Friday, May 21, 2004

i will focus on what happened today (thursday) from 9 pm to 1.15 am only.

supposed to meet mark and qx at 9pm at engin bus stop to check out the archi tunnel for fright nite. i was there a bit earlier b4 9, then mark arrived about 20 mins late. anyway, we decided to go walk ard and check some potential places to hold fright nite since qx will be another half an hour late.

so, we found this creepy path behind macs, that's dark and dirty. i didn't wanna go down la, cuz it was really dark. went down anyway. mark took the lead. so we walked thru the dark and narrow and dirty and dark and scary and dark path. then mark asked me did i hear squeaks... i did... he thot it was rats... but turned out to be my sling bag squeaking (phew). anyway at the end of the path, u'll have to lower ur head to go into some space further, which was too dark to see whats beyond. so i was getting creeped out alr, and told mark to turn back la. sorry la, im a scaredy cat.. can't help it. AND IT DOESNT HELP THAT PRETTY SW HAD TO TELL ME A GHOST STORY FROM BLUEPRINT DURING DINNER!

then qx called and asked us where we were, and we met at macs. we showed her the path mark and me explored earlier, and the 3 of us decided to go back down to the dark and scary path again. i recalled my bro telling me that the hp im using (nokia 3200) has a torch light function. so i called back home and asked him how to switch on the hp torch light la. and down we go again... with mark as the lead. and so we shone the torch into the earlier-too-dark-to-see-space and saw that we could walk further to. there's a slope to the right, and a wall to the left. btw, the walls have rectangular holes... which added to the fear factor. ya... and again, i remarked that we shdn't go further cuz it's too eerie. qx noticed a small lighted red dot at the other end of the path... so prolly is a door or sth la. im not keen to find out at close to 10pm at nite.

so we walked to SDE, to find the archi tunnel. couldnt find it at all. explored the 3rd and 4th floor of the building. nothing exciting. no potential place to hold fright nite. so we decided to juz stick to our "long wing" plan, which is to use BLK A's long wing as a fright corridor la basically. made our way down and sat outside the SDE co-op cuz there was air-conned air from the staircase there. we were juz 5 minutes into our discussion when someone appeared.

she (we found out her name is shuyun) was carrying a few plastic bags and panting. she asked us where was the toilet... like "do u know wheres the toilet? *pants* i need to find the toilet *pants*" wah lau, u bet i was like a bit shocked and scared la. suddenly appear and ask for the toilet in the middle of the nite and she looked a bit scary cuz her upper lips is a bit deformed... im not sure how to describe how her upper lips look, but it doesnt matter. then the 3 of us were shocked.. and tried to point out to her wheres the toilet. then after that, she asked us if there's a public phone. we pointed out the public phone to her and exchanged some coins with her. found out that she lost her passport and credit card in a shopping bag which she left behind while boarding the bus cuz she was on the phone chatting away. she said she was supposed to meet her friend at bizad but he/she didnt turn up. so now she has to call her mum back in malaysia to transfer $$ to her bank. but her hp is flat, hi-card is exhausted, and has only 70 cents with her. she hasn't eaten her dinner, and wanted to WALK to harbourfront from NUS.

so mark offered his hp for her to call her mum, but she kept rejecting. eventually, she gave in. dialed the no, but need a credit card number. so.. couldnt reach her mum. then she asked how much does a bun cost here, but there wasnt any canteen opened at that time (ard 10.30pm) and the nearest place to get food was fong seng. she didnt haf enuff money anyway. so i offered to buy her a cup noodle fr the vending machine. she kept rejecting while i kept insisting. it was quite funny in a way. then eventually she said ok... so i bought it for her, made it hot, then she said she doesnt want to eat cuz she has no way to pay me back. BUT I TOLD HER A THOUSDAND TIMES ITS OK! wah lau... it was quite irritating la. cuz i didnt wanna see her starving and stuff. then she said she fasted for 3-4 days b4, so its ok. sigh...

then she wanted to borrow international calling phone card to call back msia. qx said she has one but it's in her wallet which is in her car. i walked with her to her car but then she doesnt have it.. apparently she took the card out and placed it somewhere else. guess shuyun was disappointed. she was going to leave to walk to harbourfront to stay for the nite b4 the malaysian embassy opens in the morning. qx offered to drive her there... so we went off together. but in the end qx drove her directly to the msian embassy near city hall and dropped her off. and she asked for an international calling card again, but we really dun haf. so mark gave her $5, qx gave $4, cuz she had no $$. whats ironic is SHE ACCEPTED IT! cuz previously she rejected mark's offer to use his hp and rejected the noodle cuz she said she doesnt haf the $$ to pay us back. then she go accept the money. ironic right?! then she said she'll use the $10 to buy phone back and ask her mother to transfer money to her. so i told her, that she should go get a card tmr when shops r opened, and ask her mum to transfer $$ to her so that she can pay her bill for a new passport and also to buy some food to eat. but she said transfer needs 3 days, so she'll fast for 3 days. she sounded like she wanted more $$ from us. so out of pity, i gave her $6. and got her to leave the car for msia embassy. oh, she asked for mark's email on the car... hahaha. maybe she will email him to say thanks or keep in contact la, i dunno.

it was almost 12am when we left her at the embassy which was at 30 Hill Street. we havent even finished our discussion, so mark suggested we go chomp chomp. and so we went there... discuss discuss.. and left. lucky qx drove, so could send us all back home.

reached home, came online, told sw about what happened, and she said we all got cheated! cuz the embassy isnt near city hall at all! then i was like quite pissed alr la. waste 2 hours, and $$ on that cheater shuyun. then sw went to check for me whether malaysia embassy is really at 30 hill st, cuz she said maybe it shifted. then lucky la... its at 30 hill st. so ya... qx, mark and me did a good deed, helped a foreigner in need in a foreign land... =) but still quite suspiscious anyhow...

i may haf left out some details... but basically this was what happened. can leave ur comments at the tag... im tired from typing this entry...

janet at 1:23 AM