ความคิดเห็นที่ 2 Chapter 1. “PLAN” If I have 10 million, I would be able to buy a house. Do I have 10 million? No, I don't. Therefore, I still haven't got a house to call my own. If I have wings, I would be able to fly. Do I have wings? No, I don't. Therefore, there's no way that I could fly. If you pour out all the water in the Pacific Ocean, it still wouldn't be enough to extinguish my flames for you. Can you pour out all the water in the Pacific Ocean? No, you can't. Therefore, I do not love you. It was on the internet that I had met her. How did it all begin? I am not particular sure myself how it all began, I think that it was because a piece of my writing called “PLAN”! The “PLAN” that I wrote went like this: If I have 10 million, I would be able to buy a house. Do I have 10 million? No, I don't. Therefore, I still haven't got a house to call my own. If I have wings, I would be able to fly. Do I have wings? No, I don't. Therefore, there's no way that I could fly. If you pour out all the water in the Pacific Ocean, it still wouldn't be enough to extinguish my flames for you. Can you pour out all the water in the Pacific Ocean? No, you can't. Therefore, I do not love you. Actually what I wrote down was a direct result of my professional inclination, or rather an acquired professional disability. I am a post-graduate research student, and in order for me to write and prove all the complex equations, my mind is always overflowing with countless types of logics. When a hypothesis cannot be scientifically proven, the end result, to put plainly, is nothing but “bullshit.” It is like discussing the possibility of a eunuch giving birth, and whether will the baby be male or female? The point that I am trying to make is that the whole discussion is pointless and nonsensical! Writing all these nonsense into my “PLAN” is probably proof enough that I am a most boring and uninteresting person. As a matter of fact, it is the truth. Thus the fact that I am unattached to any cute girls, no girls are even interested in me or acknowledge my existence, and that there is an un-fillable space next to me at night is therefore more than understandable, reasonable, and probably normal. But she was an exception. She e-mailed me and told me that I am a very interesting person. Interesting? This adjective is hardly the word that’s associated with me and it is probably improperly used when it is associated with my name. If I have to think of an analogy, it would be comparable to using the adjective “honest” to describe a politician, people who hear it will laugh so hard that all their teeth will fall out from all the laughing. I thought to myself that if she is not someone with a very low IQ, then she surely must have some problem with her brain. But looking at her nickname, I don’t think that those two possibilities are very likely because she is calling herself “Fly in Dancing” which is a name with a very poetical sense to it However, in the cyber world nicknames and aliases are something that you never can tell whether something is real or not. In other words, a dinosaur will never say that she is a dinosaur, and she will never even mention the fact that she belongs living in Jurassic park. She will always, with everything she got, try to distract you, mislead you, and whatever you might want to call it, entrap, booby trap, or ensnare you. And it is usually a pretty nickname that the dinosaurs always use as its best weapon to hunt for such an innocent and inexperienced young man like me.   แก้ไขเมื่อ 05 พ.ค. 47 17:22:08 จากคุณ : Peking Man - [ วันฉัตรมงคล 17:20:03 ]

ความคิดเห็นที่ 3 Talking about dinosaurs, I am reminded of my own painful and bitter memories I went out several times to meet friends that I had met on line, but as it turns out these experiences got exponentially worse each and every time and all that I could do was to make a run for safety. I think that my many close encounters with the she-dinosaurs and the manner that I had to make a run for my life to escape them meant that I am pretty qualified to join Steven Spielberg’s special effects team, as a stunt man, for the movie sequel of Jurassic Park. I romantic encounters of my roommate AT (Ah Tai) is pretty similar to mine, if we suppose that the number of the she-dinosaurs that AT and I had encountered is the “x” axis and the level of shock and horror that we experienced is the “y” axis, from this we can obtain an a linear equation that will irrefutably demonstrate the conclusion that in the cyber world there are no beautiful women. Theoretically speaking, the Internet is full of various types of dinosaurs; the only difference is the whether are they carnivorous or herbivorous. Before introducing Fly in Dancing to you, I have to mention something about my roommate AT. Since the beginning of my university years, AT has always been my best friend, despite the fact that our personalities couldn’t possibly be possibly more different. He’s both tall and handsome, most importantly his lips are as sweet as honey and as slick as oil, I really doubt the possibility that any female species can escape the wonders of his lip-service or not drown in his sea of saliva. I like to call him “Lady killer” and if I may say so he is a real professional. The girls who had fallen prey to his love spree are countless and scattered all over the island of Taiwan. He is ever victorious on the battlefield of love, but out of principle he never keeps any prisoners of war as his trophy. He boasts that he has attain the highest level of achievement in the battlefield of love; “not a leaf nor a flower petal on oneself after a frolic in the multitude of flowers, which when compared to Xu Zhimo’s own description of his experiences as “ shaking his sleeves softly, he doesn’t want to take away with him even a trace of the cloud” means that AT’s level of attainment is higher and more awesome. While Xu Zhimo still had to shake his sleeves to get rid of girls that had irritatably clung onto him, in AT’s case he doesn’t even have a sleeve that girls can cling on to and that he had to worry about. AT always say the fact that I am too honest makes me cannon fodder on the battlefield of love. I can’t really blame him for saying that since I am neither tall nor handsome, plus I have riding on the ridge of my nose a pair of extra thick glasses that makes my eyes look like one thin line. I remember this one time when I was in my hydromechanics class, the professor suddenly shouted out my name and made me stand up, all because he thought that I was sleeping in class, while in fact I was really paying attention to his lecture. Perhaps it is my destiny! Ever since when I was little I was surrounded by men who behave like women and/ or women who behaves like men. AT always says that there are 4 types of men: The 1st type or the “lucky” type. They are those who don’t need to go and chase after girls and yet they are well rewarded by the attention, admiration, and affection of girls, the 2nd type or “easy” type. They are those who, although they might have to go after a girl, success is effortlessly easy and sweet, the 3rd type or “hard working” type. For this group of people, they have to use all the wits that they got, employs all the strategies, and use all the tricks that they have up their sleeves, in order to win the girl’s love, as for me I belong to the 4th type or the “overly optimistic type”, which means that I can only hope for a girl who had tripped and fallen down because there was something in her eyes AT is a very good friend indeed, he would always introduce girls who he think are nice for me to go out with, but regrettably I am the type that always lose courage and I am just not myself when I am alone with another girl But surely I am not the one to blame! It just happens that I have read several books of great morals and virtues expounded by great sages of yore, and the fact that I know and understand what I can and should do and what I cannot and should not do, all of these of course are the greatest taboos for pursuing any girl or woman in the present day. For example, I was having coffee with a girl that I wouldn’t call particularly slim. I, being in my good mood, asked her to order some more cake or pastry for herself, but she politely declined saying that she’s afraid that she might get fat. I very rationally and truthfully then said: “I think for you, it’s already a bit too late for that.” Last year there was also this time when I went to have dinner with another girl, she was as if trying to make sure that I know how pretty she was (which she really wasn’t) told me that all her friends always tell her that she has the face of an angel and the body of the she-devil. I as honestly and coolly as I possibly could told her that her friends must of have got it confused and told her in reverse order, or else it was probably she, herself who remembered it wrongly. Luckily we were only having something fast and simple, because right after that comment I was hit on the chest with chopsticks that were sent flying with great accuracy across from the other end of the table. If we had been eating steaks or anything western, I think that it would have resulted in an almost certain death of a certain someone. จากคุณ : Peking Man - [ วันฉัตรมงคล 17:22:42 ]

ความคิดเห็นที่ 4 After barely escaping with my life from that near-death encounter, I began to fully comprehend how cruel and terrible a she dinosaur can be. So from that point onward, AT came up with this system for escaping from the clutches of these dinosaurs. If anyone of us has to go out alone to meet someone that we had met online, we have to remember to take the beeper. We will be each other’s logistical team, helping each other out, making the beeper beep at a certain time to provide an opportunity to make a clean getaway. If the dinosaur is carnivorous, then the excuse will be “There’s a fire at our dorm!” and if the dinosaur is herbivorous, the excuse will be “Our dorm room has been burgled!” As a result, that year AT’s dorm burnt down 4 times and was burgled 6 times, as for me I was a bit more lucky, I was only burgled 5 times. Therefore before meeting FID (Flying in Dancing), my heart has actually been trained to be able to withstand almost anything. Even if I meet a dinosaur, my heartbeat will still be only 72 beats per minute. AT warned me about FID that if she doesn’t have long hair then she must be very hot, because when dancing there are only 2 things that can be flying; one, her hair and two, her skirt. A girl with her hair flying when she is dancing is of course very beautiful, but if it is her skirt that goes flying then that’s a real hint that she is actually very hot underneath. But I on the contrary believe that she is unique, genuine, and original, she is someone that will stand out from the crowd, and I of course don’t mean that she stands out because she is exceptionally fat or large. According to the horoscope a Scorpio possesses a very sensitive and acute sense of perception, therefore I have always believe my 6th sense. As for AT, although he can with just one look tell the size of a girl’s bosoms, and also determine whether it is an “A” or a “B” cup; or he might be able to get a girl to lie on her back for him with a matter of days, but nevertheless he might have never before really understood before even one girl or woman. AT always quote William Shakespeare’s words “ a woman is to be loved, not to be understood” to prove that understanding a woman is not a prerequisite condition to become a successful Casanova. In fact, I too have to agree that this saying is actually very truthful. I still can remember that in the past I had once lived in a flat with 4 other girls and the experience was just too bitter for words to describe. I had to oversee every detail of their daily lives, I have to remind them about the things that they have to do and most of the time make sure and also help them to get it done. This is because girls nowadays know about how to dress up and have fun, some (most) might not have the slightest comprehension about housework and how to take care of themselves. In order to help them protect themselves against wolves that preys on their virginity, every night I had to take a roll call before going to bed, to make sure that all of them had already got home. While you might say that this provide me with a great opportunity to go after these girls myself, if I had tried anything with or to anyone of these girls, people will laugh at me for being a hypocrite, and if I don’t try anything at all, other people still will be laughing at me saying that I am a sissy, and then perhaps also handing me a name card for a urologist. On the hot summer nights, after the girls had taken their showers I had to wage a battle between good and evil within myself every night, this is I think what they call “see but no touch!” scenario. After having lived with the girls for 2 years, I have learnt one valuable lesson, no matter how innocent, cute, pretty, or beautiful a girl is, the way that they roll-up their pants and count their leg hairs are always the same. Plus, they all will shout out from the bathroom and ask me to hand them a roll of toilet paper from the other side of the half opened bathroom door. จากคุณ : Peking Man - [ วันฉัตรมงคล 17:23:07 ]

ความคิดเห็นที่ 5 Chapter 2. Flying in Dance “I softly swing and dance amongst the crowd of people, You throw a mysterious and ambivalent glance at me from across the room. Whether it is the look of surprise, or the look of appreciation, That did not make me at all confused with my dance steps. Because the reason that I am flying is not because those eyes of yours staring at me, Rather it is my youthful heart.” I think that it’s probably about time to introduce you to FID and let her on to the stage. It’s probably because she has some sort of psychological abnormality, that she sent me an e-mail telling me that I am interesting, but ever since that day, how I do constantly wish that I could meet her on line. But, very sadly, every time that we are on line, we would always miss each other by only the length of one hair. As a result I had to resort to e-mailing her, complimenting and reassuring her that she has good eyes for potential and I will try my best to train myself to be an interesting person that she says I am. Because I sent her that e-mail, she replied me with an e-mail, I replied her reply to my e-mail with another e-mail, and she replied my reply to her reply to my e-mail, etc and before you know it we both were in a situation which the Chinese describes as “ reprisal only breeds reprisal, and therefore an endless cycle of hatred.” Although people say that you should not try to find yourself an enemy (especially an online enemy), but in our case it’s a totally different story; our battle of words via our e-mails have made us rather inseparable. But the thing that made me very interested in her was how she had written her “PLAN”: “I softly swing and dance amongst the crowd of people, You throw a mysterious and ambivalent glance at me from across the room. Whether it is the look of surprise, or the look of appreciation, That did not make me at all confused with my dance steps. Because the reason that I am flying is not because those eyes of yours staring at me, Rather it is my youthful heart.” I just couldn’t imagine that there are any linkages between her and all those dinosaurs out there. But if she is a real and genuine dinosaur, I am only too happy to sacrifice myself and let this dinosaur have at least one proper meal. I guess that I can say: “To die, being devoured by a dinosaur, even in death as a ghost I am happy.” AT seems to have noticed that lately I have been acting very strangely, he would often warn me that on the internet I can play around and flirt all that I want, but I have to make sure that I don’t take it too seriously, because in the end these make-believe relationships are like vampire, they are afraid of being exposed to broad daylight, and they will fade away into nothingness. AT would say, “Let God be God and Caesar be Caesar; let the things on line as they should, on line, and accept reality as it is, a reality.” He also said that because online everyone is hiding behind an ID, an alias, or a nickname, not even first discussing their personality, whether they are a good or bad person, or their appearance, whether they are beautiful or ugly, we don’t even know if that person is male or female, when you are in a situation like this how can one even begin to contemplate or mention the word “relationship”? I can’t blame AT for his cold heartedness and his overly critical views, because ever since when he was dumped by his girl friend when he was 20, he then started on his adventurous path frolicking and ravaging through the fields of flower that is the female affection. There’s a saying that goes “ Once bitten by a snake you are afraid even at the sight of a rope, ” I guess that ever since he was bitten by the love snake, he has learnt how to strip the snake skin and picked up the habit of enjoying a good snake meat hot pot. In addition, the sort of online female acquaintance that AT meets online is also very exceptional, there’s never a shortage of these cyber gals, AT’s online female friends are too numerous to count and some are as hot or perhaps even hotter than even AT, looking out to find some temporary excitement with no conditions or no strings attached, or as we say it, a one night stand or casual sex. Some on meeting AT for the first time would ask him, “Do you fancy a little get together?” Because the wise men in the battlefield of Love teaches us, “A real beauty is hard to find, if she has a nice figure that is good enough!” Therefore, besides the dinosaurs, AT would usually answer, “As I only live to serve, your wish is my command, how could I possibly disobey your order?” They will then usually say or ask something like, “Your place or mine?” And then AT without a moment of hesitation will answer, “Kill me, torture me, do as you wish, since my life is in your hands. The important issue is with whom are you going to do it with and not where are you going to do it at.” AT is a real lady-killer; he has never even flinched when he has to deal with all these sly vixens. The only thing that I have an issue with is the fact that he sometimes will bring these girls home and then kicks me out to wander aimlessly in the street at night. จากคุณ : Peking Man - [ วันฉัตรมงคล 17:23:55 ]

ความคิดเห็นที่ 6 Late one night as I was cracking my skull open trying to write a complex equation, outside my lab window, I can hear a stray cat in heat meowing; 3 long and 1 short meow. I guess that it was trying to tell me that the time is already 3:15am. Being bored out of my wits, I went on line to browse and surf the net, normally around this time the number of people on line is very few, and most of these people are either like me bored to death or sex-crazed. If I can meet one of these “hentai” girls who is online and pass sometime together that would be something very nice. AT says that during the early hours of the day, the security of a girl’s heart is the most relaxed and easiest to score a homerun. “Homerun”? Let me explain, between the two of us, AT and I, we like to compare the advancements that one makes with a girl with a game of baseball. The 1st base is when you are holding her hand or perhaps putting your hand around her shoulder. The 2nd base is the occasional hug or a kiss. The 3rd base is when you are making out with her. And the home base of course is $£%$£^ (due to the fact that any indecent material cannot be posted, the actual word(s) have been masked over) AT is the type that always scores a homerun, where as for me I am famous for always batted out and never even hit a single baseball. Until now, I still don’t know what is the shape of the 1st base; whether it is square or round? If you don’t manage to hit a fastball that is being thrown at you at 140kmph and then get sent off the pitch, then there’s no problem, but the fact that I couldn’t even manage to hit a slow ball, is extremely embarrassing! How I really want to dig a hole in the ground and stick my head into it. If I never once hit a baseball, I know that my poor soul will never be able to rest in peace. “Ding ding” the computer sounded, Ah too good to be true! A fish has swallowed my bait. I don’t know which pitiful girl, from a pile of all :-)gry male predators that preys on girls online, for no good reason had chosen me to be the recipient of her message. I of course unconsciously let drip a drop or two saliva of self-consolation. According to protocol, I clasped together my 2 hands and pray to the all mighty God up above asking him to show me compassion and bless me with a lonely beauty that needs someone to be with and TLC (tender loving care). After that, using the left hand that I swear I had never used to wipe my behind with, I pressed a key on the keyboard and then on the computer screen appeared a message “Mr. Hooligan it’s already so late, why aren’t you asleep?” WOW! Wa lao!!! Was it possible, it’s FID on line! FID, she is the girl that I am still uncertain about whether is it her long hair or her skirt that is flying in the wind? I suddenly had to try to recompose myself, suck in hard to try to stop myself from drooling, and do some deep breathing exercise. Right now AT is probably in bed with some unfortunate girl. AT such an important moment for me, how could he have left me on my own to go into battle? If I had known this was going to happen tonight, I would have pleaded with him to refrain from eating meat and be a vegetarian for one night. What am I to do? With my lame sense of humour and my half-witted conversation, how could I possibly get her to take any interest in me? “Mr. Hooligan I am not in a good mood and I just can’t seem to go to sleep are you also in a bad mood?” Shit!! This is all AT’s fault, why did he with all the names possible had to choose this particular nickname like this one, “Hooligan Cai”, and then trying to explain to me that it is according to the logic of “putting oneself in a death trap, one is the most safest”, or in a sense when you are at your worse, there are only good things that can happen. He assured me that this nickname would definitely attract loads of innocent young girls to me. In the past some of the nicknames and aliases that I had used are “Loving you 10,000 years”, “Jack the Sentimental”, “Romantic is my nickname”, “If you don’t want to live, I will die with you”, etc aren’t these nicknames also cool and original??? But now having her calling me a hooligan, I ask what is then left of my image and self pride??? จากคุณ : Peking Man - [ วันฉัตรมงคล 17:25:05 ]

ความคิดเห็นที่ 7 “I am also in a very bad mood lets hope that the fact that both of us are in a bad mood are like a double negative cancelling each other out and make it a positive!” Whew! Just trying to squeeze out even just that one sentence and I already am sweating cold sweat all over. Actually, I am not really in such a bad mood. It’s just that its probably to agree with her and follow her lead since it isn’t such a good idea to disagree with her from out first online conversation, which I think would be considered not very proper. And if she asks me why I am unhappy, I can then answer her, “Since you are not in a good mood, how then can I be in a good mood?” Although that would sound a bit (actually, very much so) like lip service, but according to AT, he always say insists that, “Lip service is the fundamental element of any relationship.” Besides, women are a very strange specie, they are a lot more willing to believe their own two ears than their own two eyes, which therefore makes doing 10 good things for a woman to make her feel touched and moved might not even equal to just saying a simple phrase to make her feel moved. “Good, good but you know, you haven’t yet said hi to me and asked how I was doing?” Oh! I am unworthy and I should die a thousand times of the most horrible death, to compensate for this grave mistake. How could I have been so nervous that I’ve completely forgotten even the simplest of custom and formality? I am so ashamed of myself, and to think that I am known in my department as a textbook case, an epitome for morality, and the top boy for the virtue and ethics class that every student had to take during their undergraduate years. If I let my juniors know this, wouldn’t they have one less role model to look up to and have a crush on? I am so ashamed of myself for my action that from now on I don’t think that I can show my face in the presence of my female juniors. “Greetings to you girl with long hair blowing in the wind ” In my heart, I had always silently hoped that the thing flying in the air is her hair and not her skirt. Therefore, naturally I felt that she should have a head of long flowing hair. May god protect me, please don’t tell me that my prediction was wrong. “Eh? How did you know that I have long hair?” Bingo! I was right after all! That for me is proof enough that she is not someone who is always on the look out for men and this is something that really made my day! “Not only do I know that you have long hair, I also know that you don’t like to wear a skirt.” If you want to gamble, you have to gamble big, and if I get this one right, then I know that things will then fall into places and there will be for me ever lasting peace on earth for me “Whoa unbelievable how could you have possibly known that I don’t like to wear long skirts?” Oh heaven, thank you! Thank you lord, but I am sure that there is no need for such an exceptional treatment just because I am more honest, sincere, and truthful than the others, there is absolutely no need for such an exceptional treatment (though I really really really do thank you!)!? “I instinctively feel that you have a pair of beautiful legs and that it would be blasphemous if your legs and your figure were to be all covered up by a pair of long skirt.” I finally see that all the special training that I got from AT is really useful, AT says that a man has to learn how to sweet talk, and when a man is whispering sweet words his biggest enemy is not the girl’s eyes, rather it is the man’s own stomach. If and when I can senselessly sweet talk a girl without feeling disgusted or throwing up, then I am ready to charge bravely into the battlefield of relationship and launch an attack. Finally, after all the training, I have graduated and come home! “Ah :) ” This is a special privilege for girls on the internet, when they are lost for words and don’t know what to say, they will usually say “ah ”, “hmm ” or type a smiley face, “: )” to gloss over the situation. This is a very special move by her while she without saying a word, to portray her emotion and how she feels, she can gracefully accept your compliment and act as if she is not at all affected or bothered by your comment. “Are you feeling any better at all my beautiful FID?” Although deep down I really wanted to find out what she is unhappy about and why is she in such a bad mood? But it would be unimaginable to directly ask her, because when a girl is in a bad mood their emotions are very unstable, it’s very likely that I will only irritate her with my overtly direct question. If she happened to have just been fired, deflowered, or stepped on a pile of doggie poo, I am sure that she’ll have my head for dinner. Therefore, in this situation, the most obvious way to go about it is to alter the way that I go about asking her questions; which if I might say so is very much in accordance with Sunzi’s philosophy in his famous work “The Art of War” which states the effectiveness of evasive manoeuvres to confuse the opponents and lure them in to your traps and attack them. And since I have already complimented her that she is very beautiful, she has to give me at least some credits about my right insight, so I think that I am relatively safe from bombing out from this conversation (or am I?)! “Hmm . I am a lot better already my cute Mr. Hooligan J” “Cute?” Although cute is an adjective that I’m not really pleased with, but it is an adjective that I still find acceptable, never the less no matter how cute a hooligan is, a hooligan is still a hooligan! I think that tomorrow I have to come up with a new and a more elegant alias. “Knowing that you are feeling better I too am feeling so much better don’t you think that that is very strange?” This is the trap that I had just planted a few moments ago and now it’s the perfect time for me to use it to get her attention. The beautiful thing about this trap is that, while it is obviously trying to suck up to her, I am pretending that I am very innocent and I have no ulterior motives at all when I am saying these words it is rather like the a sword move in the Jin Yong novel “Xiao Ao Jiang Hu” in which a sword’s precision regulated movements are no match for those which are not at all regulated with these random words which might not seems to mean much, in fact there are very crucial to winning her attention. “Oy! you hooligan I should be going to bed la tomorrow I’ll be on line at 10 am will you keep me company online tomorrow?” Judging from her response, the words which I had used, no matter the words or the way in which I said it seems to be just perfect. Having been friends with AT for such a long time wasn’t a waste of time after all. “I would gladly walk through hell’s inferno for you there’s no need to ask me whether I will be there talking to you, because you already knew that I will!” Oh GOD!!! Was that really me? How could I have uttered a sentence with such depth and meaning? I bet that what I had just said could be ranked in the top 10 of this year’s best line on the internet! I think that if Casanova was still alive today I think that it would also be hard for him to beat what I have just said! Although it is a fact that I have been receiving advice and instructions from AT, but from just now, I think that I have by now matured and probably surpassed AT’s capabilities. The most astonishing thing to this is the fact that during this whole time while I was typing my hands weren’t even shaking at all. Could this be a sign that I too have what it takes to survive and thrive in the battlefield of Love? From deep down, I am sincerely touched and moved because of my newly discovered god given gift. “J See you tomorrow morning then Good night you hooligan.” “Hmm I don’t think so it should rather be, see you again later this morning never the less good night to you too ” After signing off, I couldn’t help myself thinking about imitating those people on television screaming at the top of their lungs screaming about the fact that they’ve hit the jackpot!! It looks like this hit has a very good chance of becoming a homerun. While all this was happening inside, outside the lab’s windows, that same stray cat is meowing even louder than before จากคุณ : Peking Man - [ วันฉัตรมงคล 17:27:24 ]

