waiting and waiting

A few days ago, Lucyriver read this book, 雪地里的天使蛋卷 by 张小娴, borrowed from a friend. xue di li de tian shi dan juan by zhang xiao xian

It’s about a girl, who after a break up with her boyfriend, meets this man, who by the way is the girl’s girlfriend’s boyfriend. She’s a Mathematics teacher while he is a cartoonist for a newspaper column.

The girlfriend breaks up with the man right in front of the girl when she brings her to meet him for the first time. The girlfriend ‘s explanation is since the girl like the cartoonist so much, it will be the first and also the last time she can introduce her to him.

Two broken hearts people console each other and that’s how the relationship develops till the girl moves in to stay with him. He buys her her dream bicycle and paints a Christmas tree on the wall because the apartment is so small that a tree can’t fit in. He joins her class to be with her and to understand why she says numbers are romantic. Their lives are happy...

The man loves the girl but he loves his freedom as well. When the girl asks for commitment, he sinks in alarm and runs away, leaving her waiting in a few occasions like meeting her parents and buying engagement rings.

When finally he intends to make it right by hiding a ring in one of the pages of his new book for the girl to discover, she doesn’t turn up.

The girl thinks she has waited for him all this while so he won’t be angry if she doesn’t show up for once. She disappears with the bicycle.

One day he receives a big package. He opens it and it is the bicycle that he gave the girl fourteen years ago...

The package is from Finland, thus begins his journey in searching for the girl...

Lucyriver will not tell you the ending in order not to spoil your mood and chance in reading a perfect story.

Lucyriver like the ending though it is an ordinary ending. There was a prick in the heart when Lucyriver came to the final pages. Lucyriver can really visualize the scene in the last page.

The themes in this books are love, waiting, commitment and food (oh, yes, you got it right, food). There are only a few characters so it won’t give you headache to remember who is who and who is who. The scenes are brief, arrows aimed straight to the target.

Lucyriver digest the book in just half a day. Lucyriver has never read 张小娴 ‘s books before though Lucyriver always come by her books.

monkey jogathan day

The kingdom of the flower fruit mountain organizes a jogathan this morning. Many monkeys are participating. It is divided into ten men and women categories with a category which has no participant at all. The shortest distance covers 4km while the longest is 10km.

The prizes are trophy, medal and a hamper for the place of number one, two and three for all categories while runners in places number four till ten receive medal and hamper. Now, what do we have in the hampers - bottle of soft drinks, packets of biscuits, milo, peanuts as well as maggi mee.

When it comes to the lucky draw, Lucyriver totally had no luck. So there goes the mouth-watering hampers to their lucky owners one by one as the lucky numbers are announced. 1247, oh my 1247 where are you, my ‘lucky number’!! Guess Lucyriver is just not lucky!!

As for the outcomes, the kingdom of the flower fruit mountain raises close to twenty thousands bananas with the efforts of all the monkeys and the monkey trainers. Hopefully, the bananas will be made into good dishes.