Monday, September 15, 2003
Getting used to the hecticness of academia. Meeting so many new people gets a little strange sometimes. Missed out on NCSSM 93 reunion--think most friends from that class wouldn't have been there, but events like that are nice to touch base with where I've been. Memories get fuzzy, especially when the phone stays silent. Was I really in Chicagoland that long? Did I really have those mini-groups I hung out with--even there it was so cyclical.
Found Loan on the internet, a friend I haven't seen in 5 years. After BC and I broke up, Loan and I hardly ever talked even though we were close for a while when she set us up. Getting ready for a seminar on Friendster next week--who would know me well these days to write a testimonial? Who would think of setting me up? Would I even want that?
Watched "Daughter of Denang", a documentary about an Ameriasian who goes back to her family in Vietnam. At first it seemed happy with tearful reunions, but then the woman shows her colors as a spoiled,whiny American and her Vietnamese family comes off as a little greedy, though between their living conditions and the traditional family expectations, it is easier to sympathize with them. When it comes down to it though, they did give her up,I guess thinking it was for her own good, but since they missed all her tough growing up times, how can they realistically expect her to come through for them when she has become a totally different person with no ties to them whatsoever?
I've gotten excited about learning Korean and Japanese, though I feel the need to get back to my own roots as well. I should be more loyal to Mom but she would settle in such a small boring town. I really don't know my family in Mexico anymore--once every two years is barely enough for a relationship.
Found Loan on the internet, a friend I haven't seen in 5 years. After BC and I broke up, Loan and I hardly ever talked even though we were close for a while when she set us up. Getting ready for a seminar on Friendster next week--who would know me well these days to write a testimonial? Who would think of setting me up? Would I even want that?
Watched "Daughter of Denang", a documentary about an Ameriasian who goes back to her family in Vietnam. At first it seemed happy with tearful reunions, but then the woman shows her colors as a spoiled,whiny American and her Vietnamese family comes off as a little greedy, though between their living conditions and the traditional family expectations, it is easier to sympathize with them. When it comes down to it though, they did give her up,I guess thinking it was for her own good, but since they missed all her tough growing up times, how can they realistically expect her to come through for them when she has become a totally different person with no ties to them whatsoever?
I've gotten excited about learning Korean and Japanese, though I feel the need to get back to my own roots as well. I should be more loyal to Mom but she would settle in such a small boring town. I really don't know my family in Mexico anymore--once every two years is barely enough for a relationship.
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