ความคิดเห็นที่ 8 Chapter 3. An unexpected encounter on the internet In reality an unexpected encounter on the internet could very well be called romantic, because all things romantic is characterized as somewhat fictional and therefore unreal. From this point of view, an unexpected encounter on the internet therefore has all the necessary conditions for being something very romantic. “Ha ha give me a cupful of liquid viagra so that I will not sag and last all night ” Hearing this lewd song, a remake of one of Ady Lau’s classic “wang qing shui (elixir of forgetfulness: according to chinese folk legend it is given to every soul before they are reincarnated to forget all their feelings in their past lives and start anew)”, there is no question in my mind that AT is back and listening to the song that he is singing, tonight another girl has fallen prey to AT, :-)k. AT always say that it is not that he doesn’t want to settle down with a certain particular someone, it’s just that his conditions are too good! and that in retrospect makes the girls that he goes out with feel very insecure. Therefore as his defence, he always says that he is helpless; it isn’t that he wants to be a playboy, it just happens that he naturally is one. This is of course an excuse, but you certainly cannot deny it that every man more or less all has this trait that AT is synonymous with. The difference is that for most men they do not possess all the necessary quality to become a playboy and therefore they are simply just not able to play the role of one. I told AT that I’ve just met FID. “Wow wow congratulations for such as occasion how can we not have some alcohol to celebrate?” “Are you kidding, I still have to get up early tomorrow, drinking now can prove to be disastrous for my plan for tomorrow.” “Hmm very true no rush then since we can always drink when you are heartbroken, which I think shouldn’t be long.” “Walao!!! Are you trying to jinx me?” “Why do you have to say that I am trying? When in fact I am jinxing and cursing you in earnest and right in your face!” “Shit! Damn you, you xxx ! If it were not for the fact that I can’t beat you up, by now you would be drowning in a pool of your own blood.” “My dear hooligan, there is no need to be angry, I am using a psychological method, in intimidating you, I am trying to make you more assertive and courageous which is just like pouring a bucket of cold water on you while you are anticipating for something which will one make you more realistic and more focused about your goals, two more conscious about your actions and what you are doing, and three prepared for difficulties and obstacles that will no doubt appear in your conquest whether it be breaking your opponent’s army, breaking down their defences, or conquering enemy territories, with my help you will be ever victorious and unbeatable!” Hmm what AT said was actually very true without that bucket of cold water, I would now be over the moon and lost in my own happiness. My timetable is the complete opposite of any normal person, therefore getting up at 10am to me is a very difficult challenge! “AT can you wake me up tomorrow morning?” “la la la ” Judging by the fact that he is singing something very lewd and rude I think that for him the night is still young, so forget it, I don’t think that I can count on him to wake me up tomorrow morning. I had to set the alarm on 2 alarm clocks; one next to my bed and another one at the far end corner of the room. This extra measure is to ensure that the alarm will not only wake up my index finger. จากคุณ : Peking Man - [ วันฉัตรมงคล 17:28:20 ]

ความคิดเห็นที่ 10 “Ah Mr. Hooligan what a coincidence J” Whew that what close, although I got up late, but luckily I was still able to make it just in time for our internet meeting at 10am. “Yes, what a coincidence, it’s really surprising isn’t it ” The female race is a very strange and peculiar race indeed, and plus they are very difficult to understand, even though we had already agreed upon our on line meeting today, she is still pretending as if that this meeting is an accidental encounter or something that was destined. I guess that it’s probably because they all have read too many romance novels. They always think that the guy they meet on an encounter that is “destined” is the most handsome and memorable. Moreover, the degree of how handsome a guy is, is always depended upon how romantic the (chance) encounter was. “Mr. Hooligan you are just talking B(ull)S(hit)!”   “BS? Ok if it is BS that you want to hear, I will tell you something that is really BS. For example, a chance encounter on the beach during the summertime, the guy is always running, he always well built and sculpted like a Greek god, his skin is smooth and well bronzed. His eyes are large, clear, and sparkle like the sunlight that is reflected off of the ocean wave and his laughter is loud and clear with the intensity of a lion’s roar and full of animal magnetism. Most importantly for the guy that you meet on these occasions, he has to be calling out the name of the girl while he is running towards her. When he reaches her he reaches out towards her and lifts her off the ground with ease and throws her into his muscular embrace and then swing her counter-clock wise three times.” “Mr. Hooligan go on please BS some more ” “Hmm don’t you like summer? Ok, if you don’t like it we can try changing it to another season. A chance encounter on the street during the autumn months, the guy must be wearing a pair of glasses, look refine, cultured, and very intellectual. Sometimes he might remind you of a textbook look and feel. In his hands there has to be a book, most probably a collection of poems by a certain poet. To make this encounter even better, there has to be plenty of fallen leaves on the pavement and there has to be sha sha . The sound of dry leaves crackling under his every footstep. As he is walking he has to be reciting lines from Shelley or Yeats and when he meets her he has to overwhelm her with unique and imaginative compliments and praise her that she is even more beautiful than the most beautiful poem.” “Mr. Hooligan you are really good at babbling nonsense ” “I’m babbling nonsense? Ok, let’s not take into consideration the time of the encounter and focus instead on the place of the encounter. A chance encounter in an uninhabited valley, the guy has to have long flowing hair and the look and feel of an artist. Beside him there is a painting stand and a couple of canvases. To make the scene more complete there has to be some birds chirping and some perching on a near by branch of a tree watching him as he goes about painting. As for the girl, she might standing or lying down on a day bed, with nothing on perhaps but a piece of fabric which makes her skin glow in the soft sunlight, or else she silently might also be impress with his undivided attention while he is painting.” “Mr. Hooligan I think that you must of taken the wrong medicine today ” “So you think that I have taken the wrong medication, ok. Let’s change the setting to a place that is more civilized. How about a chance encounter in a bustling downtown bar, the guy in this encounter has to look as if he has neglected himself for quite some time; he hasn’t shaved for at least 2 or 3 weeks and his hair is greasy (but sexy with a bad boy look), and with just one look you can see that he has an air of a deeply troubled soul. Between his lips there has to be a lit cigarette and he has to be drinking something hard like brandy or whisky and not some domestic beer. Better :-) his eyes has to be cold and piercing like needles and some time it has to be so full of feeling that you can sense it almost overflowing. To make it work, the girl has to be picked on by some drunken thug and the guy being the good guy that he is, valiantly rushes forth and rescues her and taught the thug and his hooligan friends a lesson.” “Mr. Hooligan all these stories are so romantic ah ” “Romantic? Come on please, real romance perhaps can only exists as a part of some fictitious novel. In the real world, a guy running on the beach rarely wear any shoes and are very prone to step on a piece of broken glass and has to be rushed to the emergency room. Or perhaps the girl is a bit (usually it is “enormously”) too heavy for the guy to carry her around in his embrace and by trying to it has caused him to pull and damage his muscles or dislocate his joints. The guy who was taking a stroll amongst the fallen leaves in the fall might just as easily step on some dog shit because the fallen leaves are so thick that he didn’t see it being there in the leaves. And because the smell was so terrible, he wasn’t able to concentrate and therefore unable to get into the mood to recite those romantic poems. Instead he had to switch to recite some nursery rhyme to get over that horrible smell. In the serene valley setting where another guy is trying to paint a masterpiece, who knows a little bird that is just hanging around can drop a load of shit on his head. Or perhaps when his model was taking off her clothes, he might have complaint about the model’s thick and un-shapely waist and some excess fat on her backside, and for that his model might beat him senseless. And how about that guy drinking alone in a crowded downtown bar, that night he might not have enough money to pay for his drinks so he has to stay behind and wash a whole night of dishes to pay off his tab. Or perhaps he might have overestimated himself and his ability, so when he rushed forth to rescue the girl, it might instead be him who got beat up, since there is no reason at all why the good guy has to always win in a fight of any kind.” แก้ไขเมื่อ 05 พ.ค. 47 17:33:19 จากคุณ : Peking Man - [ วันฉัตรมงคล 17:31:16 ]

ความคิดเห็นที่ 11 “Mr. Hooligan do you by any chance have anything against things being romantic?” “Do I have anything against things being romantic? Of course not, I am just making a general statement based on statistical observations and its conclusions. I am not so sure whether have you noticed, all the guys that I have just mentioned in the various scenarios above, whether the beach god, the artist, the poet, or the troubled soul, the common characteristics that they all strangely share not the fact that they are not the fact that they are “handsome” or “good looking” but rather it is the fact that they are all “TALL”. There are some romance novel out there that will sacrifice the leading male and intentionally make him not so handsome, but there is no chance that they will allow for the leading male to be even slightly vertically challenged. And since I am not tall, I therefore want to protest this great injustice. “Mr. Hooligan your protest is duly noted but rejected!” Oh how could I have been more boring and uninteresting, why am I on line with her discussing these stuff, and how is it possible that we had talked about it until noon without even noticing it. “Mr. Hooligan are you hungry?” “Yep what about you?” “Hmm I guess that then it is time for lunch J” “So does that mean that we should ? ” “Mr. Hooligan I was only just mentioning it I didn’t mean that I want to go out and have a meal with you ” Ok very well, I am not romantic. And as for you, you are also not romantic. During lunch with AT, we were discussing my conversation with FID earlier in the morning. “You are a real idiot why did you have to stress the fact that you are not romantic? What is wrong with your head?” AT began his conversation with grave criticism and went in straight for the kill, listening to his comments felt rather like being bombarded by an endless wave of cannonballs. “My reputation is now all gone because of you how could you have possibly commit this fundamental mistake? I I ” AT was clearly upset, in his hand his chopsticks was carrying a piece of chicken wing, you can see that his hand was clearly shaking and judging by the fact that the flapping of the chicken wing seems as if it was going to take flight you can see that AT is really UPSET! “There are three great taboos in finding and keeping a girlfriend: 1. NOT ROMANTIC 2. TOO HONEST 3. DOESN’T KNOW HOW TO COMPLIMENT And of the three, the most important thing that one cannot forget to avoid is being “NOT ROMANTIC!” Any mistakes or misconducts are all null and void when compared with not being romantic. Haven’t you heard of this rule before?” I, of course have never heard of anything like it before, I have only heard of “any law that is in breach of the power of the constitution is illegal, null and void.” “ ‘Girls only fancy the bad boys!’ I assume that you have heard of that one before?” This being such a controversial statement, how could I possibly not have heard it!? “But when all these girls are themselves not a bad girl, why then do they have to go and fancy a bad boy?” “That’s because the bad boys are usually very romantic where as the good guys are usually plain and simple “BORING”. Therefore the girls usually opted to choose a bad guy who is romantic rather than the good guy who is not romantic. This is a situation where we call ‘from all the bad things we chose the one that is the least’ do you understand Mr. HOOLIGAN?” Ah now I get it. No wonder I have been all alone all these years, where as the number of girls around AT’s side seems to be endless. A sage once said “ When one has attained the way in the morning, one is ready to die that very same evening.” I think that I have finally come to the point where I can finally rest in peace where girls are concerned. “In other words... a girl can overlook the fact that you are not tall enough, ignore the fact that you are not very handsome, forgive you that you are not very warm and caring, live with the fact that you are not protective of her, and accept you for being someone who is not very intelligent and humorous. But the one thing that she won’t tolerate is you being not romantic.” “Aren’t you stretching the truth just a bit too far? All this can’t seriously be true!?” “My dear hooligan of the girls out there, the majority is fixated with this thing called a ‘romantic complex’ very similar to a lot of guys who are also fixated on the ‘virgin complex’. From a girl’s point of view they cannot comprehend the importance of such a thin layer of membrane that their male counterpart has given it. In retrospect, the guys are also as perplexed with the importance of being romantic to a girl ” “That’s plainly ludicrous! I’ve never heard of anyone afflicted with the ‘virgin complex’ not to mention I have never heard of anyone who is fixated with a ‘romantic complex’. ” “The thing that they call a ‘complex’ the important thing that keeps troubling us is its complexity if we could make it simple and straightforward then there wouldn’t be any trouble! Guys naturally knows that a ‘virgin complex is not only nonsensical; it is also unfair and selfish. The fact that one can or cannot for oneself resolve the issue is one thing, the fact that one can or cannot bring oneself to accept that they are also affected by this complex is actually a totally different matter vice versa, these issues are also the same for the girls with the ‘romantic complex’.” “But online when the subject of ‘virgin complex’ is brought up, everyone will say that the guys who believes it are stupid bastards, who deserves a good and thorough beating. Isn’t it?” “My dear simpleton, you only know the first half of the story and obviously have not been told about the other half of the story. When talking about ‘ virgin complex’ girls have every right to feel upset and they should feel upset it is all very understandable. But for the guys, how many actually have the guts and courage to come out and admit that that they have a ‘ virgin complex’? In addition, if all the girls believe that men will only want to marry a virgin, and as a result all become serious about their virginity, how do you expect guys like me to survive? Therefore, to be fair, we have to let the girls believe that the fact that they are a virgin or not is not really important. Taking this into consideration, my first article that I posted online was to swear to my death eradicate and deny the existence of the ‘virgin complex’.” I see no wonder every time that AT goes to have a hotpot with us, he’ll always say that the vegetables are delicious and we being very gullible will believe him and then focus on eating the vegetables while AT helps himself to all the meat that he wants. จากคุณ : Peking Man - [ วันฉัตรมงคล 17:34:43 ]

ความคิดเห็นที่ 12 “To a girl in one year there are 5 very special and important days: 1. Western Valentine day 2. Chinese Valentine day 3. Her birthday 4. Women day 5. Christmas I, AT having been playing the filed for almost a decade, having been in and out of battles big and small for countless times while I dare to curse at girls and women alike and call them names I dare to stood them up I dare to say in their face that they are ugly and I also dare to criticize the shape and size of their body parts but I absolutely dare not on these five sacred days send them at least a small present and some flowers to express my undying loyalty to them.” “In 1 year there are 365 days even if you were good to a girl for 360 days out of the year all this somehow seems incomparable to being especially good to her and make her feel romantic on the 5 sacred days. It is normal for a girl that because you were especially good to her on these 5 days, to forget the reality that you were treating her as good or paying her enough attention on the other 360 days. But vice versa this very same girl will because of your less than extraordinary performance on these 5 days, she can and will forget how good you have been to her on the other 360 days.” “WALAO!” It seems that AT hasn’t yet finished passing gas. “A very famous baseball player who wishes to be anonymous once said: ‘Don’t brag about your batting averages and don’t try to intimidate the other people with the number of homeruns that you can hit you only need to tell me what is your RBI.’ My dear hooligan do you get it now? There’s the best time for everything, even hitting a homerun. So naturally it is not necessary to hit a homerun every time, you just have to hit it at the right time. Perhaps you can mix in some other shots, to confuse your opponents and make us difficult to defeat.” “Ah I finally get it I finally understand it now! But since the dice has been cast, what am I supposed to do now to avert this looming disaster?” “My simpleton friend, don’t you worry in the end I’ll always be there dead drunk with you when you are heartbroken but have you ever thought of it on the bright side, that it is exactly because you are always rejected and heartbroken that your level of alcohol tolerance have become extremely high and if one look at it from this point of view then I see no point at all for you to be disappointed. After all, you win some and you lose some and who knows, you might in the end end up with something that you had never expected before, just like the Chinese saying ‘ The old man who loses his horse, how could he know whether will it bring good or bad luck?’ ” Although what AT says is true, but how many horses do I have left to lose? จากคุณ : Peking Man - [ วันฉัตรมงคล 17:36:05 ]

ความคิดเห็นที่ 13 Later that evening, in the laboratory still struggling with my dissertation I don’t know why but strangely looking at these very similar equations, somehow I felt quite fed up with it, I felt that I could throw up if I have to take another look at anything that looks like an equation. I wondered to myself, when we use observations, theories, and equations to explain phenomenon occurring in the natural physical world, we all call that “science”, but why then when we use the cosmic alignment to explain a person’s life that that is called “superstition”? Shouldn’t science be one of the many ways of explaining and understanding the truth? At the same time, what science cannot explain should not be called as false, because what science cannot explain doesn’t mean that it is false, it might be possible that it is just another manifestation of the truth that science-which is man made and therefore prone to faults- simply cannot define because of its limitations. Why is it that men of science always fall into the traps that are theories and equations that they themselves are its creators? That stupid alley cat, I wonder what its problem is why does it have to always make that distinct and unique 3 long and 1 short meow this late at night? Huh let’s log on to the internet! Since my brain is already thoroughly tired and tied-up in knots there is no point to continue working, trying to work out and write any more equations. “Mr. Hooligan Hi, finally you are on line how are you are you? : )” “Finally?” That’s a very strange adjective to use, but more importantly what does she mean by it? Another interesting thing is why is she online at this hour? Lets hope that she’s not again in a bad mood! “Yes, I’m fine for you and I to meet online at this most improbable time I guess that is what they call “DESTINY”! By trying to imitate a real Casanova, perhaps she might think that I am after all romantic. “Mr. Hooligan this doesn’t have anything to do with fate or destiny, you know why, because I have been online waiting for you ever since 2am!” “Come on, get real! You are just joking with me right? What’s the point for you to intentionally wait for me to come online?” “It’s just that I want to talk to you ah or else I feel that I won’t be able to go to bed ” “Have you suddenly become an SM addict? I guess that in your case, you are probably the one who needs to be tortured and tormented before you are able to go to bed.” “: ) ” “Mr. Hooligan continuing our conversation from lunchtime what is your personal view on an online encounter?” Oh my God, of all the questions that she could have asked, why does she have to ask me this one? After having been coached by AT this afternoon, how could I possibly say to her what I really have in my mind? “An online encounter is uh very hmm romantic !?” Lying is obviously not one of my strong points, because whenever I am saying something that I don’t believe in, my fingers and palms get very sweaty and they are prone to get a bit shaky, even if I were typing instead of saying it. “Mr. Hooligan you are not telling me the truth the you that I know is not the romantic type!” Oh FXXX! It’s all over! Pretty soon I can count on it that I will be drinking with AT. “Mr. Hooligan why don’t you say something? Don’t you know that I like listening to you talking on and on and on ” “If you already know that once I start talking I’ll keep on going on and on why would you still want to listen to my hot air?” “My dear Mr. Hooligan, this is what one calls, “zhi qi bu ke wei er wei zhi” (knowing that it should not be done or cannot be done and still do it anyway) or also known as “ming zhi shan you hu pian xiang hu shan xing” (knowing that there are tigers lurking in the mountain, but still heads for the mountains anyway)” Hmmm . This FID of all the things that she could have picked up from me, she had to pick up my unique way of using and interpreting sayings. Looking at my horse stable I see that there’s only one horse left inside. I couldn’t help it but think what should I do, should I tell her the truth, or should I try to gloss it over? จากคุณ : Peking Man - [ วันฉัตรมงคล 17:38:18 ]

ความคิดเห็นที่ 14 “Hey you hooligan! Have your system crashed? Or are you just daydreaming?” “Hmm I was just contemplating why the sun today was so round?” “Hey, right now the thing that is hanging in the sky outside is not the sun don’t you try to change the subject I had waited for an hour for you to come online, you know ” I have to give her 2 thumbs up! Even my tactic of distraction, divide, attack, and conquer has failed. And to think that this is something that only the most ambitious and most able of politicians and bureaucrats can manage. To think that even with this, how easily she saw right through me! “Right now it’s already so late at night how can I be so selfish and let you be the one to only listen to my endless and nonsensical chatter?” “Your endless and nonsensical chatter are wonderful and I can go on listening forever J” Oh no, even my trump card to procrastinate has also failed, I guess that the only option left for me is to improvise and hope for the best! “An online encounter should be called romantic because something romantic is always surreal to the point that it is unreal, and it is undeniable that everything online and even the internet itself is not real. So...from this point of view an online encounter has all the required conditions needed to be romantic.” “Mr. Hooligan why is it that the cyber world is not real? Isn’t it the case that the thing that is imaginary and invented is the human nature and not that of the internet or is it the other way around?” “Although that is how it is said, but because of all the safety protection on the internet that is used to protect the user’s anonymity, it is only natural for the conditions on the internet to induce the production of 3 types of people: The 1st type of people, are the people who will online let surface their alter ego. It is normal for an ordinary person to readily possess an array of different personalities, but in order to survive in the harsh reality of the real world, one dominant personality will have to take over and take care of the normal day to day business while the other personalities are altogether suppresses or in some cases the person might not altogether be aware of the existence of these other personalities. Where as in cyber space, representing you and yourself, is not the real you in the flesh and blood, rather, with all the protections that the internet has provided for its users, you are just a bunch of alphabets, letters, and symbols. When void of responsibilities, social burdens, and relationship tangos gone will be interests, gains, and losses. Without all these things there is a transformation, whether it is a conscious or an unconscious one, the repressed personalities, the alter egos are liberated and let out to play.” “Hmm that is so then what about the second type?” “The 2nd type of people, are the people who when on line transform themselves into the type of person that they hope and aspire that they could and might become. Of the countless personalities there must be at least one personality that you admire, inspires you, and/ or perhaps you are jealous of. But very regrettably these personalities might be something that you cannot become in your real life, therefore it is only natural for you to wish that it were possible for you to wish that it were possible to be someone else who does possess these characteristics and personalities. Let say for example, someone who is not usually talkative in real life might become someone who is extremely talkative online. And someone who is an introvert in real life might very easily turnout to be an extrovert on the internet.” “Mr. Hooligan are you making all this up? Then what about the 3rd type?” “I’m absolutely not making this up, this actually is a part of one of my friend’s dissertation, who is a graduate student of Taipei University’s department of psychology. The 3rd type of people, are the people who on line, consciously transform themselves into someone that they cannot be in their real life. In the real world God is the all powerful and omnipotent, who directs and commands you and tells you exactly who you are and how you should act and behave. While on the other hand, in the cyber universe there is no omnipotent God, therefore you can for yourself take charge and become at the same time both the director and the actor, and thus it is possible for you to play the part that you can never be in the real world. For example, if you are female, in cyber space you can very well become a guy or as easily vice versa. Or perhaps if you are already 30, on the internet you can very well become a blossoming and succulent 17 years old high school student, or again as easily vice versa. Or if you are a she-dinosaur, you might be trying to pass yourself off as the most beautiful woman in the world, and of course like other prior examples, the situation can as easily be vice versa.” “My Mr. Hooligan so what type of the three do you belong to? And what about me?” “I don’t want to believe that you are the 3rd type, because I myself do not belong to the 3rd type. And since the internet is overrunning with the 1st type, I think that therefore you do not belong to the 1st type. Why? Because you are special! Consequentially, to have someone who is special say that I am special also means that I am also special, which make both of us belong to the second type.” “My dear Mr. Hooligan you can really talk and since we both belong to the 2nd type of people is that good or bad?” “It’s not a question of whether it is good or bad, it is rather a question of should and shouldn’t. Personally I think that we should want to become the 1st type and becareful not to become the 2nd and the 3rd type.” จากคุณ : Peking Man - [ วันฉัตรมงคล 17:39:05 ]

ความคิดเห็นที่ 15 “Mr. Hooligan please continue I am all ears J” “The 1st type of people are the most real because everything that they display whether they are aware or conscious or not are still their own. From another point of view we should recognize them for their exceptional ability to dig deep down into their soul and discover their latent and dormant personality. For example there are a lot of people who after having written stuff on line and discover that they actually have the gift and talent needed to become a writer. In other cases, there are also a huge amount of people who after many long and heated arguments online found out that the skin on their faces are actually not that different from a seasoned politician or a fully-grown hippopotamus. Thus in summary you can very easily see that there are countless people who clearly benefits from their experiences on the internet.” “The 2nd type of people, are the most pathetic because they are always obsessed with and jealous of other peoples’ outstanding qualities that they too often forget to embrace their own personalities and their own personal goodness and outstanding qualities. If they are lemons then they should try to accept, embrace, and appreciate, and also perhaps try to like their own sourness, and not go about being jealous about the sweetness of a peach. You know why, because the peaches themselves might perhaps be as jealous of the sourness of the lemons.” “Mr. Hooligan doesn’t that make us both sour lemons lo! Does this fact make us a couple of people who shares the same fate and has fallen on hard times?” “About the sourness, yes, sour it is- I might add that in my case it is extremely sour-but as to the question have I fallen on hard times, I think perhaps not! Hmm and and how about 2 lemons bumping into each other isn’t that also pretty romantic?” “Mr. Hooligan don’t even try to pretend again that you are romantic! I think that I have to agree with you, you are the 2nd type, you are someone who wishes that he was romantic ” “WOW! Again I have to give her 2 thumbs up! Even with this one and she still saw right through me! I think that she is probably more sour than I am-perhaps she is so sour that she is bitter.” “Mr. Hooligan my ears will go on therefore please can you also go on J” “The 3rd type of people are most pitiful because if they have to transform into someone that they can never become to become happy, therefore no matter if they can or cannot attain this happiness, they will never be able to enjoy it. Over a period of time, these people more often than not will be infected with the dreaded “online split personality disorder.” They are more than happy to put all their emotions and relationships on line and keep it there. Once disconnected from the life and everything that they had created for themselves on line they will be totally lost!” “Mr. Hooligan can you tell me why do you belong to the 2nd type of people?” “Actually it’s quite simple mainly it is because I am normal. I am neither tall nor short, neither ugly nor handsome, and my personality is also neither good nor bad. Although I am used to being normal, there are also on several occasions that I can’t stand the fact that I am just normal, and thus because of this it seems that the internet has become a very effective tool at making myself just that bit more special.” “But Mr. Hooligan didn’t you say just now that you are just that little bit special?” “Being “normal” plus being “special” makes me “especially normal” and therefore it made me want to become another version of me or perhaps altogether someone else.” “Hmm . Then what or who do you want to become? “ “I of course wish that I can become someone resembling AT; handsome, attractive, and romantic. Why? Because these are the very things that I myself lack.” “Mr. Hooligan, then what about me?” “You? I don’t know. You want to dance and fly make time stand still and stay forever young, but if these things are the wishes that you cannot fulfil, then there are only two possibilities: one, you will someday grow old-which everyone will, and two, you feel that you don’t have much time left ” จากคุณ : Peking Man - [ วันฉัตรมงคล 17:39:41 ]

ความคิดเห็นที่ 16 I think that I must have said something wrong because she never did send back a reply. I couldn’t help it but blame myself for being overly morbid. Why did I have to go and talk about such an inauspicious thing? Although what I said was taken from my friend’s dissertation, but the fact that my friend didn’t pass his first oral examination might therefore make the validities of these conclusions debatable and perhaps bordering on the edge of being just another tall tale. Oh well let’s wait a while, perhaps she got disconnected or her system has just crashed. I remember that AT also had an experience similar to this. On one occasion, one of his online friends sent him a message, “AT it’s already 2 months ” AT was shocked and his face went deadly white. He said that he has always been careful, this sort of things was simply impossible. Or could it have been possible that it was one of those buy one get one free with a complimentary long lasting pleasure ring that he bought at the local convenient store that had caused the trouble? Luckily after a few minute, another message was sent saying, “Sorry my computer had just crashed As I was saying it’s already 2 months since I last saw you and I want you to know how much I miss you!” And so I waited and waited for her message. Although it was only a couple of minutes, but to me it somehow felt as if it has been like many long intolerable hours. Although I felt sorry about what I had said and I had really wanted to apologize, but I just didn’t know where to begin and what to say. It was the message that she sent that broke this uneasy silence. “Dear Mr. Hooligan let’s meet up!” Without a hesitation, I softly tap twice on my keyboard: “OK” จากคุณ : Peking Man - [ วันฉัตรมงคล 17:40:14 ]

