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The Grass is Greener

Written by Kenny Mah on
Oct 5th 2009

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I remember when I met you. No stars hung in mid-air nor into your eyes did I stare. No fanfare, confetti or balloons. No falling under the spell of your moon. Romance isn’t always a Belinda Carlisle song.

Love can’t move mountains. Love can’t part the seas. Love doesn’t mean I’m the one for you nor you for me.

Sometimes when I am alone without you, I wonder if the grass is not greener. The other side, the other life, there are always fields of gold for willing seekers. There is honey and molasses and ambrosia untasted; surely to abstain and to forsake would be to waste?

There is always more.

I can have everyone. I can have anyone. But I don’t want to move mountains; I want to always climb your sweet hills. I don’t want to part the seas, not when your river runs through me still. The grass may be greener, but truth be told, we all know there are no fields of gold. That’s alright though.

Who cares about grass or glitter when I have you in my arms to hold?

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Words & design by Kenny Mah. Photograph by Steve Steve.


64 Responses

  1. ladyironchef says:

    aww.. that’s so sweet. “I want nobody, nobody but you.” heh :)

    • Kenny Mah says:

      Haha, I love that Korean song. Wonder Girls, right?

    • ladyironchef says:

      yeah! haha “I can have everyone. I can have anyone” I like this line too! good to see you are back to blogging often! : )

      • Kenny Mah says:

        That line was actually not meant to be boastful though when I reread the post, I was worried it might come off as much. It’s meant to convey that if we wanted to, we could really be with anyone in any form of relationship possible (not just romantic) but that all these may pale in comparison to the one relationship that fulfills us this deeply.

        As for blogging more regularly now, haha — who knows how long it will last? :P

      • ladyironchef says:

        hahahahah yeah that’s my first impression, whoa kenny can get everyone and anyone he wants! HAHA i know there’s a deeper meaning :)

        well, it’s good while it last. Give us everything you got, every ouch of lyrical juice in you. hehe

        • Kenny Mah says:

          1. Well, it’s a different meaning, sure. I’m not certain that it is indeed a deeper meaning. I’m totally shallow, y’know. *looks blank blank*

          2. For LYRICAL juice, apply within Lyrical Lemongrass’s blog. Heh.

          P.S. You leave the best comments ever, mate. (And that’s saying a lot, considering LFB readers leave darn excellent comments to begin with.)

          Props to LIC! :D

          • Kenny Mah says:

            P.P.S. Isn’t it weird we all go by acronymous pseudonyms? LFB. LIC. FBB. LL/AWOL. TNG. Any others I’m missing? :P

          • ladyironchef says:

            aww.. thanks! everybody leave great comments here! hee keropokman too long, what’s his? hahahah

            And you ain’t shallow, I always read deep deep into your lines : )

            • Kenny Mah says:

              Keropokman: SDP? SDMP? Singapore Daily Makan Photo, that’s the full title of his blog, rite?

              And I ain’t ain’t shallow; just that you are deep deep. LOL

  2. cumidanciki says:

    wei.. slow down..! u blog too fast!

    the grass is always greener on the other side.. but we ARE ‘the otherside’ to the person looking on .. rite?! Excellent.. love can move mountains wat.. it can it can it can! hehe

    • Kenny Mah says:

      Me? ME blog too fast? I think it’s a case of the pot calling the kettle a rather delicious shade of obsidian, my dear. ;)

      Now over to you and your moving of mountains… Hehehe.

  3. Paul says:

    Awww. You’re so gonna get lucky :) Wait, you already are!

  4. irene says:

    it is really sweet kenny.. awww

  5. asstha says:

    awwww… diabetic inducing… I wuz planning to do something similar… but obviously it will never be able to compare to this… you always did have a flair with words… :)

    • Kenny Mah says:

      Eeks. There goes another awwwww. LOL

      You should go ahead and express yourself, dear. Never mind what saccharine schtick I come up with. :)

  6. Once we make that clean break from the conventional notion of earth shattering romance, the modern more utilitarian approach to romance is just as charming and inspiring, if not more. It may not be eternal or death defying but nope, who needs forever nor immortality when we have the Wonder Girls?

    • Kenny Mah says:

      Aye. Conventional wisdom is truly overrated. We need to make our own brand of happinesss and lurve.

