Wednesday, December 26, 2012

Ho ho ho

I just can’t believe it’s the end of the year already. Each year speeds up, and since 2012 was already pretty quick, I am worried how my time will pass me by later on.
I am starting to feel mortal. I am starting to feel that there might be no time for certain things if I won’t hurry up and get them. And though I am starting to slowly feeling this ticking, I am aware not everyone around me do, so I should not push it on them. Making some decisions based on „I will be too old soon” argument is not acceptable (to them at least). Memento morum is getting me, maybe because of the death of my classmate, very likely. It’s never the right time though to take action, and so I am waiting and waiting for this right time to come, wishing it will make those little life dreams come true. They’re not any special dreams really, and yet they might get very difficult.

Anyway, the workers company trip was quite ok, just the Karaoke in bus was painful on my head. Christmas then…

Oh, Christmas was good! I cooked a lot (cookies, tomato soup, cake, fish stew), I had good time in church, good time watching Christmas movies with D. and awesome Polish Christmas Eve’s Dinner with my Polish friends in Taichung. I got great books from D. too! Including the Game of Thrones cookbook! I must say, just to be with D. and other people I care for – it was one of best in my life. Too bad I was working during Christmas though :/

 
Darth Vader and Pirate Santa

Me, moderately fast on a go-cart



Thursday, December 6, 2012

Winter Has Come

Winter is here. I am wearing sweaters, UGG shoes and my mountain style jacket and I still feel cold while driving a scooter. Welcome winter, please don't overstay.

During the days I am sleepy and lazy, my brain not especially active for multi-tasking. I am counting hours that are between me and my cozy home, with my cat and boyfriend. Home is such a comfy, nice place now, I could just stay there till spring.

Oscar, our cat tried to give us heart attacks yesterday though... little escapist cat Houdini silver ninja. Thanks God, we've found him after 8 hours, at 11 PM 2 floors above our apartment. If cat is so stressful, I can't imagine how it is to have kids.

I must say, I don't like winter in Taiwan. I like it quite a lot in Poland... I like all seasons in Poland for the first month, then I am getting bored and waiting for the change. In here though... there's nothing nice  in winter but the one week off for Chinese New Year, that I will spend in Poland anyway. Spring... I miss you.

Monday, December 3, 2012

Sad Class Reunion

Last Saturday was the first time to attend Taiwanese funeral, and 3rd in my life to attend any funeral. I must say, it was in a way a funeral that touched me most. The first one was when I was maybe 13-14, it was my classmate's father's. The second one should have touched much more than it it, it was my grandmother's. I don't know why I didn't even cry that much, but maybe because I've never really knew my grandma closely as a person, just as grandma, or maybe because she was old and sick for long time, and well... it was a natural thing to happen. I did love her, but I don't know, I maybe felt it must have been a relief for her from all this pain.
And then, the third one this weekend. My classmate, someone who I still remember so vividly. Someone my age, who I knew to be a very very kind-hearted person, whose girlfriend was also my classmate. Someone who died so tragically, proving that we do not know our time, that you might be taking a inter-city coach bus and die in it, from an accident that you have no influence on. Just bad luck. Just "God's plan". It was sad, and I don't want more funerals in my life. Let's just say so.

But that Saturday was also the first reunion of our Institute. We haven't really seen each other in most cases since the graduation. Now we're all working, we're all are serious adults apparently, but we're all the same. I would say everyone looked the same, talked the same, seemed the same really. And though it was a sad reunion, I think we enjoyed to meet each other. Promised for more meetings were done, but those kind of promises are usually not very strong. Some old problems between people seemed to be gone too, which I welcomed gladly. And just the one person was missed, and it seemed so unfair to us. Yet, I think it gave us all a feeling of urging. We might have no time. We need to be meeting our friends, enjoying our free time. All I can think of is my own boyfriend now, and that I should be with him the most, and don't let any small things bother us. Even though we were both sick this weekend, it was very happy weekend. I hope we will remember that warning that my ex-classmate gave us all.


Thursday, November 29, 2012

28 and still counting - the Beginning

Due to unexpected boredom at the office on some days (opposite to sudden busy times) I've decided to reactivate my English blog. I have been blogging for over 10 years now. Man! Doesn't feel this way, but my 1st blog - the Polish one - is still alive, archive doesn't lie. For all these years, I have had a few blogs... for long time my Live Journal was the main thing. The second blog I've started was already on blogger, but after few posts it died and I went back to the Polish one.

But what is weird, the things I have to say (and I mean as "I just have to do it", not that I have them so I say them...) in Polish and English are quite different. And well, blog.pl - the first Polish blogging community - has just changed for such more worse that everyone hates to use it now and leave it.

Other than that, I must admit quite proudly that I feel like a global person, so I think I need a blog in global language. Daily I mostly use English and Chinese, Polish is the minority now. I live abroad, I travel, I work with people from all around the world. I am global, so should be my blog.

Finally, I do like blogging not because my local friends, who know my personally, are reading and commenting on it. Hell no! I always hope they won't find my blogs ;) I enjoy meeting total strangers through blogging and sharing with them parts of my private and professional thoughts, and find the reassurance in their similar (or not) thinking.

Therefore, here it comes. A new one, because since the other blogger blog I have graduated, I have been working for 2 years, and I am in a relationship. I feel like an adult. I want this to be an adult blog (not in the pornographic sense). I am 28 now, want it or not, my 20 something student life is behind me, and I feel both relieved and anxious of what the future brings. So I'm 28 and still counting... for long time I hope.