ความคิดเห็นที่ 18 After finishing his great oratory AT threw up both of his hands and with his face made an innocent pose. “Please do not think that I am a very unprincipled person actually there is such a thing that an unprincipled person does follow and in my case the principle that I adhere to is I will never trick or deceive a girl unless I really have to ” “WALAO! Have you just farted because what you’ve just said really stinks! If you are a man of principle, then all those porno queens have to be virgins lo!” “There you go again my simpleton friend let me use another example to explain about my principle, every girl likes to ask nonsensical questions amongst the most difficult to deal with is: ‘Are you seeing anyone else other than me?’ and ‘How many girlfriends have you had before me?’ ” Correct! Both of these questions for AT are exactly Achilles heel, his fatal weak spot. I don’t believe that he will be able to wriggle himself out of even this one without lying. “The answer to the first question is very simple I naturally will tell her the truth that I still have other girlfriends and that their names are “Baby” because I call everyone of my girlfriend “Baby”, but since the girl thinks that’s asking me the question doesn’t know that, she will think that I am just trying to play with her while in fact I am talking about her and usually most of the girls that ask this question will sulk a bit and say that she is sorry for accusing me of being unfaithful ” “It’s that simple? I don’t believe you!” “But there are of course some girls who are a bit more difficult to deal with and will not believe you. In order to deal with these girls I will swear, the harsher the better and since I’m speaking of only the truth, I ‘m not at all afraid of the retribution.” “As to the second question, it is a bit more difficult to deal with I will counter her question with: ‘You tell me first.’ If she is silent and doesn’t say anything, then all is resolved and the bomb is diffused. If she tells me about her past (which I am not at all interested in) I will say to her: ‘ Since you have already told me your story, what use is it for me to tell you my story’ sometimes you do get lucky and you can get away with that, but most of the time you will be asked: ‘Why?’ I’ll then answer her: ‘Listening to your story make me think of you and your past boyfriends and that fills with jealousy and pain, I just don’t want you to have to feel the same way that I do.’ And that usually takes care of it, but in some extremely rare case, I’ll have to admit to her: ‘Ok, I confess in my life I have met xx girls that I thought meant something to me, but it wasn’t until I met you that I realized all those girls never meant anything at all to me.” “AT aren’t you just being a cold and heartless bastard who doesn’t care for anybody else’s feelings?” “Hmm no no not at all see you have again jumped the conclusion. Let me try to explain It’s just like the fact that a wealthy person doesn’t necessary have to like spending money while a person who likes to squander money doesn’t necessary have to be rich. But still everyone will instinctively think that the rich likes to squander money like there is no tomorrow, when in fact a rich person only have more money to spend that’s all. The fact that you are rich or not that depends on whether or not depends on how much money can you make, which is a question that concerns your capability. Where as the fact that one is or is not a person who squanders is a question that concern with one’s personality. So following this line of logic, I think that I should probably be considered someone who is very stingy and very rich!” “Are you joking? If you are stingy, then what about me?” “Simple you are of course naturally more stingy than I am, but the difference is the reason why you are very stingy, in your case it is because you don’t even have any money to spend on yourself, not to mention spending money on another person!” Shit! AT is taking another verbal hit at me. “My friend let me tell you something the people who are really dangerous to girls are not someone like me, it’s those people who, like you, are penniless but still go around and act as if they are filthy rich.” I thought to myself, if AT wasn’t a threat to the female race, then I must be the head of the National Security Commission. จากคุณ : Peking Man - [ วันฉัตรมงคล 17:42:07 ]

ความคิดเห็นที่ 19 “OK today’s chance class has come to a conclusion right now I have to go out with “C”-163-47-33-23-32 All in all, just listen to me on this one, don’t ask her name! If you don’t listen to the words of the wise, being heartbroken is then lurking at the corner of your eyes! Do you understand me?” AT was singing “I am going out to war ” as he then left the laboratory. Since AT was telling and instructing me over and over I had to take his advice. That’s why I never did find out what FID’s name is. Likewise, she too never asked me about my name. I was so frustrated by this fact, could it be possible that this girl is the female version of AT!? It’s already 3:15am and it’s time for me to go online. “Mr. Hooligan how was your day today, was it OK? J” “In reality my life is quite simple and perhaps somewhat mechanical, therefore what I hope is to get out of life is: “I don’t ask for greatness and success, I only ask that I do no wrong and make no mistake”, as long as nothing bad is happening to me, I think that I am having a very lucky day.” “Hmm were you unlucky today Mr. Hooligan?” “Today was ok, but since the weather was quite turbulent a couple of days ago, I now have got a cold.” “Are you feeling any better now? Do you have the energy to type? Oh I am so happy ” “I’m all better already, except for the headaches, fevers, coughs, a runny nose, sore throat, some vomiting, and the countless to the bathroom ” “Mr. Hooligan you are very naughty now tell me the truth, are you feeling ok?” “If I could only see you even once, then I would be immediately better, without having to take any medication ” “J” Hmm this type of smiling face again. This girl is really something, I had finally gathered up my courage and tried to hint to her that we should finally be discussing the details of our meeting and surprisingly she didn’t even seem to notice my advance. “What about your day today, did it go well my beautiful FID?” It’s finally my turn to ask the question, when you are chatting in this cyberland, you cannot always play the role of the victim. I thought to myself that I could feel that she was acting a bit strange tonight. “Mr. Hooligan did you know that talking to you is actually the happiest moment in my day!” This sentence from out of the blue really took me by surprise and it made my breathing harder and faster. Was it because I was nervous? I didn’t think so. Being with her, I was like a fish to water, very natural and free. I, nervous, not possible! If anything, I supposed that I was a bit moved! I think that I can at least say that I didn’t let down all the pimples that I got from my long late night conversations with her. “Mr. Hooligan I’m so afraid that after our meeting that will be the end of our late night conversation and it will become only a memory ” “Milady how could you say such a thing?” “He he Mr. Hooligan you are really stupid don’t you get it, I was trying to tell you that I’m not cute I’m afraid that after seeing me, you’ll be disappointed, and our relationship will die from the exposure ” “Is there a need for that? After all I’m not that good looking either!” “No no it’s not the same there is a crucial difference haven’t you heard of the Chinese saying ‘For men, look for his talent and ability, for women look for her beauty’? Since you are very talented, I should also be good looking in order for us to be a good match.” “Who gives a XXXX! I’m neither romantic nor talented there’s no need for you to postpone it any longer we will talk more when we see each other!” “My my Mr. Hooligan why are you being so rude? No matter what, I am after all still a girl you know albeit a girl who is not good looking ” “How can talking about something like a dog’s fart be called rude? If anything is rude, I think talking about the dog’s fifth leg, now that’s rude! If anything, I think that a dog’s fart is only smelly!” “Mr. Hooligan I think that the way you talk is not at all similar to the way that other people talk. I think that I finally have met someone who is “extra-ordinary” ” “Why did you used the phrase, “I think” when I am someone who is really “out of the ordinary”?” “My dear Mr. Hooligan please give me another reason for our meeting ” “That cannot be simpler, you are not cute so you are not physically attractive and I because of my rudeness and the lack for etiquette, I am socially not attractive, and since we are both not attractive, why should be so fussy about our meeting. It’s because of these things that we cannot but meet up!” จากคุณ : Peking Man - [ วันฉัตรมงคล 17:43:52 ]

ความคิดเห็นที่ 20 “J Ok! You pick the time ” “There’s no need to pick the time since the meeting will be tonight at 7:30pm as for the place, you choose ” “The McDonald on University street it’s pretty bright there so you wouldn’t be scared out of your wits because of how I look.” “Ok but you have to already had your dinner before you come I don’t want to be scared and also lose my money.” “My dear Mr. Hooligan I should really give a good scolding!” “How can I recognize you tonight? Don’t you dare to ask me to be holding a rose as something for you to recognise me by ” Asking someone to hold a flower waiting for someone who they’ve never met is a very stupid thing to do, and one can easily be left standing there holding the rose for, in the end, nothing. I think that Zhang Xue-you must have been frequently stood up or else why would he be singing “I’ve waited until all the flowers have wilted, shrivelled, and dies” ?” “I will wear a pair of coffee coloured sandals, coffee coloured socks, coffee coloured bell bottom pants, coffee coloured sweater, and carrying a coffee coloured backpack ” Hmm she’s a tough cookie! I can’t show her that I am intimidated; I have to show her that I am also able to play her game. “Ok I will be wearing a pair of blue sneakers, blue socks, blue jeans, blue shirt, and carry a blue backpack.” Except for the blue backpack that I’ll have to borrow from my junior, the rest of the accessories I think that there is no problem. “Mr. Hooligan I think that your effort is a lost cause because I have dyed a crop of hair coffee coloured J” “Since you are so up front about the extra efforts that you will have to put into tonight’s meeting I guess that I will also have to make an extra effort, how about I wear a pair of blue underwear for tonight!” “Mr. Hooligan come now when you lose you lose just admit it la ” “How can I be defeated? I really do have a set of underwear with all the seven colours of the rainbow, which is just enough to satisfy my need for everyday need of the week, which I can say is also in accordance with the cosmological arrangement because I’m a typical unhappy and irritated Scorpio who possesses a plain and monotonous appearance but a very colourful inner-self. Plus if I happened to forget what day of the week it is, I can always just take a look at my underwear. “Mr. Hooligan go take care of your business and see you later!” “I will what about you, shouldn’t also go and prepare for tonight?” “Actually I don’t think that I have to prepare myself because I am not expecting to be impressed by anything from your appearance!” Shit! Before she goes, she still had to move another chess piece and check my king. “Mr. Hooligan I have to go to bed a bit early tonight, or else I won’t be able to get my beauty sleep and it will make me look horrendous and scare you later night.” “You can rest assured if I’m scared by your appearance it will not be because of your lack of sleep tonight.” A real man cannot let his past go unavenge so I had to make my move and counter check her king. “Ah you are very clever Mr. Hooligan then I will go to bed first! You too should also go to bed early tonight J” “OK then why don’t we sleep together lo!” “Mr. Hooligan you are trying to take advantage of me!” “Not at all not at all what I mean by together is the togetherness in time and not the togetherness in place.” “OK ok whatever you say right is always right but sleep deprivation is the natural enemy of beauty Good night my dear Mr. Hooligan J” After logging off, though I went straight right to bed expecting a good night’s sleep, somehow I was tossing and turning and I just wasn’t able to get a good night’s sleep. In a semi dream like state it was as if I was transformed into that little boy who was chased by a dinosaur in Jurassic Park. Luckily I was saved just in time by AT’s call: “Hey wake up! It’s lunch time.” “AT tonight I will go out and meet up with FID I’m a bit nervous so I’m not that hungry.” “Hmm if that’s the case then you should eat your fill so that you will have the strength to make a run for your life tonight.” “Hey, AT stop playing around and give me some useful suggestions!” “That’s very easy take it easy let nature take its course and what will be will be! I can see that you are so nervous that you have even forgotten the most basic of concepts, so I will have to remind you that in a normal environment when a force is applied to an object without the interference of any other force it will travel in a smooth and straight line.” “So? I don’t see anything relevant in this case .” “Huh my poor and simple minded friend what I meant is let nature take its course be natural let it go and see what will happen. Don’t worry so much la ” Although I even have a scientific support for tonight’s meeting I am still quite nervous. Taking a look at my wristwatch time is of the essence. “AT, I have to go ” “ And please don’t forget to take your pager with you. I will definitely give you a call!” “I think that I will leave it at home tonight no matter what I really want to have a good talk with her.” “Good luck my brave warrior and hope you can escape with your life! Ha ha ha ” “AT, can’t you say something nice for once?” “No problem In a while I will go out and get some alcohol, throw it in the refrigerator, and wait for you to return and then we can have a drink together.” “You How can you be so sure that I will be returning home heartbroken?” “Tut tut my friend, you have seriously mistaken my intention The reason for our little drinking session will be because of your victorious conquest tonight!” Even though I know that AT was being sarcastic, at the present moment I’m just not in the mood to argue with him. จากคุณ : Peking Man - [ วันฉัตรมงคล 17:45:06 ]

ความคิดเห็นที่ 21 Chapter 5. Coffee Philosophy My shoes and socks are of a very dark coffee colour, like the colour of charcoal roasted coffee burnt bitter but not sour. The colour of my slightly bell-bottom pants is a bit paler, like that of a very unique mocha coffee very strong and quite sour. Paler still is the colour of my woollen sweater, which is subtle and delicate like taste of a cup of made with very good Blue Mountain Coffee, very delicate and refined. As for my back pack it is dark inside and light on the outside, with its frills and all the decoration, it looks like a cup of cappuccino which is specially made floating on the top is a layer of steam milk and also some chocolate and cinnamon powder, it is sensuously sweet, lusciously rich, and full of flavour 7:30 pm, to meet someone you have never met before at this sort of time is absolutely perfect, because by this time normally everyone has already had their dinner, therefore there is no need to waste one’s time and energy trying to decide where to go and have dinner. Because it would take you and your date at least half an hour just to decide on where to go to have dinner. More importantly, you will have to use a lot of money in the process. To a poor student like me, like the Chinese military stratagem “to fight a war without blood having ever to come in contact with your blade” is very important indeed. Since we are after all meeting up at McDonald, after she gets here we can go an order 2 cokes and 1 fries and that should be more or less ok. As for the coke and fries, I think that there isn’t a need to order a large one because we both already had dinner. And you know what, there won’t be a need to worry about how we will look when we eat. I remember that there was this one time when AT went out with this girl to have a proper western dinner, for some reason the girl was very nervous, perhaps the steak was a bit too rare, with a cut of the knife, the whole steak came alive flew across the table and landed on AT’s face. Therefore on the 1st date, if possible try to avoid going out for meal together. If it is unavoidable, never have Western food because during the course of the meal, if an argument breaks out, a life-threatening situation is then avoided. As I was standing there daydreaming in front of the McDonald, a girl came up to me and tapped my shoulder from behind and said “Mr. Hooligan you are really early ” Although I have been preparing myself for this very moment, but still I was caught off my guard, I was shocked by the sight of this girl who is standing there right in front of me. If it were not for the fact she was covered in coffee coloured apparel from head to toe and called me “Mr. Hooligan” I would have definitely thought that she is just another passer-by asking me for some directions because she has lost her way. Before today, I have always thought that really beautiful girls only exists on TV or movies, or as you were leisurely crossing the road you would just catch a glimpse of one walking right pass by you. As for her, she is absolutely beautiful! Some girls are beautiful because beauty is in the eye of the beholder. In other word what you think is beautiful, I might not agree with you. But I dare say that with this girl that is standing right here in front of me, no one can dispute the fact that she is really beautiful. Since I am someone who is not well grounded in knowledge concerning literature nor am I very good with words, when I want to compliment a very beautiful girl all I can say are the usual cheesy stuff. If I have to blame something, I guess that I have to blame the fact that I study engineering, how I wish that beauty can be described and explained with an equation or measured by a scientific instrument. But beauty is beauty, beauty is emotional, irrational, in the end beauty can only be understood and comprehend by our fickle and temperamental heart and not by our supposedly logical and rational brain. At my university there’s a popular saying passed down through the generations from seniors to juniors and freshmans “It’s well known that since time began beauty and life expectancy are in an inverse relation Hip hip hooray the girls here can live for 10,000 years” If the life expectancy of a girl is the direct opposite to her beauty then FID’s life expectancy is probably roughly that of a butterfly flapping its wings. Such a beautiful girl like her, I didn’t even think it was possible for me to even come close to be drawn into the constellation that is her life. Perhaps this what in Daoism is called “when things reaches its limits it returneth”! Because I was so stunned with her beauty that as a result I was unusually calmed and relaxed when I opened my mouth to talk to her. “I presume that you have had you dinner!? Why don’t we go in and talk after we order something from McDonald ” “Hi hi Mr. Hooligan you are really smart this is indeed a very way not to spend too much on a date.” Since she was able to see straight right through my plan all I can do is give her a dry smile and pretend that I didn’t have a clue as to what she was saying. Because of her beauty, I have to do her a bit of justice and order 2 large coke and 2 large fries. “Mr. Hooligan. This time you treat me and next time I will let you treat me.” Are you joking!? I of course can hear with both my ears that she is trying to take an advantage of me, but I was so happy that she said “next time” because it meant that there would be another meeting and just the thought of it made me feel as if I was over the moon! “Mr. Hooligan Are you Catholic? I am a very devout Catholic hope that you don’t mind because I have to say my prayers before I eat.” “Although I sometimes burn incense and prostrate myself I don’t think that I am a very religious person. But I guess that I can always pray with you ” “Mr. Hooligan you can’t pretend that you are one of those celebrities, beauty pageants, or politicians, and pray for something like world peace na!” “Of course not! What I will be praying for are the two 100 yuan banknotes that had just sacrificed themselves for this meal, may they both rest in peace ” “He he he You are a very stingy person.” This is the first time that I heard her laughter, it was crisp and enjoyable just like a freshly fried McDonald French-fry. จากคุณ : Peking Man - [ วันฉัตรมงคล 17:47:32 ]

ความคิดเห็นที่ 22 “Mr. Hooligan after you saw me, were you disappointed?” If I see a really beautiful girl and I am disappointed, how about when I see a normal girl, wouldn’t I then be so disappointed that I will be driven to jump off a building to kill myself? “Ms. FID, can you tell me why do you think that I will be disappointed?” “Oh because didn’t I tell you that I’m not at all cute! So now after you have seen me, I think that you will be really disappointed ” “Hmm then why did you have to trick me and tell me that you are not cute?” “My dear Mr. Hooligan I only said that I am not cute but never did I say that I wasn’t beautiful ei ei ei ” Oh now I get it all that talk of she not being cute was just to hint to me that she was in fact really beautiful. The way that this girl goes on and carries a conversation is actually quite similar to the way in which I talk, but regrettably she is too beautiful, or else I would be inclined to also call her a hooligan, and in fact, I think that that would be a perfect name to call her. “Mr. Hooligan, I must say that you look very proper and normal, not like how you have described yourself at all as being visually unbearable.” Proper? Hmm this type of adjective is most ambivalent. To a lot of girls, proper and uninteresting are actually not very different. As I begin to survey this beauty is sitting right in front of me, I thought to myself, beauty is a very ambiguous concept because there are so many meanings, definitions, concepts, and images associated with it. Compared to those characters who are most associated with being beautiful, she is very different. And it is a good thing that she is different, because she is real and sitting here right in front of me, where as the others are usually fictitious characters in a novel which one can never come across in real life. With my first glance, the sight of her face swept away 2 of my lives and her laughter took away another 6 of my lives. All that I have left right now is just this 1 life. Because of her beauty, I had no time to even see clearly whether she is tall, short, fat, or skinny. After I had finally regained my composure, at last I can carefully observe and survey her every feature. She is very thin, but not the sickly and wouldn’t be able to withstand a gust of wind type. Her skin is exceptionally white, but because of the fact that I have never seen real snow before, so consequently it wouldn’t be proper for me to use “white as snow” to describe her skin. But because her outfit is coffee-coloured from head to toe, looking at her skin actually reminds me of fresh cream perfectly placed on top of a cup of coffee. Looking at her, she looks and feels like the perfect cup of coffee. Since she is seated, I have no way of telling how tall she is. But just now when we were at the counter and placing our order, I was looking at her sparkling eyes and I reckon that the angle that my eyes were making a downward angle at about 20 degrees and the distance between our 6 eyes (since I have 4: 2 real ones and 2 glass ones) was roughly 20cm. Therefore the difference between her height and mine [20 x tan 20] roughly equals to 7.3 cm. And since my height is 171cm then she should be approximately 164cm. As for her hair, it is quite long, although it doesn’t reach her waist, it has to be at least 10 cm pass her shoulder, and that is to me considered very long. But wait a second! Didn’t she say that she had dyed her hair coffee coloured? Why then do I only see her locks all black and shiny? “You’ve got a head of beautifully black hair! And where is the part that you had dyed?” “Mr. Hooligan I had done a partial dye and like its name I didn’t have to dye my whole head, I only have to pick a couple of strands of my hair and dye it that’s what I meant by I had dyed my hair. I thought that it would be fun to have coffee coloured hair so I picked out a couple of strands of my hair and dyed it coffee coloured.” She then let her head of hair leisurely drop in front of her chest and then picked some strands of coffee coloured hair for me to look at. She then asked me: “Mr. Hooligan is it beautiful?” Ah it is after all like she described it “a speckle of coffee colour floating in a sea of luxurious black”. Right now I truly feel that alas a beautiful girl no matter what she does is still a beautiful girl, even a casual stroke of her hair, her hands running carelessly through her sensuous jet black locks is enough to take my breath away. “Of course it is beautiful, even if you shave off all of your hair you would still look exceptionally stunning!” “he he he Mr. Hooligan please do not compliment me too much or else I will become a pompous about my appearance but never the less I see that you are a person with a special insight and an eye for things beautiful.” จากคุณ : Peking Man - [ วันฉัตรมงคล 19:07:06 ]

ความคิดเห็นที่ 23 Again I am blessed with an opportunity to hear her laughter. People in the past had used the sounds of various birds such as the nightingale to describe the sweetness of a person’s voice, but since I haven’t had the chance to hear it before, to compare her voice to that of a nightingale would be both unfair and unscientific and therefore unacceptable. To me, I still think that my analogy of a crisp and freshly fried McDonald’s French fry is the best and most suitable to describe her laughter. Her laughter is like those French fries dipped in tomato ketchup, hot to the touch and crispy with a hint of sweet and sour to the lips. “Why are you so passionate about coffee colour? Are you like bordering on becoming a coffee fetish or are you already a coffee colour fetish?” “Why? Because I really love to drink coffee and my favourite coffee is ‘manba’ coffee.” “Although I also drink a huge amount of coffee I have no idea what ‘manba’ coffee is?” “ ‘Manba’ coffee my simple minded Mr. Hooligan is a coffee mixture which contains ‘man(tonine)’ coffee and ‘bra(zillian)’ coffee.” “Ahhh I see hmmm . Hen how about if you mix ‘lan shan (blue mountain)’ coffee with ‘ba xi (brazillian)’ coffee wouldn’t we have to call it ‘lan ba (Taiwanese slang for the male genitalia)’ coffee ?” “Ha ha ha Mr. Hooligan you are very brave! Even when you are in the presence of such a beautiful girl you are still this naughty. I have to say that I actually cannot help myself but to admire your courage.” “Honestly, you wearing everything in coffee colour from head to toe, do you feel at all strange?” This to me is the biggest question that I have about her and if I cannot get to the bottom of it I’m afraid that I won’t be able to sleep at all tonight. Just because you like to drink coffee that doesn’t mean that you also have to dress up like a cup of coffee, does it? And if this is true, then according to this logic, if one likes to drink watermelon juice, then one would have to dress in red, and dress in green if you like green tea, and what if one likes to drink sparkling water, since it is clear, does that mean that one doesn’t have to wear anything? “Mr. Hooligan have you heard of ‘coffee philosophy’!?” “Of course! It’s the name of a chain of coffee shop.” “The ‘coffee philosophy’ that I was referring to is not the name of a chain of coffee shops rather it is the way I dress. What I am wearing today is a set of ‘coffee philosophy’. Do you want to hear what is it all about?” “If you have anything at all that you would like to tell me, please do tell, I am all ears ” I almost forgot that sitting in front of me is a beautiful girl and I had almost said: “If you have to fart, do it and do it quickly!” “Although everything is coffee coloured but due to the different types of coffee beans, the various roasting techniques, and the various coarseness of the grinding process all this contributes to the varying aroma, feel, sweetness, sourness, bitterness, and body of the finished coffee. My shoes and socks are of a very dark coffee colour, like the colour of charcoal roasted coffee burnt bitter but not sour. The colour of my slightly bell-bottom pants is a bit paler, like that of a very unique mocha coffee very strong and quite sour. Paler still is the colour of my woollen sweater, which is subtle and delicate like taste of a cup of made with very good Blue Mountain Coffee, very delicate and refined. As for my back pack it is dark inside and light on the outside, with its frills and all the decoration, it looks like a cup of cappuccino which is specially made floating on the top is a layer of steam milk and also some chocolate and cinnamon powder, it is sensuously sweet, lusciously rich, and full of flavour ” I froze for a moment; I simply didn’t know what to say. I couldn’t help it but again survey, observe, and evaluate the girl that is sitting here in front of me. Before tonight, she was just another spectre of the cyberworld, there was only an ID, a presence, an existence that is devoid of flesh and blood, but now at this moment, here she is sitting here right in front of me, talking to me, smiling at me, and picking away at my wounds and my scabs with her words. Up until this very moment, I felt as if I was dreaming or shall I rather say that from the moment that I met her in front of the McDonald I was already dreaming and it’s only just now that I realized that am not in the dreamworld. จากคุณ : Peking Man - [ วันฉัตรมงคล 21:23:24 ]

