Martian’s Planet Part II

i’m baaaaaaack on Earth!!! have my fellow earthlings missed me?! :D i’ve missed home like crazy - being in Sri Lanka for a week and then in Mars for another has taken a serious toll on me.

i’ve got some pics from my 4th day in Mars - but Days 5, 6, 7 and 8 have to be unchronicled cos we didnt take any pictures :( that makes me sad.

in some office building’s outdoor fountain

this pic was taken before the two guys in the background hurriedly got up and ran off, hehe

dancing on tram-tracks

stoning in trams

Mars has Earth food in boxes … :D

and so ends a wonderful week with the Martian. i start school again in 3 days and i am not looking forward to it. i’ve got a sudden urge to pull a Sern-Li and run off to Taiwan or China to go learn Chinese or something. feeling so restless. wanna. do. SOMETHING!

on the way to the airport, Martian passed me a note he wrote for me in green ink on his office stationery. it says on the front - “to be opened at 3pm and not 4pm on the 18/8!” but i couldnt wait, and opened it at 2.50pm on the plane. i read the note four times, and then i started giggling cos the contents of the note were just so CUTE. the man next to me looked very irritated at my giggling - but i know he misses somebody too, from the way he hugged a pillow to sleep during the flight. i tried to send him a telepathic message - i cant help it, mister, i’m in love.. - but he fell asleep before i could.

upon closer inspection of the note in green ink, i found that it was stapled first, then the staple removed, then finally sealed with a bit of tape. before i could stop myself, i was laughing again, waking Pillowhugging Man from his sleep. he grunted in annoyance but this time i caught his eye and apologized. i told him who the note was from and he seemed to understand.

thank you, Pillowhugging Man, for putting up with my giggling during the flight. and thank you for being my comrade against bitchy air stewardesses with badly-applied makeup and too much hairgel. but most of all, thank you for your silent approval of my relationship with the Martian. when i am feeling hopeless, this is the moment in time that i will revisit and look back on, and in it i will find the hope and the answers that i need.

Comments August 19th, 2006