little boy

mmm. ppl asking me why i didn't go church today, ill explain heree. Last night i was feeling pretty damn sick. like runny nose and then my head was just dizzy. i slept at 8pm after taking some runnynose tablet. Smsed ivin to tell him i was sleeping in (i was supposed to play drums)

woke up at 10am!!

wahahha. 14 hours of sleep! naturally felt weird after that, like more lethargic than usual (try sleeping for a long stretch, you'll feel the same) So decided to skip church since it was rather late. but i asked dan if they were doing anything later to ask me. and they did!

we played mahjong, me daniel dom and szewei.

Ok at his house we always play mj at this usual spot, and so we naturally form .. stereotypes with the seats. like certain seats bring more luck, some less luck. WHICH IS TRUE OK. i'm serious.

Like there's this seat which darryl sat and he lost like crazy. then since then that seat has been cursed as 'the darryl seat'. anyone who sits there will lose. serious. Like the prev time dan sat there then he was the biggest loser. Then cheryl sat there ok fine she won quite abit, but she had damn bad luck the first few rounds.

Then today dom sat there, he naturally was the biggest loser since it was the lousy seat.

Then of course there's the 'lucky seat'. last time pewi sat then he biggest winner.then dan sat there and biggest winner. and today i sat there!

i think i won the most number of times. but mainly 2-3 dai wins. But daniel/szewei won several big wins, 5-6 dai (we played no maximum) , so i wasn't really winning as the last round approached.

(in mj, one 5-6 dai win is much more than three to four 2-3 dai wins.)

And the funny thing about today was there were at least 5-6 attempts at shi shan yao, which is quite rare. (usually 1-2 per game) mainly by me and szewei ha.

AND AND. so i wasnt winning much, no big win at all. Then came the last and final round of the entire game. so .. it's win big now or never. and i won!!! it was super big somemore! was a full colour (BALLS) (i usually half/full colour bamboo for some weird reason) and i had 2 dai from my flowers. so 6 dai. AND ZHI MO!! $6.40 everybody KTNXBAI.

wahahha. so i was the richest just because of that big win.

after that me benc dan szewei went to eat at crazy angmoh @ bishan. i dont see what's the big fuss, i ordered fish and chips and they tasted pretty darn normal. i prefer Botak jones, the cajun fries =D

Wow ok i digressed so much from what i wanted to blog about initially (refer to title)

ok on my way to dan's house, i went to kovan market to eat lunch. so i was queuing up at the stall when this small boy suddenly came up to me. he was like.. 6? 7 years old?

He's SUPER CUTE!! he's like the kinda kid i'll play with if i helped out at some kids camp.

And come to think of it, he looked kinda familiar. maybe i saw him at some kids camp before.

Anyway, he asked me: 'can you help me call my father?'

?? ok look of confusion from me. he was like at my waist so i had to bend over to hear him.

'my father say he go wash hand, but he go very long already -- ' his voice trails off here, giving the super pitiful awwyoupoorthing kinda feeling.

so being the friendly approachable korkor i am ( HA. :p ) i sat down on a chair so that i was around his height (i squatted down at first but was damn weird cos i was in the middle of nowhere so i went to the chair) and tried asking him for more details.

Then he said he knew his dad's number. so ok, i asked him for it as i fished out my handphone. being naturally cautious (with my mom reminding me of swindlers everyday), i held on to my phone and asked him for the number.

But he never even made any attempt to take the phone la, cos he was busy trying to remember his dad's number. SUPER CUTE OK. he was like looking up with his brow furrowed trying to remember. i had the urge to take a photo of him or sth.

then he started on the number:

'Nine.....'

i press the number encouragingly on my handphone.

and he has his cute-staring-into-space-trying-very-hard-to-recall expression. i was almost laughing but i just smiled. yknow , to look encouraging.

then he says 'my father got 3 numbers leh'

!! his father some bigshot towkay or something why got 3 numbers.

so i tried to get him to choose one. so he picked the hp number apparently.

'nine.. eight.. two.. four.. '

-funny expression-

'seven .. ' (and he says the rest of the numbers. i dont put here so dont reveal the number la)

But when i called it his father's phone was off! aiyo. so i thought for awhile, then ask him for his house number.

however, he couldnt remember it. (he's so small! he can remember hp number quite impressive already)

was quite funny when i asked him about his house phone:

"Can you remember your house phone number?"

'what?'

"Your home telephone number, can remember?"

