This is the story of how I almost became Fie Fie’s fish (rest its soul).
I was on my way back after selling my Nokia 512MB memory card to a buyer at Paya Lebar’s Tanjong Katong Complex, slightly flustered after the buyer texted and threatened to cancel the deal if I did not arrive in 5 minutes. He turned out to be a nice person, just that he could not reach me while I was in the train (5 missed calls because the ringing was soft and some calls got dropped in the tunnel).
Happy with closing the deal all the same, I began to cross the road to Paya Lebar MRT to take the train back. It was the green man for the pedestrians, and a turning bus just powered by me rather quickly for its size. Unfazed, I carried on walking towards the other side.
Then, a Hyundai car with license plate SFPxxxx started turning at the lane beside the bus. Thinking it would stop for me, I carried on walking though I kept it in the corner of my eye just in case. I was wearing black after all. Suddenly, instead of slowing down, the car hit the turn at accelerating speed. Momentarily stunned by the driver’s stunt, I utilized the 9.2s shuttle run faculty and dashed for dear life, the car missing me by a hair’s length.
The driver noticed me only when I started dashing to safety, but he initially swerved in the direction of my path forward, almost cutting me off, before turning the steering wheel the other way. He did an emergency brake and raised his right hand apologetically, looking in his right wing mirror.
Shaken but not stirred, I glared back at him through his wing mirror for a full second before completing mission “cross the road without getting killed”.
So the next video dedication is especially for the driver of this vehicle: though I wonder how you got your paws on a driving license, I must thank you for you have prepared me for the perils of the world outside well. But it takes more than that to give me a heart attack.
Side note to Alvin – nope, the 拜拜 didn’t work. Unless we see it from another angle, that at least I’m still standing here.
(Really) useless muse of the day: As an act of bravado towards questioning the true value of tertiary education today, and in the ultimate marriage between mockery and irony, I can now be reached at wth(at)nus.edu.sg. This email address embodies how come project work takes up such a significant portion of grades to simulate how the world outside works, but yet people outside work for the money while there is no motivation here for some to play their part. My point exactly, Wong Tai Hang can be found in the National University of Singapore!
