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“Oh, no … don’t,” she corrects him: “it’s pain that changes our lives”.

The last rhyme of the song “Iris” is still floating in the air when I finish this book by Steve Martin. Some words from the book still stay afloat in my head. When the love triangle happens, the question of choosing and be chosen will be arise. Of course, at least one of the parties will not be so happy of the outcome.

Steve Martin, acclaimed actor and writer, told us the story of three people, who spin around each other by some unspeakable words, or the words that should be spoken but not. The central of this story is a girl, Mirabelle, whose life is so unfounded. With some brief flashback, the writer told us how she was betrayed by her own father, and how she became a “shopgirl” at a glove counter, “selling things that nobody buys anymore…”. Undoubtedly, that is how she looks at herself, especially when the story is moving toward the ending. The second party, Ray Porter, is a rich man who tries to seek a good love, with a lots of definition and restriction. The final party, Jeremy, tells us that, before you can find a true love, you have to accept yourself truthfully.

By describing itself as “a novella”, the book tells the story of the three parties with “realistic and satiric in tone“[1]. Steve martin doesn’t hesitate to contribute a couple pages to detail a daily life of Mirabelle, and uses only one short paragraph to describe the relationship between Marabelle and Ray in a six months period, and how the relationship was getting worse. The pace of the book is, I guess, control by the emotion of the characters, not by any absolution time frame, so sometime, the book goes very slow, so we can absorb the sadness, loneliness, or depressed of a character. On the other hand, the book can go very fast when nothing is important enough to be written down there. The author may allow the readers to use their mind to illustrate the live of each character by themselves.

To conclude, shopgirl is well written and very tasteful. Also, the story is told wisely, and the author doesn’t look down the reader by telling every detail excessively. I was very delighted while reading the book. Finally, I agree that it is not happiness but “pain that changes our lives”.

[1] http://faylicity.com/book/book1/shop.html

ปีนป่ายกำแพงกั้นมนุษย์หนุ่มสาว: ตุล อพาร์ตเมนต์คุณป้า

from onopen

Fairy tales are more than true –
not because they tell us dragons exist,
but because they tell us dragons can be beaten.

G. K. Chesterto
from wikipedia://Fairy_tale

You may wonder why I give the title like this, but you know, Winnie-the-pooh has a sad ending, kind of. If you read both of the Pooh books, Winnie-the-Pooh and The House At Pooh Corner, you’d know the ending of the second book, I copy part of it here,

Then, suddenly again, Christopher Robin, who was still looking at the world, with his chin in his hands, called out, “Pooh!”
“Yes?” said Pooh.
“When I’m — when — Pooh!”
“Yes, Christopher Robin?”
“I’m not going to do Nothing any more.”
“Never again?”
“Well, not much. They won’t let you.”
Pooh waited for him to go on, but he was silent again.
“Yes, Christopher Robin?” said Pooh helpfully.
“Pooh, when I’m — you know — when I’m not doing Nothing, will you be here sometimes?
“Just me?”
“Yes, Pooh.”
“Will you be here too?”
“Yes, Pooh, I will be, really. I promise I will be, Pooh.”
“That’s good,” said Pooh.
“Pooh, promise you won’t forget about me, ever. Not even when I’m a hundred.”
Pooh thought for a little.
“How old shall I be then?”
“Ninety-nine.”
Pooh nodded.
“I promise,” he said.
Still with his eyes on the world Christopher Robin put out a hand and felt for Pooh’s paw. “Pooh,” said Christopher Robin earnesstly, “if I — if I’m not quite —” he stopped and tried again — “Pooh, whatever happens, you will understand, won’t you?”

You may wonder why this is sad. When Christopher Robin said “doing Nothing” (capital N), it has a special meaning, it means the time when Christopher Robin just hang around with Pooh and friends in the Hundred Acre Wood. So, from the ending, Christopher Robin told Pooh that he cannot “doing Nothing” anymore, maybe because he is growing up or he has to go to school, it means that he cannot come and spend time with Pooh and friends as frequent as before. For me, it’s a kind of good bye message, like the story of Puff the Magic Dragon or Jessie, the Yodeling Cowgirl in Toy Story II. When children grow up, their toys, their memory are left behind. That’s sad, isn’t it?

Anyway, it can be interpreted as a promise between friend and friend, that’s whatever happen, they will still be friend and will understand each other, that’s what friend are for, right?

