A Quiet Christmas Eve

• 7:30pm Saw Mr. Cat with inexplicable surprise, in an atmosphere with sort of mystery
• 7:40pm Went out to buy some flowers, tears almost came into my eyes for unknown reasons
• 7:55pm Bought a bouquet of violet at the gate of Lianhua supermarket
• 8:10pm Received a phone call from my old classmate and talked on the phone about her recent life with good memory and her current dilemma
• 8:30pm Came back home and found Mr. Cat was asleep
• 8:40pm Turned on the Haydn's piano sonatas, set the bouquet in the big mouth vase
• 8:42pm Read the book"The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" by Marktwain, which I read at teenage...
• 10:40pm Had a simple supper with Mr. Cat discussing "bad father and good son"...
• 3:00am Finished reading the book, Impressed with all that happened on little Huckleberry in Mississippi...
• 3:10am Felt grateful for my inspirational and peaceful life in cups of drinks
• 3:45am Went to bed...

Homesick

Having been out of Shanghai for near a week, now I'm at Xiamen airport. I will fly back to Shanghai late tonight, wondering if my dear Mr. Cat and the flowers "forgot me not"(see below) I bought before leaving are still fine at home?

 

Well, "homesick" is not a bad "sickness" but a deep feeling of missing the home-like peace at heart. My "home" could locate anywhere geographically as long as it's together with true love and mental freedom - what else can be missed to be sick?

I love the feeling of "homesick".

C.A.F.E. on "Altiplan Life"

C.A.F.E. is a dynamic group on flickr.  Here below are the two versions of my photo "Altiplano Life" taken in Lhasa, Tibet in 2004, discussed on C.A.F.E.

1. black and white

2. color version

Samurai-style (Copy)

The only difference between this chart and the one on Paul's diary is the direction of the arrowhead on the broken line. I turned it to the opposite (from south to north) to show the heading route of the Samurai.

I think this is easier for me to understand the conflict immediately. Well, my personal opinion only. I do appreciate Paul's imagination from the original JT poster to this "samurai style", from cigarette to weapon. Cool!

fd's flickrtoy -Scout

This is the selected 28 photos by "Flickr Explore Daily" from my photostream in 2005.  I found all of them were taken before May 2005 when I joined my current company.  What a sad fact.  After the extremely busy working months in the second half of last year, I started to miss the time in nature - am I losing my creativity or just losing time?