ความคิดเห็นที่ 24 “Ei ei ei Mr. Hooligan have your system crashed again? You have been idle for such a long time ” I’m not even on line how can my system crashed? But the sound of her laughter did bring me back into the real world. “I was thinking and considering what would be the most suitable thing to describe your unrivalled beauty and intelligence.” “There is no use trying to suck up to me it’s your turn to tell me about your reason for wearing blue from head to toe or else you will have admit your defeat to me!” “Admit defeat, are you joking, in my vocabulary there is no defeat!” It is a fact that the colour blue is my favourite colour, but how should one elaborate on that? Her story about her ‘coffee philosophy’ is one that was prepared well in advance, it is well thought out and also very difficult to try to follow. Indeed it seems that her intelligence is no less than her beauty. Since she chose Philosophy as her topic, then I guess that I will have to use Physics to counter her offensive! “Because I study fluid Physics and since the colour of the water flow is usually blue, therefore my favourite colour is blue.” “And then Mr. Hooligan, you don’t have to try too hard lo isn’t there a Chinese saying “ying xiong nan guo mei ren guan (The most difficult obstacle for a hero to overcome is that of a beautiful woman)” so it is very obvious that losing to a beautiful girl is nothing to be ashamed of.” She then lightly bit the straw and stared at me with a very ambiguous smile. This is a very sneaky and underhanded move, if I manage to get myself out of this trap then I’m not enough of a gentleman, but if I admit my defeat to her, although I am a gentleman, I will be a gentleman who is beaten by a girl! Who cares! Since I am after all a hooligan and not a gentleman. “Although it all has to do with water, but due to the different conditions; hot, cold, shallow, deep, etc and its environment; clean or polluted all can contribute to its different manifestation. My shoes and socks are deep blue like that of the Pacific Ocean unfathomable and contemplative. The colour of my jeans is a bit lighter with some white patches, just like the icebergs floating in the Arctic Ocean frigid and mysterious. The shirt that I’m wearing is of a lighter hue, like that of the water in an indoor swimming pool, sparkling, clear, and with character my backpack is dark blue on the outside and light blue on the inside with deep green straps which resembles the water in a serene mountain lake with a few fish swimming at the surface with the shadows of willow trees on the bank reflected on the ripples of the water its movements full of life and vigour and yet still radiating serenity and peacefulness ” This time it was her turn to for her system to crash. I can see her eyes carefully taking a long look at me, surveying me from head to toe. I couldn’t help myself but wonder whether or not is she also trying to figure out for herself whether or not is she also dreaming? But I do believe that my appearance alone is definitely insufficient to send her into a dream, except for a nightmare or else she might be bored asleep from looking at me. And you know what, even if both she and I were both dreaming at the same time, I can reassure you that my dream is probably a lot sweeter than hers. “Ha ha Mr. Hooligan I think that you’ve passed!” “Is there a prize for that or else some prize money is also ok.” “Of course, naturally there is a prize am I not right now smiling at you?” “Your smile is definitely the best reward, but I think that it’s too precious so to be fair why don’t I return your smiles with some of my own smiles @^_____^@” “My dear hooligan, haven’t you heard before that one smile of a beauty can cause a whole nation to fall as for your smile the only thing that it would cause to fall are my teeth from laughing at the sight!” “ %^”£%$% ” “Mr. Hooligan my major is foreign languages what about you?” “I am but a lowly commoner who is studying water conservation I wish that my grades is only known by the department and wish not that it is known throughout the cyberworld ” “Mr. Hooligan why are you imitating Zhu Ge liang’s style of writing?” “Well I thought that by doing this I will seem to be more intelligent and knowledgeable!” “Why do you say ‘seem to be intelligent and knowledgeable’ when you clearly are!” Um I can’t believe my own ears but surprisingly she is trying to imitate the way I talk. But with even with the same patronizing sentences but why is it that when she says it, It can make me feel so relaxed and comfortable? “My Birthday is March 15th, which makes me a Pisces, what about you?” “My birthday is November 13th and I’m a Scorpio, but why are you asking?” “I just want to see whether are we compatible, that’s all!” “In this world there are no zodiac signs that are not compatible, there are only those people who are not compatible!” “WOW! Such a cool remark shall we drink to that, bottoms up!” She raised her cup of coke and then imitating the kungfu novel characters making the gesture of drinking. Seeing a cute and lively girl trying to imitate a guy’s masculinity is something very fun and enjoyable, so I joined her and also raised my cup of coke tap our cups together and empty the coke in my cup with one big gulp. Because of this I had the chance to finally touch her fingers, perhaps it was because the coke because her fingers were unusually cold. This is the first time that I had touched her and in my mind the word ‘intimate’ appeared in a flash. When are we intimate and not just close? Everyone’s soul is like a safe that has locked away inside many secrets, big and small. If you are lucky enough, perhaps within your lifetime, you will come across several keys that can unlock and open up your very own bionic safe. But there are a lot of people out there who within their lifetime are not so lucky and they will never be able to find the key(s) necessary to unlock their safes. As for me, when I touched her icy fingers, I know that she’s the one. She’s the key that will open the safe that is deep inside my soul. จากคุณ : Peking Man - [ วันฉัตรมงคล 22:39:03 ]

ความคิดเห็นที่ 25 อ้าว กลับไปแล้วหรือจ๊ะ ขอบคุณมากนะคะที่อุตส่าห์มาโพสต์อีกรอบ คราวนี้จะเซฟเข้าคลังกระทู้เก่าแล้ว จะได้ไม่ต้องกลัวตกหายไป จากคุณ : :) (Goddess) - [ 6 พ.ค. 47 11:36:21 ]

ความคิดเห็นที่ 26 Krup khun Yui, I have been back here in London for exactly one week. I was very stressed because I had to prepare myself for a meeting with my supervisor (which unexpectedly went quite well) so I reposted this story to releive some stress. There are about 20 more hand written pages that I have decipher and arrange. Hopefully everyone will still be interested in having a read. @^___^@ Lonely in London จากคุณ : Peking Man - [ 7 พ.ค. 47 17:44:26 ]

ความคิดเห็นที่ 27 “Mr. Hooligan what do you usually do in your spare time to kill time?” “Besides studying I guess that I like to watch TV, watch movies, and read kung fu novels.” “What is the type of movie that you like to watch?” “My favourite type of movie is A movie. (A movie usually means adult movies or simply put pornography)” “Mr Hooligan! Even though I am a girl, I still know how to beat up people you know ” “You have clearly misunderstood me the A movie that I was referring to is the short form for ‘American movie’!” “Ah I see what you are saying then for our next meeting lets go see an A movie together!” I guess that she was a bit too loud because the people at the next table were looking at us with a very strange look on their face. I think that she also realized her own mistake, because she threw up both of her shoulders and stuck her tongue out at me. “Mr. Hooligan this is all your fault!” “My god you can’t see straight and you are blaming the table lopsided!” “Don’t you go to any concerts, operas, plays, or anything else like that? Aren’t you at all interested in any exhibitions?” “At a concert I would feel like going to bed and I don’t understand anything about operas or plays as for art exhibitions unless it is picture of nude women or else I’m usually not interested and if I want to look at pictures of naked women there are plenty in Playboy, Penthouse, and online all life like and as real as you can get! When I have this at home, why then would I want to go and see it drawn by other people.” “Mr. Hooligan you are really honest! Aren’t you afraid that I will that you are uncivilized and have no taste?” “Ms. FlyinDance, Confucius once said: ‘If you know say that you know, if you don’t know say that you don’t know, that is real knowledge!’ If you don’t understand, you don’t understand, what’s so difficult about that what is the point in pretending? You did ask me about what I do in my spare time and since what one does in one’s spare time, the more relaxed the better. I truthfully feel that it’s not as if what one does in one’s spare time will necessary raise one’s taste and civility.” “Mr. Hooligan you just don’t know how to give in do you I say one sentence, and you have to answer back with nine sentences!” “Wo! Ms. FlyinDance then what should I do?” “Well you should at least try to appreciate the music in concerts, the contents of various operas and plays, and the masterpieces in various art exhibition ” “But why?” “The answer to that question is very simple Because then I would have someone to go with me to these events!” “For you Ms. FlyinDance, I will!” I was telling myself over and over, I will do my best so that you wouldn’t be let down. “Mr. Hooligan the next time that we meet can we also have coffee together?” “Wait a second here today, why are you saying so many ‘next time’? What, if I dare ask, will we be exactly doing ‘next time’? Will we be having dinner? Will we be going to watch a movie? Will we be going to see a play? Or will we be going to an art exhibition? Or go and have a cup of coffee together? I’m a bit confused!” “He he you’re right, how could I have picked up this bad habit of politicians who only promises and never deliver. Let see how about this why don’t you choose?” “Do I have to choose one, or can I chose everyone of them?” “Mr. Hooligan in your dreams! You of course can only choose one.” “Hmmm then why don’t we go and watch a movie together?” จากคุณ : Peking Man - [ 7 พ.ค. 47 18:30:58 ]

ความคิดเห็นที่ 28 “Mr. Hooligan you have chosen very unwisely! You should have chosen to ask me to go to a concert because after a concert I usually like to go and have a cup of coffee after a nice of coffee I would be feeling so refreshed and uplifted that I would want to go see a movie and after that I think that I would be quite hungry so naturally I would go and grab a bite to eat. Oh I feel so sorry for you that you didn’t choose to ask me to a concert!” “Why are you feeling so sorry for me? For me, I instead feel that I am very lucky, because had I chosen to ask you to go to a concert together I would then have to do all those things with you in one day I fear that all the troops in my wallet will have to sacrifice their lives for my happiness!?” She took one look at her wristwatch and then yelled out: “Oh no! It’s almost midnight I have to be going back now!” “You are not by any chance staying at the university’s accommodation? Because if you are, then I’m afraid that it’s already passed the lock up time at 11:30pm ” “I’m living with a friend of mine in a flat outside the university so there’s no need to worry about that ” “Then what are you so worried about? Are you afraid that I will turn into a werewolf? You know it’s not even a full moon tonight.” “Mr. Hooligan I’m pretty sure that you have heard of the fairy tale ‘Cinderella’ before. In the story, at the stroke of midnight, Cinderella is transformed back into her raggedy and unmade self ” “No problem! Please leave me one of your slipper and I’ll no matter what go and find you!” “Since you say so I guess that I should then ” To my surprise, she unexpectedly bent down reached for her shoes and then tie her shoelaces a bit tighter Pulling open the door, the temperature outside on university road is especially cold and there were barely anyone outside walking about. “Ms. FlyinDance where do you live? I will walk you home!” “There’s no need for that la I just live on ‘Shengli (victory)’ street, which is the street just adjacent to this one and it’s really close by.” As we were walking along, she then stopped in front of a bicycle that I think must be hers because it is coffee coloured. “Wah!!! You must be joking! Even your bicycle is coffee coloured1?” “The body is coffee coloured, the seat is creamy white just like a cup of freshly brewed French coffee latte this is the most suitable thing to describe a tender and romantic Pisces like me! Mr. Hooligan your turn ” “I couldn’t believe it, she still has this last hand up her sleeves, no wonder there is a Chinese saying: ‘zui du fu ren xin (most poisonous is a woman’s soul)’. Nevertheless, heaven is still on my side because my old companion is an old and rusty ‘blue wolf’ model motorcycle. “A blue gas tank a black seat like the polluted seawater off of Gao Xiong harbour the most suitable type of water to describe a cold and bitter appearance and a passionate and restless inside of a Scorpio like myself.” When we arrived in front of her place, she without warning said: “Mr. Hooligan congratulations! You can officially begin to ask me out on a date!” It to me sounded like thunder clapping and lightning splitting during broad daylight. Although this phenomenon is usually associated with being a bad omen, but since I love those endless rainy days so some thunder and lightning now and then is considered quite good by my standard. “Tomorrow 1 pm I will meet you right here in front of your place my old rules each of us find something to eat first before meeting ” “Ok no problem my old rule your treat!” She turned around and opened the door to the apartment building. Before she walked through those doors, she again turned around and gave me a smile that could have easily launched a thousand ships. After the doors closed behind her, I looked up and in a couple minutes saw that the 4th floor’s light has been turned on, after I know that she got home safely I got on my trusted motorcycle and then drove off. จากคุณ : Peking Man - [ 7 พ.ค. 47 18:31:28 ]

ความคิดเห็นที่ 29 Chapter 6. Distance In the cyberworld You can’t see the facial expressions of the other person, nor can you hear their voices Therefore the only option is to use simple and limited symbols to represent our emotions: Happiness, anger, sorrow, laughter, etc But if one can really use these symbols to describe our emotions . Then these plainly cannot be our real emotions! Thus for two complete strangers, the internet can only shorten the time needed to get acquainted with one another But it doesn’t necessary shorten the distance between them. I was dazed all the way back to my department’s building as I was walking up the stairs on my way to my lab surprisingly, not having ever realized it before, I found out that from the 1st floor to the 3rd floor there are 53 steps of stairs. Sitting in front of my PC, staring blankly at an equally blank monitor, my mind too was a complete blank and empty. From all the professional training that I had received, I only knew how to differentiate the different type of water flow; as for differentiating between the real world and the world of make believe, I don’t even have a clue as to what theory, formula, or equation or whether is it even possible at all to differentiate between what is real and what is not? “Jing Ke (an assassin who was sent to :-) the Qin emperor--Qin Shi Huangdi—but he failed and was executed)! I see that you have made it back alive! Where then is the head of the Qin Emperor, if I may enquire?” Luckily I happened to have met AT now, because now I finally can be certain that I am not dreaming. Why? It’s because I don’t think that I am so ‘suay (unlucky)’ to the point that I will be seeing AT in my dream. “Ei! My poor friend Mr. Hooligan you have probably been stunned senseless by her looks and I bet that that you have been scared to death by how she looks!” “He he he AT like you said, I was really stunned by her looks but it was in a good way though ” AT suddenly planted the two bottles of Kirin beer in his hands on the table and then looked at me with an unconvinced look as if he was trying to find out whether was I had said was real or not.” “ Are you just playing with me, or is this for real? Why if it it’s true isn’t that just like the saying ‘a beautiful flower stuck in ’ As AT was saying those words, I was silently mustering up all of my energy and strength, waiting for when I hear he says ‘a pile of manure’ I will give him a good tasting of both of my fists! “ ‘ a beautifully exquisite vase.’ Hmm I think that it’s just like a match made in heaven!” I have to admit that AT is really good with his lips. Although he has a really foul mouth, at the same time his reflex and his ability to detect danger is superb and probably second to none. “Do tell me what does she look like? And what department?” “She studies Foreign Languages I guess that she is an English major and as for her looks I think that her looks is enough to eclipse and put all of your past conquests to shame.” “That is simply impossible! Ever since Xiao Ping’s class has graduated, the quality and quantity of beautiful girls in that department has declined so drastically that I basically had given up on them long time ago But considering the fact that the Foreign Language department is under my direct control how is it possible that I don’t know anything about this beautiful girl that you are talking about.” “AT I thought that you would more aware of the fact that ‘chang jiang hou lang tui qian lang (On the Chang jiang [river name] the later waves will eventually overtake at the front)’ and another thing haven’t you heard of the saying ‘jiang shan dai you mei nu chu, ge ling feng shao hao ji nian (For each era there will be beauties who will appearing each has their specific time and period before being replaced my a different beauty)’? With so many beautiful girls and only one of you, plus the fact that you, in university term, are quite old, how is it possible for you to know everyone of these beauties? “While what you are saying is true the thing is I don’t really believe that the waves at Cheng Da University are or can get that high.” Truthfully, I am also a sceptical about the height of waves here at Cheng Da, to speak from my professional perspective the girls at Cheng Da can only be described with the concept of a ‘broken wave’. What do I mean by ‘broken wave’? ‘Broken wave’ is a phenomenon where a wave travelling from the deeper to the shallower zone of the sea gets broken up by the varying depth of the sea floor. Because of the fact that the water around Cheng Da is really shallow, I think that Cheng Da can be called a very famous ‘broken wave’ zone. “But at the same time, I also pity the sad fate that often await these beautiful girls, just like the saying that goes ‘chi han pian qi liang ma zou, qiao qi chang ban zhuo fu mian (The idiot gets to ride the most beautiful steed, The beautiful wives have to put up with sharing a bed with an imbecile of a husband)’ so if we consider it from this perspective I guess that it is really true what the people say that ‘hong yan zhen bao ming :-)he beautiful have a very pitiful life full of obstacles and difficulties)’” “AT she told me that I am very talented I think that she and I might just be destiny!” “My simple minded friend she was only trying to be polite don’t take it so seriously and personally la and since you are not me, how is it possible that you are talented? From what I see, I think that you two are like the real version of ‘Beauty and the Beast’.” “Hey If I’m the ‘Beast’ then what about you?” “Actually, compared to your ‘Beast’, I don’t have an ‘a’ and therefore I am the ‘Best’!” แก้ไขเมื่อ 08 พ.ค. 47 22:19:47 จากคุณ : Peking Man - [ 7 พ.ค. 47 18:38:55 ]

ความคิดเห็นที่ 30 Considering the fact that AT is always disagreeing with me, his date for tonight must have been one which was life threateningly dangerous; amidst the fluttering gleam of knives and the shadows of dancing swords I bet that his life was hanging dangerously on line tonight. “AT, you just had a pretty bad night tonight, right!” “Hmm if you are referring to B-161-48-34-25-33, well tonight she did slap me on my face ” “I bet that you tried to kiss her without her permission!” “Not at all on the contrary, she allowed me to kiss her but I didn’t want to.” $£%^*&% ? (mental note: I shouldn’t have asked AT about it!!!) “I’m really telling you the truth I didn’t want to kiss her because I didn’t like the colour of the lipstick that she was wearing.” “Walao!!! You are even picky about the shade of lipstick that a girl is wearing aren’t you being just a bit too picky? No wonder that while some people don’t have anything at all, at the same time there are some who just have too much.” “My dear friend let me tell you something, this is a situation that people refer to as ‘It’s easier to raise an army than to find a good and capable general to lead it into battle’ or ‘A great army is not determined by its size, but rather by its capabilities.” So as you can plainly see, compared to my situation, you were a lot better than me tonight.” “But I feel that she might be just beyond my league and I’m worried that my abilities are not enough to deal with her intelligence, slyness, and mischief. She is always tries to test me at every chance she gets.” “Huh haven’t you heard before ‘The ability of a general is not measured merely on his courage but rather on his stratagems!’ Although I have to admit that you lack both courage and strategy but you still have me who possesses both these qualities and I am ready and willing to help you. So you can rest assured as you know there is no need to worry about my abilities.” “What I’m worried about is not your ability rather it is your personality that I am worried about!” “Don’t be joking, do you think that I am the type of person who will hit on a friend’s girlfriend?” “Let’s just say that I know that you are the type that if you don’t hit on a friend’s girlfriend then he might be angry with you.” “Stop playing games la Quick! Tell me what else happened tonight?” “Well we only talked what else could we have done?” “Did she raise her voice with you, or scold you?” “Why should she do that? I wasn’t trying to pick on her nor was I trying to grope her with my two eyes, I am after all not like you, you know.” “Huh My friend that just goes to show that you still have a long way to go!” “Really? But I’m not a pervert nor into SM, why would I want to be scolded or hurt by her in order to be happy?” “Hmm haven’t you ever heard of ‘the greater the love the greater the pain’?” “AT, if you have to fart, do it. Don’t be twitching your bottom in anticipation and then just stop silent!” “It means that the deeper the girl is in love with you, the harsher will be her words.” “What shall I do? She was always smiling and laughing tonight. Except for the time I was talking about A movies, when she was giving me an evil eye.” “Hmm that’s better . anything is better than nothing at all.” I didn’t tell AT that even when she was giving me an evil eye, I still can see in her eyes that it was overflowing with smiles and happiness. จากคุณ : Peking Man - [ 8 พ.ค. 47 22:20:31 ]

ความคิดเห็นที่ 31 ง่ะ ยังมะมีเวลาอ่านเลยอะ ติดไว้ก่อนนะจ๊า (สอบผ่านแล้วตัวนึง เพิ่งรู้ผลตะกี๊ ดีใจมากกกกๆๆ อยากร้องกรี๊ดดังๆ ทีนี้ต้องอ่านหนังสือเอาเป็นเอาตายเตรียมสอบอีกตัวนึงค่ะ) จากคุณ : yui - [ 10 พ.ค. 47 15:25:25 A:203.144.241.41 X: ]

ความคิดเห็นที่ 32 Congrats na krup khun YUI!!! @^____^@ จากคุณ : Peking Man - [ 10 พ.ค. 47 18:20:06 ]

ความคิดเห็นที่ 33 “Since you are not feeling heartbroken I guess that there is no point in drinking beer.” Actually this is our mutual understanding that alcohol of any kind is the natural enemy of feeling heartbroken. The level of one being heartbroken ideally should be the inverse of the alcohol that one drinks when one is heartbroken. The more heartbroken one feel, the easier it is for one to over intoxicate one self, and since drinking too much itself can harm your health and well being so I tend to drink beer that has the lowest alcohol content. There are of course special exceptions to this rule, such as drinking some Chinese hard liquor when one is heartbroken on Chinese Valentines day and drinking XO when one is heartbroken on the Western Valentines day. “Hey why don’t we change to drinking Suntory whisky tonight!” “What about the 2 bottles of Kirin?” “Let’s keep it in the fridge I think that it will be ready for drinking in about 2 days time!” “Shit! Why are you so sure that I will definitely be heartbroken?” “You see my poor Mr. Hooligan it’s nothing personal it’s just a rational observation I just cannot find any reason why you will not be heartbroken ” AT poured out 2 shots of golden Suntory whisky which is almost the same colour as the shirt that he is wearing. “The whisky’s sparkling golden hue is like the sun’s golden rays the clear cut lines and all the right angles of the tumbler glass and the ice cubes these are the most suitable things to describe a lively, optimistic, and straight forward Sagittarius!” “What?! Are you going mad?” “Oh sorry this is probably just a reflex reaction that I had acquired from my meeting with my FlyinDance. Whenever I see a drink that has a colour, I am immediately reminded of the special and unique characteristics o that person’s zodiac signs” “Hmm Mr. Hooligan may I enquire as to what type of girl does she belong to; B, C, H, N, T, etc ?” “Hmm none of the above! I think that she is probably an ‘S’ type.” “Oh! I myself am not that familiar with the girl that belongs to the ‘S’ type, can you explain more about this ‘S’ type?” “Since she is very intelligent and smart therefore she belongs to the ‘S (mart)’ type.” “If you don’t know how to categorize, please don’t! Because when you mentioned the ‘S’ type everyone in their right mind will think that the ‘S’ stands for ‘Sexy’ or ‘Saucy’.” “You say ‘everyone’ I think that the ‘everyone’ that you are referring to only apply to you and only you with your perverse mind!” “Hey AT, tomorrow she and I will be going to see a movie together any good suggestion? “It is so right for you to ask me this question recently there is this new film ‘Titanic’ which is a smash hit at the box office and has already caused a stir. Not to mention the fact that it has become a gender indicator.” “A gender indicator? What the hell are you talking about?” “My friend I have to tell you that you are really out of touch with reality recently there is a popular saying ‘Those who have seen ‘Titanic’ and not shed a tear that person is definitely not a girl’.” “Isn’t that a bit too much of an exaggeration!? And how come that I have never heard of that saying before?” “Well you are not what one call a ‘player’ and therefore it is only normal that you don’t know about and understand anything about this stuff I have already watched ‘Titanic’ 3 times and of course it was with 3 different girls including tonight’s B-161-48-34-25-33, last night’s C-163-47-33-23-32, and last’s week T-160-43-32-24-32. And you know what they all pleaded with me to go and see it with them ” “Was it any good?” “The lead actress was a bit too fat especially around her waist, nevertheless her breasts were not bad and her buttocks were actually quite attractive ” “I was asking you about the plot of the movie why on earth would you want to provide me with a critique of the lead actress’s figure?” “Oh do forgive me. I think that I might have watched too many Japanese A movies and for your information, the fact that an A movie is good or not is totally independent of its plot the only important and deciding factor in whether an A movie is good or not is the relationship between the actress’s physique, her appearance, and the level of bedroom noises that she makes.” “AT come on quit fooling around and get distracted from the real issues, tell me about the plot of the movie already!” “If I correctly recall the movie is about a ship crashing into an iceberg and then as the ship was beginning to sink some people were screaming for their lives as they were trying to escape while at the same time there were also those who were unflinched by the situation. There were also the band members who kept on playing as the ship went down There were some unfortunate people who were locked in the bowel of the ship and then the lead actor sinks to the bottom of the ocean Rose, the lead actress was then rescued and lived into her 90s ” “Hmm why then do the girls get so emotional and cry after seeing the film?” “I don’t know either When Jack let go and begin to sink into the icy abyss, the whole theatre is engulfed with sighs and sobs, and an occasional blowing of noses.” “Jack? The name of the lead actor is the same as my English name. This just goes to show insight when I chose my previous nickname, ‘Jack the sentimental’.” “AT weren’t you at all emotionally touched or troubled when you were watching the movie?” “Of course I was! When I saw the old Rose threw, ‘the heart of the ocean’, the diamond necklace into the ocean I did feel a sudden pain in my chest.” I should have known that I was asking for trouble when I try to discuss something like art with someone like AT. จากคุณ : Peking Man - [ 10 พ.ค. 47 18:25:22 ]

