"Women are strange, he concluded, in choosing sleep or death to tell a man of their love when he could least hear them.", Catherine Lim, Following the Wrong God Home.

in this case, we're seperated by a whole land mass generally known as Central Asia.

i want to tell him ilovehim.

counting: EIGHT

p.s: by the way, u really shld check that book out Following the Wrong God Home. written in Singapore's context, with A LOT of names changed (prob for the safety of the writer since she retrospectively castigates the spore govt. willingly cause she's malaysian. HA. u haf to blame it on her malaysian jealousy despite her havin live her later life in spore. not much of a mr spencer in her i suppose-- spencer cause he admires MM LEE to the very strands on his white balding head!) . but really nice. poignant.