out of sight, out of mind

my psychology textbook says,

'out of sight, out of mind' >>>>>>> 'absence makes the heart grow fonder'

hahaha and of cos we agree. there's no anomaly in that even if we wish there was. and 'out of sight, out of mind' sounds too cruelly sad. my 'the heart soon forgets what the eye sees not' sounds much better.

suddenly i realise many people are heading to sweden next spring (: however unfamiliar we are, we're all from sunny singapore.

huiwen posted a poem i wrote in the organiser i gave her last year.

Roses are red,
Violets are blue.
My love for you,
Is ever so true.
Every morning you wake,
Eggs and toast i'll make.
Warm & fuzzy you'll feel,
Oranges i'll peel,
Just to make orange juice for you.
I'll go a thousand miles,
Just to make you smile.
Oh LeS,
We'll be so happy,
In our little love nest.

it's so funny. i forgot when i started coming up with these funny poems. i think i ever texted a super long one to my dear friend in far away land now. and of cos, the many random spurts of inspirations for poems during my dying days of mugging, right before i gave in to sleep. i suddenly miss all of that. just that i don't have such silly inspirations anymore.

remember hb september. november's so tough.

and i really need something to look forward to.

lund's almost powerless in that aspect.

#133.

"If I had a camera," I said, "I'd take a picture of you every day. That way I'd remember how you looked every single day of your life."

"I look exactly the same."

"No, you don't. You're changing all the time. Every day a tiny bit. If I could, I'd keep a record of it all."

"If you're so smart, how did I change today?"

"You got a fraction of a millimeter taller, for one thing. Your hair grew a fraction of a millimeter longer. And your breasts grew a fraction of a ----"

"They did not!"

"Yes they did."

"Did NOT."

"Did too."

"What else, you big pig?"

"You got a little happier and also a little sadder."

"Meaning they cancel each other out, leaving me exactly the same."

"Not at all. The fact that you got a little happier today doesn't change the fact that you also became a little sadder. Every day you become a little more of both, which means that right now, at this exact moment, you're the happiest and the saddest you've ever been in your whole life."

"How do you know?"

"Think about it. Have you ever been happier than right now, lying here in the grass?"

"I guess not. No."

"And have you ever been sadder?"

"No."

"It isn't like that for everyone, you know. Some people, like your sister, just get happier and happier every day. And some people, like Beyla Asch, just get sadder and sadder. And some people, like you, get both."

"What about you? Are you the happiest and saddest right now than you've ever been?"

"Of course I am."

"Why?"

"Because nothing makes me happier and nothing makes me sadder than you."

- The History of Love by Nicole Krauss

oh someone please get me the book.

must i really ship it from amazon :(