Greeting from San Francisco...
Today after almost 6 hours tedious driving ( tedious mostly to Lin Yuan, who should bear the long driving and my endless talk, and requests for snacks, coffee and restroom) all the way along, we finally arrived at beautiful Stanford campus. We played tourists, took pictures, and met with one of Linyuan's old friends from ND. During the last session I almost fell into sleep in their couch when listening to greetings and jargon talks. I guess I looked dry, boring and bored:P but under the shield of old friends', I felt pretty safe.
Then came the night session. We met two other friends in Berkely and their spouses. They booked a table for 10 people at some Sichuan restaurant called SiCia (big Sichuan), probably assuming there would be other three paired with us. Dinner was ok, I ate as much as usual :P
Then there came this background music of the restaurant, some old familiar melody whose name was almost at my lips...
"Oh, this one!" Jin Peihua, our once 119 neighbour, presumed some familiarity too. " this was the background music of our eurythmics perfomance, the one with the ball, remember? "
I almost forgot that I onced even performed eurythmics! and with a ball, the upmost difficult one!! then the melody went on, reminded us the moves, when the ball should go to fingertips, rock high, then fall down seemlessly through shoulders... it was among the most corny music pieces which was once over popular in the streets then buried in the dusts of time. It was now being played here in the restaurant with a blatant name.
The music brought us to an almost unperceivably short silence, then laughters and meaningless chats went on. probably somehow in everybody's heart, it stirred the "when I was young (or younger) ..." feeling, which was of course quenced down very quickly by the spicy food.
OK, we later remembered the name of the music, it was "whispers in the fall" (I actually don't know the exact English translation of the Chinese translation of the original music), which once went with numerous poem recitation, amateurish choregraphy, and of course, eurythmics performance, when we grew up, and was once thought the most romantic and melodious music. I hope you still remember it somewhere.
Tomorrow's schedule: Berkeley campus, the bridges, etc., and 6 hours of driving back :)