Happy Birthday MAF

To M,

Happy Happy Birthday dear! How old are you now? 25? 30? 35? Though I have not seen you for a while now but always this period of time each year, my thoughts will go to you, to the times that we have spent together. End of the year, always the hardest, as time goes by, remembering as life was so hectic by Nov/Dec back then. Months of events; your birthday, then come Christmas then come the big New Year celebration. Remembering the time when you gave me a christmas present, our walk in the park during winter where all things were white and the snow falling down from the sky seemed so beautiful and on the trips that we had during christmas holidays.

Saw your message in my Friendster yesterday. When was the last time we chatted? Maybe 5 or 6 months ago eh? Am glad that we are still friends up till this time. Really, I still want to go there for a visit, dont get me wrong and to be honest, the money and the timing, well they are just excuses. The real reason was maybe I was afraid. Afraid that everything that I would see still remembers me of you. The places that we went, the streets, the shops that we used to frequent, even to some corners of London where we used to have a laugh. Afraid that what you told me before was true. Afraid that remembering what is familiar would be harder to forget, in the present.

Watched Sex in the City and they talked about the past and the present. I think it is okay to remember the past but one has to live in the present. The past makes what we are today. People do get separated by time, but always we can look back once in a while to the good old times and remember the good old days. Sometimes, I listen to our cd, remember? the one that 'The Way We Were' song was in it and remembers..ahhhh, the good old days...the good old days...

So to mark this joyous ocassion, I will definitely salute a toast to you from million miles away and wishing you all the happiness in the world. The old wisemen once said and He was right indeed, 'though a man and a woman who loves each other are apart and are not together for any reason or another, the next best thing that you can do is to wish all the happiness and the blessings in the world to each other at all times'.

So Happy Birthday again love, heartiest congratulations to you and Ms. C, and may all your wishes come true.

Always love,
PO
22nd November 2007


"You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. you yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection." -Buddha