砂漠のJeffire

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Thursday, June 03, 2004

Well, there won't be any photos for this blog so please bear with the long story ba.

A Canadian friend (his name will be depicted as C.U. here)arrived from China yesterday. A first hand experience on how to receive a friend indeed. Anyway, this guy will be around for the next 30+ days, so I've got plenty of time and opportunities to take a photo for you to see. Haha.

First time took the MRT to the airport. It was real crowded because of the Food Festival. Arghz. I didn't get to go to this festival, but anyway I'm not really that interested in an exhibition on FOOD.

I heard that C.U was on the same plane as Faye Wong! Woo hoo, but of course, Faye would have been on the First Class cabin ba. Anyway I was kinda late (but earlier than the guest) so din get to see Faye Wong (duh, who cares).

Met plenty of my NBPS juniors, whom I got to know through my brother and playing table tennis, like QQ, QT. The other people who came to receive C.U included a girl whom he met online (let's name her A), another girl who was my brother's classmate(but i wonder how come she bothered to come and receive him, hmmmmm, let's name her B) and C.U's secondary school friend from RI, an Indian guy. Actually this sudden meeting kinda like dumbed out everyone, nobody knew what to say at times. It's like everyone ain't that close together, but still in touch? Oh well, luckily I cracked a few jokes and bridged the people together. Unfortunately for the indian guy whom i tried to talk to, i couldn't really find something to talk to him, and C.U din really bother to talk to him either, so he was on his music all the way throughout the MRT trip. Poor guy. A din get much attention either, regarding this I will be rambling on later. QQ brought his stuff back to his home (as C.U will be staying with QQ for the next 30+ days). So in the end, B, QT and I were chatting with C.U throughout the whole trip, including a meal at Suntec, till I parted at Bishan station. B is quite a demure girl, and speaks cool english.....heeee. Too bad din get her no nor her name. In the evening there was a surprise welcome party, but my brother who was just 'released' from Tekong, didn't feel like going. Oh well.

Rambling time: It seems like many other people are like me, who are kinda two different type of person on and offline. It's not really a character problem I suppose. It's a communication skill that has been eroded over time.......it's very easy to be talking online, easy to write nice words, easy to put down your comments, easy to talk to many people at once, giving them a 'presumed' 100% attention. Yet offline, face-to-face conversation is entirely different. It's difficult giving everyone attention, it's difficult not to interrupt when you have an idea, it's difficult not to sound harsh when giving comments etc........

Sigh.

I'll continue this tomolo ba.

regards
jeffire

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