Silence greeted my entrance into office in the morning. The office was rather empty, which is not surprising at this time of 8.10am. Passing by Jeremy while going to my desk on the far end, I greeted him 'Good Morning' with a smile. He looked up from his computer, nodded in enknowledgement, and muttered a 'morning' so soft that I can't really hear. The silence added more to the coldness in the office, especially on a Monday morning. The journey to office by train this morning was not the most pleasant one; a geek was leaning his whole body on a pole and playing PSP. Bacause of him leaning on the pole, people who are boarding cannot move in and so everyone was jammed at the entrance of the train. He was too engrossed in his PSP to notice that he was blocking everybody's way in. I was standing beside him, not having anything to hold on to, and thus was trying very hard not to fall when the train is pulling to a stop when nearing stations. Looks like Phua Chu Kang's A Happy Journey Starts Like That project wasn't a very successful one. Anyway, nearing my desk, I saw one pile of letters, undersigned by Wen Hui. I can't help but smile to myself. I have no idea why I smiled when I saw those letters, but I just did. I folded and mailed them out immediately. A few phone enquires and dishonored cheques more or less concluded the morning part of my work today.
Sunday, 18 Jan 2010
I slept in til 8 plus in the morning, because I know that I won't be able to for the next five days. After a quick shower, I tried to tidy up my room, especially my desk. My mum likes to put everything in the world on my desk: pins, masking tapes, my baby brother's story books, and so on and so on. Plus some stuffs of my own and my clothes, my desk is like a mountain of junks. I managed to clear some of the stuffs from my desk. My book cupboard is like a museum: National Geographic dated 2004, Readers' Digest dated to as early as 1999... ... I treated them like treasure last time. Now they are just junks. I took them all out and ask my mum to sell them to the ga nang gu ni man when he come along. I harvested my crops on Island Paradise on Facebook, before leaving for Tan Tock Seng Hospital to visit my aunt. She can't see properly with her left eye now, and the doctor had wanted her to be warded to be put under observation for like five days. Visiting at Tan Tock Seng Hospital has become very troublesome now; you need to register atthe counter, queue for the lift, wear mask, and there are security guards and a few police officers around to maintain order. My aunt couldn't reconginise me when I call her from the distance. Only when I went nearer to her that she knows it's me.
I talked to her for quite a while, because I know that she is bored. Since 2005, she has spent most of her time in hospital, due to her illness. 2005 was quite a struggle for her. But I guess she is getting use to it already I guess. I left around 3.30pm and went back home. I told a detour to MPH at Novena Square to browse for some books. I reached home around 4 in the evening, and went on to watch Star Wars: Clone Wars series, because it's only a few more episodes before I finish watching the entire season. I went over to Khatib's NTUC after watching to buy some stuffs. Came back, a game of Red Alert 3 before ironing my clothes for work tomorrow, and finish tidying up my desk, before calling a day and went to sleep.
Saturday, 17 Jan 2010
I woke up almost immediately when my handphone's alarm rang. I'm meeting Joe for Macdonald's breakfast at Compass Point. On the bus journey to Seng Kang, I was enjoying the warmth of the sun through the tinted windows on the bus. There wasn't much vehicles on the express way this early, so the bus was able to get to Seng Kang quite fast. I sat myself outside Mr Bean to wait for Joe. I expected him to be late, and true enough, he lived up to my expectations. By the time he arrived, he was already close to being 20 minutes late. He brought me cup noodles from Taiwan. Well, I guess more of bowl noodles. we managed to find seats after a while at Macdonalds. If Macdonalds breakfast is in concern, I guess it's always Big Breakfast. I bought two sets of it with medium Milo rather than regular coffee. It's my treat to Joe for his birthday and I guess for thanking him with the 'bowl' noodles. He told me about his trip to Taiwan, Thailand and everything else in camp that happened in my absense. After breakfast, we went to Best to loiter around. I told him that I wanted a lot of things: PSP, PS3, Aino, Speakers, cruise, camera... ... then he was like "You siao huh? Want so many things for what?" The concept of unlimited wants and limited resources still exist. We parted after that because he's going to meet his girlfriend. By the time I reached home it's afternoon already, and as I promised my mum, I helped her clean the toilet in the afternoon. The paints on the ceiling are all coming off already, and I need to use a big brush to scrup them down. It was like snowing, but quite irritated kind. I spent a while in the toilet.
At night, I met Elton for movie at Yishun's Golden Village. I wanted to go to Ang Mo Kio Hub's Cathay initially, but Elton says he don't feel like travelling that far because he wasn't feeling very well. We watched The Spy Next Door, by Jackie Chan. It was like the Pacifier, so it was quite predictable. Anyway, Jackie Chan is rather old already, so I guess he won't be doing much movies in future. (One more fall then that might be it) After movie, we went over to Northpoint's food court for dinner. I haven't been eating at Northpoint's food court in ages, ever since I graduated from college. The batter fish rice was $4.50 now, compared to $3.80 two years ago. And the fish has become smaller to that two years ago. At least the standard of the meal is still okay. I don't know what Elton ate, but it looks like rojak less everything but with some fried beancurd and cucumber. After that we went over to Harvey Norman. Elton needs to buy the vacumm cleaner bag. We went to the bus terminals after that. Elton couldn't catch his bus in time, so we were standing around waiting. I told him that I think she knows that I love her already. He was like, "Come on loh. Who doesn't know?!", "She knows. So what?! She will kill you meh?". I told him, "So what? So I need to do area cleaning to clear up what remains of our friendship loh." By this time, he was shaking his head and signing already. Signing, because he is disappointed in me, I guess. He told me he just spent $30 on the miserable Doramon toy from Macdonalds to please his dream girl. $30 on a toy that is worth less than $1. It shows how much he like this girl. I guess we are pretty much on the same boat. Well, not really the same, at least he is much much more good looking than me. My bus came, so I waved him goodbye and hurried off. I'm thinking on the bus. I forgot what I'm thinking, but I was just thinking.
On MSN later in the night, Kenny was telling me that he felt bad not being able to meet me everytime I asked him out. I missed Kenny as a friend but I know he has his own commitments and stuffs to undertake, so I don't really blame him or what. I'm just feeling disappointed that's all. He asked me what I did see in him that I wanted to be his friend. I don't know how to answer him then and there. What are the things that you see in people that you want to be their friend?
I guess I need to sleep on that one tonight.
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