Not so good week

This week was not so good, starting with the horrifying Virginia Tech massacre, followed by a strange fact that I threw up twice on my weekend trip back from SLC. and to make things worse, I decided to get a cold...in this nice and warm spring...

Live for the moment

A TV commercial about a credit card showing a lady spend 9 dollars on pedicures, and then end up spending over hundreds of dollars on sandles and dress that match her toes nails. She let your mood carry her away, "lived for the moment".

This seems simple to do, yet lots of times, we feel hard to let go the worries, the "rules", and expectations we have for ourselves, in order to enjoy the moments. I am not sayring I want to be spontaneous in everything like the lady on TV, (I will be broke soon for sure), but occasionally relaxing ourselves could make life a little easier. There is always tomorrow to worry about whatever that is on our mind.

Starting today, I need to train myself not to check work emails at home any more...

Sharon

For the first time since I left China for USA, I called Sharon, one of my best girlsfriends in college. I am not good at keeping touch with friends by phone calls, even with my best friends, my call would be totally unexpected. However, it was me who was really pleasantly surprised when she recoganized my voice immediately on the other side of the earth.

I am not any special among other girls just because I like Sharon, --she is the kind of girl any girls enjoy being friend with. Sharon started my memory of college life in a more advanced stage: she knew how to put on makeup and make her eyes look gorgeously and mysteriously blue, she used skincare products that cost 300 dollars, her clothes were mostly targeting sexiness instead of loveliness...

Despite of the fact that Sharon is from one of China's cities of fashion, and has a body shaped fabulously curvy besides all the other skills she owned mentioned above, never did she show the slightest arragoncy in front "country mice" like me. (Thank God for that, because I was so flat-chested, and always dressed in "baby doll" clothes which made me look like a fourteen year old.) She gave us lectures on how to do makeups, and then made us do hands-on practice with her own expensive makeup; she was always willing to shop with us as the fashion consultant and give us ideas of the perfect outfit for an occasion; she even introduced us to the world of "adult jokes", which I still consider the hardest task among all back that time...she took the position of our "dorm monitor" when nobody wanted the tedious job which didn't seem to have any obvious benefit to the one who does it, as she stated, she just wanted to serve others. I think that is exactly what she did.

Old friends talking

Last night, Tom called me from New York, while he is on a business trip in USA. I spoke Sichuan dialect for the first time in the past 6 years, and surpisingly Tom survied it and managed not to laugh out loud . I was very moved by the fact that he called me, especially when I found out he almost completely lost his voice because of work. He mentioned that when our classmates got together, they often talked about me. He told me that, Gloria called my plan of going back China the story of "Wolves are coming" (an old Chinese story of a boy lying about wolves and making fun of people who came to help, and finally could get no help any more when the wolve really came and was eaten up by the wolves). I am very clear, to win their trust in me again, I need to go back China and visit my friends and family before my image total fade out of their memory. Just like a kite, no matter how high and how far I want to fly, without my thread hold in your hand, I will get lost.

Winter in April

It is April, but the sudden drop in temperature makes me wonder whether winter is back again. Having worked and lived in Minnesota for eight months, I surprisingly didn't think the coldness of the coldest state in USA was unacceptable. However, once spoiled by the sunny and warm days, I found myself standing in the freezing wind unprotected.

The beginning

Have been thinking about organizing my thoughts and reflections since a long time ago, hoping this way I would be able to share my gorgeous (and maybe also not-so-gorgeous) moments with you. Life is short, I want to shine; life is also long, I need you to go along...