Archive for February 13, 2008

Breaking Up Is Hard to Do


I know, I know, J and I’ve never even been together, so we couldn’t possibly have broken up. But somehow, it just feels like it. Especially this morning, when I realized that it might just be the best for me to stay away from J as far as possible.Before we “officially” ended our I-don’t-even-know-what-to-call-it relationship, we were talking about applying for Chunghua Telecom’s F2 service, which would enable us to call each other at a much cheaper rate. There was, however, some technical problem that prevented us from doing it, so we never did it.

Just this morning, J called me and told me he’d figured out a way (which I didn’t like so much for some reason) to work it out. We were discussing, trying to reach agreement when all of a sudden it occurred to me: Maybe, it’s better for me to call at a expensive rate, so that I would manage to stop calling him so often, and get over it sooner.

It felt exactly like when I broke up with Hsiao, my ex, whom I dated a few years ago. We still call each other like friends do now.

Once every other or three months, that is.

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First Phone Call


The first phone call I made since our “just-good-friends” relation officially started, it was.

You were asleep when you got the call. It was past 12 noon. You said you’d been watching TV until really late the night before.

So it got nothing to do with me.

You sounded so sleepy, so I-ain’t-woken-up-yet, so I told you I should let you go for it’s really nothing that I called you for. “No, no, it’s okay. Go on,” said you. Then we had a nice, warm, friendly conversation—like old friends. Seemed almost like how we used to talk to one another before those things happened. But not quite.

So it really is over, after I hung up I thought.

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