Heartland Celebrity (2)

went for another round of Heartland Performances. today i heard from sukiang that we're going to yishun so not too bad. haha.

then i found out the floats were parked in amk, like yesterday. dots.

was praying hard that the malay gal would somehow forget me. she didn't.

first thing we saw when sukiang turned into amk central: the malay gal screaming "magician!!" o.....m..........g............. shit shit shit shit shit shit

anyway. saw leonard and managed to talk abit with him before getting dragged away by the malay gal. saw her friend, the chinese gal too.

these young 'uns are more intelligent and technologically advanced than i was when i was their age. they know how to sms, take pictures, play games on the hp etc. think they know how to mms too haha which i dunno.

thing was, i shouldn't have shown her my hp cos she asked for my huge magician's cards (which i had kept in my trousers pocket yesterday) so she just took the next toy she could find ie my hp.
went to take pictures of the other floats (muhaha. help me take some pics) so while the others were posing with others for pictures, i had to entertain the little gal who was running in between the floats to make sure she didn't run away with my handphone.

that was until we left for yishun. i wonder, where are the parents of both the malay gal and the chinese gal? wun it be dangerous to let them run around like that. esp when both of them are gals and with the huang na case not too far behind us.

left for yishun. we went dunno where. but remembered stopping at some bungalow/ semi-d area for handshakes and photo-taking, as well as some housing estate in chong pang area. travelled on upper thomson road, evoking many memories of then recruit tan yq in nee soon camp, the first army camp i was posted to. went along the bus 169 road to dieppe camp and khatib camp then turned into khatib town. those early army days..

wonder if warrant goh is watching. haha.

anyway most of the road we drove on today was pretty deserted, dotted with army camps and private property or mrt tracks. so i, louie and ian (the other two operators of the box) played tai dee with the extra large playing cards!! with cards evenly spread out in hand, i conveniently played and posed at the same time (need some imagination here).

e.g. So i was happily smiling and waving to the people in the streets, then

louie: 3 4 5 6 7

ian: 4 5 6 7 8

me: pass (still waving and smiling)

louie: 10 J K Q A

ian: pass

me: pass (still waving and smiling). etc

ok. quite boring... mainly was road after road. quite slack.

back to amk where the floats were to be parked again. yes. the little malay gal. again. as the float turned into amk central she ran like some marathon runner only thing is she had two bottles of mineral water with her.

"i want magician to have one!!" she screamed while running with the float. think she fell once. (my) heart went out a bit to her. told her to "wait for me (while the float stops)" and got teased endlessly by the crew about it.

ok more photo-taking after we stopped. time to leave as the PA people switched off the lights of all the floats.

then another incredible thing happened: she took my right hand (luckily i wore gloves!) and said, "i wanna hold your hand!!" oh my. i know the beatles got some song with the same name. then dragged me to the front of the procession where we were walking to sukiang's lorry. (too late to have supper). ok. have to send her home again.

she sat at the back of the pickup truck with the wind blowing our hair. took her to block 125 (where she lived), offered to send her home to the doorstep (at the request of all my dearest fellow team members). got into lift. before we went up, she asked "could i have your hp number?" why? i asked. "so i can call u." NO WAY OK. found some absolutely lame reason to slither out of the situation. sun zi says: when in a difficult situation. RUN.

when we reached 5th floor she forbade me to leave the lift and said she'd go home alone. ok. her choice.

waved to her as i made my careful retreat from block 125. left amk in a hurry.

haiz. never gonna visit amk again.... for a very very very looooooooong time.