Wednesday, February 20, 2008

Prepositioned

Date: 20 Feb 2008
Time: 2135 hrs
Place: National Library (corner of Victoria Street and Middle Road)

(both) It took him a while to get the sentence right because he was rearranging the prepositions. "Excusemesir, excusemesir, which is the way we are getting to... which is the way to get to... to walk... how do we get to Mustafa?" So we told him walk down three junctions, turn right at Selegie and walk up Serangoon Road, at which point he recognised "oh! Serangoon Road" and went on his way.

He was an Indian dude, quite young, quite chubby, approaching us from behind. He was with a friend in a white t-shirt and jeans.