Monday, January 24, 2005
- ht: i can't access ur tag board! change to doodleboard, it's so much more reliable :p and anw i miss KK so much too! i wish i cld go back everyday... :(
how to say? KK was another world completely, alien to us but you cld be lost in it so very fast and irreversibly... yes, it's beautiful and pristine; it's refreshing and calming, otherwise how cld it enamour us so? i rmb loei... one of the most exquisite places i cld ever wish to see. and not many can or will lay claim to ever seeing its perfect beauty. maybe that's precisely why i love it so.
ht u rmb the lake best... but i rmb loei best. it really was, to me, the most memorable.
the fire. i've always had this indescribable fascination with fires. and that fire was iridescent. it's impossible to convey the magnificence of the blaze. imagine... a pitch black backdrop. it's really black, not dark or dim, but black. and you can't see nuts, not your face, your hand, or your fingers on an outstretched palm. then flickers, red blazing streaks curve towards the sky, twisting and turning, then vanishing. then another lights up the air. and another. before long, it's like a twister of dragons cavorting in the sky. it is so beautiful.
and then sitting in a circle and playing truth or dare... yes it was fun, but it was intimate in a wholly platonic way - like everyone in the circle was on the same frequency, was attuned to the silent allure of the night and the burning wood. and the stars... never will stars look so bright to me.
it was so cold, but inside you don't feel cold at all. you feel the warmth of the fire, the simple happiness of the people to be there and be warmed, the grandeur and charm of the place. it's that easy to feel happy.
it's so far from singapore, from everything i thought was important, from everyone i thought i cldnt live without. it's so not what we were used to. and for that, i'll be forever grateful to the powers that be that led me there. how cld i have ever wondered whether it was the right thing to do?
yes, we're back from KK. yes, we'll nv have what we did again. but still... mai pen rai, what we had will last forever.
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