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We all love this new place to stay for the next year.
Dear housemates, W, K, and Y offered warm help to accommodate us in the house! Your kindness and precious care make the house such a nice home!

I really felt sorry that my helpers had to MOVE SO MANY of my stuffs (you can hardly imagine the amount). I never know (in fact I knew already, I just didn't learn the lesson) that a single woman's household could be so HUGE. The clean lady in Wentworth was very shocked to see my boxes and bags piled up in the corridor waiting to be removed, and so were other residents...
Big thanks to my dear helpful moving hands, TY, AD, KJ, YS, K, WY and C+Y. Without them, I couldn't have done it efficiently and smoothly in 2 hours.

September sends away bright summer and ushers in poetic autumn.
It is a peculiar month especially on university calendar. A mixture of feelings--sadness, excitement, uncertainty--pervades. Everybody is driven to move onward along the course of life. Everything is compelled to change. Some people depart for new destinations, but new people arrive to begin a new year. It takes time for stayers to bridge the emotional gap between memory of the past year and imagination of the next.

"Goodbye" is no more simple-minded.

What is next year like?

Packing

We always have more than we need.

A Riddle

The other day C-chan asked me a riddle. Oh! I am very bad at riddles...so I asked my flatmate for a thought. On the next day, he said it had made him sleepless... but still he didn't have any idea. Could someone very kind and intelligent tell me the answer? : )

The riddle is,
When asked this riddle, 80% of kindergarten kids got the answer,
compared to 17% of Stanford University seniors.
What is greater than God, More evil than the devil, The poor have
it, The rich need it, And if you eat it, you'll die?

Open Air Cinema: "Singing in the Rain"

On Thursday night, York Minster appeared like a giant with a big square belly against the dark sky (giant tele-tubby again?? Sorry for my weird obsession with that children's TV program). Owing to an on-going repairment of the stained glass in the Lady chapel, the magnificence of this side of the Minster has been hidden behind layers of scaffolds. It's been a pain for tourists who have traveled such a long way to witness this masterpiece of cathedral architecture.


However, it turned out to be an ideal screen for Open Air Cinema.
It showed "Singing in the Rain" before the audience submerged in the darkeness.
"Singing in the Rain" is a musical made in 1952 in Hollywood. It is about 3 actors who struggle to change their career from silent movie to sound movie. A typical romance of Hollywood.


The theme song, "Singing in the Rain" is not unfamiliar. I suppose it is one of the best-known songs that shape romantic impression of rainy days. Such a joyful oldie.


It is very chilly now in the evening. Summer is departing, and Autumn is sneaking in.

Travelogue V: Chicago, 7-11 May, 2006

A woman in meditation, I think, in the garden of Frank Lloyd Wright's home and studio, Oak Park, Chicago.

Dr. O's Birthday Party

Our dear friend O. just had his birthday party last Saturday. It was a great occasion in O's fashion: great salsa dance, good food, relaxing music, and good company.

This birthday doctor is a very empathic, optimistic, and caring friend, and an excellent cook too! He made a birthday cake for my first birthday party in 2005 in York and initiated my interest in baking.
He is always smiling, very bright and encouraging smile!

I had a chat with his colleagues from his department and reached a conclusion that "everybody knows O. and everybody loves him!"