Long is Short, Short is Long
I am so freaking addicted to Toastmasters now. When I first joined Toastmasters, I thought I would be bored to death when we are going to have meetings every week. But Zhenzhi told me no, it's only on every alternate week. How I wished I had tried persuading him to have it every week - at most help him think of something to talk about during his President's opening speech.
So, yesterday evening, I went down to SRC quite early. Not because of the time (I left IMM at about 4.30PM), because I took the cab. The cab driver was driving so freaking slowly. Trying to cheat my money. Not only that, he took a freaking long route. Told him to get to the road in front of Fullerton to go down, but he took the route in front of City Hall building and then to Suntec and turning to SRC. Cost me another dollar for that route.
So I was there at 5PM odd. Went to take a shower and then went straight to Lounge 1883. I was the only one there for about 40 whole minutes. Bored to the brains. Without the President around, all the ex-co went missing. Only two members from the ex-co turned up at the meeting, Raymond, because he's the TME and Jenny, because she's my evaluator. Elton should come to our meeting one day so I could introduce Jenny to him.
Raymond came at almost 6PM or was it pass 6 already? Lily came next. And one by one everyone started coming in at 6.30PM onwards. By then I had already rehearsed my speech countless times. I got to interact more as only 14 people turned up. The room was so empty. There were only 3 projects (no voting because one was disqualified and voting is not allowed when there are only 2 projects). And we also went pass the taboo line with speeches related to Politics and Sex. Word of the Day was cancelled. And we had about 15 minutes of English lesson in place of it, and about half an hour of English lesson again during language evaluation.
Took the train back after the meeting. Crappy. There was this black guy and malay woman trying to be funny right in front of me. And he put his arm right in front of me to grab the bar at the side. Feel like chopping it off. So irritating to have an arm right in front of you blocking you. Worse, this stupid guy stood right in the center of the entrance/exit blocking the passage way.
The whole journey from City Hall station to CCK interchange was filled with nothing but music from my reliable shuffle. So reliable I couldn't hear any announcements that I almost got on the wrong train and almost visited Ben at Yew Tee. It was almost 11.30PM when I reached CCK interchange. Thinking I could take a number of buses, I stood at the screen waiting to see which bus will come first. And it kept refreshing to display only one screen. The fury I got into. Until I realized most of the buses have gone off service. Even 985. I was lucky there was still 985W. So I reached home, supper in hands, and went to wake my parents up for the delicious supper from SRC. My stupid little brother only ate the so-so tasting chicken fillet with satay sauce instead of the wonderful curry fish with eggplant.
- Food courtesy of SRC Toastmasters