Remember the cute girl in FanFan? Sam-soon looks like her and behaves like her too. Not afraid of love and go for it.
2006年4月25日星期二
by the way, Sam-Soon looks like Sophie Marceau in Fan-fan
Remember the cute girl in FanFan? Sam-soon looks like her and behaves like her too. Not afraid of love and go for it.
Who're afraid of Sam-Soon Kim?
I have not got much sleep in past two days and can not resist the temptation of watching a korean citcome, I am Sam-Soon Kim. A modern fairtale of a an 30 something spinster who found her love with a 27 handsome straight guy, who by chance had lots of money. Sam-soon is quite a charater, who fights anyone anytime to protect her integrity and her belief in true love, even thouhg she is always set up in embarrassing situations where she has to compete hopelessly. She is so lovely and sometimes I start to believe her story could be true in real world. You will see so much prejudices against her based on age, appearance, family background, and weight, and she brave the waves all the time. She believe in love and she does not wait for perfect love to come. She in fact educates her lover what love is and how important it is to face one's feeling. She makes mistakes, she messes up, and most importantly she knows herself and believe in herself. I see those unbelievable quality in her and her strength comes within and warm everyone around her.
2006年4月23日星期日
三番的夜色
正躺在床上和猫讨论时间的问题，现在三番的时间是夜里十一点，而我的电脑已经显示出纽约的午夜两点。时间真是一个奇怪的东西，想要的时候少，不想要的时候多。而在三个小时的时差里，我觉得生活的很惬意。我很知足，知道自己享受的是自己现在还力所不能及的生活。“偷得浮生半日闲”，也罢！ 昨天到三番的时候天气晴好，但是温度不高，与我的想象相距甚远。但是奥克兰的机场建在一片湿地上，除去跑道，很多地方还长着高高矮矮的芦苇，有一派不知名的野趣，看得人心里喜欢。经过许多的周折才到达旅馆，在三番的市中心的Powell St 附近，距离“叮当车”（cab car）的起点不过几步路的距离。我们收拾停当，立刻出发去“渔人码头”。先排队等叮当车，几分钟即有一辆，很方便快捷。车费从过去的三块长到了五块，游人的热情却丝毫未减，一定要乘着这晃晃悠悠的老爷车才算到了三番，也算是“不到长城非好汉吧”。
04/06/2006: 渔人码头—〉路边摊的螃蟹—〉pier39 的海狮àSUNSET 日落区看日落—〉老北京的涮羊肉（old Mandarin）
04/07/2006：早餐—〉准备下午的发言—〉中午和宋映泉、莱芳吃午饭—〉杜威协会的讲演—〉我的发言—〉大雨—〉晚餐在stinking rose ,Garlic everything, crab, garlic source à walk on the Broadway, night clubs, book store àwalk back to Hotel.
04/08/2006: attended sessions -->had lunch with Anna-->went out with Lai Fang to meet her Berkeley buddies, spent the night at Castro Street bars.
04/09/2006: went to Asian Art Museum--> went to sessons-->went to Vietnam Resturant with Anna and walked through Chinatown, had very good bubble tea. 04/20/2006: came back to NYC.
2006年4月17日星期一
Mom turns 62 - Happy Bday!
Mom turns 62 today. She don't want to have a party, but my grandmom treated her and my other relatives with a great dinner party. Mom even got a real birthday cake! I used to send her flowers when I was in middle school and that was one of my favorate things to do. For some reasons, I love to buy her lotus. //
Mom cames from a so called landlord family in rural village in a county (Lin2 An1) near Hang Zhou in Zhejing Province. When she was 6, my grandmom took her and my older uncle from Hangzhou moved to Beijing where my grandpapa just got a job in judicial system. My mom grew up in city of Tianjin and went to Tianjing Experiement Middle School, one of elite schools in the city. However she failed to pass the college extrance exams twice due to her family background as offsprings of landloard.
//She started to work at 1962 and married my father at 1969 when she was 25. My papa worked in Beijing as an engineer in one of the nuclear power research institutes and my parents were introduced to each other by a close friend of both. My mom gave birth to my older brother in 1972 when my father were still under supervision and worked as farm labor. Then I came in the week of big earthquake in 1976, during which my grandpapa were seriously injured in city of Tang Shan. My grandmom took her husband and my brother to a traditional Chinese medical center in Nantong. //
My mom worked in same factory till she retired in 1995, the year when I got into college. She found another job in a small company as sectorary and tax clergy. She felt happy at that job and got to know a lot of friends in our community. From her 50 to 55, the time was very hard. My father got cancer in 1997 and she was the only person who took care of him all the time. Only after a long while, did I realize how much sacrifice and effort she had made during that tough time. Then my papa passed away in 1999 and my mom lived along since my brother got married in 2003 and I came to U.S. for a laughable degree. //
My mom spent some time with my grandmom to travel since two year before, when she finally quited the post-retirement job. They went to Nanjing, Hang Zhou, Jingdezhen and their home town in Mountain of Tian Mu. //
My mom is such an ordinary woman in other people's eyes, but she is almost the whole universe for me. I gradually realize many of her virtues over these years as I grow up independently. I wish she will be happy and health in the years to come and we can share the next 30 or 40 years together and never be apart again.
