Category: Family

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I came across this song on iTunes store when I was searching Ayen何璟昕 ‘s song there. It’s available on Spotify too. Note iTunes store is a part of Apple Music. The music world is going to streaming, but I am old fashioned and I like my old iPod Nano (bought in November 2012, kind fit the theme of the old leather shoes here 🙂

You can watch it on YouTube (刘美君 on KKBox, YT Channel) for 原唱。Ayen’s singing is soft as her usual style. And the album cover design (featuring the old white leather shoes) looks like Ayen’s work or style. 一对而不是一双应该是粤语的原因。在英语里面我们也说 a pair (对) of shoes.

Some background on the song on other platforms

Baidu

KKBox 作词：潘源良 (Wikipedia) 作曲：陳永良 (Wikipedia)

Bilibili

I think of couple things related to the song.

Hand making shoes or repairing shoes

I recall my maternal grandma used to make 棉鞋 for us. Also, when I was a teen and in middle school (equivalent to both middle school and high school in the US), and it was a common practice to have a 鞋匠 (shoemaker, cobbler) to attach a piece of metal to the bottom of leather shoes – similar to what we have in the tap shoes bottom here in the USA nowadays. Last time I saw 鞋匠, or cobbler, it was in Shanghai Xu’jia’hui, in 2011, and I was having cobbler fixing my luggage (bag). Yes they fix the bags or luggages too, via their sewing machines or other tools and materials.

Father’s love, or elder generations love towards the kids:

I recall when I was going to college in Wuhan, while we stop by Shanghai, it was hot summer, and my dad and I walked on Shanghai street. He bought me Sprite, and he didn’t get any. Now I think about it, I may do the same.

I also recall once, recently, my younger daughter was throwing a fit after I picked up her and her sister, I decided to do a bit Uber driving after that – sort of my way of dealing with my internal frustration with my younger daughter. But there is downside of driving Uber, for one – because I was thinking about something else while driving, in couple instances I made small driving mistakes. I think safety is probably still the most important, so I stopped driving for Uber recently.

Sometimes comparison (or put things in perspective) is necessary, as I just read from a friend, that her dad drove her car from Rolla to Boston 3 times after she crashed her car 3 times. That’s more than 1,000 miles one way.

At the same time, I don’t see or hear many songs singing about dads 🙂 我印象中好像没有多少关于父爱的歌。Personally I think both mom and dad’s love are important. If I can use an example, I saw a neighbor who appears doesn’t know we were not supposed to drive a car when the tire is flat, and the neighbor just did. My speculation when the neighbor grew up, the neighbor didn’t have a dad taking about that.

PS:

As the Wikipedia maintainer for 何璟昕’s wiki page, I updated all her singles. Go to 单曲 section and you will see all of them.