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你好！ 我是伊穆
Hello, I’m Yi Mu!
中央人民广播电台、云南广播电台制作
获奖名称
第10届伊朗国际广播节暨第二届国际广播论坛
“专题类一等奖”
翻译
北京海比思文化传播有限公司
Duration: 19 minutes 45 seconds
Target audience: The public
First broadcast: Sept. 5, 2008
Purpose of the program
By telling a story of Yi Mu, an HIV-infected individual, growing from a drug-user to an amateur radio moderator focusing on volunteers of anti-AIDS work, this program represented the psychological experience and living status of the HIV-infected people to arouse more social attention, understanding and care for this special group of people.
Introduction of the program
Yi Mu who was infected of HIV through drug-taking decided to walk into the radio studio to moderate the program “Friday Sunshine” as a special guest in his 30th birthday to tell more people about “What is AIDS”, “How to deal with AIDS and HIV infection”, and “How should HIV-infected people face their life” with his personal experience. Throughout the year, the less discrimination and more care concept of “We are the same” is the permanent theme of this program. On Sept. 1, 2008, Yi Mu’s father who had cut off relations with Yi Mu came from the countryside to attend Yi Mu’s 31st birthday party organized by Yi Mu’s friends. The elder father said, “Yi Mu has summarized his life of the past thirty years in a year.” Through radio program and other social activities, Yi Mu exhibited the constancy, self-independence, self-confidence and optimism of the HIV-positive people and their longing for a bright future.
Producer of the program
As the head of CNR Yunnan Reporter Station, Zhaxidunzhu has reported various key events including the completion of Potala Palace maintenance project, the 30th anniversary of the establishment of Tibet Autonomous Region, the 50th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China, A Tour of 100 Reporters to West China Program, Caring for Girls in West China, the 15th International AIDS Conference, A Tour of Lancang-Mekong River, debut of Qinghai-Tibet Railway, Yunnan Yanjin earthquake in 2006, Yunnan Ning’er earthquake in 2007, counter-snowstorm in 2008, and Sichuan Wenchuan earthquake in 2008. He has paid much attention to the life and work of AIDS patients and HIV-infected people and helped them like an old friend. Together with his colleagues in Yunnan Radio, he produced this program “Hello, I’m Yi Mu!” to win more understanding and care from the society for this social group.
Hello, I’m Yi Mu!
[Singing of Yi Mu and his girlfriend Yanzi, fades; interview record]
(Lyrics):
Seize every minute of life
Striving for our dreams
How can you see rainbow without experiencing rain and wind
No one can achieve easy success
(Dou Changjun, staff of Daytop): He was very thin, about 170cm tall, just over 40kg. He didn’t want get in touch with anyone.
(Li Xinyue, anti-AIDS officer): In the first time he was invited to our program, both his voice and feet trembled.
(Mr. Li, HIV suspect): The first time he told me that he had been infected with HIV for over ten years, I didn’t think he was telling the truth. I really admired him.
(Yanzi, Yi Mu’s girlfriend): The first time I met him, he was wearing a business suit. (Laugh) (I) thought he was pretty handsome, and sometimes very solemn. (Laugh)
[Clip]
Hello, I’m Yi Mu! I’m an HIV-positive. I love music, body-building and literature. My dream is that one day I can chat with you via radio wave.
[Bai Xue, tester]
Yi Mu was the last one to know his test result. I told him, “Yi Mu, your test result is positive.” He was sitting in front of me. I offered him a cigarette. He took it, crouched and smoked it in silence. After two cigarettes, he turned up his head and looked at me. Then I said to him, “I was infected, too. We are the same. I can understand your feeling. You can tell me what ever you want to say.”
[Yi Mu’s monologue]
That day I went to the test room together with 12 peers. Bai Xue consulted us before and after the test. She said to me, “I’m sorry, you result is positive.” Suddenly, I felt the light was dimming and I couldn’t hear anything. This lasted for four to five minutes. Then, I asked her, “how long could I live?” She said, “I can’t tell.”
