Life is lived by the moment. You have that one moment in that one place in time to make that one moment different from the rest of your life.
I spent that one moment in the Itaewon district of Seoul with that one beautiful stranger, before sunset.
She was the silently complicated, neurotically cheery, lovely Asian version of Celine who made heads turned wherever she went. I was the less charming, more introverted, socially awkward mirror of Jesse, whose trade was not in written words but that of the spoken.
It was a match made less than perfect in heaven but in South Korea, with the sense of invincibility afforded by the wilderness of our youth- we had taken everything in stride.
There was our time spent in between lines at the quaint neighborhood cafe; the Korean subway ride substitute of the boat trawl down La Siene; the long walk around everywhere to nowhere; and the nagging time shortage that reminded us of the urgency of then.
I fell head over heels over a beautiful stranger who found me in Seoul.
Alas, this story was not written by Jesse.
My story has not a happy but rather fucked up ending and I am left to forever contemplate what if I had a second chance with she who got away because I told her to?
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The 14th All Asians Intervarsity Debating Championship has just concluded with the best ever achievement from Universiti Sains Malaysia.
We came, kicked butts and took no names but alas fell to the eventual champions that hailed from UTMara. After 9 days of debating, USM ranked 4th in Asia; with Andrea and I both staking our name in history as the 2nd and 9th best speaker in the region.
This is only the prelude to our legacy as we attempt to cement our place in history as one of the sharpest intellects in the region of Australasians, if not the planet- come Australasian Debating Championship in July.
The USM train is on a way one ticket to debating glory. Bring on the Australs.
I spent that one moment in the Itaewon district of Seoul with that one beautiful stranger, before sunset.
She was the silently complicated, neurotically cheery, lovely Asian version of Celine who made heads turned wherever she went. I was the less charming, more introverted, socially awkward mirror of Jesse, whose trade was not in written words but that of the spoken.
It was a match made less than perfect in heaven but in South Korea, with the sense of invincibility afforded by the wilderness of our youth- we had taken everything in stride.
There was our time spent in between lines at the quaint neighborhood cafe; the Korean subway ride substitute of the boat trawl down La Siene; the long walk around everywhere to nowhere; and the nagging time shortage that reminded us of the urgency of then.
I fell head over heels over a beautiful stranger who found me in Seoul.
Alas, this story was not written by Jesse.
My story has not a happy but rather fucked up ending and I am left to forever contemplate what if I had a second chance with she who got away because I told her to?
************************************************
The 14th All Asians Intervarsity Debating Championship has just concluded with the best ever achievement from Universiti Sains Malaysia.
We came, kicked butts and took no names but alas fell to the eventual champions that hailed from UTMara. After 9 days of debating, USM ranked 4th in Asia; with Andrea and I both staking our name in history as the 2nd and 9th best speaker in the region.
This is only the prelude to our legacy as we attempt to cement our place in history as one of the sharpest intellects in the region of Australasians, if not the planet- come Australasian Debating Championship in July.
The USM train is on a way one ticket to debating glory. Bring on the Australs.
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