Greenspan and Quarterlife Crisis

Read in ST today that Alan Greenspan (who stepped down as US Fed Reserve Chairman) played the saxaphone with Stan Getz in his younger days, but gave it up to study economics at New York University. He picked economics because he developed the philosophy that money is a good thing for people to have (Hey, don't we all think the same? Haha).

Anyway, if anyone was playing beside a future jazz legend, bloody hell, no matter how good one was, relativity would set in, and one would sound bad.

Greenspan's choice made me consider. At that point in his life, if he knew, it would've been a choice between good jazz musician and great economist.

Worse...

I think I am stressed.

I'm impatiently waiting for this NGO chairwoman to arrange a date and time for me to interview her in Batam.

So last night, I dreamt she wanted us to be in Batam at 8.am. And somehow, I forgot to bring the lavalier mic, and only realised it at 6.30am in the morning on the way to Harbourfront Ferry Terminal. No way I could find a lavalier mic anywhere at 6.30am. So I freaked out. And then I woke up. Hahahahaha... ain't that funny? That's like the worst thing that can happen...

I totally adore her.

There is a feisty 4 year old girl, that I unexplainably adore. She only comes to church once in eons, and her mom is from the filipino (Pi-lee-pin, she says it) service.

She came up to me from behind and tugged my skirt. I turned around, and when I saw her smiling so ever sweetly, I just felt so happy. I have no idea why I adore her so much. I hugged her and just looked at her delightfully for a long time.

There's something in us that just clicks. Its one of the unexplainable strange things in life.

My FYP team

From left to right,
Pling, me, pH, Asmi, Ishi and Dei.

I suspect Ishi would want to kill me for posting such an unglam picture of him in his glasses. But I have to say I've been kind by not posting the even more unglam ones. The ladies at the money changer at the Batam Centre ferry terminal recognised him as one of the actors in a channel 8 drama, and this led to a nice video shot we wanted or S$ being changed to rupiah. Lucky =).

Asmi's our nice trustworthy taxi driver. We trust him so much we leave our possessions in the taxi and let him drive off with them while we go for lunch. I wonder what would happen if he drives away with our passports though. Haha. Through him, we got to interview Mami(aka pimp) Lisa. I can't wait for the interview to be transcribed!!

Both Pling and pH are wearing the 'f*** you' caps. They bought it at the roadside stalls in Batam. Pling bought the cap first, and persuaded pH to get it too. What a cap to buy when we are doing a video documentary like ours.

Dei, as you should know by now, is our translator. This trip, pH and Ishi told us a mami hit on him. Hahaha. Not a bad thing if a girl doesn't mind supporting you rite? Dei told me Asmi brought them to every ktv and brothel he knew, and had to call his other friends to ask if they knew of any other entertainment nightspots. By now, I think the guys are experts about the night entertainment scene in Batam. And I kinda wish I had the opportunity to see it all too, but too bad I am a girl.

Lollipop Diaster

A picture Asmi, our Batam taxi driver took of me and this little girl at the junction to Barelang Bridge. The place we call 'perfect competition' because EVERY shop sells the same thing.

The little girl was holding two lollipops, one in each hand. One of her lollipops got caught in my hair when the picture was being taken. At the point when the shot was taken, we had no idea of the upcoming diaster.

Click. Then, the girl found out. She panicked. She tugged hard. She got her lollipop back, and I feel kinda bad because I know she would just continue eating it.