[Sound of city, Yi Mu’s monologue]
I was born in a small, beautiful city in southwest China. In 1980s, a group of people there got rich through mining business. My farther was one of them. In 1991 or 1992, it was a pride for a student to have a speed-shifting bicycle, but I drove a car. My father once told me that our school principal called him to the school and said to him, “Your son is ‘graduated’ in advance with ‘outstanding’ achievement. Please take him back, (laugh) and don’t bother us again.”
My father said to me that I needed a drive license even if I was skilled at driving. So he sent me to a training school to learn driving. There, we eight students followed the same master, and one of them took drugs. Once we were out for a long-distance transportation task, he took the drug out and all of our eight friends took it. Now only two of us are still alive.
[Music]
One day, my mother found an injector under my pillow when changing my bed sheet. She cried bitterly. At that time, I couldn’t understand why she cried because I was not dying. Finally, she decided to send me to voluntary drug rehab center. In the following years, I was shifting between abstaining and re-taking drugs till I cheated money from almost all my relatives and friends including my father. (Sigh) I think I’ve cheated them for over 30 times in total.
[Sound of passing trucks, fades, Yi Mu’s monologue]
My father did not abandon me. He took me with him for long-distance transportation business. He gave me 100yuan everyday to buy Methadone, but I used it for drugs. One day in 2004, my father got to know that I was cheating him. He sat alone in a chair and smoked for half an hour. After that, he said to me, “Think it straight, son, how much you need for buying drugs enough to kill you, I’ll give it to me. After that, I’m not your father, and you’re not my son.” I was shocked with true fear. I thought I had really pushed myself to the cliff.
[Sound of a summer environment]
On Mar. 17, 2004, I went to Daytop for treatment. The treatment community is a very beautiful place with twittering birds and fragrant flowers, just like a holiday resort. However, you have to deal with a lot of tasks everyday: get up at 7:45, have breakfast at 8, then attend morning meeting… and go to bed at 12pm. At that time, I hated the words “get up, my family members”. It makes you crazy because you haven’t slept enough, and it makes you feel good, too, because it reminds you that you’re still alive.
[Dou Changjun, staff of Daytop]
That day he decided to leave the community. I took him to the hill in the back of the treatment community. I told him that the nature is so beautiful and everybody was working so hard to help him, he had no reason to give up and he lived not just for himself.
[Yi Mu’s monologue]
If not for Dou Changjun, I would have gone away and led an anticipatable life, and my name might have been carved on a tombstone.
[Clip]
Hello, I’m Yi Mu! I was infected with HIV. I love music, body-building and literature. My dream is that one day I can chat with you via radio wave.
(Mr. Li, HIV suspect): The first time he told me that he had been infected with HIV for over ten years, I didn’t feel that he was telling the truth. He was so amicable and I really admired him.
[Li Xinyue, anti-AIDS office]
The first time he was invited to participate in our program, I could feel how tense he was because both his voice and feet trembled. That’s what he was like two years ago. Later, he was invited to attend a charity party of UNICEF in Hong Kong on behalf of all HIV-positives. That proved everything.
[Yi Mu’s monologue]
I was invited to give a speech. Children funds from all over the world were present. I met pop stars for the first time and took pictures with them. I also met Zeng Yinquan, chief executive of Hong Kong. In Mar. 2006, I moderated “Communication Meeting for the HIV-positives of Yunnan Province” initiated by Sino-UK Program. In Jun. this year, I provided training on AIDS and protective measures for 5,500 Olympic volunteers in Beijing. At that time, I came to realize that I was not a junk, I could do something.
[Music]
(Yi Mu): As far as I can remember, I only cried once in the past ten years. That was when Director Yang declared in front of all people in Daytop that I was employed as a staff of Daytop. At the scene, I suppressed myself from weeping. But when I called my mother that night, I couldn’t help crying out. I told her that her son was not a junk, he had become a staff of Daytop, and he had changed from being helped to helping others. People say that Daytop staff is like a candle in the darkness.