มีคนบอกว่าในบล๊อคนี้ ผมเหมือนตาแก่ขี้บ่น มองโลกในแง่ร้าย หดหู่ไปวัน ๆ

กลับไปอ่าน ก็ท่าทางจะจริง

เอาไว้จะพยายามจะบ่นให้น้อยลงนะครับ 😉

Come away with me
And I will write you a song ….

ท่าทางไอบุ๊คจะไปไม่ไหวแล้ว หลังจากที่ฮาร์ดดิสค์ในเครื่องเสีย ก็เลยเอาไอพอดมาต่อ แล้วใช้เป็นฮาร์ดดิสค์แทนมาหลายอาทิตย์ ตอนนี้ฮาร์ดดิสค์ในเครื่องเริ่มโวยวายเสียงดังจนทนไม่ไหว สงสัยต้องเอาไปซ่อมสักที ไม่รู้ว่ากี่วันจะเสร็จ -_- เวลาไม่มี เครื่องใช้นี่มันลำบากจริง ๆ จะ save งานหรือว่าทำอะไร ก็ทำได้ไม่สนิทใจ เพราะขี้เีกียจย้ายไปมา

ว่าจะไม่บ่นแล้วเชียว

Come away with me
And I’ll never stop loving you ….

ตอนบ่าย ๆ เบื่อ ๆ ก็เลยเปิดทีวีขึ้นมาดู กำลังฉายเรื่อง Space Cowboy จำได้ว่าดูแล้วชอบ ก็เลยนั่งดูซะเลย จริง ๆ กะจะรอดูตอนจบ เพราะชอบตอนจบมาก ไม่ใช่ตอนที่ตาคลิ้นท์พยายามจะเอายานลงจอด แต่เป็นตอนที่ค่อย ๆ ฉายไปที่ดวงจันทร์ แล้วเพลง Fly me to the moon ค่อย ๆ ดังขึ้นมา ดูทีไรแล้วน้ำตาซึมทุกที

สงสัียจะยังอยากไปดวงจันทร์อยู่แน่เลย…

Fly me to the moon
Let me sing among those stars
Let me see what spring is like
On jupiter and mars

In other words, hold my hand
In other words, baby kiss me

Fill my heart with song
Let me sing for ever more
You are all I long for
All I worship and adore

In other words, please be true
In other words, I love you

I’m an old world programmer. I mean that I still use Vim and Makefile to do my work. So, IDE is out of question, the last IDE I prefer to use is…. Turbo C. What’s wrong with IDE ? I think that by using IDE, we’ve been distracted from the content of the program, to the presentation, organization, or something else. For me, writing a program is like praying, you don’t need to wear an expensive cloths or be in a big church. What you need to do is bending your knee down and starting praying. Likewise, to writing program, what you’ve to do is sitting down, hover your hand over a keyboard, and start typing. Moreover, writing program is more like communication with computer, and myself, deeply. It’s like I discuss with the computer what should we do to solve problems in program, not order him. In the same time, I talk with myself what is the condition of my soul at that time. It’s more like a praying that we investigate our mind and clean it up when we found that we found some unacceptable dirtiness.

Sometime, I cried when I wrote a program, not because of unsolvable bug but because I found the similarity of my life within the program that I’m writing. Isn’t our life has a BEGIN and an END ? Isn’t it full of condition and loop ? Isn’t it full of bug and glitch ?

I’m not writing program to order computer, I’m sharing my life with my old friend.

My iBook has problem with startup, I think that the harddisk is defected. The worse is, the file system was corrupted, so I lost everything. Anyway, I’ve backup for my data,

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Three rules of computer usage for students
1) backup
2) backup
3) backup
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Anyway, I’ve to reinstall OS X and everything, and you know what, it corrupted again T_T . So I’ve to reinstaill everything again. I’d bring her to Apple Center but I don’t have time and I have to use her, I mean, I can’t leave her at Apple Center for a couple days because I’ve a couple papers to be finished.

Anyway, sorry for going so far, my point is, after installing OS X for two consecutive times, I started to be lazy to install every software I need. At the end, you know, I install only two pieces of software!!! guess what are they, adium x and microsoft office. For the rest of software requirement, I use OS X pre-installed software.

This comes to my thought, what we need for living, I mean, fundamentally. Beside house, food, medicine, and cloths. What else do we need ? Computer ? certainly not. Book ? may be, may be not.

I think that we’ve to separate between what we need and what we want. Generally, I think that we’ll have only a short list of what we need, but very long list of what we want. So, why don’t we try to switch to live with what we need, not what we want. Life may be easier.

Anyway, what is the need in our life ?

love ?

what is the need in your life?