Sunday, February 24, 2008

 
A 10-minute Reflection

It's almost the end of February 2008, I just realised. I have since suffered three freaking menstrual cycles in 2008 when only two months have passed. The markets have moved so quickly and so has the pace of my life back Down Under. I can barely have time to eat or think straight before the next deal comes along and I am piled with more work to do, on top of juggling with studies. Today, on a Sunday afternoon, I take a half hour lunch break before I plough through that assignment for my studies due tomorrow. I am cramming all my studies to the weekend. Comes the new week, I have a fresh set of challenges (or perhaps disasters) awaiting me in the office, pressing deadlines and expectations to manage. Just when I think I could rejoice with a glass of wine and a late night tomorrow evening with two new friends after I hand in my assignment, I have been told on Friday that I will be hoping onto a 6.30am flight inter-state on Tuesday for more work and back to Sydney same day where I am most likely going to pull an all-nighter...

Just last month, I was back home. I had a GREAT time. January 2008 seems to me like eons ago although memories of my daily activities are still vivid in my head. The first memory that distinctly comes to mind about my trip back home strangely is the scene on 31st December where the Old Boy took me on my first trip to a Hotel 81 near my house- I had only three hours to spare.The Sunday night before, I had texted him to "fuck off" when he said he couldn't come out to meet me. He was hurt but guess since we were so new in our relationship, I got my way with him and he came to appease a very brat-ish P and brought with him a sashimi hamper and more food for us to share in bed where he devoted his attention to serving me from top to bottom and fed me like a baby...

Yes, it was the day I told him he was the oldest man I have fucked.

It was a strange day, that earlier sense of coyness I felt as we entered the room. It was our first time being intimate in a "proper" room and prior to that, we had a quickie in his car.I now recall the scene and the general feel of the mood of when we got into the room. Our tongues interacted passionately and freely as we were temporarily shielded from the rest of the world. Then he gently got me to lie on my stomach on our bed. He first informed that he would take off his clothing as it was hindering his movements and stripped himself down to his boxer trunks. Then he climbed on top of me and tried to massage me. I had my black lacy spaghetti strapped top on and was in my black knickers. I just got my period on that day. He threaded carefully on the topic of whether he could please remove my clothing (as I had earlier flagged no sex given my period and the mere idea of stripping myself down to my undergarments for the first time and for him to witness me wearing an unsightly sanitary pad; yes I am not a tampon person although the Old Boy already knew for the longest time I am an old fashioned sanitary pad gal which he also prefers for some reason)...

I barely have time to catch up on myself. The emotions of the November 2007 break up with DL remains raw and hard to talk about, without first reducing me still to tears. As I strolled along the harbour and walked past wonderful fine dining establishments, I could not help but think about our gig that we dreamt about-DL and mine. It's never quite the same again I guess. The Older Sibling mentioned that DL too has lost interest in his cooking but devotes his time to the conventional professional services career route, although he still maintains a few hours a week of restaurant work...Guess it was me-I didn't have the strength to follow through.

Then my heart continues to suffer in pain-the Old Boy having moved on and continued with his promiscuous ways. I continue to miss him fondly more than I could care to pen down here. It's all too emotionally draining. My feelings remain intense and I feel so weak and defeated by my heart.

Even the fling that V and Oscar have receded from the memories of everyone (except perhaps Oscar himself). V has since been with the German we met through Oscar on Christmas Eve. V is moving in with her German beau next weekend.

How things take a turn so quickly and people could move on...

Oh, the Norwegian I had when I was back last month, I almost forgot. He is a M lookalike. A couple of weeks ago, I met the Norwegian online and I couldn't imagine my own callousnes. I asked, "What time is Sweden now?" To which he replied, "I don't know cos I am not from Sweden :) " Then, I realised my faux pas.

In other news, M has broken up with his girlfriend a couple of months ago. I didn't realise he had a girlfriend. Anyhow, he mentioned toying with the idea of visiting Australia end of the year or next year to get together. M is still a beautiful looking boy. If he comes, he comes. I guess I have long got over this boy whom I used to be so in love with. Once I am over someone, I guess I have pretty much write them off. No residual feelings whatsoever. Just like Mr. London whom my emotions hung on dearly for a good eight years. When I let go, I just do and never looked back. Last month I finally met him for the first time in three years post Paris. He looked the same, richer and having a more beautiful Thai singer girlfriend. Again, we had the same awkwardness that we always had since we were seventeen. We didn't have too much to say, left too much unsaid for too long and still we reckon we must surely have something to say except there is really none now. As Old Boy always puts it, "Wind blow already.."

I need more of that ability to let go to get me through these days.My heart has been subjected to too many stress tests. Some days, I swear I do feel suicidal, especially when I could derive nothing positive to psych myself.

I should internalise key words and actions like "Fuck and chuck" and "Pump and dump".

I must. I really must try.

In less than 2 weeks' time, I return home yet again- excited to spend time with the Old Boy and what's left of my entourage but as usual, apprehensive. Apprehensive that it might well be a re-enactment of my March visit last year. Buckets of tears and a sore heart that will take more to heal, I can assure you. Last year was Dr. Jekyll & Hyde, a mere stranger lover but this time round, the force will be more lethal. Now, I am really getting cold feet...

Oh,that third unused condom bestowed by V to prepare me for a spontaneous occasion with the Old Boy is still seating in the attached flat zipped purse compartment of my handbag like a talisman, accompanying me to work everyday and reminding me that it wasn't all that long ago...

Thursday, February 21, 2008

 
Rant

Got the congested heart again today.
Worked on good deals.
Pressing deadlines at work and studies.
Need to get into work early in less than eight hours.
More shit and crap to be heaped on me.
March trip home will be anti-climax I assure myself.
On various angles.
What’s fucking new.
Got told my bonus today.
Shitty money.
I swear I cannot take another year
Where someone dictates my bank balance
Heart got extremely congested today.
The head honchos asked P if she was happy with the bonus.
Within expectations she tried to sound positive.
Old Boy exclaimed it was almost his previous year’s salary.
I swear I hate not having control
My life is in a freaking mess.
Comes this part of the year
I feel suicidal again.
Scary and weary
I am with myself and my life.
Every morning I find myself
Envying the fruit man
Downstairs

Am contemplating-
Perhaps I should throw a party
When I get home.
And feel like fifteen again.

Monday, February 18, 2008

 
Telepathy

My sixth sense is back.
Since December.
It is back.
With a vengeance.

The bully taunted me.
Announced that I was pregnant.
My face flushed
With anger and shame.

Watch me, I swore quietly.
In December
We were in a cab
The bully piqued me again.

I cursed her.
Pregnant.
Just watch me, I said.
Indeed she has.

I felt in my guts.
As I do.
Like how I knew
The nasty things I went through.

******

Did I tell you that as a child I had a certain pensiveness about me?

I was pretty as a Japanese doll with a melancholic soul.

Obsessed with death since I was five- it was the year I nearly attempted suicide because I was angry.

You will never guess if you were to see the now live wire P to know she is that same quiet girl.

But I’m still that same girl.

I still love being alone-that quiet time for my soul to meditate.

At five, I would look out of the window in my classroom every Friday afternoon and I knew that one day when I grow up, I would live in a faraway land. My mind kept reiterating, “when I become sixteen…”


At twenty-eight going twenty-nine, my childhood revelations of the worst kind have come true and unfolded before my very life.

Things I tried avoiding with a vengeance lest my “imagined” life became one hell of a self-fulfilling prophecy. I had to be smart for me.

I went through some tough shit between age 21 to 25. Those images that have plagued my youth as I often lie in bed till the wee hours of the morning, the reason why I always have difficulty rising from my bed- because my mind is yet again thinking…

One more story that became more and more prominent in my head as I got older. I tried to dispel it. It is the pathetic story of my adult life- I am to fall for a married and polygamous man. He never loves me the way I do for him. I would love him beyond loving myself, he will always take me for granted and I will allow him time and again to do it to me.

I didn’t see how it could happen since I had DL. DL loved me to bits and I thought we would eventually get married. I still do.

Besides, I reasoned that I am too smart to let this happen to me.


But my story has happened.

****

Recently, I conducted small self-tests to confirm my karmaic finesse since I felt it coming back.

I lost my ability in those dark years with DL because my soul was distracted.

The clairvoyants I have been to all said, “P, you got to trust your instincts…”

Every so often now,I would think of a person, stranger or friend and sure enough, I’ll see or get contacted by that same person. Or I would think of a question about someone and the answer will somehow find its way and unfold before me.

Funny eh?


****

That year must be 2004. I was at Zouk members’ bar. A stranger came up to me to chat me up.

I looked straight at him.

“17th November.”

“What?”

“Your birthday.”

“Yeah. How do you know?”

“I just do.”

I made him show me his identification card to verify my wild punt. Voila- struck the jackpot.

He was the second person in that year that I made a correct guess.