(Yanzi, Yi Mu’s girlfriend): I used to use drugs, too. When he told me through telephone that he had been transferred to a working staff, I was so happy that I didn’t know what to say. I should learn from him, (laugh) he is my idol.
[“Fly Higher” sung by Yi Mu]
Lyrics:
I wanna fly higher
And higher
Wings create storms
Breaking away from embracement
I wanna fly higher
And higher
……
[Clip]
Hello, I’m Yi Mu. I’m an HIV-positive. I love my work. I love music, body-building and literature. I want to chat with you. My number is 4183631, my QQ is 494183060, and my email address is mbj__daytop@126.com.
[Yi Mu’s monologue]
On Dec. 1, 2006 (World AIDS Day), the whole corridor was filled with reporters from newspapers and TV stations, really gorgeous! However, in the next day people seemed to have forgotten this issue. Therefore, I was thinking of creating a persistent program focusing on the HIV-infected group and providing psychological support.
[Ms. Xia Donghua, Asia Pacific Council of AIDS Service Organization]
When Yi Mu talked his idea with me, I was so excited. If we can make the real life of the HIV-infected people known to the public through radio, it will be very meaningful. I firmly believe that when you get to know their real life, you will find that they are the same with us.
[Music before the program “Friday Sunshine”. Segment of the first live program moderated by Yi Mu.]
(Clip)
Not long ago, the boat of life encountered a storm in the sea in darkness, and endless haze covered the unpredictable future. In the long night, I was longing for some sunshine, some care, and some understanding. Friday Sunshine is always with you.
Yi Mu: Good evening, friends. I’m Yi Mu. This is a program co-moderated by HIV-positives and Mr. He Ping to reflect the life, study and work of HIV-infected people. The first session of Friday Sunshine co-moderated by me will be broadcast between 11pm and 12pm tonight. When the program finishes, I will embrace my 30th birthday. I think this program will be the most meaningful gift for my birthday.
[Ringing of hotlin]
Yi Mu: Hello, this is Yi Mu!
Female audience: Hello, Yi Mu. When you got to know that you were infected with HIV, how did you face your life?
Yi Mu: Because even if you are sad, stray or desperate, you still couldn’t change the fact.
Female audience: (Hesitantly) I… Now I, I… today I also… I also… had a test, I was infected, I don’t know how to face my family. I’ve just married. I don’t know… how to tell him.
Yi Mu: My friend, you’re admirable because when you encounter the situation, you are thinking of how to solve it instead of getting around it. Do you know what is the most horrible thing for AIDS? When you take it as a problem, it will definitely become a problem in your heart. It will hurt you and make you hurt your family and friends, and change your life.
Female audience: How can I get in touch with you?
Yi Mu: Besides chatting with me via QQ 494183060, you may also call us at…
Female audience: Hold on, please. Let me get a pen to take a note.
Yi Mu: Ok. (Laugh)
Moderator: You can do it like this. Our program will finish at 12pm. After that, you can all 5314019 immediately.
Female audience: 5314019.
Moderator: Or 5314020. When this program finishes, Yi Mu and his friends will communicate with you directly in our live studio.
Female audience: Ok.
Yi Mu: We wait for your call.
[Ringing of hotline]
Yi Mu: Hello, this is Yi Mu!
Male audience: (Speaks hesitantly) … I… I always… always… how to put it… I… I’m positive, I got the result three years ago. In recent days, I because… I… because I… because I felt bad and my body became very thin, but I haven’t come for any treatment. Recently, I… I was always… afraid to have contact with my wife. I kept away from her for a long tie. I don’t know how to deal with it. I really don’t know what to do, and how to face it.
Yi Mu: My friend, I can feel your trouble and difficulty from what you’ve said. Actually, I always tell myself that what hurts you most is what you’re afraid to tell others.
