slosh down the pepper!

FRIDAY the 14th too!

Jinxed! We thought we jinxed out friday the 13th when everything went on right on the actual day where things were thought to be and would be uneventful. Who knows, it was in fact the american time zone that we were being caught in and haunted by the evil curse!

I was due for my root canal procedure on saturday morning. Tempest decided to be nice and send me there lest I be late for my appointment again. The clinic is in Mount E medical centre... it was a saturday morning... it is a shopping district cum tourist zone... therefore the carpark rates were simply exhorbitant! $1.80 for the first hour and $1.30 for subsequent half hour. That 's gonna turn out to be $4.40 just for 2 hours of parking! That was Cairnhill carpark, situated somewhere behind Citibank Orchard. It was certainly a right decision made when he dropped me off first before moving on to find carparks with slightly better rates. It was already11.30am (also my appointment time), half an hour after he dropped me off, before he settled for Shaw Centre's which didn't come cheap either at $2.10 for just an hour of parking. THEN, he had to drive out again to look for parking. $2.10 per hour for a poor student is simply too taxing on the thinning wallet. Fortunately there was available lots (cheaper too at $0.50 per half-hour) at an open carpark behind Cathay Cineleisure.


After my dental procedure and a very unhealthy lunch at the Chippy's, Tempest received a missed call and sms from N. It was SOS! She didn't want to meet Y and her fiance, Mr. Turd. I was pretty excited actually, to meet up Y and Turd, especially Turd. I had to see how a thirty-old year man looks as if he was forty, and how irritating he can get. Yet as fate will not decree, Y's office in harbourfront met up with some kind of flood and they had to abort initial plans of visiting Settler's Cafe in Beach Road. Hai.. another uneventful event. Tempest had already tore parking coupons for the next 2 hours till 5pm. And we had already walked quite a distance (under the bloody hot sun) from the carpark to Shaw Towers where we were supposed to meet the group. Cannot just go home! In the end, we forced N to stay with us till we are bound for the night safari (with Tempest's friends).

It was very entertaining with N around. She doused us with loads of her funny stories and even more intriguing experiences in Bangkok. She and G did almost everything that I wanted to do in BKK yet couldn't. They visited Lumphini Boxing Stadium and suffered through 3 hours of boxing competitions while Tempest & me only saw a quietened dark empty stadium; they went right into the Patpong bars and cruised through 2 hours of Thai girl show while we rejected every invitation that came our way. Lounging in a cafe (TCC) is seldom so engaging. Good afternoon despite all the earlier jinxes.

What was really jinxy was the 1.5 hours before we entered the night safari. Tempest couldn't find a Caltex petrol station to top up his tank; I had to enter into a recurring argument with him over a matter that was supposedly to have been resolved one week ago; he drove into the night safari carpark meant for tour buses only and was charged $4.80 for entry; he knocked into a curb while parking in the right carpark and punctured his front left tyre; we had diffculty trying to figure out how to remove the equipment from his car boot; he had never changed a tyre before despite driving since army days... *gasps*

Heng heng things turned out better ultimately; his friend came along and helped him out with the tyre-changing; we got the refund of $4.80 back from the receptionist though their machine for reading the cashcard (required to verify that the car did mistakenly go into the wrong carpark) was spoilt; and erm... that was about it. We decided to end our night early lest more things happen. Enough!

posted by slingwoof @ 10/15/2006 03:30:00 AM