The Shady World Of Show Business II

Before I could react, the tall strapping man has swooped down and planted a kiss on my cheek. Yes, my cheek. I thought common courtesies only extend to air kisses, or brushing of cheeks if you were really friendly. Argh. Eek. Thanks but no thanks. 我又不是跟你很熟。But then again, we are talking about the same guy who smacked my butt twice when he was in Singapore the last time. Like DUH.

Being intimate with celebrities doesn’t do it for me. Not even when they are veiny and tall and muscular and sing and dance damn well. I guess that means I’m still a fair and virtuous Chinese maiden :)

Man Enough

Me: I’m so sorry after all the hype but. I have to go Grease with my colleagues. Very, very sorry. Let’s do something more exciting. Have you been to Bollywood Veggies? I want to go there. Have never been there before.

Mr Dimples: Ha, it’s okay. I’m man enough to deal with the rejection. Never heard of what veggie. Can eat?

Me: Wah. Manly and smart is an irresistible combination :) Yes, you can eat there! Even got a scenic driving route to the farm. See www.bollywoodveggies.com

TBC

The Lazy Weekend

One thing people should know about me is that I have been a huge Dragonlance fan since primary school days. I started on Way of The Tiger and Lone Wolf series (and the ubiquitous Choose Your Own Adventure stuff) but these kiddie fantasy books were abandoned the moment I got introduced to Dragonlance. I never tire of re-reading The Chronicles and Legends series and all (Rather complete list of Dragonlance novels here and here). Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman were gods in their own right and epic Dragonlance definitely rules over the boring Lord of The Rings.

My love affair with Krynn has never ceased, as evident from my consistent online persona Kitiara ( I irc-ed using this nick too in secondary and JC years!). Yes, and I do prefer reading to the actual D&D role-playing but it really depends on who my companions on the quest are. Ha. Incidentally, the Dragonlance book covers two decades ago were a more fitting tribute to the colossal plot. Don’t like the new book covers. They look lame and alas, kiddie!

And I always harbour the hope that the success of the movie adaptation of Lord of The Rings would mean my Raistlin and Kitiara and Tanis coming to life on the big screen very soon. I still remember arguing with someone that Brad Pitt will make a good Cameron. I guess Kitiara can be Angelina Jolie? Unfortunately, the movie stays a vain hope.

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It’s best not to watch The Da Vinci Code movie late at night. The first half was tortuously slow-paced and I struggled to keep awake. Second half was more promising, but strangely predictable for someone (me lah) who has steadfastly resisted (actually I flatly refused to) reading the book. Certain segments felt gratuitous and otiose, and more importantly, I was terrified that the movie would never end, ‘cos there would be one closure after another, even when you don’t care anymore. A bit like A.I in this sense, except of course A.I was a great, great movie, until the point the aliens started showing up and you go WTF!?

The one good thing that came out of watching the movie, was that I bumped into Junwei!!! Er, who, you ask? Well, no one I knew particularly well really, just an ex-TJC astronomy club acquaintance. But I couldn’t recognize him at all cos he was wearing a pair of ridiculous plastic black frames as glasses. I fear I was rude and went as far as to squeak: eek what happened to you? You used to be so boyish and cute!!! But I tempered that with: huh? What’s with the mature look!! The poor guy was so traumatized that he took off his glasses when we were alone and asked: do I look more like what you remembered now? Ha. I’m terrible, I know. And I did all that to him when he told me he just broke his collar bone due to rollerblading accident. Talk about preying on a man’s insecurities. Fortunately, he has veins. Unfortunately, he’s too short. Okay. I should just stop here.

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I also met O2 in person to pick up the Columbia University tee he has so kindly bought on my behalf. Unfortunately the tee only has the world Columbia on it. No school motto, no school crest. Nothing. Just COLUMBIA in blue. It could very well refer to the state, or even the movie production house. Think Columbia pictures. Sigh. I guess Harvard still rules then. Meihui, can get BJ to buy more when he’s back?

