Sorry-ology

About the Engagement (II): Some Technical Facts I started feeling that it will be a long journey before I can actually finish writing everything that I want to write about the engagement. At the same time, I am feeling the pressure of writing as the preparation for the wedding reception in September is now taking place. I didn't organize every bit of the engagement reception on my own, and the entire event was a final presentation of many people's professional assistance. It is not a commercial entry, but I do owe a big thank you to the professionals who were involved in the organization and preparation. At the very early stage of the preparation, I resisted some nuptial conventions that have been commercialized and over-emphasized in the last few decades. However, in the end, I followed some of the ' chessy ' fashions. (The term ' chessy ' reflects nothing but my snobbery, I confess.) Although I still feel quite ambivalent about the significance of these nupt...

Death of a Cockroach K was shocked when seeing a cockroach in the living room. The amount of poison that he sprayed on that evil insect probably explained the unmeasurable astonishment that he was thrown in. After clearing away the remains of the cockroach, K determined to chase out all of the possible members of the cockroach family remaining in the house. He showed to me his lethal weapon: cockroach houses. This time, I was the one who was in astonishment. Products of cockroach house across the world, I believe, shared the same design and adopted the same method no matter how culturally distinctive their appearances might be. I thought that the design was usually made as unnoticeable as possible, for instance, small size and simple color prevailed. After all they were kind of embarrassing witnesses to the hygienic standard of a house, weren't they? (of course, this statement can be challenged in many ways especially in the context of Asian countries where this creature never seem...

About the Engagement (1): About Writing the Engagement SSS_8118.jpg Originally uploaded by Wanchen Tai It has been more than 2 months by now since the engagement between I and K in the end of March in 2009. I have been thinking about writing about it but have been either kept busy with other tasks or indecisive about how the event can be represented. It felt like a dilemma of writing, which I never could avoid ever since the moment when I learned to write. The writing school that I attended in my childhood taught us to be always committed to a good opening, an opening that would surprise readers and that would tantalize their anticipation. This principle, however, has made every writing difficult. Of course, it is also true that I am yet far from good at 'writing' after all. Hurdles are always there not to be overcome. So an entry about the engagement has been postponed. Yet I found the 'non-writing' of the engagement quite a serious problem for me since my settlement i...

DSCF1275.JPG Originally uploaded by Wanchen Tai After the buzzing noises of the efforts to fulfil the household duties in the morning, the room calmed down in the end. K was away at work, and I was enjoying typing and working by the window. Yes, literally, by the window. The grey luminescence in the room in the afternoon was very soothing. The sun slid in leaving traces on the cool surface of a clean floor.