The Bald Children

There were two of them - lying side by side and very comfortable in the air-conditioned environment. The shaven heads were the most prominent characteristic and I must say it made them look a bit like monks. The doctor was attending to them. He was teaching a group of medical students. The parents of the fatter child stood by and listened intently on every word of the doctor. The doctor was confident. They were hopeful their son will recover from the terrible tumour sticking to the bone of the leg.

The other child was also bald - a malay boy. He skinny in comparison but was nonetheless rather cheerful. He stared at the commotion caused by the teaching group and was making faces at the fatter boy. The fatter boy being of a polite and playful nature responded with a more elaborate face. They were both oblivious to the seriousness of their condition. Both were stricken with the most spine-tingling disease ever known to mankind - a disease that wrecks havoc around the tissues and your body can't do no nothing about it because it cannot kill cells that belong to themselves. Cancer is the worse thing that can happen to a person.

The Third Date Phenomenon

None of my past dates made it past the third date. And I must clarify I haven't had many dates before. Probably, a number that could be counted with less than all my fingers. To some, having one woman to go out with in your lifetime is an achievement already; to others, I have failed terribly.

What I am exceptionally curious about is what people have told me about dating. They say that if you manage to go out with the same girl for more than 3 dates, that girl almost undoubtedly has good feelings for you. How true that speculation is remains to be seen. Because up till now, I have still not experienced this yet.

Why would a girl ever want to go out with one guy more than once if she didn't like him at all? So why can't this magic number be cut down to 2? or even 1? Lets figure this out in a mathematical way.

Scenario 1:
Girl goes out with guy. Girl hates guy. But guy loves girl. So guy keeps calling girl to go out. Again and again. Girl bans guy from her network. End of story.

Scenario 2:
Girl goes out with guy. Girl hates guy. But guy loves girl. So guy thinks of some strange excuse to get girl out."Hey, I have got your favourite stamp collection. You wanna have a look?"Girl goes out with guy to see stamp collection. Girl loves stamp collection. But guy is too disgusting and anymore of him will cause irreversible damage to the vomiting mechanism. Girl bans guy from her network. End of story.

Scenario 3:
Girl goes out with guy. Girl hates guy. But guy loves girl. So guy thinks of some strange excuse to get girl out."Hey, I have got your favourite stamp collection. You wanna have a look?"Girl goes out with guy to see stamp collection. Girl loves stamp collection. Guy had an extreme make-over and this makes girl twinkle her eyes a little. "Maybe he is worth a million dollars". Girl goes out with guy one more time. But guy's furry wolf tail hangs out of his pants. Yucks. Enough of this disgusting guy. Girl bans guy from her network. End of story.

Can there be one more scenario? Possibly one more.

Scenario 4:
Girl goes out with guy. Girl hates guy. But guy loves girl. So guy keeps calling girl to go out. Girl wants a free lunch, movie, etc. Goes out one more time. Guy calls girl out for a third time. Girl wants free lunch, movie, etc. Goes out one more time. Guy realises it is all one way - NO, wait - this can actually go on indefinitely! Guy might never realise it is all one way and continues to ask girl out!

Quote from nowhere: "A blade of grass look so tempting to a herding cow. Two blades of grass look even more tempting. How about three? four? or even five? The cow will just eat them. So long as they are free."

The Whimsical Confusion

Yesterday, some guy beat me to asking JS out, and this left me fuming a little. Despite being of Kahn descent, I was rather discouraged by such betrayal on the part of JS. Didn't I tell her I will be spending time with her this weekend? Couldn't she have waited till I got out of the bathroom to let her know of the arrangements?

What can I do? So my Saturday was spent rather idly, lazing at first in school and then coming home to take a long nap before I embarked on a table-hunting session down town.

Remember PC? I wrote about her in my last entry. Yeah - she presented the bait to me at last on Thursday evening - even professing to have developed a liking for me (I was shocked at the alignment of my stars). I was to call her in the evening after I got back from down town.

So when I got home at 10pm, I slided into my black chair and went online to chat with PC, at which time I had half forgotten about my dealings with JS. Then, the moment of folly came to haunt me.

My phone rang, and I picked up thinking that it was PC who called. And as always, reception of signals for my mobile phone was poor at home.

"Wow, it is noisy at your place man!" I told PC, " I will call you back, reception is poor at my place."

So I put down the phone and went out to make a call to PC. To my surprise, another girl with a different voice answered. The background was as silent as dead rat. I still didn't get the hint.

"Hey, so you called me just now?"

"Yeah, earlier in the evening"

I startled. Shucks, it was actually JS who called me just now!

JS was strange. She called me to tell me of her date with a person who she did not like but with whom she was indebted to for having done her a few favours. What was HER motive? This act of confidement could stem from a few possibilities. One, she treats me like a close friend and wants to share things with me. Second, she is trying to tell me there are many guys out there asking her out - and yeah toad - please stop thinking of eating swan's flesh. Third, all her other friends are knocked dead or occupied and I am her last resort of relieving her boredom. Fourth, she regrets agreeing to the foriegn date and wants to keep me interested in her by giving me a call.

Somehow, I feel manipulated by JS and I am jealous! Yet, I think I do like her because she really makes my day everytime. But could the chemistry be one-way?

And, becasue of this confusion, I accidentally called PC, and made her fall in love with me more.

Why am I handling 2 girls at one go? I am really inexperienced, and I feel I might get hurt at this rate. What if everything gets out of hand? Who can advise me on this? Who who? I shall give him/her a Carlsberg.