I guess it's the first time I experience moon festival in such a big typhoon day. The typhoon Sinlaku is extremely big, I should say, the most extreme typhoon I've experienced for this last 5 years in Taiwan. My house's windows' kept on shaking noisily. It scared me sometimes, I'm afraid it would break. Good that the weather outside seems to have calmed down.
I wonder if it's because it's in Hsinchu, a wind city, plus a typhoon makes the wind even bigger. Yeah... might be.
Just finished watching ANTM cycle 11 on youtube, thanks my sis for reminding me. Gosh, I've passed 3 episodes and I finished them all at once.
I love Dy... especially I just met him again in HK a week ago. I already missed him right now.. I chat with him almost everyday ever since we are back from HK trip. I'm afraid he'll get lonely for he has been alone now at home, I'll always be there for him... I always find him a good boy, caring and responsible. He's always my dear little brother.
I've also finished "Girls of Riyadh". I think I have to write a page of comments on the book since I quite like it. I love it for it offers different stories, not American or Britain ones, but the Arabian ones. On one of the commentaries, it says that the book is the "Sex of City of Arab world". And I totally agree with it. Well, it doesn't offer sex stories, of course, it's more of boys-girls relationship in Arab world. Loads of books still waiting to be read on my book rack. Hmm Hmm..
My book rack is soo.. global. I've got Girls of Riyadh (Arab-ish), Bangkok Haunts, Miss Chopsticks (Oriental-ish), French Women Don't Get Fat (French-ish). I don't intend to select those books to have a global feeling, just that I read their sneak peeks and feel interested in their stories.
I have to say that I start to fall in love w/ Coldplay's Livin La Vida... Have to say sorry to my friend, Chinho, for have complaint 'bout the song earlier when it has just come out.
I am an analyzer towards my surroundings. Whenever I met new ppl, I'll analyze their behaviour. I will only talk to ppl that I feel comfortable with, and I dislike cockish person a lot! Damn they! I mean those people that only pretend to be good towards me to know more about me in order to make other people sensing them close to me. Just stay away.
I've got in touch w/ Down syndrome topic quite a lot recently. I had bought "The Memory Keeper's Daughter" book, but I still have the last chapter unread. So, the book is talking about a doctor having a daughter with down syndrome and sent her out as soon as being labored. Then I also got to watch a series of news about the mental clinic in Serbia on NBC channel. It touches me a lot, those stories. The mental clinic in Serbia is totally out of standard. The down syndrome-ers are treated very badly. And then the latest is the news about Republican's VP-to-be, Sarah Palin's last child is born w/ down syndrome.
So those all makes me very aware of this topics. I'm so curious right now. I was very avoiding such topic before. And yes, I'm very afraid of this topic before. That's why reading "The Memory Keeper's Daughter" makes me kinda uneasy, too, at first and until now, that I don't have the courage to finish it immediately. I was thinking it's kinda shameful and difficult to raise such a kid, too, at first. I have to said watching the series in NBC channel kinda changes my perception, I'm a little bit accepting now. It makes me sad watching the down-ers treated so badly. They're human, too. Especially when they're still a baby, they ARE a baby, who need care from their mom, who also need family and parents to raise them up, teach them things. But in Serbia they're instead sent to a mental clinic, being tied up, some even tied up to death. I think no matter what they're also human, they have feelings. We should help them.
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