-look of confusion-

(i'm telling you he's an adorable little kid. like the kinda very shy type.)

"Your house got telephone right, you know the number?"

'OH YES!' he exclaims. I sit up and brandish my HP, preparing to dial.

"So what's the number?"

'oh, i dunno ' =( (sad face)

LOL

this point was damn funny la! he was answering my first question, that he had a phone at home. so he exclaimed in like.. sudden enlightenment. Then when i asked for the number, it's like it dawned on him he got the 'wrong answer', so his face drooped and he looked sad.

it's so hard to describe! but it's very comical. =D

So i asked him more stuff, like where he lived, if he lived nearby, where exactly did his dad go, of which he couldnt give me a precise answer. Found out he lived in tampines (which is pretty far away ) so i couldnt bring him home. And i had no idea if his dad went into heartlandmall (if he did can ask the counter guy to make announcement)

So after asking for his house number, i asked for his mother's hp number. and he claimed he could remember it. ok so i waited to dial.

'nine.. eight.. two.. four.. '

At this point i realised the first 4 numbers were the same as his father's number, so i thought it was one of those buy the plan together then the numbers differ by one kind.

But then he goes 'six...' and trails off from there. then when he starts again he again goes 'nine eight two four.. then this time he says two'

So i was getting worried that he was just recalling his father's number instead and got it mixed up.

At this point, his father returned and the little boy ran over and held on to his father's hand.

'where you go' whines the little boy.

"i told you i go wash hand ma" says the stupid dad.

and the little boy mumbles something but you can see that he was just happy his dad was back.

And the dad never even thank me or anything! he didnt even LOOK at me. he must have thought i was some kidnapper trying to kidnap his precious son. helllo mister, i just helped look after your small little 6 year old boy when you irresponsibly left him alone for so long in such an unsafe place (kovan market, relatively crowded. would probably have been very easy to kidnap him)

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ahh ok that ends my lost-little-boy drama. i always had daydreams like this, just that in my daydreams it would be some pretty sister that leaves the boy somewhere then i return the boy and i go out with the sister and we live happily ever after. HA.

okok. time to go watch more Psych. cya.

Psych

PSYCH IS A DAMN GOOD SHOW!!
was recently introduced to this by daniel, and i totally totally love it.

It's basically about this guy Shaun who has a special ability to be extra observant. Like when he walks into a bar he knows how many people are wearing hats, what hats they are, what's dish was on the first table,etd. So he uses this ability to tip-off the police about crimes.
Then one day the police suspected him of being the mastermind or something, since how can anyone help solve SO MANY crimes. Then he pretends to be a psychic.. like going into a trance and stuff, and with his super-observant-skills he makes very accurate 'predictions'.

So since then he has been helping the police solve crimes, though one detective in the police force doesn't really like him or believe he is really psychic. This bickering relationship is really funny =)

It's damn funny! the acting of the lead is funny, and his sidekick who's more serious and doesn't wanna get into trouble adds to the humor. And it's pretty darn cool to see how shaun observes everything.

Think of it as a oneman-CSI without all the forensic mambojumbo, + 200% humour + better looking cast. :p

watch!

how to get caught by MRT staff

This is how to get suspected to be a terrorist at the MRT station (particularly those with the 'STOP- Security Check' thing where they check your bag)

1) Carry a medium-large -sized bag.
This is almost a must, otherwise it's hard to draw suspicion to yourself. Alternatively you could wear a big jacket, and pretend to have something hidden under it.

2) Wear a cap
Thanks to the overplayed MRT bomb advertisement, youths wearing a cap (and white shirt) are automatically classified under 'suspicious'

Ok step 3 you can do either a or b
3a) COMPLETELY avoid eye contact with the security guard standing at the bagcheck counter, looking everywhere else except for him. Make this as obvious as you can. Do something like go through the nearest fare gate to him then SWERVE to the other side to avoid walking in front of him.

3b) Stare at the guard cautiously as you are approaching the fare gate, then when you are about to pass him look away.

GG you confirm get caught.
(on a side note, there's a shop called GG Flower Services or SOMETHING like that. saw it when i took 80 from payalebar to kovan)

Today after playing mahjong at dan's house (DAMMIT I ALMOST SHI SHAN YAO AGAIN. ONE TILE AWAY AGAIN. Overall made $2+, only didn't win overall cos i threw cheryl's 4/5 dai winning tile twice so cheryl&dan both made $6. think cheryl won by 20cents. darryl lost ALOT. ha. )
i took kovan mrt home. Then .. i was wearing a cap (and a white shirt) and was carrying my blue converse bag which was relatively large cos i had a big towel stuffed inside. Then just for kicks i stared at the guard at the counter as i was walking there, and maintained eye contact for about 3 seconds (which is quite long) , then as i went through the faregate i looked away.

