Haha, I had quite an interesting day today.
After my usual lecture which ended at 3pm and then my first PAL program for Maths 1 today, I was supposed to be getting dinner for some friends as I had planned. I had not seen them for some time and we thus decided to have dinner together at an arranged venue.
I had everything planned out beforehand. I would rush off after I was done with school for the day and take a bus a few stops down to a food court where I would be getting dinner for the guys. Unfortunately, some unexpected issues cropped up. Firstly, my hand phone started running low on battery towards the end of lecture. Knowing that I still needed to use my phone to contact my friends later in the evening, I tried to find some way to charge my phone a little hoping that whatever little battery my phone had would be enough to last for me to pick up dinner and to make the delivery. Moreover, the PAL session ended off half an hour later than it was supposed to, which I didn't plan for. Thus, I was really rushing after class finally ended.
For one, I didn't want to arrive at my destination too late cuz obviously it wouldn't be very nice to delay their dinner. Also, there was the problem of my almost "dead" phone and I still had not taken their orders for dinner. On top of that I still needed to make a trip to the bank!
Well, all my effort didn't go to waste though. I managed to get to the hawker centre just after 1830 with around 15% of my phone battery left. I made the call quickly and got their orders. There was even a request to pick up one of the guys' dinner as his mum works there so his dinner was somewhat already prepared. By the time the call ended, I had orders for two packets of fried carrot cake with lots of chilli, one bowl of fishball soup noodles, two packets of western chicken cutlet rice and to pick up the bowl of "bak ku teh" from my friend's mum's shop.
Haha... I am sure I had never taken so many food orders all at once before! From finding the correct food stalls to get the food from, to remembering what to order, to finally collecting all the food and making sure I got everything, it sure was loads of fun hahaha!!
I made the "bak ku teh" my last stop as I intended to just pick it up and leave. However, I certainly needed another three arms to carry all that food as well as my belongings. Thus, I stopped by my friend's mum's char kuey teow stall and place all my stuff on the benches to rearrange the items so that I could carry them better. Thankfully, my friend's mum saw that and offered me two much larger plastic bags so that I could place every thing in and carry them with my two hands. I also got myself some dinner too which was char kuey teow of course! Much to my surprise, my friend's mum fried a really huge packet of char kuey teow and refused to accept my money, saying that it was for me to share with the other guys. Wow... thanks! Hahaha...
After thanking her profusely for all her help, I left, my arms laden down with the food. After meeting up with the guys, we had dinner together and talked. It was only 1945 then! Efficiency much... hahaha! We had lots to talk about and I was too excited to sit down while eating... They saw that and commented that I was the same as before, always standing up when eating. Hahaha, such memories.
After hanging around for about half an hour, I then got up to leave. We were definitely going to meet up again soon.
The story doesn't end here though. It was only when I got all the way home and sat down to do some studying that I realised, much to my horror, that my whole folder was not with me!! Yes, I left it at the hawker centre! I had been so focused on getting the food and feeling so ecstatic about meeting my friends that I had totally forgotten that I was supposed to be carrying my folder. While the shock of my blunder and loss was still coursing through me, I had a brainwave! I quickly sent a few messages to my friend and got his mum to hold on to my file for me. That set my mind at ease. I would go over to pick it up tomorrow. It was a lost and found after all.
I am so shagged and tired right now. It sure had been a really long day.
Nights!
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