****

A couple of times in the past few months when I was checking up on Nano’s friends in his Facebook account, I noticed one particular girl. She is Chinese and looks very plain amongst his other female babes who are hot and glamorous. My instincts marked her.

Nano had earlier mentioned when I got back to Sydney that he didn’t know what I have done to him but he likes Chinese girls now. I must leave a legacy behind. Whatever, I told him.

His latest hook up is Chinese, he said.

What was her name I asked.

“Ruby.”

“Ruby Shoes”

“You know her?”

“No, but I saw her on your Facebook and guess as much.”

“How come?”

“I don’t know. I just felt it when I saw her face.”



****

When the Old Boy and I first met each other’s acquaintance, there was something truly magical about our friendship. We read each other’s mind spot on.

The day we chatted online via his phone, we had a mini tiff. He was coming out of one of his sordid haunts on a rainy afternoon and going to a funeral. He spent that entire afternoon chatting to me on his phone in one corner as his male friends gallivanted away.

I don’t even remember what we argued about, except that I knew, I saw and I felt in my gut that he was sulking.

“Now, stop sulking, will you!” I told him.

“How do you know?”

“I just do. I can see you now.”

He was amazed and appeased.

As we got to know each other better, we began to make descriptions of our personal facial features. We had a code of honour to never seek out each other’s picture.

I was slowly seeing his face…

One day, when I was in a foul mood, the Old Boy sent me a picture of his baby boy to cheer me up. I stared at the picture and again that gut feeling overcame me once again.

I told him that Little Baby looks like him-nose down. Those eyes belong to his mother.

Spot on.

Finally when we arranged to meet at St James, I must’ve caught sight of his face in the crowd. I turned around again and I thought I lost him.

He did came up to me eventually because I have told him what I would wear- you can never miss P in the crowd with her fair skin and her pearls. The Old Boy said he knew it was me-it was my nose ever distinctively sharp.

****

Today after we have spoken online when I got home, I had a niggling feeling (that unshakeable feeling) that I am to find something very interesting in that electronic shady alleyway of his life.

It was a very affirmative gut feeling that I am to find what I think I would find there.

I clicked on the site and for some reason, the site took a while to load. My chest tightened because I felt that presence of the material that I was expecting. True enough, it was there…

****

I recall those magical days of mind-reading each other. We wrote some lyrical letters- perhaps I did bring that spring of hope to the Old Boy that maybe soul mates do exist…

During one of those intense moments of our interactions still as semi strangers, I recall entering the ladies at work and a thought struck me.

Would the Old Boy ever take courage to leave his lifeless marriage if he were to find true love and give his life a second chance and meaning again?

That same day later, I received an email from him wondering out loud the same question.

To which, I gave him my detailed take on his actions and his train of thought.

Again, spot on.

We did have a fair bit of chemistry going there.

Or was it telepathy?

 
Raw Emotions


My suitcase from last month’s trip from home remains unpacked. I have a couple of dresses and silk blouses that require dry cleaning. My bathroom is still as gross as it was in December 2007. In less than three weeks’ time, I am flying home again. To which after a week in Asia and back in Australia, I will hop on the plane again to cross the Atlantic Ocean five days after.

Work is ever increasing on top of a hectic work travelling schedule in March.

My assignments are due in one week and so is my exam, which will ensue when I touch down at the end of my second trip (I will be spending the last of my 20-something birthday on the plane, snuggling up to my revision notes on my Business class bed). I am behind time with my postgraduate studies and I am not about to fail my last subject. At the rate I am going with my revision, I am set for failure.

Messy. My life is.

****

I have been bloody distracted. I have tossed and turned in bed one too many a time. Hot and bothered I am.

A thousand and one images of Old Boy have been haunting my mind- his phallus, his touch, the movement of our lustful bodies, our lascivious tongues, that lyrical moan of his, our hungry mouths…

I have spent many late nights and early mornings lying in bed fantasizing about making sweet love once again to the Old Boy. So much so that I run the risk of missing my train to work on time…

****

“Fuck and chuck!” V has been drumming the phrase in my head.

“You got to stop this!”

I am not supposed to be sentimental, she cautioned.

I tried defending myself. “I cannot be callous.”

She is piqued by his use of the word “disappointment” on me. It resonated with her past life and how she had allowed the men in her life to use that on her. Never will she allow anyone to use that on her again and so should I.

Whilst I was re-visiting our old correspondences, I came across an August email. The Old Boy once also wrote that he was “disappointed” with me because I did ended up being intimate with Nano.

Ironically, the Old Boy is fond of saying- “zero expectations= zero disappointment”.

If my motto is “Can you/ I handle it?”, the above must be his.


****

“Yeah, I got ditched.”

“By whom?”

“(The Old Boy’s nickname).”

“Well, I hope the sex was great at least.”

“It was awesome. I had the biggest orgasm a girl could have.”

“Oh.”

“Yeah. Do you want to read about it?”

(He doesn’t know I keep a site but every so often, he asks to read some of my writings which I would send him sporadically).

Long Pause.

“So when did you fuck?”

It must have been the second time he asked.

“When I was back home. Why? Are you tracking the time as to when that led up to the supposed Manila trip?”

“Nothing. I was just asking.”

Whatever. I wasn’t in the mood to care either.

Missed your boat.

Next month, I could stop over at San Francisco where Nano will be for a month. He mentioned he would be there. Now I have decided I would like to go to L.A for the weekend.

For once, I would like to work my life according to my own plans.

I must be very capable of disappointing.


****

I am getting all frisky. The thought of the Old Boy send me the tingles.

My friends asked me what is it with me.

For one, you must know the Old Boy is much older.

For two, I have slept with hunks and I tend to like very tall men.

The Old Boy is neither.

We compared heights on 31st December 2007 at Hotel 81. We are the same height.

He spots a small middle-aged potbelly.

He isn’t exactly loaded either. I make as much as him.

I am constantly attracted to driven men but find myself at the mercy of laid back ones.

So wherein lies the attraction?

**

The allure of the older man, I guess.

Most importantly, the 360 experience we had before. He got me mind, body and soul.

There is something child-like about him from the very beginning about his friendship, his quest for affairs and romance.

The tenderness of his voice and that vulnerability of his soul. So fragile, like a girl’s. There is something effeminate about him and his youthful face. The Old Boy has been mistaken for being camp many a time and had been offered to become a toy boy by both men and women. He has been a recipient of very expensive gifts by women. It complements that masculine, “tough as nail” side of my personality.

The Old Boy was always at my service as he pours me my whiskey while a non-drinker like him would indulged on me. I miss his full service- feeding me sashimi, massaging my back and pleasuring me at my whim and fancy. I always like to be served and pampered like the queen- that’s the Dominant P.

I love the tenderness of his voice as he calls me “sweetheart”. It teases the very damsel out of me. I feel like a young-ish girl in the arms of the older lover. The Old Boy is a talented musician and singer and there is something melodic about that voice of his. As the younger men I have been with helped re-capture parts of my youth, being with the Old Boy allows me to let my guard down as I play the role of that young vulnerable girl.

The Old Boy has a jealous personality as a lover that I find rather refreshing and rather stifling at the same time. It seems all very petty to me because I am hardly a jealous person. But somehow, the Old Boy has a way of working that magic on me that lets him get away with bad behaviour whilst I baby him and beg him to nurse his ego. I do indulge him that way.

I have a perverse attraction to the Old Boy’s sordid life. His promiscuity and the low lifes that he fucks- my emotions alternate between being turned on and being disgusted. I don’t know why. Secretly, it turns me on… He has a way of bring out the animalistic instincts of me.

The Old Boy never fails to make me want to fuck him real hard. I love to watch him become all so vulnerable whilst I pleasure him with my tongue and my mouth. I get hungry and sex starved just at the thought of his very touch and every so often, I do get so horny from submission as he stood on the bed and shoved his engorged beast deep down my throat whilst I part knelt and stood by the edge of the bed with his hand held my head and dictated the motion and speed of my oral movement until I go breathless.

The thought of me using my fat dildo to fuck his ass as I hear him moan in delight and him fucking me real hard to as he sticks his finger up my ass are fast spinning my wheels. I am dying for him to play the role of a teacher and spank me, a naughty schoolgirl before he plays with me- him the older lover will befit the role oh so well….

I don’t know what’s got into me but Old Boy provides me with the one-stop shop- food for my soul, life to my body and comfort to my heart. He provides me with comfort that way.

The best part is having for once a certainty- the certainty of no future. This is exactly what I need now. Knowing the ending right from the beginning. Right now, I am fearful of Hope.

I am so wanton for the Old Boy’s touch, I feel my heart racing at the thought of him. I can only think of ravaging him at the moment.

Somehow once you’ve found someone who suits your style, you can only focus on that one now.