ความคิดเห็นที่ 34 “However, there is one thing that you should lookout for after the movie they all asked me the exact same question ‘If I jump, will you jump?’ ” “Really? Isn’t that just nonsensical ” “My friend let me tell you what girls love most to ask is exactly these hypothetical questions where there are no concrete answers and expect us to answer these questions with the most concrete and certain of answers.” “Hmm Then what should one do in such a situation? For if one answers truthfully doesn’t that equal to committing suicide?” “Not at all! For me I would naturally answer ‘The answer is definitely!’ ” “(ถุย) Stop lying to me! Going by the amount of times that you would have to jump, by now you would be a world champion diver.” “My incompetent friend I only said that my answer is ‘definitely’ but I never did mention whether will I definitely jump or not jump. I’m not stupid you know if she jumps, I will ‘definitely’ not jump!” “AT, you are talking rubbish again.” “This is exactly why I say that you still have a long long way to go this simple answer is overflowing with life’s many experiences and mysteries, its philosophy and wisdom begotten from the battlefields of countless romances for example, if one day a girl asks you ‘Will you love me and only me forever?’ a simple ‘of course’ would be enough to deal with it but as to whether it is ‘of course I will’ or ‘of course I won’t’ that’s only for you to know and her to find out.” “What if she happens to be really smart and asks you ‘Is that of course I will or of course I won’t?’ then what do you do?” “The type of girls that you are referring, the really smart ones are really rare. However if there was a girl who asks you that question, then you of course have to answer ‘Of course I will’ ” “But isn’t that plainly lying?” “You idiot! When you answer this question both you and I know that it means ‘of course I will (not love only you forever’. This is what one calls ‘soong sood soo samun’ and when you achieve this level of attainment, you will be able to deceive and mislead any girl into believing anything and there is no need for any disgustingly sweet lies.” It was already 3am when AT and I finished our drinking session. I couldn’t help it but start to think about each and every little detail of my earlier meeting with FlyinDance. Luckily I had no habit of diary writing, for I would be lost to try to put into words all the details about tonight’s meeting. If it were not for meeting AT just now, tonight would otherwise be called a perfect night. But such a smooth development somehow made me somewhat rather unsettled; Mengzi once said ‘ sheng yu you huan, si yu an le ( We human survive amidst difficulties and adversities and dies amidst comforts and leisure.)’ Could it be possible that what is happening between FlyinDance and I is just another manifestation of the ‘hui guang fan zhao (the last spurt of the flame before the candle burns itself out)’ phenomenon. Outside the lab’s window the same stray cat again began to meow. Although the call is rather raspier and deeper, nevertheless it is that same trademark calling, 3 long and 1 short meow. It seems that this cat while it is a stray, it is one with high principle. But judging from its call tonight, I think that it has got a sore throat today, and perhaps I should give it some cough medicine to soothe its sore throat. Because since not too long ago, I have been heavily relying on him to act as alarm clock so that I can log on exactly at 3:15am. But recently I have slowly become less and less dependent on his 3:15am call. I think that it is because when it’s time for me to go on line I become very excited and actually get up on my own to wait for my online meeting with FID. And when I don’t see her online at 3:15am, I don’t know why, but things just seems to be not right! I have heard that in Psychology that this sort of activity is called an ‘engaging reaction’. So I guess that I have been engaged with FID. And as for the stray cat outside, could it be possible that he is perhaps ‘engaged’ with another kitty? Since it is 3:15am, the cat outside is meowing out calling for its mate, so I guess that I should also turn on my computer and log on. “J Mr. Hooligan are you tired today?” To say that I’m not tired would be lying and to say that I’m not tired would also be lying, especially after today’s emotional roller coaster. In addition to that, add in the effects of alcohol, all that I want to do is lie down and go to bed. If it weren’t for the fact that I have become engaged with her, I would never be online at this time. But there is something more interesting here, why is she also online at this time? Isn’t she tired? Or could it be that she has also been engaged by me? “Long time no see how are you?” “Mr. Hooligan have you taken the wrong medicine we have only parted company less than 3 hours ago! ^___^ ” “There is an old Chinese saying ‘yi ri bu jian ru ge san qiu (One day apart seems like the passage of 3 autumn)’ which if we were to apply it our case it would work out to 3x365/8 = 137 days since we have last seen each other. And that if I might say so, if that is the case, it has been quite some time already since we have last met.” “Ah Mr. Hooligan then do you miss me?” “A. Yes I miss you. B. Of course I miss you. C. It would be strange not to miss you. D. I’m missing you to death. E. All of the above. And the answer is E.” “And how do you miss me?” “A. Waiting and looking through the cascade of the autumn rain and see that you are not there. B. The longing of you is turning my heart into ashes. C. I have shed so many tears for you that it has become a natural disaster. D. I miss you as if you are carved into my very bones. E. All of the above. And the answer of course is still E.” “Ha ha!” I guess that she is also very tired although the ‘Ha’ is the same as the ‘Ha ha’, the sound of one’s laughter, but I feel that this ‘Ha’ is more like a ‘ha chew’ when one is sneezing! จากคุณ : Peking Man - [ 10 พ.ค. 47 19:28:17 ]

ความคิดเห็นที่ 35 “Mr. Hooligan, our relationship, will it fade and die away because of its exposure?” “Actually after cyberfriends meet each other in the real world the usual conclusion is excruciatingly painful. In AT’s case, if he isn’t satisfied with what he sees, he then delete their contact from his contact list. He believes that it is better not to see them at all is the best policy. It prevents him from meeting any of them online and for any messy situation to occur. If the other side sends him a message asking how he is doing? AT will usually say that he needs to go to class, go out for a meal, go out with friends, sleepy and need to go to bed, etc anything to cut the conversation off and then immediately log off. This he says is ‘A smart man never stands besides a wall that is in imminent danger of collapsing.’ the best and most effective way to escape these difficult to handle situations. Otherwise there is another way which he uses to escape these situations. He will say ‘It is such a shame, considering how hard it is for me to meet you, why does destiny have to play trick on us, despite how much I would like to talk to you, I can’t because I have a very important business to attend to. Despite being gutted and tearful I must go. I cannot tell you enough how much it pains me to say good bye etc ’ This of course is the ‘tor lae na dan dan (in Thai)’ method of escape!” “Can you tell me why is there always such a huge difference between the make up world of the internet and that of the real world?” “The reason is, in the make believe world of the internet it isn’t possible to see the emotional expressions of your counterpart at the other side of the monitor, nor can you hear from his/her own 2 lips what they have to say, and the only thing that one is able to do is transform one’s feelings of joy, anger, sadness, etc into simple and limited characters and symbols that one can find conveniently placed on the keyboard. For example a smile can be represented in such manners as ‘J’ or ‘^__^’ or ‘:P’ or ‘^ o ^’ or ‘@^__^@’ etc But I think that if one can really translate our feeling and emotions into these sample symbols and signs then these couldn’t possibly be our real feeling. In other word, when someone sends you any type of smiles, who can really tell whether the person who is sending it to you is really smiling or not? Perhaps, he/she is just trying to be polite so he/she has to send you a couple of messages. Thus for two complete strangers, the internet can only sometimes shorten the time needed to get acquainted with one another, but it doesn’t necessary help shorten the distance that spans between them.” “Mr. Hooligan, the ‘I’ in the cyberworld and the ‘I’ in real life are we that different?” “The internet is like a protective cover, not only does it keep out the wind and the rain, it also keep out the glare of the sun. Trying to see through this layer of protective cover is extremely difficult and there is always room for inaccuracy. But in your case, I don’t feel as if I am looking at you from behind a protective cover or perhaps should I say that you do not possess a protective cover to hide yourself behind. Right now if you send me a ‘J’ it is as if I am there beside you and I can see smiling with the corner of your lips at a slightly upward angle; and if you send me a ‘^___^’, it is then as if I can see you right here, right in front of me smiling with your eyes overflowing with joy; and if you send me an ‘ah’, then it is as if I can hear your laughter that is crisp and clear like that of freshly fried McDonald French fries. One is never enough. So as you can see in our case, the internet did not only shorten the amount of time needed for us to get to know each other, it had also help shorten the distance between us. “Mr. Hooligan how I wish that you are not only a ‘only metaphorically’ as if you are seeing me but you can really see me right now smiling at you.” “Yes I know and how I wish that I can see your smile. But you this is another unique characteristic of the internet, although it’s fast, it’s not perfect. If I can really see you right now, I know that I would only again be mesmorised by your outer beauty and I will not be able to help myself but to again compliment you on your beauty. I think that it might be better as it is right now, you and I separated by this electronic protective layer, I on this end appreciating the ‘you’ of the cyberworld, the essence that makes you, you.” “Mr. Hooligan why do you have to compliment me about my beauty every time that you see me? Aren’t you worried that I will find you superficial?” “I personally don’t know what the problem about it is. Complementing about the beauty of a beautiful girl is a natural reaction of the male race and it is therefore it couldn’t be controlled by my conscience. I know fully well that it must sound like I am being a big kiss up, but alas it is impossible for my simple brain to control and censor the actions and the words that passes through my lips and body. When my eyes comes in contact with a beautiful image, the sight gets sent along the intricate systems of nerves towards the brain but before the brain can decide whether or not to compliment, my lips out of its own accord would have already blurted out what it feels like saying. This is called ‘the lips are independent and not under the control of the brain’ or else ‘the arrow is on a fully stretched bow, there’s nothing else to do, but to follow through, let go, and shoot.’ Plus if I didn’t compliment you about your beauty I know too well that I will be lying to myself. So at the risk of you finding me to be shallow, hollow, and superficial I just had to tell you how beautiful you are. This for your information is just another manifestation of how one has to always weigh out and balance the good and the bad.” “J Mr. Hooligan you will be the one responsible for turning me in to a beautiful, stuck-up, and conceited person.” “Well I can’t help it la this is what Mengzi taught me as ‘yu qi hao zan mei zai, yu bu de yi ye (It’s not that I like to compliment, I just have to say it [because it’s the truth] )’ ” “ Can you please stop babbling I think that it’s enough already for today.” “Ok then my compliment will stop now. Now it’s your turn to compliment me.” จากคุณ : Peking Man - [ 10 พ.ค. 47 20:30:08 ]

ความคิดเห็นที่ 36 “Mr. Hooligan instead of having to lie to you and make you think of me as being shallow I think that it is better for me to not compliment you at all which I think will prevent me from lying to myself. Just like you have said ‘this is just another manifestation of weighing and balancing out the good and the bad’.” Hmm I know that the internet is quick and I also knew that retribution is supposed to be quick but I’d never imagine that online retribution would be this quick! “Mr. Hooligan...I think that I can actually see the true you better when you are online or shall I say that ‘I can see your true colour’.” “ ‘I can see your true colour’ do you mean that ‘wo kan ni zhen se (I can see that you are really perverted’, Do you see me as someone who is really perverted?” “ Mr. Hooligan you really need to improve your English this is a part of the lyric to a song by Cindy Lauper ‘True Colour’ which means ‘the real you’ and not ‘you are perverted’.” “Oh! I see. You scared me there for a moment!” (Mental note: Always be on alert about your English when you are talking to a girl whose major is Foreign languages just as you would have to be careful about the usage and conservation of water when you are with a guy who studies water resource conservation.) “Mr. Hooligan if you have to use just one phrase to describe my physical appearances and your feelings towards me, what would it be?” “Hmm That’s simple. I would have to say that you are ‘drippingly beautiful’.” “I am but a simple girl, can you be so kind as to explain what does it mean?” “Hee hee simple. Because you are so beautiful and fragile like that of a flower, so every time that I look at you I can’t help it but let my mouth hang open in awe and my saliva is of course at the point where it is almost dripping. That’s why I think that the best description for how you look and my feeling is ‘drippingly beautiful’.” “Ha ha! J Your joke will make me unable to go to bed tonight.” Oh shit! I almost forgot that we still have a date tomorrow. I can’t play around with her all night like usual, I think that I should let her go to bed and prepare for our date tomorrow. “Hey, it’s already late, you should go to bed already!” “Just a moment la! You know you still haven’t answered whether are you tired or not Are you tired today?” “I’m still OK, I’m only a bit tired how about you?” “Me, I’m very tired but if I didn’t have to come online and tell you good night I don’t think that I will be able to close my eyes and go to bed.” “Me too ” Since both of us are so thoroughly tired, why then do we have to do something so silly like this? Why can’t we just lie down and go to bed? What is the point in banging away on the keyboard with one hand while you are covering your mouth with the other when we are yawning? I think that both of us somehow came to this realization at the same time perhaps that’s why for both of us there was a long moment of silence. “Mr. Hooligan which movie should we watch tomorrow?” “I think that we can decide together which movie to watch once we get to the movie theatre since the important thing is who you are watching the movie with and not which movie we are going to watch.” (AT’s words with some alterations after all are still pretty useful to use when you are dealing with a girl.) “Then you will have to ride your motorcycle tomorrow and I will be waiting for you downstairs in front of my apartment building tomorrow.” “OK! And since your wish is my command, I will be careful tomorrow and you should also be careful when you are coming down the stairs tomorrow.” “Ei ei don’t be silly see you tomorrow and good night! J” “Good night see you later So long Bye bye wan an (good night in Chinese) sayonara (good bye in Japanese) early to bed early to rise!” จากคุณ : Peking Man - [ 10 พ.ค. 47 20:30:39 ]

ความคิดเห็นที่ 37 Chapter 7. ‘The Titanic’ I’m not a romantic person Therefore my indifference to the moving and romantic part in movies are very understandable. Except for the dialogue between Jack and Rose before Jack sank into the bottom of the icy ocean: “Rose, listen to me listen winning that ticket was the best thing that ever happened to me. It brought me to you .and I am thankful. Rose, I am thankful ” When I woke up it was already 12.30pm. Oh shit! Today is the last day of 1997 and since it is a Wednesday I had to wear a pair of yellow underwear. Luckily, I had done my national service because the military training on Cheng Gong mountain is very useful and it possibly have just saved my life. I washed my face, brushed my teeth, and took a shower using only ‘x’ minutes where by ‘x’ =N (natural number, where ‘x’ is equal or greater than 1) and ‘x’ is lesser than or equal to 10 minutes. Just as I was getting lost in my own achievement, I realised that it wasn’t the time to be proud of myself so I hurriedly grabbed my keys and then shot down the stairs. I jumped on my motorcycle and before it was able to warm itself up, I stepped on the accelerator and then off I went like a rod of lightning. My driving ability is superb and probably comparable to a dragon manoeuvring between the clouds and a wild stallion racing through the forest. When thinking about it, I actually do somewhat regret that I didn’t go and joined a motorcycle gang or become a professional racer. Then suddenly I remembered that I had promised FID that I would drive safely and since a gentleman cannot go back on his words so whenever I ran a red light I would make sure that I was safe from being stopped and fined by the traffic police. Taking a quick look at my wristwatch, Oh Shit! I might be a couple of minutes late. There is no reason for my tardiness or delay for my date with FID. I have to continue scoring like I did in my last game. When one is in a dire situation, that is when one’s reaction and brain activities are multiplied, in my rush an idea hit me and I turned my wristwatch back 5 minutes. And then when I got close to her place I slowed down my motorcycle and pretend as if nothing happened, “Mr. Hooligan! Wow you are ‘EARLY’ na!” I can feel the way she speaks prick me with irony and her every words filled with patronization as she raised her wristwatch and then waved it in front of my face. “Wow your wristwatch is so beautiful! Just like the saying ‘Handsome guys rides old motorcycles and beautiful girls like wear beautiful watches’.” “Mr. Hooligan you can stop pretending now shouldn’t you say something to me?” “Oh so sorry I am so clumsy how could I only pay attention to your watch and completely forget to compliment your beautiful wrist and hand that the wristwatch is on I admit that it is my fault that I was blinded by the happiness of being able to see you again. Just like the saying ‘Letting a single tree block one’s sight of the whole forest’. No matter how beautiful the wristwatch is but compared to your lovely hand it is light of a firefly and the light of the moon there is just no point at all in comparing!” “Mr. Hooligan don’t try to change the subject you were 3 minutes late my wristwatch says it’s already 1:03pm.” “Really? But my wristwatch says it’s only 12:58pm ” I raised my wristwatch on my left hand and stuck it in front of her face. “Hmm ok! I forgive you ” “Which movie should we watch Ms. FlyinDance with a beautiful wristwatch?” “You first! Mr. Hooligan who turned back the time on his wristwatch.” She’s really smart, she saw through me and found out what I had done with my wristwatch. As a response to her accusation, I could only manage 2 o3 dry laughs. “AT said that ‘Titanic’ is not a bad movie what do you think?” “What a coincidence, my flatmate also recommended to me the same movie. She said that this movie is a must see.” “Did you flatmate cry after watching the movie?” “Hmm she said that she almost cried her eyes out so I came prepared with 2 handkerchiefs and an extra pack of tissues.” “Then shall we go to Tai Nan cinema? There is one screening at 2:20pm.” “No problem, whatever you say!” Since there is still plenty of time, I carefully surveyed the neighbourhood where she lived. The street where she lives is very peaceful and quiet, plus there is a bit plants, trees, and flowers placed here and there which makes the neighbourhood a very attractive place to live indeed. Like the old Chinese saying ‘You can tell what type a person is by examining where he lives’, in this beautiful place it is of course then not surprising that there lives beautiful people. Actually the place where I live is also not bad, except for the sad fact that there is always a pile of rubbish very conveniently placed at the head of the street, I suspect that it is probably because of the fact that AT lives in this street. จากคุณ : Peking Man - [ 10 พ.ค. 47 21:20:54 ]

ความคิดเห็นที่ 38 ขอบคุณค่า แหม ช่วงนี้ว่างล่ะสิ ถึงแปลได้เยอะจังเลย :) จากคุณ : yui - [ 11 พ.ค. 47 13:19:15 A:203.144.241.41 X: ]

ความคิดเห็นที่ 39 Not really la krup..... very stressed out so I have to post my translation to get away from my assignment. :( จากคุณ : Peking Man - [ 11 พ.ค. 47 18:11:56 ]

ความคิดเห็นที่ 40 “Mr. Hooligan don’t just stand there day dreaming. I heard that there are a lot of people who also want to go and see ‘Titanic’ so I think that to be on the safe side we should get there a bit early to buy our tickets.” “OK let’s go! Do you have a motorcycle?” “No I don’t. I only have the French coffee latte style bicycle that you saw the other night.” “I guess that I will have to use my the polluted water of Gao Xiong’s port, my old and trusted motorcycle to take you to the movie. I hope that you don’t mind ” “No, I don’t mind at all I’m only a bit disdained ha ha.” From her backpack she got out a pair of sunglasses, no need to say, it is also coffee coloured. The winter this year is quite warm, why on Christmas and I’m still wearing a short sleeve shirt. She was dressing very casually, wearing a cream-coloured trousers and an orange-ish woollen sweater. “You’re not wearing your coffee colours today ” “Ha ha Mr. Hooligan so you’ve noticed. Today is a day of rest, no confrontation today so you don’t have to always be scared and worried about being tested by me.” “Very good this is actually a very good excuse for anyone to admit defeat.” “Ha ha I can’t really be out in the sun for too long so I need to have a pair of sunglasses handy, hope that you don’t mind.” “No no I don’t mind, it’s just that I feel sorry that your beautiful brown eyes will be drowned out by the sunglasses.” “Mr. Hooligan there is no time to play around let’s go la quickly!” She got on the motorcycle’s backseat, since my motorcycle did not have anything to hang on to in the back, so she grabbed hold of my paint’s belt holes for support. AT was very jealous about this fact about my motorcycle. He said that he would only have to intentionally change gears in a certain manner to cause the engine to miss a beat and then he would be able to feel a sudden sensual impact from behind. As for me I am not that silly, I would have carefully and smoothly change gear to ensure that nothing goes wrong. “Today’s weather is great isn’t it?!” I have never had the experience of talking to her before and I guess that saying something so boring like this is excusable. “Yes it is! The sun is really round isn’t it? Ha ha ” She just always know how to use her laughter to melt away my nervousness and uneasiness. “I heard that ‘mi si fo tuo (the same pronunciation of a product for sun protection meaning to be so tempting that it would make even a Buddha addicted)’ and ‘ Old la(dy) [Ole]’ sunscreen series are very good next time I will take you to buy some.” “OK, if you buy it for me, I will use it.” Our ancestors were not wrong nor were they lying when they said ‘Troubles and misunderstandings all begin from the unnecessary opening of one’s mouth, and frustrations are due to the fact that one cannot refrain from acting out of one’s given duties and responsibilities.’ Today’s weather is really great, neither hot nor cold, and neither wet nor dry, to be living in Tai Nan is I believe a real blessing. Although the government try to warn us ‘Your life is invaluable so wear a helmet!’ I say to this that although our lives are invaluable a ticket is valuable so we both didn’t bother to wear a helmet. In the soft wind that is blowing up against my face I can smell a subtle and sweet gentle smell radiating from her body. I remember that there was this one time when I was on a long haul flight, because I had forgotten to put on my safety belt, a very pretty air stewardess came to my seat, bent herself down and reminded me to secure my seatbelt. She too had this type of sweet smelling fragrance After that flight, I made sure that I always forget to wear my seatbelt whenever I fly, unless I happen to see that the air stewardess is an old hag. Men is a very strange type of creature, their senses are very easily affected by their sight. Therefore, to men, all beautiful women must be very good smelling. That is to say men are a creature that always use a particular condition or characteristic to explain an all encompassing general condition. I was very careful with the changing of gears, but whenever I accelerate or brakes the motorcycle, it was inevitable that we both made bodily contacts. With her always talking almost next to my ears, I don’t know why but I felt that my ears were almost on fire. I really wanted to believe that it is because the air that we exhale contains a high concentration of carbon dioxide. Although I know that it is not true, right at this moment I finally understand a scene in the 4th volume of ‘yi tian tu long ji (ดาบมังกรหยก)’ how Zhang Wu-ji (เตียบ่อกี้) felt when he was holding Zhao Min (เตียเมี่ยง) in his arms and he had wished that the experience would never end. When we got to You Ai Street, as we rode pass the front doors of the Tai Nan cinema “Wa sai! There was a huge crowd gathering there. Could it be possible that there is free movie today? I guess that I have to ride my motorcycle to Zhong Zheng Street and try to find a place to park it.” “Hey why don’t you go and park your motorcycle at the park and pay at the cinema instead of riding your motorcycle round and round trying to find a free parking space?” “Don’t be joking! If I rode this old thing to the pay parking at the cinema I would be the laughing stock of all the people there and it wouldn’t only be me, my trusted motorcycle would also be ridiculed by all of the other motorcycles there.” “He he he Mr. Hooligan how could you even save on this type of expenses you are a very exceptional miser!” จากคุณ : Peking Man - [ 11 พ.ค. 47 18:14:09 ]

ความคิดเห็นที่ 41 With heaven on my side, I finally found a parking space. After I had parked my motorcycle, she took off her sunglasses and put it in her backpack. At the same time, she got out a coffee coloured hairbrush and a butterfly shaped hairclip. With her lips she held the butterfly shaped hairclip and with both hands she arranged her hair and put it into a simple ponytail with the hairclip. She smiled at me coyly as if she was trying to say that she was sorry for making me wait for her. But for me, I suddenly felt as if she was a beautiful butterfly flying and dancing in the wind right in front of me. “Sorry so sorry that I have let you waited for such a long time Now let’s go!” “Hmm was it a good ride on my motorcycle?” “A. It was a bad ride. B. It was definitely a bad ride. C. How could it be a good ride? D. The worst ride possible. E. All of the above. And the answer is of course E. All of the above. Mr. Hooligan is my imitation of you a good one?” “You silly girl what are you being proud of why didn’t you pick up any of my good traits and wanted to only copy my bad traits?” “It’s not that I am not learning anything good from you. But isn’t it plain to see that clearly there isn’t anything good for me to pick up which coincidentally is what Mengzi also taught me ‘It’s just that I want to be naughty, I just am.’ ” “OK ok I surrender. Don’t forget that we are not at war today.” “Of course of course after all this is a very good excuse for admitting defeat. Ha ha ha!” “Hey Mr. Hooligan it says here ‘No temporary parking’.” “Oh! No problem I’m not just going to be parking my motorcycle here temporarily, I will be parking my motorcycle here for quite some time ” “Oh You are being naughty again Mr. Hooligan! What if your old motorcycle, your old wolf gets towed away and sent to the pound, what are you going to do?” “No way! When they see this old thing, out of respect for its advance years, most people will just leave it alone no one in their right mind would want to mistreat it.” Boy! It seems really strange for the movie is scheduled at 2:20pm and it’s only 1:40pm now but the line forming at the Tai Nan cinema is already a really long snake. Another strange thing that is worth noticing is the fact that most of the people queuing are couples. “Why don’t you go and look at some posters and find something to do while I will wait in line to buy the movie tickets for us.” Looking at the other couples hugging, caressing, and kissing, and holding hands, and again looking at her, I actually felt quite sorry for myself when I said that. “I don’t want to I want to wait in line with you.” “But you’ll be bored, standing here waiting with me.” “How could I be bored when I am with you? Please please let me stay here and wait in line with you.” I am actually grateful for all the people crowding together to see the movie because in this crowded mass of human beings she and I were able to be that little wee bit closer together. In cyberland when we are chatting to each other we are still separated by a screen; at McDonald, we were separated by the table; on the motorcycle, we were separated by my shadow; but right here and right now, she is right here, right next to me and there is basically no distance between the two of us. The fact that she was standing on my left meant that while waiting, from time to time her right arm would be brushing up against my left arm. We occasionally would talk about some nonsense and for the rest of the time we were engulfed in sweet silence. Boy, this feeling is just so right! Even if we don’t get the tickets, I know that I would still be content. Today is really great! And the thing that made it great is not only the weather, it is also the feeling that I am feeling right now. Did you know that a student movie ticket costs 240 yuan, or in other words that’s 480 yuan for 2 tickets. This time my wallet is really coughing and haemorrhaging blood, all the soldiers in my wallet have fallen in the line of duty. Because she is standing on my left side and I used my right hand to pay for the tickets, when I paid for the movie tickets I didn’t let her get the chance to stop me from treating her to a movie. I now realized that that was a grave strategic mistake. We bought our tickets at about 2:10pm; one ticket is row 11 seat no. 13 and another is row 11 seat no. 15. “Wow! Mr. Hooligan row 11 seat no. 13 isn’t that the same as your birthday?” “Hmm So?” “So so I want to sit in that seat. And as for the ticket can I keep it?” “Of course you can and if you also want to pay for it you also can.” “Oh Mr. Hooligan don’t you worry, today I won’t try to compete with you about paying.” “Worried? The thing that I’m worried about is that you didn’t want to compete with me about treating you to the movie.” After we got into the theatre, made it to our seats, and sat down, it wasn’t long after that before the lights dimmed down. I’m the type that never talks during a movie so this is the time that my lips can get a well-deserved rest. For the next 3 hours, I carefully watched and observe this controversial film that I have heard so many people talk about. I’m not a romantic person Therefore my indifference to the moving and romantic part in movies are very understandable. Except for the dialogue between Jack and Rose before Jack sank into the bottom of the icy ocean: “Rose, listen to me listen winning that ticket was the best thing that ever happened to me. It brought me to you .and I am thankful. Rose, I am thankful ” จากคุณ : Peking Man - [ 11 พ.ค. 47 18:15:26 ]

