rediscovering eden
You’re in my arms
And all the world is calm
The music playing on for only two
So close together
And when I’m with you
So close to feeling alive
A life goes by
Romantic dreams will stop
So I bid mine goodbye and never knew
So close was waiting, waiting here with you
And now forever I know
All that I wanted to hold you
So close
So close to reaching that famous happy end
Almost believing this was not pretend
And now you’re beside me and look how far we’ve come
So far we are so close
How could I face the faceless days
If I should lose you now?
We’re so close
To reaching that famous happy end
And almost believing this was not pretend
Let’s go on dreaming for we know we are
So close
So close
And still so far
dailies
Sunday, April 13, 2008
-8:12 PM
; starting at forever and ending at neveri saw a lizard lying along the road today. it wasnt one of those teeny tiny house lizards. i dont know what it was. maybe a chameleon. although i doubt it since it was greenish. or some related species. but it was relatively long anyway.
it was lying innocuously along the side of the road. and i didnt notice it until some guy walked past and kept staring at it till he was like 10m away or so. and throughout the 20 minutes that i was waiting for my parents to come and pick me up, i was counting the number of cars that went by and the number of people who noticed it.
at first i wasnt sure whether it had already died. and i wanted to poke it with a stick to check. but i didnt want to because i was of the belief that germs can crawl up twigs within two seconds and infect me with some unknown disease that i will die of on the spot. (providing the twig doesnt already have 2394827394234 germs to speak of.) and secondly
if the innocuous looking... thing were to be still alive, it would
leap up and possibly eat me alive. so no thanks. i was thinking of poking it with my shoe. but i was in heels. so. nono. and i wasnt about to squat down like some kid along the pavement and look it in the eyes.
i might possibly have screamed and run away.
so at first i suspected that it was a hit-and-run accident. car comes - flattens lizard - lizard dies. but i watched the cars. none had a direct hit (which would also have conveniently confirmed my suspicion that it was dead) although several (5/6) had a few near misses. by near i mean running over the tiny tip of its tail. possibly. since the tail was so long already. oh and some guy almost stepped on it without noticing it there. but again it was a near miss. (and i confess i was sorely disappointed that he hadnt hit the target)
a random guy walked by and pointed it out to his female companion. and she took the effort to stop talking for about... 2 seconds to say "EWWWWWWW" before instantly continuing where she left off. she didnt stop talking even when i was out of hearing range. i could see her hands moving animatedly as she spoke. and her guy companion merely walked on and (pretended to) listen.
yes i do actually wonder how females can talk so much.
behind them was a teenage boy who noticed it and stopped for a moment to stare at it. like me, he seemed to contemplate the possibility of it being alive and seemed to want to step on it just to check it out. but he had nice moderate blue shoes which he probably eventually decided against sacrificing. because he carried along his way. so i was once again sorely disappointed. but i thought the nice shoes were mighty worth it.
an old lady with an umbrella came hobbling by. and i was hoping that she would poke it. but she didnt. and another guy was walking along the side of the road. until he saw the lizard. then he delicately stepped on to the pavement to avoid treading on it.
so after 20 minutes of lizard inactivity and a few near misses but no direct hits. i concluded that it was dead. and when my parents finally arrived at the scene of crime. i was well and truly sick of analyzing its status and cause of death.
so final report:
death. by being fried on the tarmac.(:
and yesterday over dinner i was
brutally attacked constantly hounded by a huge black
ugly dog. he kept coming next to me and i was getting gradually annoyed at why there was a huge black dog roaming around the area. and since i didnt want it sniffing around my bag and possibly peeing on it i had to hug my bag and laptop to me for the entire one and a half hours that my dad refused to budge.
he scared a rather pretty looking indian missus next to me. and a rather (annoying) shrieky little girl two tables down who clambered onto her father's lap to get away from it.
we later discovered that it kept coming around the area coz there was a (male) bulldog about three tables down. i suppose
blackie, my "affectionate" term for the huge black ugly thing. was rather shy about meeting mr. bulldog. coz he kept coming around the area but never going directly next to mr. bulldog.
now i have to protest that im not against dogs falling in love and well. dating. or fornicating. whichever one was on blackie's and mr. bulldog's mind yesterday night. but i do wish they would do it far away from me. like.
farr farrrrrrrrr away. =_=
so anyway. mr. bulldog finally had to go. so his owner tugged him away. and blackie, sensing that her beloved was leaving, ran after him. and then shifted away fearfully when mr. bulldog made a last attempt at making friends with her. so that was it. i supposed it was rather regretful that their "love" story ended that way. but ohwell.
but anyway. blackie proceeded to clean herself under the table where mr. bulldog and owners had previously sat at. its the smell thing i suppose. but he did continue to terrorize other patrons of the small... eatery. i wont call it a restaurant coz its not. but i cant possibly call it a kopitiam either, coz it wasnt a kopitiam. i dont even know if it selled kopi at all.
on a completely different note.
i endured four hours of math tuition today and understood differentiation more than i ever understood in half a term of differentiation lectures.
i realized today that my eyes were bloodshot. it couldnt be from lack of sleep because ive been sleeping 7/8 hours as i always do on weekends. so either my tear glands are rotting away and not effectively moisturizing my eyes... or something. i dont know. or as someone remarked.
"the veins in your eyes look like they're gonna pop out anytime." that's a rather scary thought, i have to admit. so right now i will go mug math and make a shot at 5 hours of sleep tonight. at least.