****
Funny, when you think you are all set when you found the one lover and friend (who is even more polygamous than yourself), you could be so wrong…

No, he turns around and say he doesn’t want you anymore because you have cheated on him…

I do miss his sordid tales (contrary to his belief that the sex did our candidness in) but guess I haven’t the heart to listen when I don’t get all of him…

So yeah, I can now only fucking fantasize and doesn’t help that I won’t be seeing him when I touch down since he would be out of town. Seems like it’s all fated.

Why am I not surprise with my own fate?

Feels like de ja vu all over again- last yr, I had a great January 2007 of indulgence and comes homecoming March 2007, I returned home with a broken heart. I almost see the pattern falling into place yet again…

Heck of bull in this post-just ranting on and typing my train of thoughts… thanks for those who bothered to plough through this crap.

More worthy pieces to come in the backburner…

Saturday, February 16, 2008

 

Our Journey

Instead of catching up on the backlog in my life, I ended up before my laptop and took a trip down memory lane…

(I have extracted excerpts of our correspondences from almost four months into our friendship).

I did say someday I would publish some of our letters didn’t I?

****
what a pleasant surprise‏
From: Old Boy
Sent: Friday, 8 June 2007 9:14:06 AM
To: dilettantep@hotmail.com

hello,

just when i thought my day couldn't get any better, out of the blue, i get a phone call from you! i've been receiving many overseas calls today becos of my indon project and many of the calls did not show their numbers becos they came from overseas. so when your call came in, i thought, damn, it's work again. then i heard your voice, with the still not all too unfamiliar aussie accent. immediately, i got off my desk and started walking away from my desk, all the time with a huge beaming smile on my face. i got to the corridor of my office where i could then speak openly within any prying ears or eyes with my face still beaming from the call and the sound of your voice.

i am sure you could hear the smile in my voice. i don't think i could have hidden that away from you.

i like your description of my tiny little eyes growing even smaller as my puffy cheeks bloated up from the smile...thus further impairing my vision but who cared at the time right? all i could think about was i really needed this phone call and whether she's telepathic to know that i would truly appreciate the call from none other than Ms P. it really couldn't have come at a better time. and it truly a pleasant surprise. must appreciated.

anyway, i'm fine, thanks. yes, the tender did have some obstacles to clear,but i cleared them all. wonderful. i had to sweet talk and charm my way through guys and dolls but at the end of the day, i managed to clear all my obstacles and only have to vet through the pricing to ensure that everything is in order and that call isn't mine to make alone. my MD will be assisting me or perhaps me assisting the MD. which is good as a 2nd pair of eyes is always better than one pair and he's a four eye so that's 3 pairs of eyes looking through the pricing and trying to catch any discrepencies which could ruin us financially.

it's now about 7pm YOUR time. am hoping and praying that your bus driver is in good spirits and not intoxicated by your presence after you've done flirting with him to get you there faster and perhaps smoother, easier on your buttocks as he avoids all the major potholes. ha ha...and hoping that the wet roads does not pose a problem to him as he navigates along the roads to Sad Town. hope you get to DL safe and sound. and if you're reading this, i am sure you have!

really hoping to hear from you. i do miss your writing and now only read about you and your life on the net through your blog. well, at least you're still updating your blog, which is nice. happy birthday to M too. heh heh. what's with it about you and not letting them 'go'? hahhah...perhaps if and when you get to know me 'better?', you might not want to let me go either. or perhaps it's becos i'm kinda sticky and sweaty and you've adhered yourself to my body. ha ha. just kidding lah. wondering if you can actually put your hands around me.

with that, i shall end. take care and have a good weekend with DL.

take care

write me soon yeah?

best

Old Boy


****

From: "P Dilettante"
To: Old Boy
Subject: RE: got chewed
Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2007 13:27:43 +0000

Good to hear all is well on your end...

in other news, Nano arrives in sydney this sunday... he mentioned he's falling sick with a nasty cough... for some reason, I can't seem to "foresee" him coming....

it's like the same feeling I got with the Big Boy... all our anticipation abt when we meet up in singapore but somehow at the back of my mind for some reason I "saw" that our romance/ carnal activity would not go ahead for some reason despite being 2 willing parties.... it's that feeling I get with Nano now... like if he ever did arrive and we catch up, we might have little to say or we won't fancy each other too much...

hyped up persona syndrome yet again... if that makes sense????

P

RE: got chewed‏
From: Old Boy
Sent:Friday, 3 August 2007 1:34:15 AM
To: dilettantep@hotmail.com

funny how i can actually draw similarities between you meeting with BB and then now with you meeting with Nano, and soon, it would be with you meeting with the Old Boy. ha ha...well, like i said before, zero expectations = zero disappointment. i think you'll be alright with nano though...and you've been quite dry right? except for sexpo and then you didn't have sex after your exam...which i am sure is NOT a good thing. ha ha...so you have pent up sexual aggression...unless of course you managed to use the dildo that's in your drawer beside your bed. ha ha....just kidding.

but after reading your letter below...i also tink of whether the two of us would eventually meet up or not. perhaps we would...why? becos we're both not really romantically linked. we are linked through our common thoughts perhaps and friendship but romantically, we are not linked...(can't say for sexually but that's a one way street that i won't go down unless it becomes a two way highway!) so that's where the meeting of us would be different from nano or bb. it's meant to be platonic...just friends meeting up right? so should not have nor share the same tensions that you're feeling with nano and BB.

wonder if that's clear???

anyway, you take care and have a good weekend and do tell me what went on between you and nano ok>? don't leave anything out. i feel like one of your girlfriends, rooting for you...and cannot wait for the juicy details...ha ha...all the best, good luck and don't drink too much...becos i know what drinking can do to you! hope he brings you a pressie!!!!!!

best
P


****

what happened?‏
From: Old Boy
Sent: Friday, 10 August 2007 8:16:27 AM
To: dilettantep@hotmail.com
all of a sudden you disappeared.

so i will try to cut and paste what i said in case you didn't receive it.

P says:
why is it always back abt u and me when I am talking abt me and another
guy????
P says:
not sex, sex though... just intimacy...
Ol Boy says:
yeah whatever
Old Boy says:
becos the more guys you sleep around with (or be intimate) the better my
chances....duh...or have you already made up your mind about me eh? and you
haven't told me?
Old Boy says:
intimacy...right! ha ha....big f**king difference
Old Boy says:
he probably didn't penetrate you becos he off loaded into your mouth.
Old Boy says:
i would have been happy (or i WILL BE HAPPY) if i could off load into your
mouth too...!!!
Old Boy says:
anyway, about why it is always about you and me, especially when its you and
another guy is becos i wish i had the hope...if you do one fat guy...you
might do me...another fat guy...
Old Boy says:
so it gives me hope dear...whatever little there is...but it gives me hope.
think of the poor ppl and that sort of situation...where can only look
through the window to see all the food on the table.
Old Boy says:
feeling self pity etc. well, it gives me hope. that's all.
Old Boy says:
i'm not saying that i would get lucky or anything like that.
Old Boy says:
i don't even know if i'm your type and vice versa...but i am assuming that
we might be compatible but guess need to judge whether i have a hope in hell
or not. guess what would really make my day is that you would say that i
have a hope in hell. ok? hope that clarifies matters


****

twiddling my thumbs‏
From: Old Boy
Sent: Monday, 13 August 2007 4:16:13 AM
To: dilettantep@hotmail.com
hi there,

hope you are feeling better from this morning.

i think i have more or less decided to take up the offer, and now just
twiddling my thumbs. need to see the offer letter first before tendering here. i think that is a wiser thing to do just in case things don't pan out well at the other company or their offer isn't that attractive. ….. …..but also after having chatted with the founder of the company, i've found him very easy going and easy to work with and he's so very keen to engage me. i think it is going to be a good move.

but the money is going to be good...i'm sure of it. well, even if it only meets 50% of my expectation, it is still a very very substantial increase and by my calculations, would wipe out all the money lost working at this current place in one full year! so after two and a half years of struggling to keep my head above water, and looking at a deficit every month and every year for the past two years or so, i am going to look forward to increased savings and perhaps some pocket money. i am so pleased with this opportunity. really looking forward to it...and the new company has a pool
table in the office! how cool is that right? oh, i think i must have told you about that already. heh heh.

anyway, thot i might cheer you up with a little good news about myself and my direction. sorry if it is all about me...but it is trying to cheer you up since you lack any really good news in your life recently. just to let you know that i am still looking forward to our dinner this december. we've been communicating blindly for the past many months and it would be fun to put a face to all the fucks or intimate times...eh? heheheh...yeah right. can't believe that you still stand by the fact that you didn't have sex...sigh...trying to fool one's self...ok...sorry...i can't talk...i am not on a morally high horse either. perhaps we're in the same boat
together.

