The last time I wrote was on the 13th July..erm that was quite long right? During those time a lot of things had happened Ramadhan came and we Muslim do our compulsory fasting. Then came Syawal, Eid month where we celebrate our victory for being successful to complete our fasting and hopefully get the greatest grading from Allah, insyaAllah.During that suppossedly victorious month, I also happened to be getting in touch of an old friend who called me out of the blue at my niece's house. It was really a surprise to me to hear from him, especially when it never cross my mind at all that he of all people will be calling me especially on the 3rd day of Eid, when he is suppose to be celebrating it with his own family, I meant his wife and children because this is the time when one should try to get bonded with their family after long months of working and no relaxing, this should be the time! Since it was still Raya time, so I casually invited him over to our family own Raya open house which was due two days after we talked on the phone. To make the long story short, on the day of our Raya open house he finally came, alone! So I started asking him where is wife was and he said that they went back to KK already and he himself just got back from sending them there. Acceptable explanation which does not raise any curiosity on my part at all. So I simply talk for awhile with him, then I went around to other table since there were other friends that need my attention too, since they were also invited by me or other family members of mine which need to be entertained too! Thus I left him with my nieces so that I can do my responsibilty as one of the host. After awhile he came to me and took his leave, and we parted as long friend who had just met after so many years of not seeing each other. That's all, nothing more and nothing less on my part, at least. Again out of the blue he called me, after leaving the house for about half an hour or so. I was taken by a surprise, because I never thought that he would called me again that soon! I wonder why? Suddenly he jokingly (in my mind) said to me that he would come asking for my hand in marriage since he said that I was still single! Abruptly I replied to him, 'Are you crazy? Do you want to beheaded by my family?' Then he asked me,'Why?'...so I said to him that he is married therefore how could he be asking me to marry him? That would be asking something stupid, especially when I and my entire family knew that he was already married. Then he started telling me about his divorce which had happened three months earlier. When I heard that, I could not believe my ears, why am I listening to this? Why should he be telling me this? I do not want to know anything about his marriage life, even so because it is none of my damn business. However, since he wanted somebody (I guess) to listen to his problem so I listened tentatively as a good friend, that's it.
Since that day onward we become closer, probably because he kept on calling or smsing me just to ask how's my day and simply to inform me what he was doing or his whereabouts. I find it quite odd, but at the same time I like it too. He sent me his pictures, then his children pictures...which suddenly make me thinking, why is this man doing all these? What has got into his mind? The smsing became more frequent from day to day. Then came another chance for me to invite him again to another open house of one of my sister and he accepted it. So we met again....(to be continued)...
