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Dazzling disappointments

The lump in your throat grows morbidly bigger and bigger until, finally, you feel almost asphyxiated.

Once bitten, twice shy? Sure.

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I live for the nights I can’t remember

With the people I’ll never forget.

Love

It’s strange how you could go on living your life before, perfectly contented to go through the most mundane activities without even thinking that you lacked anything.

Then God decides to personally introduce you to someone. Someone so different that his take on life inspires such wanderlust in your blood that you feel your head spinning at the infinite possibilities. A true sui generis. You throw your head back to laugh in his presence. Every meeting spurs a kind of euphoria in your mind, soul and body – so exhilarative and intoxicating, you feel light and tipsy. No longer do you look at life through rose-tinted glasses. But it doesn’t matter. Because you have unfailing faith in him to pick you up and straighten out the disarray when no one cares enough to give you clear eludication.

One day, he is taken away from you.

Suddenly, there is a gaping hole in your being.

It is exquisitely painful, and yet you cannot find a single injury on your body. One emotional pain seems to spark off hundreds of other extreme emotions. Your heart compels you to go over the memories, the ideas, the fantasies. You wonder how you could conceivably have lived your life before his existence because now, you cannot imagine living without him by your side.

Skinned knees- easier to fix than broken hearts

Sometimes you get close to someone.

You trust each other enough to freely tell each other abstruse things you won’t even dream of telling anyone else. You have boisterous fun together. You enjoy each sparkling conversation.

Then one day, something happens.

You grow apart.

Now, when you accidentally meet at unexpected places, the greeting you receive and give is one of uncomfortable, awkward silence. The upbeat conversations you used to have about anything and everything. The effortless ease at which you could simply open up to one another. The private jokes. Incessant teasings. Deafening laughter.

It’s all reduced to one single, breathless, universal yet ambiguous word.

One word that is supposed to aptly sum up and acknowledge that one true friendship you once forged, yet creates a vast distance between then and now. You and him.

“Hi.”

And suddenly, you are strangers again.

I forgot to say out loud, how beautiful you really are to me

I remember seeing you sprawled on the sofa gasping for air like a fish out of water and how it alarmed me so much that I felt extremely nauseous. I gritted my teeth and kept cool. For once, I played the elder sister role. In my head, I just kept thinking of all the different ways I’ve been trying to change and prayed really hard that it wasn’t too late.

Our golden boy is back =)

“Why is Adz smiling like an idiot?”

“AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!”

Aisha stared at me with an alarmed expression on her flawless face.

“Mikhail is here?” Some random child was running towards me.

I couldn’t even vocalize why I was screaming. I grabbed her shoulders and shifted her to the left.

“OH. MY. GOD. RAFIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!”

Both Aisha and I literally sprinted towards him and leapt into his tight embrace that I remember so vividly and I felt tears welling up because I was just so overjoyed.

I have a feeling that this Hari Raya will be sensational.

Mama’s emotional blackmail

So there I was overcome with sheer fatigue from law school and Mama calls me to ask what I was gonna bake for Hari Raya. I grumbled, whined, threw a tantrum, rolled on the floor and…

I gave in.

Sigh.

So much for my baking hiatus. But for what it is worth, almond suji cookies are lushiously ambrosial. Who knew they were so easy to make. Will definitely use this recipe in the future.

My best friends are such freaks…

But I LOVE THEM!!!!!! *grin*