Family of Four

Main Mata : While your eyes played games with mine…

I am pretty sure many of us had our fair share of romantic infatuation. We were devastatingly ‘crushed’ by these nubile nymphs - our boyish innocence prematurely shattered. Oh, how fondly we recalled these attractive girls who were our stardust memories. They captivated us during our growing years of adolescence, making us insufferably weak at the knees. They overwhelmed us; they were the center of our teenage dreams; and they put wild, wanton thoughts into our young impressionable minds.

Now, with the passage of time, they have all gone...mostly untraceable...hopefully they are somebody's wife now. I hope their husbands are continuously enchanted by them.

Matt Monroe’s On Days like These, poignantly captures those 'hit and miss' feelings of those halcyon days through these nostalgic, heart-rending lyrics…

On days like these when skies are blue and fields are green,

I looked around and think about what might have been,

And then I hear sweet music close around my head,

And I recalled the many things we left unsaid.

It’s on some days like these that I remembered,

Singing songs and drinking wines,

While your eyes played games with mine,

On days like this, I wondered what became of you,

Maybe today you are singing songs with someone new,

I’ll like to think of you walking by those willow trees,

Remembering the lovely you on days like these.

Personally, ‘main mata’ can be a very potent game. As early as in Form 2, I was blown away by this enticing shapely siren who taunted me psychologically with her dazzling brown eyes and cheeky smile. Then, in Form 6, I had the grand fortune of meeting an ‘angel' who played ‘main mata’ games with mine for a while. Wonder what was on her mind...

These main mata moments undoubtedly were brief and fleeting but the feelings they ignited were absolutely mou tak teng while they lasted.

As in the song, from time to time, I do wonder what has become of these 'lovely you's…..

Quote of the Day:

“It is best to love wisely, no doubt: but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.” William M. Thackeray

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