After a nice Japanese meal in the heart of Chinatown (ironic), my family and I decided to take advantage of the warm evening and stroll down the main mall amidst the steamed dumplings and the BBQ duck corpses hanging in the shop windows. To our surprise we found a cheap pastry shop which sold us little balls of heaven called “emperor’s puffs” (donut type pastry filled with what was most probably warm custard) as well as a bag of fortune cookies.
I don’t know how many I ate, but the fortunes I kept were the following
1) “You are the centre of every group’s attention” – well we were there partly as a farewell dinner to me, so 1 point to you sir.
2) “We can live without religion, but we cannot survive without human affection” – this is some great advice seeing as I kinda feel like I might be moving to a city which values the former over the latter, that is until your wedding night. But sometimes prayer books feel cold and hugs seem inviting. This could be devil talk but there, I said it..
The third was pretty cool though:
“You’ll never plough a field by turning it over in your mind”, moving past the giggle I had at the initial innuendos which popped into my mind after reading “plough a field” I felt it really resonate and despite the fear that the guy who I saw sneeze in the kitchen at the restaurant may have been preparing my food I felt quite at peace with the move. It’s time to do, not just think about maybe possibly in the near future give some thought to perhaps start talking to someone about potentially starting a dialogue about Aliyah.
