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A leprechaun's slide
11:35 PM
A leprechaun's slide

Today the roads were unusually un-jammed at 8am. I was trying to figure out why wasn't it sardined-packed when it struck me, yesterday was Valentine's Day so loads of people probably came home late and took a day off to rest or they just plain couldn't get up this morning. Hehe.

Was nodding off throughout the first part of law so I drank some Nescafe which was a big mistake. After my long abstention from coffee, it just went down the wrong way and left me feeling weird, bloated, and wretchedly torn between a fuzzy slumberland and insomnolence which was why I was such a brusque, irascible, peevish grouch today. Sorry, peeps. =)

Was looking forward to a remedial of birthday dinner with friends to perk me up when it got cancelled. Passed the word along the grapevine and I texted my parents dejectedly that I wasn't going out tonight. Suddenly, my spirits fell with a resounding crash like the stock market in 1997 and I felt woebegone, despondent and completely dissatisfied.

I even texted my dad to see if he was free for lunch. I think he sensed my dejection and called me to see what happened and to tell me that he was already at lunch. Darn it, even my dad's not free to have lunch with me!

Like a storybook cliché ending to a disheartening day, it was raining when I reached the train station. This time the rain didn't feel that good. There was no refreshing breeze and you couldn't feel the cool pitter-patter of raindrops that makes your skin tingle. All you could feel was the heat rising up from the ground in invisible waves along with the post-rain tepid redolence with a whiff of moisture.

As I was walking back, the sun came out and shone while the rain was still falling and I scanned the horizon with hope that an arc of prismatic colors would appear in the heavens to tell me that everything was gonna be just fine. The more I searched, the stronger the sunbeams peeked out from behind the clouds but there was just no rainbow. The heat brought the mildly rejuvenating cloudburst to a screeching halt and it begin to revert to the sultry day it was before.

And it dawned on me that life was like this, you could have the requisite elements but sometimes rainbows just don't turn out in its opalescent perfection for who-knows-what reasons.


And so we trudge along, waiting for the next gentle shower of rain with luminous sunbeams piercing through the veil of clouds, and we simply hope for a rainbow.

Written on Thursday, February 15, 2007; 11:35 PM


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