She had a wonderful Wednesday - double w's - that's how Sunny and her would title their emails to each other. She smiled, as she thought of that.
It had been a truly wonderful night. She had dinner at Lucy's Kitchen with her Sunny. There, they bumped into her old school friend and parents, whom she never thought she'd have the opportunity to meet again. There, she finally had the one-on-one time with Sunny that she had yearned for weeks on end. It wasn't until it happened, there right after her own eyes, that she realised how important this had been for her.
As Sunny talked about her work and colleagues and D, she listened on. At some point of the night, there was a moment where she felt like she was living in a movie. You know the sort, with the slow panning of the lens from one side of the scene to another... with the subject in deep focus. This time, it was Sunny, talking about her work, with soft hints of light dancing behind her. It was tranquil, calming, beautiful. The habitual creature of capturing in Sunny's audience wanted to capture this moment forever in her mind, quietly drop it into a jar and save it for rainy's day. She knew what it was called... it was called nostalgia.
When she got home, the same happened with different moments. It happened when she caught her Popo out: instead of showering, she had stayed up not for her fourth daughter to come home, but for her Korean drama to come on - just as said fourth daughter had suspected. Her Popo laughed, when she caught her out. That hearty oops-but-I'm-not-really-sorry laugh... she wanted to put that in that jar of hers.
Then it happened again, when her Kung Kung and her started to talk about her cars, from its very basics right down to the amount of planning car production takes. She couldn't remember what had exactly triggered the moment... but all she remembered was her Kung Kung speaking with a smile behind his words - she, too, wanted to put that in her jar.
All these moments felt so real and movie-like at the same time, and for the longest time, she couldn't figure out why. And it was only when she started to really think about it, that she realised that it was because they felt memorable. Like a memorable quote from a movie worthy of being pinned by IMDb under 'Memorable Quotes'. They were memorable, and they were hard to come by. And those two characteristics - yes, only those two characteristics - will be the foundations of her future endeavours. For they were good and pure, and she needed very much to hold onto these, while she can, to live a good and pure life.
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