Date: 31 May 2005
Time: 1056 hrs
Place: SPH office
(sorf) I'm the only one plugged into headphones out of 4 people and I get asked directions to Judith Tan's desk!
Tuesday, May 31, 2005
Wednesday, May 25, 2005
what do you call pregnant bimbos?
Date: 25 May 2005
Time: 1735 hrs
Place: Paragon Shopping Center
(sorf) I think this unsolicited accosting on the street is getting way out of hand. Three times in the space of minutes. Twice by survey girls who went out of their way to stop her and once by some guy selling postcards.
Moments before, in the lift coming down, a couple of bimbo ah-lians got on at the 3rd floor to get off at the 2nd. That short journey was sufficiently long enough to overhear a declaration that if she's pregnant she won't wear maternity clothes but sexy things.
I think the headlines for the week were about educated women choosing abortion as their choice of birth control...
Time: 1735 hrs
Place: Paragon Shopping Center
(sorf) I think this unsolicited accosting on the street is getting way out of hand. Three times in the space of minutes. Twice by survey girls who went out of their way to stop her and once by some guy selling postcards.
Moments before, in the lift coming down, a couple of bimbo ah-lians got on at the 3rd floor to get off at the 2nd. That short journey was sufficiently long enough to overhear a declaration that if she's pregnant she won't wear maternity clothes but sexy things.
I think the headlines for the week were about educated women choosing abortion as their choice of birth control...
Sunday, May 22, 2005
a crow, defiant
Date: 22 May 2005
Time: 1113 hrs
Place: Outside Farrer Park MRT
I was trying to find where my favorite prawn noodle stall at the Race Course Road kopitiam had moved to, so I was walking up and down Rangoon Road and Kitchener Road, in vain. There was a crow, standing his ground on top of a metal drain cover, enjoying shade from a nearby tree filled with noisy crows, and generally oblivious to the passers-by. I had passed it twice already in my noodle quest. So I started disturbing it, touching its beak with the bottom of my slipper, when another crow-like creature came out of the MRT exit and (it seems, almost) made a bee-line towards me.
He was a long-haired middle-aged Malay man, dressed rocker-mat style, with a dirty sling bag and his hair flowing out from under his cap. "Where is the Mustafa?" he asked, the article "the" being quite appropriate actually. I pointed him down the road and to the right and off he went, leaving me to wonder what exactly he was looking to buy from "the" Mustafa, and whether he'll be wearing rock t-shirt and jeans for the rest of his life.
(Later I asked the angry Putien stall matriach and she feigned ignorance without uttering a word, perhaps she'd gotten a sore throat screaming at her teenage rebellious daughters. The drinks stall auntie was much more helpful, even explaining why she did not go "support" the stall, among other things. I think people should talk to her more.)
Time: 1113 hrs
Place: Outside Farrer Park MRT
I was trying to find where my favorite prawn noodle stall at the Race Course Road kopitiam had moved to, so I was walking up and down Rangoon Road and Kitchener Road, in vain. There was a crow, standing his ground on top of a metal drain cover, enjoying shade from a nearby tree filled with noisy crows, and generally oblivious to the passers-by. I had passed it twice already in my noodle quest. So I started disturbing it, touching its beak with the bottom of my slipper, when another crow-like creature came out of the MRT exit and (it seems, almost) made a bee-line towards me.
He was a long-haired middle-aged Malay man, dressed rocker-mat style, with a dirty sling bag and his hair flowing out from under his cap. "Where is the Mustafa?" he asked, the article "the" being quite appropriate actually. I pointed him down the road and to the right and off he went, leaving me to wonder what exactly he was looking to buy from "the" Mustafa, and whether he'll be wearing rock t-shirt and jeans for the rest of his life.
(Later I asked the angry Putien stall matriach and she feigned ignorance without uttering a word, perhaps she'd gotten a sore throat screaming at her teenage rebellious daughters. The drinks stall auntie was much more helpful, even explaining why she did not go "support" the stall, among other things. I think people should talk to her more.)
Thursday, May 12, 2005
What's interchange in Mandarin?
Date: 12 May 2005
Time: 1803 hrs
Place: Braddell MRT
I was waiting for sorf to join her on the train, at the Braddell MRT southbound platform, when a female Chinese national and her son asked me how to get to "Wen Li" (Boon Lay?) and mumbled something about IMM. I explained to her as best I could about changing trains but I wasn't sure how to say "interchange" in Mandarin. They got on the next train and left.
Time: 1803 hrs
Place: Braddell MRT
I was waiting for sorf to join her on the train, at the Braddell MRT southbound platform, when a female Chinese national and her son asked me how to get to "Wen Li" (Boon Lay?) and mumbled something about IMM. I explained to her as best I could about changing trains but I wasn't sure how to say "interchange" in Mandarin. They got on the next train and left.
Saturday, May 07, 2005
Machine trouble
Date: 07 May 2005
Time: 2345 hrs
Place: Near Upper Boon Keng
(sorf) At one of the ATM machines, there was a foreman and his Thai worker who asked for help regarding his wonky ATM card.
Time: 2345 hrs
Place: Near Upper Boon Keng
(sorf) At one of the ATM machines, there was a foreman and his Thai worker who asked for help regarding his wonky ATM card.
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