i still love the scent of rain

i think i’m over-blogging this weekend. but it is therapeutic, and little therapy’s what i need.

i was TPA teaching earlier today. it felt really good to be amongst kids again! it made me really really happy. but on my way home, i began feeling so saaad and lonely. i was missing people at Westall, especially indri and nurul and nasya. ok, nasya’s not technically at Westall. i was missing the kids there too. children grow so fast, i’m sure they’re so much bigger now compared to the last time i saw them!

and then i began missing hikmah all over again. and missing the YIMSA crowd and the Saman kids… and i began thinking of najiyyah and melisa and wondering if i’ll ever see them again. then i was thinking of tiara, hoping she’s ok. i was thinking of nana and ade and their little baby. i started thinking of ex-coursemates though i don’t particularly miss them–i was just going down the slippery slope.

and then suddenly, i just wanted to bawl i miss Melbourne! why cant i be there for the Commonwealth Games?! which, through my retroscope now, is a real jump in logic thoughts about teaching little kids.

i was one sad chick walking slowly in the rain with her black umbrella. after almost a week of merciless Australian sun, today saw grey skies and much rain.

i reached home. in fact i had just taken off my shoes when a call came in from ridwan. i picked it up and he was telling me about the YIMSA barbeque/OBTUS at the Kongen which had just ended. he was talking to me about our friends whom he met there. i, the emo sop who just came in from walking in the rain, cried. i wanna be there too!

i didnt feel like studying, what with the broody weather (excuses…) so mais and i watched a DVD in my room. she wasnt even supposed to be home! she was supposed to be out watching Macbeth in the city! see? the weather. i blame it all on the weather. but i was glad to have her company.

we watched Beyond Borders. my main gripe with it is that more weight was put into the love affair between the two main protagonists, played by Angelina Jolie and Clive Owen, than the humanitarian issues it portrays. the latter seemed to be a mere backdrop to their romance. but then again, it wasnt as though the movie was marketed to be anything other than "the quintessential romance of the millenium". i guess it was like watching Scrubs and expecting it to be ER–aint gonna happen. anyway, for the record, it’s still worth the watch, if only for Miss Lara Croft herself.

it’s still raining outside. but that’s ok. it’s nice to fall asleep to the scent of rain.

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