Date: 20 Jul 2007
Time: 1803 hrs
Place: Harbourfront MRT Station entrance
I was just about to enter the cavernous stairwell that leads down to the Harbourfront MRT station when a 20-something Malay man, dressed in a red cap, brown t-shirt, jeans and slippers, and staring out of the window towards at the cars passing by on the road, approached me and asked me very politely, "Excuse me sir, what is the time?"
As if to reinforce the point of his lack of timekeeping equipment, he showed me a very bare forearm. I looked at my watch very deliberately and said "6.03" and he said "Thank you", and turned around and continued to look at the road, waiting.
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