Believe it or not, chatting without a specific purpose or topic is quite rare and luxurious for me. Even for Goldies gatherings, they had always been made in the name of reading, outing, special activity or clogging. But this Sunday Pamela and I enjoyed a relaxing chit chat in a totally casual way. 
Making use of the chance of attending Div. C contest, we two stole a couple of hours after the contest to hang out at Mr. Brown Coffee. Though Pamela has joined us for almost four months, we hadn’t really chatted due to the short gatherings we had before she left for China. She went on a business trip for more than a month and just came back from ShangHai. She will soon leave Taipei again. I missed goldies’ extra gathering on Saturday due to my commitment to Div. E for their Speech and Table Topics Contest, so I was glad that I could make up my absence on Saturday knowing that Pamela could come for Div. C’s contest. I was touched and overjoyed when she handed me the purple scarf and books she bought for me. So thoughtful and sweet! Yet, I prepared nothing for her.
We talked a lot, beginning with the Speech and Table Topics Contest, our jobs, our family life to our mutual friends. It seemed that we covered a lot of topics. How wonderful it would have been if time could have just frozen there. The most exciting moment was when Pamela told me she could play Bridge. I was like on cloud nine. I had been trying to look for T/Ms who can play Bridge for a long time. It takes four to play the game, which made my searching extremely challenging. After over ten years try, my dream came true unexpectedly yet overwhelmingly. This new goldie realized my dream. My head wasted no time in picturing the scene we play Bridge together in the near future with two other T/Ms that I already found. Unknowingly time slipped through our fingers, three hours passed. Thinking that her better half Moses must have been waiting for her to come home, and I shouldn’t stay out long, either, we called it a day.
I was thinking on my way home: it must be a boisterous gathering on April 11th for goldies.
Imagine ten goldies wearing the scarves in different colors sit around the table quacking! What an interesting and hilarious sight!
Trini
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Hi Trini,
回覆刪除I missed the chitchat between you and Pamela Sunday afternoon. But, I had a wonderful time joining Hsin-tien Female Drummers Welcome Luncheon Party Sunday noon. And I saw David Chen & Muddy Basin Ramblers, the last show of 2009 Bitan Music Festival, simply awesome! http://www.wretch.cc/blog/q1967tw/5990717
Would you like to see U-Theater's drum performance this coming Sunday afternoon, April 5th, at Bitan, Hsin-tien? http://www.utheatre.org.tw/
See you all there, Sherry
Dear Sherry,
回覆刪除Happy for you that you had an enjoyable afternoon, too. The U-Theater's Drum Performance sounds interesting. What time will it start? I have to see my newphew off first at the airport on Sunday. He went to HuaLien yesterday, and I forgot to ask what flight he is taking. Will let you know when he call me. This young man hasn't called me since he left for Hualien yesterday.
Trini