let it fall

Today it is cold and the joints in my fingers and toes are aching. I feel like Os are sucking the life out of me. This all ends in exactly 3 weeks from today, so happiness & freedom, until then, dear friends.

Yesterday I went to meet Soufi after I visited my grandfather at the hospital. The Botanical Gardens train station was only a few stops from NUH's Kent Ridge station on the circle line and Soufi was getting off work soon, so I headed to Cluny Court. We got a bag of honey dijon chips + a french onion dip and pink fanta at the supermarket and went to the Botanical Gardens to chill. It started to rain as we walked around so we sat under a pavillion eating and talking until the rain stopped.

I want to have a picnic there once I start work. Cluny Court is a zebra crossing away from the new entrance to the gardens and Soufi and I can go in the afternoon after a lunch shift. I hope it'll be sunny, especially since we have now eased into rain season. But if it is not, that's still fine - we know a really cozy spot in the cactus gardens for rainy day picnics where you don't get wet and icky. We could bake scones and fairy cupcakes with pink glitter and bring cucumber sandwiches and tea. I'm going to have a garden in my house when I own one, just so I can have cute little picnics with my kids right outside my door. I'll have my own vegetable and herb garden too. Maybe I'l even grow THE herb eh? ;)

Mr Devendra Obi Banhart is tending to my heavy heart today. I love him and his magnificent moustache. I realise I have taken a liking to long hair on men. I find dreads the sexiest. And then I like the dark, messy shoulder length style + nice 'stache and beard combination. A close third is an afro or like, curly Pascal Grob hair. It's like, I'd shag the guy with the afro, and I'd date the one with the beard and live with him for a couple of years in a sparsely furnished apartment with white walls and dark wood floors, but I'll marry the boy with dreadlocks and we'll live happily ever after listening to Papa Marley everyday and bringing up hippie children.