Friendly Vietnamese Passenger.

Yesterday after midnight, on my way home, I picked up a young Vietnamese guy near Lakeside MRT station. "Uncle, Queenstown Strathmore please, I just missed the last train" he told me. I said, "You should have checked the time of the last train, its already past midnight now". "I know, but I was with my friend, still chatting and forgot about the time" he answered. "Well, because you were carried away and forgotten time, you will have to pay a taxi fare now and not only that, it means, plus an extra 50%  midnight charge also, hahaha, unlucky for you but good for me". I spoke jokingly and we both laughed.

This young man from Vietnam, speaks good English, had been studying in Singapore for the past three years, just graduated in Marketing and presently working in his first job here for about two to three months already. He simply loves our lifestyle and hopes to live here for good, adding also that he has a Chinese girlfriend from Malaysia who is still studying here. He has begun taking up a course in Mandarin lessons.

We continued chatting and joking happily throughout the whole journey. The trip cost him $15.60, he gave me $16.00 and to keep the change. He was kind, informative and had a very friendly disposition.

Pt.3...... end of a fast and past hectic week-end schedule.......

Sunday 4th Sept.
After having an early night's rest, I managed to get up in time to go to church at 8.30am and when I returned home at 10.30am, I hit the 'sack' again once more and would you believe it, I slept through till 4.30pm. I started my shift at 6.00pm, happily plying my trade and it was like getting back to normal after having been 'jet-lagged' but not for long. My Vietnamese friend had earlier messaged me to say he will be having dinner with his girlfriend's friend and may go for a drink after that. He suggested we meet around 11.30pm and maybe have supper and chit-chat since his flight home is at 7.00am in the morning. We met and I decided to bring them for supper at the popular steam-boat buffet restaurant along Beach Road. We started eating just before 12.30am and were heartily engrossed in food, laughter, chatting away till almost 3.00am. I insisted on fetching them to their hotel, collect their baggage and straight to Terminal One. To tell you the truth, I truly enjoyed every bit of this 'highly' tiring weekend, but honestly, I would have preferred a lesser and not so crammed-up schedule, well, the famous phrase once again "what you want is not what you will get"............

.....busy lah, gotta take short break......

Going to be very busy for the next few days, so I will be taking a short break from today 2/9 till 5/9 to complete my (11) hours compulsory TDVL refresher course and also at the same time to accommodate as well as to entertain a close friend who just arrived from Vietnam yesterday. He is here for a short visit and holiday, and will be leaving on Monday.
Sure to be back to blog soon, so stay tuned.....