Who needs action when you got words?

Mindy says I attract weird people. Weird people always come talk to me.

Just the other night at Clementi, I was waiting for Mindy when this 40-something Chinese man came over. I still had my earphones on so I only saw him looking straight at me and saying something which I couldn’t hear, obviously. I removed the phones, and trouble began.

Him: Do you speak English?
Me: Yup I do.
Him: Erm, I need your help.

(Thinking to myself, “Whatever it is, just don’t ask to borrow my phone.”)

Me: Okay… what’s the problem?
Him: There’s a girl over there, young girl, and she’s feeling very down. I think she has some relationship problem… Maybe out of love, and she’s alone, talking on the phone.
Me: Ahuh…
Him: And there’s this group of boys sitting near her, and they’re planning to do something to her. Something very offensive.

At this point, Mindy arrived.

Mindy: What’s happening?

He briefly repeated the above, and asked that we follow him to check on the girl.

Him: I think it’s good if you can approach her and talk to her. I wanna help her but I’m a man. She’d be more comfortable talking to you. I think she needs a role model. (???) I don’t wanna see my fellow Singaporean get into this kind of trouble, and I can’t do anything to help. Can you come with me? Just go and see her first.

Mindy and I looked at each other, then followed him reluctantly. I mean, this was about the weirdest conversation I’d had with a stranger.

When we came to the girl, all we saw was a generic-looking teenage girl talking on the phone. Sure, she looked kinda spacey, but nothing like depressed. And, the bunch of guys the man was referring to looked just like normal boys who play street soccer on Sundays. They were talking and didn’t look like they even knew the girl was sitting beside them.

Mindy: I don’t see any problem here.
Him: Please just go and talk to her?
Me: But how? There’s like nothing going on?
Him: She needs some help and guidance.

Mindy and I tried to explain that there wasn’t any situation as far as we could see, and you can’t just go up to a stranger who’s on the phone and ask if they need help.

Mindy: If you really think there’s a problem, why don’t you just call the police or something?
Him: If you’re self-centred, you can go. Just disappear.
Me: What?
Mindy: Okay. Fine.

So we walked off. Cheeseen!

Hiding from the sun, waiting for the night to come

We got our DVDs safely! We're all happy now. When Amit gets his he'd be very happy too. Unfortunately, i have no time to start on them. I bought 10! And we only checked out one shop. We spent hours in the secret room, browsing through the titles, making difficult decisions then finally testing them piece by piece. Testing of DVDs is very important.

We got a very good price cos we bought so many. Can't wait to buy some more the next time i'm there.

Meeting up with the delivery guy made me so kancheong most of the day in the end i made ping pong come with me. I kept imagining police popping out during the meeting to catch me. And what if the fella didn't call? Like he got busted at the customs or something? Real bummer that would've been. I mean, it does happen okay. Boon said one time he didn't get his stuff. What's more the delivery man called me two hours later than he said he would. We met at 12 midnight mann, and he was on his motorcycle. Haha. Sounds like shady lane!

And the four right chords can make me cry

If you go to the 7-11 at Liang Court, watch out for this young punk of a cashier. He's a hum sup loh. He remembers if you've been there and what you bought the last time. And he gives you a smirk, and says "That's all today? Not buying anything else?"

And if you take bus 143, beware also. I was crossing the road when the bus driver just winked at me. In broad daylight!

Ok, now i'm off to like pump some beers and mix a few drinks. Damn the US Marine.

Tmr, we be merciless pirates!

Randomness.