Stars that laugh

2145h Feeling... warm and sticky Food: Old Chang Kee yam pie. yum yum. Book: Little Prince [english edition] CD: Hits Collection by Luna Sea Happiness of the day: went for a crash swing class and rekindled my interest in swing/lindy hop. Event of the week: working working working... I had a very good break this weekend. I did go meet my "godfather" last night. It was his daugher's birthday, I just found out that her daughter's as old as I am! She's studying in Australia right now, so we talked quite a bit about the pros and cons of studying abroad. I heard later from my mom that her dad gave her a car for her birthday. oooohh... But I didn't go back to malaysia after all, because of some sudden change of plans. And to think I cancelled my plans with Agnes for nothing. Sigh. I hate how my parents emotionally threaten me into changing my plans and then change their own plans nonchalantly. grr. I'm taking a very long time with Little Prince. It's more meaningful than I thought. Of what I read today, this is my favourite part - Little Prince saying his goodbyes to the narrator: "The stars men follow have different meanings. For some people - travellers - the stars are guides. For others, they are merely little lights in the sky. For others still - the scientists - they are problems to be solved. For my businessmen they meant gold. But for all these people, the stars are silent. For you, the stars will be as they are for no one else." "What are you trying to say?" "At night, when you look up at the sky, since I shall be living on a star, and since I shall be laughing on a star, for you it will be as if all the stars are laughing. You alone will have stars that can laugh." And he laughed again. "And when you have got over your loss (for we always do), you'll be happy to have known me. You will always be my friend. You will want to laugh with me. And sometimes you will open your window - just like that, for the sake of opening it - and your friends will be amazed to see you laughing as you look up at the sky. Then you'll say to them: 'Yes, it's the stars, they always make me laugh.' And they'll think you are crazy. I will have played a mean trick on you." And he laughed again. "As if, instead of stars, I'd given you a string of laughing bells......" Isn't this beautiful? Sigh. Stars that laugh.....

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