am i really awake?

i just got a phone call ... from distraction #2.

unlike other calls received from overseas, this call actually displayed the caller's name, compounding the dream-like nature of what just happened.

#2 has just finished an exam, is happy and called ME. wonders will never cease.

maybe i'm still asleep.

i am going back to bed.

zzzzzz.

masih ku rasakan hangat tangan mu

if i was ever in doubt before, i surely can't be that sceptical, especially after today, that life works in mysterious ways.

and that if you want something so bad, you probably won't get it, until you learn to let go.

i have been busying myself with distractions #2 and #3 to forget, or at least get over, mrX. and while the distractions themselves have fallen through utterly dismally, they at least served their purpose : i am no longer obsessed with mrX.

and thus it was an unencumbered me that gave a neighbourly smile to mrX when i saw him at the downstairs resto's raya 'open house' do this afternoon, who, good naturedly, smiled back.

and who later came over to introduce himself, arm extended, when my colleague and i decided to sit on the stairs on the opposite block in front of the resto, to eat our food.

names and pleasantries were exchanged. he went up to his office to put his laptop (he just arrived), and joined us again when he came down.

... right pretty spell we're having, isn't it, Mr. Arthur?
Yes, a right pretty spell. Feeling slightly unreal, ...

i told him how much we liked his office especially at night; he mused us not having introduced ourselves earlier despite being neighbours for two years; we both commented on how late the other worked.

cards haven't been exchanged yet, but that may happen later.

life's funny like that.