FUNNYACCENT: The Joy of Sharing

Sunday was warm and brilliant. It was a combination of the ingredients of late summer and early fall. I noticed a lot of trees along the boardwalk when I ran this morning still have full green leaves. But this tree doesn't play around.

She is like, "This is fall people, time to move on, are you guys coming?

Hundreds of seagulls on the beach and they hardly moved when I ran past them.

A few of them made a half hearted effort to fly away, flipped their wings a couple of times, but then another bird made a noise as saying, "Pay her no mind, she's harmless.'' And they continued to do their business.I guess they have seen me all summer, they know I've just passing their beach.

Before I left the house, I called Ginny to let her know I was ready to leave. We planned to meet at parking lot at Castle Island at 8.00 am.

I met Ginny Wan Zaid and her husband Wan Zaid at Saerah Glick's Hari Raya Open House. When we introduced ourselves, I said she looked familiar. She said, yeah, I think I've met you before. It turned out both of us were at Mr.Wan Hashim's Hari Raya Open House in 2004. Ginny speaks fluent Malay language. She and husband lived in Malaysia for sixteen years.

When she learned Castle Island was my regular running spot, we set the time and date. When I completed my first lap around Castle Island, I headed to a parking lot. A few minutes later I saw Ginny got out of her car. I walked up to her and she said, "Orang tua ni (This old man) is coming with us," lifted her thumb pointed toward her husband, Wand Zaid.

We powerwalked and chatted for about an hour. When they left about an hour later, I ran back to Carson Beach where I spotted hundreds of seagulls in the water. They made so much noise I wondered if they saw a jaw or some sea creatures in the water.