When You Need Them.....

I’m going to attend some kind of software presentation today. It’s 8am, rain already drizzling when I left home but sure I can take it until I can get a taxi. It will start by 9am and I want to be there before 8:30am because they’ll have some sort of limited prize for the early birds. Some “wi-fi” thing(s) that I may not need but I’m just interested, quite sure it’s because of that. Fifteen minutes passed by and still no taxi, wow, I know these things do happen. If I don’t need them, they’ll pass by slowly with the driver smiling at me. Okey, forget the “wi-fi” thing I can still be there with ample time to drink coffee, but I’m getting wet (ei, don’t get the wrong thing) so I moved to bus stop shelter to try my luck, they don’t normally stop at bus stop. Hah! Here my taxi is coming with uncle smiling at me.

(this dialog is not relevant, don’t read)
Uncle: “Where to?”,
Me: “Uhm, Raffles City. Convention Center.”,
Uncle: “Suntec City…”
Me: “No, Raffles City, RAF-FOLS City.”
Uncle: “You say Convention Center eh.”
Me: “Forget that, take me to RAF-FOLS City.”
Uncle: “I know, I know, the shopping mall right?”
Me: “Ah.”

Few seconds and I wanted to mumble “Yes!”, but the driver is already cursing about the traffic jam when we enter CTExpressway. I’m not sure if he regrets that he took me, and with that, now I don’t know whether I still have any rights to be upset about all these, HEAVY TRAFFIC. So now what? Hmnn, think, think, as if with brain,... okey, I decided to compose something about this, maybe a small poem about traffic jam. Got few lines already in my mind so I reached for my bag only to find out I don’t have a pen. “Aiyah, got memo pad no use lah.” Okey, just composed and try to remember later. Ting-tong ting-tong, I can feel my lips moving, trying to follow my composition….. ha ha. I’m sure its very elementary poem, but I want to write it anyway, who cares. Now its already 9:10am, and finally I’m here. At the Convention Center, “Sir?”, “Yeah, IBM presentation?”, “Yes, can I have your business card?”, “Aiyu! I don’t have it now.”, “Oh, its okey, you need fill up this form then get your visitor’s ID.” How can?, I’ve just removed some business cards (which been sitting inside my bag for almost a year) from my bag the previous weekend. Aidya!!.

Push forward, the speaker is asking for anybody who has a good joke, he’s re-booting his PC after a lot of tweaking and trying, ha ha, his application don’t want to run properly when he intended to do a demo, he’s quite sure its working, I believed him of course. Ei, I almost volunteered, I have an old joke, about a carpenter who loves to sharpen his pencil. And he has a toddler who loves to break it. Then one time while doing something, he needs to use his pencil, he confronted his son where did he put it, he’s sure he saw the boy trying to insert the pencil in one of the toolbox, which the boy profusely denied. Keeping his cool, he ignore the sweat trickling down his forehead, one by one checking his toolbox. Still can’t find it he empty all the toolboxes that he may need the rest of the day to properly put it back, all because of and still don’t have any pencil. Huh! This boy must learn something, where’s my belt? Got his belt ready to find and whack the boy, face hot and red. He wiped-off sweat in his forehead, and you know what, he touched the pencil, comfortably sitting on his right ear. Ha ha ha ha ha. I won’t need them to laugh, I can enjoy this myself so I didn’t volunteer, ha ha ha.

Reality bites. I’m still homesick eh. Where are my girlfriends, I need you all now! (Ulk! Baby, “joke joke joke joke lang h’wag kang magagalit, ito ay di totoo h’wag kang maiinis, TFC viewers, all together now, joke joke joke joke lang……” repeat 10 times… any dance will do….)