Stream of thoughts...

Last Saturday was my grandpa's memorial, he has passed away for almost 10 years now. I forgot about it. I feel a little bit sad that I had forgotten about it and maybe little bit of guilt. I love my grandparents a lot, mostly because I and my sister spent all our childhood with them. In my mind, I still can see my grandpa carried me on his back, running around the house while my sister waited for her turn. I always remember what he taught me when I did something wrong (after punishment of course). My grandpa was tough and severe but at the same so much understanding and loving. I have wondered why a person's existance can be vanished as if he or she had never been existed even though I believe in the life beyond ours.

My grandma is a great woman. She is strong (considering the difficult time she went through when my grandparents lost everything and my grandpa was put into prison) and protective. She used to tell me "it was unfortunate for me that I could not go to school as a girl, but now you girls are lucky to have this chance, please take it seriously". I am very proud of her, she took lessons afterwards at the church near our place to learn how to read and write, then she read the famous book in Vnese literature, "Truyen Kieu" by Nguyen Du. I always find that cool ;-).

I have finished reading two very nice books recently, one calle "A long way gone-Memoirs of a boy soldier" by Ishmael Beah and another one "Remember me"? by my favourite author, Sophie Kinsela. Ishmael is a young writer (he is 28 years) but his way of telling stories is really beautiful and picturesque, it is happy and sad at the same time. In some parts, I thought I was living a part of his memory as if it was mine. I read and hear myself said "hey, that's what I did when I was young, too". Sophie Kinsela was of course the writer of women books, the author of the whole serie "Shopaholic" that recently the first one was made to big the screen. "Remember me?" was especially good because the main character fell in a accident and when she woke up she found out that it was 3 years after :-) but in reality, for other people, she was only in a coma for 5 days, she suffers amnesia ;-), fo course many things changes...etc. It's interesting to wake up one day and realise that you don't remember anything that occured 3 years in the past ;-).

I am looking forward to a friend's visit this weekend. Normally, it was planned last weekend but she couldn't find the flight ticket, so it will be this one. Of course, due to this change, I had to cancel my participation to a kajak trip ;-(, I really hope that we could organise it in Jun again. As the result of all this changing plans, I have become "the one who is difficult when it comes to scheduling" and the crown was passed to me. Damn it! I have to work on passing it to someone else! or maybe passing it back ;-)