speaking of boats...i wasn't quite sure if i should tell you, becos i know you'd 'scold or chide' me but the First Love wrote me an sms to say hello which eventually led to her wanting something from singapore...a wrist band or something like that from nike. she said none available in KL. hmm...first thing that popped into my mind was YOU! yeah, i know...crazy right? but remembered your warning and so i delayed and dallied and said i'd call her today (monday) to confirm the model etc and to see if there was any available here. later in the day, she finally messaged me to say that she had found it already. whew...i know that you would have been cross with me if i had gone and gotten the thing for her. whew...wouldn't want to suffer the wrath of P. she still knows how to tug my heart but i'm very glad that i have you, and your words and warnings and wisdom to turn to. you have made a difference to my life...yup...you have. in your little ways...you have. don't say that i haven't been listening to you...i might not look like i have...but i have!

another thing, is that Paid Fuck also wrote to me via sms to ask for 'help'. hmm...told her i was bz and that i might call her or sms her on tues or wed. again, remembered you...see, you have made a difference. perhaps the money saved should go into the P dinner fund...ha ha...then oosh would definitely be on me!

anyway, you take care. just a couple of testimonies to let you know that you have been making a difference to someone's life.

best
Old Boy
****
RE: twiddling my thumbs‏
From: Old Boy
Sent: Tuesday, 14 August 2007 12:13:50 AM
To: dilettantep@hotmail.com
good morning, hope you are feeling better today.

i'm a little bz and will have to run around town today to get endorsements and such for tender in indonesia, as usual.

but i thank you for your messages yesterday via sms and truly hope that you are feeling better.

you should know better than to worry yourself silly about relationships. sigh..you are so young...you have the whole world ahead of you.

anyway, perhaps you're trying too hard. planning too much. and not being carefree and free spirited anymore. perhaps you're just trying too hard.

whatever the case, i don't think i can help much except by being a listening ear to you and your troubles.

take care and be good.

best

Old Boy


i just read your blog update and am logging on now. i will be there for you in a minute.

take care and glad to hear that you have decided to go see a counsellor.hope things work out well for you dear.

and don't think too much about me k? i'm the furthest thing you need at the
moment.

but you know that i won't let you fall...i'll be there for you in spirit while you chat with the counsellor.

best
Old Boy



From: Old Boy
To: dilettantep@hotmail.com
Subject: WHY FRIENDS ARE NECESSARY
Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2007 02:22:10 +0000

dearest p,

enclosed please find a cartoon that really says what i would like to do in my life.

i may not have all the answers and i may not have the strength and expertise to help you and to pull you up, but i will NOT let you fall. this is certainly on my heart. that i would NOT let you fall.

but sometimes, the things that i say or do might hurt you...like in the cartoon, with the stone on the face. i may not have the strength or the right words to help you get up from your depression or your state of emotional disillusion or work troubles, but i certainly won't let you fall.

thus my words and actions might hurt you...and for that i am truly sorry.

but i hope that this cartoon would allow you to understand more about how i feel and thus how you might feel when i say something nasty or cutting or hurt you.

that's all i have to say

best

P




From: "P Dilettante"
To: Old Boy
Subject: RE: WHY FRIENDS ARE NECESSARY
Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 01:30:55 +0000

Old Boy,

I wish u are online today, just when I need u... am not at work... am still depressed and I cannot allow myself to be like that... going to see a doc later for a recommendation for a counsellor....I think b4 it affects my wk and pp see through me....

my heart is congested....

P


****
From: Old Boy
To: dilettantep@hotmail.com
Subject: have a good weekend
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2007 10:05:47 +0000

sorry, was out for a while and when i got back, you were gone. anyway, just to wish you a good friday and a good weekend.

hope things are working better with you and DL. i guess it is a roller coaster of a ride for you these past few eeks. i guess i am privy to the entire picture...the whole picture.

thanks for letting me into your life.anyway, am really hoping that you pull your life together really soon dear.

take care of yourself...both emotionally and especially physically...i.e. your health and well being.

will catch up with you on tuesday when i come back to the office.

Best
Old Boy

From: P Dilettante
To: Old Boy
Subject: RE: have a good weekend
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2007 11:31:03 +0000

Thanks Old Boy. You have a good time in Hong Kong with your wife and children. Try creating some romance! ;) My heart is beating fast again as I write.

I don't know what is wrong with me Old Boy. Also, I cannot seem to get bloody Nano out of my mind at the moment (and I am REALLY ashamed of myself And would not tell B lest I get another scolding)... sigh...

Anyways, you have fun and hopefully I might be in better spirits when you return Old Boy.
Best,
P

*****

From: P Dilettante
To: Old Boy
Subject: RE: have a good weekend
Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2007 14:07:06 +0000

Hi Old Boy,

How have you been? It seems like ages since we last spoke online or written. Are you still at your old job or on gardening leave?

It's Sunday night and I hope you have had a good weekend. I was in the office from 9.30am to 4.30pm today but I am glad I got work done.

I don't know why I am writing except that my heart is still frail and Nano is still on my mind and he has gotten rationalised and there is little I could do to better the situation for myself apart from trying to get over it and get over myself...

I don't know my heart was never made for stomaching flings and affairs and god knows why I often get myself into knots... the last time was Dr J&H, which suddenly didn't seem too long ago, considering the fact that then I just met your acquaintance on email and it was during that time that I made a trip home for the wkend to see him. But guess it was easy to not get myself too sentimental over that one post the "fat" incident...

Old Boy, I don't know why I am telling you this except that I have no one to deposit my discomfort and being such a pain to myself cos I am too embarrassed and seriously, I would be so with the psychologist I am sure. Hope you wouldn't be tempted to take advantage of my situation to mentally screw me up at the moment (that's the self conscious paranoid me talking but then who wd say yes, P I would screw u up mentally if they want to do that to me in my vulnerable stage right? Yes, paranoid me pre-empting
again!!!)... I hear myself laughing slightly re-reading the paragraph I have just written...

Old Boy, the other nite on Friday I went out for drinks with colleagues and met a guy. I reckon he is your age and we had some quality conversation...

I swear to god I looked not the least bit attractive that night. I was in my black work suit, no make up, hair in a mess in pony tail and in white loafers (since I leave all my heels at work) and was drifting in my own thoughts thinking of Nano... I think all of us must have interacted prior within the group (comprising my colleagues and I, guy and girls and him,
and 2 other military guys and a girl- basically it was sporadic chatting and 4 diff groups ended up on the same long table)...

Then he sat beside me and said, "P, can I say you look really pretty?" I wasn't in charm mode that night either and had my legs up on the bottom of the table as we sat on high stools but he was a great guy to speak with, a fountain of knowledge, a sales and marketing guy in a high position working for TUB (Toll rds, big biz here and he later did asked if I would be interested to join the org as an Analyst cos he notice I asked a lot of quality and intelligent questions about his work and about himself and maybe the way I like to analyse things and give my usual two cents' worth as you would know it and which I have irritated you to no end with food for thought;))...

And then we began talking about lots of stuff- work and maybe some philosophy, our observations of human behaviour in the corporate world and mindsets of people and things in general... then he said that I was funny (like how Nano would say about me) and I often wonder what that means cos my friends say that about me too... I told this guy that I am quite a serious person and please can he enlighten me in what way was I funny... he
said it was my view of things, somewhat quirky and I am naturally funny the way I put things across without trying to be and that is something quite appealing... and my intelligence and knowledge and me sounding so educated (DL's boss at the winery said that about me- old man who is an ex-lawyer)... and then I said but I am a charlatan and a schmoozer if he hasn't noticed (as a sales and marketing person) and he said, "Oh P, I can't believe you said that about yourself but yes, you are a schmoozer, yes..." and he began to laugh bemusedly (and later to prove his earlier pt about how I cd take the joke on myself that made me appealing...)We were talking about education, doing MBAs and what have you and he said that I probably didn't need to do a masters cos I am probably
street smart enough to do well in life...

That night he mentioned that there is something "French" about my mannerism (did I also tell u when I was in sec sch someone said that about me too???? They didn't think I was Chinese for some reason. I don't know why but I suspect it must be linked to the notion of aristocracy because that's what V used to say about me when we first met when I was 15 that I had sthg aristocratic about me...). Maybe I do have a gift Mew and it lies with being around people and maybe I just don't get enough of it to enable me to lead larger than life and its causing me to be depressed....

I don't know why I am telling you this and I know its "I,I , I" and I have been like that for the longest time you know me now... I am sorry... I was thinking just last night and recalled that yes, it's been a long while since I turned that charm mode on you with titillating vocabulary and wordplay as we were wont to do in our earlier communications... I am so grateful that you haven't abandon our communications altogether because if you do, there might be no way that I could later reach you (or not, not underestimating my own mapping and detective skills heh!).

that nite was a gd nite Old Boy and I stayed out till 2am and it was down to us 4- all 4 of us came from sporadic diff groups, 4 complete strangers and we had MacDonalds and then I cabbed it home...and these days, by 10pm I tend to be watching my clock and want to go home. That night, by the time I looked at the watch, it was past 1am...
>
also, earlier in that nite, a colleague of mine (my senior one level above me and a rising star to become boss's next right hand woman) said sthg to me that makes me feel that perhaps there is hope that I could do good in my career... you know how I have had all these self doubts about me for the longest time...

