🐪 The Aladdin's magic lamp 🐪 阿拉丁神燈 🐪

deanliu (77)in #story • 7 years ago (edited)

I promised to share a little story behind the two Aladdin's lamps three weeks ago at the end of my travel post below:

🚉 [輕旅行系列] 北投，溫泉 🚉 [Travel Around Taiwan] Hot Spring in Beitou

So this is what today's post is about.

Before I tell you this little short story, just in case you don't know who Aladdin is and what is about his magic lamp. Please check this out. I think this man and his whimsical gadget should be globally known. But in a nutshell, if you happen to possess such a magical lamp, rub it and a Genie of the lamp will be summoned to grant you three wishes. Yeah, pretty much any wishes...

Given this background information ready, let's head back to my own lamp story...

Maybe some of you are aware that I had a trip to Europe a couple of months ago as I keep sharing my European trip photos via a little series of mine - the #myeuropaplog. When I planned this trip, I planned it with a Steem component - using Steemit to record my daily trip photos but keep the blogging time as short as possible so not to reduce the quality of the trip. I made an announcement just before the trip started (and later gave away some surprise gifts to many who commented)...

We took the Emirates airline and the aircraft was A380 so we were very thrilled as we had never taken this huge carrier before. The flight starts from Taipei, makes a transfer in Dubai International Airport and then continues to Vienna (yeah, Europe!). We departed at midnight on a Monday so when we arrived at the DXB airport it was early morning already and we had 3 or 4 hours to spend in this airport before the connecting flight to Vienna. [See my DXB photos here]

Of course we walked around and shopped around in this famous modern airport before we found some place to take a rest. I had never been to Dubai, but even just by saying the name of this city you can feel there seems to be some magic in it.. intriguing...

I was pretty crazy about Steem at that time (well, actually was, has been, still is and will be so it seems) and had not yet toggled my mood to a traveler's, so when my wife was browsing through all those fancy international wines and marvelous local sweets, I was checking Steemit posts or some crypto-news beside her.

Then the magical moment arrived. I checked the price of Steem. It went up to more than $0.5 and continued to rise to over $1 in just a few hours (or 1-2 days I cannot recall)!! It was previously around $0.3 and actually I felt very pleased already because it wasn't long ago that Steem had just reached its historical low of $0.07...

So I couldn't believe my eyes because the price pumped like crazy back then when I was in transit. I seemed to message @oflyhigh and asked him what's happening... (please confirm if I did ask you) It was in that moment that I feel Steem is back on track and the story later proves me right until today. You might refer to the Steem price chart below from coinmarketcap.

Well you can imagine that I felt so exuberant when my wife was shopping frantically in an airport thousand miles away from home! I had to distract myself from indulging in the unfounded over-joyfulness. So when I saw the Aladdin's lamp keychains on display (this is a popular theme for souvenirs of Dubai), I knew I need to get one of it to mark this moment.

Oh, there you go. I bought two delicate lamp keychains there and brought them back to Taiwan and took photos of them in Beitou. Aren't they gorgeous like the future of Steem? :)

Sometimes in some special moments of our lives, we need something concrete that you can feel in your hand or whatever makes you feel real to capture this very moment.

I bought these magical lamps to capture my little magical moment with Steem. And I hope they can witness what we are going to have in years to come. At that time, maybe I will auction one of them and keep one for myself... haha... Yeah, that's why I bought two.

End of my little story. I hope you enjoy it!