Sunday, December 17, 2006
last nite was my last at work. after missing so many weekends of matches of arsenal live games due to work, i decided that i wld not work overtime and rush back home to catch the second half of the game between arsenal and portsmouth. i wasn't prepared for the crazy 45 mins before i got home. anything that could go wrong, delay my trip home, went wrong. well almost.
at first i wanted to take a cab. if for every empty cab that passed w/o having the ON CALL sign i would get $10, i wld probably have become a millionaire overnight. so i decided that cab was not the way to go.
i decided to walk to the bus-stop to catch 124 which wld take me home. as i was crossin the road, i saw it passed. FUCK, i thought. so i thought i wld go buy some Char Kway Teow since i have to wait for the bus. after i paid for my food, i walked towards the bus stop, AND! one more bus passed! like wtf? usually i wait 15 mins before one more comes, but this time, it took 5.
ok, so i felt like shit. but i decided that i should walk leisurely to the bus-stop as no bus will come within a minute of one another. but it did! when i reached the bus stop, i saw one more 124 pullin over. but no one flagged for the bus and the bus stop was crowded. i tried to run for it but was bloody blocked by 2 banglas who did not seem to understand the words Excuse Me.
so i boarded 143 which was right behind as 143 goes the same route as 124 until newton. i was hoping for a miracle that i cld chase a bus on another bus. i almost regretted my choice. the traffic was so slow, i swear that i cld have walked slowly from cine to lido and still be able to catch my bus. so i was constantly stuck behind 124, feelin fucked up. along the way too, ppl boarding the bus just have to be so slow! ppl huggin goodbye their friends before they were willin to board the bus, and fat slow ugly bitches wearing t-shirts that said I LOVE MY BUM. u jus felt like it was one of those days.
fortunately, i finally caught up when my bus driver did an incredible manouver and overtook 124 so i jumped out at that moment and thank god i made it. jus in time for the second half kick off.
ppl might think i'm crazy putting myself through so much anxiety and agony jus to catch my team in action, but nobody knows of the pleasure, those 90 mins of football, brings me every week.
_Buckled and Pimped