Moonrise, Sunset

soon as I set eyes on Vanita, I knew that the person I had been waiting for had arrived.

We identify things not by what they look like but by where they are taking us. There is a world of difference between sunset and moonrise. Sunset leads into the darkness, moonrise into the glorious light of love.

dum vivimus vivamus, ‘while we live let us enjoy life’

she was also an Asian mother and, from time to time, badgered me about finding a girl and settling down.

Cliché has it that a sorrow shared is a sorrow halved. I’m not at all sure that is the case but grief does bring us a little closer to each other.” He laughed and looked at me for encouragement. “Perhaps that’s really what’s meant by ‘absence makes the heart grow fonder’. We grow fonder of each other, not of the person that is missing.”

Folk from Malay villages often end sentences with “lah”, which is a contraction of Allah.