life in london

"I guess I've been waiting so long I'm looking for perfection."

"Waiting for the perfect love?"

"No, even I know better than that. I'm looking for selfishness. Perfect selfishness. Like, say I tell you I want to eat strawberry shortcake. And you stop everything you're doing and run out and buy it for me. And you come back out of breath and get down on your knees and hold this strawberry shortcake out to me. And I say I don't want it anymore and throw it out of the window. That's what I'm looking for."

"I'm not sure that has anything to do with love," I said with some amazement.

"It does," she said. "You just don't know it. There are times in a girl's life when things like that are incredibly important."

"Things like throwing a strawberry shortcake out the window?"

"Exactly. And when I do it, I want the man to apologize to me. 'Now I see, Midori. What a fool I've been! I should have known that you would lose your desire for strawberry shortcake. I have all the intelligence and sensitivity of a piece of donkey shit. To make it up to you, I'll go out and buy you something else. What would you like? Chocolate mousse? Cheesecake?'"

"So then what?"

"So then I'd give him all the love he deserves for what he's done."

"Sounds crazy to me."

"Well, to me, that's what love is. Not that anyone can understand me, though." Midori gave her head a little shake against my shoulder. "For a certain kind of person, love begins from something tiny or silly. From something like that or it doesn't begin at all."

/Norwegian Wood, Haruki Murakami

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Did I mention I lost my debit card :-( And life without it is really full of inconveniences. Because, I dont really carry cash with me in the first place. So now, every time I need to draw out money, I've to transfer first to my friends, and get cash from them. Machiam they are my ATM.

And I think French people must be really good at math. It's like, if you wna say Seventy-one, it's Sixty and Eleven. Eighty, it's Four Twentys. And Ninety, it's Four Twentys Eleven. Ohmytian. My math is good (I learnt abacus okay), but I'm seriously having trouble counting from 1-100 in French.