Saturday, January 20, 2007
traumatising old woman
*shudders* Cornelius, Ren Liang and I were severely traumatised by this tiny old lady today. *shudders again* =/ We were having lunch at the market opposite TJ...okay. To be absolutely accurate, we had already
finished lunch, but being typical TMS people, we were bitching around about stuff (
highly enthusiastically on Corne's part. Haha. Gestulating and all...) in general. This old lady la. She's quite stooped, with 2 packets of food in one hand, and her walking stick in the other...interrupted Corne in the middle of his animated story, complete with big hand gestures. He actually had his hands up in midair la, then the old lady stopped behind him. Heh.
old lady (OL for short): *mumble mumble* (raises hand up to teeth and makes a scraping motion)
Corne: (blank look) HUH?????? (looks at me and Ren Liang)
Ren Liang: Huh??!?!?! What's she talking about?? (both of them looks at me)
Me: I dunno!!!!!!!!!! (all of us gives her the
huh look.
She's like super obliging la. Unfortunately, she repeated whatever she said at the same mumbly volume. Basically...just repeat that conversation another time...then Ren Liang came to the conclusion that "Is she CURSING ME?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?" Hahahahaha...we were all highly traumatised by then la. Imagine. The old lady. Repeat and repeat and repeat, and none of us were any closer to deciphering her hieroglyphic language. She didn't help us considering the fact that she was using one of the dialects. Ren Liang got more and more hysterical, and Corne and I weren't much better, huh-ing here and there. She finally shuffled off...and we all heaved this huge sigh of relief (with Ren Liang still muttering about being cursed).
And guess what. We finally came to the conclusion that she was
asking us for a toothpick Bleagh.
6:34 PM
;and the DODO has the final say.
