh man.
usually i regret. a lot. after some hours in front of the telly.
but no. surprisingly.
i just caught the full telecast of MTV Jammed of Mika Nakashima. (thats her up there.)
so on MTV Jammed, the crew tries to catch people unaware and spring a concert on them. The setting's always different. and this time, it was in Japan. after a high-school graduation ceremony.
ive always felt that the Japanese always had a really different aura around them, which is unlike the rest of the Asians. especially after ive visited Japan 2 years ago. And again, the show proved me right.
So it was a really short show, but it managed to catch all the right and important parts, bringing across the sense of loss yet anticipation u feel upon graduation.
There was footage of the Japanese students taking many groupshots, all posing crazily. You know, the tears normally dont come till later, when things get solemn. Then girls were showing off their prettily-written letters to friends and teachers, to the camera, totally unaware that it was all gonna be broadcasted on MTV. they assumed it was a graduation video.
Finally the graduation ceremony started. Solemn music was played in the school hall, and the 3rd years walked in, corsages pinned on their fronts of the uniform. (oh yar. noticed that i didnt even spot ONE girl with her hair tied up in a ponytail. everyone had theirs down or spunk. drats.) The camera zoomed in on one particular group. One of the boys was holding a portrait-sized photo of a boy. there was nothing said in the video about this at all. somehow, that made it all seem much sadder. (obviously, the boy in the photo had passed away.)
Students were seated and slowly, the tears started coming down. guys and girls alike, especially when a boy (i assumed he was probably a head schoolboy.) went up to the stands and gave a speech.
he ended with,
"3 years of our schoolyears has passed and ended. and it is now time to part ways. in the future, if any of us feels lost in the big world out there, remember. you are not alone."
the tears came.
and Mika Nakashima emerged on stage. it was wonderful seeing how everyone broke out into surprised smiles but it was still really orderly and it only took ONE warning for the students to return to their seats and not to rush to the stage. (trust me, Japanese are really orderly people.)
Graduation.
such a sad and beautiful thing.
can you hear the soft swoosh of the butterflies' wings. 11:32 PM.
