Gloomy Friday

A few piles of dirty laundry to do, movies to watch, articles to write (to entertain my many friends), an old neighbour I need to visit, blah blah blah, the list goes on...

Time flies, regardless of how busy we are!

Our house guest left this morning. I had promised to provide dinner for him this coming Monday night, to save him some times. He is going to move into his new flat on that day!

He should have asked his wife to come along to ease some of his problems, but his mother in law is real old and sick at the moment, so I guess his wife would not and could not do that, ie, left the 80+ mom to someone else to care for. (The funny and sweet lady has been living with him and his wife for quite a long time now...).

I am right now, doing his dirty laundry for him, as an act of charity (hehehe).

He has been a good old friend and colleague to my husband for almost 10 years now. The two, both were born under the sign of Ox (based on the Chinese horoscope, that means they both share similar outlook of life, both believes in being steady, in hardwork, stubborn, etc). The differences between them are: my husband is a younger ox (by 12 years!), who is more stubborn and with less experience of life!

I have been doing my best to encourage and nurture the friendship between the two, for my husband does need some one very mature to chat to.

It has been 3 weeks this time, that he stayed with us. He sighed, told us that he did not have the chance to spend time with his grandchildren like he does with our young kids. It is funny, the way my babies in their early years, used to believe that our old friend, was really Santa Clause. He does resemble Santa Clause with his thick and fluffy white hair, beard, gentle smile and a huge/protruding belly.

I believed I had fed him well the last 3 weeks (while my husband stuffed the man with our good stock of wine/alcohols!). Just hope we did not shorten his life by doing that, for his wife is a real lovely person, who loves natures and seems to rely on him greatly for everything. (Though she always pretends as she could be very tough. A typical dragon!)

I admire them and their love for each other!

(hmm, from what I heard, they did their fair shares in bickering, fighting, arguing with each other too... But while their other friends and acquaintances' marriages all seemed to fall apart, theirs seem to be secure as ever. A true love of the 1960s, hippy and all? Yeah, she is still with long flowing hair (must have touched her hip or lower), bare feet whenever she could, and is most happy among the wilds...).

Time to run!


(It is very gloomy today. No rain like yesterday though. OOps, I am supposed to do something fast before the clock strikes 12 noon!)