Living under the same sun

Bookstore and holiday spirits :)

今天帮朋友买书，去了市中心的书店。

1.如果说芝加哥有什么让人恨的，应该就是冬天的天气了。早上走出地铁，风冷如冰刀，割的脸生疼。

2.左:书店大门，现在每看到Borders脑子里总会冒出一股书香
上中：一楼大厅里的书台，推荐书铺了一桌子，一目了然。美国人每年实在produce很多书，这个桌子上的书基本上半个月就大换血一次。
上右：Christmas临近拉，么哈哈哈~~
下中：书架，书店的精华所在，偶曾经最喜欢的就是抽一本书，坐在地毯上靠着书架子一看1个小时（现在？哈哈，全部到图书馆order！）。书店的店员超好，两分钟就把同学要求的怪书找到了^_^
下右：popular biography部分，看看封面，全是似曾相识的文化面孔呵：）

1.走出书店，拐弯就撞上了剧院，红色的Chicago招牌，已经成了芝加哥的标志之一了。至于那个wicked的musical，偶可是一直想看的啊~~~
至于那个巨型圣诞树，虽说很有christmas的感觉，但，嗯...偶总觉得它像...阿拉蕾里面那个...ahem!不说了，有伤大雅。

看NANA，看到美雨的面孔突然觉得很伤感。这个早已麻木的女孩子，因为泰的出现而变的又会期待了起来，也许泰是她最好的归宿吧。

午后

钟声

作业

When life came across its dos and don'ts.

时停时走，人生大抵如此

Nov 23rd  Windy

畸爱

   ---你能够忍受一段甜美却又动荡的爱情么？

For a moment or two, I thought it was just a story.  But when tears began rolling down Cecilia's face, I knew her heart is in pieces.

I met Cecilia during the international orientation at the beginning of the school year.  On the one hand, she's no different from me-born in China, is studying in US as interantional student, attended college in US. But on the other hand, she is far more attractive, outgoing, and seductive in front of Americans than the average chinese female on campus--in a sense, she appears more like an ABC than native chinese.  I guess this is what contributed to all those dramas she has encountered.

Here's what happend.

In the beginning of this semester, she met a guy who had eveything a woman could wish for: handsome outlook--he has the body and face of a spanish-italian oriented american; rich--born in a wealthy family and is doing the family's business right now; and most of all, he had the most sweetness towards woman.   They hitted on to each other very quick and soon the sparks turned into dates and dates evolved into relationships. 

In their first days together, the guy would often gently hold her hand while walking down the street, whispering softly in her ears; he would buy boxes of heart shaped cookies as surprise gifts and call her later on to ask if "you had enjoyed my heart"; he would ride a bike, instead of taking his Ferrari to fetch her so that they can be close to each other and share the warmth.  She fell for him totally.  Every time she sees him, she was so overfilld with joy and felt as if she's going to melt into him, and every time she's with him, the time would be going so fast that departure seems to have arrived too quick and "it just felt like a stab in the heart every time I see him leave."

And that's when the story got nasty.

As their relationship continued, he became parted from her more and more.  There often are times she has to wait 3-4 weeks before he could appear and give her a sweet surprise, there often are times she called 10 times and wouldn't recieve even one callback from him, and when later he called back, he wouldn't even explain why.  Now 4 months after they crushed into each other, it looked as if she's a woman forever waiting and begging for love.

Eventually she couldn't bear it anymore, and called him up one day, saying "we need to talk."

"Sure baby, but I'm with a client right now, can I call you back tonight?"
And he never called that night.

She called back again the next day, he picked up the phone.  She asked furiously why he didn't call, he said he was busy.  She said she was serious about wanting to talk to him and is very worried about their relationship.

"Look, baby, don't worry about it.  I'm really tired right now so I'm gonna call you back later.  Don't worry 'bout it, I love you."
Than he hanged up.

So it went on and on like this.  Whenever she needed assistance from him, he's either on business or can't be present.  Whenever he wanted to talk to her, she's there to pick up the phone.  She tries to let him know she's exhausted, he doesn't care.  He think his being sweet is enough to curb her.

"It feels like I'm just a call girl, or a pet." Cecilia sobbed as she ended our conversation,"I don't know what to do.  He's so sweet, but he never listens to me."
......

Now when I look back on the story, it feels that Cecilia has had love.  But the fact is, when she cares about him, and LISTENED to him,  he was nowhere when she wanted to open her heart to him.  He was very sweet to her, probably the best kind of gentleman of this field, but when it comes into knowing more about her world, about her own culture, he never bothered to give even one glimpse.  In a way, he care a lot about her, then in another way, he didn't care at all.

Did he love her? Yes.  But is he worth loving? I don't know.  When it come to responsibility and dignity and commitment of love, should one take all of them?

Nobody can be absolute about this.

[UIC at 5:30] When darkness arrives, loneliness prevails.

不管屋内还是屋外，夜幕降临时，寂寞都是相同的

Nov. 22nd the wind is freezing my ass off =_=

感恩节的欢迎，火鸡的不要~

--吃惯了中国饭的人，吃火鸡的感觉比“味如嚼蜡”还要痛苦--简直就是用牙咬木头

Two more days and it'll be Thanksgiving, which means 4 straight days without school, bravo~~~!! Although then the finals will follow along, who cares! As long as I can have some holiday to have some good sleep to make me look human again, to hell with the finals!

Anyways, mom and dad are discussing about what to eat for Thanksgiving, and I strongly oppose the idea of sacraficing another harmless turkey just for the sake of celebrating some holiday we Chinese don't even have the least connection with. That's a pretty justifiable excuse. But I have to confess it's not the truth. Truth is, I hate turkey meat =_=

If you had ever eaten a turkey, you would marvel at its size at first sight, and then be more surprised at how rough their meat tastes--especially for us Chinese. As a boy who grew up eating under a culture that emphasizes the importance of serving soft and gently cooked meat, turkey meat tastes like firewood . And when those firewood comes in a multitude, eventually it's suffering more than enjoyment =_=.

So, in general, for god's sake don't spare me any turkey.

4 o'clock in the library--where sunlight kissed my camera

4:02 pm, the fading sunlight kissed my camera even harder :P

weather:  it's getting warmer~! 

     ---一个在医学院里没有认真学习的学生，将来很可能成  为一个“杀人”医生......

Today is probably the best day in the past 2 weeks, for there's no extra 6 pm class, no damn papers due, but I guess I still messed it up. A quiz was given in the beginning of my accounting class this morning, which was already informed last week, but I made such a huge mistake that in the end my answer was totally irreleevant to the correct one: what should be answered for the question is that the factory SHOULD keep their product, but from what i came up with it seemed that the factory would lose one heck load of money if they don't drop their product. I guess if this is a real situation instead and I'm a consultant, both my job and the factory will be pretty much ruined--thank god it isn't

so here's the lesson of the day: take good care of your study, it'll mean a lot to both your life and your client's life, cuz a unrealiable accoutant will surely mess up a person's finance, an unskillful engineer will blow up a power plant instead of running it smoothly, and an untrustworthy doctor is very possible to kill a patient instead of saving him.

Either up or down, it depends on which way you choose to look at the picture, and life too ^_^