of accidents

imagine getting your finger caught by the car boot, leaving you helpless and screaming for help because you cannot move. imagine no one comes to help you soon enough, because your car is parked in too secluded a lane.

this poor lady was in that exact circumstance, only her screams were heard by zm,ys and i as we strolled back to office from SMU admin bldg during lunch today. i've never seen such a horrific 'freak accident' in my life. her whole finger nail was black, as with the rest of the little finger. and she continued howling in pain for the next minute after zm and ys went to the front of her car to open the boot.

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tuition was cancelled today (yay!) so i went shopping by myself for a short while. (i so wanted to buy that giraffe earrings, argh. i tried to go hunting for giraffe earrings after that, haha.) ok but thats not the story.

decided to buy dinner and walk home- something crazy i do once in a while when 1) i think i have a lot of time, 2) think i can get home faster than the bus can bring me (tho it comes once every 5 mins), 3)i try to psycho myself into thinking that i'm exercising or 4)i refuse to spent that 65cents. haha. my favourite times for doing that is after trng, which makes me even weirder, as if the long painful walk from bishan park to the mrt station under the scorching noonday sun that further exerts the exhausted muscles arent enough.

whatever.

so i decide to walk home today. alas! there was another accident at the junction, this time involving a van and a car. there was an ambulance, but no injured pple around. 2vehicles in the middle of the road (it was a major cross junction, mind you). no police car in sight. 300 had to go straight into the interchange, but got stuck at the traffic light. i overheard some uncles talking about the accident while waiting for the pedestrain light to turn green. as i walked towards the bus, i saw the bus driver's glum face and i was quite happy and amused. haha. cos he's the dude who always drives at 5km/h. and it really gets on my nerves when im in a rush (i.e. all the time). but it wasnt so funny anymore when i walked down a bit more, and another 300 approached the junction and got stuck too. and then another 300 a while later. i thought the police force is supposed to be very efficient? and why cant the accident vehicles just move themselves away since the accident wasnt that serious anyway?!

walking home also reminds me of the time in sec 2 when jan lim made sprint with her all the way back to school from far east to retrieve the cassette recorder (which we lost anyway) just 'cause the bus wasnt fast enough. but we did beat the bus in getting there. haha. as if that wasnt enough, she made us sprint back to far east again cos we 'might as well'. heh. i think we made it back to far east in record time man. in pinafore and tie and all. (or maybe it was day 8 culottes day). ahh, the good of pbl days. haha. i should go find a picture of how silly we looked in lower sec. haha, one of the pictures we took in the library where no one read any book, and which was noisier than a fish market during prep time. i love rgs. haha. made me tha slacker i now am.

ok that was quite random. but things like that break the monotone of work-home-being tired-work-etc.