Teheheh (III)

Music: Keane- BedShaped

Grrrrrrr. Heheheheh.

Imagine my surprise when I checked my hp at 4 30 PM this evening and opened an invitation from a female to go for a jog. It was Ms Weiqi, from peer counseling.

Ok the first thing I did, after replying to her msg of course, was to call Mr Hanxiang [who btw was the link between us because hes in her class and I got to know him first] up. Hello a girl just invited me to go for a jog, and theres no way I was going to go there alone. My heart practically sank when he said no, he had to go into intensive studying mood already. I remember getting pretty frantic—no joke, I was scared she would eat me up when we were alone. Reversal of roles I guess. Haha.

I overcame my fears in the end. The fears were significant, but not exactly substantial. Im a male, Ive got the strength if things go bad. Ok I think I know how a female feels when she goes out with a not-so-familiar male. That feeling of insecurity. Brr. But I agreed to go in the end. I mean, we’ve been out several times already [though always with hanxiang around], and I did agree to accompany her for jogs during our last outing on Tuesday.

We arranged for 6 30, postponed it to 7 because she wanted to sleep, I got down to her place at bishan at 7 15, late as always, and we made our way to bishan stadium.

The first thing I noticed when we met was the scent. For some reason I am not too sure of, she had put on perfume. !@!%$^#

The evening was a splendid one. There was the evening breeze, the day was getting dark, everything just felt good. I withdrew into myself, preferring to enjoy the evening itself rather than the company, responding but never initiating. Anyway shes one who’s very talkative and that’s a good thing; I was more than content to be the mild, almost stoic man.

The jog was fine enough. I was initially uncertain whether to go at my pace or accompany her, so I went with her uh, tortoise pace for two rounds before breaking off and doing my own meditative run.

I loved the way the breeze constantly caressed me. I loved the way the floodlights illuminated that relatively vast expanse of flat land. I loved the way we sat down to chill out after the run.

She popped the dinner question first, though in a very indirect way, which got very direct later on. She said something like “What are you eating later”. Everyone likes asking the dinner question with subtlety eh. Haha. Don’t think I’ll reveal my own subtle ways, but if I remember correctly, she had actually assumed I was having dinner with her already, and I had certain implicit pleasure in flushing that assumption out to the open to both of us.

We got down to 7-11, somewhere near junction 8 first. Her dad called her at this point, and she later complained to me about how her parents always asked her to do this and that, interfering in her life and so on. He had called to tell her to buy an oyster cake for her mother, and she later complained how oyster cakes have very high cholesterol. I got pretty…touched by the roughshod love seen here. She was very resentful of her parents, and yet she said, “oyster cake a lot cholesterol one lor don’t know why they still want”, or smth to that extent, with a list of very crude concern. And YET she still went to get the snack for her mother. She got pressed between her mother’s health and her mother’s pleasure, and really, either way it shows just how much she thinks for her mother in the end, despite given a backdrop of resentment. I guess no matter what, your parents are still your parents, and your bond with them should never diminish in any way.

Dinner was instant noodles down at the void deck of her hdb flat. You know, never did I ever ever expect to have such a meal with a female. I didn’t even do that with guys before, just grabbing cup noodles off the nearest 7-11, perch your leg up on a seat at a void deck, sit back and enjoy the stately night charm, cool breeze and all.

It was evident she got something just so I could eat. She said she wouldn’t be getting anything [after drinking some big gulp] but I insisted she eat something. So she bought a cup of noodles too. And passed it to me after a few thrusts of the chopsticks [had told her I could finish her portion if she couldn’t finish it]. Grr.

Im going to remember this particular dinner for a very, very long time. Instant noodles with a female at the void deck of her house. Who could’ve imagined.

She told me later on that there were times she and her brother [sec2] would go out at midnight to grab some instant noodles off 7-11 and eat it there at the void deck. Oh how I envy them. It gets kind of lonely spending late nights up eating snacks at my house, alone. It gets kind of lonely going for night swims and jogs [yes, I do those] alone. Yea, maybe I shouldn’t be too alone after all.

I got pretty surprised at her offer of lunch/dinner anytime over the next 5 days, where I’ll be having my full-day chess competition at a venue somewhere close to her house. Is that the first time a female is offering to have a meal with me?

Anyway, if it’s of any information at all, shes a female cancer.

I marvel at the close proximity of two separate outings, with two separate girls, both completely unplanned, and both leaving a completely unique impression on me. Don’t know what my guardian angel, or Lady Luck, is trying to do but they definitely seem to be quite preoccupied throwing surprises at my life. And I don’t think I mind. Yea, I don’t think I mind at all.

I patiently await.