ORDday.

ytd, 6 of May 2009
marks the first year anniversary of my ORD!
marks one year of freedom,
marks one year of civilian life..

but the way i spent ytd,
surely didn't feel like a full-fledged civilian!
it was such a humid day,
that i felt like i ran for the whole day.

dis is a brief account of my adventure ytd.
the morning till lunch time was fine.
everything was normal,
apart from the tonnes of work to be done..

so then comes, lunch time!
i went to hong lim complex for curry chicken noodles.
the walk there was..
HOT AND SWEATY!

and oh, something quite funny happened.
there was dis lady in front of me ordered,
"curry mian bao."
so the stall owner just nodded and went on.

and when she packet the noodles,
the customer in front of me said in mandarin,
"i wanna eat here. not take away.."
dis time, the grumpy stall owner was furious!

she then shouted in mandarin,
"you said you wanna packet,
then now i cook alr, you say you wanna eat here!"
upon saying that, she threw away the packet of noodles..

so she went to prepare a bowl of the same order,
and den when she made it.
the customer said in mandarin,
"nono, i want bread. not noodles."

get it?
mian bao - bread
mian bao - noodles take away.
can you imagine the faces of the both of them?

yeah, so in the end.
the stall owner just sighed and said they don't haf bread.
and the customer walked away coz she didn't want noodles.
den she threw away the bowl of noodles too!!

so anyways,
i ordered mine and began eating.
all was well UNTIL..
complacency set in!

always very confident wif the way i handle my chopsticks.
after ytd, not anymore..
i giap the potato and before i could eat it,
the potato slipped and splat right into the bowl!

yeah, you can guess what happened to my shirt.
the stains of the curry on my striped shirt were big!
not the ordinary noodle splatter.
it were sizes of raindrops, full-blown!

i thought alright, maybe can just ignore.
den as i ate, i rmb i haf a meeting later in the day.
and i've a class after work wif pauline!
how am i gonna go for class and meeting in dis mess?!

den i became damn sian.
went to the toilet and inspected the debris.
to my disgust,
i thought to myself, "wah, really cannot la.."

so yeah, i rushed to raffles city to get a new shirt
and then after that!
guess what i did.
i went to robinsons and sprayed the tester cologne on myself!

HAHHAHAAHA!
oh, sucha vainpot.
but i felt so much better after that,
although that bowl of noodles cost me more than a couple of dollars!

and den as i was walking back,
i began perspiring again.
and before i could cool down back in the office,
i had to rush off for lesson.

den i perspired again.
and in class, i was cooled down.
i think i asked a very difficult yet controversial qn,
the teacher conveniently said dis..

"that's a good qn,
if you're really interested,
we've a couple of research books in the library.
you can look it up there.."

pauline and i knew exactly what was that all abt,
we just nodded and look back down at our slides.
knowing deep down,
that we should be gracious and not probe further..

after that, almost immediately,
there were murmurs throughout the class.
but pauline and i remained quiet,
and just looking at our papers.

den after class,
i was really quite tired and hungry.
had some dinner at kembangan and walked her home.
while on the way back to the mrt, i perspired again!

when i reached home,
i was drenched.
even after i showered, in the air con room,
i was still perspiring!

ahh, i think i'm not cool enough.