ความคิดเห็นที่ 42 As I am also known as Jack, but compared to the Jack in the movie I’m a lot more fortunate. I didn’t have to gamble and risk my life to get on to the Titanic, I only had to turn on my PC, get on line, log in, and I was able to meet a “Rose” in real life. But he is more fortunate than me in one aspect, he could draw, so it wasn’t hard to understand that Rose wasn’t that hesitant to strip down and let him draw her in the nude. Although it seems that he was very concentrated and focused while he was doing his drawing, but I think that he was purposely drawing very slowly! I’m after all a guy, I know what all men are like, I can see it by looking into their eyes, but despite that there is no need to announce it to the whole world, is there? Because if he had to draw a nude picture of a very ugly woman I bet that it would only take him just 1 minute. As for her, her reactions to the movie were not that muted. She had in her hand a handkerchief always ready on stand by. Towards the end of the movie, the frequency that she had to wipe her eyes was shooting through the roof. When Jack wanted Rose to promise him that she will fight on and hang on until the end and Rose said: “I promise I will never let go, Jack I will never let go!” Surprisingly, at the same time, she also whispered: “I will never let go Jack ” When Jack did finally sink to the bottom of the icy ocean, at the same time her backpack zipper was also opened, and the stand by handkerchief was put into service. And towards the end of the movie when Celine Dion came on and sang ‘My Heart Will go On’, as if she was really affected by the music, so her tears like the music also went on and on Because I know that right now any small movement and action can and will push her over the edge, so I got up slowly and as softly as possible as if I was whispering said to her: “The movie is over shall we go ” She just sat there in her seat, staring at me and not saying a word. After quite a long silence she suddenly said: “Mr. Hooligan all movies has to come to an end, but in real life we all have to keep on continuing with our lives, isn’t that right?” Although I nodded my head, but deep down inside I felt unexplainably horrible. She saw me nodding my head, she then sprang up from her seat, grabbed her backpack and then followed me silently out of the theatre. At this time the crowds of people queuing to get in and the crowd trying to get out collided in the foyer of the cinema and created a sea of confusion which made the atmosphere somewhat similar to the scene of chaos with people trying to escape an almost certain death right before the Titanic sank to the bottom of the ocean. So it seems that while we have left behind ‘Titanic’ the movie, but the ‘Titanic’ that is in our real life still goes on and on Although we have already left the cinema, I can see that tears were still clinging on to her lovely face. จากคุณ : Peking Man - [ 11 พ.ค. 47 18:16:27 ]

ความคิดเห็นที่ 43 6pm is just the time when it’s about to get dark and the neon lights are beginning to flood the blacken sky and Zhong Zheng Street. Perhaps going for a walk might help her forget the sinking of the ‘Titanic’. “Lets go for a walk!” “Hmm ok ” She slowly nodded her head, but I can still see that there are 2 teardrops rolling down her cheeks. She looked at the two movie tickets, handed it to me, and said: “Mr. Hooligan can you sign this for me?” “What do you want me to write? How about ‘I do solemnly swear that I will true and loyal to only the beautiful FID?’ ” “Ha ha ha that won’t be necessary. You can sign it ‘Mr. Hooligan’ since I don’t even know your name ” “Then why didn’t you ask me?” “Well you didn’t ask me either! I guess that this is what Confucius preaches as ‘ ji suo bu yu, hu shi yu ren (don’t treat others in the manner that you yourself wouldn’t want to be treated)’ ” She again is using wrongly another Chinese saying, so I hurriedly signed the ticket for her ‘Mr. Hooligan’. She took a look at what I had signed and a look of disappointment suddenly flashed in her eyes. But then after that, she sighed and then said tiredly: “Thank you Mr. Hooligan ” Although she said thank you, why then did she have to sigh? It couldn’t be because my handwriting was too ugly, or could it? We wandered around but all the while we didn’t really speak to each other. She suddenly stopped in front of a Christian Dior counter and said: “Mr. Hooligan, have you ever read this online novel called ‘Perfume’ written by Lemonade?” “Hmm let see Yes I have read it a while ago. It’s a deeply moving story, isn’t it? Why do you ask?” “This bottle of Dolce Vita by Christian Dior is what the guy in the story gave to the girl before her wedding he also told her that ‘dolce vita’ is Italian and it means ‘sweet and memorable day’ ” “Really? I guess that I didn’t read the story carefully enough.” “Mr. Hooligan, do you think that today a ‘sweet and memorable day’?” “Originally it is, but with you crying just now I will have to reconsider it.” “Hmm that mean it’s sweet but not too sweet so I guess that I will get a small bottle then.” Luckily, Lemonade only wrote ‘Perfume’ if she had written ‘Gold’ or ‘Diamond’ then it is almost certain that I will be burying myself under a mountain of debt. จากคุณ : Peking Man - [ 13 พ.ค. 47 22:00:05 ]

ความคิดเห็นที่ 44 “It’s already 7 something already are you hungry? Do you want to grab a bite to eat?” “I don’t really feel like eating anything right now how about you?” “You eat I eat!” She stopped frozen I guess that I have startled her and then she suddenly burst into tears! How can I be so stupid, it was difficult enough for her to leave the Titanic, why did I have to go back, salvage the sunken wreck and bring it back to her? She wiped away her tears, forced a smile, and then suggested: “Then can we go back to the McDonald on University Street?” I nodded and got on my trusted motorcycle as she sat there quietly in the backseat. The wind tonight is beginning to get a bit cold When we got to the McDonald on university Street, what a coincidence, it was 7:30pm, the same time and the same place as when we first met yesterday! “Do you want to have the no. 1 meal?” She shook her head once. “Do you want to have the no. 2 meal?” She shook her head twice. “Do you want to have the no. 3 meal?” She shook her head three times. And she went on shaking her head at every extra value meal on the menu. So in the end I had to order 2 large coke and 2 large fries. After that we went to sit at the same place, the same table, and in the same seats as we had done yesterday. “Go ahead and eat Mr. Hooligan you will be hungry if you don’t eat anything.” “Since you don’t feel like eating how could I eat anything?” This is just something that I have to say to make her feel better because I myself am very hungry since I hadn’t eaten anything at all today. I took a bite of the French fries strangely today’s fries are not as crispy and tasty it is rather cold, soggy, and rather bitter. So it seems that when she lost he smile and laughter even the French fries loses its flavours. “Mr. Hooligan why are you called ‘JHT’?” “ ‘J’ is for Jack, ‘H’ is for hate, and ‘T’ is for Titanic. ‘JHT’ is the shorthand for Jack hate Titanic.” “Stop fooling around can you be serious just for once.” “JHT are actually my initials, but because ‘Titanic’ made you cry, I, ‘Jack’ has to rationally ‘hate’ the ‘Titanic’.” “My dear Mr. Hooligan you can’t hate ‘Titanic’ you have to help or perhaps hold the Titanic.” Hate? Help? Hold? Since we finished watching ‘Titanic’ she is always saying things that I don’t really understand. Could it be possible that students who majors in foreign languages have to also be a philosophy major? After that remark, she became very quiet. She would occasionally lower her head as if in deep thought, staring blankly at me. Wait a sec here, why did I use the word ‘blankly’? Was it because she was trying too hard to observe me, but she was too afraid to look too close? To describe this type of behaviour, if I do not use the ‘blankly’ to describe her, what then should I use; dumbly, stupidly, foolishly, or silly? Outside, in the streets, the people are beginning to get quite loud and restless. “Hmm why is it so loud in the street at this time?” “Since today is the last day of 1997 there’s going to be a New Year street party on this very street tonight. Shall we go and join the party after this?” “Sure! But I want to go now and not later ” Without a moment’s hesitation, I picked up the tray to take to the trashcan and then pointed to her backpack to make sure that she doesn’t forget it. Our new mayor closed off a good part of University Street, so that he could have a massive New Year street party with his beloved citizens. He is a lot more fortunate than our last mayor because he can dance with his wife while our last mayor’s wife was wheelchair bound. But compared to them, personally, I think that I am the most fortunate person because FID is a lot prettier than both their wives. As I was letting my mind wander, the heaven parted and rain poured down. Because I was afraid that she will get wet, out of my concern for her, I did what I think was improper and most un-gentlemanly, I instinctively grabbed her hand and ran towards the over hanging roof of the university’s guardhouse nearby. As the Chinese saying goes ‘xian zhan hou zou (do it first and then report it afterwards)’ and since Confucius said ‘ bu jiao er sha zhi wei nue (to kill without trying to teach someone is called cruel)’ so I accordingly am a very cruel and horrible person. However, since I am called a ‘Hooligan’, there is really no point in feeling sorry or guilty about my un-gentlemanly action. This is the second time that I had the chance to touch her hands and fingers. And it felt just like the first time, exceptionally cold. Last time it was probably because of the large cup of well-iced coke. What about this time? Was it because of the rain or could it be the exceptionally cold night wind? Although the roof is not leaking, but I felt that it might as well have been leaking, because from the corner of my eyes I saw AT. You just can’t have a party without AT, it’s just like a kitchen is never complete without a cockroach running around. But the thing about him is that he never takes along with him a dancing partner, because as he always says: “Nobody goes to a pub carrying his own bottle, why should I?” I think that what he says actually really make sense; when you can find plenty of nice and beautiful girls at a party just like when you can find plenty of alcohol at a pub, what then is the point in taking along your own date and cutting short your own right to choose. I once asked him if one were to compare girls to alcoholic beverages, what would he compare himself to? He answered without hesitating that he is best compared to a bottle opener! จากคุณ : Peking Man - [ 13 พ.ค. 47 22:00:50 ]

ความคิดเห็นที่ 45 “Oh! My dear friend Mr. Hooligan I see that you have brought along a rare Royal salute XO whisky!” “AT stop fooling around! This is FID.” “Hello. I have heard so much about you I see that my friend here can die a happy death under the hems of your dress.” “Eh eh Mr. AT I too have heard so much about you it is like having the sound of rolling thunder forced through my ears!” “Really? Hmm and I have always thought of myself as being very discrete Alas I guess that it is impossible to disguise my true self from the eyes of such an exceptional person like yourself ” “I often see your name written on the walls in the female dormitory.” “Really? What does it say? Was it about how great I am?” “No, not really usually it just says ‘AT goes to hell!’ or ‘AT go eat shit!’ and to come and think of it these things are usually written in the bathroom.” “He he he I see that both you and my friend here are very special!” Listening to their conversation, I was laughing so hard that I couldn’t say a word. Since AT is my best friend, I should have tried to help him out, but to laugh at him seems to say that I value my relationship with FID more than my friendship with AT. But how could I argue with that, since it’s true. AT; the golden Sagittarius, JHT; the blue Scorpio, and FID; the coffee coloured Pisces, all of us started talking under the roof as the rain continued until the rain eventually stopped. That was the first time that all three of us got together and also it was the last. “My friend Mr. Hooligan and you Ms. FID it has stopped raining outside so I have to go and continue my hunt for tonight. But please do continue your flirting!” Finally AT is gone! I was so happy and relieved that I couldn’t help it but to clap my hands. If we had talked anymore, I’m afraid that my image would be all but ruined. “Mr. Hooligan may I ask why did you clap your hands?” “Oh it was because the music just now was great! And I couldn’t help myself clapping to show my appreciation.” “Ei ei Don’t even try to trick me I know that you are glad that AT is gone because you are afraid that AT will me your secrets right!?” “Do I have secrets? Perhaps I do and perhaps I don’t.” But in the deepest recesses of my soul my biggest, most well kept, and most prized secret is you! Tonight’s New Year street party is sponsored, arranged, and managed by a local radio station 97.1 fm, KISS radio. Why do I remember this radio station? Easy, it’s because this radio station actually puts on more commercials than music or any other type of programming, which if I might say so, are all fatally boring! There is an open space full of people dancing and enjoying themselves. To me dancing is one of my greatest talents. Whenever I dance to a fast song, so people tell me, I look like an African mountain gorilla in love. “Hmm Mr. Hooligan since I cannot dance to a fast song so I guess that I cannot dance with you laa I’m sorry.” “Ah I see, no problem. Since your name is ‘FID’ which suggests that you only dance very softly it is only natural that you cannot dance to a fast song.” “I hope that they will play the song ‘Lady in Red’ ” “Wah not bad not bad you even know a song that old.” “I heard it on the radio a while back and I have since fallen in love with it!” So that’s why! Because when this song was popular, I’m afraid that she probably was still in elementary school. Actually, I too love the song, especially when it goes ‘ you took my breath away’. Before, I was unable to understand why with a turn of her body and a smile the lady in red was able to make the guy breathless. It wasn’t until last night and in front of her building when she turned around and gave me a smile before she went up that I finally found the answer and fully understood it. However, wouldn’t it be so much better if the name of the song were to be changed into ‘Lady in Coffee’? But one has to be careful not to ask AT or else he would with certainty change it to ‘Lady in Nothing’! At last it’s time for the New Year count down and the welcoming of the new year, which is clearly the climax of the evening. Amidst the cacophony of the New Year jubilations and cheers, in the sea of humanity we exchanged a simple ‘Happy New Year’ with each other. I thought to myself, since she studies a foreign language, why doesn’t she also learn and practice some of their customs like showering me hugs and kisses? But then again, doesn’t that also imply that since I study water resource conservation I should be splashing some water to celebrate the New Year? “Will we come here together next year?” “Next year? That’s still such a long time away ” She is clearly talking nonsense again. I guess that she is just too tired and desperately want to go to bed. Leaving all that noise behind, I took her back to where she lives on Sheng Li Road. Compared to the noise level moments ago, right now it’s so quiet that we could almost each other’s breathing. “Mr. Hooligan, do you still remember the correct way to put on perfume mentioned in ‘Perfume’?” I shook my head to say I have no idea How could I and why should I remember because I don’t even use perfume. “Dab some behind your ears, then put some on your neck and some on the main artery on your on wrists then spray some into the air and then lastly to complete the ceremony slowly walk through the mist of perfume that you have just sprayed and let it engulf you.” “Really? Are you sure, because if you use it like that I’m sure that your small bottle of perfume would be finished before you know it?” “Shall we try it?” “We? We as in you and me? You go on ahead, try it if you want to but I think that I might have to give it a pass I am after all a guy you know.” She opened the small bottle of the perfume ‘Dolce Vita’, then she first put some behind her ears, after which she put some on her shapely neck and on the inside of her wrist and then I couldn’t believe it, she really did spray some perfume into the air. WAH LAO! Doesn’t she know how expensive the perfume is? Finally she threw open both her arms as if she was playing and dancing in the rain, with her face raised up and full of smiles she gleefully walked through the mist of perfume. She was smiling with all her heart like an innocent child without even a worry on her mind. “Ha ha ha it smells so nice and so fun, now it’s your turn Mr. Hooligan!” Right now not only would I put on some perfume, even if I have to drink it, I would and I wouldn’t even raise even an eyebrow. I let her put some perfume behind my left ear, my neck, and the inside of my left wrist. This is the third occasion that I happened to feel her unusually cold fingers and I thought to myself that it’s probably because of the perfume. “Mr. Hooligan get ready, I’m going to spray the perfume lo!” Imitating her, I threw open both of my arms, lift my head, and then walked through my first perfume rain. “Now lets try your right ear and right wrist ” Wow she is really serious about it! You know it’s not easy to earn my money. Before I was able to feel my wallet haemorrhaging, she has already taken her second walk through the perfume rain. This time she was feeling even better and happier about it, with both her hands moving and her feet dancing she was just like her nickname (a coffee coloured butterfly) flying in dancing. On Sheng Li Road in the middle of the night, it was raining ‘Dolce Vita’ until we had used up that small bottle of perfume. จากคุณ : Peking Man - [ 13 พ.ค. 47 22:01:44 ]

ความคิดเห็นที่ 46 “The ‘Dolce Vita’ is all used up I guess that it is only appropriate that such a sweet and memorable night like tonight should also come to an end. Mr. Hooligan, I think that I should be going to bed lo Since I won’t be logging on I won’t be able to see you online tonight at 3:15am so naturally you cannot go online tonight.” “Why can’t I?” “You’ll find out when you log on at noon tomorrow. Remember! You can only log on at noon tomorrow.” She took out her keys, turned around, and opened the doors to her apartment building. At this very moment, I can see that at the back of her neck there is a very prominent red patch of skin if it were not for the fact that she had done her hair up in a ponytail I wouldn’t have at all noticed that there was a butterfly stuck on the back of her neck. She entered her building slowly, just before she closed the doors, she stuck her head out and gave me a smile and then said: “My dear Mr. Hooligan, please drive carefully!” And before I was able to nod in acknowledgement, the doors were already closed behind her. I lifted my head and looked up, I wanted to see whether the light has been turned on on the 4th floor apartment? I waited and waited for quite some time but the 4th floor somehow was still completely dark. It wasn’t only the 4th floor apartment that was covered in darkness, there was also me who was riding my old and trusted motorcycle. On returning to the lab, AT caught a scent of perfume on my body and shouted at me a question: “Hmm interesting, why are you so sweet smelling? Could it be possible that you two were being more than just ‘intimate’ tonight!?” I just didn’t know what to say or how to answer AT so I just remained silent, reach over to open the fridge and then grabbed the 2 kirins inside. I opened one and then handed the other to AT, and just like that we silently finished the beer. After finishing the beer, AT got up and patted me on my shoulder and then left the laboratory. จากคุณ : Peking Man - [ 13 พ.ค. 47 22:02:35 ]

ความคิดเห็นที่ 47 Chapter 8. Disappearance At the same time that you are receiving this e-mail I should be sitting in an airplane on my way to Taipei Can you feel this smile that I have for you from 10000 feet up in the air? J Perhaps the airplane today might not be able to climb all the way up to 10000 feet Because I am sitting in my seat with a very heavy heavy heart! L I turned off the light, letting the darkness envelop and swallow me up because I hope that I too can imagine what her feelings are and what she is feeling lying alone there in the dark at this very same moment. Alas, in the dark what we human feel most naturally is the overpowering sense of loneliness. I know that she must be feeling very lonely at this very moment, but how should and how could I be there for her and her loneliness? In the neither territory between dream and consciousness, in a trance like vision I saw a most beautiful butterfly as it burns in the sea of fire being reduced into a pile of ashes. I also saw a red mark, which from pale red turned into one that is intensely red and then blood red and then it finally engulfed and swallowed me Was this because of the beer that I just had? I suddenly can feel that my body was shuddering because of the cold. As for the cold, it seems to be penetrating and piercing the deepest, darkest, and the most secretive parts of my soul. As it got closer to 3:15am, the rate of my heartbeat was going through the roof. I really want to go on line, but how can I since I have already promised FID that I won’t log on tonight? Let see why don’t I log on using a guest account, after all the fact that I use a guest account to log on technically does not go against my promise to FID that I won’t go online at 3:15am tonight. After I logged on I checked to see whether she is on line or not. And true to her words, I couldn’t find her online. Although my heart was beating extremely fast, it was unexpectedly exceptionally cold. It wasn’t very easy waiting until 12pm noon the next day. Overflowing with excitement and anxiety, this time I used ‘JHT’ to log on, but she unexpectedly wasn’t there Therefore ‘JHT’ was online alone waiting for ‘FID’. Although she wasn’t there online, she did however send me e-mail. Sender: Fly In Dance Topic: 1998/01/01 Date: Thu, Jan 1, 10:43:29, 1998 Dear Mr. Hooligan, at first I wanted to let my thoughts and emotions settle in the darkness and then try to reminisce and appreciate every sweet and memorable moment that we had shared. I had never thought that covered under the disguise of darkness the only thing that I can feel is being lonely especially when I hear the sound of your motorcycle’s exhaust fading away as you rode your motorcycle ever further away. I just can’t help it. Tears were helplessly and unconsciously running down my cheeks Mr. Hooligan can you also feel this unbearable loneliness that I am feeling? I just couldn’t get my old habit so at 3:15am, after much deliberation, I used ‘guest’ to log in, I hope that you wouldn’t blame me for doing this!? :P I checked to see whether or not you were online and you of course were not online. Should I feel grateful that my trusts in you were not misplaced after all or should I rather be sighing of disappointment? I can see sunlight piercing through the horizon and lighting up the sky. So it’s already morning I guess that it’s time for me to leave for the airport. I think that I should bring something to remind myself of you Let see how about I bring with me the movie tickets! And then what else should I bring when what I really want to take with me, I cannot and the something that I want to leave behind and rid off, I just couldn’t shake it off Please go and take a look at the e-mails in my inbox! That’s where I had kept, collected, and recorded every little detail of our relationship ever since we had met online. There is also a diary that I had posted on the BBS calling it a diary I guess isn’t that appropriate because I only wrote down entries of my feeling on those very special occasions When you read, please try to follow it chronologically and after you have finished reading, the choice of whether to erase it or keep it is entirely up to you because I probably won’t have the chance to go online again. The password is my birth date 19760315..Go on, go and have a look! FlyinDance Ps. Mr Hooligan, hey! Don’t blank out on me now quickly go and have a look! It’s hard to believe, but she has even worked it out that I would be completely dumbstruck by her e-mail. He he he I guess that it’s not that surprising really, she is after all an ‘S’ type girl. I dashed online using her ID and looked in her inbox. In her inbox there are only e-mails from JHT and FID. I obviously wasn’t interested in reading the e-mails that I had sent her so I went straight on to read her first BBS/ diary entry. จากคุณ : Peking Man - [ 13 พ.ค. 47 22:03:23 ]

ความคิดเห็นที่ 48 Sender: Fly In Dance Topic: 1997/09/18 Date: Thu, Sep 18, 23:22:47, 1997 Today’s the first day of class Cheng Da University is such a contemptible institution how could they have chosen to start class on September 18, are they not at all aware of the 918 incident (on September 18 1931 Japan occupied Shenyang and proceeded to occupy the whole of Manchuria and set up a puppet regime of Manchuko, which was effectively controlled by Japan)? This plainly shows how ignorant and disrespectful the university is to all our fellow Chinese brothers and sisters who were massacred by the invading Japanese army. In remembrance of all those innocent victims I today will make an exception and skip all of today’s classes to pay them my respect! I felt so bored sitting there at my department in fact I felt so bored that I decided to go explore the entire university’s campus. I walked through the underground walkway and got to the part of the campus that belong to the department of Engineering. As I was walking along the road, the trees on both sides of the road were big and towering with dignity and there was some soft sunlight filtered through the dense foliage dancing in the soft wind blowing this actually is about the most sunlight that I can really enjoy without getting sick I just couldn’t help it smiling, humming a song, and also dancing softly The guys here are so full of life and virility which is definitely different from the guys doing Humanities who smells of mouldy books and papers The IT building is quite a grand building on its behalf I just had to go in so you all prepare for my arrival J Since there are lots of people playing BBS I guess that I should also join in the fun, and so I went and registered for a new ID since my appearance on the internet had completely destroyed the accepted myth that there are no beautiful girls online all of my previous Ids have been the target of countless guys who had nothing better to do but try to chat up to girls L Every time I go online there’s always a huge bunch if e-mails in my inbox and all of the e-mails are saying how they so and so wanted to be friends with me while there are also some who tries to show off with their witty writing, there are also those who tries to convince me of how suave, or how cool, or how etc they are. And then there are of course those people who pretend that they simple and honest, and those who think that they are really witty, interesting, and or funny The most impressive one, is there is this one guy who he thinks that he is ‘Irresistible’! CHE (a Chinese expression dismissing what has been said)! Sorry guys, my life is too short to pay attention to you people. All this is Xiao Wen, my roommate’s fault! Every time that she has to go meet her new cyberfriend, she always has to be dragging me along with her. She said that this is a measure of risk management which should prevent her from being surrounded by scared out of her wits by a bunch of ugly and slimy frogs strangely as a result it’s always me who is shocked and disgusted! L Online, the guys call the girls ‘dinosaurs’ while the girls call the guys ‘frogs’. The guys swear by the fact that there are no beautiful girls on line while the girls also claim that online there are frogs everywhere jumping up and down. Let me tell you something strange there are plenty of frogs who thinks that they are actually princes and they are waiting in earnest to be transformed back into human form with a kiss from princess. According to Xiao Wen, frogs are frogs, even if it went to bed with a princess, it would still be only a frog! J Hmm let see what should I call myself this time? I remembered how good I felt just now dancing softly on the road and how with only a thought I am again filled with joy and happiness. How good it is to be young! *^____^* Why don’t I use Fly In Dance as my ID ‘I am Fly In Dance’! With my feeling at this moment as my blueprint I wrote down my plan. I wish that I would be forever young and happy today is such a great day this just goes to show that my decision to cut class today was absolutely correct. :P จากคุณ : Peking Man - [ 13 พ.ค. 47 22:09:00 ]

ความคิดเห็นที่ 49 ขอให้ทำงานเสร็จเร็วๆนะคะ จะได้ไม่เครียด จากคุณ : เครียดเหมือนกัน - [ 14 พ.ค. 47 18:02:47 A:203.144.241.41 X: ]

ความคิดเห็นที่ 50 Thank you krup..... as for my work.... I think that it will take me at least 2 and a half years from now to finsh.... @^___^@ BY then I should be old...and grey... :( จากคุณ : Peking Man - [ 14 พ.ค. 47 23:21:58 ]

