Coffee and Movie

It had been one month since I came home. Next Monday the journey will begin. I understand it is depressed to leave a comfort zone. Previously it was in Raleigh, now it is in my hometown. One the other hand, I totally acknowledge without taking risk, how does one get the premium? Hometown, I don’t really know what it is; I’m just familiar with my home and its neighborhoods where includes a coffee shop, a bookstore, a bakery, a grocery stores, and a McDonald’s in which I visit every week. On this weekend, I’d like to stretch the neighborhoods farther. I'd like to go to  Costco, to see an English movie and have lunch in a Japanese Restaurant. Maybe I can regain a part of my memories left in Raleigh.

Coffee shops sprung out in my hometown. There are a least four shops near my home. I often went to a specific one hidden in a complex, or grape an inexpensive ice coffee in a McDonald’s. If the coffee cost much, I’d like to stay in the shop and use its internet connection. I wanted to send instant message via Skype to my friends in the US but they were all offline or sleeping. The latest new friend I knew from the internet is Doris. Maybe she got my Skype account from the Facebook. Facebook is really something good for leaking users’ information. Very similar to other Leo girls I’ve known, she is ambitious and wanted to study in the medical school, but as I’ve also known she is among those lionesses and lions underestimating their limits. Anyway, I admire her goal and hope my intuition is wrong.

 

Saturday, August 10^th

It is still a puzzle why I always want to see a hot movie before I depart? Last time I paid full price to the theater was 6 years ago when I was about to go to the US. The movie was Transformer. During the following years, I only went to see a movie in Blue Ridge once. The ticket price was as much as a small cup of Coke. I remember I was with Seam and his Chinese girlfriend. The movie was Drag Me to Hell, good enough for the cheap price.

 

Tonight, the movie I see is The Conjuring. It is interesting the cinema now provide a double combo, i.e. a discounted ticket and a combo meal. As I understand what it is, I’ve paid 14 dollars for it. “Only one?” the clerk wants to confirm it. Indeed you hardly see anyone see a movie alone on a Saturday night. The food is not satisfactory. The pork hot dog tastes strange, the popcorn is too sweet and the ice coffee is mediocre. Thankfully the movie is worth watching. The Conjuring, looks like another version of The Exorcist. The protagonists have to drive away the devil possessing the victim. Some dialogues in the movie are religious. When I listened to them, it occurred to me that I haven’t gone to church and read the Bible for more than one month.

Saturday is the most wonderful day.