Ba Ba Day!

I slept at 3 a.m this morning. Waking up so late made me had to run to lab (yeap, I have morning meeting with my adviser everyday, so that I can’t be late). I prepared (and made up ) my progress report in a very clumsy way. Soon after I thought I was ready, my labmate told me,”Professor isn’t coming today”. Haiz….

I just wondered “What’s happened?” until my labmate came back after going out for a while. He brought a blue greeting card, a very glittery one, with three words, “Just For You”. *ehem*ehem* I tried to tease him because I thought it’s for a girl. I asked him, “For who?”. “For my father”, he replied. WOW! He is so sweet. Even, I never bought anything before for my father in Father’s Day. (Right in this moment, he’s writing a lot of thing in his card. A very great son, indeed. Not like me. LOL)

I realized, “Today is Father’s Day!” Yeah, you can argue about that. To be more specific, in Taiwan, today was Father’s Day. It was the reason why my professor didn’t come. My friend said, he went to his father’s home in Hualien.

Well, the big question is “Why should today?”. August, 8th or we can write it as 8/8. In chinese, we can pronounce “eight” as ba (read: pa, since we pronounce ‘b’ like ‘p’; while ‘p’ can be pronounces like ‘ph’). Therefore, we read it as ba-ba and, yeap, it’s a homonym for “father” in Chinese. That’s the simple reason why Taiwanese pick 8/8 as the Father’s Day.

Anyway, in this moment, I also want to say: 祝您父親節! Happy Father’s Day to my beloved dad! You are Zuper, Dad! Zuper, beyond an ordinary Super .

Goodbye Without Farewell

Like a leaf that is abscised from a tree, sometimes one needs to go to leave their life. We just never know when it comes, but one for sure, it will happen. That is the end of my spring break, a time to enjoy the plants in the blossom, when I woke up in the early dawn. I just spent a whole night talking with my friends and slept for only two hours. It was a call for my aunt, and I thought of two people behind that line. As soon as my aunt replied in Chinese, I narrowed it down to the only possible answer and yes, I knew what was the matter.

First time I met you, I could see your glance to me. I was carefully taking a peek at you. I spent quiet a lot of time with you after that, shopping in SOGO, sightseeing to the NPM, or just eating dinner together. I thought you’re 8, but I knew you’re older than that. Your malady didn’t hold your activity, but I could see that you’re too tired for that. You surpassed much more surgeries than I most of people did.

It’s a bad thing you could not enjoy your childhood, even worse when you almost didn’t have a young life like the others. It’s not your fault, though. Somehow, He created you like you were. I’m sorry you cannot attend your high school. I regret to know you will not go to university, either.

I could see your pain, but I couldn’t feel it. I knew your sadness, but I was not experiencing it. I understood your desperation, but I was not in your position. This is not your wish, your parents’, or mine. However, I know this is the best way for you.

The mixed Chinese and Hakka conversation in the other room didn’t stop me to know that I lost a member of my big family. Today, sunup took away the darkness, just like yesterday, or tomorrow. However, today was different; it also took you away from us, even without a farewell.

… sad to say I’m on my way
Won’t be back for many a day
My heart is down my head is turning around
I had to leave a little girl in Kingston town

Goodbye my friend. Goodbye cousin, wish you for the best up there!

— In Memoriam: Lan Xin Cia, a boy with endless spirit.
Your strength will always be with us.
April 8^th, 2011.

I Know My Father From Google

After a Diving and Sea Navigation exam, I waited for my friend for a lunch. To kill the time, I went online and did something useless like check my island and googling some unimportant things. After couple minutes, I started out of things to do, then I started to put some names in google text box without any purpose. The first name was Nahum Simon, my father’s. I amazed.

What did i find?