Archive for April, 2009

Rainy Day

April 27, 2009 · Filed under Little things on My Day

Rainy day takes away my sunshine days again.  

 

When I was young, my neighbors’ children and I liked to go outside of house to run in the muddy ground.  We jumped and ran to catch each other.  We were laughed and shouted to each other just to see how much louder noise we could make, and to compare with thunder sound.  

 

 In the tropical climate, we have the heavy rains pour from the sky like water from the faucet, and the roar of thunder and lightening were small subject for us.  We didn’t realize that was very dangerous situation.  In that time we had no fear for anything, except ghosts, the darkness, and monsters in our imagination. 

 

 Our fun time was end as soon as our parents came out, and tried to catch and dragged each one of us went back inside house, and most of us got the big spanks from them.  Spanking was normal punishment for all us at that time.  No one turns their parents to polices nor goes to court to sue them like nowadays. We grew up with spanks and love from our parents.  That was the best way we had learned about the right and the wrong.     

 

I used to excited and happy on the rainy days, but not now.   Every time I see rain drops, my tear drops start to run too, and my childhood’s memory comes back to haunt me.  The homesick starts to bother my mind in the moment that the first rain drop falls from the sky, and all day long is the cloudy day. 

 

I’m not sure how many people waste their time for this nonsense feeling.  Who care if it going to be the rainy, or sunshine day?  It isn’t important for the world to feel or to care for.   It is just the feeling of unknown woman who is far away from her homeland.  That’s all. 

 

However, the rainy day takes away the safety places from the street people who have no home to go.  Walking in the wet clothes with empty stomachs is the most challenged for them.  Nobody can see their lonely tear drops, since the rain drops flow in the same time on their faces.  I don’t know why I always think about these people in the rainy day.

 Maybe the feeling of the homesick person and the homeless person is not much different from each other.  Rainy day keeps remind me that “there is no place on earth is the same as your own home”.

 

P.S. Thank you for one of my friend who forwarded this picture to me on the rainy day.   I can feel inside their hearts, the lonesome couple in the crowd.  

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Long Live Our Friendship.

April 19, 2009 · Filed under Beagles, The Joa Ying’s Journal

 

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All of us call him “Mr.Zoom”.   He is the little greenish turtle, and he has joined as our member club since last year.  He came from China Town in Chicago.  Boss went there for vacation, and she brought him back home.  

 

Most of time he spends time by himself in the small tank that boss gave him for his private room.   We will see Mr.Zoom every morning when he has a small piece of fresh meat for his breakfast.   Somtum, and the two sisters don’t care much about Mr.Zoom, but I do.  I really like to watch him, and I try to put my nose close to him as much as I can.  However, boss doesn’t like me to do that.  She said the way I love to clean up food bowls for all of us, and then she thinks maybe I will clean up  Mr.Zoom from his tank as a snack too.  Oh! That’s really hurt my feeling.  It is impossible, boss!  I’m a gentle heart Beagle, and I have a lot of love and care for all creatures on earth. 


Mr.Zoom is the most quite one in this house.  I think he is lonesome because he has no friends, while I have Somtum and two sisters for my friends.  Humm…..should I count two sisters for my friends or my enemies?  Because most of time there is the endless war between us, and I never reach to their friendship side.  Whatever I try to do, they always get upset with me, even when I wag my tail to say hello to boss.  All of my actions never right in these dictatorial cats’ eyes! 

 


I think I will try to make friend with  Mr.Zoom, and someday we may gang up to fight back with those   two cats.  I believe that our friendship  has no  boundary, so the friendship between Mr.Zoom, the  turtle and  I, the gentle and kindness heart Beagle  will be last forever.  Do you think so?

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Another Note From Somtum

April 9, 2009 · Filed under Som Tum's Notebook

I have been waiting for long time to write on my diary page because most of time Joa Ying, the Beagle, and the two sister cats want their stories to be post first. 

 

  All I know, the friendship between the Beagle, and two cats gets rough and tough everyday.  Joa Ying has her own Beagle world, while the two sisters want to show off their superior since they were here first. 

 

 Yesterday while Joa Ying was sleeping, I saw Thong Thai, the white cat, punched on Joa Ying’s face three times with no reason, then that cat walked away and acted like nothing had happened.  I sat close to Joa Ying, and when she woke up she thought that was my punch, and she gave me the stern warning right away.  I had to explain to her what had happened, and I wasn’t the one who caused her problem.  While she was  listening my explanation, Joa Ying took that chance cleaned up my food and within a second the bowl was absolutely empty, so I turned to her with my serious warning too.   Then we almost end up with another war, if boss didn’t stop us. 

 

Two sisters and the Beagle like to play the war game when they out of boss’s sight.  I don’t want to take side, so I’m in the neutral area as same as Switzerland kept in peace during the World War II.  Once for a while I have to join the war to protect my food bowl from Joa Ying because she has very strong ambition to take over our food bowls in this house.   Nobody can changes her mind yet.   

 

 This year boss let me have another part time job, to follow boss to the road side and boss will put the garbage can for the garbage truck to pick up every Thursday.  I really enjoy my new job because I have a chance to run around, and boss knows that I never stand close to the road because I’m afraid of the big trucks on the road.  I always be safe first.

 

 Joa Ying wants to have this job too, but boss didn’t give her because whenever boss let her free from the chain, Joa Ying will follow her nose to different directions, and she forget everything at home then she  will be gone all day long.   Many times that  Joa Ying came back with the small dead animals like the mole, or dry stick, and she wanted to put in her collection pile.  However, boss told Joa Ying to leave  her new treasures outside only.    Boss concerns about Joa Ying’s safety, so she has to put chain on Joa Ying when all of us go work outside the house.    I know Joa Ying doesn’t like that, but she has no choice.  

 

Summer is not my favorable season because of my long hairs, and it is difficult for me to handle the heat from the sun.  I have to dig the ground deep enough for my body to stay inside there to avoid the heat.  Boss doesn’t like to see many holes around the backyard that I had dug, and she always put soil back to cover all holes.  Boss said it looks like the moon’s surface. 

 

Well, if so why doesn’t boss enjoy the moon scene on earth that I had worked very hard, instead of watching the full moon in the sky that is very far away from us?  

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