{edited22 May 5.55am: Thanks to takchek, the 25 thing you don't really need to know about me is that I couldn't spell Colombia University, before his highlighting of my bizarre error. There has to be some subconscious awareness here now that I think about it. But well. Let's do it again. Just COLOMBIA in blue. People who just take a glance or don't know any better would read COLUMBIA. Think state. Think Columbia pictures. Sigh. Sigh.}

{edited 22 May 4.35pm: This is getting ridiculous. Apparently I do know how to spell Columbia University. I just read comments too fast and don't know how to spell COLOMBIA THE STATE. At least that's how I understand, right now, after re-reading. I might get a different understanding later. But well, know what. Let's just forget it, please. Fark. I've got more pressing things to mind.}

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Lazy weekend. I try to catch up on two week’s worth of sleep. Managed to drag myself out of bed for Big Walk this morning. Circled half-heartedly around the stadium and promptly drove to Geylang for some breakfast dim sum before tumbling into bed again.

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Mr Dimples is escorting me to Grease.

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Write, write, write!!

24 Things You Don't Really Need To Know About Me

I have been tagged by takchek to do a meme which he has changed theme from 24 Random Facts About Oneself to Write A Post With 24 Weird Facts/Things/Habits About Yourself. Here goes:

1. I have a love-hate relationship with my hair. It looks different everyday. It never curls nor falls the exact same way. My hair also takes one month after each trimming session to look good. I’m currently two weeks into my cut and it’s at the in-between stage which means hair is damn messy as it needs time to settle down and grow out.

2. I am a horrible drinker. Puking experiences include once on the dance floor in Double O and in the toilets of Devil’s bar. And I downed only a glass at most.

3. I love clubbing. No techno, house, or trance, thank you. Yes to retro, cheesy 80s, and tops 40s. R&B&Funk, maybe.

4. You know those times where you travel from Home to Point B to hang out with friends and traveling from Point B to Home? I hate those times when I’m by myself, without nary book or music to occupy me. I have a tendency to think too much on these journeys. I can’t simply stone and space out. So I appreciate friends who go home with me, and friends who send me home.

5. I have never been able to sustain a very close platonic friendship with guys for long. At last count, there were 5 such casualties. And mind you, these were friends, who at the peak of their devotion to me, would have done anything for me. I hope with Minxiu, I can break the jinx. And yes, of course it was never my fault.

6. I refused to take up any government scholarship, only to realise a year after signing my bond, that the company I’m in has strong links to the government, and that’s an understatement.

7. I stated clearly I wanted to be a radio presenter-producer and writer for Ally McBeal like drama and I was rightly awarded but the scholarship took me oh so far from my dreams and made me have doubts about my talents.

8. I am an orphan but I have a wonderful younger sister whom I absolutely love and dote upon.

9. I sometimes blame my dead parents unreasonably. My Dad, for dying when I was in JC and studying overseas cannot be an option. My Mum for leaving too soon and making me take on responsibilities I never want. I never quite forgave my parents for being poor either.

10. My life role model was and still is 赤名莉香 from 《东京爱情故事》，At the tender age of 13, I know this is someone whose attitude to life and love I can admire. More than a decade later, I guess I’m more like her than I realise. She taught me to always smile cheerfully when shit happens.

11. I want to write songs for a living and sing at 民歌餐厅 too.

12. I have never had an ‘official’ boyfriend but I had a relationship that lasted 5 years.

13. I believe in Fate. That is why Mr Veins’ parents were the best friends of my dad’s elder brother (only found out a year plus ago) That explains how another and I were brought together when our loved ones had to go.

14. I am a big flirt.

15. All I ever wanted when I was young was all those pretty - shining and furry - stickers.

16. I have broken someone’s heart before. If you are wondering, yes, I sometimes feel I have no heart too.

17. I am very good at feigning ignorance and be the innocent ingenue.

18. I know English, Mandarin, Japanese and French. But I speak Hokkien like a foreigner.

19. I love Asian features but British accents just so turn me on.

20. I’m mistaken for a Taiwanese or Mainland Chinese all the time.

21. I have a very strong sense of intuition. I feel, and I know, and usually, I’m right.

22. I want to see the world but I wonder why it is a bad thing if I don’t.

23. I am more homely than I like to admit.

24. I think I will give everything up in the name of Love

I tag Best Friend Ruth, Eilonwy ala Beautante, Minxiu, 02 & Meihui .

赤名莉香，你的爱情，终究只是你的爱情。你，还没有找到可以和你恋爱的对手。 人，在对自己的责备和悔恨中成长，学会在支离破碎的生活中寻找乐趣，学会面对突如其来的爱情，也学会享受平淡安静的生活。

The Shady World of Show Business

He: Can I check with you whether can you spare me some tickets for Show X? Our working partners are asking. And I would like 2 pairs for myself if possible. Can?

