i made one decision today which led me to 3 happy moments. i was intending to go straight home after a totally useless lect cos i wasn't feeling too gd... but decided that i would go visit the co-op since i hadn't seen it in a few mths

that was the decision that led to all the smiles ... even before i could step into the co-op, i met someone i hadn't seen for a while. =) stopped to chat, catch up a little, swap 'horror' stories of the tons of essays/term papers due (soon) and encourage each other for what's left of the sem...

ok there's no link from the above to this paragraph, but what the heck grin... ok, actually i was intending to go treat myself to one of my favourite drinks in the whole world - poka's mango tea!! but ended up getting side-tracked by the fiction section. ( i swear they arranged it to be almost the first thing you see when you enter to snap spender's like me sigh)

anyone who knows me enough know that i have this affair with the fiction section of the co-op (serene will know best - we share v willingly hehe ). that's why i've been avoiding it consciously since this sem. i've spent waaaayyyy too much on bks ever since i stepped into uni that i must have squandered 1/2 my savings.. sigh

anyway today i gave into temptation and i think that was what led me to my biggest and best chance meeting of the day. i met a really gd friend i had not seen in years.. well ok a year.. almost.. that long huh... never realised how much i missed that face till today =) and double yay because i was feeling off... the sun definitely came out of the clouds i swear after i met him...=)

don't you love it when you still feel as close to pple you've not seen for some time? i know i do =) and like i said the smiles lasted me the entire 1 1/2 hrs home even though i made a mistake when i decided to be 'adventurous' and got off at a busstop which did not have my connecting bus! ( had to walk all the way to the other stop.. trust my 'luck' ...sigh)

well and yes, to round off this highly disjointed entry, the last happy moment was having 3 new bks in hand to go home with =)

1. Peter Mayle's Bon Appetit! (i totally swear by him=)
2. The two hearts of Kwasi Boachi - Arthur Japin
3. The Color of Water - A Black Man's tribute to his white mother by James McBride

yupyups i was one happy person today... (isn't there something toally sensual about owning beautiful words? =)

i miss having a hand to hold...

sometimes i believe that the pple you meet in your life are determined by destiny...

some you meet only once but touch your life in ways that brighten it like nothing else can...

some you meet years ago and have become your closest friends now ... and these are the pple you can totally be yourself with, who know you well enough to say : "that is so your color" , or says "yes, i understand" or "yar i know" and you know they mean it and really do understand you...

these are the pple whom you've talked so many zillions of words with who almost know how you think and what you would say =)

but sometimes you meet a new friend whom you can talk equally well with... i was talking to one such friend tonite (8-10pm)... a frankness, candour, honesty and herself-ness that makes me warm up instantly.. =) and i've only known her for abt 2mths?

friends are treasures of life that one must hoard with a measure of pride, glee, possessiveness and gratitude...

this is a tribute to all who know me and all whom i will meet and know in the future... cheers and hugs love you all...