This Routine Truly Isn’t Exactly Normal

Things like this don’t happen everyday.

I went out on a routine Saturday night, chilling out at Mojo with some friends over wine and local music. Friend of mine brought along a pretty hot chick, someone I’ve never met before (or so I thought). Tasteful clothes, great waist-length hair, clearly a fashionista.
My friend left for a while, so he asked me to entertain his female companion in his abscence. I helped him out, but I got frustrated after 5 minutes because I felt she was being too stand-offish and mysterious.
Kenny: “So where were you at before you decided to come home to Kuching?”
Girl: “I was… somewhere.”
Kenny: “Where?”
Girl:Somewhere lah!”

Speaking of which, one of my pet peeves when striking up a conversation with someone new is when the other person deliberately avoids answering even the most rudimentary questions about themselves. It makes me feel like a terrorist.
Doesn’t matter. I bid farewell to my friends when the night drew to a close and gave no further thoughts to the events going on that night.
That is, until my friend sent me an SMS the next day asking me to call him back urgently.

It’s so urgent he even wrote “back” wrongly. I wondered why he wanted me to call him black when he’s clearly Chinese.
I rushed out to meet him, thinking someone’s probably critically injured or something bad happened. Then I found him sitting idly by at the coffeeshop having his lunch. I asked him what’s so urgent, and he told me to wait.
A few minutes later, someone joined us at the table – it’s the hot chick from last night. She had called up my friend early in the morning, telling him there’s something important that she wanted to tell me personally.

“Do you still remember me?” she asked me in Mandarin. Strange, because last night I was speaking to her in English.
I looked at her once. I looked at her twice. “Last night was the first time I met you,” I said.
Cold sweat started forming on my forehead. A million wild thoughts going through my head.
Who is this girl? Why does she sound like she knows me? Have I met her before? Did I owe her money? *gasp* Did I once make her pregnant?

She gave me a resigned smile and told me her Chinese name. It rang a bell in my head. A school bell.
“We were classmates from Primary School, remember?”
Really? But she looks so… different now. I didn’t have much memory of her because we weren’t close in school and I left shortly after completing Primary 5. I didn’t even ask her to leave a message in my cute Little Bob Dog autograph book! Come to think of it, I don’t even keep in touch with much of my primary or secondary school mates now. Most of them probably don’t even know about the existence of this blog.
Then she added, “you once gave me a farewell card. After that, you just left and I never saw you again. I suddenly remembered who you are from last night because your voice sounded very familiar.”

This is awkward. Here’s a hot-ass fine-looking lass chatting with me happily about things from 13 YEARS AGO, and there I was staring at her blankly without the faintest recollection about her. WHAT IS WRONG WITH ME?!
Sien. I’m just gonna end this blog entry abruptly. I’m still reeling from the shock ok? Can’t be bothered ending it with a funny one-liner.
I think I shall go bang my head against the wall right now. Bye!


Music of the Moment: An acoustic piece titled “The Drifters” by Kuching’s very own Owen Nicholas.

114 Replies to “This Routine Truly Isn’t Exactly Normal”

  1. waraoooooo….
    THIRTEEN YEARS and u expect her to look the same??????
    this is why u cant score with chicks, man. go wank and sleep early.
    p/s: i think u used to have a crush on her lar. then why u give her a farewell card and not the others when u left school?? 😛

  2. Hey Kenny,
    Some girls really sooooooooooooo mysterious…..
    They keep avoiding your question, even the question so “common”… SO ANNOYING ABOUT GIRL LIKE THIS..

  3. Kenny, you don’t remember a thing? I think no point banging your head against the wall lah… Why don’t you just look deep into her eyes and kiss her? I’m sure that will revive some old memories of your first crush :P:P

  4. it’s a pity that you don’t keep in touch with your primary and secondary school friends, which i don’t as well, oh well, it’s hard to avoid isn’t it
    you made a mistake, “Do I still remember me?” lol of course she remembers herself right

  5. Kenny,
    Can’t you just go with the flow and PRETEND to know who she was…? You might even just get lucky? mebbe? heh…
    She’s hot after all…and she wants YOU to remember who she was…
    :o)
    Hottie in the building!

  6. haha dont worry man i dont think i would ve remembered a girl 13 years ago too @_@ in fact i dont think i would remember a girls i meet 13 days ago too… !! N crap i think im addicted to your blog liau… You bastard…

  7. For a moment there, I thought the one-liner might turn up like:
    “She formally introduce herself as a he as my former schoolmate. No wonder I can’t remember her or him.”

