is there someone playing a trick on me?

after tonight, there's no need to see the newsletter till it comes for distribution! and it's finally time for the team to rest before we start working on the next issue. :)

so, Chairman Xiao Pei aka Grace( who's in charge of design) insisted i was to leave early this evening. after passing by the Holland V. and Orchard area, jaime and i ended up deciding on going to suntec for dinner.

merrily walking around the basement level of suntec that houses all the f & b joints- which by the way is quite a significant number. we decided to head to kenny rogers since it was the one most within our budgets and with relatively large servings that would keep him happy.

so we took a shortcut, weaving through the mess of dinner crowd at the foodcourt.

and guess who we had to bump into? SY, on her first day back in singapore for the holidays. she was staring at us in bewilderment. so, she and i exchanged a few niceties( i've known her since she was in primary school i think). then jaime and i left.

i was pretty happy to see SY after such a long time. she hardly changed. looked pretty the same, just a little less tanned. possibly because both of us quit the sport awhile back...

until suddenly, in the middle of dinner i realized that her boyfriend's dad is my dad's buddy. and if she breathed anything about the meeting to him ( the boyfriend) i could be in for serious questioning soon.

and if the questioning sessions begins, i'll have to bid farewell to my private private life. because really, adults- most of them anyway- will never, ever leave any ground uncovered when it comes to prodding into kids's lives.

for the rest of the night, i walked and took occasional glances over my shoulder in hope that bad luck would not strike twice at suntec. ( what if it was HB? omg. the entire tp04 would know within the next two hours! what if it was... )

this may be paranoia on my part, but there's something to be gained out of it.

so, what's the lesson learnt today? when going out to dinner, do not ever go to places where the chances of bumping into people that you know is very high. otherwise you're really setting yourself up for potential trouble.

and when it does happen, people will turn around and tell you right off in your face that "you asked for it."

* disclaimer: the lesson of the day is only applicable to those who wish to keep their private private lives private for as long as they can. *