today's kinda a really unfriendly day. or so it seems that everyone's so edgy today. i witness something really disconsolate and sad(i lack a better word)on the bus after service to serangoon. okay basically the bus was rather packed and crowded so most people had to like squeeze and weave in and out to get to the doors and seats.

so basically there was this lady who alighted from her seat next to the window, leaving this girl of around tertiary age siting on the 2-seater seat alone on the outer side. of course now the seat beside her was empty. well yeah i suppose she should have moved in so that people could take the outer seat in the name of convenience. but of course she didnt and she continued using her phone oblivious to the packed bus.

then here comes this 60+ chinese man with his grand-daughter(probably like primary 2?) who looked really pissed as he approached the empty seat. so he gestured that he wanted to sit down so the girl shifts in so he could conveniently have the outer seat. and guess what? he starts his onslaught of profanities directed at the girl. first of all he starts by going like, "why, young people these days, are bloody selfish. one person takes two seats, when everyone else has to squeeze on the bus." of course he says it loud enough to embarrass the girl.

fine well maybe he's old and weathered the storms. maybe he had a bad day and the heat of the day made him really agitated. no excuse for he did after though. THEN, he goes on and calls her a "bitch", "bastard", "hooligan", "idiot" and other really offensive words, structuring his sentences like "only a _____ would take up two seats when the bus is so crowded!" all this time the girl beside him kept mum and carried on using her phone, probably overwhelmed by guilt and embarrassment, or perhaps out of respect for the elderly man. and she started crying after sometime but the man just kept going on and on.

you know what really pains me? was how he used his grand-daughter as an excuse for his baggage of insults. cause all these while he wasnt scolding the girl directly, but passing those offensive statements hinting at the girl in a pretense of a conversation or "big wise granddad advice" his grand-daughter. he was telling his lower pri kid stuff like, "you know what a bastard is!? its someone who hogs two seats in a crowded bus! that's a bastard."

i felt terribly sorry for the little girl, who ended up tearing probably in embarrassment of the whole bus looking at them. and he just yaked and yaked and went on and on teaching her what a "bastard" and "bitch" is.

and nicholas who was sitting in a seat infront of the man and girl couldnt take it anymore and turned around and tried to reason with the man. only to cause him to become more agitated (or perhaps happy that actually someone was entertaining his bickering) so he raised his voice and profanities even louder. the two girls were like totally embarrassed at this point in time. and yeah well the old man just couldnt seem to see reason. jiehui then stepped in tried to calm things down, and reasoned with the old man in mandarin, which helped actually. he was saying like how he doesnt have to raise his voice and in doing so scare his grand-daughter and stuff.

basically it ended with the girl alighting, closing the floodgates of nonsense. ah seriously, why do these old folks have to create such a fuss. i mean sure you wanna make a point but cant you do it with some respect for others and yourself, and not go ahead and degrade someone and hurt your own grandkid just out of selfish pride and arrogance.

right i shouldnt go on this is really frustrating.





yeah anyway i finally played soccer with my sec sch friends, people whom i used to hang around with every single day in sch. it was like a bunch of random people bonded together by the same love for soccer. FINALLY got to play together again after like 4 over years?? had a good time catching up about the silly things we did and talking about our team. who used to play at which position and what he was doing on in his life.


okay i realised we dont even have a proper picture, this old one would be the closest to it.

haha but those jokers almost got into a fight with some vietnamese people. some things just never seem to change.. and i met this guy who looked really familiar. some random guy who's been playing soccer at the court EVERY NIGHT since our lower sec days. haha that's like some 6-7 yrs. yeah and he too almost fought with one of the vietnamese men.

ahh right. quite an unpleasant day but i thought service was rather refreshing. worship was good, not so much in terms of music but more in terms of spirit.

God, come heal a world so broken.