Male audience: Yes.
Yi Mu: This was an extremely bitter period when we look back. Actually, we are the same. Choosing to face it or avoid it is difficult, and you may miss some good treatment opportunities.
Male audience: (Considering, says after a sigh) I… but I couldn’t gather my gut. Sometimes even if I’ve arrived at the gate of provincial disease-control center, I couldn’t step in. When I listened to this program, I… I want to speak out my feelings suppressed for so many years. I really want to find someone to talk to at this moment… (Sign)
(A Liang, guest of the program): You okay? We have a favorite song of Yi Mu, and I want to send this song to the audience who just called us. Okay?
Moderator: Okay.
[“Trust Yourself” sung by Yi Mu and A Liang together]
Lyrics:
How many times sweating like rain
Memory filled with bitterness
Only because we always believe
Triumph comes after fighting
Always encourage ourselves
Strive for success
Blood is boiling in arena
Giant is rising in the east
…
[Clip]
A successful consulting can save a life, a family, and timely prevent the spreading of HIV.
Do you know that AIDS is not far away from us? Please listen to the story of a consultant.
[Xiaoya’s story]
Xiaoya used to be a drug user. Three years ago, she suffered from regular diarrhea, and the lymph on her neck swelled and hurt. She felt weak and suffered from constant fever, always above 38℃. In the beginning, she thought it was because of pneumonia. But the HIV test found she was positive. At that time, she had quit drugs for over five years. She had never expected to get infected with HIV. She despaired and refused to get in touch with anyone. Then, a volunteer came to her and chatted with her, encouraged her. He said, “We are the same.” The volunteer was Yi Mu.
[Segment of live program moderated by Yi Mu]
Yi Mu: Hello, I’m Yi Mu! Listen to your and my heart in sunshine. It’s great to meet you again on FM88.7, Yunan Radio Economic Channel. Today, we’ve invited the protagonist of the story Xiaoya to our live studio.
Xiaoya: Hi, moderator! Hello, audience in front of the radio!
Yi Mu: Xiaoya has helped a lot of people. What is in your mind when helping others?
Xiaoya: I just feel that if I can help them out from bewilderment, if I can receive a smile from them and see that they are in good health, I will be satisfied.
Yi Mu: Xiaoya, how do you look at life and death?
Xiaoya: Our life is not ours, but given by our parents.
Yi Mu: Have you thought about how long your life should be?
Xiaoya: I can’t tell, but I can control it.
Yi Mu: Actually, I feel that if one’s life is wide enough to cover more people, its length is no longer so important.
Yi Mu: Another cute girl Xiaoling has also come to our studio. Hello, Xiaoling!
Xiaoling: Hi, moderator! Hello, everyone in front of the radio!
Yi Mu: You and Xiaoya are good friends. Does this friendship have any influence in your life?
Xiaoling: It was Xiaoya who gave me the confidence to live till today. Therefore, we became good friends.
Yi Mu: Xiaoling, how do you feel now?
Xiaoling: Much better than before.
Yi Mu: Good! Wish you a better and more stable future.
Xiaoling: Thank you, moderator.
[Yi Mu’s 31st birthday party. His father came to join them from thousands of miles away.]
No matter how bumpy the road is, how deep the feet stuck into mud, if he can climb up the river bank with persistence, I believe he will have a bright future. The key point lies on the faith, confidence and persistence of a person. If he keeps on trusting himself and the society, I believe his life will turn better and better.
[Yi Mu recites his own poem “Dream”]
If dreams had not dropped into bottomless abyss
How comes the faith of persistence
Turn dreams into wings
Turn tears into lamps
In tired days
We can still shoot out brave blossoms
Tackle dreams in hands
Identify the road ahead
Even it is full of brambles
We can still advance like wind
No matter the step of life is fast or slow
We can reach the other bank of the dreams
[Music rises, fades, and ends]
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