      And yay to Wonder Girls! I really should do a post on them and their fans soon. They certainly gave me much joy lately. Hehe.

  7. Sean says:

    if u’re feeling wistfully romantic, go watch (500) days of summer, now showing at sunway pyramid. it’s poignant, achingly truthful, yet life-affirming.
    romance is usually a magnetic fields song for me. or jewel, if u prefer something more accessible.

    • Kenny Mah says:

      I’d go with Mr. Stephin Merritt anytime. Was just listening to his 69 Love Songs last night. His ‘Busby Berkeley Dreams’ is particularly nostalgic and wrenching. I’m not too sure about life-affirming though.

      I totally want to watch (500) Days of Summer — anything that showcases the talents of Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Zooey Deschanel has me as a fan… even before viewing the work itself. :)

  8. jemima says:

    Nothing in this world can compare to your words above… ‘coz they truly come straight from your heart. ;)

  9. rokh says:

    how am i to comment when your post had said it all? but note to self, i GOT to get my good friend to read this!

  10. Poh Chu says:

    Belinda Carlisle song? Is it La Luna?

  11. Yes, indeed when we come to think abt it, we do have choices but ultimately the person we chose to be with gave us the most happiness.

    Now.. HAPPINESS.. I find that that’s the most coveted state of being to be in.

    • Kenny Mah says:

      True, that. Of course, happiness and confidence must come from within first… That’s what makes us attractive to our partners, no? :)

  12. keropokman says:

    Other than feeling the sticky goo-ey lovey dovey feeling after reading what you write….

    I am suddenly thinking of salads! Green crisp salads.
    I sometimes wonder what is going on up there in my mind…

  13. daphne says:

    So glad u r back to the blogging world Kenny.

    Grass is always greener.. hmm.. I fall into that trap too BUT then I remember to appreciate and hold on to what I have now. Afterall, sometimes we forget that we already have it in front of us- it is just a matter of tuning our minds to it. =)

    • Kenny Mah says:

      Turn our minds to it — I like that phrase… It takes concrete action on our part, you mean. We must want to want this badly enough, to make it work. Ohm, ohm.

  14. Nic (KHKL) says:

    woah bro, u sure score big-big la with this kinda words. gerenti!

    thanks to this post, tom jones’ green green grass of home’s stuck in my head. will it come with imaginery panties thrown at me? :D

    • Kenny Mah says:

      Okay is it weird that I got the panties comment but not the song title? Tom Jones? All I know of him is that Sexbomb song la… :P

  15. the_lighthouse says:

    green grass, fields of gold, farmer of love? =P

  16. tigerfish says:

    I think people always look for things they do not have, that is why the grass appears greener.

  17. the day when the grass is no longer greener , is the day of the beginning of the finish line.
    Meantime the greener the better for we must have the finishing touches for the grand finis

    • Kenny Mah says:

      I like that — if it’s to work, if it’s gonna last, let’s make it grand and majestic, this thing we call LOVE. :)

  18. Chin says:

    Well-said. Value those that are near.

  19. Selba says:

    Awwww… so sweet…. how I wish that someone could be so romantic to write like this to me…. coz’ I would be the happiest person on earth!!!

    • Kenny Mah says:

      I think we can be truly happy even without romance, just that a good romance helps spruce things up so much more. :)

  20. Kopi Soh says:

    I like this, I like this very much.

    • Kenny Mah says:

      Oh Kopi Soh, I wish you’d start blogging again. I miss your posts out in the real world. You deserve to be read by many, many more people.

  21. kristopher says:

    grass is greener for the green-eyed monster. TRUST is the key to happiness.

  22. Chin.C says:

    gooshh….u could kill a soul – i mean female with all your lines..haha! Keep blogging! guess lots of us are hunger for more.

    • Kenny Mah says:

      More? I’m slowing down a bit this week due to workload but maybe by the weekend, a new post? *fingers crossed*

  23. Michelle says:

    I like my grass in the shade they’re currently in. Not too green – just enough to remind me that it’s alive, but not so much that I forget to tend to it.

    We need to tend to grass, green or no green. Else weeds would take over. No?

    =)

  24. Jun says:

    u hit the nail right on the head. the boyfriend has jt flew back today. sigh.

  25. Vivian says:

    Words to melt a girl’s heart. ;D

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