Day 126: Boston (Meeting Up With An Old Friend)

Better stop writing something strange in a bilingual diary or I get double amounts of concern from friends, haha.
雙語日記最好還是不要寫什麼奇怪的東西，不然我會得到兩倍朋友的關心XD

I accompanied Amy to buy chocolate and gift cards for kids' teachers in the morning, and we went grocery shopping at Wegmans after that.
早上陪舅媽去買要給孩子們老師的巧克力與禮物卡，之後去衛格門超市購物。

I watched "Marry Me, or Not?" in the afternoon, funny enough, the tag line for episode three is "A girl doesn't know how many frogs she has to kiss before she meets the real prince."
下午看了【必娶女人】，好笑的是，這集的標題是「一個女人，不知道要吻過多少青蛙，才能遇到真正的王子。」

Anyway, the most important thing today is to meet up with an old friend and play Go!!! It's a place called Diesel Cafe, and I was so surprised to see thick board and thick stones!!! William is a friend whom I met at Cheng Kung University Go Winter Training Camp in 2012. He was learning Chinese there, and came back to his hometown, Boston, to pursue his MBA later. He plays Go at least three times a week.
不管怎麼樣，今天最重要的事情就是與老朋友見面然後下圍棋!!! 這是一個叫做Diesel Cafe的地方，而且看到後棋盤與重棋子我超驚訝的!!! William是我2012年在成大圍棋寒訓認識的朋友。當時他在那裏學中文，後來回到家鄉Boston讀MBA。他每個禮拜至少三天下棋。

I played one game with Dan. Although I lost, I'm glad that I gained the feeling back, the ambitious, competitive and strategic mood I have whenever I play Go. I get to really focus and think.
我與Dan下了一盤。雖然輸了，但我很高興找回那種下棋時候會有的有企圖心、想競爭又充滿策略的感覺，讓我能夠真正專心思考。

After the game, William took me to the Christmas party of his company. This is the food provided at the party.
下完之後，William帶我去他公司的聖誕派對。這就是派對提供的食物。










There were a lot of people chatting, socializing, and what a small world!!! We met two Taiwanese people. Well, this is not surprising at all. Something more interesting came when they asked William and me how we met each other, and Lenny said one of her friends' brother is a professional player in Taiwan. What!!!??? "What's his name?" I asked. "Cheng Hao Hsiao." What!!!??? Not only her friend's brother is the top one player in Taiwan, I happen to know him in person!!!
很多人聊天、社交，然後...世界也太小了吧!!! 我們遇到兩個台灣人。恩，這沒什麼好驚訝的。但是有趣的才在後面呢，當他們問我與William怎麼認識的，Lenny就說她朋友的弟弟是台灣的職業棋士。什麼!!!??? 「叫什麼名字？」我問。「蕭正浩。」什麼!!!??? 她朋友的弟弟剛好是台灣第一就算了，我還剛好認識他!!!

Before William drove me back, we talked to some other people at the party. It was fun and a first time experience for me.

在William載我回來之前，我們又跟一些人聊了天。對我來說不僅是第一次而且是很好玩的經驗。

Day 3:

"The cure of anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea." --Isak Dinesen, The Deluge at Norderney, Seven Gothic Tales, 1943

Our handsome Toastmaster Alex Jan shared an article which includes this sentence today to promote his working out class. I like it, and decided to pick it as my sentence today. However, I can't really sweat when I'm in Boston, and I don't think I get to see the sea, but tears already left me, so I think I have to drink salt water, haha.

我們帥氣的Toastmaster Alex分享了一則有這句話的文章來宣傳他的課程。我很喜歡這句話，而且決定選他來當今天的句子。然而，在Boston我沒辦法流什麼汗，我也不覺得我能去看海，但眼淚已經離我而去了，所以我想我只能喝鹽水了XD

Watching a video shared by a friend, I noticed something. There's a comment saying "2 weeks, still on step 1." I told you my superpower is amazing self-control: "2 days, and I'm on step 3: rebuilding."  I "want to go out, socialize, meet new people", I "talk, laugh, even flirt(no... rolled my eyes with this one, haha)"  because I know I have a lot of friends who love me, and some even sent me voice messages which supposed to make me cry, but I kept laughing listening to them. Yes, I'm rebuilding myself.

看了一支朋友分享的影片，我注意到一些事。有一則回應說「兩個禮拜了，還在第一階段。」「就說我的超能力是自我控制吧：兩天，我已經在第三階段：『重建』了。」我「想出去，想社交，想認識新朋友」，我「聊天，笑，甚至調情(最好是...對這項翻白眼XD)因為我知道我有很多愛我的朋友，有些人甚至傳語音訊息給我，感覺會哭，但我一邊聽卻一直笑XD 沒錯，我在重建我自己。