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Wednesday, December 6th

Dinner with my godmother...

Last night and for the first time in a long time I finally caught up with my godmother and had dinner at her house. I always get to have healthy, home-cooked meals at her place. Yummy! My godmother stays as busy as I do and has as many friends and extracurricular activities, but we don't usually go this long without seeing each other. Her father, whom I call Yeh-Yeh, just got back from a trip to the U.S. and joined us. Nice guy. I told her what I've been working on and about ORIENTED and this web site. She thinks it's totally cool!

My godmother has been my godmother since I was 10-years-old I think, and I stayed with her every time I was back in Taiwan during summer vacations (met Corrina through her). She opened up her house to me as if it was my own and didn't care one iota if I stayed out all night long. How very unusual eh? She's my mom in Taiwan as far as she and I are both concerned. She's also an artist, and has promised to give me the painting you see in this photo as my wedding gift, cough cough... It's one of my favorite pieces of her collection.

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Today in sum...

Holy smokes! It's been busy and interesting at the same time. First I got bombarded this morning with a series of emails that left me shocked, amused, and sad all at once. The first was from a dear friend of mine who, out of nowhere, was making a point to clarify that our relationship was purely platonic and that I was making assumptions that "may adversely effect things in our lives that I don't think should be compromised." WHAT is he talking about? That email sounded so unlike him, particularly since he was planning to visit next week.

Minutes later I received an email from a woman whom I do not know, claiming to be his wife and mother of his daughter, addressed to me and CC'd to him. Then, before I had a chance to react to either message, I got ANOTHER email from my friend who took the first email he wrote and added that "we should move immediately towards a more platonic understanding as you seem to... make some assumptions... that may adversely effect and/or compromise my relationship with my wife Yvonne and adopted daughter Alexandra." I'm like your WHO?

BUSTED! He went on to say that, "they are my family and they come first in my life", which made me think, HUH? We've talked almost every day for the past 1.5 years and he never mentioned them before. Did someone named Yvonne put a GUN to his head or is he just making this up. And what about *LISA* whom he said he dated last year?! Whoa. Eventually I figured out that both emails were meant for his "wife", not me, and that to cover up for any inappropriate intentions on his part... he put the blame on me.

I thought about writing back to the both of them to let them know that I've known all along (a little bird in L.A. and a little bird in San Fran told me earlier this year, and they aren't from the same flock), that I have no intentions of dating married men, and that that was the real reason why I canceled our August rendezvous back in the States. In the end, however, I decided against it. I had hoped he would eventually tell me, as I gave him the benefit of the doubt and figured it must have been one huge MESS that he's gotten himself in, but I didn't expect that he would do it in this way, compromising my good name to save his own.

How very pathetic of them both. I am sad for my friend and do not envy his current disposition. Deep down inside I do believe that he is a good person, and I do care for him a lot. Or, did. But I am equally disappointed in him for all the lies he has told and for all the pain he has caused. To his wife, his daughter, and to me, as someone who was supposed to be a close friend. My eyebrow muscles ache from all the contortions I made at my computer screen this morning. It was almost comical, and at certain intervals, I couldn't help but laugh.

It's amazing how I can be in Taiwan, he in Europe, and his family in Irvine, and without doing a thing, innocently minding my own business, I discover the untold truth, confessed by the players themselves. So many people know who he is, and a lot of those same people know who I am too. Did he honestly think that I would never find out? Where does one draw the line? I think if I were younger, I would have reacted on a more emotional level, but on this day, I decided instead to do absolutely nothing. I need to think about this one.

We'll see what happens...

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