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Friday, May 31th
On this date last year... "ORIENTED Diaspora..." Okay so that sounds a lot more grandiose than I intended but hey, I'm all about the drama, right? LOL... Walsh is in Beijing, and Mike is in the bay area for meetings, so both of them were able to attend the ORIENTED Happy Hours last night in those respective areas. Without sounding TOO "enthusiastic" (as Peter Ling would say... right, Peter?!), that is SO COOL! YAY!
So Walsh text messaged me this morning from Beijing and said it was a great turnout, just as Steven was uploading all the photos from the event. Before leaving Taipei, I had requested that Walsh put his face in front of the camera at the Beijing Happy Hour so that I could look for him in the Photo Album. To my dismay, I only saw a bare profile of him (far left). So I wrote back and stated Keep in mind that Walsh is the head of sales trading for a VERY large investment bank here in Taipei. His SMS response: "I didn't have my clothes on most of the time!" Keep in mind also that I was born and raised in the heart of America's Bible Belt. My SMS response: "Lord have mercy." LOL. Alright already... I ADMIT IT... I'm getting into this whole SMS thingy! There was a time (if I don't make my confessions now, Flora is going to HARASS my ass...) when a certain "man in question" from last year would send me text messages GALORE instead of just picking up the gosh darn phone and calling me, which at the time I thought was so very --> tacky. My exact words (to be read slowly and out loud for optimal effect): "Men over 30 should not be allowed to use SMS." I sincerely regret that statement and for the record am making a public apology here in today's journal entry. You boys (and girls) can SMS me to your heart's content, and I shall receive your messages graciously, and with much joy and happiness... In the meantime, I am modifying the above statement to read, "Men over 30 who are interested in pursuing a romantic relationship with Christine Hsu should just tell her UPFRONT and not make her have to guess your meaning through cryptic, convoluted text messages to her cellie." Feel free to replace the highlighted words at any time with "emails" and "inbox", respectively. ROFL!
Had fun at our own event last night, not to mention a hysterical conversation that took place during dinner about what would happen to me if I checked into a 7-day Buddhist retreat --> the ones which forbid people to speak during the entire time they are there. According to Joann, they (the Buddhist monks) make you stay an extra day for every word you speak by accident as punishment for breaking the house rules. And everyone else at the dinner table agreed that if I signed up for one of those things... I'd never make it back out.
"Now what ever gave them the idea that I talk a lot..."
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