Dia bertanya:Safiy, boleh tak kita nak give up?
Aku tatap matanya dalam-dalam. Nope! Hak kita ialah usaha. Usaha
bersungguh dan jangan lupa berdoa…rezeki itu di tangan Tuhan. Ya Allah,
kegilaan menyiapkan requirement menyebabkan segala kerja lab dipinggirkan. Tadi
pun curi masa makan tengahari sebab rasa perut dah mampu kosong begitu. Balik tadi
pun 615pm baru sempat solat asar. Waa..
Kawan, kalau fikir putus asa, aku lebih-lebih lagi terasa
begitu. Tapi, aku masih degil mahu mencuba, mahu berusaha. Yang penting que
sera sera, whatever will be, will be..i’ve tried as much as I can do. The rest
up to Allah to decide!
DATE A GIRL WHO READS.
She’s the girl reading while waiting in that coffee shop down the street. If you take a peek at her mug, the non-dairy creamer is floating on top because she’s kind of engrossed already. Lost in a world of the author’s making. Sit down. She might give you a glare, as most girls who read do not like to be interrupted. Ask her if she likes the book.
Buy her another cup of coffee.
Let her know what you really think of Murakami. See if she got through the first chapter of Fellowship. Understand that if she says she understood James Joyce’s Ulysses she’s just saying that to sound intelligent. Ask her if she loves Alice or she would like to be Alice.
You will smile so hard you will wonder why your heart hasn’t burst and bled out all over your chest yet. You will write the story of your lives, have kids with strange names and even stranger tastes. She will introduce your children to the Cat in the Hat and Aslan, maybe in the same day. You will walk the winters of your old age together and she will recite Keats under her breath while you shake the snow off your boots.
Date a girl who reads because you deserve it. You deserve a girl who can give you the most colorful life imaginable. If you can only give her monotony, and stale hours and half-baked proposals, then you’re better off alone. If you want the world and the worlds beyond it, date a girl who reads.
Or better yet, date a girl who writes."
-- Rosemarie Urquico
DATE A GIRL WHO WRITES.
She will always find BEAUTY
in the things around her because she will always look for something that she
can shape in the AMAZINGNESS that is language. She knows that things are of a
greater truth when she can share them
with her words. She knows that phrasing her encounters will add a depth to the
experience. She knows humility because she has met the boundaries of language
and felt the gigantic silence that occurs when the world is too big for an
expression, when words can never suffice. Date a girl who writes because she
will know exactly WHEN TO SPEAK and when to KEEP SILENT.
A girl who writes will be a girl who reads. She will see storylines in her life and in the lives of others around her, because she has come to know them from her favourite books and wants to put them in writing herself more often than not. Date a girl who wants to see Kafka’s Prague, Joyce’s Dublin and Dickens’ London. She’s the girl who is longing to go to Russia because she wants to see the wide landscapes she holds dear to her heart ever since reading Doktor Zhivago. She’s also the girl who wants to see Colombia because she cried when she read One Hundred Years of Solitude and wants to live the magic that the novel foretold. She even wants to travel to Afghanistan, enchanted by the beauty that the country must once have held and that she’s read about in The Kite Runner.
Know that you will never have her for yourself. You will always have to share her with her love for the world, with her passion for life, and with her need to be by herself so that she can form words and stories in her mind without being distracted. She and you will never be exclusive – she will always be in love with places, because they make the setting; with people, because they make characters; and with feelings, because they are what makes everything come alive.
One day you will say something to her, and she will startle, look you in the eye, smile and say “That is beautiful.” If you find what you said scribbled on a post-it note and pinned to the wall above her desk the next day, next to quotes by Hemmingway and Mark Twain, you will know you’ve won her heart."
She’s out there reading the
latest issue of a random travel magazine or sitting in a bookstore or library
floor reading this book about David, the Namsan Tower, the Brandenburg Gate, or
St. Basil’s. She’s scanning the
pages with great interest, with her nose almost poking the pages. She probably
wants to be transported to those places. You’re most likely right.
She’s the girl coming out from an embassy, stoked and thrilled to see her approved Visa. She might be absent-minded, thinking of how she’s going to pack all her things and to fix her itinerary. Don’t worry. Approach her. Tell her about this place you’ve always wanted to go to. She’ll gladly give you some food for thought. Ask her out to have some coffee. Encourage her to speak about her previous travels and her future ones. She’ll gladly tell you everything.
