with the slate wiped clean

too ambitious i guess. but that's what i always want and yet never achieve....

I used that idiom as the title for this blog before. Since it was never true, I shouldn't continue the lie, should I?

A few weeks ago, I had a chat with a taxi driver about god. He asked me whether I believe in god and I asked him back (a friend of mine told me, in order to keep a conversation going, ask question). He laughed and said, "I don't know....". He's a Samoan and a very nice guy indeed. Then last nite I rode his taxi again. I thought he didn't remember me, but he did. And I was scared because after dropping Riza off at her house, it was going to be just us. I didn't know what I was thinking, but I was just scared. But I arrived safe and sound and we had a little chat. He asked me about my study and he said:

"You know, it's not hard to study but it's hard when you don't study. Do you know what I mean?"

'Hmm.....yes...(I was thinking about the possibility of not having a good job if you don't have a good academic background)'

Then he explained it to me and I said 'oh, that's not really what I had in mind actually'

But what he said was completely true. Life would be easy if i kept it that way.
I'll remember this, thanks driver!



p/s:I think you readers (if there's any) are not as slow as I was to get what he meant. So I guess there's no need to explain it here.