YFriday, January 26, 2007
turning tables
thursday was crazy. i spent more 14 hours in my 3 inch heels AND, i actually ran in them. it was a crazy day for me, with things like the last minute printing and binding of our presentation materials, jiahui and i were late for the presentation so we ran a bit in our heels...
lucky for us, our presentation was a success. (: after school, i accompanied leong to meet a friend whom he hasnt seen for a long time before we went to fel's party. leong's "friend", ivan was kinda mean. unfortunately for us, we realised a bit too late that he had hidden agenda's for meeting leong.
basically, ivan was looking for partners to invest in some IT venture that he's doing for a school project. that, we only found out when we were just about a street junction away from his office. speaking of his friend's office, it really sucked because the office was shared with another company that sold really cheapskate looking lingerie that even my grandma wouldnt take a look at. seriously, who wears girdles these days?!
anyways, leong and i beared with him out of courtesy (though i felt that he definitely didnt deserve any!). we were led on a tour round the very unimpressive office. it bored the hell out of me. finally, he led us to a table and told us to take a seat while he gets a senior to talk to us.
aha - here comes the weird part. we didnt have freedom of choice when it came to the chairs we wanted to sit on. the seating arrangement ivan had in mind for us was to "corner us"... where he and his senior will be sitting at either sides of us. i scanned the room and saw this sitting pattern prevalent. at every other table, i see two peeps dressed in formal wear "cornering" their"victim". while ivan left us to find his senior, leong read my mind too.
so guess what? we made a dash for it... out of the office. the office is on the ground floor but leong didnt lead me out of the building, instead.. we found ourselves running towards a stair well near the fireman's lift. we ran up to the 2nd floor, to find the door locked. desperate, we ran up another level to the 3rd, and found ourselves near the car park.
there was a toilet there so we ran in, locked the main door. thank god for leong there wasnt anyone inside because the toilet we ran into was the ladies! gosh. we stayed there for a good 10 minutes, while catching our breaths and laughing at what a ridiculous thing we had done. what a retarded mini "adventure".
the stupidest thing was that he just "happened" to know where to find the stairs. he said he had no freaking idea where he was leading me to, and he had no idea what building it was.
but all he knew was that getting out of the building through the main exit was a definite no-no cos it'll be easy for ivan to find us. which is true i guess... the streets outside were definitely not crowded so it would have beenn easy to spot us. that's something i wouldnt have thought of... *shrugs*
and i never thought we'd do such extreme measures to get away from a pushy "salesman". yup... it was totally crazy, dont you think so, leong?! anyways, my heart was beating at a crazy rate. the adrenaline rush died down and that was when i started to feel the cramp in my legs (it's due to my heels i guess... and the running up 3 flights of stairs in them).
but it was pretty fun (and funny). leong diverted the calls on his phone. then we saw the smses coming in, asking about where we were and what's wrong and were we in a rush. stupid questions, really. i mean, if you havent seen someone for years but you want them to invest in your school project venture, you gotta build some rapport over time first - instead of tricking them and saying that you want to meet them cos you havent seen them for so long. it's disgusting.
but it's still funny. ivan may have thought that he could control the rules of the game by fooling leong.. maybe ivan was even glad that leong had brought me along. more people equals more capital for him? afterall the two of us had blindly followed him to his lion's den.
but the tables on him at the last minute. even we were surprised at what we did. (:
after changing my plaster and freshening up and we guessed that the coast was clear. we got out of the toilet and made our way out of the building via the carpark. lucky my "tour guide" was familiar with shenton.
we boarded some bus to harbourfront before taking the north east line to clarke quay, and had... proper fun with fel and the rest at brewerkz. by the time we actually got there, i was totally exhausted (i had afterall slept at 3plus in the morning!). *sheepish look* paisei!
anyways, looking at the whole ivan thing in retrospection, it sorta freaks me out.. i mean, what if 10 years down the road i get a call from some friend i havent seen in a long time, and he/she is as sneaky as ivan? i dont think i'd wanna do the whole running up the staircase and hiding in the toilet thing again... lol.
ive made a random list of things to learn after i graduate: nanchaku, coil spinning, cooking, yoga.. alrite i see i know you are thinking "no... not again". yes, i always get weird ideas when the exams are nearing.
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