October 29, 2006

Toronto is a prosperous city, at the same time it is also dangerous.

I visited this beautiful and treacherous city on Saturday and returned on Sunday. While waiting for the bus from Toronto to Guelph on Sunday night, I lost my backpack. More accurately speaking, it was stolen... TT_TT Careless me who placed a wallet with IDs and bank cards inside it... I must reflect on this whole event from both critical and optimistic perspectives. I have a calculus test this Thursday, thus speaking of losing calculus textbook and course manual. A series of bad events kept happening.

It already happened, there is no need to dwell in the past. The wallet and textbooks are lost and will never be returned again <= this is a fact. Therefore, focus on what is important to prevent any further disaster. Lesson learned: not to bring important things with you, and keep items such as that with you at all time if you do decide to bring them, and not just inside a bag which you can toss it around. At least I am safe, whereas some people would kill others for wealth. The next time I visit Toronto or anywhere again, the same tragedy will not befall on me again.

I am glad however, to have my beloved and wonderful cousin/brother with me. I must say, I thank him very much for staying with me the entire time. He couldn't return to school until very late that night because of me. As well as simply stayed by my side when I felt sad because of parents' scoldings and yellings. I had enough of it that night. When I cried, he was there with me.
October 29th, 2006 => this will be a day for me to remember forever and ever. I like how he would let me lean on him every now and then. It is true that 2 people sleeping on a single bed wouldn't have a good night sleeping. Quite opposite for me however, of how much his presence resembled that of my mother. Not to mention how warm and protective my cousin/brother's hand is.

"With age comes responsibility and reticence."

悲歌行

悲來乎，悲來乎。主人有酒且莫斟，聽我一曲悲來吟。
悲來不吟還不笑，天下無人知我心。君有數斗酒，
我有三尺琴。琴鳴酒樂兩相得，一杯不啻千鈞金。

悲來乎，悲來乎。天雖長，地雖久，金玉滿堂應不守。
富貴百年能幾何，死生一度人皆有。孤猿坐啼墳上月，
且須一盡杯中酒。