The Late Honmin

Last night the dream was vivid. A childhood buddy appeared again in my dream. He passed away some seven years ago. He was wearing that red elementary uniform in my dream, I saw him and said, hey I haven't seen you for a long while. Where have you been? He said he had been going back to school to get his certificates since he had sold all his certificates to Liula-that for some bucks. He thought he still could find a job, but he couldn't without a proper proof of educational background.
I told him that I have always admired his skill in programming and his bright and sharp mind for math. I told him to come over to my office and I would ask my boss to hire him, then I hesitated for a while thinking that he would soon pass me in performance and leave me out of job. I really just want to help an old friend, and he had long passed away :(

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The Funeral

I was in a funeral ceremony, a weird one led by Japanese priest, I don't even know who was dead. I just got an invitation addressed to my family, so I just took the time to pay homage. The priest asked me what do I want to offer, since I didn't bring anything, I just offered my shoes. Then we sit down there and let the priest chant over my shoes. After that I decided to leave and I go to my shoes and put it on. An elder hushed me indicating that the shoes has been offered. I said, I have offered it in your prayer, but I didn't say I give my shoes away. How am I going to go back without my shoes. The priest nodded at me in consent and he said, the young people today are all like that.

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The lost stacker

I was sitting in my study with some pcs I brought back from the office for testing. I checked the cabling and connection then I turn on one of them. I saw windows started up and lot ofMSN icons on the desktop with different names on it decorated with Kanji and beautiful symbols. Each name that I clicked would sign me on to different ID on MSN. Didn't know who setup the pc, but it sure looked cool to me. Since the pc was not so fast, I ended up with having several MSN windows with black contact list. This was new to me. I had never seen a black clear screen MSN contact list when they were not signed on. I continued to explore on other program. I clicked on Exchange email client. A small circle came from the middle of the screen and expanded in animation to the size of the screen with a pink logo of new exchange version accompanied with a background sound 'welcome to exchange'. Then I could see an almost square with very rounded interface of each windows and toolbox. Round and chubby, very XPlike. As I hovered the mouse on each tool, a voice came out telling me what each function does. Hmm, a little bothering to me. I hope I could turn that off. The next thing Sayaka came by, and I told her how cool that pc was. She came with scrabble game and we set it up on a table and about to start playing. However I didn't hold the stacker properly and it slips down to the drain. I tried to catch it but the water flowed it away. I ran and followed the stream faster and when I tried to reach the stacker, I missed it again. In the end it flowed out to the river, I really lost hope and stopped trying. I went back and played without a stacker.

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High speed flight

Last night I dreamed that I was in prison for something I don't know what reason. Perhaps I was wanted by CIA for being intercontinental spy. The warden is trying to kill me but he couldn't do it himself, so he gave a fellow prisoner a knife and planned my execution. I smelled the rat when I saw a big guy holding kitchen knife cutting some meat in the kitchen and quickly ran into the toilet, locked on the door to protect myself. Then I ran out to a crowded place so the can't harm me for there were too many witnesses. I came forward and challenged the warden by giving him my neck. He pushed a sword on my neck and I pushed myself forward causing the knife to bend. A group of bystanders applauded to such magic show they haven't seen in real life.

On another ocassion, I saw the warden, nicknamed Tony was giving a speech to the prisoners in grey and blue uniforms. They were tired and irritated by the speech, some of them were floating in the sky stretching and straining their back as if doing some sports and some stood firmly on the ground. I saw some opportunity to fly, and I took another fellow prisoner along. We fly high into the sky at very high speed then I turned and soared steeply into the sky. This fellow said, how come you can fly so fast. Of all the prisoners, they can only float in the sky. I said, "This isn't the first time I took a flight."

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Murder I read

I dreamed I was reading a mistery novel. A white female was parking a car in a cold winter night. She took out her groceries and purse and went to the front door. The dog wasn't barking any more and the wind was freezing. She inserted they key and try to twist open the door, but it doesn't seem to fit, she tried many times and finally open the door, she pulled out the door and went in but she forgot the groceries outside, while she went out again, she dropped her key and the door shut itself back. The door has a blue cold aura on its rim giving and seems to close on her own. She feels really weird, it seems that the door would not let her in. She reached for the the door bell and pushed times and again. She knocked on the door exhaustively, but nobody listened and it didn't opened. At her desperation she decided to call her girlfriend who lives downtown if she could let her stay for the night. She drove down to her place after the call. When she came back the next morning, she had to break in to the house to check what happened inside. The couldn't breath when she saw what happened, her husband body laid on the kitchen floor, both his eyes dropped out on the table, and blood spilled everywhere. Her one year old baby girl was shocked to silence and didn't even cry despite of her crave for the milk.
She tried to pull herself together and call the police. She really doesn't know why on earth her blissful home suddenly turned into such horror.

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The Lottery

I dreamed that Reni send money and a four digit number to Sayaka to buy a lottery while I was not at home. Sayaka did buy the lottery with half of the money and made a fortune without my knowledge.
Andre also ask me to buy some lottery and we made a small fortune, I met him to give his money back. He wanted me to keep half of it. He said he want me to be rich to take care of my family.
I bumped into Theo and saw him riding tricycle, touring around the village, mourning over his fate.

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The talking tree

I dreamed I was a green tree talking to other trees, but no tree wanted to talk to me. So I brushed them away.

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The weird kiss

I was travelling back to Jakarta, my aunt keep asking me when I will return to Taipei. I met this girl introduced by a friend. Her boyfriend is a friend of mine too, and she was gorgeous. Despite that, she told me she had a serious sickness and will not live long and she didn't want to tell her boyfriend about it. When we walked down Gajahmada street that day, they sky was cloudy, and my heart felt black and white. As the wind swept the leaves in the street and blows our white umbrella asunder, she hold me by my scarf and kissed me. I kissed her back naturally. But hence this weird kiss. I don't know her very well.

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Christmas Mass

I dreamed myself at a church or a ceremony combined. I saw Harmoko became president and gave stupid answers to his cabinet questions, but he always seemed to cunningly evade every question. I was supposed to listen to his speech and write something home about it. I was on a training, my mentor was a senior writer hailed from the same village. He knows everyone in the family. He wore a thick and oldfashioned spectacles. I talked to him and have my geared ready too, the mic and recorder. While they were having the speech and ceremony, I feel an urge down there, so I excused myself and went to the toilet. When I came back, I heard a high pitch songs coming out from somewhere and disturb the whole mass. I feel disgruntled, it might be me who forgot to turn off the recorder. I went and checked, and found another small radio player on the ground emitting this cacophony. I picked it up, showed everyone, and turned it off. The mass continue. I saw Mignon on a seatee, I went over to say hi, we haven't seen each other for at least 4 years since she left Jakarta. He was sweet as her name and introduced me to Ally and Ellen. We shook hands and exchanged pleasantries, and we were back to the mass routine.

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