Week 3: Like an umbrella on a rainy day!

today, i made a pleasantly surprising discovery. however, in order to tell you why the discovery was so pleasant, i'll have to track 8 hours back from the time of said pleasant discovery.

it was 10 in the morning when i was about to leave the apartment and the sky looked like it was about to rain. i was looking for my umbrella but, in the aftermath of my drop-everything-and-run departure of and subsequent return to sydney, the house was in a mess hence Operation Discover Umbrella was rescheduled for another day i.e. tergendala.

8 hours later, i was pottering about the lab on my hands and knees trying to plug in the computer's monitor screen into the power outlet when LO AND BEHOLD! my umbrella was right under the table!

you know that feeling, when you find something that you've been looking for for so long when you least expect it? when you're just minding your own business (while cursing under your breath because you're crawling about on the dirty carpeted floor that was last vacuumed during the dark ages) and suddenly it appears out of the blue? that feeling? SO GOOD!

as i started to rearrange the folds of my umbrella (because it was left...untied; i'm guessing i must've left it there on the very last day and forgot to take it back), i realised that maybe i shouldn't be so hard on life itself. obviously it's still capable of springing (good) surprises on me whenever it wants to. hmmm.