'dui bu qi, ke yi lai yi xia ma' he says. (sorry, could you come over?)

hahaha. kena checked.

He was this old man, probably in his 50s or 60s?
Then the stupid thing was.. he never even check properly! If you have seen my converse bag before you'll know it can open on both sides. (diff compartments for each side) it's a pretty weird design, unlike the normal one where it's just one zip and it opens the whole bag.
So what i did was place the bag on the counter, then open one side to show him my non-bomb stuff. Then he ASKED ME: 'you mei you se me dong xi' (is there anything (suspicious)? )
and i obviously said 'mei you', pulling that compartment open abit more to show him.
I'm telling you, he barely looked, and said:
'OK KE YI LE'

What the hell?! He was just asking me if i had a bomb? oh i SO would say 'yes i have a bomb' if i actually had one -_-
furthermore, he didn't even check the entire bag.

Anyway, i think this security check thing is super flawed and ineffective. Firstly because of lazy guards like that (hey sure you may say he's a pitiful old man blabla but HELLO! BOMB THREAT!? have young vigilant man to do the checks la!)
and next, i can easily think of how to beat it if i ever wanna bomb the train (which i never will. so dont arrest me please )
All i have to do is carry the smallest bag i can that contains the bomb (hello bombs are not all gigarnomous, i'm sure with latest technology they can be pretty small) , then wait till my train is almost arriving. Then just as it says 1 minute or reach already, i quick run towards the faregate and quickly tap through and run down the escalator pretending to be catching the train.
Guards confirm wont stop you la. like what can they say: 'OI STOP I THINK YOU GOT BOMB COME YOU HAVE TO MISS YOUR TRAIN SORRY.'
no right.

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That aside, i went swimming today!
Went to bestie's condo in payalebar. As my mom said, the security is quite lousy, both in that condo and basically in many condos in singapore. I think only those condos which need you to tap your card to open the gate have decent security (e.g. Chiltern park, cheryl/yvon's condo)
Otherwise, all you have to do is walk confidently through the main entrance, and if the guard stares at you just smile at him and maintain your stride!
Alternatively, you can act damn pissed off with the world and just walk straight through. (one of my tactics to play pool when i was underage)

Wa i almost drowned in the first 5 -10 minutes.

In case you don't know, i haven't swam in 12938612 years. i never completed any medal/cert when i learnt swimming last time (in early primary school), and when i stopped swimming then i probably swam less than 5 times in the following years (since i was primary 3/4)

So yea, i was pretty much newbie. At first i don't know technique and all, can't even do frog style (breaststroke) . So i was just like. kick legs swing arms, ah shit underwater , quickly grab the side. kick legs swing arms shit underwater already quickly grab the side. repeat.

Then i started to be more adventurous and try to do breaststroke. So i pushed myself off (diagonally, i dont dare to swim across, must stay near to the side) .. swing arms to bring myself above water, take a breath, go underwater.. kick.. GASP WATER ENTER NOSE SPUTTER CHOKE AH HELP DROWN.
-quickly grab the side-
After awhile of this i was quite tired from all the kicking so i just rested at the side for awhile. The guard appeared to be staring at me from his post a distance away, i couldn't tell (wasn't wearing specs), so i just pretended to be relaxing and tanning in case he came over and asked me if i knew how to swim.

So being the strategic planner person i am, i started to think about what i was doing wrong. I figured it was because i wasn't breathing out! i was just breathing in and holding my breath and only releasing my breath above the water, which allowed water to enter when i was underwater.
So this time, i took a breath above water, when i went under i breathed out, then when i came up i breathed in, went under breath out....
omg it worked!

So i happily began to swim longer distances (earlier i was covering about 2 metres and stop, 2 metres and stop), and i even tried to swim across the pool and succeeded =D well of course first i tested the depth, and found a spot where the entire breadth i could comfortable stand up and my head was well above the water. So i swam that breadth.

Then when i went to check my phone cheryl asked me about mj, so i went dan's house to mj lor.

gah gotta prac swimming more.