What happened today is so intense and so exhilirating, it's hard to put in words. but i'll try anyway. i can see many people bustling around with banners, i can hear shrieks and cheers and the clicking of cameras. I can feel other people's skin and sweat on my bare arm.
I can sense the swirling of emotions. both mine and others'.
okayy. So this morning i went to airport to welcome the Singaporean olympians, namely the table tennis team, namely Li Jiawei. Autographs, photographs...all tangible things in reminder of the bigger picture, the memory of an unforgettable event.
We were there like 5.30am then we waited outside the gate. Aiyoh. Like half an hour before the atheletes appear, people were already screaming. And this group of school girls were screaming "Jiawei! Wo men ai ni!" for the camera. While i was busy avoiding them with my skimpy ndp flag. they still caught Cheryl and I on camera though. funny reporters. I doubt they will put our pictures on the newspapers with a title "Jiawei attacked by mobs of fans" or "2 st nix girls among Jiawei's crazy fans".
[excited reporters]
ok. then the red jackets started appearing. we went mad man. keep chanting "Jiawei". Poor other atheletes like the shooter or sailor or dunno wad. Jiawei was the first to come out. Wah. the reporters so aggressive man. And the guards also very stubborn. I was snapping away.
Then when she finally came out, everyone swarmed around her. I was stuck, couldn't even move. Jiawei couldn't breathe! With autograph books and cameras stuck up her face, that lovely face. Speaking of her face. she's really a true beauty. Much Much much prettire in real life. I shouldn't say "pretty", she's like the ice queen that kind of beauty. regal grace. elegance. She looks much taller and slimmer in real life. and she got perfect complexion, on her face and arms.
Oh then i wormed my way through until i was just squashed next to her. cannot take photos at all la. everyone's pushing us, pushing me into her. hahaz. but i like it. hahaz. i kept tugging at her sleeve and say "jiawei...jiawei..." Oh man, i love the sound of her name, it just rings in my heart. then she said sth like "Hao le hao le..." very sweet. she dropped sth her fan gave her and bent down to pick it. I mean in that mob, she cannot even stand, but she still make an effort to pick up that letter or sth.
[this is how close i am to her]
Then i shoved my letter in her face but she got no hands to take(full of bouquets, autograph books, letters...), so i tried to stuff it in her jacket breast pocket. but people kept pushing me! So cheryl helped he do the stuffing. oh then she reailsed what we aer doing and she stuffed it in herself. haha. i think she don't want us to touch her body.
ok. then this woman told her "ronald is waiting for you. hurry up sign". She seemed to take no notice like that. so after we managed to let her sign our duoble happiness bats, we went to find Xueling and Jing Junhong.
oh then i went to Zhang Xueling let her sign my paper printed with pictures of her. then she pointed to one picture and said "Zhe ge shen me shi hou pai de?" mean "When was this photo taken?"
I shurgged and said "dunno" and she already big eyes widened in disbelief.
"Bu zhi dao?"... hahaz. i so malu. but she signed it anyway. and she told her other fans "yao xue xue ta yi yang, rang wo gan dong yi zie" (learn from her and make me touched). and i called her "Xueling Jiejie". She's very nice!! then we took pictures with her and with Jing Junhong too. and got her autograph too.
So it's back to get jiawei's picture. we climbed over the chairs and finally got to jiawei. Oh but unlike Xueling and Junhong, she didn't get to hug us during photo taking coz we were behind her chair.
Besides those irritating guards, there was this super annoying auntie who kept claiming "I am Li Jiawei's auntie! Want her autograph come to me!" and she was standing on a chair also la! and don't let Jiawei sign for me twice.
[yay!]
Oh man. We were on chU, ch5, ch8, chI news. luckily only for few seconds.
headline news is Ronald proposed and Jiawei agreed. nothing i want to add to it.
Life's little pleasures. I somehow pity people who are "apathetic". they are too obsessed with studies that they are oblivious to the beautiful world and events around them. They live like robots, seemingly emotionless. But i'm over emotional. that's not good either. I get excited, sad, happy very easily.
