Thursday, April 02, 2009
had my last tuition session for the wk, headed off to a wake where i felt like i was some celebrity cos my gran was pulling us towards EVERYONE we didnt know and telling them we were her grandkids and EVERYONE was oohing and ahhing and it was quite funny actually cos i felt like some specimen being looked three times over. then when someone declared i was prettier than my mom, cos i tink tat wouldnt have been v nice if my mom were there.
so i paid my respects to a grreatgranduncle i barely knew, cept that i was observing his face and i wished the guy from departures could do his rites for him. i wonder why his face turned black. he stopped being able to eat a wk before he died (naturally fr old age) and i wonder wat was going thru his mind that wk, esp since he prob knew death was imminent?
on the way home, i turned my head to look for oncoming traffic and caught my breath cos the moon was perfectly framed in between a lampost and silhouette of a tree and it looked so perfect i was still for the moment.
today i feel abit aimless. i dont know what to start from.
but i know u'll say to do wat i can, and i guess i will.
oh and the rest is up to my 'external genius' =0)))
so i paid my respects to a grreatgranduncle i barely knew, cept that i was observing his face and i wished the guy from departures could do his rites for him. i wonder why his face turned black. he stopped being able to eat a wk before he died (naturally fr old age) and i wonder wat was going thru his mind that wk, esp since he prob knew death was imminent?
on the way home, i turned my head to look for oncoming traffic and caught my breath cos the moon was perfectly framed in between a lampost and silhouette of a tree and it looked so perfect i was still for the moment.
today i feel abit aimless. i dont know what to start from.
but i know u'll say to do wat i can, and i guess i will.
oh and the rest is up to my 'external genius' =0)))
"every creature on earth has approximately two billion heartbeats to spend in a lifetime. you can spend them slowly, like a tortoise, and live to be two hundred years old, or spend them fast, like a hummingbird, and live to be two years old."
- brian doyle, from the best american essays (2005)
thinking out loud at 11:01 AM
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