Happy birthday my dear mom!
2006年4月16日星期日
Babyboom
Many of my frinds have or will have their first born this year. It seems to be a babyboom in near future. All these wonderful angles come suddendly which make me wonder when I will have my own. Tomorrow is mom 's birthday and just called her. She laughed at me and suggested I could catch up with my friends by the number of babies I will have and it is cheap by a dozen. :)
Here is Yu Haiyue's babe Angela!
2006年4月12日星期三
Coming back
Came back from San Francisco and felt like bouncing down to the ground. The life has to go on. The short break was wonderful, neverthelss, it makes the ordinary life even less bearable. No pictures for the trip, but I will write about it when I have more time.
Send mom additional application materials and it costed $46. Hope this will help mom with her visa application on April 27th.
Jingqin was robbed last sunday by a crazy womon. The world is less and less trustable.
I am reading the Da Vinci Code. It is a nice little book, a current version of Name of Rose with more flirtation.
Need to fix both AIR and CSCC papers by next week. If I can survive this two months, I will be able to have another break and wait for my mom's visiting. But after that, I need to fix myself a real job which I have no confidence whatsoever.
I went out with Anna other night and we walked the ups and downs in SF's Chinatown. The moon of that night was light and ambiguous. We followed the cable car lines and wandered in that quiet town. It was after dawn and the tourists disappeared from the street and we enjoyed the moment of peace of that restless town. In distance, I saw the Bay Bridge and it remained me about my Washington Bridge in night fall. We took those endless roads across that mysterious night. The air was so fresh and sweet that you feel like the touch of silk or a catty. At a minute or two, I imagined I stood on the Fisherman Whalf and watched the Golden Gate Bridge under the full moon. A voice came from the bottom of my heart, catch the moment!
2006年4月5日星期三
040506
Today is April 5th, 2006. If you write it in American way it is 04/05/06. In Chinese way, 06/04/05. In European way, 05/04/06.
Nothing special in recent days. Read Li Ji's blog on her life in Paris and senses the feeling of what it means by "always live in other time and other place". She write in a poetic way and it is a pleasure to read. http://spaces.msn.com/liji66/
2006年4月2日星期日
麻婆豆腐，白斩鸡和豆腐砂锅
今天在网上偶尔看到“吃心望想”的网志http://bambooling.yculblog.com/archive.98968.html，里面讲到她对父亲的回忆是和父亲做的鱼香茄子联系在一起的。写得挺好的，真实的情感，没加太多的佐料，不像她写菜谱的风格。
这勾起了我对于父亲的回忆，而这回忆也和他的烹调联系在一起，比如他做的老三样--麻婆豆腐，白斩鸡和豆腐砂锅。小时候生活在大院里，天天看爸爸们做饭，所以认为不会做饭的男人简直不可思议。我们和邻居共用一个厨房，所以必须在每天的Rush hour 以前把一家大小的晚饭和第二天带饭的东西都准备出来。现在别人总夸我做饭很利索，其实这多半是出自无奈的早期训练。父亲是四川人，他的地域身份很模糊。他的身量很高，说话不带口音，这可能和他少小离家求学，再也没有返乡有关。但是他的口味还是四川人的，喜欢麻辣的滋味。八十年代的物质生活还远没有现在丰富，每个家庭主夫的责任之一就是利用有限的资源，做出可口的饭菜。爸爸的老三样就是家里最受欢迎的菜肴。其中我最喜欢的是砂锅。冬天没有新鲜蔬菜，用豆腐、大白菜和一点肥肉、木耳、粉丝和虾米熬出来的砂锅，加上老爸独门的调料汁，真是令人垂涎欲滴。热气腾腾的端上桌，一家人围坐，一顿简单而实惠的晚饭就齐了。 为了做调料，他一定要用新鲜的花椒和大蒜，先把花椒加热到香气蒸发出来，然后用臼把花椒细细磨碎，之后再加入大蒜一同研磨。我的责任就是磨花椒和大蒜， 看着爸爸的身影在雾气蒸腾的厨房里进出，等待妈妈的自行车铃声从冬夜里传来。厨房的温暖驱走了冬夜的寒冷，在我的小小世界里，对于滋味回忆也成了对父亲的回忆。
也许简单的生活也是不错的生活，需要的少，不满意的机会也少。一家人在一起，不像现在这样天各一方，或是阴阳相隔。 也许有一天我也会有自己的家庭，我希望我的孩子们也会拥有一些关于我的美好回忆，无论是酸菜鱼还是凉拌海带丝，最好是我那些捕风捉影的发明创造，对于经典菜谱的随意颠覆，和不经意之间烹调出的人间美味。
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