Chinese New Year always becomes a blessed and cheerful celebration to Chinese including me. As this is the time for the families and friends to gather once again after a long term disconnection. However, it can be hurt to see that the friends who can mingle with you are getting lesser when we get older. We never know why it happened but perhaps people started to get uncomfortable to gather due to the loose of so-called the friendship bond. I feel it is too bad for not being able to gather with the friends I miss so much. However I can't be too disappointed of their rejection to my invitation of small gathering at my house. They were busy maybe, and I should understand them.
We have many ways to connect to people all around the world nowadays. My friends, Xuan and Harry contacted Darren via facetime - one of the applications of Iphone. They can talk face to face with the help of network connection. Somehow I found that their conversation was really meaningless but warming. Xuan kept on calling Darren's nick name in special tune so to make a fool of him. It sounded really childish and foolish to me. I can't help as I might not be able to understand how close they were being while they were staying together. I would never know how much laughter they had shared among each others in Form Six. I do not have this kind of experience, the experience of staying with some people for a long time. I couldn't understand why they can just open facetime and talk nothing more meaningful. Is that such a waste of time? Now I realized that I would never understand until my roommate left me to Korea.
Just now, we had a farewell celebration with my roommate Kevin Tiu. He is my only roommate for last semester. We had a lot of stories and experienced a lot of things. We always label him with "black" and "fat". It really sounds childish, however this is the way we communicate. Now I only realized that the things we talk may not be necessarily contented, but somehow they mean something to us. Something that is non-removable in our memories.
Brother, wish you all the best over Korea.
We will miss you. Don't worry.
God bless.
