pirit brings color to my black and white life, I admire and love her; I sometimes feel as though I am the older sister, obligated to give her advice on what’s right and wrong and being required to cover for her when she doesn’t take my advice; which was usually a good part of the time. Though I can talk the world of my je je, she does have her faults, the biggest one being that she is an active member of the underground movement at Bei Da. This is her biggest secret, the one could break our family, and so it is essential for me to keep this one from my Mamma and Baba. She attends all of the democracy rallies; she listens to the crowd's voice and hears the cries of her fellow classmates calling for China’s reformation into a democratic society. The students yearn for a society in which they have a voice, an opinion and better living conditions and additional support from the government for when they are thrust into the cruel hands of the working world, a world that does not reward intelligence with better wages and praise, but spits down upon them as if they are no better than mafia members laundering money stolen from their loved ones. "Mei Ling, chin ai de, why are you sitting here wasting your time?"I looked up from the front steps of the flat into my mother’s tired eyes,"Umm mamma, I’m just thinking""Ai yah, you sound like Jing Yee, just ‘thinking’ about nonsense all the time, where is your je je anyway?""Uhhh, she is probably still at school, her study group meets tonight." Another lie for my je je,"Heh, she studies too much, always at school, never at home." Hissed mamma while she pushed past me into the house. I rose to my feet like a crane carrying cars to be crunched in a junkyard and followed her inside. Welcomed by the overwhelming scent of tiger balm probably wafting into the hallway from the local herb sorcerer, Dr. Wei. I greeted him with the usual greeting."Wan an."He nodded his he...
