3rd Anniversary

This is an overdued diary for the 3rd year of homecoming (11th Dec).

3 years, shorter than it sounds.

Shasha happened to be here around Beijing city, for couple of days before heading hometown for her annual leave, and so to make the reunion of small Kiwi group happened (10th, Dec 2007), which can be seen as a subtle footnote marked for the date when should have been a sentimental moment and memory recal, least for me.

Reunion of people with similar background can always lead to a self-amused conversations, when we were making fun of past. Familiar names and quotations, collective memories made them vivid.

Passed time makes history.

A historical event is that Kehu (Daniel) is getting married, or was already as he has got the marriage license on Wednesday(12th Dec). There is hence only one formal procedure to be completed - wedding, as schedule on 12th Jan, 2008.

Witnessing friends' growing and keeping pace with this society is always something new to me. Sometimes it appears to me that I am innovative so that i can adopt web 2.0 in the first place and writting miniblog thru MSN and now writting this long article with Live Writer, other time I appear to be totally stubborn, like refusing to make new history.

Living in memory can mean the surrendering to the making present and future, or be explained as the refusal of making a change of oneself. Refusal of changing dislike to like, or making changes according to changes. Wandering between the past and present, can make oneself lose hopes for the future and the nerve to challenge. Playing safe is forming itself into a philosophy.

It makes me upset to find out my attempt and accomplish nothing, and it is even worse to feel like writing something out of heart, but ending up with lost in expressing myself, let alone moving myself.

People are getting older but may not wiser.