Youku is a very cool website where you can’t miss almost what you want, and don’t have to wait longer than that on Tudou or some other video websites before it works smoothly. So it’s not exaggerated to call it YouTube in China. I had a great time reviewing and reminiscing to the happy old days.

I gotta be out of mind spending hours looking for the old operas shot in the early 1990s that was once on Pearl-river channel, as well as their theme songs. All my memory about TV amusement was cartoon at the dusk and soap opera in the evening because TV programs were not available before sunset.

Cantonese tend to watch TV shows in Cantonese, produced in GD or HK, and the corny dramas once on “soap opera” from 9 pm to 10 pm was the highlight of the day, most of them featuring Martial Art, sometimes love stories showing us a spectacular HK. On the list were 天蚕变，鹿鼎记，情满珠江（canton-produced）…. The others from Taiwan were 包青天，新白娘子传奇（legend of the white snake, and a lot more beyond I can list.

Do those names ring a bell to you?

The next day of mother's day, how many families were tore to pieces. No longer is saying that "Mom I love you" for some people, everything about the family is the history, even he survive from the disaster, he could never survive from the grief of losing his beloved family overnight. It's a tragedy, of the victims, of Sichuan, of china...we are experiencing the worst time in the decades!!

Can't bear to see pictures of tears, blood, dusty faces... can't believe the increasing death toll, can't hold back my tears on reading so many touching stories of the rescue troop, volunteers, and help from all walks of life. Premier Wen vowed," we will never give up as long as there is a thread of hope". His tearstained eyes, cracked voice, were always there bringing hope to the victims.

A lesson was learned out of a hard way, for which we paid too high a cost.

However rich or poor you are, however you look, when it's the fate of human being you just can't escape. No one knows when and where the demon of death comes back again. That left us pondering the meaning of life, how lucky we are that we still can breathe, can see sunrise for every new day, can decide which song you like best and put it into your mp3, decide what we eat for lunch... every little small thing never come easy, for someone out there it's a luxury, you believe it or not.

A long or short life we will live doesn’t matter, what matters is the meaning we give it.