還記得之前本報記者曾經報導過暑假吃Brunch的事嗎?
我的辦公室友Lauren 在第六回合的早午餐之後也做了一番報導
http://laurenkooistra.blogspot.com/2009/08/brunchin-it-up-for-summer.html
她除了記錄了我們幾次聚餐的緣起和內容
還將這兩年來我們三個人一起讀博士班的煎熬過程及深厚的友誼做了一番解讀
讀來興味盎然並差點潸然淚下
下面這張漏網之魚的照片雖然沒有Lauren
但是由她幫我們兩個人拍的
地點是在她溫馨的小公寓裡
食物也全是她準備的
轉貼一下她寫的東西
照片因為大都有秀過了這邊就不擺了
還有最後是我的感性留言:
Meet my girls, Yu-Chen and Yi-Ting. We have been on this doctoral journey together for what is going on our third year. I can personally testify that I would not still be here if it were not for these strong and courageous women. We have aged. We have laughed. We have cried (quite a bit actually...). We have raged in anger (ok, it is usually I raging in anger) and we have listened patiently (ok, it is usually them listening patiently). Our conversation has ranged from men in our lives (good and bad) to the workings of God in our lives (understood and not understood) to the point of this doctorate in our lives (the jury's still out on that one), and that is just a blink of what it is we find to talk about. Basically, we are living life together, and our lives (or mine at least) are better for it.
This summer Yi-Ting initiated a weekly brunch, and we took turns hosting. Let me tell you, we are talented in areas beyond music and teaching: we know how to eat. (Actually, it may be more appropriate to say that we know how to cook, because, man, we were cookin' and eatin' well over these past few months...)
Some are of our brunches were not captured on film (but imagine waffles heaped with pecans, sausage, bacon, scrambled eggs), and some were lost when Yu-Chen's camera was lost (the ones capturing Yu-Chen's various variations on French Toast--you had no idea french toast could be so sinfully delicious.) Every week we outdid the last.
Yi-Ting at one point decided we needed to have an authentic Asian brunch, so she made
some Asian dishes that I do not know the name of. One looked like an eggroll (and can be seen in the picture at the beginning--I'm holding it because she gave us the freedom to make our own, and I couldn't put mine down or it would fall apart. :-/), and the other was this bowl of sausage goodness.
These pecan sticky buns went with the hash and eggs pictured above at my first hosting, and today we finished off our summer at my house with cheddar cheese omelettes, bacon, and country bread. Included also was a delightful fruit salad, since our tradition has become that every week the visiting (non-hosting) members of the trio brought some kind of fruit. We are so health-conscious.
We were hoping that the three of us would be sharing an office this year, which would have been very beneficial toward our mental and emotional health, but sadly Yu-Chen will be only next door to Yi-Ting and I. I don't know if we will have the time to continue our brunching, or if we will even see poor Yu-Chen (Yi-Ting is stuck with me, so she has no choice poor thing...) once the semester gets under way but I am grateful for a good summer of good friends and good eating.
I think I'm going to go forage for some food now--I'm hungry! ;-)
我的辦公室友Lauren 在第六回合的早午餐之後也做了一番報導
http://laurenkooistra.blogspot.com/2009/08/brunchin-it-up-for-summer.html
她除了記錄了我們幾次聚餐的緣起和內容
還將這兩年來我們三個人一起讀博士班的煎熬過程及深厚的友誼做了一番解讀
讀來興味盎然並差點潸然淚下
下面這張漏網之魚的照片雖然沒有Lauren
但是由她幫我們兩個人拍的
地點是在她溫馨的小公寓裡
食物也全是她準備的
轉貼一下她寫的東西
照片因為大都有秀過了這邊就不擺了
還有最後是我的感性留言:
Meet my girls, Yu-Chen and Yi-Ting. We have been on this doctoral journey together for what is going on our third year. I can personally testify that I would not still be here if it were not for these strong and courageous women. We have aged. We have laughed. We have cried (quite a bit actually...). We have raged in anger (ok, it is usually I raging in anger) and we have listened patiently (ok, it is usually them listening patiently). Our conversation has ranged from men in our lives (good and bad) to the workings of God in our lives (understood and not understood) to the point of this doctorate in our lives (the jury's still out on that one), and that is just a blink of what it is we find to talk about. Basically, we are living life together, and our lives (or mine at least) are better for it.
This summer Yi-Ting initiated a weekly brunch, and we took turns hosting. Let me tell you, we are talented in areas beyond music and teaching: we know how to eat. (Actually, it may be more appropriate to say that we know how to cook, because, man, we were cookin' and eatin' well over these past few months...)
Some are of our brunches were not captured on film (but imagine waffles heaped with pecans, sausage, bacon, scrambled eggs), and some were lost when Yu-Chen's camera was lost (the ones capturing Yu-Chen's various variations on French Toast--you had no idea french toast could be so sinfully delicious.) Every week we outdid the last.
Yi-Ting at one point decided we needed to have an authentic Asian brunch, so she made
some Asian dishes that I do not know the name of. One looked like an eggroll (and can be seen in the picture at the beginning--I'm holding it because she gave us the freedom to make our own, and I couldn't put mine down or it would fall apart. :-/), and the other was this bowl of sausage goodness.
These pecan sticky buns went with the hash and eggs pictured above at my first hosting, and today we finished off our summer at my house with cheddar cheese omelettes, bacon, and country bread. Included also was a delightful fruit salad, since our tradition has become that every week the visiting (non-hosting) members of the trio brought some kind of fruit. We are so health-conscious.
We were hoping that the three of us would be sharing an office this year, which would have been very beneficial toward our mental and emotional health, but sadly Yu-Chen will be only next door to Yi-Ting and I. I don't know if we will have the time to continue our brunching, or if we will even see poor Yu-Chen (Yi-Ting is stuck with me, so she has no choice poor thing...) once the semester gets under way but I am grateful for a good summer of good friends and good eating.
I think I'm going to go forage for some food now--I'm hungry! ;-)
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Dear~
I have not read your blog articles for a while since you moved to here, now I subscribe it so won't have to worry about missing any of your articles in the future.
I was reading your blog with tears.. Remember that I said you won't have to worry about not getting a job once you get graduated? You have plenty of choices besides a music professor, such as a cake baker, a truck driver...; and now, I am sure you can be a great reporter or a columnist!
You weaved all these great things and memories together in such a concise and warm way.(and funny ;))
It's been two years that we "deal with" each other in our small office, but we make our friendship hugely growing. I am honored that you said your life here becomes better becuase of us. Actually you are the one let me know that I cannot quit the program abruptly. The phone you made during last summer before I flew back TW brought me tons of strength. "Of course you have to come back!" You cannot imagine how touched when I heard you said so; your words was like a clear direction for me!
I am going to cite this artice in my blog. (I actually also wrote one but it's in Chinese)I wish we keep the friendship forever. And of course, got to find more chances to EAT, and talk. :) I am thinking we should do a biweekly or monthly Saturday night potluck after the semester starts. How do you think?