Ask her out again.
It’s easy to date a girl who travels. You don’t have to buy her tickets to Japan or to Spain, although if you do, she’ll gladly take it. How about taking her out on a spontaneous road trip to a beach where both of you can enjoy a relaxing swim? You can also watch a feel-good movie one rainy afternoon, something like Eat, Pray, Love, where she can gloriously praise about the beauty of Italy, India, and Indonesia. You can even watch Fast and Furious 5. She loves Brazil.
Marry a girl who travels. She might be awake at night surfing the Internet, with the browser on Lonely Planet or National Geographic Traveler. She might be wearing the same clothes three times in a week, but it’s a good thing. She’s saving up for your out-of-town wedding anniversary celebration. She might surprise you one day, with your suitcases ready and your approved leave of absence for work. She’ll take you to France and make you love each other more.
Grow old with a girl who travels. She’ll tell your children how beautiful the world is. She’ll tell them that despite all wars and all conflicts happening in the world, it is still a place to find happiness in. She’ll tell your grandchildren stories of the world in your time. And as you listen to her tell stories about the past, you find yourself going back to the time you met her. You’ll realize that the best journey in your life was having to meet such an intelligent and beautiful woman.
And she will look at you, smile, and realize the very same thing."
-- Cathe Ryne Denice B. Sarmiento
A girl who writes will be a girl who reads. She will see storylines in her life and in the lives of others around her, because she has come to know them from her favourite books and wants to put them in writing herself more often than not. Date a girl who wants to see Kafka’s Prague, Joyce’s Dublin and Dickens’ London. She’s the girl who is longing to go to Russia because she wants to see the wide landscapes she holds dear to her heart ever since reading Doktor Zhivago. She’s also the girl who wants to see Colombia because she cried when she read One Hundred Years of Solitude and wants to live the magic that the novel foretold. She even wants to travel to Afghanistan, enchanted by the beauty that the country must once have held and that she’s read about in The Kite Runner.
Know that you will never have her for yourself. You will always have to share her with her love for the world, with her passion for life, and with her need to be by herself so that she can form words and stories in her mind without being distracted. She and you will never be exclusive – she will always be in love with places, because they make the setting; with people, because they make characters; and with feelings, because they are what makes everything come alive.
One day you will say something to her, and she will startle, look you in the eye, smile and say “That is beautiful.” If you find what you said scribbled on a post-it note and pinned to the wall above her desk the next day, next to quotes by Hemmingway and Mark Twain, you will know you’ve won her heart."
DATE A GIRL WHO TRAVELS.
She’s the girl coming out from an embassy, stoked and thrilled to see her approved Visa. She might be absent-minded, thinking of how she’s going to pack all her things and to fix her itinerary. Don’t worry. Approach her. Tell her about this place you’ve always wanted to go to. She’ll gladly give you some food for thought. Ask her out to have some coffee. Encourage her to speak about her previous travels and her future ones. She’ll gladly tell you everything.
Ask her out again.
It’s easy to date a girl who travels. You don’t have to buy her tickets to Japan or to Spain, although if you do, she’ll gladly take it. How about taking her out on a spontaneous road trip to a beach where both of you can enjoy a relaxing swim? You can also watch a feel-good movie one rainy afternoon, something like Eat, Pray, Love, where she can gloriously praise about the beauty of Italy, India, and Indonesia. You can even watch Fast and Furious 5. She loves Brazil.
Marry a girl who travels. She might be awake at night surfing the Internet, with the browser on Lonely Planet or National Geographic Traveler. She might be wearing the same clothes three times in a week, but it’s a good thing. She’s saving up for your out-of-town wedding anniversary celebration. She might surprise you one day, with your suitcases ready and your approved leave of absence for work. She’ll take you to France and make you love each other more.
Grow old with a girl who travels. She’ll tell your children how beautiful the world is. She’ll tell them that despite all wars and all conflicts happening in the world, it is still a place to find happiness in. She’ll tell your grandchildren stories of the world in your time. And as you listen to her tell stories about the past, you find yourself going back to the time you met her. You’ll realize that the best journey in your life was having to meet such an intelligent and beautiful woman.
And she will look at you, smile, and realize the very same thing."
-- Cathe Ryne Denice B. Sarmiento
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