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Tuesday, October 21, 2008

Just Singing In The Rain

... Well, no, the title of this entry is deceiving. I do not have the talent (much to my everlasting shame) for singing, and even in the legendary K-Boxes I'm usually the emo kid squatting in some shadowy corner sipping on a beer and refusing to sing. So... singing in the rain is clearly out of the question for a person such as myself, for various reasons:

1. I can't sing.

2. Singing in the rain means getting rainwater in my mouth, which isn't very... pleasant. (singing in the shower, however, is different. The shower is a godsend to people like myself, who can't sing worth a crap, but want to try it without killing people within a 20 meter radius)

3. I can't sing.

4. As mentioned in point no. 2, if I sang in the rain, it means singing in a public area, and that equates to me becoming a mass murderer. I can see the headlines now... "A New Way To Kill?! Young Man Massacres People With Horribad Singing!"

5. I CAN'T SING.

... I digress. You're probably wondering by now, just what the heck I was doing wandering around in the rain in the first place.

And that, my son (and no, I do not have any illegal sons that I do not know of), is a most excellente (with an extra 'e'!) question!

You see, I was supposed to head down to my friend's residence for a rehearsal for our Theatre Studies module. And it just so happens that the one bus that goes there only arrives once every 30 (BLOODY THIRTY) minutes. And just as I was stepping out of my home, casually whistling a happy tune, I saw the bus thunder past.

I think I stared stupidly at the bus stop for a good minute there. There's a schedule at every stop the bus goes to that says what time the bus usually arrives. And everyday, for like the past damned 3 years I have been taking that bus, it arrives within 5 minutes of the stipulated (amagadz, big word) timing.

Wouldn't you know today would be a first time it arrived 10 minutes earlier?

Awesome.

And so, thinking to myself, "Hey! The walk can't possibly be that long, I mean, it only takes like 7 minutes by bus and 3 minutes by car if I speed like a demon, which I always do!"

And now, I'd just like to say to everyone out there who might possibly have had a similarly misleading thought such as this one.

THE THOUGHT IS A LIE.

Alvin's Theory of WTF-is-this-stupidly-long-walk:

Time taken to traverse a distance on foot = Time taken to traverse said distance by car x 10

Time taken to traverse a distance on foot = Time taken to traverse said distance by bus x 4~5

And so, what I assumed would be a short and relatively quick walk turned out to take all of 30 minutes. And to make matters worse, it started raining 10 minutes into the walk.

By the end of the walk, my feet were aching from having to clench my toes to hang onto my wet slippers, which, true to their name, kept trying to slip out from under me. Stupid slippers. More awesome, some random guy driving past blew his horn, and I could have sworn he was laughing at me from within the comforts of his car.

If only I were Ryu or Goku, I would have sent a Hadouken or Kamehameha of FIERY DEATH his way.

But on the bright side, I made a new friend!

You see, as unbelievable as it seems, while merrily (no, not really) heading on my way, I saw someone coming in the opposite direction, in the exact same situation that I was in.

Awkward Oh-Hell-You-Too? smile.

"Hey, great weather, isn't it?"

"Yeah!"

Borderline hysterical What-The-Hell-We-Must-Be-Crazy-Or-Something laughter.

And this just goes to show, that there is a silver lining in every cloud. Even if the cloud is pouring a gazillion gallons of acidic rainwater on your head.

Sidenote: I really need to change my habit of being late all the time.