Joyful Tidings
Ah well, it wasn't a bad Christmas altogether, but it certainly was dead. I had the feeling that I was spending the day in perpetual anticipation. Expecting what, I don't exactly know. But despite the last few years, I stll get this childish expectation whenever Christmas comes around. It's something that's driven by memories from Primary School of playing games long defunct, turkey and ham, flipping through photos and family members lining the walls and the staircase downstairs. Back then, the family was smaller, and everyone was younger, and at Christmastime, it was a given that everyone had to be at our place. But this year, my mom's side of the family wasn't available, and the party ended early at something like six o'clock, if you can say that it took off at all. Heh, and I get the feeling that a lot of my family don't know what to do with us during Christmas. When toys and clothes and books are replaced by red packets, it's not only a sign that you're growing up. It's a sign that your family members don't know you well enough to get you anything.
But it's not a bleak picture at all, don't get me wrong. I'm still glad that I have my immediate family. As year after year passes, I seem to be able to communicate with them all better. Experience gives us more and more common ground, I guess. And all the cards and gifts that have been coming in from unexpected quarters are definitely a pleasant surprise. Thanks, guys, for all the thoughts and wishes over Christmas. The only thing is that I may not be able to reciprocate in kind. I've never had the habit of sending cards, and it's only this year that I made the exception for the Taiwanese. But it does look like fun, to choose the cards, personalise them, lick the stamps and then dump the whole pile into a mailbox =P
Inasmuch as Christmas is a time of remembrance, of realising the value of other people around you, I guess it's been a good one. Of course, Taiwan has been frequently at the forefront of my thoughts, but there've been moments when the remarkableness of the situation I find myself in at home comes to mind. Heh...and looking at Yvonne's pictures from France and Lyon reawakened the old yearning again. At times, it was spooky to see her having taken the exact same locations from the exact same angles as me. It was like my photos, except with different people. Perhaps it's because I'd grown used to thinking of Frexprog as my experience, but then again, with her back now, there is comfort in the fact that she did experience something akin to my time in France, and now, part of it is shared.
It's the season for finding understanding souls. And I'd thought that friends like these are hard to come by. Of course, finding someone who can sympathise completely is still rare, but people sympathise all the time, and I find it a blessing indeed that the lives of so many have intersected myne, or at least have been tangential. And being surrounded by these incidental souls is a nice feeling, and one that I only have you guys to thank for =P
I'll keep the new year's wishes for the New Year.
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A carré de chocolat, that's what they called it. A dark brown square, with a depth of colour that indicates the richness of the sweetmeat. A simple design in lines, straight and intersecting only at right angles, decorates its surface. There is no need to overstate the chocolate...anything more elaborately carved could distract the sampler from the act of ingestion itself. Or would it be more accurate to call the chocolate holder a member of an audience of one? For this chocolate square is more than just taste.
When held properly, the light reflects off the smooth surface of the square, a snapshot of the surroundings appearing in tones of deep sepia. What one held was marble - no, glass, a silver tainted and impregnated with the heady strength of cocoa. Bled of all colour, the reflection in the chocolate was a world focused on the moment, a moment that could only be expressed in shades of brown.
The teeth do not sink into the cool square - the chocolate breaks with brittle softness when pressure is applied. The solidness of the piece melts into a rich cream, at once dull and poignant on the tongue. It is a taste like no other, the taste of dark chocolate. It is the sun in a remote jungle, an exotic earth and magical water condensed and purified. The ruled lines of the square dissolve as the chocolate remembers the heat from whence it came. And when one is done with all the nibbles, one's fingertips are covered with a dark brown blood, all that remains of a visceral sensory experience. And one wonders at this chocolate in its truest form, and why this square should be called Venezuela Bitter.
Kudos to Mel =)
pondered by phoenican @ 27.12.04
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