Me: Aiyo. Can buy from us anot? We give good discounts. Buy lah buy lah.

He: Then can spare 2 pairs for me only? ;-) Me no money lah

Me: Aiyo you gotta wait for Y’s reply can – cos Show X not within my jurisdiction leah. And you never think of me when got free tickets *slap*

He: Ok lah, no choice lor…Hello… I always think of you ok? If I didn’t remember wrongly, I have given you tickets twice already for 2 shows but you have yet to repay my kindness leh :(

Me: Think of me very, very hard when Cabaret opens, can. I want, I want :)

在生活中坐以待毙

她一直满怀希望

人生偶尔会走上一条陌路
像是没有指标的地图

别让他们说你该知足
只有你知道什么是你的幸福

Life’s ordinariness is slowly but surely dawning upon me again. Oh, is there nothing to look forward to, in the days and months and years to come?

Beautante, who is making her way to a Master degree amidst guitar and other artistic endeavours, asked if I had plans to further my studies after completing my version of national service in Singapore.

Given that I’m not well-read in my majors – Philosophy and Literature, specializing in either is either gonna blind or kill me, whichever first. The former, is, nevertheless a more interesting option. The thought of thinking myself to death is particularly appealing. Master in Creative Writing, perhaps? It will make me write, for sure, and I can’t imagine being unhappy in that kind of situation. Master in anything will not be done in Singapore, and that adds to the attractiveness of things. Unless I decide to really, really continue with a 3-yr law degree in NUS and end once and for all the what-ifs and if-onlys.

I could always work overseas.

I could always pack up and leave.

There must be meaning in life. I just have to look harder, I guess.

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Finance Head: Oi! You know with new changes to the scheme, you don’t get anything? Cut down on your spending hor. No tai-tai wannabe activities, please.

Me: I know already lah. Thanks for reminding me about my pending impoverished circumstance.

I was quite amused by my concerned friend worrying about my projected poverty. Well, life goes on, so we still need to spend.

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Escapism comes in the form of movies, and here’s the backlog of my numerous attempts to run away from real life.

Lately, 《茉莉花开》- I swear repetition has never been less fatalistic with a difference. Minxiu, you have to catch this when you are back. It shatters our conception that the unholy trinity ie three stories told in a movie (think 《最好的時光》 and Eros) is bound to be incomprehensibly bad, two out of three plots. Now I must buy the Chinese novel from which it is adapted from.And did I mention 陆毅 is hot? No, I do not know who he is either. But. He is the actor who plays 邹杰 the leading man in the second story.

《黑社会2以和为贵》- I watched this with Best Friend in Bedok Princess after Polling Day. The timeliness was uncanny. So Best Friend had to put up with my occasional smart aleck whispers of “I can just so imagine our own elections taking place like this behind close doors” and “wah political allegory that we can relate to!!! (I swear there are glaring similarities)” and “politics is 黑社会 legalised and legitimized.” I heard there’s gonna be a third installment. Go here for an in depth forum exchange and analysis (wah so like our cyber election exposes too!!!).

如果说，影片前两集是对现实的映射，那么，第三集将是影片对现实的展望了

Don’t give up. Change can and will occur in the third generation. And changes have to occur, because absolute power corrupts absolutely. That is what the very wise old man (who is kinda heading the whole team even though he has retired, ahem) believes. Watch the movie to see why and how.

And I watched Aquamarine. Like I said, I’m running away from real life, okay. Next!

Thanks to Beautante’s invite, MirrorMask was complimentary. The movie was really, really cool, alive with lush colours and fantastic artwork. Gorgeous. And oh, the angst of growing up!!! The bildungsroman was well-handled and for once, I didn’t feel like killing myself watching character development on screen. The clever cleverness was also deftly executed in terms of structuring the parallel/doppelganger worlds. Lovely, I pronounced.

SIFF – I only manage to catch three movies this time round. As usual, my Japanese choice will not let me down.