She said I am so driven in my job (and I was surprised cos I always think that pp in my team must think/ know that I have been slacking off) and she was telling everyone how she thinks I write really well. I mean she is THE grammar Nazi in the team and she is someone you would go to and trust (by everyone and bosses) to read through our written assessments with a fine tooth comb and make corrections/ re-phrasing in red ink... so that has been something that quite perked me up...

I was talking to DL today and we're both looking forward to our hols on next Friday to following Wed... whenever, we talk, I feel happy and not want to leave him... but my infidelity and me wanting Nano drives me crazy and I feel that I cannot lead a double life like that no longer... I keep qning if I could ever settle down and I certainly don't want to live in emotional limbo all my life... it is an impediment to my longer term plans >that will spillover to other parts of my life, esp professionally... I don't know anymore, Old Boy...btw, I am going on hols on Nano's bd- irony eh? And I told N when he asked if I was still going to Manila next mth, I said no cos I am bz and cannot get away from wk... I guess pragmatic me still knows where my priorities lie, esp when I cannot feel that he is that into me...

Hopefully, by the time we finally meet up, I am back to my old self again- that will make for more delightful company for us at Oosh! Heh!:)

Ok, gotta go get my beauty sleep. Talk soon. I know it's a long email to go through but I reckon you must think its a pleasant surprise...

Write me a long one to update the going ons on your end, will you Old Boy?;)

After writing this email, I am already feeling better...:)

Cheers,
P

P.S Newsflash!!! My ex-bf's wife is pregnant with a 2nd one!!!! Can you
imagine????


RE: have a good weekend‏
From: Old Boy
Sent: Monday, 3 September 2007 1:52:25 AM
To: dilettantep@hotmail.com

thanks for the long email and i have been having a few good days these past week or so. hk was great...even with the little one with us. then we just drove up to desaru for the thur, fri and sat and that was really great too. haven't had such a wonderful time with the wifey for the longest time and desaru really proved to be a great hit although the place was really run down and my elder boy didn't like the beach at all...nor the sand between
his toes...just like his daddy. ha ha. i really don't like sand between my toes when i wear sandals...heh heh.

nevertheless, it was a great week...and i think relationships strengthened...although i am not abandoning my old ways but its good to spend this quality time with wifey and family.

you just came online...while i was reading the letter....so i guess i will cut this short to see how you're getting along. don't worry, i won't mess with you mind lah...but i do miss the old days of nottie little emails and messages...ha ha. guess we are good friends....not incapable of sleeping with each other (my personal observation), and it would probably be becos we want to be intimate...but anyway, let's drop this one. don't want to mess
with you mentally.

it's ok to write to me...to pen down what you want to say or what you have in your heart and in your mind. i'm always here to listen to you. i see you evolving...since the first day...i see your ups and your downs...and i know how you feel these days.

take care...and just to let you know, i am still at my old job...not moving to the new company until the 1st october. so it's a while to go yet. i am sure that we'll still be able to keep in touch when i shift offices.

and another thing...i guess some other guys would have totally dropped you in the sense that you don't provide any more titillating sensual emails and the such. i won't. heaven knows that i keep telling myself that i am getting myself further and deeper into P's world and it isn't that healthy...but i keep telling myself that we're friends first and foremost. that's the top of the list. if we ever did or do anything intimate together...(not going to promise that nothing is going to happen...so not going to kid ourselves) but if anything were to happen, let me tell you now, first and foremost, that it is our friendship that i treasure the most. not sure if intimacy would make us better off or worst off...but i will never look back...i will always treasure our friendship first and foremost and hope that even if anything happened between us, that we would still keep in mind that we're friends first.

best
P




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RE: On our last online conversation.‏
From: Old Boy
Sent: Sunday, 10 February 2008 12:11:38 AM
To: P Dilettante (dilettantep@hotmail.com)

i only asked you to stay true to me from one person...and you couldn't even do that.

that's my disappointment.

and PS...you asked me to stay true to you while you were in town. and i did...i didn't sleep with The Mistress dear...i lied to hurt you. i was at my parents house...looking after the kids...i was actually true to you...but i lied to hurt you.

From: dilettantep@hotmail.com
To: Old Boy
Subject: RE: On our last online conversation.
Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2008 12:35:46 +0000


Like I said, I did flagged no sex. I had no premeditated intention. If ever, my intention was no sex.

zero expectations brings zero disappointment.

No, I never asked you to stay true to me cos I didn't dare hope. This was not to say I didn't wish you would do that for me. You brought up the issue of exclusivity first when you mentioned about Ex-Fuck coming back to look you up. You said, "You know we are not exclusive right?" to which I replied, "How could we?" And then you said it yourself that you won't look her up while I was in town.

I always thought about you first- I mean it will be naive of me to think that you would stay exclusive for anyone for that matter, let alone me given the proximity. Although on my end, it is a non-problem cos I'll never have that extensive "social" life that you have and in my real immediate world, I have better things to focus my time on.

And I did have every intention to be exclusive for you on my part and it'll most likely to be so even when I am in Australia cos that's how my life works. And I would have done so in good faith/feelings although I know I get nothing out of it at the end of the day and knowing full well that you have so many extracurricular activities. If ever there is any request on my end when I was still sleeping with you, my concern is more focused on sexual hygiene/ responsibility.

thanks for staying true to me those 3 weeks- its more than a pleasant surprise to know. I wish certain things could be undone but guess I cannot turn back clock.

Yeah and please don't lie to hurt me cos it would only further complicate matters-its that ego of yours talking but it will not make you feel any better for one even if you meant all out to get me hurt. Plus if it backfired like before, it can only fuel me to more anger and you will be in shambles emotionally if we stop talking altogether- at the end of the day, we care too much about each other as friends to warrant such a malicious spite.

Saturday, February 09, 2008

 
Bully

after you prod and pry
open my raw wounds
I was nursing to heal
you leave me exposed

the truth you demanded
I let on to you
you stopped me halfway
penalised me before the end

forgiveness you said you tried
you can only feel hurt
focus on the injury
I supposedly did you

then what about me
I bear the brunt
for all the misgivings
since done to me

victims of each other
you had once said
my rules are much simpler
you should stick to fair play

harp, whinge and cull
up old skeletons are
what you do best
to thus remind me

never have I the
hold over you
but you did with me
I note your glee

pick me up you
then drop me down
punched bruised battered
at your very whim

bad gal you say
I haven’t treat you nice
training you will give
to make me so good

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Thursday, February 07, 2008

 
Going Home

It slipped my mind earlier in the week that yesterday was the Chinese New Year Eve. It was business as usual Down Under. I haven’t stopped working since Sunday and have been doing eleven to twelve hours at my desk since. Bloody thankless but guess it is what it is in the rat race as I do time and try to work my way up the corporate food chain.

On Tuesday night, I then recalled having been invited by a bunch of old university friends for a Chinese reunion dinner last night. All thanks to Facebook. I nearly couldn’t make it due to work but alas, I made it albeit an hour and a half late.

“Since when did you move to Sydney, P?”

“June 2005.”

“Oh, for that long already?”

“Yes, but after I graduated I went to Paris to study fashion and worked there for a while…”

“No wonder, you have dropped off the radar…”

“Yes…”


I didn’t add that since I left campus and moved out to live with DL, life hadn’t been easy. So I did dropped off from that group way before I finished university. The year is 2002. 2003 was the dawn of the dark years to come…

Strangely, some of them are already married. One couple got married 5 years ago. I always remembered the girl as someone else’s girlfriend-my mind still stuck in 1999-2002. As for the husband, he was always Mr. Nice Guy Virgin Boy(NGVB) whom I used to hang around with my other best girlfriend, Swimmey during the time I was single and NGVB also hung out with DL in another clique before DL and I got hooked up. Onlookers thought it was a case of rebound on the girl’s end when they got married. By the time this couple started dating, DL and I must be together for a good 2 to 3 years.

At the restaurant, we were a group of fifteen. I am hardly a groupie. But I do what I needed to do. I switched seats and sat next to Kitty whom I used to hang out with back in the old days. She first started off as DL’s good friend.

I recalled those crazy days when I dated DL. I hung out with this group who has no observation of time and urgency for academic deadlines. They could be easily rounded up in the middle of a night to have supper and beer at the local pokies club where they also played pool and smoked heaps. My organised life was completely disrupted and I saw my grades sliding. I only used to party from Thursday nights to Saturday nights; the rest of the nights were spent catch up on studies, gossiping with Swimmey or sleep. I was mad at DL and his decadent friends. Coolios and I were the two “smartie pants” in the group. But Coolios was cool and had a laid back attitude, someone who loved his fags and alcohol- not at all a stereotypical A-list student. I was deemed overly domineering with DL, outspoken and self-righteous and was perhaps tolerated for being DL’s gal initially for the most part.

