Jen Lee's week 31 (15 - 21 sep 2010)
Hey everyone,
by the time i finish writing this update it will be the 22nd of sept, which is the date of the mid-autumn festival...
so...happy mooncake eating and moon-gazing everyone :)
over here in brisbane it's been pretty cloudy so i only had a glimpse of the moon just now as I walked home...but I've attached a photo of a pretty full moon that i took two months ago...
I also attached a photo of the teochew-style mooncake (they are made of swirly pastry and not from molds) that i learnt to make together with the UQ Chinese Society last Saturday :) it was quite fun to make and it doesn't look too bad, eh?
it tasted ok, but of course nothing can beat the taste of my mum's mooncakes so i'm very much looking forward to chomping on some when I go home this saturday :) thank you to those of you who emailed me to arrange meetings, i look forward to them :)
for this week's update, i decided to take a trip down memory lane, and found in my email archive an email that i wrote on 25 Sept 1999 - almost 11 years ago!! i was in california then, doing my undergraduate studies. it was sent at midnight - i just realised that...i am sure i did not plan it to be so, it just happened...anyway, have a quick read :) the subject was:
*
we howled and sang to the moon till it came out!
From: Jen Lee Teh (tehjenlee@hotmail.com)
Sent: 25 September 1999 00: 00AM
hey everyone,
just want to share some poems i wrote after the wonderful time i had up in
the Rose Garden, celebrating the biggest, brightest, and bestest moon i've
ever seen :)
The moon is like my heart,
So full it's going to burst,
For loved ones far apart.
For memories of times past.
---
Gazing at the sky,
Moon beams on my face,
I wish I could fly.
And my mum's mooncakes taste.
---
2 haikus:
In the pale moonlight
I look up into the sky
And send my love home.
Moon shining so bright
Just makes me want to take flight
Carefree as a kite.
thank you for sharing this with me.
Jen Lee
----
You ever look back at something that you did in the past and you are rather amazed as you think: "that was me? i did that?"
I know my email did not contain spectacular poetry, but i must say that the jenlee of the past does seem to come up with poems more easily than the me of today...
maybe all my creative juices went into corny jokes, haha.
no no, i'm not wallowing in nostalgia just for the sake of it...I guess I just want to celebrate a bit of the past :)
and some of it has persisted until today... e.g.the first haiku alludes to the moon as being a "satellite" for beaming love to and from my family when we are in different countries...this idea started when I was in the US and now that I'm in australia, it has continued :)
I've decided to write very little in this update and instead ask for responses...making it "interactive" as it were :)
what is one thing that has happened in the past that brings a smile to your face when you think about it? if it still has effect until today, please do share that too!
Would love to hear back from you :)
take care and God bless,
jen lee
p.s. thanksgiving - my managers have agreed to pay me exclusively in cheques so i can continue working at the massage place :) yay!
prayer requests - two main things:
1. that I will finish my essay for my social movements class, it's worth 45%. it's due 5 Oct but i don't want to have to do it during my break in singapore/malaysia so i hope to complete most of it by this sat afternoon! thank you!
2. for safety and journey mercy when travelling during my break.
thank you for praying!
by the time i finish writing this update it will be the 22nd of sept, which is the date of the mid-autumn festival...
so...happy mooncake eating and moon-gazing everyone :)
over here in brisbane it's been pretty cloudy so i only had a glimpse of the moon just now as I walked home...but I've attached a photo of a pretty full moon that i took two months ago...
I also attached a photo of the teochew-style mooncake (they are made of swirly pastry and not from molds) that i learnt to make together with the UQ Chinese Society last Saturday :) it was quite fun to make and it doesn't look too bad, eh?
it tasted ok, but of course nothing can beat the taste of my mum's mooncakes so i'm very much looking forward to chomping on some when I go home this saturday :) thank you to those of you who emailed me to arrange meetings, i look forward to them :)
for this week's update, i decided to take a trip down memory lane, and found in my email archive an email that i wrote on 25 Sept 1999 - almost 11 years ago!! i was in california then, doing my undergraduate studies. it was sent at midnight - i just realised that...i am sure i did not plan it to be so, it just happened...anyway, have a quick read :) the subject was:
*
we howled and sang to the moon till it came out!
From: Jen Lee Teh (tehjenlee@hotmail.com)
Sent: 25 September 1999 00: 00AM
hey everyone,
just want to share some poems i wrote after the wonderful time i had up in
the Rose Garden, celebrating the biggest, brightest, and bestest moon i've
ever seen :)
The moon is like my heart,
So full it's going to burst,
For loved ones far apart.
For memories of times past.
---
Gazing at the sky,
Moon beams on my face,
I wish I could fly.
And my mum's mooncakes taste.
---
2 haikus:
In the pale moonlight
I look up into the sky
And send my love home.
Moon shining so bright
Just makes me want to take flight
Carefree as a kite.
thank you for sharing this with me.
Jen Lee
----
You ever look back at something that you did in the past and you are rather amazed as you think: "that was me? i did that?"
I know my email did not contain spectacular poetry, but i must say that the jenlee of the past does seem to come up with poems more easily than the me of today...
maybe all my creative juices went into corny jokes, haha.
no no, i'm not wallowing in nostalgia just for the sake of it...I guess I just want to celebrate a bit of the past :)
and some of it has persisted until today... e.g.the first haiku alludes to the moon as being a "satellite" for beaming love to and from my family when we are in different countries...this idea started when I was in the US and now that I'm in australia, it has continued :)
I've decided to write very little in this update and instead ask for responses...making it "interactive" as it were :)
what is one thing that has happened in the past that brings a smile to your face when you think about it? if it still has effect until today, please do share that too!
Would love to hear back from you :)
take care and God bless,
jen lee
p.s. thanksgiving - my managers have agreed to pay me exclusively in cheques so i can continue working at the massage place :) yay!
prayer requests - two main things:
1. that I will finish my essay for my social movements class, it's worth 45%. it's due 5 Oct but i don't want to have to do it during my break in singapore/malaysia so i hope to complete most of it by this sat afternoon! thank you!
2. for safety and journey mercy when travelling during my break.
thank you for praying!
posted by thejenlee at 7:05 AM
2 Comments:
one thing in the past that has an effect on me:
when i was in the philippines, i used to write a diary, but i wanted to keep it a secret. so i created a code for it (but unfortunately did not create a dictionary for future reference!) and re-wrote it in that new language. when i see it, i think back at where i used to write my diary - either sitting by my bed or in the toilet... ahh... takes me back to around 9 years ago when i felt like the world was just middle school, and i was so insulated from so many other things happening in the world. i miss those times...
p.s. glad to hear your boss could pay you completely in cheques! whoo!
besos y abrazos,
tu chica cita,
raquel alejandra
hey babe, i didn't realise u had written. thanks for sharing :) i can so imagine u writing in your diary :)
besos y abrazos tambien,
jen
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