The Space In Between

You know the times, when you wake up in the morning and stare blankly into the ceiling, and wonder, "What should I do today?" That's basically my life. Real fun. Life's like a neverending cycle of contradictions. Waiting in earnest for exams to be over, only to dread the boredom of having nothing to do in the holidays. Perhaps its just me, but I bet i'm not the only one. I have to admit that there are things to do, people to meet, games to play, movies to watch, books to read. But always, something missing. Even in the company of friends, the lingering feeling is always there, like a phantom stalking me, ready to pounce at me the moment the fun and laughter stops. That's the emptiness I feel, which seems to paint my surroundings grey and dull, bleak and inanimate. Emptiness, the place in between, a place where no one else can enter, that time just seems to stand still......

Thursday, January 06, 2005

A little outing....

hmmm.... lemme see how my day was.....

Today my day was spent trying to help pearl with her bidding stuff.... she got lots of problems with trying to get her mods.... never knew that people had so much trouble with cors bidding till I helped her.... Perhaps its cause she got lots of requirements.... 3 day week, preferably no exam or tutorials.... and must be very unpopular so that she can get it for a low bid point.... hmmm... apparently, such a combination doesn't exist.... I wonder why....

Anyway, after deliberating for more than 2 hours, surfing the cors webbie until it kicked me out, I sure cause someone at NUS got pissed at me hogging the bandwidth there, we accomplished nothing whatsoever... haha.... didn't even bid for a module.... so much for constructive use of time... 2 hours ++ but 0 results....

After it all, I jioed her to watch movie, but 1 hour wasn't enough for her to get ready and get to the mrt station.... hmmm..... for me it just takes me 20min inclusive of walking time... I guess that's the diff between guys and gals...

So in the end, we just went to drink kopi... I had to, considering I got rather pissed while waiting for her.... supposed to be 5:30 meet at mrt, then she smsed to tell she'll be late -- 5:45, then at 5:45, she smsed again, saying she'll be even later.... wow.... So I just sat there at the mrt station, watching train after train go by, knowing that after meeting me she has to rush off to go attend her friend's wedding dinner... I guess that watching the trains pressed in the fact that i'll have less and less time with her, and that caused me to feel very sian.... That she could be so late showed where I was in her heart, and that didn't help much... The thing that really really pissed me off though was the fact that I called her and told her to meet me at the front train of the MRT, and call me when she reach my station.... I was thinking... how hard could it be to know which is the front train?

So I just sat there, feeling more and more sian and pissed, and then a train arrived, and when its doors were closing, I received a message.... "I'm there liao".... that just did it for me (the main reason why I was so angry too).... I was thinking.... WTH, I just told her to call me when she reach the station, and she couldn't even be bothered to call, just sms to save money... There is a freaking reason why I asked her to call instead of sms.... Now the freaking train has just closed the doors, and she's inside.... wtf.... I was thinking.... screw her, just go home liao.... So I called her to 'gan' her... at that point I could be bothered whether or not I liked her at all.... I was so pissed at her.... The first thing she said on the phone was that she saw me liao..... so that means she got of the train.... that's one less thing to be pissed about.... So I just sat down and waited for her to come... (It took me a while to realise that it is quite hard for her to know where the front it... cause she took the train from TBP, which is an underground station. Furthermore, the train was so crowded that she couldn't have moved to the front while in the train)

This time, even her cheery nature didn't help much to placate my pissy mood.... Only time could do it, and a cup of kopi in a nice place.... so went to drink kopi at delifrance... ah.... relaxation.... finally.... and the pissy mood disappeared... So while sipping my cappo, I passed her the present... (I'm quite amazed I still did that.... after all I've been through, but this is the reason why I'm meeting her in the first place)... Hard as she tried to guess, she couldn't guess what was inside.... haha... obviously.... how would she know I draw? impossible.... so she was stunned when she saw it.... =) though she did complain that her lips and nose were not accurate (they are, from the pic), she liked it i'm sure.... And that was when I knew that her 1st bf actually drew her b4.... *pengz* if i knew that i wouldn't have drawn her liao.... anyway.... showed her my other drawings too.... haha... including the richard gere one... though i still think it looks like harrison ford.... i'm the only one who things that way apparently....

Next was the card... she liked the card itself... of course she would, since I already know she likes stuff with lots of wording.... more than those with just picture... And she was once again surprised at the poem I had inside.... though I should have written it in chinese... She doesn't understand the english poem The Search (blind)... And she asked me to explain it to her.... *pengz* how could I possibly explain it to her? It was meant as a hint.... goodness.... so I just told her that everyone had their own interpretation of poems, and that's the good part about poetry... Explained to her the meaning of those more 'difficult' words though....

Anyway, she had to go off after that le... so back home I went too...

But there's one thing I still can't do... and that is to look solely at her when I'm with her.... don't feel too comfortable with that yet... cause I don't ever do that.... not with friends or anyone... wonder if that has an effect on her.... Looking elsewhere when I'm not at that point talking to her.... I muz make it a point not to do this anymore.... bad habit....

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