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When Meng was finishing up his PhD, I just started at UBC. A few years ago, he came back to visit during the holiday season and summarized his rich post-UBC life into an hour story telling. We were excited and sighed together.

I was transferring my Dreamweaver homepage to the LTK Guide when Meng knocked on my door. I looked back and shouted out his name right away. We both were suprised to see much happier each other, and 晒了晒各自的幸福生活。The article I read over the weekend came to mind about Zhang Ling and her attacker. Zhang said the most important is not others, but always your own mind. Dr. Meng’s wife, Mengying, a sweet and beautiful girl from Taiwan came with him this time. I am really happy for both of them.

Besides the pretty Christmas cards, Meng’s visit reminds me those who spent years here at UBC. I hope to see them this season or in the summer time when the campus is peacefully quiet, and when I have time to look back and rethink what really matters. I miss those old friends who left UBC and act globally now: Mindy, Heather, Liu Shu, Xuemei, Li Hua, Henry, Tim Sedo, Lao Dai and Liaoyin in Oxford. Wish them all happy!

Walked along the Marine down to the beach, so bright and warm. The scent of cedar trees and the lawn are in the air; bold eagles are peacefully sitting on treetops…reminding me about the walks in the summer time. Only the new snow on top of the opposite mountains can tell the season. We are lucky wrapping up the year with this kind of weather.

I was stopped by an user and late for the Diversity Caucus, but saw this news coming in. Min has been chosen by the (ALA) Emerging Leaders program through a competitive process for the 2011 program. CALA will provide her with financial support for expenses towards attendance at both of the ALA conferences, up to $1000 total.

Min sent her best regards to all friends here in Vancouver!

What a bright and colorful Saturday morning. Driving along Marine to Point Grey is such an enjoyable experience. Only a few early bird photographers are busy in our garden. Students are not up or out yet and the entire campus is peaceful and quiet.

A few deadlines today and need to follow up on the previous weeks’ delegations. There have been many of them from China this term. The OCLC Library Directors Delegation came to UBC directly from the airport. They started working while suffering from the jetlag. They are young and actively discussed about the differences they haver observed when I led them to Asian. They apologized for keeping me late at work. Ms. Huang, from OCLC Beijing office suddenly realized that we met 4 years ago in Wuhan U., when I was teaching the workshop there. She said no wonder the campus and the buildings look familiar, she saw them already years ago on my ppt slides and she’s excited seeing them in person. When we two chatted in front of Asia Centre, it’s getting late and dark, we both feel a bit dreamy and wonder how small the world is becoming…

Just ran into Ross who introduced Prof. Siyuan Liu and asked me to take care of this newcomer. He turned out not with Asian Studies, but Theatre and Film and he is originally from Tianjin. Prof. Liu came to Asian Library and we both enjoyed the chat. Wish I knew his coming sooner, so I could be better prepared. Now with the move, year-end acquisition and bunch of other demands…still, I am happy to have this new prof. teaching Asian Theatre at UBC.

He emailed me the visual resource requests for CJK, Indic and Indonesian right after our first meeting. While I pass them on to my colleagues, I feel a new collection development age for Asian Library has come.