七夕快樂

七夕快樂

One day when we were buying groceries in a Chinese supermarket, we bumped into a lady who used to own a Chinese restaurant. I introduced my wife to her. The nice lady, in her early fifties, said warmly, “You are so beautiful! Your hu*****and used to a regular at my restaurant. He seemed quite lonely in the past. He’s lucky to have you!” I felt happy, and also slightly embarrassed at such a remark…

I still remember those days when I ate dinner alone. I usually went to her restaurant with a copy of a free local Chinese newspaper, for eating alone occasionally made me uncomfortably self-conscious. I flipped the pages, and skimmed those self-congratulatory awards and parties of the local Chinese "celebrities" – while chewing the greasy food. Reading those stories, I liked to entertain myself smugly with a theory that monophobia, or fear of loneliness, within the marginalized immigrant community was the driving force behind all the fuss... Well, when I was supposedly reading other people's "loneliness", I never suspected the hostess actually looked through the newspaper, and witnessed my solitude.

But those days are gone. The restaurant was closed. I don’t dine alone any more. I don't eat any greasy food. I don’t read the local Chinese newspaper either (the ink stain on fingers is not healthy anyway). It’s all because of my wife... Thank you, dear! 有妳真好！

"Love Will Keep Us Alive" by Eagles

I was standing
All alone against the world outside
You were searching
For a place to hide
Lost and lonely
Now you've given me the will to survive
When we're hungry, love will keep us alive

Don't you worry
Sometimes you've just gotta let it ride
The world is changing
Right before your eyes

Now I've found you
There's no more emptiness inside
When we're hungry, love will keep us alive

I would die for you
Climb the highest mountain
Baby, there's nothing I wouldn't do

Now I've found you
There's no more emptiness inside
When we're hungry, love will keep us alive

[Solo]

I would die for you
Climb the highest mountain
Baby, there's nothing I wouldn't do

I was standing
All alone against the world outside
You were searching
For a place to hide
Lost and lonely
Now you've given me the will to survive
When we're hungry, love will keep us alive
When we're hungry, love will keep us alive
When we're hungry, love will keep us alive

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• 回复：七夕快?middot; -NewVoice- ♀ (1311 bytes) () 08/06/2011 postreply 05:01:55

• Thank you for the suggestion! -carpediem- ♂ (309 bytes) () 08/06/2011 postreply 12:10:52

• great writing. 探讨一下您的修改。 -jingbeiboy- ♂ (436 bytes) () 08/06/2011 postreply 23:04:13

• Thanks for the comments! Jingbei. -NewVoice- ♀ (1130 bytes) () 08/07/2011 postreply 02:39:47

• Thank you, Jingbei! -carpediem- ♂ (782 bytes) () 08/07/2011 postreply 07:31:59

• actually, two, haha. -非文学青年- ♀ (42 bytes) () 08/07/2011 postreply 08:59:28

• Best Wishes! local Chinese newspaper-->Chinese tabloid?和奇葩，文青学的。 -beautifulwind- ♀ (0 bytes) () 08/06/2011 postreply 07:52:43

• not sure if those free newspaper can be called tabloid, though. -非文学青年- ♀ (0 bytes) () 08/06/2011 postreply 08:28:57

• He mentioned ink stain, celebrities,etc. sounds like tabloid. ha -beautifulwind- ♀ (37 bytes) () 08/06/2011 postreply 08:40:40

• haha, 拽! let's wait for Carpediem to decide then. -非文学青年- ♀ (0 bytes) () 08/06/2011 postreply 08:48:02

• It is a nice word, but -carpediem- ♂ (182 bytes) () 08/06/2011 postreply 12:20:28

• I put quotation marks on the word celebrities now:) -carpediem- ♂ (0 bytes) () 08/06/2011 postreply 12:34:10

• learned Chinese tabloid! Thanks! -千与.千寻- ♀ (3016 bytes) () 08/07/2011 postreply 04:08:55

• Thanks for sharing, Xiao Qian. -carpediem- ♂ (164 bytes) () 08/07/2011 postreply 07:41:03

• 咱俩的学习方法越来越像。为了和文青defend myself，我也查了wiki。 -beautifulwind- ♀ (0 bytes) () 08/07/2011 postreply 09:22:41

• Carpediem, why not post a reading of this piece? -非文学青年- ♀ (1590 bytes) () 08/06/2011 postreply 08:26:10

• 与我心有戚戚焉。 -beautifulwind- ♀ (0 bytes) () 08/06/2011 postreply 08:27:26

• "与我心有戚戚焉。" 古文棒，很拽，不俗！ -carpediem- ♂ (0 bytes) () 08/06/2011 postreply 12:41:08

• 呵呵，俺就会拽这一句古文。 -beautifulwind- ♀ (0 bytes) () 08/06/2011 postreply 22:44:02

• 只要可以上网，就可以打汉语，用七把叉。 -cha-cha- ♀ (65 bytes) () 08/06/2011 postreply 09:40:33

• haha, sounds funny. ;) -非文学青年- ♀ (0 bytes) () 08/06/2011 postreply 13:40:02

• Ah, here we go again! -carpediem- ♂ (321 bytes) () 08/06/2011 postreply 12:30:45

• ok, convinced about the self-conciousness sentence now. -非文学青年- ♀ (452 bytes) () 08/06/2011 postreply 13:39:09

• 往前翻了几页，文青你的party文写的很棒，有一个词 -lilac09- ♀ (34 bytes) () 08/06/2011 postreply 14:39:54

• Cool word! thanks a lot, Lilac! -非文学青年- ♀ (91 bytes) () 08/06/2011 postreply 21:57:02

• 也有道理~~ -lilac09- ♀ (178 bytes) () 08/07/2011 postreply 06:22:08

• Good suggestion! -非文学青年- ♀ (101 bytes) () 08/07/2011 postreply 08:57:37

• 怕mm误会，跑到老电脑上用中文回一下，英文不给力。 -非文学青年- ♀ (119 bytes) () 08/07/2011 postreply 10:24:54

• 哈哈~ MM想多了，没有误会的说 -lilac09- ♀ (647 bytes) () 08/07/2011 postreply 14:11:24

• 文青没想多，是俺想多了。好，期待好文。 -beautifulwind- ♀ (0 bytes) () 08/07/2011 postreply 16:04:54

• CO:期待好文 -非文学青年- ♀ (0 bytes) () 08/07/2011 postreply 16:38:44

• Ms. Perfectionist, I've updated it as you suggested... again:) -carpediem- ♂ (0 bytes) () 08/06/2011 postreply 17:47:25

• 好感人欧~ :)) -lilac09- ♀ (972 bytes) () 08/06/2011 postreply 13:17:50

• Thanks for the warm words! -carpediem- ♂ (413 bytes) () 08/06/2011 postreply 17:39:03

• About that pun~ -lilac09- ♀ (53 bytes) () 08/06/2011 postreply 20:25:35

• That's a nice pun except my food was not that great:) -carpediem- ♂ (0 bytes) () 08/07/2011 postreply 07:20:41