Report card day | Misadventure of public transportation | “Evolution of instant messaging” – Iona

Saturday – 24th July 2004

After spending enough aching and tiring stationing at the school entrance in a complete scout uniform – while repeatedly greeting parents with pre-programmed statements – I went hanging about in my class. It was a report card day, splendidly boring. Helped around with scout-related stuffs till about 1pm before I went back home.

At 2:45pm, I went out again to Gopi’s house who took his sweet time trying on his socks and various articles of apparel. Jeremy was already at his house. After we took a wrong bus (number 10) and realized that 5 minutes later, we had to wait for bus number 4 to move. Apparently, only bus number 4 goes to Bangsar now, despite what was stated at bus number 10 that it goes to the Kotaraya.

Anyhow, the whole misadventure of this stupid bus took us a long time to reach our desired destination. We stopped at Asia Jaya to get on the LRT there (instead of Bangsar, it’s further – I researched on the Net before I went to Gopi’s house). After we missed the train by mere seconds, we waited a while and went on board. I misheard Suet talking over the phone, so the whole lot of us took the feeder bus to SS2, only to be told on the way that she was already at the Taman Bahagia LRT station waiting for us.

We were one hour late from the appointed time – 4pm. She had to go as well, so we chatted for roughly 5 mins before she dropped us off at the aforementioned LRT station. Hope she didn’t get pissed >_> (though she didn’t look like she was…) We took roughly 2 hours just to get to SS2 – horrid public transportation.

Then to get home, Jeremy and I took the train to KL Sentral (Gopi dropped off at Bangsar to be picked up by his dad). All in all, when we reach Court 3 (where Jerm stays), it was 7pm. It wasn’t worth it >_<

As I managed to convince Joe over the phone to go to an online friend’s church concert (Dinghy’s), I waited for him at the guard house, and talked for several long minutes to Jon who happened to be there as well (he just came back from church). Joe and I set off via bus (again >_>) to reach SJMC, and headed off to Holiday Villa. Joe phoned Geok Leng to go, while I received an SMS from Iona (yet another online buddy, whom I never met before) that she’s coming as well =)

Iona greeted me with a bow and said, “Hajimemashite!” =P She’s a funny, giggling lot; an interesting personality =D Geok Leng was pestering me (which she did in school before as well >_>) to belanja her makan, on the basis that I didn’t treat her after “9 years of friendship” XD

The church concert was nice, but the preaching was…dull. I barely understood what he’s talking about, and we weren’t interested at all (maybe except Ding :P). We even keyed our messages to each other via handphones, and showed the person sitting next to us what we were keying (an elderly man hushed us after we chatted among each other). Iona keyed in on her handphone, “Evolution of instant messaging”. rofl XD

Joe and Geok Leng escaped to Holiday Villa’s swimming pool, which I found out later and joined them for a short moment. Iona went back first (she tumpang us in her dad’s car, to go to the nearby 7-Eleven). From there, we walked to SS15’s infamous Salmon Steak with Shearn (which was Ding’s real name), and ate our dinner there. I had to belanja Geok Leng, of course. XD Shearn was fasting for spiritual purposes, and he eats only breakfast. /swt

Went back at roughly 11.30pm with Geok Leng’s car, which was extremely comfy (no idea what car that is). Reached home at near 12am. Watta busy day >_< - extremely tiring.