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| Happy 2009 !!Here's to new beginnings, and remembering to date your checkbook correctly. Heck, that shouldn't be a problem for me, I've been sooo ready to leave 2008 behind !! Happy New Year all  Here's a link chronicling a year in the life of one spot on the planet. Sure is beautiful... http://cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com/up/player/popup/?cl=11327764 | | |
| The Accidental KoreanI'm not white, fancy that?! | | |
| HairI caught a production of Hair in Central Park on Saturday, part of their Shakespeare in the Park series. For SIX hours, I had waited in line, but the day was absolutely gorgeous. I had brought a book, but the New Yorkers around me were far too entertaining, I barely read a word. We ordered from Andy's Deli, and amazingly enough the food arrived by bicycle carried by a Hispanic gentleman yelling "Francis!" because Liz was too embarrassed to provide her name after enquiring if they could make a "turcado." Finally, my first real New York experience... | | |
| Sun-Jae the MumNow and then, I think of the past and encourage myself back then to stay the course, that if patient enough things would work themselves out, that in the end everything would end happily. A photo of Sun-Jae as she held two infants close, and another with the caption "Mummy cutting a lock of Ellie's hair..." transported me back to Australia. After so many years there she was, smiling back at me, as if I were the only one in the world, as if she could see me. Almost immediately, I regretted having found her. I had always consoled myself that today she could not possibly be the person that I had remembered her to be, that she could not be the one that I had met so many times in my dreams, visions real enough that I could still smell her upon awakening, until consciousness would cast me into that other dream state called reality. And now, there she was, or perhaps it was someone who only resembled her... and yet, it was definitely Sun-Jae, I could recognise her smile from a thousand others. We met when I had joined the Australian National University as an Assistant Professor and she was a student, just a sophomore. I heard her voice before I saw her face. Lyrical, yet defiant, a loud Aussie "BULLSHIT" boomed from a table behind me. I had to see from whose mouth those words had emanated. When I turned to look my stomach knotted-up and I had to catch my breath. I knew immediately that she was The One. Where is God's place in all of this? Does he have a plan where Sun-Jae and I might meet again, or that I might find happiness again with someone who could impact me in the same way? If I could, then I would tell that boy many years ago to stay the course, never to let go that which you cherish so dearly without a fight. That losing her would be the single-most defining experience in your life, and that her absence would spell the end of a part of yourself, as anything remaining would wither away little by little. I suppose it's possible that I'm idealising some or a lot of what was or could be. Given the chance, would we really go through with it, after all that has happened? It's a fascinating question to ponder, isn't it? ^_^ | | |
| The Starter BoyfriendWell Helllooooo !!! Wow, it's been what... TWO YEARS since my last confession?? Forgive me Xanga, for I have not BLOG'd. Been real busy, you know, like quitting my job in DC and moving-up to NYC to start a new one, leave behind five years. Five years of friends, monuments, museums, restaurants, bars, clubs, churches and charities. But moving from one center of the world to a slightly bigger one is not such a big deal. Everyone is friendly and helpful. People understand that it can be a huge transition, and that helps. After less than a year now, I know where to find the best sake in town, the juiciest hamburgers, the closest Trader Joe's, that a Farmer's Market sets-up across from my apartment building on Wednesdays (rain or shine), and that I have my choice of at least two Korean-American churches or my preferred multi-ethnic Redeemer Presbyterian near Central Park. Venues: Watched Camera Obscura play a free concert at South Port Seaport's Pier 18 (WOWSERS!!), the "amazing" Mets lose in Shea Stadium, Yao Ming beat the Knicks in Madison Square Garden, and won tickets to a Master Works performance of Handel's Messiah at Carnegie Hall for the same day that I was to fly out of JFK back to Cali. Math: Tutoring Grade 3-5 kids at an inner city school in Brooklyn on Saturdays. Pass the State exams please!! Church: Still shopping, but Pastor Tim Keller at Redeemer is pretty good. Vote 2008: GObama! Uh-huh, GObama! Alright, GObama! | | |
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