Missing mother

Date: 29 Nov 2015
Time: 0835 hrs
Place: Middle Road, near the construction site where Midlink Plaza was (Queen Street)

I was jogging through the temporary walkway when a 40-something year old Chinese woman in a brown dress asked me whether I knew of any cheap backpacker's hostels nearby. She had already asked another auntie, still standing behind her. I asked her if she knew of the name of the hostel as there are many backpacker's hostels in the area -- in the Beach Road area, on Bencoolen Street, etc. That's when she said that she was looking for her mother, who was unable to tell her the name of the place, only that she had to walk up a flight of stairs, it was a shophouse, and that it was near "Bugis Market", and something about a "pod". And that her phone had ran out of battery so she wasn't able to call her mother again. I wasn't aware of any backpackers hostels near Bugis though so I told her I couldn't help her without the name of the hostel. As I left she asked me again where were the hostels that I knew of and I told her to look at Beach Road and Bencoolen Street and she walked off towards Bencoolen Street.

[postscript: Googling after I got home, her mother could be at Plush Pods at 2 Tan Quee Lan Street http://www.plush-pods.com ]

Ring my "bel"?

Date: 29 Nov 2015
Time: 0830 hrs
Place: Traffic junction of Middle Road and Victoria Street, Bugis Junction side

A teenaged Malay boy wearing his cap backwards, with three other younger boys (8 to 10 years old?), intercepted me as I was jogging and asked, "Bel, where is the Bras Basah Complex?" I pointed him to the National Library building and told him it was the building behind that. He didn't quite believe me. As I started jogging across the road he followed me for a bit and I had to point out Bras Basah Complex again and tell him to go the other way.