Here I am...on this fine Midwest day, sun is shining..slow breeze in the air.. I'm chilling out at one of the park, having my lunch on a bench and thinking what to write to update this thingy. As I am enjoying my McDonald salad (i know..right?) my eyes were scanning around, people are much happier here..they stroll around the park with their dogs..big, small, cute,ugly...throwing frisbee to the dog and he fetch..dogs went chasing after squirrels..squirrels chasing each other..what a lovely sight..families playing kites and relaxing on the grass, couples reading together.. all these are what I'm missing living in that freakin' sand box. I am missing so much simple life, the real thing..things that aren't for sale..no one can buy these happiness..not with money..The more I observe these things..the more I'm longing to leave...



Last night I spent almost the whole night talking to newly-found friends. Well, one of them I met online..we get to chat a bit and he wish we could meet up..and he introduce me to his best friend. She is truly an amazing woman! Her partner just had a very bad accident with a tree in their backyard. Hit him really hard on the chest and he's now unconscious in the ICU in a local hospital. And she had a few meltdown from that incident. This friend of mine..he is such an angel..always by her side and comforting her day and night to make sure she feels safe and kept her on track. And I got to talk to these people quite a bit, and I'm amazed by their hospitality and their curiousness towards people outside their country. Some questions were quite hilarious, although to others, they might find it offensive, but as much as I am wanted to learn about their mentality, I also wanted to educate them about things outside what they've known. They have been told this and that and assume things what they thought is really happening outside of their world..Well, some things are true and some are not, so it was my job to straightened things up for them and explain first hand...Glad they accepted it without judgment and neither do I.



Few days before I went driving northeast of the state and came across a very interesting way of life. The Amish people. I learnt that the Amish here are the largest population in the world. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amish They refuse to follow the development and still live in a conservative living. Using no electrical nor mechanical in their daily lives. No cars, no motor-operated-machines..just plain and simple. Bicycle and horse buggy to travel everywhere. Using horse to plough their land and wearing a very plain and simple clothing. They preserved their food and vegetables, kept in jars and use them accordingly. The word 'REFUSE' gives me a lot to think about. Why? Why these people still living in a kind-of-medieval era?



Alas..I'm leaving tomorrow from the Midwest USA. Although I cannot really called it midwest coz I only came to one state..nevertheless I learned a lot about this part of the world. This IS what I want, being able to see things that are in the norm of others but interesting to me.

Till then..cheerios!