It’s Only Talk

Festival favorite Ryuichi Hiroki (Vibrator, L'Amant) returns with this sensitive, low-key portrait of an emotionally unstable woman and the four men in her life. Director Ryuichi Hiroki has become a Philadelphia Film Festival staple in recent years: his film Vibrator screened here two years ago, and Mr. Hiroki attended our fest last year with his movie L'Amant. His newest work, It's Only Talk, harkens back to the sensitive female character study of Vibrator, but it's still a bit of a departure for Hiroki - the film's emphasis is not on explicit sexuality, and his denouement does not offer easy redemption for the film's female protagonist. Yuko (Vibrator star Shinobu Terajima) is a single, unemployed woman in her mid-30s with a critical dependence on medication prescribed for her manic depression. She is in various levels of involvement with four men: a cousin with whom she shares a sexual attraction; a taciturn young gangster who shares her depressive condition; a self-described pervert whom she encountered online; and an old college classmate with a political future, but an inability to relate to Yuko romantically. With this quiet, introspective drama, Hiroki subtly implies that one of these four figures in Yuko's life will provide her with the emotional transformation that she so desperately needs, but the answer isn't that simple. With a melancholy conclusion that will haunt the viewer long after the closing credits roll, Hiroki leaves us with the message that true change must emanate from within. In the process, he confirms his status as one of Japan's most fascinating filmmakers." (synopsis taken from PFF)

The screenplay for It's Only Talk was written by Haruhiko Arai, based on the novel Ittsu onrî tôku by Akiko Itoyama. The movie stars Shinobu Terajima, Etsushi Toyokawa, Shunsuke Matsuoka, Tomorowo Taguchi, Satoshi Tsumabuki, Akira Emoto, and Nao Ômori.

It’s more than a love story, it’s about the struggle to live and struggling to understand what it means to exist.

Excellent review writing here that does justice to a very powerful film.


The Art Of Flirting – As Told In Four Chapters
Spot on for guy-girl dynamics. Spinning off stereotypes but it’s sadly true. There’s a reason why cliches are cliches. I enjoyed this.

I Love Cinema
Blah. Yuck.

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I just want meaning from life.

I shall defer brooding over it by finishing Anna Karenina and working over the weekend.

安定的日子不一定就是幸福
忘不掉她在心里做过的梦
她今年农历三月六号刚满二十二
刚甩开课本要离开家看看这世界
却发现许多烦恼要面对

秋天是忽然间就来临
青春虽然有本钱可以洒脱
一场恋爱二十二个月就结束
才知道有些感情不值得赌

九月天气还是有点热
她想公车再不来就走一走路

她开始明白等待未必有结果
一个人也能走上梦的旅途

Political Awakening

What was so deeply moving about GE 2006 was the infatigueable loyalty displayed by Potong Pasir and Hougang, their unwavering love and support for the two men who have won their hearts so, so many years ago.

The two men, have in turn, captured my imagination. For now, they represent everything that is good and true and honourable, that’s left here. Listening to them, watching them in action, I feel I almost know what it means to stand up for your principles, to fight for your cause, to die for your beliefs, all for the abstract concepts of democracy and nation.

I’m not ashamed to admit every time I see/read reports on CST’s win and the exhilaration + utter adulation/adoration of his ward, I feel like tearing. Likewise when I learn about how the Workers’ party team leading the crowd to recite the national pledge in English and Chinese - a moment so special and tremendous - that was blacked out by ST (watch videos here and here). Yes, it may be staged; it can be calculated, but at least the whole dramatic spectacle can pass off as sincere and genuine to a someone less cynical.

我很感动，很震憾。原来，这里还有希望，还有值得我相信的东西。

There are many things I don’t like here. Things I have put up with and choose to steely and steadfastly ignore. Oh I think about them all the time but that’s as far as I would go. The typical NATO, I never actually act on them, unless writing about them counts. Okay, I write a mean complaint letter (in the sense I’m excellent in making sure the words have the desired effect to produce a satisfactory outcome), but that’s like, it.

CST and LTK, they are all charisma and inspiration, because they actually made me want to do something for once. I feel what a student must feel, caught in the chaos of Tiananman Square protests of 1989. I want to do good, be true and live honourably.

And you know something is rotting in the little red dot when you have a startling epiphany, of why CSJ acts in the way he does and how this radical brand of politics makes sense to him.

CST and LTK work with and within the system.

CSJ believes the system is inherently corrupted and needs to be completely reformed, if not destroyed for the greater good. Which explains his fiery and some say, destructive, approach. Perhaps (unnecessarily so) vilified and demonized, he has been turned into a joke by the local media who cannot and will not report on his political agenda with a neutral slant. He has to seek foreign media to cover his side of the story and treacherous and traitorous he was branded thus.

