Someone Else's
Someone Else's
Remember the first time we watched Shrek? The 'irritating lady' beside me was making it difficult for us to spend a little quality time. She didn't know I had not seen you for a month prior to that day. But its ok, we enjoyed irritating the hell out of her. But we enjoyed the movie more.
We enjoyed it so much that i said, "If there was ever going to be a Shrek 2, I will only watch it with you". You squeezed my hand and replied, "Of course lah...Who else will I watch it with?" And that felt better than the movie, but I did not tell you so.
3 years later, Shrek 2 came out and I felt eager like a child. Even if there were 100 'irritating ladies' waiting for us in the cinema, I'd still enjoy it just as much. Alas I was in NS and you said we'll watch it the day I booked out. The show was sold out that weekend so we ended up buying tickets for another show. But I ended up watching you instead.
The following weekend, you pissed the hell out of me when you said you watched it with your school friends. I kept it inside but told you it was ok. I had a 'fever' that weekend. The 4th time I ever lied to you. I watched Shrek 2 alone...because I know you've already watched it with someone else.
Then came the moment I was going to ORD. I saved enough money for us to go to Hong Kong's Disneyland. Though it wouldnt have been as glamorous as the one in Los Angeles, it was all I could afford. It would have been great, coz u liked Disney, and so did I.
And then the wind decided to blow the other direction. You had to accompany your sister to Kuala Lumpur for an 'urgent' matter. I told you its ok for I have not purchased the tickets. It was the 6th time I lied to you.
It wasn't bad at all going to Hong Kong on my own. I had good company with me and I shopped like a prince. When the rest wanted to go to Disneyland, I declined and went to do some photography. The weather was perfect and I had the perfect shots of old buildings. Funny how I felt dissappointed when I developed those pictures coz the buildings refused to smile and made the photo dull.
Staring at the photos, I realised it wasnt the buildings that was sad. It was me. Coz I knew you were having a ball in Kuala Lumpur. With your sister, with your friends, and with someone else.
In my first letter to you. I gave you a list of things 'we' should do before grow old together. Number 8 on that list was to take a ferris wheel. You gleamed when you read the next item on that list coz Number 9 says that we will have our first kiss when we are somewhere up there.
Though that list was all based on dreams and fantasy stuff, it seemed possible when they proposed to build a ferris wheel at Marina. The tallest in Asia somemore. What else could be as beautiful?
Then came the moment we broke up. Though its still a few years before the ferris wheel is complete, I still relish and hope that I will live that moment. Not with anyone else but you. Writing this, I can almost see the wheel rotating into the brilliant Singapore night sky. The brilliant view of the city skyline in the background will be obscured by your heart shaped face. But the one staring at you isn't me of course. It's someone else. Someone else.
Remember the first time we watched Shrek? The 'irritating lady' beside me was making it difficult for us to spend a little quality time. She didn't know I had not seen you for a month prior to that day. But its ok, we enjoyed irritating the hell out of her. But we enjoyed the movie more.
We enjoyed it so much that i said, "If there was ever going to be a Shrek 2, I will only watch it with you". You squeezed my hand and replied, "Of course lah...Who else will I watch it with?" And that felt better than the movie, but I did not tell you so.
3 years later, Shrek 2 came out and I felt eager like a child. Even if there were 100 'irritating ladies' waiting for us in the cinema, I'd still enjoy it just as much. Alas I was in NS and you said we'll watch it the day I booked out. The show was sold out that weekend so we ended up buying tickets for another show. But I ended up watching you instead.
The following weekend, you pissed the hell out of me when you said you watched it with your school friends. I kept it inside but told you it was ok. I had a 'fever' that weekend. The 4th time I ever lied to you. I watched Shrek 2 alone...because I know you've already watched it with someone else.
Then came the moment I was going to ORD. I saved enough money for us to go to Hong Kong's Disneyland. Though it wouldnt have been as glamorous as the one in Los Angeles, it was all I could afford. It would have been great, coz u liked Disney, and so did I.
And then the wind decided to blow the other direction. You had to accompany your sister to Kuala Lumpur for an 'urgent' matter. I told you its ok for I have not purchased the tickets. It was the 6th time I lied to you.
It wasn't bad at all going to Hong Kong on my own. I had good company with me and I shopped like a prince. When the rest wanted to go to Disneyland, I declined and went to do some photography. The weather was perfect and I had the perfect shots of old buildings. Funny how I felt dissappointed when I developed those pictures coz the buildings refused to smile and made the photo dull.
Staring at the photos, I realised it wasnt the buildings that was sad. It was me. Coz I knew you were having a ball in Kuala Lumpur. With your sister, with your friends, and with someone else.
In my first letter to you. I gave you a list of things 'we' should do before grow old together. Number 8 on that list was to take a ferris wheel. You gleamed when you read the next item on that list coz Number 9 says that we will have our first kiss when we are somewhere up there.
Though that list was all based on dreams and fantasy stuff, it seemed possible when they proposed to build a ferris wheel at Marina. The tallest in Asia somemore. What else could be as beautiful?
Then came the moment we broke up. Though its still a few years before the ferris wheel is complete, I still relish and hope that I will live that moment. Not with anyone else but you. Writing this, I can almost see the wheel rotating into the brilliant Singapore night sky. The brilliant view of the city skyline in the background will be obscured by your heart shaped face. But the one staring at you isn't me of course. It's someone else. Someone else.
