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At the back of the new year's greeting card airmailed, her address was put down in small letters. Although I asked her to "tell me your address" just before her end-of-the-term examination, it was not accepted (might be so hasty then). Her decision of this time must be so much daring one for her.
Though it was able to have some guess of place names written in Simplified, since I didn't know how to pronounce them and especially there was a character of 2 strokes I had never seen, I thought it should be prevented at any rate that the postal matter, which I sent with all my heart, would return back even after 1 month, and decided to check the address on the Net. I sought around over and over with a help of something like annuals of government and municipal offices, but couldn't fix the residential district after all.
In the mail dated 30th, I wrote of the issue as "today I had been close by your house but couldn't find you." At past 9 o'clock of the first night of the year, a reply returned from Yan saying "I cannot believe my eyes!". It seemed that she almost was convinced that I really had been in her city. At the end of the mail, she put "if really you've been in the city now, we can meet and very like to guide you. but I don't want it near where I live now."
My pressing subject was to release the genealogy composing software alpha version but finally passed the old year. (Since the summer holiday, our development had stopped completely. As we had done to rebuild the system on a large scale and other things for the term, it came to a status where even applications which had worked before couldn't be compiled. All of the enormous sample data inputted with so much time, had disappeared. The principal cause of those was that we were out of funds to increase hard disk.)
At last the program passed through compiler and began to work as it had been. There was an input panel for personal data at the center of the screen and an empty personal name box was displayed on the family-tree window behind it. First, I entered my name in the full name field. I was at a loss what to do next for a moment, but the next moment I found out the answer. I exposed the tab for inputting marriage data and filled the spouse field with the name of Yan in Chinese characters. Though it was a matter of course, it seemed mysterious for me that I could input her name with Japanese kana-kanji conversion.
There appeared the name of the two on the family-tree window and a knot was at the center of the line connecting the two. I looked at it and chuckled seeing "not so bad!".
On the day, we married ... on the screen. (M.N. 6/1/2000)
| i promised you that i would show you my plan | |||
| how's your day? i'm going to go cycling. | |||
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| don't be so mad! | |||
| how's your new year's day? | |||
