Deja vu and a bat in my room
A sense of deja-vu as I left my home for AMK Methodist today. Today is the first day of SMRT re-deployment. Aboard my 67, I managed to see all the deployments that I could see along Upp Bt Timah - Scania on 171, DAF on 75, Scania on 852 and Lance on 985.
My long-time-no-see 75 DAF. They have a special place in my heart - these were the buses that brought me to acsi (halfway, to Clementi Rd), when I was a new new sec sch student. A year later, Scanias replaced the DAFs in a re-deployment that I did not know. Then, I would always like to look at the rear of the Scania and imagine that it was a WA Volvo Mk4. Now the DAFs are back, reminiscent, albeit in SMRT livery.
Imagine - 24 hours ago, Scanias were still running around Bt Panjang Int. And DAFs on 985, Lances on 852. What a big change! (Photo courtesy of Hao Rui)
In the evening, an unexpected visitor flew into in my bedroom. I first noticed something scrambling below my bed and it squeaked. I had a frightful thought - Are rats breeding in the duffel bag under my bed??
It turned out to a bat.
I wonder if it was attracted to my room because of my ultra-sound mosquito repellent, which is said to emit soundwaves equivalent to those of a bat to repel mosquitoes. Articles from the internet said the the soundwaves has no effect on mosquitoes, but bats?
I use a mopping stick to tap around the bat. It flew to the room opposite mine, where it hung from the ledge. Usually it only hangs outside my room.
Makan makan
Met up with Chief Clerk, Alwyn, Raymond and Marzuki at Sakura for international buffet lunch. This time all of us were late Alwyn. Can't blame us since the rainy weather is so nice for sleeping, at least for Raymond. Marzuki was late for an hour because he mis-heard the time. Got chided by Alwyn for eating without waiting for Chief and the rest... but having only eat one slice of bread for breakfast (on purpose), I am very very hungry...
I guess it was due to the weather that the restaurant was less crowded than usual. No fighting for mussels and sashimi :). Able to relack relack and talk about those weird bosses and colleagues... and we thought we had met enough weird people in our two years in that place, speaking of which, Chief presented me my best soldier cert and testimonial, looooong overdue. But I still felt proud, thankful to Chief for her guidance and missed the fun times we had. Unfortunately we forgot to take a photo in the restaurant. But that only makes me looking forward to the next makan session :)
We watched The Eye (Ang-moh version). I didn't know it was an exact replica of the Chinese version until 10 minutes into the show, when I thought everything seemed too similar - A girl regaining vision from an eye transplant, scenes from a hospital, a Chinese restaurant, a boy asking for his 'report card', a woman who claimed her seat was taken and a disfigured male ghost in the lift. Even the journey from hospital to home was the same, except there wasn't a man standing in the middle of the expressway, which was a little disappointing coz the scene never failed to freak me out although it was filmed in broad daylight. And the licking of char-siew at the Chinese restaurant was replaced by a fire that took place there. But the English version had a more convincing storyline of how a high speed chase near the border of US and Mexico resulted in a fire and the protagonist losing her sight eventually, compared to a traffic jam in Thailand and a driver lighting a cigarette.
I guess the Chinese version was nicer, because it stroke a chord in the cheena me. The dark door-to-door corridor and run-down lift of Hong Kong high-rise looked 100 times more eerie than the nicely furnished ones in the English version.
After the movie, went HMV with Raymond and Marzuki. We ate at Coffee Club at Taka for dinner.
So much good food for the whole day! Here's my dory fish....
Raymond's fish and chips.
My inaugural act-cute photo, modelled after Dr Yeo's.
Marzuki looked happier today.
Raymond looks the same. always happy. sometimes i wish my brain were as simple as his.. haha
