He started off by calling me "friend" and asking me what the time was (in mandarin). Feeling too lazy to be bothered, I told him flatly that I did not have a watch with me. At that point of time, I believed that he was a perfectly sane person wanting to know the time, guessing that he was probably a Chinese national who does not own a handphone and did not put on his watch. Then he started to ask me if I knew which bus went to Jurong. This time, I truly did not know which bus went there from the bus stop I was at, and told him that. A series of questions followed before he finally left me alone. Then he started singing using the syllable "la" to a Chinese song by Ocean. After a while of humming, I suppose he got bored. He took out his phone (which probably has a clock) and played an mp3. At this point of time, I realised that he clearly has some problem up there. Then, he suddenly started repeating something like "Sorry, no more already. Sell finish already." in quite a few languages to passers by and also to the air. I was beginning to get afraid. To my horror and disgust, he had to board the same bus as me and shout to the driver that the air conditioning is too cold. After a few stops, I could no longer tolerate it and alighted the bus. I was supposed to switch to another bus but it had probably just left, meaning that I would be late for practice and would have to fast till probably the next morning. After a long while of consideration, I decided to head back home.

On the way back, I happened to run into a kind soul. I was really glad to meet this total stranger. I was at Bedok interchange waiting to cross the road to the hawker centre and the rain has already subsided into a light drizzle. She had an umbrella and asked me if I wanted to get across the road. I declined as I had an umbrella in my hand, just that I did not want to open it as I had quite a lot of things to carry in my hand already. I regret not thanking that kind stranger who readily offered to shelter another stranger across the road. How nice it would be if there are more of such people in Singapore.

I shall stop here for today.