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| 2006/02/13 09:40:18瀏覽952｜回應5｜推薦13 | |
| My skype rang the other day around 7:30am at work. One stranger's name popped up requesting me to accept him/her. I replied, "Do I know you?" "xxxx, or xxx?" The next message shocked me. Those were two nicknames from my past. There are no more than 5 guys in the world knows I was once the owner of both nicknames. One of those guys is probably dead, one is very likely to be in the jail, and I lost touch with the rest. The two nicknames were completely opposite sides of my personality, and signified two different eras of my early life. The nickname he used on his skype account indicated that he is the friend who always wants to be that mistrey guy among us. Finally, after so many years, my blog brought him back to my life. I accepted the request, and started to chat with him. "How do you feel about the Winter Olympics?" "Who do you like the most?" My mind went blank. Winter Olympics is coming? I knew it would be in Febuary, but the coming weekend? He was the first one asked me about the game. In my life, sports always come first. My logic, my experience, my philosophy, are all developed around sports, how to live your life, how to take a loss, and what to be as a winner. To me, sport is no longer about win or loss, it is about the sportsmanship, about playing the game. "Gemini pretty much gave you away, and the exciting tone you used when you mentioned Gene Krantz in your 2005, it's the wrap! I had a strong feeling that it must be you." "First, your English is better than your Chinese." Second, the tone in your article is just like what you wrote to me when we were in the army, with so much concern and so much passions." "Third, you are still that party animal as the old days." "Party animal? I thought I got the nickname because you guys believed I didn't want to social." I replied. "So, what do you see me in the blog?" "The rate you posted all those articles indicated that you never changed. Never hold back on what you have in your mind". "Ha, you got me there." A friend can really see me better than myself. "At last, I was sure only you would have written the article like " Flight 2256 OAK - DFW"" Yes, I do love to keep note about my life. "The different articles you quoted, and the musics you mentioned there were just so you." " Wasting no time was what you wrote to me in your last letter, remember?" Yes, always enjoy talking to people, reading newspaper, and listening to the music, I am glad that some part of me does not change. "So, xxx died?" he asked. "Yes, he did, in the freeway almost 6 years ago." I replied. "I feel so sad about that. He had been such a great friend and coach to me. Without him, I could not survive all these years. I would visit his family. He has been such a great person in his life." "Sure, I think his wife would be glad to see you, especially if you can tell him the story happened among us. I hope I can go with you next time when I am in Taiwan" I replied with really heavy heart. "Come to Japan, and watch the baseball's world classics together, would you?" "Hum? you are in Japan now?" I asked. "Yes, trying to implement some of the Taiwanese spirits in xxx (company) since the white guys need people like us who understand Western cultures and with Japanese backgrounds." "Sadly, Taiwanese people don't like people like you and me. And I knew what you are staying in US. It is our destiny. Hope your parents could understand that." Yes, so much about how unfair we were treated in a country we love so much. How comes stories like ours have never been observed? "Hey, I showed your 後葛林斯潘時代第一天的省思: Economy from now on? to my boss, and he said that he would love to meet you and discussion with you on the implications for electronic business." "I really gain more power recently here in Japan." "This is going to be my stage." "In a society full of lies, deception becomes common, criticism becomes everyday's life, how could people really sit down and honestly look at ourselves in Taiwan?" He asked. "To me, if we just look at problems today, and decide what can be resolved and what can not. Next thing comes to my mind is education." "That must be why you started this blog?" "After reading your articles, I really feel I know you better now, and understand more about what you told me all those years." "I miss drinking with you and chatting the whole night over nothing." "Don't kill yourselves by all these writing. I felt sad when I read your "我生氣?"" "Ok, I have a meeting to go, talk to you later." I closed the windows and went to the meeting. . . . . . . Two hours later when I got back to my office, a message was left in my yahoo messenger account: "Forgot to tell you that the titles of your articles gave your identity away already " Baseball (1) National Holiday" "Music and I" "Identity" "Changes" Simple but well positioned." "BTW, I visited your father in the hospital last time when I was in Taiwan, I waited outside after your mom left. She seemed to be sad. You should come back more often." Man, he is good, finding all different way to crack into my accounts. Yes, in Taiwan, he was once considered the outlaw. They thought he did not know how to use his intelligence, his talent, and his energy on the right things. To me, this guy is a great guy. He knows me better than myself. Why is he in Japan now? I still have no clue about him. "Do I know you?" Maybe that's the perfect excuse for me to buy him a drink. |
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