today, the first unfortunate event caused by the loss of my handphone occurred to me.

i was strangely reluctant to go for the supposed council outing today. maybe there were other unmentionable reasons in that, but i went nevertheless. just as i made my way to the bus stop, 171 happily whizzed past me, unaware that my heart dropped to the pits of my stomach. another 20 minutes to wait for a bus even though i'm half an hour behind time.

as i sat at the bus stop alone, i contemplated travelling by train. my preference of bus over train has always been clear to me, but i didn't want to risk being late (i was going to be, anyway, and i wasn't bothered by it. peculiar.) so i got up and started walking towards the lrt station.

walking has become a new favourite activity of mine. i've always wanted to take long walks alone, but my will was never strong enough. so i enjoy any sort of walking nowadays.

as i tapped my way into the station, i heard the mechanical female voice: train departing. and i knew that if i were in the train, she would continue: next stop, petir. but i wasn't. so i sat down heavily on the marble bench and waited 5 minutes for the next train.

after 5 minutes, i boarded the train and alighted at choa chu kang. switched trains and alighted at jurong east. switched trains and alighted (finally) at bedok. all this while, i had no idea how much time had passed. hours, probably. so i tapped my way out of the station and asked politely for the time.

11.24AM

oops, 24 minutes late.

but i moved on to the next thing to do: call cheryl using the payphone. i had her number written down on a piece of paper before i left the house. so i called her and asked her where everybody was. she asked who i was and after i answered, she gave a sad sound before asking me if i received rachel's msg. i told her about the loss of my phone and proceeded to predict that the outing was cancelled.

it was.

hahaha, sorry, but i must really laugh at myself. i travelled all the way to bedok for nothing. how stupid can a person get. at least it was a good way to waste time. and i have a lot of time to waste, anyway.

said goodbye and called jacq next but her handphone was switched off. suddenly, i couldn't remember sze's handphone number and dejectedly headed for the bus interchange. no way was i going back by train. no way.

walked another long distance to the bus interchange where the beginnings of a headache started surfacing. so i bought kinder bueno and iced apple tea. i had a short conversation with the aunty about jc and that was interesting because we didn't know each other, wasn't of the same age, but yet could maintain a proper conversation. it was in chinese. then she got a sudden surge of customers and i said bye.

chose to take 7 over 66, because i planned on dropping by jacq's house for a short while to surprise her. but decided against it, so i dropped off one stop after parkmall and switched to 171. my familiar 171. it was so uncomfortable sleeping on 7, but the moment i sat down on 171, i knew i was home. i know it sounds stupid, but it's really like that. the seats are better-cushioned, the distance of the seat from the floor is just right.

i alighted at bukit panjang plaza, where i bought subway for myself as lunch. decided to walk all the way back home. :)

and when i reached home, there wasn't anybody in. they must've gone out for lunch. so, as always, feeling that i own the entire apartment, i made myself comfortable in front of the computer and happily ate my sandwich.

that about concludes my pointless day.

but you know, i've always wanted to do what i did today, just in a slightly different manner. take a bus and drop off when i feel like it, take another bus and do the same thing. and when you finally feel like going home, carefully find your way back using public transport. after all, singapore's only that big, you can't get very lost. and you get to go to places in singapore you've never seen before.
maybe one day when i feel adventurous enough, hm?

so, how was your day?
times like this, i wish everybody had their blogs updated automatically for them so i know what they've been doing. haven't heard from jacq in a while now, what is she doing? almost never get to hear from emily, what has she been doing?

what is everybody doing with their Time?