There's a first time for everything
This is becoming one of my pet phrases in my blog. Need to come up with something more original or I'll remain outdated.
Today's first isn't really anything special, just that since I like to blog about where I'm blogging, I thought I'd blog about blogging in MacDonald's. Yet another tongue twister to my name.
I can't really say there's any special feeling about blogging in a fastfood restaurant. Afterall, majority of the population with a laptop and a blog has probably done it already. I'm just another one out of the thousands.
Now that I'm looking around, I find that approximately 50% of the occupied tables have at least 1 laptop on it. Wireless@SG is well utilised.
9 o'clock: 3 foreigners (Japs I think) having a chat over a cup of tea.
10 o'clock: An old man sitting by himself with only a cup of water.
12 o'clock: A couple of friends sharing quality time together.
1 o'clock: 4 adolescents studying (but chatting and playing more than anything else).
3 o'clock: A history teacher marking her students' test papers.
The history teacher had a huge stack of papers piled up in front of her. After every 10 papers, she'll pause to take a short break: glance around at the neverending crowd despite the late hours, fiddle with whatever she lays her hands on, and lean over to look at what I'm doing on my laptop.
"What are you doing?" she asks.
"I'm blogging about the pretty lady beside me."
She gave me a I-can't-be-bothered-with-you look and resumed marking her papers. Oh well, some people just can't take the truth.
Suddenly, she bursts into laughter. I turned towards her out of curiousity.
"Look at this", she showed me one of the scripts before her, "I can imagine my student, answering my question verbally in his broken English. It's so funny."
On the paper was written sentences like "The British should have checked whether the Japanese had enough ammunition to attack Singapore". The tone is like that of a child questioning an adult's wisdom. I can imagine.
Gradually, the crowd disperses. It is getting late on a weekday night. Students have classes to attend the next day, and I have to go to work as well. I'll be going off soon - it's midnight already. I didn't know I've spent so much time blogging.
Pretty soon, I'll be blogging in Paris. Flying off on the first of May, and returning on the 3rd of July. Feel that I'm missing a lot already.
Today's first isn't really anything special, just that since I like to blog about where I'm blogging, I thought I'd blog about blogging in MacDonald's. Yet another tongue twister to my name.
I can't really say there's any special feeling about blogging in a fastfood restaurant. Afterall, majority of the population with a laptop and a blog has probably done it already. I'm just another one out of the thousands.
Now that I'm looking around, I find that approximately 50% of the occupied tables have at least 1 laptop on it. Wireless@SG is well utilised.
9 o'clock: 3 foreigners (Japs I think) having a chat over a cup of tea.
10 o'clock: An old man sitting by himself with only a cup of water.
12 o'clock: A couple of friends sharing quality time together.
1 o'clock: 4 adolescents studying (but chatting and playing more than anything else).
3 o'clock: A history teacher marking her students' test papers.
The history teacher had a huge stack of papers piled up in front of her. After every 10 papers, she'll pause to take a short break: glance around at the neverending crowd despite the late hours, fiddle with whatever she lays her hands on, and lean over to look at what I'm doing on my laptop.
"What are you doing?" she asks.
"I'm blogging about the pretty lady beside me."
She gave me a I-can't-be-bothered-with-you look and resumed marking her papers. Oh well, some people just can't take the truth.
Suddenly, she bursts into laughter. I turned towards her out of curiousity.
"Look at this", she showed me one of the scripts before her, "I can imagine my student, answering my question verbally in his broken English. It's so funny."
On the paper was written sentences like "The British should have checked whether the Japanese had enough ammunition to attack Singapore". The tone is like that of a child questioning an adult's wisdom. I can imagine.
Gradually, the crowd disperses. It is getting late on a weekday night. Students have classes to attend the next day, and I have to go to work as well. I'll be going off soon - it's midnight already. I didn't know I've spent so much time blogging.
Pretty soon, I'll be blogging in Paris. Flying off on the first of May, and returning on the 3rd of July. Feel that I'm missing a lot already.
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