slosh down the pepper!

Tottering Thoughts

Alpha seemed happy. Beta seemed happy. Two images caught up with their own infatuations. A pinned up memory board, a radio with preset channels, a birthday cake with candles always lit. Everything appeared to be pre-programmed. Amazingly, both don't seem to mind that they are product trial versions for the same software company.

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Bumpy roads, stoney trails, sandy paths, smooth pavements... the walks were always long and winding, leading to places deep and dark, silent and queer, loud and cheery. Literally figurative. Distorted accurately.

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等待是结束的开始。放弃是开始的结束。
潇洒是庄严的放弃。哭泣是无奈的等待。

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Went for my first meeting with AC ever since my arrival in SD a week ago. Modena Room, Shenton Way Tower 1. Quite happy that the meeting ended within an hour, at 5.30pm. Woo! Thought I can go back early for a jog or something. Unfortunately, AC took the opportunity to 'walk' around the floor, in the course of understanding & discussing other issues, introduced me to a few of his closed working parties. Except for one or two guys, most were pretty young girls in their twenties or early thirties, of which I remembered only two out of the half dozen names thrown at me. :-/

6.20pm. Alas! AC 'dismissed' me while continuing to walk towards a lady whom he had promised to send home since they stayed in the same vicinity. Still early, but too late for a jog. To my delight, a friend messaged to ask a few of us out to celebrate his coming back from US. This meant some free time before he comes back with an affirmative reply. Decided to pop in the nearby MPH. "Perhaps I should get a book..." Life really stands still by 7pm in CBD. The lights went out promptly before the clock hits seven.

7.10pm. Haiz, dinner outing cancelled. One of the girls can't make it. I walked to the bus-stop in front of Caltex. Alamak! Gone. Fine, I thought I should walk all the way to Suntec then, but was pretty glad that the bus stop was merely shifted to merge with the one in front of The Fullerton. Nice lights put up by the 6-star hotel.

It was a quiet stroll, except for the blasting of sentimental tunes in my earphones. Probably the time of the month again...

posted by slingwoof @ 12/28/2005 10:40:00 PM