It can be so funny when life imitates art.
G and I just finished watching
Gubra a few hours ago.
Gubra, for the uninitiated, is the just-released sequel to
Sepet;
Sepet just happens to be one of my all-time favourite love stories, and of which every possible
sayang of mine will have to measure up to Sharifah Amani.
In
Gubra, there is a scene where Orked (Amani's main character) is in the hospital, and out of the blue, bumps into Alan, who happens to be her previous lover Jason's brother. She doesn't recognise him, and Alan has to endure getting hit by a mop and smelling like piss before she actually recognises and believes him.
So we come out of the cinema, talking and discussing in our usual way about the film, when suddenly, we hear a 'hi' thrown our way. We stopped, and it was this girl who was standing with her three other friends. She was, IMHO, pretty chun, long hair, great smile, looked quite friendly.
But it was the look on Greg's face that was priceless. He was
stunned; like for a while, he didn't really know what to say. Then, he acts
really chummy with this girl. They talk about what they're doing now, she asks about his fitness do, she tells him she's a pharmacist, they exchange phone numbers, she gives him her business card. She even asks him what he thinks about her hair, and when he says it has changed from the last time they met, she says something along the lines of, "Why, not nice, is it?" Boy, my man was putting on the
moves.
All the while, me and that girl's three friends were just standing there. And for some strange reason, I felt kinda lamp-posty. In my mind, I was thinking, "This must be some Taylor's college friend of G's. Wow. Must ask him to intro me." Which he did, after a while.
So after that 5 minute exchange, we head to our original destination: the toilet. And G still had this stunned look on his face. He turned to me, and asked, "Do you know who that was?"
"Uh, no."
He stared at me. "That was my ex."
I just looked at him. Then I exploded.
"WALAU-EH!!! You never told me you had a gf like
that?!?! WALAU, since when man?"
As you can see, I had no idea G had a past-gf as chun as her. It turns out, that girl was G's first gf when they were 16. Apparently, it's so hushed, not even his parents know about it (unless they're reading this blog, and if they are, uh, you can go discuss it with your son). He even had his first kiss with her.
And she is really cute! And friendly! And he broke her heart! Man, my man G is a player!
My total admiration of G as a stud rose up a few notches.
But, ahem, more importantly than that, it was also an incredible collision of the past in our present. And it was so eerily similar to the scene in
Gubra. They both meet someone related to a past relationship. And both were stunned.
By far one of the high points in an otherwise shitty week. But that's for another day.
"The lamps are different but the light is the same" - Jelaluddin Rumi, quote at end of Gubraj
