December 26, 2005, 11:41pm

Went shopping for the after-Christmas sales. Got a leather jacket for only $59.99. Well, I wanted to get one when I was in London but things were simply too big or too expensive. So, today I finally got one that fits.

Hey, Lillian, you know, I keep thinking about you after I got the leather jacket. You really moved me when you gave me the little globe. I don't know why I'm always fascinated seeing those big and small globes since when I was very small. But I never have one until you gave me this little one that I brought here.

It was very expensive to buy a globe when I was small. All these years I continued to feel the awe whenever I saw a globe. It's a thing to see in shops and I didn't think about buying one even though it became affordable.

I'm still reading the book about resilient adults. One very important characteristics of the resilient is having at least one parent or an adult (relatives, teachers or a neighbor) whom the children can look up onto. I didn't have any such adult figures. I have friends most of the time. With friends, I own the world.