Sorry-ology

Home 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. ...

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 t...

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!"

Carnations This carnation is in its stunning blossom. Mum was talking about removing some old books from the house. I remember there are boxes and boxes of books of folklore and fairy-tale that I used to read over and over again in my youth. One of the folktales is about the origin of carnations. Long time ago (what a fairytale opening!), in the heavens lived a goddess and a lot of fairy girls. It happened in a year that the fairy girls agreed that each of them would create a new species of flower to be dedicated to the goddess on her birthday. All the fairies, young and mature, spent loads of time preparing their floral presents, except for one little fairy girl. She was probably only 10 years old and was still too naughty to remember important things. She totally forgot this mission and did not remember it until the last minute. Having been having fun in the wild for the entire day, she did not have any material available to her at the moment. She was crying over her careles...