Went again to Arab Street for Sheesha and basically to chill, with Danny, Tiffany (Taiwanese, studying in UTexas in Austin), Amelia from Iowa, a Thai girl and a French dude. And Efhan Ali (The Canadian Pakistani in the previous blog post who works in Japan teaching English) rode up and found us; he was going night cycling.

I'll miss these people, real thanks to Danny for introducing me to them, they're all real fun, real chill, excellent conversationalists, and don't mind just wasting hours around a Sheesha pipe talking and chilling. Everyone has so many life stories to tell because of his varied life experience, and the conversation can go anywhere, from film and literature to physics to evolution and religion, to social and pop culture. This is what I admire in people, the knowledge and wisdom and worldliness to be able to carry on a conversation about any topic, and the ability to just chill and sit and waste hours stoning and talking, and cracking jokes. Without saying "O I need to study because my exams are next week". (A way out would be: Ok i'll study in the day, for 7 hours, and chill out after that.)

I wonder who I can do this shit with, people that can carry on conversations on more topics than human relationships, studies, and the latest gossip. I think having a global perspective, having experienced a different culture, helps. Even if that was not the case, I'm just looking for ... that X-Factor (Damnit). Call it intelligence, call it chemistry, call it "chill-ness", call it whatever.

I think in Singapore, Dean probably makes it there, from our past few conversations. Clement looks like he could too, look forward to meeting him. There're probably more people, but I guess I just need to find them.

And then we can head down to Arab Street for Sheesha.