Vann Chow

“Between the new, happy him, and the old, depressing him, there stood in the way only his lack of imagination.”

“Guess I am going to take a man-nap. Wake me up when there is food.”

“And now that I have been scammed once, I felt like it could not happen to me again.”

“A lot of people travel because they are unhappy, but travelling does not necessary makes one happier. Sometimes it exacerbates the unhappiness, the loneliness.”

“The face of self-pity was universally understood.”

“Good Samaritan is only good when they think no one else will be the Good Samaritan.”

“Conventional wisdom nor scientific, mathematical prove of randomness in life could do nothing to deter human's curiosity for the unknown, however small the chance of a positive outcome maybe.”

“She doesn't need your money. Even a penniless fool like you can make her fall in love with you. That's just miracle.”

“Having a date with someone other than your ex-wife after being a married man for more than twenty five years was an important occasion alright, but wearing a tie she bought with such strong emotional value attached to it was a form of cowardice, a subconscious reluctance to let go.”

“It was lonely to be so perfect in all respects.”

“Understandably she had a lot of suitors, just like any other girls in China with two arms and legs.”

“You just cannot have the same thing twice without being disappointed.”

“Life is not only consisted of "yes" and "no", but a lot of "yes and's" and "no but's".”

“Minding his own business had been his motto living in a strange foreign country with a world-recognized social issue of failing morals.”

“The only difference between having an affair here and having an affair there was that the American men would always ended up losing half of his estates over a woman he was infatuated just as much as the next tramp who would come his way, while Japanese men would only earn more respect from their subordinates through the possession of much younger women, as a sign of prowess and affluence, while their wives at home, as if there were rule books distributed nationally on the “proper” marriage etiquette for all young Japanese women to read before they enter into the matrimony, would turn a blind eye on their disloyalty quietly.”

“I am a loser in my own plot, but I might be the hero in someone else's plot.”

“People who believed in God today will doubt him tomorrow and those who doubted him today will believe in him tomorrow because believing in someone else doesn't work. Believe in yourself.”

“I barely took a moment to appreciate nature. Come to think of it, theonly time I did it was when I was so upset I wanted to commit suicide in theHuang Pu river.”

“Are there moments when our brains are not exercising?” I questioned. “That would be almost like being brain dead...”

“Happiness in a family really revolves around how much money I have in my disposal.”