Strangely, Kitty is now the one with the MBA (despite her lousy grades and repeat subjects) and is currently doing more studies. I recall the time where she was so gone from taking Ecstasy, having been ditched by the Pilot and previously attempted to slash her wrist, she turned up at our house at 2am. She couldn’t stop talking and DL kept her company all night. I was pissed my usual way, just wanted to get on with my life as I have planned with the prospect of upcoming exams at the back of my mind and causing my anxiety levels to go up few folds (from having to manage the household financially and Fluffball, DL and myself to be on track for revisions)…

“So have you been to Sad Town since?”

“You know DL and I have broken off right?”

“Yeah. I was back there during Christmas and went to visit him at both your place. He cooked me dinner.”

“Oh, that was nice. Didn’t know you guys spent Christmas together!”


I was heartened that at least DL had friends to celebrate with during the festive season.

“So are you for real? Have you thought about it carefully?”

I nodded my head.

“Guess the problem has always been there, don’t you think?”



She nodded her head.

“So have you got a boyfriend now?”

“No! We’ve only recently broken up…”

“Well, still? It’s not that recent you know…”


What do I say? It’s still a sore point. I haven’t even the courage to write about that day. Too much for what my heart and emotions can handle at this point, really…


****

The last time I was home, it was the first time I had so many people asking me the question, “When are you coming home?”

It sounded like a foreign question because I never thought I was ever coming home. I remembered the day I left. It was B’s 20th birthday. She cried her eyes out. I still feel that moment where I walked into the airport check-in, me suppressing whatever fear or nostalgia I was capable of. I took a deep breath, turned and waved at my entourage of family and friends, gritted my teeth and left. I remember telling myself I will never come back to live here ever again, I will seek that brave new world out there and do good…

Funny when you hit a certain age, you suddenly realise how far you have walked the mile alone and your growing weariness is fast slowing you down to pause and think. It just registered that you have since left much behind. You haven’t realised how brave you have been, simply because you didn’t know any better before.

You now become aware of your parents’ mortality, the dwindling number of single friends you could round out for a night of fun, the number of Chinese New Years you have missed…

Now I must admit I am feeling a tad homesick.

Maybe like how some of my friends said, it’s time for me to come home.

What can I do if I return?


Next month, I will fly home for 2 weekends- thanks to work.

So yes, I will be coming home. But not for too long.

Saturday, February 02, 2008

 
What you Learn…


It doesn’t get easier with age.

The heart doesn’t become hardy like you would hope.

It just gets heavier with burden.

Then it shows signs of crumbling.

Yet another heart squeeze of pain that resonates the previous and the following…

That perpetuality.

You then wish if you have to choose between pains, you questioned which one would I choose?

You would pick that big grand pain that physically hurt your chest that you experienced when you were thirteen but most prominently fifteen.

You cried your eyes out and you lost your breath.

You even cried yourself to sleep.

But with time you did get over it.

You got over it with no residues, no betraying scars.

But age suppresses that child-like hopefulness you have for the world.

Even when you do, the rest of the world will prove you otherwise.

You “smarten” up but your heart is true to your soul and never lies to you…

Only your mind is capable of tricking you.

You never escape from you.

Inevitably, your herd instincts put you on cope and maintenance mode.

There goes the vicious cycle…

Heart squeeze, pain, heart squeeze, pain…



*****


That Thursday August afternoon before Nano left my house, we got onto our favourite topic- money.

The mood was grim and tensed. He was getting into a foul and anxious mood about his brother.

We were walking up the stairs to my bedroom.

“Yeah, it’s true I get worried when I don’t make enough money…”

“P, but you are doing fine.”

I meant to at least first get one part of my life right.

“Money can take care of many of my worries, Nano. But what I really fear most in life are the things that even if I had made that much, the money still cannot take care of…”

He looked at me quietly and understood what I meant.


*****

In another Life’s lesson, you learn that honesty has a price to pay.

But you exchange it for freedom.

So you did the right thing.

You think, by others and by yourself.

True there is pain but you will cope and perhaps will heal.

How well you don’t know.

The journey is ongoing…


*****


Perhaps I value my freedom more than I am capable of loving.

I must be, I tell myself.

My newfound freedom legalises my polygamy.


*****

Polygamy and love- can they ever be complementary?

Love of what?

Lovers, sex, companionship, life…

Is the heart of a true polygamist capable of devoting to loving one singularly?

Will then the soul of the polygamist be compromised?


*****

In yet another Life’s lessons, I figured polygamy is a true test of one’s Ego.

That need- to- possess- another Ego.

Not exactly free love.

But ah, the twist lies in this:

The true lover’s ability to respect the style of the polygamist.

Dispel that jealousy of wanting exclusivity.

Not even feel that pain of having to share.

To top up the mere idea:

Think of the lovers as a pair of polygamists in themselves.

**

“ When the heart falls in love with somebody, then there is no problem; then your love object is your only love object for you. The moment the heart has fallen in love with a woman, then that is the only woman in the world. Then all other women have disappeared for you. The heart is single in purpose. But if the head had fallen in love- in fact it has not fallen in love, it simply pretends- then it is difficult. Then any woman that passes on street attracts you, provokes you. Then any passing influence distracts you. Love knows single purpose because love is really of the heart. If you are here with me through the heart, then it is a totally different relationship. Then it is going to be eternal. Then I can die, you can die, but the relationship cannot die. But if it is only of the head, if you are simply convinced by what I am saying, not convinced by what I am… if you are only convinced by what I am saying- my logic, my argument- then this relationship is temporary. Tomorrow you will be convinced by somebody else. Tomorrow somebody else can give you a better argument; then it disappears.

… the pure in heart and single in purpose are able to understand the most supreme way.”


-“ In Accord with the Way”, The Buddha Said… meeting the challenge of life’s difficulties, Osho

**

Could polygamists still be capable of love and being in love with each other?

**

I am single.

Technically, I am free.

This free spirit now dabbles in polygamy.

**

I put my Ego to a test.

I put my heart on the line.

We found each other through polygamy.

**

The Old Boy mentioned the fucks.

Shows me texts of mistress and fucks.

(Mini heart squeeze.)

(Pain suppression, sometimes I even managed a smile.)

I continued to stick to my script.

I spotted the discomfort on his expression.

He would ask me about the others.

The Koran (that I kissed), DL (yes, we still keep in touch every so often), the Norwegian and the ex-fucks.

That slight self-interested discomfort he betrayed when he inquired about the size of the white dicks that I have fucked.

Ensuing, he suggested contemptuously that perhaps Koran, him and me should do a threesome.

He gave a little laugh to mask that jealousy.

I pouted, looking and feeling a little hurt.

He wanted to share me.

(But I reminded myself that I am a polygamist and so is he.)

“Oh baby, how could you say that? You don’t respect me do you?”

“Well, I am saying if you want to sleep with Koran just tell me ok? You can go and sleep with him.”


He was sulking.

(Noted)

(My heart lightened up a little.)

I had to remind myself that I am a polygamist and so is he- we are non-exclusive.

(But my heart was yielding.)

“No, I won’t Baby.”

I hugged him.

He was appeased and so was I.

I intended to stay exclusive for him.

**

“What’s in for you P? The Old Boy is married!”

I didn’t add that he has a mistress and many numerous fucks on his end.

I wasn’t with him to keep scores.

Those 360 now-and-here moments were what I treasured.

I am still sticking to my script.

“Nothing. He is good to me. Enjoy the present.”

At least for once in my life, I had a certainty.

That is, knowing that there is no future together.

The inspiration of Hope arising from a joint experience can be the most destructive thing.

The Old Boy’s maxim- “Zero Expectations = zero disappointments”.

I stuck to his words.

I was loyal to my heart.

I dispelled my Ego.

*****

The biggest Life lesson I have learnt is that there is no such thing as fair play.

Universal truth.

“In every market, there are winners and losers.”

I was taught in my first Economics lecture at school.

No wonder, Economics never has been my forte. In fact, I got someone to sit for my exam at university just to pass.

That “pass” grade always stuck out like a sore thumb amidst my academic transcript of “distinctions” and “high distinctions”.

I should have taken it upon myself to learn that lesson well.

**

“I have relinquish my hold over you.”

“Why?”

“You have done the dirty with Koran.”

“No!”

“I’m sorry. I can’t take you back.”

“I have always been your gal.”

“Nope. You are Koran’s.”

“You know I gave you my heart and soul.”

“I did too. But I gave your heart back to you when I learnt that you slept with him.”

“Please baby.”

“No. You promised me you won’t. You broke my heart-lunged a knife in there and pulled it out.”

“I never thought you cared for me…”

“If I didn’t, why would I keep asking about Koran and you?”

“I thought it was your Ego-you just wanted to be possessive over me and I let you even though you crammed my style cos I have feelings for you...”

“You promised me. You hurt me.”

“I am sorry. I truly am Old Boy.”

“This is the first time your apologies registered in my mind. But it’s too late.”

“Look. You have others on your side and we are never meant to be exclusive. And I have to share you with some, which I consider as low lives.”

