Sunday, January 24, 2010

Childhood neighbor

In many ways, Facebook has been a wonderful thing (tool, invention, app...?) to me. Through it I reconnected with tons of people whom I would never have been able to stay in touch with unless I bumped into them on the street.

Recently, I reconnected with my childhood neighbor on FB and she sent me this photo.



This is the view from the building I grew up in back when I was a kid in Hong Kong. We had moved since 1987 (?) and the place is now worth over $24.5 million HK dollars, which means it would be extremely unlikely for me to see this view again. But this childhood neighbor/friend of mine just moved back to the building and took this picture and shared it with me! It's almost like a wish answered! Even though the view has changed with those tall buildings standing between the Victoria Harbor and the flat, it's nonetheless the same view some 20 plus years back!

I feel very happy!!!