The one about reality biting me..

Many call Perugia a love city, seeing that there's a big volume of local and foreign students here and of course most end up just being a 3 months or so relationship. It's okay, not like many are complaining. And things has been looking quite perfect from my perspective, like everything's going fine for everyone, people in theatre are hooking up in theatre and then just recently I realise no.. Things are not going well for many people, love isn't floating problem-free in the sky above us, and it's just like life everywhere.

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Wait, you would ask how is this affecting me if I'm not part of the scene? I'm writing from a spectator's point of view. You feel for people, know what I mean. Like the lady who's boyfriend or fiance of 8 yrs dumped her in Siena (Tuscany) during a holiday. I heard cause I was sitting in the bus behind her on the way to Florence. I started crying. I think many with dreams of Tuscany and Venice takes these places as THE PLACE. The place were dreams come true and what crap not and then you get dumped in what are known as the romantic places in the world. Wait, how can that happen? How do you come back to Tuscany again? How do you even find your way out of Tuscany to get yourself to get to an airport and hoping to find a flight home.. Alone. That's just one of the cases I've seen.

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I've not talk about these before.. But here there's a lot of hope. Hopes to find true love, hopes to find a European partner, hopes to get married here, hopes to get sweep off their feet by a knight in shining armour, hopes that they will end up like Frances Mayes in the movie Under The Tuscan Sun, hopes and hopes and more hopes.

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Call me whatever you want but Frances Mayes case, it's 1 in a billion. It's not wrong to have hopes, it's just very sad when dreams don't come true, and they don't come true usually for 80% of them. And then you see people who are sad and depress because they did not have the great italian escapade they thought they would...??

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My take on a great Italian escapade is this... If you work on it, you will get it. But if you're going to be shy and sit at a corner all the time hoping some guy would pick you up... Sorry la.. Only happen one in 2 billion. But even if you walk around in your sundress prancing around the cobbled streets, it may not happen. And once you really get to know the guy, you realise they are not what you would expect and it then becomes a letdown. And those who pick you up on the street isn't looking for a long-term romance by the way.

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ME? I'm just happy being me. Looking forward to seeing my friends when I travel next month, looking forward to Eric Clapton's concert, looking forward to bumping into Keanu Reeves before I head home to Malaysia. Romance and escapade? They happen when they want to, it's like a phone call, you should never wait for the phone to ring. Why get depress and sad about them not happening when you can do something more worthwhile.. like sleep.. HAHA

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I need to sleep before my debut tonight. AHEM..