Phases of the Moon 2

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Last Tuesday I had my honor to welcome Janus visiting Singapore. Janus and I met for the first time in year 2007. One normal Monday, when I was in NUS training, Janus, Rune, and Anna came to join NUS judo club. Anna stayed in NUS for only one semester while Janus and Rune stayed for a whole academic years.

When I first heard that they are from Denmark, I was a bit surprise. There are not many danish people in Singapore. The image of Denmark in my mind was fuzzy. We got along very well, especially both Rune and me are fans of the fantasy tasty durian. Then before they left Singapore, I received the exchange offer from Technical University of Denmark where Janus and Rune are from. As a result, I went to Denmark and stayed one more semester with them.

Rune is a nice guy. He invited me, Mingru, and Songjie to his house for dinner. His father treated us traditional danish food with danish Christmas beer. Our favorite was the desert. It was a big cake with apple jam and cream.

Beside have delicious food in Denmark, I also had some in Holland. At that time, Janus was serving his industrial attachment in Shell Amsterdam. He was provide a flat with two bedrooms. I went there and stayed in his place for five days. One night, after touring around the famous red light district in Amsterdam, we had dinner in an Australian restaurant. They served as pork ribs and hamburgers. The pork ribs I ordered was really tasty. Beside that we had some black beers. So we ate, drunk, and watched football game in this small restaurant with rock music. It was a great night. (The red light district is a great spot to tour around and wave hand saying hello to people.)

I felt sad when I just came back from Copenhagen to Singapore. I missed my friends there. When I meet Ms Song Jie and Ms Mingru, I often mentioned the big cake, big ribs, Christmas beer, and black beer. They said I am a guy who is good at eating and drinking. Even if I go to restaurant now, I won't have the same feeling. Maybe it was because touring around red light district before the dinner gave me a good appetite.

To my surprise, Janus' company sent him to work in Singapore for two weeks. After haven't seen each other for more than one year, we met again. This time Songjie, Mingru, and I had a lunch in this Japanese restaurant "Sakura" with him. We all felt so glad except that Sakura doesn't serve beer.

Life is like this, people come and go. Saying goodbye is painful But its opposite side meeting again is joyful. This time I remember another ancient Chinese poem:

海内存知己，天涯若比邻。

A bosom friend afar brings a distant land near.