Hazia’s Reflections

Wow, it’s tricky trying to finish off the 3rd part of this entry. I’ve had another smashing date with him on Friday night, a very long one too, and it’s quite tough to recap what happened up to Wednesday night only, my timing is a jumble now:)

Okay, so it was after 11pm when we stepped into the village-themed Thai Bar & Restaurant at Telawi Street, his choice. The green plants were refreshing. We settled at a cosy corner, I sat on a high sofa while he sat on a high stool. We both ordered Thai white coffee, it came with a Pandan leave stirer, it was good.

The place couldn’t have played a more appropriate song at that moment…

Such a feelin’s comin’ over me
There is wonder in most everything I see
Not a cloud in the sky
Got the sun in my eyes
And I won’t be surprised if it’s a dream

Everything I want the world to be
Is now coming true especially for me
And the reason is clear
It’s because you are here
You’re the nearest thing to heaven that I’ve seen

I’m on the top of the world lookin’ down on creation
And the only explanation I can find
Is the love that I’ve found ever since you’ve been around
Your love’s put me at the top of the world
Song: Top of the World
Artist: The Carpenters

This time he became more talkative. He revealed his interest in flying. At the moment, he was trying to finish off another 15 hours of his course where he can fly microlight aircrafts. He will be allowed to bring one passenger:)

He also shared his latest project - coffeetable book for a royalty’s favourite sport -where he would have to go outstation from time to time. He’s expecting a significant income from that in December.

His art specialty is in portrait pencil sketch. In order to sketch me, he’d need to take a 3-dimensional photo of me first. He said he’ll direct me how to pose for him (I’m so lousy at that, so unphotogenic too).

When he first started his art degree course in North Ireland, he suffered serious culture shock. He couldn’t mingle with anybody for the first 3 months. The nude-painting class was another shocker. The 1st model was a muscular and skinny man, the 2nd was a round overweight woman and the 3rd - whom he and his few straight male colleagues have trouble sketching - was a pretty blue-eyed blond girl. LOL!

I on the other hand, shared a lot about myself too. I told him about my medical condition since childhood and my experience of being under observation at the hospital for 2 weeks when I was 14. He pointed out that in my old family photo on my book cover, my 2-year old self wasn’t obese.

I also spoke about my late best friend who passed away from colon cancer at the age of 28. I mentioned the story that I was writing (from her ghost’s point of view). It was inspired by the incidence during the last few months of her life when we weren’t even on talking terms.

We talked about a lot more. He said everything I said that night had been interesting. Man, can he be any more flattering than that?;) And guess what, we got thrown out of the restaurant too, it was late. LOL! We finally proceeded to the Jolly Green food court for our third and last round of conversation. It was already 1.30am when he sent me back. I had to get to work by 8.30am the next morning. Otherwise, we would have kept going.

Phew! I’m done with this entry. I’ll update on our business meeting on Thursday afternoon and our dramatic super-long date (10pm to 8am) on Friday.