Yesterday, the COSDU bunch in Singapore played host to two visitors from Malaysia. Michelle and Hobart were in town over the weekend. We planned to meet some time ago, but I couldn’t contact Alison.
I tried calling and SMSing but no response. This was after an initial email.
The strangest thing - the bunch of us bumped into her on our way to lunch. I guess we have our dilly-dallying ways to thank for this chance meeting. Put a few COSDUans together, and we’ll spend ages thinking of where to go, start walking, stop again to continue thinking, start walking… and so forth. If we hadn’t gone through this start-stop habit, we might have missed Alison.
After lunch and dessert, everyone left one by one, leaving Hobart and I to our own devices. Since he hadn’t heard of Botak Jones, I decided that he should try it. After all, the boy can really eat.
We made our way to Botak Jones Toa Payoh. Hobart proceeded to polish off the U-Crazy-What?!, much to my amazement.
Anyway, while we were eating, I spotted my relatives in the queue. Nothing unusual there. I think they end up there on most Sunday evenings. My cousin, an ex-schoolmate of mine from Ngee Ann, was there too.
After dinner, I was going over to say hi to them when I spotted another Ngee Ann (and University of Melbourne) school mate, seated just in front of my relatives. I hadn’t seen Xiuhui since she left for her two-year work-play thing in the UK.
It was a most extraordinary day of bumping into friends.
But it still can’t beat the time I bumped into a bunch of CJC friends in 2001. I was in a train, standing in front of the door. At the next station, the door opened and my friends came in through that door.
Quite run-of-the-mill, you say?
Well, you see, we were in the Metropolitana di Roma, getting around while on holiday, thousands of miles away from home!
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Sounds certainly like case of providence indeed. Hmmmm… what does COSDU mean? Does it have anything to do with COSPLAY? I wonder what costume Kenneth will don if it does though… haha
Hmmm… Catholic clergy do have ‘costumes’ though. And I’ve worn a cassock as an Altar Boy. Does that count?
Funnily enough some friends on Facebook think that I’m most likely to get caught wearing a bunny costume for no apparent reason.
Not good.