The Sweet and the Silly

You've heard them all. The Bold and the Beautiful. The Young and the Restless. Yes, those crappy daytime soaps. Well, my weekend was all about the Sweet and the Silly. More sweet things naturally, but the odd clanger which left me slamming my head on the wall.

The Sweet

I got this note from a certain Melissa. No real idea who she is, except that she used to be the previous tenant of my current apartment. All I did was forward her mails to her and bingo, she rewards me with a little note and a Crunchie. No wait, a GIANT SIZE Crunchie!! That’s good enough to brighten anyone’s day. Not so much the chocolate, but the novelty of receiving something out of the blue. Thanks babe (whoever you are)!!!


The note and the Crunchie

Kenneth also came a-knocking my door on Sunday to pass me this slice of cheesecake, which he conjured all by himself. Check out the jelly on the top!! Never seen anything like this before, and it tastes well wicked!! Heard from him today that it is really healthy, as in low in fat. I seriously doubt that but well, food has to be eaten doesn’t?


Ken's patented jelly cheesecake

The Silly

This must have been the dumbest, dumbest thing I’ve ever done in my life.

I went to the lab at uni late to print out my presentation on the A3 printers. It must have been about 1am when I was done. On the way back to College Square, I thought I saw the silhouette of someone familiar. “Ahhh Sin Wei...” I thought to myself. Why would she be out alone so late in the cold? It never crossed my mind that she was already back in the rural areas.

So I approached her from the back and whispered
“Don’t you know that girls shouldn’t be walking alone by themselves so late at night?”

She swung around. Horror of horrors, it wasn’t Sin Wei!! Nope! It wasn’t!! She turned out to be a complete stranger. I was totally stunned. Paralyzed. I froze. Man! I still get goosebumps typing this out. I apologized repeatedly. She didn’t seem terribly fazed by the whole thing. In fact, she complemented me on a “good pick-up line” and that she “had never experienced anything like that before”. She seriously thought I was trying to pick her up (despite my shaken state). Can you believe that? We ended up chatting the way back home. I guess it was pleasant in a weird sense to have company at 1am. In any case, she turned out to be a really affable girl.

Yeah, I guess it wasn’t so bad after all. Definitely beats farting in a lift embarrassment-wise though.