ey

 

ARTHUR CHAN
DaviID LAM CAMPUS

e lost his purpose in life.
He did not know how to
live in the world.

Actually, he did not want to live in
the world, since she was gone.

When he met her, he thought
the world had given him a perfect
gift. Her appearance, her smile, her
speech, and her thoughts made
him happy. He had no sadness. He
also found that he did not have
enough time, because he wanted to
spend all of his time with her.
That was his most joyful time of
his life. However, when he thought
he was the luckiest man in the
world, a traffic accident took her
away.

His happiness was gone. He did
not want to stay in his home.
Everything had the memory of
her. Everything looked like her
image; her smell and her sound
filled the rooms. Those feelings

made him cry. He had to get rid of

his tears, so he wanted to leave.
Nevertheless, he did not know
where he could go. The world was
so big that he felt lonely. In addi-
tion, he wanted to keep his memo-
ries of her. He just sat in his home
to think about her. Tears became
his partners.

One night, he had a dream after
he got drunk. He saw her holding
an umbrella under the blue rain.
They hugged together tightly. The
feelings of missing and sadness
were explored with his tears. Time
became useless; they only cared
that each other was here. They
were surrounded, comforted by the
blue rain. He knew this was the
only way to meet her.

He started to live in the world
of darkness, which could give him
dreams. He waited for the dream
every day. In his dream, he could
meet her under the blue rain. He
waited and hoped that one day he
could meet her without dreaming.

No one heard from him again.

 

The Douglas

An Old Man With a Yellow Cone

ARTHUR CHAN
DaviID LAM CAMPUS

 

You can see a strange old man in
a shopping mall located in the
centre of the city. You might
wonder why I said he was
strange. Oh! Sorry, I shouldn't
say it like that. I have to respect
old people. However, many other
people said he was strange too,
including the staff and the
customers.

The old man combed his
sparse hair every day. He wore a
complete dark blue suit and held
a yellow ice cream cone, probably
a banana cone. He sat on the
chair outside an exclusive youth
fashion shop.

The staff of the fashion shop
said that one day he had walked
into the shop. “We asked him
what he wanted to buy.”

He said, “I have come for an
interview. What? An interview!
“T want to be the model of a

fashion shop.”

Model! We didn’t know how
to answer him. As he had a seri-
ous attitude while he held a yel-
low ice cream cone, we just left
him alone. Now he sits on the
chair over there every day. He
doesn't disturb our
business. So we don't
pay attention to him.

There was a cus-
tomer who always
went to the mall and
said, “Oh! That old
man—he was so
strange! I heard some-
one asked him why he
always held a yellow

cone. He said something like die f

yellow cone can represent his
purpose of life, something like
that! It seems he is some kind of
artist. Anyway, do you know who
he is?”

The old man sits on his chair
and thinks: “I really want to be
the model of that fashion shop.

   

If people don’t pay attention to
me, I will do something to
attract people—such as holding
a yellow cone, and saying some-
thing, even though I don't know
what I am talking about.
“Someone told me that every-
one should have a career
and work on it, because
_ this is the purpose of life.
I have my career. If I
work on my career, I will
make it. No, I mean I am
going to make it. I know
I can make it, trust me.”
I have an uncle who
has been working in a
mental hospital for many
years. One day, we had a talk. He
said he had a patient before who
liked to hold a yellow cone all

the time.

 

The Hunted

The eggs hatch,
the nest fills,

 

College

Student Society
proudly presents

With weeps, with cheerful and frightful shrills.
The eagle arrives with worms for all,
In hopes to satisfy the chicks with a dead pigeon.

For life itself depends on reproduction,
or shall | call it regeneration?

Student Society will be showing free movies in the DCSS
cafeteria. Complete schedules of the movies being shown
this semester are posted in the DCSS building.

B= Wednesday from I2 noon to 2pm the Douglas College

Justice Denied—The
National Film Board Of
Canada in association
with the CBC

Wednesday November 4
@12noon.
The Ihr 30min video address-

es the legal status, laws etc of
First Nations people in Canada.
It is a searing indictment of
“white man’s justice” as it focuses

Like grass is eaten many a times
yet it reproduces like a cancer that is benign.

on the events of the murder and
the day Donald Marshall walked

out of prison.

So that the caribou can survive
and so that the caribou can hunt the flesh of life.

 

 

 

And when the caribou that eat the grass die
they become the dirt that feeds the grass,
in turn so that the grass can last.

That is so important to me and my wife.

So that our kids can take over once we die,
to hunt more than just a puny little fly.

by Jochen Biertumpel

 

 

 

 

 

 

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