Sunday was over and the weekend has already brought me enuf good things to write about.
I was just being lazy.
Never mind that. Instead, I just had a quiet yet interesting weekend.
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Thanks to LORD I was able to reconnect with the two people that I’ve been missing dearly, my sister and a good mate.
Time difference, distance, personal stuff and life in general, had forced me and them to enter a really weird zone. But the Internet is one of the greatest human inventions, alright. Along with iPod, dark chocolate, cheesecake and some other stuff.
I hadn’t spoken to my sister for weeks. We sent texts and emails but I really missed our crazy telephone conversations that we used to have at least once a week. She just moved to a new place where she didn’t have a landline number and for some reason, the phone cards that I regularly used to ring her didn’t work whenever I tried calling her mobile number. I didn’t even get a connecting tone but the attempt took the minutes off my card nonetheless. What a rip off. Anyway, my sister had pestered me to install Skype and we finally found the time to go online together on Friday night. I got online. I’ve missed her so so much.
One topic lead to another, we discussed about love and soulmate. Personally, I think soulmate is pretty overrated and the concept is too impossibly perfect (or perfectly impossible) to comprehend or make it real without driving people suicidal. My sister and I both agreed that we didn’t want anything complicated, so we couldn’t help but wonder why on earth things tend to get complicated when it comes to relationship? An ancient rhetorical question, I know, but through cheeky comments that we threw at each other, my sister and I succeeded in making a list of some vital points of what we were looking for in soulmate. I added some points later on after we ended our Skype session. Bear in mind that the list was created while my sister was high on spicy chilly korean noodles and course assignments and I, well, was high on nicotine and work pressure.
So here goes nothing.
1. Mentally healthy.
No paranoid, over-possessive, narcissistic, repressive, abusive, momma’s boy, psychotic, lethargic, lacking of intelligence men. Please.
2. Compatibility.
+ So yeah. I like A, G, K, X. What do you like?
- I like, A, G, F, M, X.
+ Cool. Let’s go out.
It means… similar interests are important, differences are interesting and challenging. Too many of either of them are freaky, IMO.
3. Knows who he/She wants.
Hey, before we proceed, I just wanna make sure that you don’t have a secret crush on my best friend, my sister, or my cousin. To put it simple, a crush on any other girl. Those top three categories above will only make you unforgiven for eternity. So if you do have a crush on another girl, make up your fuckin mind or just get outta my life!
4. Go all the way, or not.
I just found my true calling. I’m going to
Alaska
to study the Eskimos. What do you think about long distance relationship? We can come up with some conditions if necessary. Be honest, no less.
5. Doesn’t mind a girlfriend who smokes or drinks but is not extremely apathetic about it either.
Every now and then we need someone to remind us of our bad habits and try to talk us in ditching them.
6. Trust.
One of the basic, if not the most important. If a man still needs us to explain about this, he’s hopeless.
7. We hate animals.
The list could go on but we weren’t too arsed about it coz we knew, if we ever found a guy with such qualities and no complications, we wouldn’t made a stupid list like that on the first place.
It was fun though. Wasn’t it, Sis?
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I was a bit low on Saturday night. At
8ish
, I took a walk around the neighborhood. It was cold because of the rain, but I needed the fresh air and I found it rather fun to kick the water around and wet my shoes and the bottom of my jeans.
My phone rang as soon as I got back home. A friend who lived in a different continent called, saying that he couldn’t sleep although the sun was already risingin his part of the globe. I immediately mentioned about Skype when I realized that he was calling from his mobile instead of phone cards that he usually had. He rang off. I logged on and voila! I saw him in his bedroom, sitting on a tatami, grinning stupidly. I spotted his guitar and asked him to play.
+ I’ll play if you’ll sing.
- No.
+ Oh come on. Or play your keyboard, if you finally had bought one! Though I doubt it.
- Hahaha. Shut up. No, I haven’t bought a keyboard yet. I wish I have.
+ So… sing.
- Fine. What shall I sing?
+ Any songs by the only band that can give you comfort at any time.
- I didn’t know you can play The Chemical Brothers’s songs with a guitar.
+ Try again, wise ass.
- Alrite, alrite. Dave Matthews Band.
+ Good. Which song?
- You choose.
+ Very well. Let me give you three options. Where Are You Going. The Space Between. Say Goodbye.
- Say Goodbye.
So he played and I sang. Soon enuf, DMB was followed by some Mr Big, Incubus, TOTO, Lenny Kravitz and Aerosmith. We experienced some delay with Skype so the timing of his guitar playing and my singing went rather crazy and we ended up laughing our arse off.
I was absent-mindedly watching and listening to my friend playing Kasou by L’arc En Ciel (I didn’t know all the lyric and my Japanese sucked) when he suddenly spoke.
+ Why Say Goodbye?
- Huh?
+ Why did you choose to sing Say Goodbye?
- Because it was one of my all-time favourite songs by DMB.
+ Why?
- I love the lyric.
+ Why?
- Because I believe, that at some point in anyone’s history of relationship, there was a time when he or she wished to spend the night together as lovers with someone who in reality he couldn’t have. Or, he didn’t really want to have.
+ Talking from experience?
- Shut up.
+ "Tonight, let’s be lovers."
- "Tomorrow, we’ll go back to being friends."
+ Yeah, let’s!
- *LOL*
+ I think it’s time for me to catch some sleep.
- Yeah, I know. Thanks for everything.
+ Hey, anytime. Try not to think too much, will ya?
- Hehehe. Shut up.
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Sunday isn’t yet over but I’m ready to go back to reality now.
Sometimes, it only takes you to make a stop and a simple apprehension of what (and who) you really need to make life more bearable and enjoyable.
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