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Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah. After ma usual piano practicing session today afternoon, I coincidentely met ma old Taiwanese 學弟妹.

That guy (called Andy) and two other people were sprawled out on a seemingly comfy sofa in Starbucks coffee and he suddenly pointed at me, dropped his jaws half way, trying to recall who I was in order to call out my name. "Irene!"  The girl (Fiona) who sat opposite him turned around, looked over her shoulder to see what was the matter and blurted out my name.
I was nearly marching out towards the exit when my gut instinct made me look in their way. And we made eye contact. WOUO~ I thought, who's that familiar guy? Hmmm...diggin into my high school memory...AHA! But I 've only seen him once before, how could he??? Wierd eh.
So, overjoyed, I accosted their table:

-Andy: (with a familiar warmth of welcome, pointed at a nearby chair) "坐這邊."

 

Instead, I butt landed right beside Fiona, dropped my bag on the sofa and stole a hug from her. AAAH...wut a joy to see them old friends again, especially friends from da same culture, MUHAHHA!!!
We talked.......aaaah, Taiwanese convos are often heavily spinkled with a taste of 蠢??! (quoted from Fiona)

Nah! I said, it's not 蠢 lah~~, it's 親切耶!  Plus tons of wickedly hilariously entertainingly random comments from 大家的七嘴八舌    Good times I had with them indeed.
However, aiya....that's wut happens when old friends gather together in public places--> dirty & highly annoyed looks from other coffee drinkers around us, as if to warn: You bunch of noisy teenagers aren't alone here, yo! Ahahaahaa, I felt so bad for those ppl lah~~~cuz they're trying to enjoy their own old friends' gathering, who knows,

They told me there 's this girl called Wendy who'd be going to UBC as well next year and she's leaving....THIS SUNDAY ??!?!?!  Wouo...SWEET. Andy snatched Huei's camera and proposed that I perform a self-intro that'll be sent afterwards to Wendy...aiya~~~ funnily spontaneous eh.

"5,4,3,2,1..start!" the guy sitting beside Andy commanded like a director.  -.-  er...okay.

Aaaaah, and so it came to pass that I introduced myself, giving her (my prospective 學妹) ma e-mail address for future contact and so on and so forth..."生日咧??" ,   "還有身高阿!"  Andy and his buddy 你一句我一句

地......I was like,...你們喔 ^^;;   "喂喂~~! 三圍呀, 三圍多少??" 
"......"  Huei replied“哇咧, 徵婚喔!” I replied“這是相親ㄇ? ”

阿呀~~~....使我懷念起 Taiwanese 的熱情, 親切....and most of all... internationalized Taiwanese 的精神!!

Memory. Aaaah, a crucial asset when it comes to discussing our roots, our place of origin, and on top of it all, our IDENTITY.

People smile when snatches or evern bits and scraps of memories spring up in their minds and you would most often hear the following sigh of pleasure and/or maybe melancholy?: "Aah...the good old times..."  eh ? :P 

Indeed..ever since humans came to exist, we've been asking ourselves this so -far- unanswered enigma: where do we all come from and towards where are we heading?  We have the tendency to trace back to our roots, our forefathers, our point of origin, the beginning of time. That is the reason why we like to recall, aaah...a word for this is "nostalgia"...a similar sensation for a traveller far away from home might be "homesickness" and another way of communicating this feeling between dear friends and close relatives when one hasn't seen them for quite some time would be "I miss you!!"

Imagine, if one did not possess this asset, "memory". HA. His/her life would be a chaos.The person would not remember where he came from or simply....he has just forgotten his own existence in the past. He has no origin, no historical roots to trace back to...ahhh.

Wut am I saying? Dunno eh....just find it quite compelling how we all treasure our memories. A Man without memory is not a man. He is existing but not living.  

So no memory = no life. :P

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah.

Out of the hospital,.....finally.....mommy got ill for almost one week lah~~~~

and I stayed to keep her company...poor fragile little woman....'

Sigh......有好身體就是福. 能吃是福, 能睡更是福!

大家 take care 喲.

Shalom  Shalom. The word in Hebrew which means : peace.
May the peace be with you.

平安.

常聽基督徒口口聲聲說 "平安, 平安" 的 , 好像已成了一種口頭問候語一般, 有啥 special 的 ㄇ??
有! 絕對有. 不然為何說平安??

 

 

魔鬼常尋找我們身上的破洞. 最近...懶得讀經啦, 禱告心不在焉呀...Devil 想: "嘿嘿, 機會來了!!"

晚上睡覺時被許多雜聲音嚇到坐起來禱告.  那些聲音已前聽到都覺得悉鬆平常, 因知道是來自風, 冷氣機或樓上的房客. 但昨晚...那股懼怕, 迎面而來. 撲!!

 

人阿...要警醒!

I'm here, to meet with U, come and meet with me

I'm here to find U , reveal urself to me

As I wait, U make me strong, as I long, drawing into Ur arms

As I stand, and sing Ur praise  

U come U come and fill this place, won't U come won't U come and fill this place.