The Night

It’s been so long eversince I looked into the sky at night and today, I happened to be able to force myself to go out at night due to my hungry stomach. I have been hiding in my nest for the whole day, reading and playing games until now. Usually I will have eaten my dinner in the evening, like 7-8 pm but today, seems like I am too lazy to even walk out from my room and thus I haven’t had my dinner yet (it’s 10.15pm). If possible, I will have chosen not to go out, but too bad, my stomach started to grumble, and hence, I have no choice but to obey my biological senses – to eat.


So, I decided to eat at the ‘mamak stall’(road-side, simple food stalls owned by Indians) located outside my apartment, since it’s the only food stall around here. I ordered a Maggi Goreng, which is basically fried instant noodles, and well, I waited like 20 minutes there which at first, I decided to take away, but due to this long waiting time, finally I chose to just eat there. Doing nothing but sitting there and waiting, I looked into the dark sky. It’s a cloudless night, without any stars in sight. Clear and has a beautiful dark colour with some cold wind. Sitting under the tree, with the street light nearby, surprisingly, I sort of enjoyed the time there, though I was just sitting there. I think maybe this scenary, this activity of eating outside at ‘mamak stall’, sort of represents part of the normal life routine of a typical Malaysian youngster. Or maybe it’s just because that I haven’t been out of my room for the whole day, and therefore I feel much better when I am able to get some fresh air, especially when the night is windy.


After a while, my food was ready there, and I ate instantly (hungry) and in no time, I finished my food. Paid the money , I walked home straight. The cold breeze blowing right towards me made me felt so good, and seemed like succeed in refreshing my mind and my tired body. I bet everyone will have felt the same too, when you are able to walk silently under the street light, without much distraction, under the waving tree branches, with cold breeze blowing right towards your face. Of course, it will be much better if your lover is together with you, walking hand in hand. But I guess it’s fine for me, and in fact, this walking actually helped me to reduce my sadness and feeling of missing towards my beloved one. Maybe the breeze did help. To think again, actually there’s nothing to feel sad about, we still can be together, and to have someone to love you, and knowing that though far away, there’s still someone who cares for you, and to have so much love with you, what else you can ask for? It’s simple life, but happy enough for me, after all, I am just a simple person, with a simple smile and a simple life…