“You could have told me if you wanted to sleep with him.”

“I did not harbour intention. I did intend to stay exclusive for you.”

“But you did sleep with him. Now you can sleep with him as much as you like.”

“Don’t do this to me.”

“You didn’t give a rat’s ass about me.”

“I did. I did.”

“But you went ahead to sleep with him.”

“You sleep with other women too and I never hold it against you.”

“You could’ve told me if you wanted to sleep with him and I would be mentally prepared…”

“So do you have wished that I lied to you and said I didn’t sleep with Koran?”

“Yes! In this instance, I wish you lied so you wouldn’t hurt me and now both of us wouldn’t have to suffer. At least you would still have me.”

“I had no intention but you do with the rest. Please me fair.”

“I’m sorry dear, I’m not taking you back.”

“I’m asking you to be fair to me. Is that too much to ask?”


**

He doesn’t love me. He is very sure.

He told me last night.

So how could I break your heart if you never gave it to me?

I served him back the question he earlier asked me.

To which, I had confessed I did.

He laughed. To which he replied it was his Pride.


*****

I did try to give my best shot at attempting to be a polygamist, didn’t I?

All encompassing in my approach-like I took a subverted Middle Way.

I gave him my heart, dispel my Ego on exclusivity, told him the truth about my “infidelity” (a ringing irony to the word) for the freedom of my soul and didn’t fully compromise the free spirited approach to my soul- well in action, at least.

However, my heart did give in and ruled my behaviour. Certainly, it triggered that emotional and mental torment I felt whilst I was committing the “dirty” with Koran. My heart didn’t quite reconcile too well with my supposedly “free-spirited” soul.

*****

As for you watching keenly out there, for my Ego’s sake (and with well meaning intentions that P here doesn’t get emotionally “short- changed”), I am sure you must be thinking, thank goodness you didn’t stay exclusive in action, P! It would have been so “unfair” for you!

Yes, my heart didn’t give in to reason when perhaps it should have.

It would have been more merciful that way.

Maybe I wouldn’t be experiencing the latest heart-wrenching squeezes.

It seems like my mind still hasn’t quite successfully outsmarted my heart.

I allowed this errantly silly child-like heart to be broken merely by someone’s Ego.

How laughable is my love for the Old Boy?


**

Something’s gotta give somewhere, eh?

That mocking moon of my alter Ego. I hear it taunting me now:

You didn’t stand the true spirit of a polygamist!

You let someone’s lousy Ego break your cheap, pathetic heart!

So tell me Miss Smarty Pants who always appears like you know-it-all, what have you gain?

**

That first Friday night where I was at the Whiskey Bar in the company of the Old Boy, V and another gentle guy, we were having a great laugh.

Next to us, the female Journalist seated in the next table and who already had an axe to grind earlier in the night with me, shot her mouth in our directon and interjected our conversation, aiming at me, “So tell me what’s your market value?”

I was basically left to fend for myself there. Tables at both ends were astounded by the unexpected open fire.

*

Now I can only hear myself smiling and muttering, “Cheap, cheap, cheap…”


**

Yes, please go on! Tell me how stupid, pathetic and loserly I am!

I know, I know.

The laugh is on me.

See, at least I could still pull off a joke- I must be doing A-ok.

Friday, February 01, 2008

 
The Trysts


So we finally shagged. It was the day Benazir Bhutto was assassinated. First time we did it, it was a quickie in the car. I noticed that a small group of idiots had congregated to take a smoke no more than 5 metres away from us, which interrupted our brief interlude. I actually do get titillated in dark places with an audience of unbeknownst lingering strangers. But the then uncomfortable Old Boy decided it was time to leave.

For the trysts that ensued, it was decided that the best arrangement for us was to check into somewhere private, like a cheap and cheerful Hotel 81. The Old Boy is a no frills type of guy and I wasn’t expecting him to check us into the Shangri-la or the Ritz for that matter. For many occasions when we walk to our usual destination, I think I must have been mistaken for a Mainland Chinese whore or mistress given my very fair complexion (yeah, a very fair gal on the MRT commented on the whiteness of my skin and its rosy undertone admiringly as she compared her skin tone with mine) as we entered and exited the hotel many a time. Not unless they hear us converse at all, me in my semi-accented English of course to suggest that I am “foreign” in that “Western” sense. Sometimes, the Old Boy (who grew up in that supposedly charmed anglicised upbringing in the heart of town and which, the aura he exudes from the gentleness of his voice and mannerisms would suggest his old wealth genteel background) would walked self-consciously ahead of me probably for fear of a mistaken interpretation of his tastes by the public eye as he has that stereotypical bias against Mainlander Chinese hostesses for being blood suckers. In addition, we appeared a mis-matched pair given the incompatibility of our physical statutes (he needs a much more petite and shorter girl) and age differences (although that bit isn’t as apparent as it should be). Sometimes I attempted to dress a little sexier to “look the part” of the mistress (really for my own amusement and excitement). However, there was an occasion where I didn’t have time to go home and change before the Old Boy came to pick me up in town and I was stuck in my pearls, good knitwear, tailored shorts and pretty lady-like shoes with bows. I thought I looked a little out of place and high maintenance for the part of Hotel 81 but ah well, we went along and did our thing anyway. Often, we entered the establishment (by now we have appointed our favourite Hotel 81 branch) discreetly from the backdoor where the Old Boy would instruct me to wait at the lift whilst he went to the lobby to check us in. When we get into the lifts with the doors shut to shield us away from the world, he would endeavour to hold me tight and kissed me passionately. Only then is the Old Boy solely mine. But for that moment.

Every so often when we entered the hotel room, we would stand by the high mini window and admire the asymmetrical architecture of the nearby condominium. Mostly, the Old Boy would head straight for the shower as his first port of call within the four walls. At times, I quietly wished that he wasn’t so methodical in our routine and he would let me do the slow undressing for him, allowing me to unbutton his shirt bit by bit and gradually work my way down south to unbuckle his belt and unzip his trousers while our tongues interacted. Normally, I would simply lie languidly in bed as I watched him stripped himself naked and awaited for his return from the bathroom. He would then climb onto our love bed to interlock his lips with mine, stealthily removing my clothes and smothered my full naked body with tender butterfly kisses. Working his way down, he then began to alternate the pashing with the tip of his tongue licking the surrounding areas of my pleasure spot and my inner thighs. Instinctively as his tongue wandered towards my private part, I would murmur coyly to be excused and headed for the showers to observe the Old Boy’s hygiene standards. Old Boy would proceed to collect my clothes that had been strewn across the floor or bed, flipping my undies the right way out and proceeded to hang them all up neatly on the hooks. Only then would we launch into doing what one might expect one to be doing fervently at an establishment like Hotel 81.

In our initial trysts, despite the growing physical comfort that I had with the Old Boy, I wasn’t exactly satisfied thoroughly with the engagement of our intimacy. I attributed that to the conventional scenario of guy cumming too quickly and women needing a bit more teasing and time to bring about the climax. There are occasions I grew restless and impatient when I felt my rising desire whilst the Old Boy was too exhausted to be roused to a second round of carnal pleasure. I hit him lightly, whined and buried my head in the pillow, bashing my fist at it. It was quite a comical sight.

“Are you for real?” he was slightly amused.

Guess the Old Boy and I were close enough (as a result of our prior friendship and the deep dark secrets we know about each other’s lives) for me to kick up a tantrum of such hilarious magnitude.

“Yes! I haven’t cum yet!” I whined childishly.

“I can’t, sweetheart. Not because I don’t want to but I can’t. It’s only been 5 mins.

What’s the opposite of ‘kan bu qi wo’ (‘look down on me’)?”
he asked in his bad Mandarin and gave a little laugh.

Then he eyed me self-consciously.

“Remember what I said? Please take this experience with me as a ‘whole’ ok?”

That tenderness in his voice never failed to appease the child-like outburst quietly within me, but my pride would put me up for further resistance and disguised it with a pout on my face.


*****

With the passing of time, we began to become more in sync. The Old Boy gradually mastered the art of pleasuring P and discovered how best to push the right magic buttons.

One day, whilst the Old Boy went down on me doing the cunninglingus, my senses were entirely titillated. My pleasure spot was getting damper with every stroke of his tongue and I moaned lightly, lost in my deep rising desire. He continued to lie on his stomach and then proceeded to insert his finger to the wet opening and rubbed that external swelling g-spot of mine with his thumb. My heartbeat quickened, my moaning fast translating into a sob of lustful joy as my pleasure reached its height. His closed up aroused face watched the red swelling orifice between my legs keenly and suddenly, the Old Boy exclaimed, “Shit!” as he flinched.

I instantly snapped out of my lustful indulgence.

“What?” I was bemused.

I had squirted and my cum had hit his eye.

He reached for the towel and we both got up the bed.

“Did you see that? Sweetheart, I didn’t know you squirt!” he was amazed and pleased perhaps at his own prowess.

