i looked up...and i saw heaven

i was looking forward to this night for a whole week and one day. wing's night at tony's. it kinda sucked that they wouldn't let us buy drinks without our passports because apparently that's what the US law states when it comes to alcohol and foreigners. aye? anyway, i didn't really care about the grumpy waitresses. i came for my chicken wings and i sure wasn't gonna leave without them. and i'm probably gonna be back for more!

what's funny is that when we were there, this guy who works as one of the pirates at moreys asked if we wanted to go with them to join the ukrainian guys for drinks at their house and we asked where and realised that they were the same guys who kept going konichiwa to us and talking nonsense that night every time we walked past them on the shamrock night. yea, they were actually having wings with us two tables away. haha.

so anyway, the four of us (ken, kok meng, joy and me) ordered four servings of wings and settled for a jug of coke since we couldn't get some ice cold beer (fewjfknwkmlwouldhavebeengoodwiththewingsfqwnmlwd).

some shots. (the kinds that don't require passports or US ID =P)


so after heading back, joy and i decided we didn't wanna go for the drinks. we were awestruck by the sky which was powdered with stars and so upon reaching home, we packed our bags with junk food and a trash bag as our mat and took our bikes out to cycle to the beach to watch the stars.

i guess some of them we bumped into thought we were mad. but upon reaching the beach, i thought..mad? maybe. blessed? hell yea. as we walked our bikes across the sand towards the waves, it looked like a big black screen infront of us because the sea and sky seemed to be one and the sky was just strewn with stars. and once again, we were simply overwhelmed. yup, i looked up..and there i saw it. heaven.

we were sitting on our torn garbage bag on the sand and joy asked, "is that an aeroplane?" i looked up trying to see what she was talking about and while we were busy trying to see whether whatever she was talking about was an aeroplane, we saw...a shooting star. i think we both lost our breath for a moment because it was so unexpected. and then we both exclaimed and i think we could've cried. it was the first time i ever saw a shooting star, i think. after a while, joy asked me whether i made a wish and i realised that i didn't even bother to make one then. i felt that i had everything, that god had simply given me the best and i didn't need to wish for anything but everything to thank him for. and that shooting star was enough to tell me that. did anyone see that shooting star as it lived out its last few seconds of glory? were joy and i the only ones in the whole universe who saw it? did it shoot across the sky just for us tonight? maybe.

and as i was gazing at the sky, a few other things crossed my mind. it's just one big mess of stars out there and yet people have connected the dots and formed images out of them and given those constellations names and i thought, wow, what an imagination they must have (the most i could make out was a question mark, really). and another thought. from where we were, the stars were just dots and there must be billions of them. but i was thinking, imagine looking at each one of them upclose. you'd see it wasn't just a dot. it would be bustling with activity, colours and lights, gases and flames. billions of stars in the entire universe, and yet each one, thought just a speck from afar, is so brilliant and awesome! billions of people here on this earth. specks on cnn, specks on satellite images, specks in crowds at shopping centres or at school or in a theme park by the sea...yet, the kingdom of heaven lies somewhere in each one of them, the same thing which makes the stars bold and brilliant and the oceans vast and mighty...

it got too cold so we left after a while and as we walked away, i turned around and pointed to the stars and said , "astalavista babies". some moments just can't be caught on camera.