Yes, I fear even CSJ is beginning to look heroic to me.

I may be too much of a romantic, but Singapore has shown sentimentality can triumph over election goodies and sillier ostentatious carrots. The question now is, will sanity prevail? Can the rest of us see beyond the bread and butter issue and believe again, in what is good, true and honourable? That it can exist in the sterilized material vacuum that we have been brought up in?

We have made a choice and the popular majority, assuming all fairness, has set the path to be led into. But it need not be another 5 years to be roused by rallies and let your restless despair and questioning lostness simmer in vain meanwhile. There can be another point, many ways and different directions.

Yes, you can start your political awakening now. It is within your grasp and you just need to reach out for it, it that is good, true and honourable.

And I hope, there is a good ending, if the story must end.

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Me: I wish I were back in school! All I want is to debate politics all day long and be a student activist. In real-life, while I don’t churn out propaganda, I do engage in subtle but grotesquely effective politics of distraction: mass entertainment.

Mr Dimples: Haha. It’s difficult to digest and reply to such a deeply felt and expressed thought on a Monday morning. Well you had your time being a student and debating about politics. Now it’s your time to work and to distract others from their work as well.

Me: Am I distracting you? :)

Haha. Sorry, can’t resist. Apparently not distracting enough to distract Mr Dimples from work and reply to my super duh question.

James Gomez Arrested

Holy fucking shit.

James Gomez has been arrested.

Here’re the two reports. Note the vastly different reporting styles.

Objective, informed or with an agenda? (italics - mine)

*growl*

Addendum: Given that it was reported Impact of Internet on General Election likely to be studied after polls, it is not too farfetched to argue that the Gomez arrest can well be a testing testy red herring (amongst all sorts of other reasons for his detention) – out to gauge how fast, how far and how wide news circulation can be via internet. Why do I think so. I have had several hits through blogger and goggle search on the man since I put up this entry an hour ago.

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News Report 1
From AP
May 7, 8:35 AM EDT

Singapore opposition politician arrested for allegedly threatening election officials
By EN-LAI YEOH Associated Press Writer

SINGAPORE (AP) -- A Singapore opposition politician was arrested Sunday for allegedly threatening the country's election officials, a day after he failed to win a seat in national elections, an aide said.

Workers' Party candidate James Gomez was arrested Sunday for alleged "criminal intimidation," his aide Jacob George said. Gomez was attempting to leave the country but was stopped by immigration officials, who turned him over to the police.

"We don't know the specifics, but it could be due to the minority certificate," said George, referring to an incident when Gomez initially accused officials of misplacing his election papers more than a week before Saturday's election.

He subsequently apologized after security camera footage showed he put the form into his bag. The academic claimed he was distracted.

Gomez was part of a five-member Workers' Party team that contested a multimember ward against the ruling People's Action Party, where a minority candidate is compulsory.

On Saturday, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong's PAP won 82 of 84 seats in Singapore's 10th general elections since independence in 1965.

"Police received a complaint against James Gomez from the Elections Department, and police are investigating," said police spokeswoman Siow Cheng Cheng. She did not elaborate.

A security official, speaking on condition of anonymity in line with policy, said Gomez has not been charged. If found guilty for criminal intimidation, Gomez could be jailed for up to seven years.

It is not immediately clear why the elections department waited till after the polls to file the complaint.

The incident was played up by ruling party politicians and local media, which rarely deviate from the government line.

Singapore's founding father Lee Kuan Yew, called Gomez, 40, "a liar" and a "bad egg."

"He's not a fool ... He's saying he's got brains," elder statesman Lee was quoted on state-broadcaster Channel NewsAsia's Web site as saying. "Well, what do you use those brains for?"

Lee is the father of the current prime minister and wields considerable influence as "Minister Mentor" in his son's cabinet.

The PAP said they targeted Gomez, a researcher with a Stockholm-based institute, as it was an issue of credibility.

News Report 2
From CNA
Time is GMT + 8 hours
Posted: 07 May 2006 2149 hrs

WP's Gomez detained over Elections Department complaint
By Rita Zahara/Johnson Choo/Valarie Tan/Pearl Forss, Channel NewsAsia

SINGAPORE : James Gomez, the man at the centre of a controversy with the Elections Department over a minority candidate certificate, has been detained by police.

