A Voice From The Past
drt on Jul 04 2008 at 1:31 am | Filed under: Hokkaido, Human Interest, video
When I first posted Kitaguni Video Parade, I don’t know how many of my old friends from those days would get back to me. It has been 6 months since that post and I already got in touch with two of these friends. First, of course it was Liliana from Costa Rica that has lived in Algiers since twenty some years ago. Then, together with Liliana, we got in touch with Sandra in Vancouver. This evening, I got an alert for new comment from WP. It turned out that it was another voice from the past, who was posting a comment to that old post because someone saw his name on that page. Yes, he was my friend, Henry.
Thirty years ago, both Henry and I were graduate students at Hokkaido University in Sapporo, Japan. Henry was a dentist from Philippine and I was a young physicist from Indonesia. We lived at Kita-juni-jo Ryugakusei Kaikan, which was the dormitory for International students at that time. When my family joined me later in September that year, I then moved out from the dorm, busy with my study and my family, and it seems like we all then proceeded with our own journey until those kitaguni videos connected us tonight. I don’t know how many more friends from the past would show up next on this site.
Henry proposed to have a reunion in Hokkaido. It’s not a bad idea. However, I told Henry that currently my friends are organizing a reunion at my old hometown for all the members of the mailing list that I manage. All these members are scattered around the globe. Too bad I could not join them this time. However, since it takes 6 months to get in touch with Henry via this blog, I’m not so sure when would the next one show up. That’s why I would keep this idea floating around here, and see how many more people from old Kita juni-jo Kaikan will show up and would like to join for the reunion.
A reunion in Sapporo either during the Snow Festival or the summer would definitely be fun. But of course it would not be next year so we can get more people to join. My wife and I have also talked about visiting Hokkaido for quite some time and 2, 3 years down the road should be good timing for us.
Finally, for the shake of the old days, I’ve just added the video link below. I hope you all the oldies from the Kaikan at least would still remember Wada Akiko-san, before joining me to sing the last part of the song:
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Yo ake no uta you,
atashi no kokoro ni,
omo-i dasha se ru,
hok ka-i do no sora.
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