Saturday, December 11, 2004

lesson #135: of codes and dreams

Read Zhi's blog. Sincerely hope things will work out for her. It seems an exciting journey - she doesn't know where she'll end up but she's still climbing up that mountain in her Mary Janes. I have to admit I'm living vicariously through her. I badly miss that Thrill Of The Chase. Miss the whole heart-racing, flirty and giggly sensation. Miss the uncertainty, the what-ifs, even the possibility of what we Indos call 'bertepuk sebelah tangan' - unrequited love (or lust, as the case maybe). I miss that crucial moment just before two persons become one (and I mean not in a session of crude raunchy sex), just before they become a couple - that moment when you ask yourself, "Could this be it?" Could this really be the end of your journey? Could this be for Ever After?


Emotional riddles aside, I was reading The Da Vinci Code yesterday night (am at the bit where he decoded the O, lame saint! thing) when came an SMS from an ex: "wvvk wldm r hgroo nrhh blf". Yes, that was really what he sent me. I suddenly felt that I was in a parallel universe where everybody speaks in codes. So anyway, I messaged him back asking what it was and then he said, it's a coded message (ok, that was a 'duh'). And that it was a difficult one, but he hoped I can decipher it.


Well, I can't. It can't be an anagram because of the lack of vowels. It's most probably a case of different assignation of the alphabet (when you have to read R as A, H as N, etc.) but I've discovered that it's a totally random assignation. There is simply no pattern if I were to take the words as they were. Or maybe, it's a combination of both anagram and assignation. After decoding the assignation, the letters still have to be switched around in order to make sense.


Urr... too many possibilities for me. Gonna tell him I can't decipher it. SO hate not knowing the solution of a puzzle, though. And why on earth would he send me something like this, anyway? It's completely out of the blue! How strange.