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Thursday, September 25, 2003 Poor people's luxury life In the weekend, we went to Redondo Beach. Sitting on cozy armchair against the ocean and sunset, we sipped hot and fragrant Chinese tea. In our stylish sunglasses and light jazz music, Bin worked on his new sleek notebook and I flipped through "City in Civilization". Later we started to call friends far away from our new Sprint cellphones, and telling them we were enjoying sunshine on beach at this moment. One friend just gave birth to her first baby days ago and was struggling with breast-feeding and the other told us how cold and stormy Buffalo had become. And they both were so green with envy on what I'm enjoing, " what a luxury life you have!" they sighed. Ok, here is the story behind the scene - how the luxury moment was built up? first, to avoid paying $7 of parking fee by the beach, we drove our car around the area for half an hour and finally found a small residence street with free parking. Now we had to carry all our stuff and walked a while to the beach. Following is the equipment needed to build right atmosphere hot tea on thermos (to keep us warm), bottle water (for healthy) and soda (for fun), so not to pay over-priced drinks on beach; medium-size radio (with powerful speaker) to play easy jazz channel; two portable canvas arm chair (must have cup holder!); big bag for notebook computer, Papers for reference, 1169-page "City in civilization", electronic dictionary; a large and thick blanket to lay out on beach to place stuff on, so things would not touch sand; two heavy coats to keep us warm (it is late September, and it is not always pleasant breeze on the beach!) So before the spotlight was on and we entered the romantic scenes, you will see two persons (Bin and me), carrying load of things looked like bedrolls, bottles, shabby bags and old coats, staggered towards the beach. Well, you could not but shaking your heads: oh, poor God, not another two homeless people! posted by lmeimei @11:25 AM| permanent link| | |
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