Extra-Ordinary Day

Today was a normal day. A very normal day. But somehow, the little things that happened around and to me made feel - and this is a rather rare event - very blessed indeed, on so many different levels.

It first started with an sms my dad - yes my dad! an unusual phenomenon in itself, haha - telling me tell managed to squeeze the hotel we're booking for Thanklian - oh, how on earth did I manage that typo? - Thailand a few hundred baht more on the room rate - a trifling S$15 in total, but the fact that he went to the trouble to get it means so much more. I gave him a big grin when he came back home today, my way of saying "thank you" to him, even know he doesn't know it. Daddy's the best.

I went home soaking in the sights today, stopping a bit to look for a bird in the tree singing its song, stooping to give a kitty cat a few pats on the head, just enjoying being in the here and now. I just felt this simple contentment in being where I am now. Maybe it's the fact that I'm studying for my finals - in the true sense of the word - now.

But in any case, as I was walking to the MRT station to meet Ching for her to pass me something (that she did as a favour to me, to boot), my friend messaged me. Part of her message contained the sentence: "God bless yr studying!" I was so touched. The concept of God is real in the sense that he is manifested through people around us who care and show they care; through them this benevolent entity "exists". And that's enough for me, for now. Like Ching, who gave me some home-made mango pudding and herbal tea for me and my family, and the fact that she came down to meet me even though she was feeling a lil under the weather.

And finally, the icing on the cake I so relished: On my way back home from the station, from out of the blue, I started humming Chye's favourite song. I got to my block, opened the letter box - which was literally brimming in its excitement to see me (and get the load off its insides) - and saw, among the mountain of mail, a letter, in unmistakeable handwriting, from Chye. Now you busybodies, I shall not reveal to you its contents (no you didn't ask, but yes you'd like to know) but amazingly enough reference was made to that very same song.

Maybe it's telepathy?

Or maybe just the little miraculous coincidences of life?

Whatever the case is, today has been a most ordinary of days, yet, in a sense, it also has been the most extraordinary. And the most beautiful. Know what the best part is? With a bit of luck, I have my whole life ahead of me to enjoy such days.