ความคิดเห็นที่ 51 Sender: Fly In Dance Topic: 1997/09/22 Date: Mon, Sep 22, 23:14:52, 1997 Tonight Xiao Wen again went out on a date and left me alone at home watching the TV. On the news there was a story about a confrontation between a criminal and the police, in the end both side didn’t even fire a single shot and the criminal somehow got away. Luckily I am here in my flat because the place where this took place is my hometown, or else I don’t think that I will be able to go to bed tonight. I went online, new ID new image, the time has come for me to go and check out the various web boards. I don’t know why, but I even went to take a look at the ‘mantalk’ board, which I normally would never set foot in to, to listen to frogs croaking and jumping about. But there was this one piece of writing that I thought was very interesting. I made a mental note of the author, ‘JHT’, that’s just pathetic, what type of an ID is that? J, H, T, 3 straight consonants without even a vowel, such a difficult ID to pronounce and an equally ugly ID at that. Since my major is in foreign languages I just can’t stand someone whose level of English proficiency is very low, in the case of this ‘JHT’, his ID reflect that his level of language proficiency is as near to zero as it can get. Another thing is his nickname, his nickname is even worse than his ID. Bordering on being a moron, he calls himself a ‘Mr. Hooligan’, how stupid can he be!? Stupidest, was XW’s answer. XW told me that a frog with a cute name might not turn out to be a cute frog but if a frog has a very name then you can count on it that it is a very ugly frog. Based on what XW had told me, I think that this ‘JHT’ is not a frog, he must be a toad ^____^ I secretly went to take a look at his plan I have to admit that it really sounds interesting in it he said: “If you pour out all the water in the Pacific Ocean, it still wouldn't be enough to extinguish my flames for you. Can you pour out all the water in the Pacific Ocean? No, you can't. Therefore, I do not love you.” If I were to have let XW read his writing she would probably say that he is passing gas through his lips. But since I’m a good girl I reserve my rights not to say anything rude and improper :P I wonder what type of a person he is? Is he a real hooligan or is he someone who is English illiterate? Why is it then that he possesses such a great gift for words and yet his nickname is so pathetic? In order to find out more about him, I went in search of his writing and boy they are everywhere. I see that this toad really likes to jump about. His writings are all over the place; in the ‘letter’ board, ‘story’ board, ‘baseball’ board, and most extraordinary of all he also managed to jump to dinosaur central, ‘lady talk’ board and croak there to annoy everyone. Isn’t he afraid that he will be flattened by all the she-dinosaur roaming about? Since I am so so so bored I sent him an e-mail telling him that I found his plan to be really interesting. :~ Before ending today’s diary entry inside I am quite confused because this is the first time that I had sent an e-mail to an ID of a complete stranger. Why am I, more rather how could I be so courageous and this irrational, could it be that XW passed it on to me? Or is it really because I was just lonely and didn’t have anything to do? Sender: Fly In Dance Topic: 1997/09/30 Date: Tue, Sep 30, 23:48:06, 1997 Today in the afternoon XW and I went to a café on dong Feng Road to have some afternoon tea The ambience was magnificent J There was only the 2 of us on the entire ground floor. I ordered a cup of lavender tea, which is really rare for me because I’m a hard core coffee fan and I have never had tea for afternoon tea time before. Perhaps it was because I was lullabied by the waitress to order some lavender tea. Tonight I went online and I, hmm rather FID received her virgin e-mail. It’s an e-mail from JHT, the toad who is English illiterate. He said that he had waited by his monitor for several days, hoping that he would bump into me online but alas the world has been unfair to him, so the only thing that he could do is fight back his tears, swallow his pride, and write me an e-mail. How could the world be unfair? Doesn’t he know that it’s just that the world is always on my side! :P He said that to prove that my insight about him is correct he will try his best to train himself into an interesting person. ‘Train’? Can anyone train to become an interesting person? By the looks of it, he must have some problem with his brain. What a pity he is a graduate student, but seriously lacking in intellect and English literacy. This sort of person really does deserve to be pitied. J But strangely, the him, in his e-mail and, the him, on those webboards are very different, if I may say so they are almost 2 completely different people. What he posts are über macho (super macho) and chauvinistic. His words leaves no room for any argument and it is delivered with fatal precision. You would expect blood gushing out at the end of every sentence. On the other hand, in his e-mail, his words are very gentle, sensual, and refined just like just like just like the lavender tea that I just had this afternoon. J Sender: Fly In Dance Topic: 1997/10/05 Date: Sun, Oct 5, 23:50:35, 1997 Oh finally it’s a holiday! And also almost impossible to believe is the fact that XW doesn’t have a date! So to celebrate this occasion, XW and I decided to go shopping at the local department store because there was a special sale on leather wallets and bags on its 13th floor after some light shopping we decided to have lunch at the department store, and we had Korean spicy tofu soup it was so spicy that XW was crying afterward. She said that she shouldn’t eat anything that hot because she is already too hot to handle. Well you do have to feel that about yourself before the people around you will ^____^ I took a fancy to a coffee coloured backpack, its colour, design, and shape all reminded me of a nice cup of cappuccino. Without the slightest hesitation, I bought it. When I carried it, all I want to do is have a big cup of cappuccino. Hmm that’s so nice J Just like the feeling that wants to make you fall in love, isn’t it? :P The university’s computer network crashed since the evening of October 1st Could it be protesting the Independence Day celebration on the other side of the Taiwan Strait? L The network was down until this evening before it was up and running properly again. During the last three days, you can’t imagine how hard I had tried to go online and access the university’s network. Why was I so desperate to get there, is it because there is a treasure trove buried there? Or is it because I am a net junkie? I have to say ‘No’ to both questions. But why then, why do I have to go online and why do I have to access the university’s website? If I had wanted to read some online articles or webboards, there are plenty of other sites that I can access, could it be because of that toad call ‘JHT’? Today, I finally received his 2nd e-mail I felt as if I just received the most important thing in the world. I opened and read his e-mail over and over again I couldn’t help it, I don’t know why, but my heart was beating to its own rhythm, and it was making me feel light and a bit tipsy J Suddenly I felt like a need to have a cup of cappuccino. จากคุณ : Peking Man - [ 15 พ.ค. 47 22:18:09 ]

ความคิดเห็นที่ 52 Sender: Fly In Dance Topic: 1997/10/10 Date: Fri, Oct 10, 23:53:26, 1997 Today is the Republic of China’s Independence Day. Since today is a special day I especially slept in until 2 in the afternoon. :~ And all this is entirely because of that frog ‘JHT’! Why does he have to always log on so late at night, to be more precise 3:15am? Last night I especially waited and waited for him I even prayed to my beloved God last night, hoping that I will be able to see a frog jump on line tonight I had waited until almost 2am when I unintentionally fell asleep in front of the computer. And since I was idle for 40 minutes I was kicked off line. How could I not be angry with myself and even more with him when I woke up, because after I got kicked off line he logged on at 3am and sent me his 6th e-mail. L In his e-mail he wished that I had a great day. Happy about what? Doesn’t he know that there was a plane crash today? Huh you moron. There’s definitely something wrong with his brain the fact that he is always online so late is really irritating. What is he doing, if he is not sleeping at night? L It’s so rare that there is a 5 days holiday. You know what, if I’m in a good mood I might even consider going out somewhere with him. Huh he can stop hoping that I will be waiting for him in front of my computer tonight L Eh! Why is it that today I am not calling him a toad, and instead call him a frog? And why would I be waiting for him? And why would I want to see him even if it is on the internet? Could it be that I miss him? Sender: Fly In Dance Topic: 1997/10/25 Date: Sat, Oct 25, 23:38:28, 1997 I had to try being a hunter shooting wildly with the hope that I will finally hit something. He is really difficult to comprehend some time he doesn’t come on line for 2 or 3 days and sometimes he would come on line 3 or 4 times. But alas, I as a hunter, my shooting skills are very poor, because so far there hasn’t even been a single hit. To improve the situation, I can only try to fire more shots, in the hope that I will be increasing my chances of hitting this stupid bird name ‘JHT’. But no matter what I try, it seems that I just couldn’t hit that stupid bird. L In ‘The Romance of the Three Kingdoms’, Liu Bei (เล่าปี่) only had to visit Zhu Ge Liang (ขงเบ้ง) before he agrees to leave his hut and help Liu Bei revive the Han dynasty and reunite the empire. In my case I had called on him so many times that even the hut is beginning to get embarrassed when it sees me approaching That stupid frog, who does he think he is trying to imitate, Zhu Ge Liang? Huh could it perhaps be that my name is ‘day’ and his is ‘night’ and we are just two complete opposites destined never to ever meet! L Just as that thought crossed my mind the radio was playing a song ‘Not Only Friends’ by Huang Xiao Hu, could it be that what I want is not is also like that what I would like is not only e-mails. Ah my frog prince why couldn’t your lifestyle be just that bit more normal? Today is the day that Taiwan was liberated, but for me today is the day that my heart is captured and taken over Sender: Fly In Dance Topic: 1997/11/08 Date: Sat, Nov 08, 23:36:42, 1997 Today he’s coming back from Hong Kong In his lat e-mail he told me that he was going to Hong Kong, but he didn’t mention a word about how long you will be gone for. I never thought that he be gone for 5 long days plus when I got his e-mail he was already on a Thai Airways flight to Hong Kong. I’m actually very upset, because I had no idea when he was going to come back. Last night, when I went online I couldn’t help it but see that he hasn’t yet been to the university’s website you idiot hooligan you smelly frog Are you actually ever going to come back? L It’s because of this that just now when I went online and received his e-mail I felt a sudden surge of tears, as if I was going to burst into tears. He said in his e-mail that he went to a lot of places in Hong Kong such as Tai Ping hill and Victoria harbour. He also mentioned that the stars that he saw on the top of the Tai Ping hill were not as beautiful and dazzling as my two eyes and the night lights of Victoria harbour are definitely not as illuminating as my smiles. Huh! After disappearing for so many days, does he think that 2 sentences will be enough for me to forgive him? L Besides he has never even seen me before how could have known? I might have been more horrendous than the wild monkeys on Tai Ping hill and my laughter could be more irritating than the ferry’s whistle at Victoria harbour! Nevertheless although he was guessing, but since everything that he said about me is the truth, I simply did not have any choice but to let him go this time *^____^* He said that today is the day that the Chinese government will begin to block off the San Xia dam, the biggest water resource management project on earth, which in the study of water resource conservation is a tremendously important occasion. To me, I don’t care whether or not are they going to block off, divert, or join the flow of water? What I am interested in is the fact that are ever going to converge and become just 1 river and not 2 rivers that flows parallel to each other but never meeting จากคุณ : Peking Man - [ 17 พ.ค. 47 18:37:36 ]

ความคิดเห็นที่ 53 Sender: Fly In Dance Topic: 1997/11/13 Date: Thu, Nov 13, 23:33:56, 1997 Luckily today is Thursday because if it were Friday, it would be a black Friday, Friday the 13th J In the e-mail that he sent in the morning he said that today is a very exceptional day but as to why it was exceptional and special he surprisingly didn’t say. Could it be that it is his birthday? I guess that it is possible since there is nothing to be especially proud of being born today perhaps that’s why he doesn’t want to talk about it. :P He also said that he really appreciated my plan and to show his appreciation he had changed a couple of things about it: “I’m making a big commotion in a really quiet classroom You throw me a very strange glance It doesn’t matter if it is because of pity or disgust, because it won’t make me shut up Because the reason that I am mad is not how you look at me Rather it is the people that are keeping me away from you.” With both hands covering my mouth I laughed and laughed until before I knew it I was crying. Hmm I’m not so sure about it, but is this what they call ‘crying because of extreme happiness’? How dare he mess up my plan without my permission? L I will have to take revenge on him, I sear it, or else I’m not a nice and beautiful girl! I guess that I will have to also make some modification to his ‘Plan’ and I will have to make sure that he will have to shed more tears than I just did right now! :P What or why does he feel that today is a very special day? And to him, what sort of days does he consider to be special, because, to me, everyday that I receive his e-mail is always a very special day to me. Sender: Fly In Dance Topic: 1997/11/23 Date: Sun, Nov 23, 23:23:58, 1997 Since very early this morning XW got out her red motorcycle and took me to Gen Ting park J I went out today wearing my collection of coffee coloured clothing from head to toe and plus I had also taken along my cappuccino backpack that I had just bought. XW scolded at me saying that there’s something wrong with my head because no one in their right mind would wear something that. She clearly was teasing me saying that I must have been poisoned by all the coffee that I had drank But, so what, I just like drinking my coffee! :P Although Gen Ting park is really beautiful, but unlike She Ding park which is both beautiful and natural, it still feels that it is manmade. Where I had left the imprint of my shadow on its vast and beautiful lawn XW looking through her camera’s viewfinder told me that she could see a cup of coffee standing there instead of me. She was right that’s just the feeling that I wanted. J While we were walking around, two guys approached us. L They said: “Today is a nice day, because it’s ‘sunny’. You two are good looking, both a real ‘beauty’. We can’t help it but look and stare, because you two are really ‘pretty’. If we could join you, we would be really ‘happy’.” XW shouted back a reply immediately: “The weather had just changed for the worst, it’s now ‘rainy’. As for you two, both of you are ‘ugly’. Even one look at you, and I’m ‘angry’. If you don’t go away now, I will scream like ‘crazy’!” Ha ha ha what have I done to deserve such a good friend like XW? J And more unbelievably how could I still remain innocent and pure. :P I’m so happy today, the weather is nice, the scenery is nice, and it could have been better if I had a certain someone, hand in hand, actually by my side *^___^* Although I was thoroughly tired when I got back to Tai Nan, I still went online and wrote down what I felt today and in addition today he sent me his 20th e-mail. I’m so happy that he also had a good day and if he hadn’t he can rest assured that I will share with him some of my happiness. :~ Sender: Fly In Dance Topic: 1997/12/03 Date: Wed, Dec 3, 23:19:46, 1997 My mom called me last night trying to convinced me that I should for the time being apply for a leave of absence on the ground of my medical condition But how could I, this after all is my senior year. Wouldn’t it all have been a waste if I had to turn my back on my life and drop everything right now? Plus, didn’t all the doctors say that I have to try to getting tired and keep out of the sunlight. Even so, although I know how much my mom loves me but I’m all grown up and not a child anymore and I really didn’t appreciate the fact that she always treats me like one. L I’m so stressed and it’s although it’s already 3:15am I just can’t forced myself to go to sleep. L I know that by now XW is probably sound asleep so the only thing that I can do is head out into the cybersea and surf the net Ei? A surprise! There he is on my screen, that stupid bird, JHT he he he So I aim my gun at him and cocked my gun. There’s nowhere to run, this time I have him where I want him and there’s no escape! :P He said that he also isn’t feeling so great and we can be like double negative that makes a positive Really? But does this also apply to real life situation, or will it make the situation doubly worse? :~ He is a very good talker, his talking in no time had already cleared away the black cloud that was drowning and swallowing my happiness and then as if by magic he knew that I have long hair and don’t really often or rather doesn’t really like to wear a skirt. This is a real creepy feeling since I have no idea how could he have known. :D I didn’t know why, but talking to him is very relaxing and oh so comfortable!J When all my bad feelings have been all swept away and flushed down the toilet in its place now is the thought of sleep but how could I just let him slip away pass my fingers that easily? He he he so I told him that we have to continue our little conversation tomorrow at 10am Today in the morning, he told me about what his thoughts are about romance and being romantic. He’s right now on the other side staring at his pc screen blasting away about his ideas and I am here on the other side of the screen just couldn’t help myself but smile. J It’s so fun! I just couldn’t help myself but try to imagine the feeling of stepping on a pile of dog poop while reciting a poem by Yeats :D He also mentioned that the leading male character can be divided into that of the macho type, the refined type, the artist type, and the troubled soul type which I sort of have to agree and as for the likes of Mr. Hooligan I think that he could only appear in the horror novels. :P He is really exceptional, he is, with his ideas, which are interesting, new, and different it’s too bad that XW came to remind me that it is already lunch time or else I would still went to continue listening to him babble on and on and on L Hmm I decided that tonight I’m going to wait up for him again I just love the feeling of going online and calling him a hooligan J Because I was afraid that I just might want to fall asleep I prepared a mug of extra strong melba coffee, I wonder, would he be there, online at 3am tomorrow? And when I had met him online for the 1st time the very fingers that I type with were shaking just that little bit was it because I was too excited or was it because I was just too nervous? Late at night on the 3rd of December 1997 it is very cold outside I am thinking about someone so I am not cold at all J จากคุณ : Peking Man - [ 17 พ.ค. 47 18:38:51 ]

ความคิดเห็นที่ 54 Sender: Fly In Dance Topic: 1997/12/04 Date: Thu, Dec 4, 23:28:15, 1997 I went online at around 2am with nothing on my mind but to wait for him. As I was waiting, from the radio I heard a song ‘The lady in red’. This late at night, the singer’s raspy voice is made even sexier. When he sang ‘when you took my breathe away’ unexpectedly it was at that time that he, Mr. Hooligan came on line. Oh heavens! Was it because of the song, or was it the singer’s voice that had caused me to feel short of breath? I asked him what were his views on an online encounter? Why did I ask him this question, well because I want to find out his feelings about an online relationship and how he views our own cyber relationship? He said that the invention of the internet had created 3 types of people, their special and unique characteristics and their respective differences. As I silently stare at my monitor, watching the endless messages that he is sending me I could just imagine him sitting there with his mouth open and saliva flying like water sprays of a rushing waterfall Hmm I suddenly really felt that I really want to meet him *^___^* He said that both of us belong to the 2nd type of people (we are) not content with the sourness that is natural to a lemon and instead (we) want to become a sweet and juicy peach I guess perhaps that that is true since I am really jealous of XW’s special characteristics, the typical ram, carefree, daring, and adventurous. I was running my fingers through my hair when he mentioned that I might be running out of time. When he said that, several strands of hair fell out as if trying to remind and reconfirm this very fact. I picked up the fallen hair and held it in my hand my fingers felt as if it were electrocuted. No, it can’t be it’s not possible the doctors said that it wasn’t a fatal disease and I can still live my life like any normal and ordinary person. But can I really do that, unrepentantly living out my youth and dancing to the call of my adolescent, is this something that I wish and hope for going to be remain just a wish that is impossible to fulfil and will never come true? Should I or shouldn’t I listen to my mom, take some time off from my study and go back to Tai Pei to recuperate? But if I do go back to Tai Pei, will I be able to ever see him again? No I don’t want to do that I want to meet him! So I borrowed the words of a TV commercial and sent him a message ‘Lets meet!’ and he immediately sent back a message ‘OK’. Looking out from my window some sunlight is beginning to break through from the horizon the dark night always passes but what about the overhanging shadows of worries that is my heart, when will that disappear? Sender: Fly In Dance Topic: 1997/12/13 Date: Sat, Dec 13, 23:41:13, 1997 Since I met him last time it has become my habit to go online at about 3:15am I guess that this is perhaps something that we have going on. XW always ask me who he is? I only laugh and tell her that he is just a hooligan, it isn’t because his ID is ‘JHT’, 3 consonants without a single vowel, is too embarrassing to mention, rather it is because deep down inside he is my most prized secret that I have hidden away and I want to keep him completely to myself. :P What did we talk about? Well since he is so good at carrying a conversation, I didn’t really have to worry about having nothing to say J On several occasion I would tell XW what he said, XW said that pretty soon he would be eligible for a Nobel prize for babbling and telling tall tales. J But why then doesn’t he even ask me what my name is? Isn’t he even the least bit curious? XW warned me that I just might be up against a real player! But that just can’t be. My Mr. Hooligan just isn’t that type of person. :~ Although we both had already agreed to a meeting but since he isn’t going to mention anything and any details about our meeting I’m also going to be as headstrong and not mention it L After all, I am a girl and I have to preserve and maintain my composure. :~ To me he is like a mirror and I often see my own personality reflected in his character and personality especially the hard-headedness and the desire to get the last say on an argument. Therefore, without consciously knowing it I had come to enjoy picking an argument with him :P Since no one was willing to throw in the towel so no one asked the other person’s name and no one mentioned anything about the details of our first meeting. I’ve just read online a short story ‘The Perfume’, as I am the romantic Pisces, I really want to be like the lead female character and walk through a shower of Dolce Vita perfume, and if at that time he is also by my side, I know that it must be really sweet. *^__^* Sender: Fly In Dance Topic: 1997/12/24 Date: Wed, Dec 24, 23:44:31, 1997 It’s Christmas Eve tonight it’s so wonderful and comfortable the street is overflowing with the atmosphere of celebration everything is even better when I receive the e-card that he sent me. J I had made a bet with XW who is going to receive more Xmas cards, and as of today the result is I am utterly beaten by XW L Well I guess I can’t really help it, since her appearance and figure is something that everybody all have praises for so I guess that losing to her is not too bad :~ Therefore I had to treat XW to a big Xmas dinner. We went to have beef steaks that are cooked on a 400c stone besides being different, it was also quite nice. J XW said that she wanted to go to the Xmas dance at the Zhong Zheng hall at the Guang Fu campus. I couldn’t help it but feel reluctant XW should know better that with my ailment it doesn’t allow me to do very strenuous movement and exercise. But I guess that I shouldn’t ruin all the fun for XW so I had to go along with her :P When we got to the front of the hall we were shocked by the sheer length of the queue waiting to get in Good heavens! With this many people how long will we have to wait before we can go in? Luckily, XW got a lot of connections and since the doorman is one of XW’s many admirers it is only natural for him to let us slip through the doors despite the horrible long queue. :D Tonight XW wore a pair of blazing red bell-bottom pants and a crimson top that she bought at Master Max. For tonight, XW and I last night went out especially to get some hair colouring solution. I dyed several strands of my hair, coffee coloured and as for XW she dyed several strands of her hair red. In the case that I look like a cup of coffee, then XW must be like a glass of bloody Mary ^______^ I just couldn’t dance to a very fast song I could only occasionally grace the dance floor with XW when there is a slow song. Doesn’t this scene just exemplify the best of both worlds, the combination of good coffee and good alcohol? J XW’s dancing is phenomenal and it isn’t hard to understand why she has easily become the focus of the whole dance floor. Seeing her sweating profusely from all that dancing made me filled with a sense of subdued jealousy because my ailment doesn’t really permit me to perform any strenuous activities and I also have to avoid too much and too strong sun light but if someone young isn’t able to dance until one is covered with sweat on the dance floor or showing their lovely smile on a lovely sunny day then what is the point? Sweating is something that most people just take for granted, but to me it is something that is beyond me and considered as wasteful Mr. Hooligan was right after all; I belong to the 2nd type, the type that hopes and wishes for a chance to be able to FlyinDance. I told XW that I didn’t feel well and then left the dance that I didn’t belong to as I slowly made my way home, although I wasn’t able to work up a sweat but I instead have worked up a few tears on my cheeks There was still 3 hours until 3:15am I wonder how is his Xmas night and how is he doing? Wouldn’t it be magnificent if he could right now appear in front of me? Isn’t Xmas night supposed to be full of miracles? My beloved God can you grant me this miracle on this Xmas night? จากคุณ : Peking Man - [ 17 พ.ค. 47 18:40:09 ]

ความคิดเห็นที่ 55 Sender: Fly In Dance Topic: 1997/12/30 Date: Wed, Dec 30, 02:16:38, 1997 Before writing down my feeling for today I had to let out a long breath, trying to calm myself down. I originally made a mental note to come back home before 11pm so that I can write down my feelings for the day, but still Cinderella couldn’t make it back home before the stroke of midnight. :P When I met him online in the wee hours of the night, he said that he got a cold that really made me worried, but as I later found out that he was only pulling my leg Huh! He is a really naughty boy! L But after that he unexpectedly began to hint to me that it’s about time that we should discuss that details of our meeting he he he finally, after almost a month of a long and protracted tug of war I, in the end am victorious! This just goes to show that there exists an omnipotent and all merciful God. J In order to punish him for making me wait until this time I tricked him that I am not good looking. :P I had originally wanted to go on playing with him but then he said: “Since we are both unattractive, why should we be so fussy about our meeting.” That was when I decided to accept his suggestion for a meeting. J We made an appointment to meet at the McDonald on University Street at 7:30pm. Mr. Hooligan is such a scrooge he didn’t even offer to treat me to a McDonald extra value meal L XW told me that I should be at least half an hour late this is to demonstrate the silent protest of the female resistance to the thousands of years of male autocratic rule. As for me, I didn’t want to do that, I have already wasted one month waiting and I don’t want to wait even for one more moment! J I wore the same set of coffee coloured clothing that I wore when I went to Gen Ting park and I also took along my cappuccino bag I really wanted to take with me that feeling of happiness that I had that day to meet him. J I parked my bicycle in front of an internet café and then slowly made my way to McDonald. I with just one glance recognized him and his ‘blue’ ness, not only did he wear everything blue from head to toe even when he just sits there daydreaming he also looks very blue. As if we were old chums I pat him on his shoulder (I wonder, why did I do that?) Well it is because I want to see his face when he turns around and see me and also the look of him squatting on the floor gathering the pieces of his fallen glasses and the eyeballs which have fallen from its sockets on to the floor. But that didn’t happen, his eyes didn’t fell out, instead, I think that my looks must have scared him stupid. :P Inside the McDonald I carefully looked, stared, and observed him He looks like a very gentle person but because he was too clever for his own good his eyes and his smiles seems to radiate a sense of mischief He does after all have what it takes to be a hooligan! J When he talks, he loves to move his hands about and make various gestures it seems more likely that it is his hands that are doing the talking and not his mouth. Eh? But doesn’t also an online chat also have to rely wholly on our hands? Therefore there was a moment when I had totally forgotten whether I was in cyber land or in the real world? We talked about everything from the various myths of creation to how best to cure a dog’s depression. I naturally went along with him and had a very nice conversation with him, but strangely it felt as if I was only talking to myself because when I speak he is always sitting there quietly listening attentively to what I have to say and really caring about what I said. I also love the atmosphere of tonight’s meeting and our conversation. I just love the way that we are sitting here face to face tonight having this conversation. It is as if I was sitting on the beach and bathed in the subtle sea breeze listening to a faraway and foreign fishing story it was plain and simple as it was also very relaxing and comfortable. :D But because I want to test him and basically make his life hell, I made up this ‘coffee philosophy’ and I told him about it by the time that I had finished explaining to him my ‘coffee philosophy’ I again saw his blank look that made him look very blue J It was very unexpected and it caught me off guard when he came up with his own ‘fluid dynamics philosophy’. By the way, when I was frozen in awe of your genius do I look like that I am coffee coloured? I am beginning to feel that he’s not a fictional character and a figment of my imagination after all he doesn’t just exist in the virtual reality of the cyberworld, in the real world he still possesses his strength and his edge, he is still ever so subtle and gentle, sensitive, and ever understanding. I, by this time, also feel that my defensive mechanism is like a fortress built on a beach it doesn’t have a chance withstanding even the slightest caress of an ocean wave In front of him, I cannot any longer maintain this self image of a haughty and unbridled girl because I have as of now have completely surrendered so therefore I accepted your invitation to another meeting tomorrow. Hmmm there is still 1 hour left until 3:15am lets see I guess that I should make myself another cup of coffee. I know that he will definitely be online at 3:15am and I didn’t want him to be disappointed that I wasn’t there. But more importantly, I didn’t want to disappoint myself! :P XW said that this is called an ‘engagement’ reaction she said that I was now beyond help :~ So what if I have become ‘engaged’ to him it’s only I wanted to be ‘engaged’ with him. J จากคุณ : Peking Man - [ 17 พ.ค. 47 18:41:55 ]

