Tamshui

Weird Building

A Wedding of My Old Roommate

Xinxi and Shuli had their wedding yeaterday. It had been a long time since I joined a wedding of my classmates. I don't like to go to a wedding because there are a lot of people that you would rather bury them deep in memory than seeing them in an embarrassing situation. People who had crush on you but you were not interested at all, people who always said somehting wrong on a round Chinese dinning table, and people who doesn't give a shit about what you are doing but in order to break the silence on the table they tried to be enthusiastic about your work but asked about it over 10 times on the table all gather together in the wedding. No matter how hard you tried to avoid them not to stay with them on the same table, there would be some that you could never avoid.
I knew this situation far before Xinxi, my ex roommate, had told me that he will get married. I'd been living with him over 7 years since I was a freshman in university. It was even longer "roommationship" than the "relationship" with bride who was also my classmate in the university. Don't get it wring that I had never had a crush on Xinxi. He is just a friend who is smart and know where the "line" and "limit" is that I cared a lot. He would not cross the line or break it so it was very nice to live with him except he rarely did any cleaning for the room.
I know that I am not a easy person to live with but I did enjoy the time when we lived together. This is also why it's unavoidable to join the wedding. People who is smart like this of course would have many friends who would join the wedding. In the other hand this is also a big reason that I was so afraid to join his wedding, but he told me that I was the first guy to get the invitation when it was just printed the 2nd day. How could I ever refused to join it as he gave the invitation in person? So I was there.
And yes, it was very embarrassing situation, there were 3 girls who used to like me but I pretended that I was not aware it and we'd never talked since we graduated, and a classmate who sent me the invitation of her wedding but I did not went and send her the red evenlope with the cash gift in because the only time she contacked with me since we graduated from university was the time she sent me the "red bomber."(the wedding invitation)
I know it seems to show that I am a negative person because I don't know how to enjoy the fun in such a great party that I should be happy for my friends.
There are some people I was afraid to meet up with but there are some that I would like to meet as well. I had fun in the end to stay at the same table with them although I did bump into a embarrassing situation with a girl who refused to talk with me. She apologized and we had some talk. I was not sure she meant it or not, but we are adult. To wear a mask to remain the situation not to get worse seems a necessary adult thing to do.
Anyway, I sincerely wish my old roommate and my classmate a great marriage with happiness.

Yunxian, Yueni, Shuli and Xinxi.

Shuangping is a friend who I used to play basketball with in the team of our department. He is also my classmate. He has been teaching in countryside over 10 years. God...time waits for no man.

The Broom and yunxian. Yunxian is a close friend of mine who is kind and sensitive.
The guy who wears strange costume is one of our professors who taught us Chinese Classical Poems. He is always in the so called Tang costume. He is one of the few professors that I respected in the department although he always had some strange behaviors. Well, since he was from National Taiwan University that seems to be natural to be a freak.

A Portrait of My Old Friend.

I had known Daniel over 10 years. He came for a conference last week and we met for a lunch. It's scary to meet a friend who has changed so much. He now is a 2-kids father, a lecture in university and also a husband of a beautiful wife. The life style, like most of people, he had chosen make him worry about the loan of the apartment and the education of the 2 kids. I really can't imagine to live like this in my whole life that my parents are desperate for me to choose.