You know what kept me smiling everytime i missed my dad, everytime when i felt guilty of not being able to be by his side more often when he's around, everytime when i felt sad?
it was 2 stories.

The first was told to me by jj
She once told me that she thinks that there exist such an Eternal Land. In this place, all the smart and intelligent people will be there. In this place, people will never grow old. They will all look in their best outlook. In this place, only good memories exists. In this place, we will all meet one another again. :)

I heard the 2nd story from the radio station a few weeks after my dad passed away.
there was a little japanese girl who contracted terminal cancer. Lying in the hospital, she had been asking her dad to bring her to Disneyland one day.
Her dad was poor and sickly. Hearing the pleas from her daughter, unwilling to disappoint her, he constantly told her:
"I'll bring you around the world when you get better" :)
Months passed, the little girl's dad was diagnosed with terminal cancer as well.
Soon, he passed away.
It seems like the girl's wish to go Disneyland will never be fulfilled. So, she wrote a note and stick it to her favorite teddy bear, and mailed it out.
The note says:
"if you receive this bear, please pass it to the next person to bring it to the next destination."
The bear was picked up by a backpacker, seeing that note, he passed it on to the next backpacker on his way. And the process goes on and on. The bear was passed to hundreds of backpackers, and it went across many countries, visiting Disneyland as well.
One day, on her deathbed, a letter was sent to the little girl, it says:
"Your dream had been fulfilled. You have travelled round the world" :)
The bear is still on its way to tour the world, with backpackers passing it to one another. :)

I have lost a loved one. But I believe that one of these days we'll meet again, perhaps in that place called 'Eternal Land'. As of now, he'll wait for me for a while longer while I continue to help him accomplish his wishes, and hopefully i can complete my dream in the time being. :)

A person may come and go, but his dreams live forever. :)

Red Cliff

i know a lot of people, esp ROTK fans, will condemn the movie. I agree, there's over-dramatization, makes zhuge liang looks stupid and zhou yu too 'man'. in the novel, zhuge liang is a 'know-it-all', excellent commander, with all the good qualities etc. in contrast, zhou yu is handsome, smart and capable but lost to zhuge liang, petty etc etc.

most importantly, zhou yu and zhuge liang had always been at loggerheads with each other.

but real history offers a different view: zhou yu was an excellent commander, magnanimous, kind-natured, well-mannered, knows martial arts, smart. most importantly, zhou yu was never really antagonistic towards zhuge liang. in fact, the novel had deitified zhuge liang. during the time of the battle, zhuge liang should still be considered a 'commander-in-training'.

while reading the novel and history, i've been always asking myself: why can't zhuge liang and zhou yu be friends, like that kinda man-to-man friendship you know. that kinda 君子之交.

and i think john woo had shown this kinda man-to-man friendship very well in the movie. anyway, ya, tts john woo. and he answered my question through his movie.

indeed, 君子之交淡于水.

anw, i love these classic lines...

“凡事都略懂一点，生活也精彩一些”

“你蠢也就罢了，害得我跟你一样蠢。”

“你过时了。”

“我从来没有放弃梦想”

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