Meet Biren, from the Roti-n-Rice blog, who is a top commenter for the month of October. Biren has been an active commenter since our Pandan Spiral Mooncake post, which inspired her to make some beautiful Butternut Squash Mooncakes of her own.
Just like the previous two top commenters, I want to thank Biren for being a top commenter by introducing her site to you. She recently completed a move from Blogspot to Wodpress, and her site looks great! At less than a year old, Roti-n-Rice is an impressive recipe site with a large and active following.
Here’s our fun little “interview”.
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Just a quick shout out to all our RSS and email subscribers. Our “Friends Forever” love story (Part 1, Part 2) as told by Annie was concluded on Page 2 of the last post, but for some reason the link to Page 2 was left out of the RSS feed. So all you readers out there might not have seen the happy ending.
Click here to go to the finale.
Sorry for the confusion!
Aloha, Nate
I couldn’t quite get the words out of my mouth.
Yes, I was in love with my friend Nate but I didn’t know if this leap into the unknown would be successful or would I look back a few months into it and realize it was all a BIG MISTAKE. See, I’m normally a pretty confident girl in most areas of my life—friendships, studies, work, church, activities, you name it, I’m always somewhere in the thick of it. But with relationships, I’d scored a big, fat zip. I’ve never been involved with anyone. Somehow, my friendships with guys had never led anywhere. And boyfriends? Nope, never been there. Therefore, this area was unknown to me. A real mystery, full of hope and pitfalls. In this area, I truly lacked confidence.
So taking that step of calling Nate was HUGE for me. And even though I couldn’t get the words out, the fact that I was willing to try for it was a miracle. After putting the phone down, I had to mentally talk myself into calling Nate again. I ran through the words in my head, rehearsing what I was going to say. I was going to tell him that even though we had agreed to be just friends, I had stronger feelings and ask him if he was willing to take it further.
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So Nate had dropped me off at my dorm and I had gotten advice from my friend, Yoneko, to pretend that everything was the same as usual. And I did do that. For a week, we continued to meet and I would talk to him like I normally did and not bring up the fact that he had said something that was so disconcerting and was hanging over my head. That whole week I was acting normal and cool being his friend.
But if you know me at all, you know that keeping silent for a WHOLE WEEK was a feat of unprecedented internal fortitude. I’m the girl who constantly speaks my mind and is frequently having to open mouth and insert foot. So, to keep silent was really a challenge. I was about to burst. I’m sure if I had tried really hard, I may have been able to pretend for all of one week and another day! Luckily, something happened to allow me to call Nate over.
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