I've been meeting a lot of people lately and I've convinced myself, as a friend says, that there are people who do grow old without growing old. A fine example would be this weird fella I met recently through the IRC(Internet Relay Chat). And then, there were also other odd personalities I met along the way.
I was sitting with Stephen, another chatter at McCafe Lido when Selina messaged me, informing me that they arrived. I excused myself and left Stephen to wait at the cafe while I meet up with the girl. Upon finding her, I realised she brought along a queer looking fella by the name Will, a frail bespectacled man with bloodshot eyes, dressed in yellow polo-tee with black stripes and a pair of rather old Bermudas, looking about in his late 20s.
After a simple greeting, I informed them that I would bring them over to meet Stephen and the first conversation I had with Will turned me off. "I'm hungry, I want to have the nasi lemak at Lucky Plaza, so are we eating first then meet him or go there and find him first?"
I remember I did tell him specifically that we were going to meet Stephen first at the cafe before deciding where to go, and he obviously paid no attention to me. The moment we sat down at the cafe and introduced ourselves, he went on again even though Stephen had barely finished his coffee. "I'm hungry, are we going now?"
This fella later on, whom I mentally black listed, leaded us to Lucky Plaza, walking far ahead like an anti-social idiot. Needless to say, the rest of my day simply screwed after..
Selina was another odd character, whom on the surface looked like your average decent 26 year old lady but underneath that appearance laid a rather tragic story. (She actually suffers from Schizophrenia.) At this moment, we believe that she is a half-Chinese and half-Punjabi, as she claims. The reason why I say her life is a tragic one, is due to my discoveries later, when I found out that she lives in a very poor family with no siblings. Her mother, whom she claims to be her foster mother is a jobless old housewife, plagued with knee problems. They quarrel all day like a rat in a snake's den, none giving way to each other. While the mother is a strict conservative woman, the daughter is a rebellious and wilful one. Her father as I only know (also claimed to be her foster father), is currently a security guard and ex-police officer. Looking at her background, I began to believe that it eventually gave rise to her poor mental conditions, ridiculous life style and childish behavior. She has little friends as well and the closest people she has in life are those I abhor; perverts, drug abusers, pimps, and all sorts of shady characters from the dark side of society.
After being with her for nearly 3 days, I've began to see how fortunate and ordinary most our lives are, and with this lesson I've decided to go out there once more and attempt to help stem out the corruption in this country and hopefully one day improve lives of our fellow Singaporeans so that none will suffer the very same fate that befell Selina or her parents. The government claims that life in Singapore has improved a lot, but it come to my realisation that the news is nothing more than a delusion.
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