Post 888 from the Book of JOB Being such an auspicious number in Chinese culture, I saved this post for my Birthday cake in hopes that my wish will come true. So please share in a slice of my mind, even if half baked.
Twas two years ago that I approached that Solemn age of Two score & Ten more. It was safe to say that half my candles had been lit and to achieve 50 more would be a rare feat. So instead of blowing gentle into that candle light, I raged raged against the years that had passed and vowed to make my grand gesture. Thus my journey to Asia, a miner at 49er searching for my darling "
Clementine" ie: sometimes known as a "
Christmas orange", as its peak season is December; becoming the most important commercial
Mandarin.
I was wed February 12, 2009 and returned home just before my fiftieth birthday, thinking my grand gesture suffice: an exotic land trekked and an Asian bride my new wife. But into this grand design my life would be turned upside down as akin to Job from the Bible, with his many tribulations, I too would face my own tests of patience as Bureaucracy would mire my life in
red duct tape.
The latest trial in our visa quest has the hiccup of her son's official birth certificate having his father's name appear on it. So the Canadian consulate has claimed that my wife as they state "
This means that by law you were legally or traditionally married to your son's father.......at that time. Please provide details of the marriage and if applicable, the divorce or separation." My wife has stated three times that she had never been married: original application, at the interview, the letter she replied to under oath from December; but now has been asked a fourth time to provide details. Oooh the delays and hurdles we have had to pass could make me curse the day I was born, but instead it will be levity that displaces gravity in this situation.
The Parable of Job and his plight in the Bible has been a grand cover up that for so long people have misunderstood the real tale. I am now here to reveal the true light of the story and Brace yourself men, its hidden truth.
God was actually trying to teach Job that people would stop and help out when neighbours would stumble upon trying times. He kept heaping more misfortune upon poor Job, but was surprised when no neighbours would stop and give assistance. This so confused God that the story was soon altered into its present CONtext. But you see the real reason is that eventhough Job's neighbours so desperately wanted to help Job, they were just to embarrassed to ask him " Excuse me, but do you need a hand ...... Job?"
So let me now close my eyes and make a wish as I huff & I puff & I blow my Candles out.
