Narrative...

Another great day...haha...I seem to be getting more of these lately...

First i went to get my hair done...i think it looks great...really much better than the mop-top with the floppy fringe I was sporting...it was getting a bit too bohemian for my tastes...and Thank God the CSM hasn't really been around lately, so nobody had much to say about my long hair...

After that, I went to City Hall to meet Stephanie...

It was wonderful seeing her again! Hav'nt seen Stephanie for nearly a month because she went to Canada for a vacation...We went for lunch at Kenny Roger's...which is one of my favourite dining places... Then we went to Suntec to pass Ying her birthday prezzie...It was nice seeing Ying too

After that, we leisurely drifted to The Esplanade...What a wonderful place to spend a lazy and mellow Thursday afternoon! Steph and I made our way to The Roof Terrace where we watched the little boats sail around Marina Bay...it was a perfectly idyllic setting and the silence really left me with a sense of inner peace...we talked about many, many things....menopausal mothers...demonic bosses...two-faced friends...haha...

and then Steph started stepping on the ants on the floor...I was faintly irritated...I don't know why...

I had a sudden epiphany...I looked at the skyscrapers of Shenton Way and thought to myself, "aren't we all going to be ants in the future?"... Wouldn't we all be scuttling into our little cubicles everyday to work for omnipotent, yet invisible bosses?... will we still have a mind of our own? I doubt so... Will we still maintain our sense of individuality? Will we be able to preserve what essentially defines us as human beings? I have my misgivings... We will simply be faceless entities...production units to help line the pockets of a few powerful members of society...It really sounds rather bleak doesn't it? And when the time comes, what might be the only things that can give us a bit of happiness? The chance to move into a slightly bigger cubicle and a few more dollars to pay the tax man... Afterall, the goals of the average Singaporean employee are a promotion and a pay raise...

or aren't they?

Anyway, something really hilarious happened to me on my way home...

I was lost in thought (i.e. stoning) on the Mrt when this pui ji parked herself right in front of me...At some point of the train ride, we were unfortunate enough to run into some form of "Rail Turbulance", which caused quite an upheaval within the carriage...Having a relatively large mass, it was understandably more difficult for our slightly more prosperous-looking friend to maintain her equilibrium...the poor hippo, I mean, fat lady, stumbled, struggled valiantly to grab the metal pole, and collided into yours truly...

Like the victims of shark attacks, I was in a state of shock...too numb to feel or do anything...I felt my life flashing before my eyes...and the image of my Filipino maid happily pounding belachan in the backyard was recurring in my stunned mind...I only had the sense that one of my contact lenses had fell out of my eye...

Oh my...a tsunami right in the middle of the North-East Line...who would have believed it? haha...The army teaches its soldiers how to compose themselves after a surprise attack...but evidently I had not been paying much attention to those lessons...I was still in a state of shock when the fat lady helped me up and propped me against an empty seat, holding my body like I was a wooden puppet that has been snapped...

after listening to her profuse apologies, I regained a certain measure of composure...

only to realise that I had missed my stop...Argh!!!