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Wednesday, December 20, 2006 So let's start in chronological order.. My neighbour (house neighbour, not hall neighbour) got married last weekend. She's the second daughter of the family. Everyone who saw the son, who's the youngest, asked him when it will be his turn. No one dared say anything like that to the eldest daughter who, to the best of my knowledge, has never even had a boyfriend before. The wedding dinner was held at Raffles City Convention Center, which probably cost a few peanuts. Seems like no one holds weddings at Chinese restaurants anymore, unless they REALLY cannot help it. It's all about 面子 and 气派 nowadays. Friday was spent with ying, fixing her computers (yah she has 2 now). On our way to Sim Lim Square, at Bugis MRT, we bumped into a blind man asking for help, standing right in front of the escalators. I was going to pass him by, but ying stopped immediately and tried to help. It turns out that he wanted to go to the food court, and someone led him the wrong way. ying proceeded to dump him on me, and I gallantly led him to the food court, whereupon he asked if I could buy Chinese tea for him. On the way to the drinks stall, several stallholders called out to me, and told me that the blind man is a cheat, he's not really blind and I'm not the first he's brought there. I thanked them, and spent quite a few seconds agonising over what to do next. It didn't seem quite right to just leave him there and walk away, even if he was a cheat. ying solved the problem by leading me out of the food court. ying was a little upset that the man turned out to be a cheat. She said she wouldn't know whether to help or not the next time. I, too, think that the man will "spoil the market" for people who really need help. I proceeded to point out certain inconsistencies in his story -- First of all, blind men are more independent than we give them credit for. They will not travel unescorted if they do not know the place well, and their sense of pride means they will not let themselves be guided (the man let me). Also, they will use their stick even when they're guided, the man just let it float in the air which puzzled me for quite a while. He claimed he was meeting friends at 7.30 but it was barely 2 and he was already there. When I asked him about that he just shrugged then asked me (for the x-th time) whether he was inconveniencing me. He asked me for 2 $1 coins, when I asked him why he said he was meeting his friend to lend him money, and he had no extra money (A 3-year-old would have seen through that, but then he asked me again if he was causing me trouble, and didn't give me time to ponder the inconsistencies). Anyway, just wanna say that I enjoyed the time with ying. She's a very 真 person, she is always herself and she doesn't hide anything. She also happens to be very perceptive and observant, she sees things that I try to hide. Both these qualities of her mean that I also don't hold back when I'm with her, I think I am really myself when I'm with her. Sadly I find that refreshing and rejuvenating, because I'm always wearing one mask or another all the time. She's one of the few who've earned a special pass from me, though she probably doesn't know it (heck, none of those who have the pass know they have it) -- "Call and I'll be there."
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