GG


All right, I have a 3-hour break before class.


Three weeks ago, I was in my best friend's house in Hong Kong. She's a newly-wedded, and I missed her wedding because of the final exams. Plus, she didn't invite me. If my brother didn't tell me, I wouldn't have known that she was getting married. Computer! I haaate computer! She thought that I had somehow replied a thread on her blog, and somehow she thought that I had learnt about it a long time ago. Anyway, I will take her excuse. Well, you know, I love her very much. I could only be grateful to have such a friend, I guess.


I met her in HKU when I was a undergrad. We were the executives of the student union. We had the worst, and yet, the greatest time together in that ghetto. "A ghetto", that's how I would describe HKUSU, and by which I'm talking about a psychological or a spiritual state. I was too young to realize that universities were not the place for people who believe in justice, not even for people who enjoy life. I couldn't count how many times we were scorned and turned down by the union council just because we wanted the voice of the minorities to be heard. Conflicts between the executive members in the HKUSU also drove me crazy. Countless time was well wasted on the most trivial debates. Up till now, I still not quite understand how could those student bodies be so narrow-minded, so bureaucratic and conservative in nature. Hopefully, the situation has changed now. Me and her have been standing up for each other ever since.

While she was giving me that wedding presentation (yes, it's a multi-media presentation, with photos, videos, sound clips and tears), I started to put those pieces and bits together to recreate the whole scene. My eyes didn't wait until she finished to fill with tears. I personally have no fantasy about weddings, and I've been to a couple of boring ones before. However, the one she had was totally original. I'm impressed. They didn't "buy" a wedding as many people do. They started everything from sketch. If not for love and passion, I cannot imagine how they could possibly put so much effort into that. I should stop right here because I've already chattered too much.

GG and SS, I wish you two a wonderful life together.

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