I got my hair cut today.
I got it cut in the same salon, and same chair I had two years ago; freaky.
I didn't really know what the hairdresser meant to do to it. Because just two hours ago, I was drenched in egg, flour and water and me being, me- I'm not exactly too fond of, ingredients. I didn't like it physically, feeling sticky and covered in goo, nor did I like the fact of having unchemicaly changed molecules of substances on me. Nonetheless, I had survived and was now, sitting in the chair waiting for my hair to be, done with.
I sighed, a meaningless sigh and wiggled a little in the leather seat.
The leather seat which I sat on with a encyclopedia beneath my yellow coloured fruit skirt when I was five so I could see myself in the mirror.
The leather seat I had dreaded when I was ten because of a disastorous incident where my hair was cut too short for my liking and I discovered, that pulling it doesn't work like when you pull on bubblegum; the elongation process isn't that easy.
The leather seat I had sat on with Mummy beside me and a tear in her eye at 9 pm at night, bright lights that seemed blinding in my dry contact lenses, 'loose' uniform two years ago.
And after he has cut it, I looked around at my strands of hair scattered on the floor in the leather seat I was sitting in, now.
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Metabolic talk and a Sarah sitting in the back seat, wondering how that meaningless conversation had somehow, helped.
Lack of Fluoxetine, leads to lack of endorphines for the day.
I felt like popping like the balloon, breaking like the egg, being washed off like the flour and water that had gone down the pipes, just like that.
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I learnt about Ruth and how she left anything behind just that morning. And about how she had found pure fulfilment, satisfaction, bliss when she did.
Sure she didn't have a husband for a while after hers died and the future didn't seem that bright in terms of her getting married again but she left anyway. Left to follow Naomi because it was the right thing to do, the way God would have wanted her to go, the more sacrificial way. She ended up marrying Boaz, someone who loved her, cared for her and was meant for her by God. Sure staying behind would have meant that the opportunity to marry more people of the opposite sex would have been higher. The variety would have been wider. But then, she wouldn't have met, Boaz. Mr, 'Meant For Her'. She ended up happy. If you were to put it into vocabulary now, estatically happy.
In a nutshell I learnt that sometimes sacrificing the good things, NOW is important, necessary, crucial in order to receive the 'planned for' things, later, the things that are supposed to happen, would be better if they happened, the things He wants to have happen.
But ironically speaking, sometimes sacrifice is needed in order to get to the better side of things. Sometimes leaving the better things behind is required, to end things perfectly. And then I thought to myself; if only sacrifice wasn't such a, scary word; wasn't a word that usually tilts itself to the negative.
But then I guess to a certain extent, that would be like having an inch and asking for a mile.
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It was cold when JoelLee and me stepped into the Curve.
"See Ko, you don't have as much body fat as I do."
"Noooo, it's just really cold la."
"We can go in through here."
"Isn't it the same through this entrance?"
"No, I like this way better :p"
Finally, we both agreed that being as cold as it was, steamboat was the right thing to put into our tummies that night.
I wanted something TomYum and he didn't mind, so we sat in this little corner, with an oddly long table and he started playing with his chopsticks.
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I want, a fedora. I think Justin Timberlake looks, gooood (:
It was good, Yesss they're good and Yesss I'm going to miss you.
I know how you feel, because I know how she feels and I know I don't want that to happen too.
You haven't uploaded my picture, when my blog is near saturated with yours, you know?
Giggle, giggle, giggle.
Omg, I don't look sixteen?
Like my 'Little Miss (emphasizes) Whooooops?
*Ringring* and you rush to your room Sarah.
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I realise you're going to be twenty this year. I realise I'm going to be sixteen.
It seems like just yesterday when we were running around Target and then looking for a JuiceWorks in Melbourne. And now, you're going back to cool autumn and I'm telling you how I don't want you to go back just yet, in a humid, hot steamy steamboat place in Malaysia. So, ironic really.
I realise that I told Rachel I can't believe how we're already in Form 3 last year. And remembered how when the year started, Daddy asked me how I wanted to celebrate my sixteenth.
I remembered how Mummy told me that Sandra and her friends were so adorable, talking about powder, handbags and shopping. The image of her sucking her toes and running about in her bright blue shirt with a flower in front rang clearly in my head and I shuddered in the steam.
And I saw the two year old image of the SkinnyLatte, and a new image of a fishball in TomYum soup.
How ironic, really.
What happened to a a year ago, a week ago, a day ago, a minute, ago?
For a while, it seemes like the stopwatches you have in the Science labs, aren't even for real. Because when you look at it logically, time just flies, too fast. And no matter how much you click on the button, stamp on the glass plane covering the ticking hands on the clock, time just doesn't stop.
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I washed up, drank my calorific-less green tea and pulled the covers right over my head. It was time for me to grow, right? Then I paused, and thought to myself;
Whoa, what happened to this morning when I didn't even realise it was time to get out of bed?
I dont know what happened next but I woke up the next morning and it's almost as if dejavu happened.
It's bewildering to think how something so scary is actually meant to be so, natural.