Four Betrayals Under Heaven

 After watching a relatively old Wushu film recently, I have come to realize something about the Chinese language.

Whatever dialect you end up with, whether it is the main Mandarin or Hong Kong Cantonese, Guangdong Cantonese, Hokkien, Hakka, Fujian, Teochew and the list goes on and on... there are some commonalities.

Such as the propensity for four-word terms.

Whether it is a name for some thing or a title or an action or plan, the Chinese have what we call chen2 yu3 to refer to calling it. (If that makes any sense. ;)

One may call them cliches, or day-to-day phrases, or whatever, but regardless, the Chinese seem to always have some four-worded name for it.

So I have come to call what I just been through, Four Betrayals Under Heaven.

I may neither confirm nor deny I am Chinese but what is undeniable is that the Chinese, all humans really, have a propensity to dramatize.

That's my take on the matter. This note takes extreme prosaic license with the Chinese and the Chinese language(s), AND is not meant to be taken seriously nor offensively, so take it or leave it! LOL

Tadaima~~~

This is a part two of sorts for the previous post.

"I'm back."
"Welcome back..."

If you are not Japanese but watch enough Japanese shows, blessed enough to visit Japan, you may eventually end up hearing "okaeri" (おかえり), often spoken when one returns to one's home. 

Ghosts aside, it is customary for someone inside the house besides the one returning, to greet their return by uttering "tadaima" (ただいま). 

This is poignant for this stage of my life. I am finally back full circle to my stage of development 17 years ago. It has been a vicious journey, an incredible cycle of betrayal and hope, despair and joy, ever in pursuit of ...

But once again I got ahead of myself. 

Will you welcome me? O-kae-ri-nasai? Or will that vicious cycle begin again?

Here I kanpai to the past that brought me here, the future as yet unwritten or unrevealed, and the peace that surrounds the present.

Gouchijou-sama-desu. Arigato-gozaru-yo...