Rashomon

「Rashomon」is a transliteration of Japanese vocabulary, it is a short story written by jiechuanlongzhijie, 「Rashomon」means the insolvable puzzle caused by different statements of stakeholders in a specific event, just as the matter of the story. My friend, Doris remind me of the term by her funny story.

She told me that her three friends had a chat on MSN messesger, talking about a girl they all knew before, They can't believe that the girl has favorable impression on them and try to keep in touch with them one by one at the net meeting. Maybe the three male were right for their conception, but interesting point is that they can hardly to ask the key person in this situation. If they do, I guess the answer won't be as simple as "Yes" is. Maybe the girl think that the three male all stuck on her, she just show her goodness to them. That will be another Rashomon-like story.

The funny story also recalled my memory, there was another story for the different situation. I have three friends, John, Tom and Carl, they knew a girl-Ellie on the party, Ellie is a cute and beautifule girl. She made John display great ardor for Ellie, he made chances for him to meet with Ellie, picked her up to go home, and he aslo give tulips to her for his earnest. Tom and Carl always play roles of walking part in John's scenario, they enjoy to be the facilitators for John, and try to make John happy. unfortunately, Ellie seems to recognize John as a friend, not her mate.

Tom worked for the same company as Ellie, Ellie walked by and chatted with him frequently in the mean time, Tom was wondering whether Ellie like him or not? He know John is fond of Eliie, and so he didn't involve in the whirlpool of John's loving story, but personally witness the whole event. Carl is the one who was Ellie's favorate person, but he coundn't make a decision to accept Ellie's love, because he was not ready for being in love with anyone, besides, he made sure that friend is forever, but girl is everywhere.

The similiar scenario repeatly performed among the four person, because they all play the role who they want to be, then there woundn't be any thing new for the coming days. It's happen that I am the friend of the three guys, so I acquired the enough information to make the love story clear, otherwise it will be「Rashomon」again.

MS Paint's Exercise

Sketch by C.T.Chiang

Microsoft Paint is a simple tool for drawing, but it's hard to use mouse to make a picutre. I used the MS Paint to take sketches for my friend and for myself by comic style, it's very funny to me. Maybe it look like someone, not me, yet the pictures show my potential to become a comic writer , I guess. ^^

To Love or To Be Loved

"Love or be Loved" by C.T.Chiang

The question alway raise in our personal mind to ask ourselves which is better with or without person to love you? I saw a film on star movie channel last night, the movie named "Turn Left Turn Right ", it decribes the subtle linkage between two lovers, they are looking for each other in many scenes, but the one always pass by the other by accident. Luckily, with faith, they finally find each other in the end of movie. The movie is full of romantic affections for the people who identifies with the two lovers in the story.

Like Wislawa Szymborska's poem-"Love at First Sight" , which repeatly cited in the movie.
[They're both convinced that a sudden passion joined them.
Such certainty is beautiful,
but uncertainty is more beautiful still. ]

The movie just shows the one of the possible denouements, it rarely happen in the real world, like the Disneyland in our childhood, it propose the lost angle of our hearts. In my opinion, I think we like a gambler in our feeling, we will intend to insist on whom you want, if we afford to lose who we are given. Otherwise, we will make a compromise between them, and we will choose the one we like more than the others around us. If we make a compromise, what is love or being love should't matter anything in our life, because we have left from the Las Vegas of our feeling already.

Life in Taipei

Night in Taipei City

Taipei is a beautiful city in Taiwan, especially at the nights.
There are many knids of life styles displaying in the night city. People who intend to be drunken go to the saloon or night club, energetic people choose to go to the dancing club for stretching their body and try to find a mate, people who like me choose to find a good restaurant to have dinner with friends, or go to the Eslite Bookstore to nourish self's spirit, and other people who go to Warner Village to see the movies, who go to night fair to eat chinese traditional appetizes, who go to Mountain Yangmingshan to have a cup of chinese tea and have a sightseeing of Taipei at night, who go shoppig among department stores and brand stores,... , Taipei city almost porvide everything for people who live or work here, Taipei city is full of vitality.

Taipei is never rest, it's open 24 hrs like 7-11 in Taiwan. There are convenience stores open at the street corner, and supermarkets at districts. We also can go to KTV, shoping mall, restaurants whenever we want to, and find a specific place to go. My friend told me that he will rent a small room for sleeping only in Taipei, because he can go to 7-11 for fast foods, go to Wellcome for cold drink and snacks, go to Hangten and G2000 for clothes, go to theater for entertainment, go to anyplace by mass transit system, and find a coffee shop to receive his guests, he never need the kitchen and a living room. I think maybe he won't need a shower room either, because he can to to the swimming poor or the gym and for take a shower after his exercising. ^^

It's easy to be ourself to live in the Taipei city, beacuse no one will pay attention on what you are doing or how you express yourself. Everyone is unique and nothing special as a Taipei resident, like colorful tropical fishes among the coral reef, just to show ourselves and make ourselves happy.

My Friend-Wander , man with optimism.

My Friend: Wander

Wander is a nice guy as I know, he treat people with sincere. every time I met him, he always show his sunny smile to me, it make me feel warm in my heart. I guess there is a angel behind him, make him look like a happy eagle, flying in the blue sky.

Being his friend a long time, wacthing his behavior pattern, I have a illusion of he is a Buddhist this life. He cultivate his friends and learn from them, he share what he know without concealing any knack, he try to be a selfless man as he can. As we live in the world, there are lots of kind of people with their own interest, Wander had fallen into some of his friend's trap, and to be misconstrued by his friends. He was frustrated by repeated failure, yet he always look at the bright side of emotional entanglements, intensifies the belief of goodness and discards what is evil. I am lucky to be his friend, he make me toward to improve my internal personality, not asking external stakeholders to change theirselves, the way of easing myslef and looking ahead for the future.

"Bye, Bye to the yesterday." saying by Wander, the admonition was inspired by the "Let it be", the song sang by The Beatles. I guess it will go along with Wander's life to the end.

PiPi, the Lovely Dog in Your Life.

Friend's Pet: named PiPi

PiPi is a lovely dog of my friend, my friend treat her like her daughter. She alway brings PiPi along as her family, wherever she goes. PiPi is curiuos about everything she saw, since she was protected considerately. I had taken my friend and PiPi to the university I attended once, there is a big green grass in the middle of the campus. I let PiPi step on the green grass, the young girl seemed to be a little hesitant to the new environment, and smelt the grass with her tiny and sweat noise. For a minutes, PiPi finally waverd her white and downy buttocks walking and jumping on the grass.

The voice of PiPi's barking is very delicate, It sounds like she is try to have your attention to faddle her. If you touch her abdomen, PiPi will lie on the sofa with her legs stretching, she enjoy the loving caress.

I take the photo of PiPi as the icon of my MSN messenger, and it alway catchs the attention of my friends at the first time. It looks so lovely and innocent, make us really love to embrace her. It deserves to be mentioned here, PiPi is also my friend-maker, when I surf on the net, she makes me possess a interesting experience.