Story | Kamsamnida

This is not the first time. I have encountered similar situations before. People usually just left me, or remained distant away from me. They never cared that much, or they had just given up.

But you are different. You actually stayed with me for so long, even though I was miles away. To my surprise, I actually felt like we had been involved with a quite intense relationship or something. Yet we were not.

I guess this will be the end of it. Thank you for being patient with me. I wish you well in the future.


2010/05/21

Quote of the Day

The value of a personal relationship to things is that it creates intimacy and intimacy creates understanding and understanding creates love.

- Anaïs Nin

Story | Things are funny isn't it VII

You wrote me a letter, listing out all the concerns, problems, things you hate about the volume between us. You also dislike me and my person.

I cannot say this is not funny. Base on my past experiences, if people are not into interacting with another through the virtual world, they would simply not response, and disappear into other bodies somehow.

However you were different. The letter you wrote was in a different language. You left up to me to discover, translate, and read it. It was just hidden somewhere. Why so serious? Board-casting of ideas... Nothing in the imaginary space is real, unless you believe that it is actually there.

You are a very smart and creative person. Translation is an art, a beautiful yet dangerous art.

I, on the other hand, am just a simple yet complicated machine that sometimes go moody and occasionally kick into depression mood. I thought I had told you so? My emotions are not that consistent and stable...

Maybe the understanding of space between us is twisted up. Perhaps the translation had gone wrong. Who knows.


2010/05/21

*Read the previous stories, Things are funny isn't it VI, here: http://threequartertranslation.blogspot.com/2010/06/story-things-are-funny-isnt-it-vi.html

Story | Things are funny isn't it VI

Today I have tried instant messaging with my mother on Skype. No she doesn't have MSN. We usually just talk verbally on Skype, with one or two text messages to indicate online status and when to call and stuff. However today was different, mainly because I could not talk much due to a cold.

Surprisingly, through our intense text-based conversation, I noticed a familiarity. Even though English wasn't my native tongue, through out the years of writing essays and instant messaging with friends in English, I've learned to be fluent. But the English-as-a-second-language feeling in the written conversation sparked up the memories of a particular connection I had with someone.

The conversation reminded of you.

2010/05/17

*Read the previous stories, Things are funny isn't it V, here: http://threequartertranslation.blogspot.com/2010/06/story-things-are-funny-isnt-it-v.html

Geometry of Circles by Philip Glass

The music was composed by Philip Glass for Sesame Street in 1979. Still amazing after 30 years.

Is it just me or I found this fascinating?
Philip Glass + geometric shapes + rainbow colour = speechless