The Man in the MRT.


Yesterday for no apparent reason, i went to town!! OMG!! I felt soo bad! Exam period and i still go Orchard Road, walk walk, see anything new and all. I went myself, i felt guilty after that. Im supposed to study my physical chem and apparently it turns me off and i got fed up and i just went to Orchard Road. I told you that ive never been to orchard for a long time. Well i finally went and I noticed quite a number of changes.

Christmas decorations along the Orchard Road is up, though not finished yet. The upgrade on wisma atria has been completed and you can lots of alfresco cafes along the great walkway. It makes me wanna sit down at those cafe and have my favourite beverage, sit down and soak up the ambience, observe people walking up and down. But another time perhaps. There are some big statues, some form of art being placed along the walkway. I didnt take a look at what it symbolises but its very... blockish. Abstract art is NOT my forte.

Anyway, on the way to Orchard, via MRT, i was sitting down (btw, i bought my physical chem notes to read on the way, so its not too bad ya?) and this young man quite handsome looks soo exhausted. He was dozing up but not that kind of person where their head would drop suddenly. No, he looked very exhausted and he tried really hard to keep himself awake. You can see by his eyes that he is contantly slipping in and out of slumberland. i dunno what he did before, but he looked very exhausted. The most peculiar thing about this guy is that i recognized him! Ive seen him many occasions but during that time, i could not recall where ive seen him. The only time i could recall was in the mrt. That encounter yesterday wasnt the first. Certainly ive seen him around lately. And i started to think. Where did i recognized this guy? I thought really hard and its difficult upon closer inspection because he was exhausted and he looked very different, yet somehow familiar. And i thought and thought. Yes! thats right! He works in Ya Kun Kaya toast at Causewaypoint!! Thats where i first saw him and on many occasions there, especially at night, because i used to go there very often to have kaya toast and a cup of tea. He works there and its funny to see a him working at Ya Kun Kaya Toast franchise, because all the other tenants are all old aunties and uncles serving the toast and making the toasts and writing down orders and he is the only young chap there!

When the train reached at Novena, he dropped off there, but before he dropped off, he looked at me, sort of a sleepy and nonchalant way and i looked at him. We look at each other. And then he smiled at me. I was surprised. I frowned and then i smiled, because maybe he him recognized me as a regular customer at Ya Kun. Then he got off the train. I was quite surprised because i didnt expect him to recognize me for he serves hundreds of people everyday and sees new people every day. For him to recognize a customer, he must have really good memory...