Just Another Week...

Here's a roundup of notable events that occurred during the past week:

1) I was waiting for the lift one fine morning to go to work. The lift doors opened and a pile of barf on the floor greeted me.

Oddly enough, the barf didn't stink as bad as I had expected it to.

2) I saw a mynah hunting for food beside a drain. It hopped onto the grille to cross the drain. One foot (sic: claw) disappeared between the metal grilles and it momentarily lost balance.

Fortunately the mynah didn't get injured and hopped away in one piece.

3) I was walking up behind a resting cat, and it heard me only when my foot was beside its head. It jumped up in surprise.

I ran away.

4) I saw a little boy (probably 5 or 6 years old) taking a leak a few meters away from a bus stop, pissing onto the fence surrounding a school. His mother sitting at the bus stop saw him drop his pants, and shouted at him not to piss into the school.

The boy refused to listen and continued to give a golden shower to the grass growing under the fence. I walked past him and saw his shiny bottom like a fresh peach under the glaring sun.

4) A co-worker asked me if I had already applied for PR (Permanent Residence).

The Boy and The Watch

So it was one fine weekday morning at the bus stop.

A little boy (who often comes to the bus stop with his Father) ran off to catch his school bus. He left his watch on the seat. His father was not around; presumably he had left already.

I pretended not to notice the lone watch on the seat, but there was no one else around at the bus stop. So I picked up the watch and kept it.

******************** The Next Day ********************

I brought the watch along with me, hoping to catch the boy with his dad.

Indeed, a few minutes later, the man came with his son. I walked over to the man:

Me: "Did your son lose a watch yesterday?"
Man: "Yes."
Me: "What color is the watch?"
Man: "Err... black."
Me: "What's the brand of the watch?"
Man: "I don't remember."

At this juncture, I took out the watch and held it in front of the man. His son was a few meters away playing when he noticed me. When he saw the watch I produced from my bag, he immediately walked over and reached out with his hand to take the watch from me.

I stood there looking at the two of them. 2 seconds passed. Silence. They made no eye contact with me.

I walked away in silence.