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My November Guest
by Robert Frost from Collected Poems, Prose, and Plays

My Sorrow, when she's here with me,
Thinks these dark days of autumn rain
Are beautiful as days can be;
She loves the bare, the withered tree;
She walks the sodden pasture lane.

Her pleasure will not let me stay.
She talks and I am fain to list:
She's glad the birds are gone away,
She's glad her simple worsted gray
Is silver now with clinging mist.

The desolate, deserted trees,
The faded earth, the heavy sky,
The beauties she so truly sees,
She thinks I have no eye for these,
And vexes me for reason why.

Not yesterday I learned to know
The love of bare November days
Before the coming of the snow,
But it were vain to tell her so,
For they are better for her praise.

2005

Time really flew this year, before you know it, another page of calendar will be flipped, and we are almost done with 2005. Looking back, it has truly been a tragic year, first tsunami hit and killed tens of thousands of people, then earthquake in Pakistan, and most recently Katrina and wilma. Compared to the world, my own little life has been quite uneventful, and I count it as a blessing. Our lives are too frail, and we all should be thankful that we've survivied another year. Spend some quality time with your family, while they are still around, say "I love you" to them whenever you can, and enjoy your life. tho sometimes life can be really insipid, without the insipidness, how are we supposed to appreciate the serendipitous happiness and excitements that God carefully hided and scattered throughout our lives. I love my life right now, do you?

Lord, I love you...

Jesus has a plan for us that we will never fathom, but I am assured that it is the best he could prepare for us, because he loves us so much. Though our physical body is deteriorating every second, our father from above has plant eternity in our hearts. Let me praise you god, for all you have done for me, please include me in your divine plan, and let your light guide my road. I love you lord, Amen!

mama's girl

I'm a mama's girl. I have this specially strong bond with my mom, it's not like we share everything, (a girl got to have some secrets right?), but I'll say 90%. today, I accidentally found out that my cell phone number actually spells mama, how eerily interesting is that!

Fall is here...

Elora Gorge #11
Originally uploaded by Smaku.

Happy Birthday to me!!

dorm food

dorm food
Originally uploaded by saisai.

This is what I had this morning, which is exactly what I had last sunday, or last last sunday...?

mourning...

a friend of the family passed away, from Brain haemorrhage, at a young age of 50. it was just two weeks ago when we ran into him shopping with his family, a healthy and happy man, today, we can't find him. where is he... ... ?

You are not special...

Now, go stand in front of a mirror, seriously, and start to tell yourself, loudly, "there is nothing special about you, you are not the center of the universe!" now you will feel better, if you feel you are mistreated here in berkeley, or you didn't get enough attention from other people, especially the cute guys in classes. It's okay. In this world, except your parents and God, nobody will treat you like a prince/ss. If you want other's attention, you will have to go for it, earn it, claim it, and assert yourself, instead of waiting, waiting for others to recognize how great a person you actually are. That's why I seldomly blab about my own trivial things on this blog, becuz who cares? tho sometimes it was so tempting to write about myself that I couldn't help myself. but I know I should really stop fascinating about myself, and you should too.

Pain...

Went ice-skating tonite, and I fell on my butt so bad. My back is hurting me now, hope I don't spend the rest of my life regretting about tonite. plz pray for me!!!

The inconvenience of the convenience...

I know the title sounds a little paradoxical, but it's so true when it comes to today's advanced communication venues. Cellphone, IM, email, blog, forum... Through the cyberspace, we found our long lost high school friends, friends on other continents, or even ex boyfriend from our kindergarten era. I still remembered how excited I was when I got connected to these people that seems are millions of light years away from me, but after a while, this excitement waned as I could almost see them online everyday on MSN messenger. Eventually, we ran out of topic to chat about, and there literally were nothing to catch up with. so, right now, we ended up ignoring each other online. Technology is a good thing, but it can make things so easy that somehow in the process something invaluable is missing, missing in the instant satisfaction of the cellphone dialing, IM typing, or email sending. Everybody seems to be an email/IM/phone call away. I admit that we human beings are herding animals, and it's especially important today to get connected to one another, but like an old chinese saying goes, too much is the same as being lacking, it is too much right now. we need some distance, some seclusion, or even a little inconvenience. Without the convenience of the technology, maybe we could appreciate each other a little more, maybe we will try harder to stay connected, or we probably would communicate even more, maybe, I don't know...