Summer is almost over.........

Friday, August 17th, 2007
As usual, I, after work, walked over to the Millennium Park for the outdoor classical music concert tonight. A cloud of sadness hovered over me when the announcer announced tonight's concert to be the last one for the summer. Just like that... The summer was almost over now... School starts in a week, and Fall is just around the corner. Did my summer slip me by without a trace? I asked myself. Time for readjustment again: a life that is without these free concerts, for they had become my routine on Wednesday and Friday nights.

Saturday and Sunday, August 18 - 19th, 2007
Because of the bad harddisk, I could not use my laptop. This is the first time in 14 years that I woke up with a sense of lostness. Lying on the bed, I reevaluated all possible alternatives to have access to the Internet and to do some website development. The best one was to go to my company. While hastily getting myself ready for it, I paused to evaluate my lifestyle. Perhaps, the reason I was so desperately/restlessly wanting to travel to Europe was that I left myself no breathing room as long as I stay in Chicago, except the biweekly music concerts and the weekly bible study in Watnneka. Upon this realization, I had a choice to make. Should I take this as a divine appointment for me to relax a bit? I should. I indulged myself in reading C.S. Lewis' Mere Christianity and the Bible (the whole book of Number). I savored every single minute. I watched my roommate preparing and cooking her favorite chinese food for hours. I observed my plants. I watered them. I spent some times sitting in my living room, in front of the aquarium watching the small fishes freely and contendedly swimming from every direction. I watched Steves Rick's travel shows, cooking shows, and some gardening shows as well. This is the first time in 1 1/2 years that I did NO website development at home during the weekend. I felt strange, but sweetly happier. ;-)