  8. HAHAHAHAHAHHAHA so funny.
    guess thats y she was being so mysterious eh? very pretty girl, quite rare in kuching (ahhh, no offense…) to see someone so nicely dressed.
    call me black…. hahahaha

  9. hehe,…a lot of suggestions here about crushes etc… Mind me asking, are you still in a relationship with your girlfriend?
    😀 Heh. Cool can meet up with an old friend. But i don’t get the Urgent part. haha. So what did you do there? haha

  10. ho kwa, moh chiak leh. good as trophy wife only. annoying when girls pretend to be “mysterious” when in fact, it’s just plain ANNOYING.

  11. “It’s so urgent he even wrote “back” wrongly. I wondered why he wanted me to call him black when he’s clearly Chinese.”
    hahaha.
    she’s probably ure first crush

  12. Your friend sms you to call “black” URGENT and arrange a meet up just to re-unite/refresh memories of you and your primary classmate???
    If my friend did that to me just I’ll “tau-pa-sing” his/her head.

  13. Wah hhaahahaha … naeboo~ you cool !
    kenny sia, you want to show off gah? hot chick know u and u don’t know her .. choiiiiiiiiii ……..!!
    hot chick like this is everywhere liaw larrrr, just get make up and hair do wrap with nice cloth nia.
    Walaaaauuuuu ……..tot anything new , yawn~

  14. Well, she wasn’t exactly helping things by acting all aloof and stand-offish, was she?
    Did you guys have a better conversation flow on your second meeting?

  15. Hey Kenny! 1st time commentin on yo blog! Great Stuff! Cracks me up! Proud ur a fellow kuching-nite…is tht wat we call ppl fr kuching??! aiya..”kakilang” u understand -la.
    In rgds2the sheila…mayb u went to school with ‘Jessie Chung’?? ;op

  16. Man… a girl like that you cannot remember ?? No wonder you only want 1 girl in your life… How can you forget a babe like that.
    I only wish girls would call me up like that.
    You really da man…

  17. Who the hell remembers classmates from that long ago? The interesting question is not about the past but why the hell she would create such a fuzz out of this small thing, calling her friend in the morning. She is totally ready for you dude, make your move…

  18. simplelah….she likes you and her engrrish…not so good. When you spoke to her that night, she didn’t know how to communicate in English. and, she must have asked your friends who this prick is..yes, you! So, when she knew you are a famous blogger and she must have read your blog that night (provided she can read in Engrrish…), she likes you more lah….so what the fuck are you waiting for? you want the fish to jump into your basket? Go fishing!

  19. simplelah….she likes you and her engrrish…not so good. When you spoke to her that night, she didn’t know how to communicate in English. and, she must have asked your friends who this prick is..yes, you! So, when she knew you are a famous blogger and she must have read your blog that night (provided she can read in Engrrish…), she likes you more lah….so what the fuck are you waiting for? you want the fish to jump into your basket? Go fishing!

  20. hey your – “I wondered why he wanted me to call him black when he’s clearly Chinese.”
    quite racist lah. offended lah.

  21. good to have a pretty ex-classmate
    i also forget some classmate,but they can regconise me when i was back and walk along the road
    maybe you really dont change in 13 years

  22. You never finished your story. She called you out JUST TO LET YOU KNOW THAT SHE WAS IN THE SAME CLASS AS YOU? Man, I would be so PO – something which can be communicated over the sms!

  23. Did any of u notice the “uncle” wit the grey shirt (in the photo taken at the coffee shop)??? Look at his head in both photo.. did he ever change his pose?? LOLZ!!! Peace man~

  24. I think you’re smittened by her… never seen you with ‘not so hot’ chicks, nor any photos of them.. would you feel the same way then?

  25. That “call me black URGENT” line is a definite classic. I think it was ver rude for your companion of yours to answer your questions in such a manner.
    She seems very “ah lian” to me. Tom-boyish even

  26. I think she maybe wanna ask you to join Lamp Berger, or AMway or some direct sales.
    That’s how my old school friend call me up for and belanja me.

  27. wow..
    i recently found a guy whom i had been looking for the past 7 years.
    he has not replied..
    i wondered if he has forgotten me like how u did to that girl.
    just wondering, can’t really remeber at all? at least it would explain why he has not reply =(

  28. All girls are HOT to you..and i cant blame her for being very secretive with a person who documented every single moment in his life..and in every story, the same good looking HERO–Kenny Sia.

  29. haha… pity you for not remembering who she was… but it’s cool that she made the move to remind you who she was and probably she has something in mind. revive the old days when you two use to be classmates or something more than that.
    in a way, maybe this is your chance to get to know her more since you didn’t 13 years ago…

  30. kenny, who is that girl actually. me and david was wondering for so long.. is she zhong ling ling? luo shan shan? li ting ting? chai si ling? zhu hui xuan? peng yin ying? zhang ke xin? chai pei pei?

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