Dedicated to the memory of Mr Shields …

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The first time I saw him, he asked me to help to print several pages of notes. The general office computer could not print his file. So I used my computer in the Staff Room 4 to print the pages. (I do not remember clearly. Maybe it was that my computer could not print it. We went to the general office to print it.)

He said he had been Hong Kong, teaching English for over a decade. I wanted to know which of the staff rooms would be his office. But I did not know how to say it in English,

“Where do you sit?”

He replied, “What do you mean?”

— Me@2009.12.23

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* Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

–- Einstein

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2009.12.23 Wednesday