What a Small World

I was wrapping someone's birthday gift this morning. As I was cutting the celotape and turning the box around I started to think about last Tuesday night when I skipped sleep cause I was chatting with Hemy, her mum and her bf from USC. I was trying to remember why the name Hemy sounds so familiar to me. The only other name that's familiar is Nur Hamy, but that is my cousin and I know what my cousin looks like.. so she can't be my cousin.. Then I remembered that night someone asked what's Hemy's full name and I remembered auntie saying that because her husband's name is short and simple, she gave all her kids two names. So her daughter's name is Hemy ~Something~ Halim. So I automatically assumed that all her kid's' name started with H.

Later we started talking about Malaysia and auntie was talking about an area very familiar to me.. it turns out that she lives in DU, and could easily relate to Nad, Dya and my residential housing area cause we all live in the TTDI, DU, DJ, and KJ area. That should have been a tip off for me but I still couldn't match up the clues.

I asked Nad yesterday if Hemy has any other siblings, and she said that Hemy is the only daughter of the family and she has an older brother and two younger brothers. Still nothing..

But all of a sudden this morning I thought of Hemy and auntie's eyes and I am so sure that those eyes remind me of someone so dear..
Then it hit me.. and I flipped over my old photo album, the one of me in Prince Edward Island and my trip to Nova Scotia in Canada two years ago...
Redza!! How could I have forgotten.. ??

And now it's all coming back to me; I've seen those light brown eyes on Redza, I've seen family pictures of Redza with Hemy, his parents and their little brother, Hadi. Nad was mistaken, he only has one younger brother. I don't know why I didn't think of it before, Redza was just chatting with me a few weeks before asking me when I'm coming back to Malaysia so that we could meet up again and catch up on our friendship. Redza did talk about Hemy, and I've seen pictures of their family road trip around the east coast when he used to study in Virginia, just before Redza came over to Minnesota to meet me that summer. And now Redza is going to see me in his sister's and mum's latest west coast road trip pictures. What a coincidence.. I can't wait to tell him about this!

I called Dya and asked for more details on Hemy to confirm my suspicion, and every piece of the puzzle just fits right into the whole picture. Auntie has my Malaysian address, and left us hers'. She even invited me over to her house when I'm back at the end of this year. It would have been such a shock if I had no idea of all this and met Redza at auntie's house. I'm glad I realized it now. I'm sure he's going to laugh at all this when he hears about it. What a small world, talk about coincidence....