the best friends for life

my "blind date"

i've realized i'm constantly behind time. it's clearly reflected in the way i blog. cos last week, i was writing bout the week before last and supposedly that current week, but nv finished it. and now i'm goin to have to finish it up and therefore write about last week this week. sigh, an accurate picture of how my work and revision schedule was like while studying..

to summarise (i intend to rectify this problem), last week was indeed a boring week. went for driving and rushed out my nus sch essay on monday. had the most horrendous task of cutting down words, only to find out later that their character count included spacing. so i had to cut summore, resulting in my sprint down to the post box at 4.45pm. can imagine how frustrated i was when i found out the deadline was extended. on the brighter side, at least that's one thing done. spent the next couple of days at the clinic. didn't intend to go down, but i just got too bored at home..hmm.. mayb i am a workaholic after all. but it wasn't a bad choice after all, cos i saw a few interesting operations. went for a swim with cg on wed at toapayoh. had quite a gd swim, tho the pool was a little to crowded for my liking, must have been the sch hols. was supposed to job shadow an engineer around on thurs and fri, but when i called to confirm on wed, he said next week was better. (i tend to get this feeling he was rather reluctant cos he kept postponing it and nv gave any concrete answers) so we fixed it for next monday 10 am at coronation, but i was supposed to call that morning to confirm. ( a little too last minute and impromptu for my liking, but mayb i'll learn to be more adaptable too then)

so on sunday night, i msged him to confirm, but didn't get a reply. then on monday morn, i called him at 9am, and he said he'll pick me up from coronation at 11.30. i must say (with a hint of pride (: ) that i made it in time despite leaving the house late and thinking i'll be late. so i sat at the parapet-like ledge near the pick up point, staring at each car's no. plate to see if it was the correct one.. 15 min passed, and he hadn't come. so i got bored and started reading my adelaide book. another 15 min passed, and by now the ntuc auntie who helps pass parcels to cars driving by must have thot i was plain odd, waiting for apparently nobody. but i decided to ignore her and continue reading. and then another 15 min passed, and i got tired of waiting. it had already been a test of patience thus far. so i called him up and asked what time he wld be coming by. and he said he was in the middle of a meeting and will come in bout 45 min time!! (oh great, you cld have told me that right..) so i marched off for lunch, during which time passed much more quickly. and at 1pm, i returned to my little spot by the pick up point. i'm sure the ntuc auntie had no doubt i was an abandoned kid who was such a nerd reading away to even realize i had been abandoned or something. and i waited, and waited. and i decided 1.30 was my cut-off time. i'll go to town and shop or something, it seemed a much more worthwhile way to spend my time.. well, turned out that he called at 1.20 asking if i was still around, and if so, he'd come by in 10 min time. u see how justified my perception of his reluctance was. ( and u prob see my negativity about this whole affair too(: ) i started thinking that a blind date, in whatever aspect, is bound to end up a failure. u see, it requires 100% trust, since the other party is so anonymous he's got no liability to you at all. he's got no reputation to tarnish, no face to lose, no explanation needed. but i guess that's when ive got to be a bit more optimistic and believe that everyone is generally kind and has some sort of responsibility to pple around..
so he did come eventually. and after he asked a few questions that more or less made up my self-intro, i found out he was one of my lower sec classmate's dad. which made me almost instantly forgive him. it's strange how the human mind works, or mayb just mine. in my mind, i had already passed so many harsh judgments on this stranger simply because i didn't know him and didn't believe in him after all that nonsense. but once i realized that he was related to someone i knew, i immediately softened up and decided he somehow deserved my respect, just becos of that. it's mind blogging. like suddenly i can think of it as, mayb he is just really busy. (even tho he shld still have called if he was gonna be late! (i'm hopeless))..
so anyway, he brought me to see a construction site and a bridge. he's a structural engineer, which is a subset of civil engineering i think. anyway, it wasn't v inspiring. i tried not to have the word 'bored' written on my face, so i felt extremely paiseh when he asked me 'are you bored yet', while watching construction workers carry some huge metal scaffolds at the bridge. he then brought me to the office. engineers who don't go down to the worksite basically spend their whole day in front of the computers using softwares to draw staircases and measure angles and stuff like that. the most exciting part was to see them use formulas and calculate something or other to see if the structures they had put in on the com were within limits. apart from that, i really cldn't be bothered if that bridge was tilting a fraction of a degree to the side or anything like that. anyway, he stayed in office for bout 10 min before leaving to see the dr, i think he had a cough. so i hung around the office and disturbed a few pple there with my qns, before i really cldn't tahan and excused myself at 4.15, (since he wasnt coming back for the day anyway).
i wonder what i learnt.. i learnt that i don't fancy civil engineering at all, not that i thot i did, but now i know for sure i dont. i only like the math part bout it..haha.. so mayb another branch of engineering wld be gd? but i'll nv know until i try i guess. so it was a useful experience i'd say, mayb i'm a few cm away from square one. but not much closer to being sure of what i want to do..
this has been a long story, but at least im not behind time anymore! and i realized this is becoming my personal blog.. hey pple..blog blog!

posted by the best friends for life.. @ 5:18 PM Comments: 0