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| My new baby...
I am pleased to announce that my new baby was born Dec 22, 2007 in Bellevue Washington. She's a Kawai CN2 digital piano. She looks and sounds awesome! I was looking for an upright piano when I found her. I never thought a digital piano would play classical well... but this girl bought me completely. Of course, it's not an acoustic piano, but it is amazingly close. What a hi tech world we live in!
I spent a good amount of my weekend with her. It feels so awesome playing again. I am going to work from home tomorrow, and you know why it takes so long to reply to your e-mail. 
Merry Christmas everyone!
On another note, A Life Less Ordinary is not the greatest movie, but it's not bad. I always like crazy & cheesy movies. I really like this conversation between Robert and Celine toward the end of the movie. So sweet & cheesy (and so true too)!
Celine: So you're telling me that successful relationships... are made in heaven? Notfounded on the daily practicality... of two people being prepared... to tolerate the imperfections of one another?
Robert: It's not successful relationships, Celine. It's love. And it comes from a strange and wonderful place... that we don't know about.
Celine: So you also reject the idea... that love is merely an emotional adaptation... to a physical necessity?
Robert: Completely.
Celine: Are you serious?
Robert: Fate intervenes in people's lives. In ours, for instance. Fate brought us together. It kept us together. We were destined for one another.
Celine: Fate had a pretty strange way of making its point.
Robert: But that's part of the beauty of it. It's inexplicable, unpredictable... and absolutely beyond control or understanding.
Celine: But you nearly got killed.
Robert: But I didn't... and here we are.
Celine: Do you have any substantial evidence to back all this?
Robert: None at all.
Celine: And you realize that it's absurd and irrational?
Robert: I know that.
Celine: Then why do you believe it?
Robert: Because, Celine, I'm a dreamer.
Celine: Well, I guess that makes two of us.
Robert: Are you ready?
Celine: As I'll ever be.
Robert: Then let's go.
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| Lost in you
Browsing songs on my iTunes and stumbled across a song I loved so much when i was in high school...
Lying wide awake under strange skies
Wanting to call you, but it is late at night
And you're far away, but you are always on my mind
I feel like I'm on fire, nothing I can do
I'm troubled with doubt, though I know it is not true
And it's times like these when I am dying to speak to you
Dying to get through, I'm dying to speak to you
Dying to get through, I'm dying to speak to you.
Staring at the wall, I sink inside
I think about it all, I get caught up in my life
I can't think straight, because it's tearing up my mind
I feel like I'm on fire, nothing I can do
I'm troubled with doubt, though I know it is not true
And it's times like these when I am dying to speak to you
Dying to get through, dying to get through
The more that I think how I need you
The more that I think, the more it seems true
And now it means more that I ever meant it to
Ever meant it to
Lying wide awake under strange skies
Wanting to call you, but it is late at night
And you're far away, but you are always on my mind | | |
| Why did I wait 14 years to appreciate the greatness of this album? 
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| The Namesake
It's a great story... I didn't say it's a great movie, but definitely a great story. Very touching. I bet the novel is much better than the the movie. Lol, adding it to the list of books that I will read (and hope to get to it sometime in the next 10 years  )
The story is centered around Gogol's dual identities and his eternal confusion. I have a couple of good Asian American friends who have shared with me the combination of greatness and awkwardness being second generation Chinese in America. I guess I understand that being second generation is not easy, but definitely easier than what their parents had to go through.
Never in my life have I thought of moving to a new country and start a life there. I guess "what books are for - to travel without moving an inch" is not so true. Books (and TV, internet etc) are actually for stimulating people's curiosity - to actually travel and see things by oneself. And here I am, being half world away from my home in a foreign place that I now call home. I never consider myself an immigrant, because I didn't plan to be. However I think what I am experiencing is not so different from what other immigrants are facing, including Ashoke and Ashima.We (or to be accurate, most of us) refuse to give up the greatness of our culture and language. We settle our lives in a new place, but our memories are still full of people and places in another country far far away. We try to blend our identity with the American society and live happily in a different culture while making sure our identity is not lost. There are definitely times when I think there's no place like home, but hey my life is here so stop being silly and learn to live the American ways. This is an interesting challenge...
But I'm always grateful to be here. That's still the best decision I've ever made to date. 
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