I finally had the courage to go back to my old neighborhood
It felt like I had never lived there.
The trees were taller
the house looked smaller
All the flowers were dead.
I saw my son play on the swing but when I blinked my eyes, he was gone.
I heard my baby giggle, I heard guitar playing a melancholic melody. The girls singing jingle bells and the rhythmic thump of the basket ball.
Echos of the past.
Behind the house, my heart almost stopped beating. There was my frangipani tree. Huge, in full bloom. More beautiful than I had ever seen it.
I turn back to my car with tears in my eyes and a sore heart for days long gone.
- writen by lillian, november 22. 2005
( fiction… but will be fact one day if I live to be old)
his name is “M”, he’s a singer doesn’t have his own band.
now can u pls help me with something???
My name is Pook. I’m a student from Assumption University (ABAC). Right now I’m doing a project for international management class, it’s about the management across the culture, and I have to interview one expatriate manager who living in Thailand. However I have to submit some information to my professor of at least two managers in order for her to select one for me to arrange the interview. So if you can give me time for an interview, may you please kindly answer the questions below so that I can submit them to my professor. (If you are a housewife, may you please ask your husband to do this? if he free, though)
1. What company are you working for?
2. What is your job and the position you hold in the company?
3. What is your nationality?
4. If you married, is your spouse Thai? (If you don’t want to answer this question that’s fine)
5. How long have you been in Thailand?
6. Beside your home country and Thailand, have you been living any other country else? If yes, how many years for each country?
7. How many subordinate do you have under your control?
Thank You Very Much
Pook P.
Wow, das Gedicht ist aber sehr rührend! Irgendwie auch sehr traurig….
Hi Pook
could you give me your email so I can answer your questions? thanx
Your post made me think. I wonder whether my mom feels this way today. All of her kids are away at different places.
I’ve felt like that in the past when I’ve gone back to visit places I used to live in many years ago. I always find it emotional. Last time this happened was going back to Brazil to the street I used to live in. I left Brazil when I was 13 and the first time going back I was 26. It really upset me and everyone around must’ve thought I was some crazy lady. I think it’s like a major dose of nostalgia when you put yourself in that kind of situation and it reminds you of a part of life that is now so alien to your new life. Just some of the drawbacks of moving around your whole life
I wish I had written that. Congratulation! Mum