Talk#412

On this special weekend, this lighter was fortunate enough to spend 36 marathon hours with the Lighters in the Bay area and from afar. There were two banquets ( b-day and wedding), one church event, one special breakfast, one " siu Lone Pao" lunch, one night of " dirty dancing" ( better kept the names of the partners anonymous), one tennis game with A Chai, Walter and Peter, and one sleep-in with Tony.

This was the first time this lighter played tennis with A Chai. He has his special tennis wheelchair in bright yellow color and NO BRAKES. Wow !!! He can go fast and he can serve deep just sitting down. He has a good forehand and a reasonable backhand. He can make a 360?turn in a few seconds, since he needs to go forward to hit short
balls and quickly returns back to the base line in preparation for the next shot.

I learned a lot from him. The way he plays makes me realize that anything is possible.

I played against A Chai and Peter, not because I am a better player but because Peter's weakest shots were still too fast for Chai and me to return. On a "one on one" basis, it would be tough for me to give an even game to Peter. On the other hand, there are ways to soften up pace and cut off angles, and I am not telling at this moment, ha, ha.!!!

I spent one night with Walter Mok in Palo Alto ( Mrs. Mok is a tea drinker of a higher order) and one night in San Francisco in Tony Kowk's bedroom. We pulled his mattress down on the floor and he slept on the box spring. We used to that a lot back in the 60s in Berkeley. That night we talked and we talked with the lights out... haven't done that sort of thing for a long time.

We were falling asleep and all of a sudden one of us sat up and said in a melancholic way " yet gore but lau sun, mon liu tar yet ein...( looking about in a casual way, and I saw her...) ". Well, dear lighters, the rest was left unsaid ( yet chi chun choi but ying chung...).

Dear lighters, undoubtedly you know that the moon always stood still on top of Blueberry Hill.....