Lord of the rain

  Yesterday it was a heavy rain here and I had to go out for my part time job just on the time when the rain was heaviest. How bad it made me wet, though I wore my only raincoat on which I made a small hole when first I used it, the heavy rain followed the strong wind and got into my clothes then made them full of water.

  It was just on time when I arrived at my work place, ''at least it's worth being all wet because I am not late'' I thought. But then there was a long and tiring four-hour before me which I didn't notice at.

  After that, I struggled to get back to the dorm by my motorbike which was the same as me, being all wet and having the water flowed on the body.

  But finally, I could get back without any accident, even I though maybe I would be flushed to the sea. And yesterday's mid-night or this early morning, I saw a dream about swimming in a pool. I dived again and again and not at all be afraid of being wet. Any way, the rain did make me a little tired.

Bush-Hu meeting

  These days, my motherland’s president went to America to join a meeting with Mr. Bush between the two countries. Some mid-night, I saw news on channel CNN that while Mr. Hu was speaking at the front of White House, there was a woman cried at president Hu. Though the American interpreter could not translate the woman’s words, I did heard the protester shouted “great Falungong” and “China is a bad country”, but my motherland’s president was very calm, he gave a very good speech about trade, interchange, and Taiwan problems and so on, and after all he said that history make Chinese and American people keep closer friendship more than ever.

   The next day, I saw the news again but on channel CCTV-1, then I realized the protester is gone. I don’t understand why they did not tell the real situation to all the Chinese people, and what made them so afraid of accident. Well, this is our motherland’s top media we have known for so long, but how can I trust such a media which is concealing the truth. So though the problems like farmer-labor are now being reported so much, I don’t think they would be settled any more. Don’t call me a pessimist, how do you think?

        While some people like TV drama, some like variety shows, I really like watching news very much, as I wrote the article “America’s youngest mayor” which was just from news. And today, I found a very funny one on TV as well, it’s said recently there is a strike on the bus and subway in NY, America, so the traffic is in a confused situation. Though the taxis are still running on the road, citizens have to take them by four at one time in order to disperse people waiting in a long line to go home. There are also many people move on foot, by bicycles, even by a roller skating. What an interesting sight! Some ones said they took clothes to change to workplace and will stay there as long as the strike is on. Now in New York, Americans are all walking in the streets at a  temperature of -5 like what we did normally maybe 100-year ago. It’s also said there will be 6,000,000 people affected by the strike, which will result in a big cost. The reason why bus and subway labor union chose such a time to carry on the strike is that Christmas is coming soon, the needs of bus and subway is big, and all this will make a pressure on the government who has no choice but to accept the union’s requires.

      I often think about a question that who the more miserable person is when I am depressed, because if I can find some pity guy who is more unlucky than me, I’ll feel better. But recently, I realized some people who I considered to be miserable are thinking me more helpless, I was shocked, and then reconsidered about my self.

      Last Saturday, I went to my boss’s new house and joined the celebratory party there, at that evening, my boss’s friend, who is a middle-aged man, called three Philippine girls who are working in bar as hostesses to come and wanted to accompany them to the club. But in fact, the man had already done some sexual harassment to the girls, he kissed them and touched the bodies even put his ugly legs on them, saying” Maybe today I can not go to your club, because I have no money.” I thought it must be bad to be kissed by an old man who you don’t like, and what made the girls chose to trade their young bodies is nothing but for money, but now they are being kidded by the man who they want to sell them selves with the word” no money”, I got to sympathize them and thought they are so miserable and honestly I felt a little superiority.

      But, at the next day, our positions have totally changed, I was at my part-time-job and calling the guests passing by, waiting some one could by the things I was selling, so I stood in the cold air and looked every one with a big smile, wondering that could attract others. Just then, I saw there were two girls, one of whom I met at my boss’s house the day before, walking toward me and followed behind a different old man from the day before. For we talked to each other, I decided to say hello to them and shook my hand to them. But the who-you-are look on the girls face told me that she had forgotten me totally, so I reintroduced my self, which seemed effective to remind her who I am, and she said” Oh, I see. ”smiled very sexily. Then, she watched my small Tenpura-shop and said” Are you working here? It must be cold here.” I heard a tone full of sympathies. And then she did some thing moved me a lot that she who looked obviously not interested at my sales asked the old man who accompany her to buy my Tenpura not only for her self but for all her Philippine friends, said those looked very delicious. Then the man passed me the money what is one-tenth of my sales that day. 

    There was a piece of very interesting news when I was watching TV this morning. It’s said there is a boy who is 18 years old was voted to be the mayor of Hillsdale, Michigan two days later just after his 18^th birthday, so he is even too young to drink in his own victory party. It’s said he beat the sitting mayor who is 51-year-old by convincing people of his policies about decreasing the unemployment in the town. To my surprise, the boy has done all these things just by using 700$ which is earned by selling apples during his summer vacation.

      The boy whose name is Michael Sessions. Though he is now called Mr. Sessions, he’s still a high school student, so he will be studying in school from7:50am to 2:30pm and working as a mayor after that until 6pm every day. Residents who were interviewed said they were really moved by his political ideas and some said they think he would not corrupt at least.

        It really sounds like a fairy tale to me who have been used to the political institution of socialism. It’s so amazing for a boy to be a mayor! But maybe this is a very typical example of the political institution called democracy which we are seeking for so long.

Today I have just watched a film entitled “Fool of love” which makes people fancy things a little secret, but what I learnt from it is that love is sometimes really a very complex thing. Before seeing the movie, I would not understand why when a woman faced that her man who said he had been not in love with her and would leave her turned to return to her, she chose to pretend reconciling with him and then leave him silently. And there is also a man, he told his girlfriend he had slept a hooker and thought she would leave him, and then the woman asked:” Why did you tell me?” “I can not lie to you.” the man said. “Why not?” asked the woman, “Because I love you.” And there comes silence finally. Though I think there is a logical contradiction in the conversation above, I got to understand maybe love is just formed by such unexplainable sensations. Sometimes, the things we could not understand would make us remember for longer time even a whole life, so there are some idealizers of love doing such “romantic” things, which brought new ideas and stories to people who are very boring just like me, so it is pretty good, isn’t it?

   The firefly who I kept for 4 days has died. At first, I though it would not live for a long time and prepared myself for its death, but the truth is that it was very energetic in the first 3 days, so I became to fondly imagine it would be with me for a whole summer. But, some time, things are just so unpredictable, when I looked at it at the 4th day, I found it did not move any longer or shine its little light and looked so poor. I got to realize it died, and maybe it was killed by feeling lonely for being apart from its family.

   However, now I have buried its body in the flower bed which is beside my dorm and remember it sometimes. I wanna say thank you to be together with me, little firefly, take care and continue to shine in heaven.

   Just now, I went to Mr. Yamada's office to let him check my English-Japanese translations. I always ask him some questions which may be very boring for him, but he give me very particular answers every time. I thank him so much, 'cos I feel I can do a better job on my work.

    Today, i met some children. They were very noisy but lovely. They remind me of my childhood. I played with my elder brother and younger sister very often when i was a child. There is so many memory that we played on the tree which is near a river and we fell off from it into the river. We fought with each other and complained about others, but anyway we were together in that time. Now, as every one does, we have oneself's work to do and we are depart for about 2years. Recently, i got to realize why people say they don't want to grow up, because you have to face too much things if you are an adult. Children can be theirselves any time, but we can not, that's the difference.

     Well, now i am listenning to a jazz song which a little sad but fit my mood. Luckly, we can enjoying music of old time that children may not understand.