2011.06.16
I just finished the exam for teachers’ recruitment held by Loudong Senior High School and had a rest at McDonald’s near Loudong night market. At noon the McDonald’s is full of junior high school students wearing in uniforms, chatting, brawling and grabbing fries into their mouths on seats. Today is the graduation ceremonies of many junior high schools in Yilan, students who flock to McDonald’s in clusters can be distinguished by their various uniforms. New published commemorative albums are opened and put on tables; they discuss about the pictures on the album that who are handsome, who are beautiful and who are ugly ducklings but like to act in realizing what fashion is. Loud conversation without mind of being overheard; on the contrary, they just want the neighboring to hear it; for example, the splendid Taipei City s/he has visited and one day very possibly s/he will stay there for living. Moving northwards to Taipei means the more approaching to the prosperous future and those failures just can go nowhere or move southwards; however, kids someday you will understand that you could walk on the most luxurious and shining street in Xinyi district any time you like, but probably you could not afford to buy even a tiny flat there all your life. After paying your mobile phone, cable, power bills and rent as well as devoting your salary to the movie theaters and sometimes fancy restaurants, you have a slim purse at the end of a mouth. Day after day, you are the same staying with the prosperous but you don’t belong to it. Capitalists and the government won’t speak for you. One makes good use of your manpower and deprives of the surplus you made after that; the other imposes a tax on your dismal income. Will you one day miss the beautiful hometown you’ve eager to leave when you’re young? It is still there and goes nowhere, but I’m here and plan to go swimming in a pool in a park alone in the afternoon, rewarding myself with the cool water after the exam and there will be few "burghers" blocking my lane in the pool in this place.