Today's kind of a mixed feelings day. failed my HC test 46/100. but if you ask me to compare the importance of tests and exams to nourishing my soul and indulging in the beauty of humans and human relationships, i'd say the latter is more important anytime.
I can sense the swirling of emotions. both mine and others'.
okayy. So this morning i went to airport to welcome the Singaporean olympians, namely the table tennis team, namely Li Jiawei. Autographs, photographs...all tangible things in reminder of the bigger picture, the memory of an unforgettable event.
We were there like 5.30am then we waited outside the gate. Aiyoh. Like half an hour before the atheletes appear, people were already screaming. And this group of school girls were screaming "Jiawei! Wo men ai ni!" for the camera. While i was busy avoiding them with my skimpy ndp flag. they still caught Cheryl and I on camera though. funny reporters. I doubt they will put our pictures on the newspapers with a title "Jiawei attacked by mobs of fans" or "2 st nix girls among Jiawei's crazy fans".
[excited reporters]
ok. then the red jackets started appearing. we went mad man. keep chanting "Jiawei". Poor other atheletes like the shooter or sailor or dunno wad. Jiawei was the first to come out. Wah. the reporters so aggressive man. And the guards also very stubborn. I was snapping away.
Then when she finally came out, everyone swarmed around her. I was stuck, couldn't even move. Jiawei couldn't breathe! With autograph books and cameras stuck up her face, that lovely face. Speaking of her face. she's really a true beauty. Much Much much prettire in real life. I shouldn't say "pretty", she's like the ice queen that kind of beauty. regal grace. elegance. She looks much taller and slimmer in real life. and she got perfect complexion, on her face and arms.
Oh then i wormed my way through until i was just squashed next to her. cannot take photos at all la. everyone's pushing us, pushing me into her. hahaz. but i like it. hahaz. i kept tugging at her sleeve and say "jiawei...jiawei..." Oh man, i love the sound of her name, it just rings in my heart. then she said sth like "Hao le hao le..." very sweet. she dropped sth her fan gave her and bent down to pick it. I mean in that mob, she cannot even stand, but she still make an effort to pick up that letter or sth.
[this is how close i am to her]
Then i shoved my letter in her face but she got no hands to take(full of bouquets, autograph books, letters...), so i tried to stuff it in her jacket breast pocket. but people kept pushing me! So cheryl helped he do the stuffing. oh then she reailsed what we aer doing and she stuffed it in herself. haha. i think she don't want us to touch her body.
ok. then this woman told her "ronald is waiting for you. hurry up sign". She seemed to take no notice like that. so after we managed to let her sign our duoble happiness bats, we went to find Xueling and Jing Junhong.
oh then i went to Zhang Xueling let her sign my paper printed with pictures of her. then she pointed to one picture and said "Zhe ge shen me shi hou pai de?" mean "When was this photo taken?"
I shurgged and said "dunno" and she already big eyes widened in disbelief.
"Bu zhi dao?"... hahaz. i so malu. but she signed it anyway. and she told her other fans "yao xue xue ta yi yang, rang wo gan dong yi zie" (learn from her and make me touched). and i called her "Xueling Jiejie". She's very nice!! then we took pictures with her and with Jing Junhong too. and got her autograph too.
So it's back to get jiawei's picture. we climbed over the chairs and finally got to jiawei. Oh but unlike Xueling and Junhong, she didn't get to hug us during photo taking coz we were behind her chair.
Besides those irritating guards, there was this super annoying auntie who kept claiming "I am Li Jiawei's auntie! Want her autograph come to me!" and she was standing on a chair also la! and don't let Jiawei sign for me twice.
[yay!]
Oh man. We were on chU, ch5, ch8, chI news. luckily only for few seconds.
headline news is Ronald proposed and Jiawei agreed. nothing i want to add to it.
Life's little pleasures. I somehow pity people who are "apathetic". they are too obsessed with studies that they are oblivious to the beautiful world and events around them. They live like robots, seemingly emotionless. But i'm over emotional. that's not good either. I get excited, sad, happy very easily.
Today's kind of a mixed feelings day. failed my HC test 46/100. but if you ask me to compare the importance of tests and exams to nourishing my soul and indulging in the beauty of humans and human relationships, i'd say the latter is more important anytime.