Sorry hor, nothing sordid.
Specimen A: Boy from the rock show
17 year-old rachxf wins tickets to Asian Dub Foundation gig on local radio station and brings Min along, alongside her many friends. Great gig, red wine compliments of elder sister of one of the bunch and I meet Boy after the gig at the foot of Fort Canning Hill while waiting for taxi.
Two minutes into friendly chit chat, just to while time away before cab arrives. Boy (lets call him G) asks if I would like to go get roti prata from Thomson Road. A reserved rachxf politely declined but naively exchanged numbers with G. G asked if he could call after he reaches home.
Cut to G calling rachxf in the middle of the night. Rachxf finds out G is of half Arab descent and the other bloodline she is clueless. They had a good talk about what they like, they spoke about a Radiohead music video and she finds out fairylights were used in the scene where Thom Yorke submerges in a big tank of water. G was making supper while talking to her.
Morning after- G never called back.
Moral of the story: Don't give your number to any Ol' boy/guy/fella/fuddy duddy. I wasn't pissed or anything, just a bad ending to the phonecall between strangers, nothing similar to that in Elizabeth Town.
Specimen B: itunes msn
So fast forward to 2006 November, Rachxf studies hard for her photojournalism exam one night in school. Laptop's switched on, so was her itunes.
Rachxf believes in sharing her music with the good users of itunes so with the sharing function switched on, people on campus is able to detect her itunes (if they are near enough to her network).
She notices a weird user on the shared itunes sidebar.
One of the user's name reads: Rachel, can I get a copy of A Perfect Circle album from you?
Shocked, she alarms her friends and everyone inspects the itunes programme. Consensus= reply the person using your itunes user name too.
She asked through her user name: Are you talking to me? Where are you?
Person answers about 5 minutes later (via itunes user name): I am at the School of Humanities and Social Sciences Library
Then again: Where are you?
Rachxf is freaked out. This is not funny. And all of her friends is not having her on.
Rachxf asks: Can you add me on msn and we can talk?
Dubious Person was added on msn and rachxf finds out he, yes a guy is from some engineering school and mugging at the library. He recently crashed his computer and wanted the A Perfect Circle album.
Upon obtaining his e-mail address, rachxf's trusty friend did a search on a social network programme and found the dude's profile. haha.
Nay, consensus was.
Until today, rachxf has not sent dubious person a copy of the album but he still exists in her msn contacts.
Moral of the story: strange but true, you can actually pick people up using itunes!!! technology has surpassed many traditional methods of getting to know girls.
Specimen C: Emo grown-up man
Everything was hazy as rachxf had a bit too much to drink. Wine mostly. She and Trina was at a cosy bar. Rachxf meets someone she met on the job, says hi (PR effort) and he started talking to her.
10 minutes worth of small talk later, Man ( he is definitely over 32) lapses into an unprecedented emotional conversation on his plight and state of a romantic relationship. rachxf is taken aback by the EMO-ing. She is at a loss of words, only saying: "You should just wait and see how it goes,"
Rachxf's favourite The Cure song, "Inbetween Days" plays in the background and she segues to the dancefloor, telling him: "I like this song,"
Dancing begins and death of conversation. Yay!
Moral of the story: Emo can happen to anyone at any age.
Amelia, me and the emo caught inbetween.
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hehe.
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