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Something to remember
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Something to remember I suddenly realized that something significant had happened to me and for the love of mankind, I would never allow the memory of it to disappear after a meth binge. It’s about a girl, a girl who has got me tossing and turning in my bed for the past couple of days. I’m just gonna go straight to the part where I meet her for the first time. It was 4.30pm on the last day of the year, the last day of the decade. On a busy road in KL, the main thoroughfare of the city, named after the country’s second prime minister. Right in front of Istana Budaya, as I was walking with the traffic, I heard that honking which sounded like music to my ears. It was her. As she drove up to me and stopped, I took a few steps to her car and opened the door. There she was, looking at me with those spellbinding eyes. She was wearing a black tudung which framed her magnificent face so well; a black top and grey leggings. There I was, sitting on the passenger side trying my best to look cool, as if meeting her meant nothing to me. But it wasn’t so. It meant everything. Ever since I saw her profile on facebook, I was captivated. But as with all beautiful women like her, I knew best to play it safe. She was with someone, and God forbid if I ever became a stalker on facebook, so I played it cool. A few well intentioned comments on her photos and what do you know, she responded! A quick scan of her photos reveals that she already has her share of admirers and stalkers. I felt sorry for her then boyfriend. She must have been a handful. Fast forward a few months, she broke it off with her beau. I still thought it was best to play it cool. Let all her stalkers and admirers have their way then I’ll slowly slide through. The next thing I knew, we started chatting, and sure enough she mostly went on about her break up. I was being a gentleman and offered her a shoulder to lean on with my advice and cheering her up with my not so funny sense of humor. Still, never in my mind I thought I would have a chance with her. We had small talk in her car on our way to Pavillion in Bukit Bintang. I couldn’t take my eyes off her and felt blessed to be sitting in the passenger seat that enabled me to do so. As we were talking, she almost drove into traffic at the Jalan Imbi-Jalan Bukit Bintang intersection. It was a moment when I saw her quirky side. She was a klutz after all. After we parked, we went straight to the cinema. I thought, “she wants to get this over with because she probably had plans with some other guy” but I didn’t care. As we were queuing to buy the tickets, we had some more small talk. I felt what I haven’t felt like in a long time. I was out on a date with a beautiful girl, the last time I did that was a long time ago I couldn’t remember. We wanted to watch Avatar, well, she wasn’t up to it but I was going to surprise her that it was a pretty good movie after all. As we got to the end of the line, I thought this was going to be the most perfect movie date I am ever going to be on. “Damn!” as I reached for my back pocket, I realized I had left my wallet inside my sling bag which was in her car. That has got to be the most embarrassing moment of my life. As I composed myself, we requested the tickets and guess what? Avatar has sold out! We finally bought tickets to Alvin and The Chipmunks, which was NOT what I had in mind. Screw you, fate! After we got the tickets, it was time to move on to our next agenda. Our stomachs, especially mine, needed attention. I hadn’t anything to eat the whole day except a couple of steamed buns (pau kaya) in the morning. Before we settled on a place to eat, I made us descend four floors down to the parking lot to get my wallet. Silly old forgetful me. Prior to that we had settled on Dome’s because I heard the fish and chips were nice and I was craving for it. I don’t know why, but being back in KL after a while makes me hungry for fish and chips. She had fish as well, but with rice and a sort of chocolate sundae to drink. We had an insightful conversation over dinner, I took every bite as composed as I could so that the whole dinner would last that much longer. I finally began to open up to her. All this while, she was the one who had been revealing herself to me. By then, I had already knew her quite well from our conversations on the phone. -to be continued |
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