It was a slow day at work. So I read an old copy of Self. I used to buy Self in university while trying to wean myself off the US Seventeen magazine (I know! But Seventeen used to be really good. I swear.) Those days, I looked forward to buying new issues of Seventeen every month and could survive a month on one issue that was hidden from the parents. Before Seventeen, I read YM (yes, it was that long ago when my obsession with foreign magazines began) and when the Pig confiscated all of them in secondary school, I was devastated. But when he went into hospital and I managed to get my kidnapped YMs back, I suddenly had an entire stash of new old magazines and was very very happy. My sense of when it was appropriate to feel happy and sad is always spot off. Whenever people cried, I always felt like laughing. Not like nervous laughter too.

Self had an article about having friends. The writer of that story said she did not have friends and husbands did not last forever as she buried her first husband at 34. She then delved into the categories of friends. One of the groups of friends, most important is Lifers. Lifers are and I quote ‘who’s as deep and forever as family’.

I am an only child. Friends are as close to me as family.

Addy is my msn buddy. Although we were from the same JC, I only got to know her last amongst all the EH C3 girls. But we did Bahasa Indonesia together (Apa Kabar?) and we studied together in the library. She was the first one to see me cry like a banshee in the central library. When we started working, she became my MSN constant. Everytime I logged onto MSN, the first thing I will do is see whether she is online. I am a horrible person. I am always the one boyfriend bashing and encouraging her to go on to greener pastures. Heh. But whether or not she listens is another thing of course.

Addy is the lowest maintenance girl amongst the EH girls. She is least materialistic. A rare breed of girl in these days. Some may say she is a cheap date (in a very good way). Any guy is lucky to have her. (Read this three times Mr Perth.) But chase her if you can. Only in the last year did I realise just how darn fast this girl is. Running fast that is.

I do miss her on MSN these days, considering the fact that I am not on MSN most of the time right now. I realised that things change so quick that I must grab time when I can to tell certain individuals just how important they are in my life.

This is besides the point but Addy has a brother that she calls Chrissypoo who is HOT. He is all but 21 (or 22 or whatever but young enough to make me all cougar like). In my biased opinion, he is one of the hottest boys I have seen in real life. What makes him even syrup sweet is that he is so in love with his girlfriend that you could not pry him away with a chainsaw and the things that he does in the name of Lurve is found only in story books. (Due to the fact that Maybe it is because I am sour grapes and/or extremely jaded but being tough as nails means that I scoff at such innocent professions of love. But if I was his age, I would be plotting to kidnap this fine fine specimen of a boy.

Snippets of the msn conversation with his sister (edited to increase entertainment value):-
Your brother is damn godamn hot.
Can you please ask him to do something about his hotness, like use it?
He is too hot for his own good.
And too stupid not to how to use his hotness.
Can you tell him he won’t be hot for very long, so he might as well make use of it now.
(All one sided monologues from Awful.)