In a statement, police said they were investigating after receiving a complaint against Mr Gomez from the Elections Department.

Mr Gomez was stopped at Changi Airport on Sunday afternoon and prevented from leaving for Sweden.

Channel NewsAsia understands his passport and boarding pass have been confiscated.

Mr Gomez was taken to the Police Cantonment Complex at 4pm to have his statement taken.

During the hustings, Mr Gomez was embroiled in a controversy over his application for a minority candidate certificate.

He claimed to have submitted an application at the Elections Department, but security camera footage showed otherwise.

People's Action Party leaders later accused Mr Gomez of trying to discredit the Elections Department by claiming its staff had misplaced his form.

In a statement, Deputy Prime Minister Wong Kan Seng had charged that Mr Gomez stage-managed the entire episode from the start.

Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew called Mr Gomez a liar, a charge he repeated on Sunday before police confirmed they had detained the Workers' Party candidate.

Said Mr Lee, "When I call a man openly, you're a liar, you're dishonest, and you do not dare to sue me, there's something basically wrong. And I will repeat it anywhere and you can't go and say, oh, I have apologised; let's move on. Can you commit a dishonourable -- maybe even one which is against the law -- an illegal act and say, let's move on because I've apologised? You may move on but you're going to move on out of politics in time."

Mr Lee said that whether other Workers' Party members connived at Mr Gomez's doings was a matter still to be determined.

Meanwhile, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong was asked to comment on Mr Gomez's detention during his victory parade in Ang Mo Kio.

Mr Lee said he was not aware of what had happened, since the Elections Department filed a police report against Mr Gomez.

He said the matter was now in the hands of police.

At about 8pm, Workers' Party chairman Sylvia Lim was seen entering the police headquarters.

It is believed she is helping with investigations. - CNA /ct

Non-Consequential Non-Sequiturs

I’m good. I made a man fall asleep in my company.

Mr Dimples was A Very Tired Person by mid-Saturday and sank happily into the plushy sofas of PanPac hotel for a quick nap.

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I don’t suppose Mr Dimples is very eligible? There was a female ex-schoolmate at the wedding, who appeared seriously excited to see him again. Apparently they exchanged numbers and in the same evening, she sms-ed him to arrange for lunch the following week, as she was conveniently in his office area then.

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He didn’t say anything about my get-up, saved inquiring whether it was difficult to walk. Other guys complimented me for being prettily dressed in a pinkish red chiffon sundress and black ankle boots. Oh, and he wore a pink shirt.

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Pairing a frock with boots is possibly the easiest way to capture a man’s attention and imagination. April was double-dating to watch West Side Story on the same night and by an amazing coincidence, the other boyfriend had attended the same wedding as us. He remembered me by the attire, no thanks to the boots when all six of us collided. I mean, when April jio-ed me and we did the usual rounds of casual introductions.

April shared that the other girlfriend in the group pronounced Mr Dimples as not a social liability after we (Mr Dimples and I) had left their presence.

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We went to The V Tea Room after attacking bbq stingray and sotong.

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We are not dating, we really are not.

It just looks that way.

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Mr Dimples: *pointing at an ex-classmate of ours and whispering* look at him! He has become so tall. I think he’s even taller than me!! You think so?

Me: *internally going ?!WTF!?* No lah, he was this tall already when I saw him in uni.

Mr Dimples: He’s very tall!!!

Eventually I went to share this anecdote with the guy and we had a good giggle over this. Then I pulled him over to Mr Dimples and made them stand side by side. According to official measurements, the difference is 1 cm.

Guys have this complex about height.

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We gave the taller-than-Mr Dimples classmate a lift. He asked Mr Dimples if he had a girlfriend. Mr Dimples replied no and whether he had anyone to recommend. Taller Guy asked what were his requirements. Mr Dimples struggled hard to think and turned to ask me if I recalled. No, said I, but I believe they were kinda low. Anyone who’s a girl could fit. Said Taller Guy, aiyah, like can already. No need state requirements. It’s a feeling

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Mr Dimples happened to develop his Tioman digital prints that day and that provided the opportunity to check out his shirtless body.

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We hated West Side Story. I was dreadfully bored and he was indignant, declaring it to be the worst musical he had ever seen in his life.

He played Les Miserables for me in his car and passed the album to me when I left.

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April is so not the cruelest month, yet