Couple of interesting incidents
posted on Wednesday, February 4, 2009
Hey all, sorry I haven't been posting much.... I've been either feeling not too well or being busy with stuff so I got kinda lazy =X anyways just the other day I went for the movie Inkheart with my friend at Lido. It was one of the very few times that I actually watched a movie there and so, I was quite "sua gu" there. And so... I went to like cinema 2(I think =X) well... the only cinema that is upstairs(this, I'm sure of). After sitting down for a bit, I realised that there was a huge pillar beside our seats and about 2/3 of the bottom part of the pillar was gone, only 1/3 of the pillar was left hanging downwards from the ceiling. I brought it to my friend's attention and we started discussing if it was made this way on purpose or was it something that happened to it. We didn't get very deep into discussion when the movie "started" (the company trailer, sound system trailer etc.) and we stopped our discussion. A couple of minutes later, a group of very young ang moh girls came into the cinema (it was very clear from where I was seated at) and one of them gasped and exclaimed, "*gasps* oh my god, theres a half broken pillar right there"... well being really nice Singaporeans the people in the cinema started "shhhh-ing" as though they all needed to go pee and some people started giggling... Well we found it quite amusing so we laughed a little as well =X
Today's bus ride was quite an experience as well. I was taking the bus home and as usual I chose the seat that is near the front, facing forward, which is right in front of the 3 seater facing sideways in the bus as this is one of the few seats that actually give me enough leg space. Since it was going to be a really long ride I decided to take the chance to study a little on my school work so I took out my textbook and began reading. It was about 1/4 of my journey when a lady boarded the bus and sat at the extreme left(right in front of my face) of the 3 seater.
Immediately I could smell a "scent" from her, it isn't smelly but it does smell like some medicated oil or some aroma therapy oil. At first I was alright with the smell, but as the journey went on and with the very pathetic air-con that the bus-driver gave us, it was getting stuffy and I started feeling sick of the smell. It was so bad that I lost my appetite totally even though I was famished at that point of time.
I didn't want to make things awkward so I started to pretend that my running nose was giving me problems and covered my nose with my hand and breathing through it but my attempt failed (yeah I admit my acting sucks), the aunty soon realised that I was disturbed by a smell. She began looking around herself for possible causes and when she failed she looked at people around me as well. I felt really bad and so I took off my hand and tried to breathe normally but at this point of time, the smell made me feel even worse. It was to the extent that I wanted to get off the bus if she didn't soon enough.
I began to cover half my face with my jacket and breathing through it, by this time, no one else was around and it became apparent to her. She kept turning and glaring at me uneasily then looked around herself for "causes", and I just pretended to be watching the TV (though I really wish I could just tell her that she is the cause and that she need not look around =X) After a few rounds of glaring and looking around, the aunty seemingly believed that I was totally unaffected by her and she did something which almost made me burst out laughing.
She suddenly tilted her head sideways and started to bend lower and lower as though she was pretending to fall asleep. And as I peeked on, I saw her smelling herself around the armpit area and finally she even stuck her nose "into" her armpit and I could see her breathing in and out real hard tryin to smell herself!!! =X As sick as I was at that time, I really can't stop but grin to myself whenever she didn't notice. The sight was so funny, but of course I still felt really sick of that smell and thankfully, soon after smelling her own armpit, she got off the bus. Phew, I never appreciated fresh air so much in my life so far, it never felt better....
the time is right;
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