Defining The Very Word "Friend"

Translated by Herald:

All of us have come across the category of people in the world which god has given a grand name to it called "friend" from places that we least expected we would be encountering as such. As a result, we gain some kind of vice versa acknowledgement as being friends "accidently" in our hearts... Not only that, we even have internet and phone friends that we have never seen each other in real life.. but then on the other hand, we embrace those dear ones that we have come across and become inseparable along with our daily battles in life... we then again even become friends when we mistakenly call someone on the road thinking that it would be one of our friends and true enough after that incident he/she really becomes our friend and we both are really glad about it?

We also can't forget those long lost friends from our primary school or junior high of whom we played together with, then eventually everybody went somewhere in the end where we thought grass was greener and lost contacts with each other just like that?

Well all in all, age does not exist between friends if that is one thing that I can say for sure... they can be both older or younger... but I am learning new things from the older ones then once again searching for the long lost innocence in me from the younger ones... Likewise wealth and poverty are at stake when it comes to friends and friendship can just be taken as an ever changing winters, summers and falls... some are just like the radiant hot suns but some represents the rain that reduces heat in you and lastly some are just like misty mornings during winter and with that I have lived my life cherishing all those astounding moments and feelings slowly gathering from those different seasons.... Then everybody hardly remembers what it felt like the last summer or winter and same goes with our friends, we hardly remember when we ever started bonding as friends but then it has never been a failure when it comes to opening up all our emotional and joyful moments to our friends. That is the beauty in us whenever we see something good that we always feel like "ohh, if he/she was here with me seeing this right now, it could have been a superb sharing moment!!!"

I have just been wondering while sitting in front of my computer writing this blog... if my friends happen to see this blog of mine from the other side of their computers... will they be feeling exactly what I am feeling right now? Or will they just be wondering what I am just up to writing this?

I hardly ever express my love to all my friends, new and old out there but at least I am grateful that I ever can show my warm and tender loving care from my cold, flat computer screen transmitting through theirs... Wish you all the best of luck in your everyday lives and love you buddies... and ohh I never have forgotten to thank you for the insignificant movement of yours with a major significance of what it meant to me at a later stage... thank you so much once again for all those small little things that have impacted so well and have made up my perfectly wonderful days...

A Sneak Peek To My Sweet Home

I was never good in writing "My home" essays back in high school and there were countless times that I memorized two, three paragraphs of other people's "My home" then vomitted them all out on my exam paper... well I just did not have any critical or rational thinking of whatsoever and I did not know how to feel things over and work it out based on the feeling you have inside back then.

Well before anything I want to make you read one of those "standard phrases" that I used to swallow by heart just to get the passing marks over essays.... Have fun but don't be laughing too much...

"MY HOME: My home is located at "house/ street numbers bla bla bla" and it is a one story brick house with a big garden in front. It has a green roof on top and it is surrounded by green trees.... There are three bedrooms inside my house with toilet attached, a living room, a dinning room and a kitchen.

Well now you know what it was all like. But well I just take it as a let-bygone-be-bygone thing and those days are over for me.

Now imagine you are my special guest and I am now driving you to our house. So let's start from the city center main road, we are now there... so yeah buddy, just familiarize with the surrounding for a while.

"That's right the square building which enwrapped the whole block beside the clock tower is our central market." "Don't worry I am going to take you to that clock tower street later in the evening... but don't get all excited, there are too much of things to eat there in a day.."

"Whoops, did you just almost have a heart attack over the scooter rider who just drifted beside us??? Well get used to it buddy besides I won't speed up at the moment anyway don't worry so you see?? On the right side, this is our famous night market which I doubt you would want to go inside. Hey but we have to come to this "tofu noodle" shop early tomorrow morning. You wouldn't want to miss the good things out by getting up late, would you? Now there you go, you can open the window now and enjoy the fresh breeze, we have passed the market."

"Oh hey, there he is... you know what this uniformed guy with the "white helmet" and me used to play "hide and seek: catch me if you can" game whenever I did not wear a helmet while riding my scooter you know? That was really cool and exciting... I can't believe it, he's still working here man... "

"Ahhh yeah you're right, it's my high school and it used to be one of the best in town and I had a lot of great memories from there.. it was my first cornerstone for my life, you can say that. Ohh hahahaha don't worry here we don't have such markets anymore that we have just passed in this area... this is solely a residential area... and don't forget we're slowly going up the winding road" "Hey hold up, I have to pass this public transport "line car"... nah don't worry, those people are happy on the roof and they are used to it, they won't easily fall off from there, just imagine you being sandwiched inside the small pick up truck... so if I were using that transport, I might as well sit on top of the roof just like those guys and may be you should try it sometime later... really i mean it... it is totally awesome."

"Ohh you like this Guang Ying Temple? For me honestly, I'm more interested in the food they offer during festive seasons more (Laugh Out Loud)... hey don't forget, now you look on your left...... " "Uh-huh, that's what I'm talking about.... see that's what I would call the whole panoramic view of the city center that we've just passed.. you see how small that central market has become? Ohh gosh, you gotta see this my friend.... these lines of "sein ban" trees... oh they have bloomed so well this year.... That's right, I don't know which smart people from the past planted these lines of trees... yeah I like that color coordination as well this whole tree is pink in color like cherries then this is violet.... this is the sign that we're getting close to our home... we're almost there buddy.... okay go ahead you just keep counting pink after violet then violet after pink nonstop."

"Yeah don't be surprised, at this point of place, there is no housing area on the right side anymore, just a pure moutain and trees." "Yep you're right same goes to my home, we don't have any neighbor's house across the street.... a green calm pond and trees that stretch towards the higher ground of the side of the mountain would be my neighbors I suppose."

"Finally, there that green-roofed stand-alone little cottage amidst the greens?? We've reached our destination buddy.... Later let me introduce you to my favorite doggies who will be all excited to jump up and down and round all over you and oh.... sorry..... they don't fit into cages anymore but they are simply lovely... and they'll love you too..."

"Yeah mom said she has already prepared our lunch, all her specialties.... you can have a sip of my dad's homemade red wine too if you want... then shower quick, rest for a while then we have so much things to do..."

What a Wonderful World

What a wonderful world... hmmmmm .... lately I have been listening to this Louis Armstrong "Wonderful World" and so many things have been going on in my mind ever since... of how much I have grown within these years and of how many wonderful people have come into my life... oh what a wonderful world!!

Louis Armstrong always thinks to himself how great the world is just by observing small little things happening around.... I ever imagined while he was writing this song, how humble he could have been and how happy... he was like one of those legends who stood up for the African American societies and turn everything into positive energy...

" I see trees are green... red roses too...

I see them bloom... for me and you...

And I think to myself... what a wonderful world "

How simple yet powerful these words are... it ever reminds me of how simple things make great differences and impacts to our lives... if ever all people could only stop for a while and stare at the night time sky, we have missed so much of those wonderful things these days... all we, humans can think for now are natural calamities, wars of cold and civil and food/ resources shortages everywhere, chain reactions of recessions...

But wait a minute... we have forgotten so much of good things happening around us once again if we could only stop and stare for a while... always remember when the setting sun turns crimson for us, there's also a blessed bright day beginning somewhere in the world... ohh what a wonderful world with wonderful people that I have loved...