Friday, August 15, 2008

Last Saturday evening~~ After spending the day at the SFA gathering..
Went to the famous Chomp chomp hawker centre in Serangoon to have an early dinner with my family, so that we can reach home in time to catch the latter part of the National Day Parade's live telecast in tv.

I ate the fried hokkien prawn noodles, supposedly very popular and it's delicious... Yeah, it better be.. Cos if it doesnt, it wont warrant my half an hour wait for it. Oh and the sugar cane drink there comes in giant glasses. My family got a shock when they delivered one monster sized glass to our table. I merely ordered one (for myself), they didnt ask me anything (like 'upsize' or something) so i presume it's the usual versions i've seen in hawker centres. Hoots, told the woman to change it to a smaller one, but their version of a 'small' glass is still way larger than the ones that we've seen before. First time seeing such huge glasses of sugarcane juice. 大开眼界!
But food isnt the main thing i wanna blog about this time..
It's something that happened after eating.

On our way back from the hawker centre to where we'd parked our car, my family was about to cross the road at a zebra crossing. There's a nice blue Volkswagon Beetle approaching from a distance, but it's not travelling at a high speed, one would presume that the driver will slow and stop at the zebra crossing. BUT WAIT, DON'T EVER MAKE POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS ASSUMPTIONS!!!!!!!
I almost wanted to step out onto the road from the pavement, but i stopped short, cos i saw my dad who happened to be a step ahead of me, raising the long umbrella that he was holding (it'd been raining previously) I thought he was trying to raise the attention of the driver.
And guess what the driver did?

He drove right through the zebra crossing without stopping and the umbrella went 'KONK' as it hit the windscreen. Walau eh!!!!!! As the car drove past, i could see the bewildered expression on the passenger who's seated at the front seat, he seemed totally clueless at what was going on. Instinctively, my left hand (with the middle finger itching) was about to raise up, well.. just give me 0.3 more seconds of reaction time. DAMN IT!
The vehicle slowed to a stop a distance away from the zebra crossing, that was when we finally crossed the road. A man who was jay-walking across the road nearby saw what happened and raised & pointed his umbrella at the driver accusingly and scolded him ---while standing in the middle of the road. It was a real interesting sight, though none of my family members saw that. Later, we happened to walk along the same road as that man, and he said 'i help you scold him already'..'that driver's blind one'... Thanks arh! =p

How i wish the umbrella could smash the windscreen man!
That errant driver deserves a bashing + lashing. I didnt see his damned face, what had he been doing? Talking on the phone? Blasting loud rock music?
Realising his mistake, he didnt dare to step out of the car to demand explanation for the 'umbrella in the windscreen' incident. If he did, he will definitely get a lashing from my dad & of course, me.. i was quite angry over that blind hamster who's behind the wheel. Hello?! It's still bright out there, with my family standing along the roadside, how can it be possible for him not to see us?
Don't know the traffic rules.. at the zebra crossings, pedestrians rule.. Still dare to drive, endanger people's lives sia la!!!

Imagine, the umbrella could've been us..

yunn. at 9:13 PM