please take care

(starbucks in Shanghai, somewhere...this winter vacation)

I can't believe this is happening again.
Thanks for the monster, I really needed something to munch on my worries.

Keeping a blog was not only to keep the ones I care about updated about my life but as a place to reflect. But I've been trying so hard to keep it a happy and interesting one, not one of those blogs I keep writing about my troubles and problems. That's not the kind of blog I want.

I know you can lose your stuff anywhere in the world, but I've never really thought about it when I'm in starbucks in Taiwan. I'm not saying the crime rate is higher in Shanghai or anything, I was once pickpocketed my cell phone when I was in Vietnam, it's just that we seem to never notice some things before we actually lose them. Hmm, don't we hear this a lot?

So maybe I should have something just like this notice here to remind me everyday that I should take care of anything I have already. I do remind myself time to time, but sometimes we're just too stupid to realize what life would be if something was missing. I read on this design book saying the best designs are the stuff we never notice, such as the trees that give us air, and we only realize a bad design when something goes wrong. So "please take care" has a different meaning when a friend say this the next time, it means that you could lose them or they could lose you too. Just like how my notebook has once again abandoned me, it's still here, but it won't react to anything I do to it anymore. Please come back to me. PLEASE.

And now they're playing AKON's (sorry blame it on me) on the speakers. Yeah, I'll just blame it on you, too.

Wonder if I'll ever have the time to throw a party now.

routine

(Subway in Shanghai, this winter vacation)

My friend noticed that a lot a people in Shanghai wore dark clothes, most in black or grey.
We never knew why, though a few wore the color red, which I guess had to do with Chinese New Year.

Why do we have routines? Is it so we can spend more time on other things?
Gotta prioritize better or productivity can never be so low and still seem busy like hell.

So, now I have no reason to stop writing my blog, do I?

anti-theft

(picture taken this winter vacation in Ikea, Shanghai)

I need one of these anti-theft locks, right now.

For the ones who care and the the ones that have something between us, thank you.
I am lucky to have so many people in life to think about.

We need to develop some kind of anti-theft mechnism in life, so we can at least try to hold on to what ever we have left.

Friends and passion, the two I need most.

Or do I?