“Yeah, that was the pleasure I hoped to achieve with you previously. And if I don’t get it, I get really dissatisfied and pissed!” I said in a mock cocky tone and regained my composure from an unfounded paranoia of self-consciousness.

The Old Boy continued to look astounded and the expression slowly translated to a satisfied smile.

We proceeded to the bathroom for a shower.


******

On our last night together, the Old Boy and I tried various positions of intimate indulgence ranging from the missionary, doggie to the 69. We were exhausted and as usual, I lay down next to him, wrapping my arms and slinging my leg around him and took to our habitual post lovemaking nap.

I had cummed satisfactorily during the 69 exercise. The Old Boy was not convinced that I have been fully pleasured despite my insistence. At the back of his mind, I knew that he was hoping to witness yet another squirt from yours truly as our previous tryst has raised the bar of what formed the KPIs of his abilities to pleasure me.

I drifted in and out of sleep for a while. I half opened my eyes and look askance to my left to see if the Old Boy was asleep. I noticed that the Old Boy had his eyes closed but was happily digging his nose and trying his hardest to remove something that was irritating his nostrils.

“You gold digger!” I teased.

He continued indulging in his unsightly affair and smiled.

I got up and bent down towards his small round belly and kissed it tenderly.

“You are such a fat, little Piggy, baby!” I continued affectionately.

He nodded his head lightly and smiled, his eyes remained shut.

Restlessly, I felt a rising desire between my legs- I could do with releasing a big wave of carnal tension that appeared not to be completely spent from our previous session, which was gradually also building up again.

My hands wandered down the thighs of the Old Boy. I stroked and fondled his flaccid willie tenderly with my fingers. I knew my manual tease was not about to make that beast stand up for P. Given our level and frequency of our intimacy, I knew by now that the Old Boy had run out of steam and was not about to give me the time of the day if I didn’t work my usual magic on him. He was resting with his eyes so blissfully shut.

I proceeded to whisper coyly to him.

“Baby, I want to suck you…”

He half-opened his eyes and the corners of his mouth graduated into a smile of what I understood to be of approval and interest.

I worked my way down between his legs. I held the hardening rod in my hand and inserted it into my mouth where I gave it a good lick and suck. The knob continued to throb and expand in my mouth. Lustily, the tip of my tongue wandered along the favourite middle path between his balls, which never failed to send the Old Boy the shivers and set him off to moan in sweet delight. Ah, such melodious music to my ears! I do get extremely turned on by the weakening will of men! That essence of vulnerability encapsulated in the escape of love noises made with each breath of peaking pleasures.

To heighten the moment, my tongue continued to stray further down to the orifice where his bundle of sensual nerves was concentrated around. I licked, sucked and kissed his asshole alternating between being ravenous and tender. With every tongue movement I made, the Old Boy shivered, moaned hungrily and was lost in sin. Our lust was hitting the note of crescendo.

“Ooooh…Yeah sweetheart, you like to lick my ass don’t you?” the Old Boy mumbled repeatedly in his breathlessness.

He began to flip himself onto his stomach for the fulfilment of his pleasure as well as the yearning of my lascivious tongue. I licked at his asshole hungrily, wetting the rim with saliva. The volume of the unrelenting love melody of his pleasure increased to the dance of my oral undulations. My heart pounded with excitement.

Breathless, the Old Boy got up and turned me around to lie on my back. Moving downwards, he began returning me the pleasure with his oral gymnastics. With each hungry touch of his mouth, my body trembled and that mysterious womanly opening responded encouragingly with the secretion of sensual juices. The visual display never failed to arouse my Old Boy for my pleasure was his and he was determined to stimulate the flow of love liquid with the speed of his motion.

I was so lost in earthly bliss. That strong sensation, like the ever-increasing inflation of a rubber balloon was overcoming my entire being. My body was growing tensed with sweet torment. The Old Boy kept up with his circular thumbing of my clit and I believe (since I am so gone now with sin), the penetration of his middle finger in my slick and awfully wet feminine passage. The magic button flared in heated pressure and I was about to lose my concentration. I was all ready to burst.

I let out a cry. Out gushed the waterfall!

Aahhh…that was heaven.

The Old Boy began quickening his motion as he witnessed the dam burst extraordinaire in lust. I alternated between begging him affectionately and laughing weakly to stop the pleasurable torture as my unwound body needed time for recovery and could no longer sustained yet another eruption at that moment. My energy was fast expending from my body. I was completely exhausted.

“That is soooo good, Darling…” I exclaimed breathlessly in that girlish voice.

Finally, we got up to head for the bathroom. My buttocks were soaked wet and smeared with my overspilled woman ejaculation.

As usual, the Old Boy left me alone for my shower when he did a quick wash of himself. When I got back, I noticed that he had lain a towel on our bed where I had previously laid.

“The bed sheet is soaked wet.” He began with a grin on his face.

“Oh, look at the puddle I’ve made!” I squealed in delight.

“Uh-huh.” He looked up at me with that knowing smile.

“Baby, don’t you like it? I’ve given you a puddle!” I continued teasingly in my girlish kitty voice.

“Thank you for the puddle, Sweetheart.” He reciprocated playfully in his usual tenderness.

Ah, this very tone of melody of his voice (which is somewhat effeminate) never failed to tease the very damsel out of me and allured young P to this Old Boy.

“I hope all this makes you feel this makes giving Manila a miss worth it.”

It’s more than worth it, Darling- I wish how much I could confess to you so.

I pulled the Old Boy to my lips as my tongue kissed his with heartfelt fondness.

*****

So there you go. Within the confinement of Hotel 81 rooms, the Old Boy and I spent many an afternoon or evening copulating and making love. Those rendezvous summed up the intense moments of lust, elation, respite, laughter, secrets, angst, tears and mini lovers’ tiffs we shared in our temporary hideaway where we enjoyed each other’s company on borrowed time.

We had our joint moment behind closed doors. I recalled lying on his chest as he described to me his erotic gay/lesbian story that could be adapted into a play acting script, his happily surprised face when I presented him with a gift of a limited edition CK boxer trunks (his favourite brand and telepathically he mentioned that CK was his favourite outlet when he texted me whilst I was shopping at Paragon and had already got ahead of him and bought him this present), my suppressed confidence about DL, catching that tender look of gratitude post our first Hotel 81 experience, his indulgence in pampering and feeding me sashimi and the numerous times I observed somewhat sadly but affectionately the calmness of his sleeping face…

Finally, I got to share with someone my favourite dark tale of “The Respectful Murderer” stark naked, which thematically sums up my soul and mental state. The Old Boy is a first in a lover who got the whole of me, no holds barred. As a good friend of mine prior to our joint experience, he has been the only man who is privy to all my deepest secrets of my life. To complete my experience, I now have the first meaningful relationship I had in a lover. He got me there- mind, body and soul.

This is a breakthrough. On my terms- that complete experience albeit being transient…

“So now you got me- what intrigue is there left of P?” I smiled slightly.

The Old Boy got the real and not the reel P.

Precious memories. Precious moments. The Old Boy said. He would forever treasure them as those three weeks was bliss to him.

**

During one session, I was wrapped in the arms of the Old Boy. He confessed that one of his ex-fucks had come back to look him up.

“You know we’re not exclusive right?”

(That was a brave confession for a man who is used to hiding and deceiving; a man trapped in Dukka.)

“How could we, Old Boy?” I turned to look into his eyes.

I don’t wear rose tinted glasses. I am also not very good at playing self-deceit.

“Alright. I won’t look her up until you are gone.”

**

It must be the day where I laid restless in bed and had that mini break down about DL.

“It’s so nice that we could still be lying here and talking so openly like that even after we slept.” That slight smile he wore had a pensive hesitation to it, as if he was threading on those words very carefully.

I nodded lightly.

Yes, that’s the true 360 experience and the best gift a lover could have ever given me, Old Boy…
**

One Friday evening, the Old Boy and I left our room at 9pm.

We sighted another illicit pair- a Chinese “uncle” in his fifties with another mistress “auntie” in her forties. The four of us stood in uncomfortable silence whilst waiting impatiently for the elevator to arrive. It was the day where I was in my pearls and prissy weekend day gear.

When the door opened before us, we were confronted by a lift populated with guilty faces standing in quiet solidarity. No held hands or lovey dovey pairs were sighted. The four of us stealthily packed ourselves right in snugly to fill up the remaining space. No one dared to lift one’s eyes to register the person standing to the next shoulder.

In that deafening hush, the Old Boy leaned towards my ear and whispered cheekily, “ Didn’t know that there were so many fuckers at this time.” His volume might well be within hearing distance for the rest. We giggled.

So that was how it went- in packed sardine fashion, we all descended (from what might well be grace) to the lobby (or was it to reality?). The entire troop dispersed spontaneously, all ready to disappear and quick to be disassociated from the establishment that had earlier served each of our sordid agendas ever so purposefully.

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