The Shoestrap.
HAPPY LUNAR NEW YEAR!
Time for the festivities to kick in! We're gonna bring down the house with non-stop party and mandarins and sweets and hong baos and so on! Wow. I tell you the reason why being a Chinese is so great is because there is such a thing called The Chinese New Year. I'm not very superstitious, but I definitely am traditional! And very soon, we'll be meeting alot of old relatives, and I'm intending to talk alot lot more to those distant cousins and make friends with them. Cause this is a phase of change - 16 to 17 is a big leap. So no time to be introverted!
Two days ago, Xiao Hui, Vanessa and I went to make contact lenses. The shop was pretty rickety, but it would be of that obvious state after it being in some rundown place along Paya Lebar. Vanessa introduced me there cause it was much cheaper than alot of other places (because it's old = fewer customers = cheaper... You get the picture), but after several tests, the guy told me I had to wait after CNY before I can get it. Since I got astigmatism, they have to specially send the deal to the factory to make me a pair.
And after we got out, Xiao hui kept nudging me to do something with Vanessa. Cause I told her I found Vanessa kinda cute, and she being a close friend of hers, really wanted to be some part-time matchmaker and pull us together. So she told me to talk to her, to bring her across the road, to send her home etc. And I was pretty stunned. I've never courted anyone, so what she told me to do I usually didn't carry out, or I would say something crappy and make a spoof out of myself, and vanessa would giggle at my dumbness.
I didn't send Vanessa home, but I did walk her across the street and walked back, just to make sure she didn't get hurt by the traffic. Then Xiao hui and I took a bus to bugis so she could meet up with soem other friends and me with Iven. Xiao Hui thinks I'm only mildly interested in Vanessa. Which I am. I mean I'd keep quiet around her, and feel great after chatting with her over the phone etc. But it's just not the right time to invest in a relationship.
Anyway, when Xiao Hui and I got off at Bugis, she sort of tripped over a step on the bus while alighting, and her heel strap tore. I was stunned by the situation, so I ran to a nearby Cheers to find super glue, but they don't sell it. Then she suggested Kinokuniya, I told her to hold still at the bus stop while I run around Bugis Junction trying to find a store that sells super glue. I found a gift shop that did, and ran back to her. It's hilarious, cause I was practically running around like some crazy baboon in the shopping centre.
She got the glue all over her foot though. Luckily there was the cardboard the super glue came in to wipe some of the glue off. We laughed. I was in sweat and she in glue. I never expected something like that to happen... I guess that moving away from 10 years of all-boys schooling, gotta learn to be more chivalrous.
Well, here's to CNY! *raises a mickey mouse cup*