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read between the lines
two conversations 1.i discovered a cd shop that sells used (but in good condition) cds that are worth the price (i.e. cheaper than buying cds back home)....and it had two more albums to add to my missing duran duran collection (someone else not me EP and liberty)! sadly, the much coveted wedding album was not around...but i ended up waxing lyrical with the cd shop owner about the band's songs. he is only the third person i've known in my entire life so far to actually know the songs of one complete album. he was telling me he and his classmates first started listening to them when he was in secondary 1, which was basically when i was still a wee little toddler. and then we started discussing some of the band's popular tunes...and our favourites. of course, i thoroughly enjoyed the conversation because of its rarity (where on earth can you find duranies these days, let alone nickolites?). one of life's rare treasures, conversation-wise. sadly, i have yet to find a genuine similar-minded duran duran fan (must know more than one album's songs and band member information) as far as anyone goes. 2. another rare conversation of great personal value was tonight's one. met up with an old friend who engaged me in some pretty good intellectual discourse. topics we covered included science and religion, how a local chinese really isn't chinese, disillusionment of the current young adults (how most value things that really have no value) and how it is reflected in the media, the definition of self and other things. okay, so it wasn't all that deep considering most issues didn't cause one to exercise a huge amount of their grey matter, but it was way better than talking about the mundane routines of life and upcoming events purely at face value. i can practically close my eyes (read: be half-asleep) and talk about trite conversation like that but i'd sure have to be wide awake (read: paying attention) to talk about the meaning of life and the like. i relished the conversation like i lick ice-cream. except that ice-cream is readily available whereas conversations like these aren't. once again, this was a rarity and...i believe there are only two other people i know who can really engage on that level, or even want to engage on that level, for that matter. which is why i don't protest when people say i come from another planet (least of all venus), or as my friend put it, am a person with a lot of idiosyncrasies. haha. |
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