The Days When the World Was Young

December 4, 2008

Alice in Wonderland (take 2) (Bill Evans Trio)

 

I live inside a condominium, and this means that every day I see people who are not my immediate kin. A week ago, I wrote about my neighbor; put simply, I don’t like him. I avoid taking the same elevator with him because I don’t like seeing his moue.

 

I know he is not the only person I avoid: I shun from many people anyway, and if you see me at a party - in the rare moment when I’m at a party - I don’t go around saying hi to everyone. I’m aloof. I don’t enjoy being combative, I merely have hard time connecting with people. Even if I’ve lived in the same condominium for more than ten years, there’s no one from the same building who I regard as a close friend. So, in a way, I don’t always blame my neighbor for being snobby to me. Sometimes I blame Dubya.

 

I will never forget one girl, though. Let’s call her Ella. I first met Ella more than fifteen years ago, when Super Mario World was just made. She lived on the sixth floor, which is below me, and her mom and my mom were instantly friends the day we moved in our condo. Because her mom was a dermatologist and allowed “consultations” (I don’t know if that is how they call it when someone goes to a dermatologist to have check-ups; I’m dummy about skin care lingo) she was often visited by my mom. One day my mom took me along, maybe so that she wasn’t alone, or maybe because my dad ordered me to accompany her, I don’t know. My mom told me to wait because it takes a while for dermatologists to finish whatever it is they do. So I waited on Ella’s room.

 

For the longest time I stared around not knowing what to do. After many minutes of awkward silences, Ella noticed that I was the shyest visitor she has had, so she brought out some toys and we ended up playing Uno card games - the only time I ever played Uno card games.

 

Some days later Ella came to my place, and coincidentally, it was the day my mom brought home two dozens of these transparent cubes with beads inside that you shake and rotate around to solve puzzles. Ella loved playing with those cubes, often going to my place just to play with them. Often we’d go to each other’s places to play with our sundry of toys; sometimes we’d borrow each other’s NES cartridges. Though we didn’t speak with each other much, we became playmates: after all, we were kids who didn’t give much weight to intellectual conversations and we were all about frolicking. We were very fond of each other that my siblings would often tease us as childhood sweethearts, and I often got angry because of them, perhaps because I was denying that I really liked her.

 

And then one day, less than a year since we first met, she moved out. Her mom said she went to Singapore to study there, but soon her mom also left, and, last I heard, it was because of divorce. I lost touch with her family since then.

 

It has been more than 15 years since I last met Ella. Ella’s not her real name. I don’t even know her real name, and she doesn’t know mine either. Lately, I often wonder about what she’s up to, perhaps because deep inside I’ve never gotten over her leaving. Will we see each other again one day, as people who cannot recognize each other from the happy times they’ve shared as children?

 

Life is strange. The fonder you are of someone, the sooner the moment you are together passes.


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Posted by dhey at December 4, 2008, 1:18 pm

aaww, so cute. reminds me of those korean movies :D sorry to hear you lost communication with Ella, though.

Posted by Cess at December 4, 2008, 2:15 pm

@dhey whatever do you mean by that?!

@cess really? But don’t korean movies usually end on a better note? Except for Oldboy that is.

Posted by nightdreamer at December 4, 2008, 2:25 pm

nah, most korean movies are known for sad endings. except the comedy ones.

Posted by Cess at December 4, 2008, 2:57 pm

@cess I see. I haven’t seen many Korean movies, but now that I think about it, the four or five that I’ve watched, all have sad endings.

Btw I just uploaded a music that I thought really fit Ella’s character well.

Posted by nightdreamer at December 4, 2008, 3:06 pm

if you do want to watch a comedy Korean movie, id recommend “200 Pounds Beauty.” It’s a funny, quirky comedy. hehe

Posted by Cess at December 4, 2008, 3:13 pm

Cool. That sounds like a “Shallow Hal” kind of story, judging from the title. What else can you recommend? Or maybe you should write a blog post about Korean movies that you liked.

Posted by nightdreamer at December 4, 2008, 3:15 pm

the other korean comedies ive watched are mediocre lang e. so far, i really liked 200 pounds beauty. i like the way she sings, “Mariaaaa, Ave Maria…” :)

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