ความคิดเห็นที่ 56 Sender: Fly In Dance Topic: 1997/12/31 Date: Thu, Jan 1, 23:19:46, 1997 Hmm I think that I should by now use ‘you’ instead of ‘he’ which is more distant and impersonal to address you, because I have by now decided that I want to let you in on the deepest and darkest of my soul J You of course came online at 3:15am, just like I had anticipated. From the looks of things, it seems that you too have been ‘engaged’ by me! J It’s too bad that later in the afternoon we still have to go see a movie together or else we could have like before chatted the night away until daybreak. Quick quick go to bed, since I don’t want you to see me looking gaunt from lack of sleep. :~ I woke up around noontime and to freshen up I decided to take a shower. To pretty girl like myself, one can miss a meal but one can never go without a shower. :P While I was having a shower I was humming the tune and that reminded me about the first day of term when I was walking down and dancing lightly on a road near to the engineering department J But when I was putting on my clothes, I happened to catch a glimpse of a red mark on my right arm I was in shock, and all I could do was to just stare at the mark on my right arm. It felt as if I had been shoved into the freezer and got frozen solid after I had finally thawed, I finally squatted there on the floor of the bathroom and started to cry. So for the last 3 months it was only on the internet that I could fly and dance as for in the real world it was just never to be At that moment I made up my mind to listen to my mom’s advice go back to Tai Pei and be responsible for my own life. It wasn’t long after I had finished drying off my tears that you came along Today we are supposed to go and see a movie together it should have been a happy movie, but why then did you have to go and choose to watch ‘Titanic’? I am not at all resistant to sad movies! The weather today is absolutely gorgeous and that is how Tai Nan’s weather is always is! I hid my face behind you because I couldn’t afford to be exposed to sunlight even if it was very gentle. Sitting behind you in the backseat of the motorcycle I can see that both of your ears are very red Mr. Hooligan, you know what, just like you my earlobes too were on fire. But I guess that only the wind that was caressing mw as it passes me could have seen it. You were driving in circles I guess that you were trying to find a place to park your motorcycle but deep down inside I know that you were trying to find an excuse to be with me for just that much longer I used my hair clip to secure my hair and put it into a ponytail to show off my face because XW had said that the shape of my face is very beautiful and sexy. Therefore I didn’t want my long hair to cover up my pretty face. Mr. Hooligan I hope that you will always remember me at my most beautiful moment because after today I might not be able to be beautiful anymore When we were queuing to buy the movie ticket that was when I was closest to you how I had wished that we could just stand there are queue forever and ever and it wouldn’t matter at all if we didn’t get to buy the movie tickets. As we stood there my right arm would occasionally brush up against your left arm at that time I could feel the red mark on my right arm tauntingly smiling at me. Inside the Tai Nan cinema, I finally couldn’t control myself, I suddenly felt as if I was just like the Titanic about to sink to the bottom of the ocean’s ice-cold abyss. Jack, my beloved, what are you going to do? Hate? Help? Or hold? Mr. Hooligan, you are not someone who is romantic and so you are not the type of person who is affected and moved by fictional love story. Except for the part when Jack said: “Rose, listen to me listen winning that ticket was the best thing that ever happened to me. It brought me to you .and I am thankful. Rose, I am thankful ” At this moment, I saw you straightening yourself in your seat and unmistakably made your brows move and the corner of your lips tremble. Mr. Hooligan you know what I too had the same feeling You reminded me that the movie is already over and that we should get a move on you’re right my own personal movie has already ended but the movie that is your life still has to go on. Mr. Hooligan, isn’t that right? Despite all this I selfishly wanted to keep and preserve something that either belonged or had to do with you I wanted you to sign your real name on the back of your movie ticket my stupid Mr. Hooligan you didn’t get it did you L That was my way of telling you that I have surrendered Oh how I had wanted you to sign your real name on the back of the movie ticket so that I can afterward be more specific whenever I am thinking of you if there is still an ‘afterward’ to all this that is and also this was to be the main proof for myself that you are real and not a figment of imagination that occupies and exists in cyberland. Mr. Hooligan I finally had the chance to walk through the Dolce Vita rain I thank you for letting me experience how it is and what does it mean to have a sweet and memorable day. But I’m very sorry that I couldn’t have said: “Good bye and see you again.” And since this whole affair began with an e-mail that I sent, I guess that it is only appropriate that I should end it with an e-mail. From the day that I had first sent you an e-mail it has already been more than 3 months. Although this period isn’t considered short, it couldn’t be described as being long either and since I was the one who initiated this whole affair between you and I, I think that it is only fitting that I should also end it. I guess that this is called ‘jie ling hai xu xi ling ren (To untie the bell, we need the person who put it on to untie it)’ or in another word one has to be consistent ‘you shi you zhong (when there is a beginning there also has to be an end)’. Mr. Hooligan, did I use my Chinese expression appropriately this time? Perhaps it is like what you had said before although the internet is quick, but it isn’t perfect. Even if I can send you my thoughts and feelings with the touch of the keyboard, but there is no way that I could ever attach all those tears that had fallen on the keyboard. Huh it’s almost daybreak I wonder, right now what are you doing? Suddenly, how I so wanted to hear your voice J Right after I had sent you my last e-mail, I guess that I should be on my way At this moment I guess that you are probably sound asleep! จากคุณ : Peking Man - [ 17 พ.ค. 47 18:42:45 ]

ความคิดเห็นที่ 57 Chapter 9. Missing You Actually it isn’t true that I don’t miss her It’s just that I have forgotten how thinking about and missing someone can affect me. Just like right now it isn’t true that I am not breathing in and out, Rather I have forgotten about the fact that I am actually still breathing. We can hold our own breath for a while, but it is impossible for us to just stop breathing. Therefore, I decided to see XW and see whether I can get lucky or not? After I had finished reading her e-mail, I felt as if I had just been on an emotional roller coaster ride, only this time it was even more stressful and exhilarating, because this time the roller coaster had almost derailed. From her entries, I found out that hidden underneath her cleverness and charm was in fact was a very gentle, sensitive, and caring heart. I couldn’t help it but think; at first when she began writing down her feelings in her diary, could she have anticipated that someday someone will be probing into her mind and emotions? Perhaps it is she in the cyber world that’s the sender and she in the real world that is the recipient of the e-mail, or is it the other way around? For the last 2 weeks, I became accustomed to the way that I had forced myself to hypnotise myself into being numb and unfeeling, close my eyes and put myself to sleep, and go about facing every morning, day, and night thinking about her. I have to keep telling myself that she could only be FlyinDance in the cyber world but she couldn’t be one in the real world. How I wished that I could forget she who is like a stake driven right through my heart and everything that she had also engraved on my soul. I kept trying to run away, run away from my own thoughts and about her, avoiding the computer, and running away from everything and anything that has to do with coffee or coffee coloured. I could only do this by throwing myself overboard into a sea of books and hid myself amongst the faceless crowd of strangers. How I wished that I can escape and runaway from my thoughts of her. But in the end I am always bitterly defeated. Because I have a stake driven right through my heart and soul, except if I can completely disregard and ignore my own heart and forget how to comprehend what has been engraved into my soul, then and only then will my self-induced numbness will ever be successful. But unfortunately I am someone who happens to be very in touch with my feelings and I am also literate Actually it isn’t true that I don’t miss her It’s just that I have forgotten how thinking about and missing someone can affect me. Just like right now it isn’t true that I am not breathing in and out, rather I have forgotten about the fact that I am actually still breathing. While we can hold our own breath for a while, but it is impossible for us to just stop breathing. Therefore, I decided to see XW and see whether I can get lucky or not? That day was January 15th 1998. It has been raining since early in the morning, Tai Nan’s weather is beginning to get cold Perhaps it was the cold weather, because when I was ringing the bell, my fingers were actually shaking. “Is Xiao Wen there?” “This is Xiao Wen speaking May I have your name?” “I am eh eh Mr. Hooligan ” I didn’t actually know what to call myself since she probably haven’t heard of my ID, ‘JHT’, even my own father wouldn’t recognize my ID, so I guess that Mr. Hooligan is the only thing that I could say and hope that Xiao Wen will know who I am. “Just a minute! I will go down right now.” It wasn’t long before I heard a door opening and a rush of footsteps. AT has mastered what in the kungfu novel describes as an ability to catch small hand thrown projectiles called ‘ting sheng bian wei (from listening pinpoint the position of the object)’. From listening to this rush of footsteps, I think that this is definitely a ‘B’ type girl. I can see that Xiao Wen had her hair in a ponytail, she didn’t use a hairclip or headband, and instead she only used a simple rubber band. I didn’t really pay attention to how she actually looked, because the typical male is very easily distracted by the size of a woman’s bosoms. And since she wore a very tight top all I could remember was that the sight had almost caused my two eyeballs to pop out of its sockets. If AT was here, he would describe the scene as ‘Bursting’! จากคุณ : Peking Man - [ 17 พ.ค. 47 18:43:16 ]

ความคิดเห็นที่ 58 old and grey เลยเหรอคะ คงไม่หรอกน่า :) จากคุณ : Goddess - [ 18 พ.ค. 47 17:29:49 ]

ความคิดเห็นที่ 59 Finally it is finished! Hope that you like reading it na krup!    @^__^@ แก้ไขเมื่อ 18 พ.ค. 47 20:26:00 จากคุณ : Peking Man - [ 18 พ.ค. 47 20:16:45 ]

ความคิดเห็นที่ 61 As soon as I on the plane, I sat down in my seat, and immediately fasten my safety belt. It’s not because the air stewardess was very ugly rather it was because I am certain that no air stewardess, no matter how pretty or beautiful, could smell as good as her. After I got off the plane I was greeted with the weather that is completely different from Tai Nan. Luckily today it was also raining in Tai Nan, so to me Tai Pei is only a bit colder. I dropped off my luggage at my sister’s office and then as fast as I could, got on the no. 277 bus and got off at the hospital. When I entered her room, she was sound asleep, so I just stood there silently watching her. From looking at her while she is fast asleep, with her hair all scattered on the blanket, I still couldn’t see her coffee-coloured hair. Her face has gotten a bit rounder and its not as beautiful or as curvaceous. On her cheekbone and the ridge of her nose there are several prominent red marks, but no matter how her appearance had changed, to me she is still the most beautiful butterfly! I can see her eyebrows moving ever so slightly, I guess that she’s probably dreaming!? I wonder what she is dreaming about, dancing in the street in front of the department of Engineering, our 1st meeting at McDonald, watching ‘Titanic’ at Tai Nan cinema, or the dolce vita shower in the alley on Sheng Li street? The room is getting ever darker I really want to go and turn on the light because I didn’t want her to lie there alone in the dark. But I’m afraid that if I turn on the lights, the sudden brightness will wake her up from her sweet slumber. As I was debating this is my head, she slowly opened her eyes, and with her eyes wide open and staring at me she then turned her back towards me, and I could see clearly that her back would occasionally be heaving and shuddering. She, now, has gotten even thinner and sadly I could use only the expression ‘too weak too even withstand a breeze’ to describe her. After a long while, if I had to guess; if I were to use the way that all kungfu novels use to measure time, which is by the amount of time needed for an incense stick to burn, I would have to say that it was about the time needed for one incense stick to burn, when she turned around, and with both her hands rubbing her eyes and face, she smiled at me I again saw that familiar smile and the eyes that are overflowing with cleverness, happiness, and laughter! “Mr. Hooligan You finally came!” “Yes! Today’s weather is great isn’t it?!” “Yes it is! The sun is really round, isn’t it? Ha ha ” This was a part of the conversation that we had that day when we were on our way to see ‘Titanic’, when she was sitting behind me on the back seat of my motorcycle. The only difference between that day and today is the fact that she doesn’t know that there is no sun today since it has been raining all day today in Tai Pei. “Mr. Hooligan come on and sit down! What are you standing there for?” Because of her reminder, I then thought that I should go and get myself a chair to sit down in. But as I raised my foot to walk over to get a chair, I felt that my feet were extremely numb probably it was because I had been standing there in just one spot for several hours without moving. “Mr. Hooligan you have gotten awfully thin!” She is still as clever and quick-witted as ever, she unexpectedly took the initiative to make the first move in our conversation and decided to go on a offensive, and dominate the conversation Actually I thought that it was I who should make the first move to dominate our conversation! “Mr. Hooligan Are you hungry? Have you already had your lunch? ” “And since hospital food isn’t that great so as you can see the patients are usually quite thin ” “As for the rest it is pretty ok But the fact that I couldn’t go online and chat with you is making me really bored!” “Mr. Hooligan, have you already finished your dissertation and will you be able to graduate this year?” “Hey hey wait a minute here you’re the one who is lying there on the sickbed, and not me, but why then are you the only one who is asking all the questions?” But, despite saying that, I didn’t have anything in particular that I felt I really have to ask her about, because after all I am only here to see her, and not to come and ask her questions to please my curiosity. Perhaps right now I should imitate the Romance movies and say something romantic and moving but alas, I am not a romantic person and that is after all a movie while this is real life. I can only hope that she will soon be able to leave this hospital room that seems to be making everyone inside breathless, lifeless, and miserable, and make her way back to the warm and comfortable Tai Nan This time, I will make sure that she won’t be walking alone in the street in front of the department of Engineering. I promise that I will always be by her side as long as she will promise me that she won’t ask me to dance for her. It wasn’t long after that when her mom came to visit her. She seems to be about 50 years old, she’s a bit on the plump side and except for her laughter, mother and daughter are not that similar. “Hmm I think that I should be leaving now Aunty, good bye, see you again ” She shouted from her bed as if she had just received a big scare: “You you ” “Don’t worry I will come back to see you again tomorrow, tomorrow’s tomorrow, and I will come to see you until you leave the hospital. จากคุณ : Peking Man - [ 18 พ.ค. 47 20:19:22 ]

ความคิดเห็นที่ 62 Before I went back to my sister’s place, I went to buy the biggest bottle of Dolce Vita that I could find on sale. This time I want her to spray and spray until her hands are sore and there will still be plenty of it left for more. My sister, when she saw the perfume, was smiling happily and said: “Why, since we are after all brother and sister there isn’t really a need for such an expensive present for me ” To which I replied calmly: “You’ re so right! Because I didn’t bought it for you.” If it were not for the fact that we have the same parents, I’m afraid that she would at this point be asking how my mother is doing? That evening, I just couldn’t get myself to go to bed and get any shuteye. Since the rooster in Tai Pei weren’t the type that crows very loudly and without consideration, so I had to from time to time open my eyes and peak a look at the sky through the windows. After the 1st ray of sunlight entered through the window, I got up and left the warm nest that is my bed. I took a taxi today, because I didn’t want to waste any more of my precious time on the no.277 bus. When I entered her room, she was reading a novel and on the cover there was a picture of a very beautiful female character, who if I might say so is not as beautiful as she is. “Mr. Hooligan, you are finally here! I have been waiting for you for quite sometime now Did you sleep well last night?” “I didn’t dare to sleep to deep because I know that you won’t wake me up when you walk in.” “Hmm then why don’t you sleep some more now that I am here ” “He he because you are already here there is no way that I can go to sleep now!” I gave her the Dolce Vita that I had bought for her yesterday. I also made an appointment with her that on the day that she leaves the hospital we will be making Dolce Vita shower in front of the hospital until we were satisfied. She asked me, whether XW was beautiful or not? And I told her that she was too hot and too spicy for me, moreover she is not too good for my eyesight. But since AT likes spicy food, I think that the two of them would be the perfect couple (from hell). Then she asked me, how was Tai Nan’s weather? How could I tell her that since she left, there hasn’t even been a day of good weather? As we talk and talk, she probably do to exhaustion, just fell asleep I couldn’t bring myself to stare at her face, because there on her face there is a red butterfly. Last night before I left I found out that the sickness is called 红斑性狼仓 or more commonly known as ‘butterfly sickness’. But, alas, the butterfly that I love is one which is coffee coloured flying and dancing amidst the flowers and in the wind and not the red butterfly that has landed on her pale white face. However, should a butterfly that couldn’t fly still be considered a butterfly? “Mr. Hooligan why are you staring at me and not saying anything?” I’m not so sure why myself but because I can feel that she is getting ever weaker and it is causing me to have an eerie and ominous premonition “Mr. Hooligan I am quite thirsty and I want something to drink ” At this point, no matter what, I won’t leave her side for even one moment! In the movie ‘xin bu liao qing’ because the lead actor went to buy red bean cake for the lead actress, and he wasn’t able to make it back in time to see her before breathed her last I’m not stupid, so I at this point will not risk anything. “Are you trying to imitate the movies and lead me astray by sending me to get you something to drink?” “Mr. Hooligan a movie is after al a movie and life is life.” “So what is it about a movie and what is it about life?” “In the movie ‘Titanic’ just before Jack was about to be swallowed up by the unfathomable depth of the icy ocean, he used his last breath to tell Rose: ‘Promise me that you will survive that you will never give up no matter what happens no matter how hopeless promise me now and never let go of that promise ’ And what about in the end? Didn’t the old Rose still let go and let the diamond necklace slip from her hand into the bottom of the ocean? As for in real life, in order to play Rose in ‘Titanic’ convincingly, the actress had to gain quite a bit of weight, but after finishing shooting the movie, it was impossible for her to get back to her original figure, so she in the end gave up dieting. That just goes to show that there is a very real connection between that of the created reality of a movie and that of the reality that is to be found in real life.” “Didn’t you have a drink just a minute ago what do you want to drink now?” “Mr. Hooligan well I’m thirsty again! This time I want to have some coffee ” “This is a hospital you know, where do you suppose I should go to make you a cup of your favourite ‘manba’ coffee? Plus coffee is a stimulant and not good for the body, therefore coffee isn’t really good for you . So can you try to drink something else instead?” “Mr. Hooligan so you are also aware that coffee isn’t good for you therefore, afterward can you please try to cut down on your coffee drinking, ok?” I can see a smile from the corner of her lips and the cleverness that is shining through from her eyes. It’s only then that I understood the reason that she had led me on this wild goose chase was to tell me that I shouldn’t drink so much coffee. My heart felt as if it has taken a very heavy blow to the heart and I felt as if I just had my air knocked out of me. I couldn’t help it but feel that the PH value in my nose is getting lower than 7 and if I don’t calm myself down soon, there is a great possibility that tears will be bursting forth very shortly. And since my major is water conservation my expertise therefore is flood prevention, with my reputation at stake, I just couldn’t possibly let water overflow its banks even if it is only my tears. “OK I promise that I will try my best to abstain from drinking coffee!” “Sine you are already making promises, can you also promise me not to stay up all night and turning your life cycle up side down, turning your day life into night life and vice versa.” “In addition, you have to also remember to always have your breakfast And don’t try to wear everything and anything that is blue because that will only make you look even more ‘Blue’ And then ” The atmosphere in the room suddenly became very strange it seems that she is trying to sort out her business with me. Since I didn’t want her to continue I felt that I had to say: “I’ll go and get you some water just in case that you do get thirsty ” “Mr. Hooligan is the water machine far away? Because if it is, then there is no need to go, because I’m actually not that thirsty.” From here to the corner where the water machine is placed, the average distance for a man is 67 steps while for a woman it is 85 steps. Adding to that, the amount of time needed to fill up the glass with water, which on average takes 1.8-2.1 minutes. It isn’t considered that far away. “It’s not that far away it’s actually very near ” “Could you come back as fast as you can because I don’t want to be alone ok?” This time I didn’t answer her question. I just lowered my head and quicken my footstep จากคุณ : Peking Man - [ 18 พ.ค. 47 20:20:40 ]

ความคิดเห็นที่ 63 A pained and bitter smile flashed and disappeared from my face. I think that the only thing that will drop is probably not going to be my saliva The content of the blue letter paper is very simple: If I still have one day to live, that day I want to be your girlfriend. But do I have that one more day to live? No, I don’t. So regrettably, this lifetime I cannot be your girlfriend If I have a pair of wings, I will fly down from heaven and be with you. But do I have a pair of wings? No, I don’t. So disappointingly, from now on I won’t be able to see you again If I could pour out all the water in the bathtub, it still won’t be enough to extinguish my love for you. Could I pour out all the water in a bathtub? Yes, I could. Therefore, yes, I love you! Oh how easily it was for my chest to be torn open and ripped apart, the tears were like a flash flood that burst all the dams, and completely destroyed all of flood defences. I just couldn’t keep it up any longer. I had finally succumbed to the tears that by now is running down my face. In the end, she had also changed my plan and in one go she also got from me what I had owed her, 2 months worth of my tears for her. At the Oscars later that year, ‘Titanic’ won 11 Academy Awards, but the young Rose didn’t win the best actress award. The old Rose too came very close to winning, but sadly the best supporting actress award only brushed up to her and then proceeded to pass her by. So as you can see, if you were very unlucky or unfortunate in a movie, in real life it doesn’t mean that it will be any better. As for Jack, in the real world, in the end, should he or shouldn’t he never let Rose go? Perhaps, he doesn’t really have to worry about this question because that beautiful coffee coloured butterfly, will forever fly and dance inside his heart and soul The end Sender: FlyinDance Group: Novel Topic: Re: The first intimate touch (over) Origin: Cheng Da IT centre-BBS (May 29 04:16:59 1998) I am dancing softly in the peaceful paradise up above. The angels are casting strange looks at me. It doesn’t matter whether it is a look of surprise or appreciation, Because it isn’t going to make me lose my dance steps Because the thing that is making me fly is not the look that the angels give me Rather the reason that I can fly is because of my very own frog prince. จากคุณ : Peking Man - [ 18 พ.ค. 47 20:22:40 ]

ความคิดเห็นที่ 64 พ่อปักกิ่งแปลเป็นภาษาไทยเอาไปแปะที่ถนนนักเขียนเหอะ คนเขาจะได้อ่านกันเยอะๆ รับรองว่าแฟนตรึม โห Love Story ฉบับอาหมวย จากคุณ : แอ๊ด ปากเกร็ด - [ 18 พ.ค. 47 22:36:06 ]

ความคิดเห็นที่ 65 ยินดีด้วยค่ะที่แปลเสร็จแล้ว เก่งมากๆเลยค่ะ อาเฮียปักกิ่ง ไว้เดือนหน้าสอบเสร็จแล้วค่อยอ่านนะคะ จากคุณ : yui - [ 19 พ.ค. 47 13:26:20 A:203.144.241.41 X: ]

ความคิดเห็นที่ 66 he he he... perhaps later na krup Khun Loong Aed...right now I have rework on my draft proposal for my PhD research topic.... I'm so glad that I have already finished uploading this story before the e-mail from my supervior arrived..... Might not have anything from me soon since I will have to crack my brain open and try to improve on my proposal. Good luck to all na krup! So stressful in London จากคุณ : Peking Man - [ 19 พ.ค. 47 18:44:17 ]

ความคิดเห็นที่ 67 :( Life sucks..... จากคุณ : Peking Man - [ วันวิสาขบูชา 19:48:03 ]

ความคิดเห็นที่ 68 Come on, it's not that bad. What good is sitting, alone in your room? But come, hear the music play! Life is a cabaret, old chum! Come to the cabaret! Put down the knitting, the book and the broom It is time for a holiday Life is a cabaret, old chum! Come to the cabaret! Come taste the wine Come hear the band Come blow that horn Start celebrating Right this way your tableดs waiting What goodดs commiting prophet of doom? To wipe every smile away Life is a cabaret , old chum! So come to the cabaret! (From the song "Cabaret", in the movie of the same name, starring Liza Minelli) จากคุณ : แอ๊ด ปากเกร็ด - [ 3 มิ.ย. 47 08:40:05 ]

ความคิดเห็นที่ 69 Huh.... I guess that the stress is getting to me abit... Hopefully I will get it done soon so that I can go out and relzx. Thank you krup Khun Loong Aed.... BTW I just saw "Cabaret" this Tuesday.... จากคุณ : Peking Man - [ 3 มิ.ย. 47 19:19:59 ]