joie de vivre

posted : June 27, 2010

Amidst the myriad of emotions today has brought me, the only thing worth leaving a memory about would be sumiko tan is getting married! She shared her love story with Life on friday. Love @ 130km/h. I remember quite some time, could be during the V-day period about hurricane. Her JC sweetheart. She had reconnected back with him after 29 years and hit it off. He was married to a Welsh woman, had a daughter before getting a divorce these years. While sumiko wrote about plenty of things fortnightly for her faithful readers, me included. Singlehood, families, eating alone, school days.

"Don't ever do anything stupid, okay, he said. Come visit me first.

He was open about his feelings for me and was nice. He got a birthday cake sent to my house. He kept me company over Skype on Christmas and New Year's Eve when I was feeling desperately lonely.

He badgered me to visit him. Ya, I said, I will. In 2010. End 2010. Maybe. See how.

In March this year, I was feeling particularly down and in need of a friend. I decided on the spur of the moment to visit him.

Guess what, I told him, I'll see you in two weeks' time, okay? But, please, we're just friends. I merely want a change of scenery.

Sure, he said, we'll have a great time, as friends. I'll show you around, I'll make you happy.

I nearly didn't go because we got into a silly tiff over whether he'd drive me back to Heathrow from Swansea. He'd casually mentioned that should he be really tired, there was a bus I could take to the airport. I flipped at that. Some kind of friend you are, I said. I'm not going.

We didn't talk for two days. Then he gave in. He sent me a bunch of roses and the note read: 'I'll drive you to the end of the world and back. Love, Hurricane.'

There you go, I scolded him, always speaking so extravagantly. But I couldn't help smiling."

Indeed. A love story at 46.I'm really happy for her.

It's heartwarming to see that even a writer create have an impact on her readers. Sometimes, we tend to think that we have to be someday big, famous, high profile to make a difference in someone's life. At times we even think less of certain professions coz it's no big deal after all. What we are missing is that, in any and every way it's possible to be that difference to another. So go choose how you want to be that difference. I'll be awaiting her next post in September as a married woman. Cheers!

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