Sunday, July 27, 2008
" beautiful poem ; 5:56 PM "
last night i was feeling pretty low about my sting - but my cousin tania and the long gone hippie ramesh turned up for dinner and it was much better. guess what? i tried anchovies for once, and they DO stink like they say in the movies, but it was okay, there was chicken pizza to compensate for the disgusting taste and smell.
after dinner, ramesh brought tania and i down to south campoten. it's like this little boat peep stay. you actually get to rent a stay-along boat which has paintings on it and you can get your own big bucket of paint to paint stuff on the boat. it was really pretty. i saw this one verse on the boat which someone painted on the 29th of april 2004.
"still i rise"
i kept chanting it for some reason and then ram told me that it was actually a verse by MAYA ANGELOU. which made me leap with a little joy. my namesake.
so i searched up the verse this morning on google and i found the poem and it made me lose my breath for a little while.
and it's such a coincidence isn't it? anyway..
there was a wishing well too. and i made wishes for most of my friends. for the enam family, for zihan, meeta, aliya, sharifah, taahira, christina, natasha, of course ram and tans, my family. i spent a good half hour there trying to get everything right. so i do hope that i did. (:
i'm glad i went yesterday. but my sting really hurts, my lips are out and about and puffed and peeling and my skin..oh god..i HOPE it doesn't get worse, because yes, it is humiliating.