my karma.
how exactly do you begin a story? I suppose mine started last night after dinner with the committee, where we had really good food at Sakura before making our way to the train station to head home. it was City Hall, and the time was approximately 9.45pm. the train finally came and three of my friends- Nab, Jinli and Torek- squeezed their way in first, leaving the three of us- Nad, Sal and I- stranded right outside. with Nad leading the way and Sal sort of scampering right behind her and me saying 'Oh shit biggest fear biggest fear,' we somehow managed to run four doors down and find a carriage empty enough for us to rudely and noisily barge into. by this point of time in the story, all of us had made it on the same train.
I don't know what was going on at Camp NabJinliTorek, but on my side of the train we were laughing uncontrollably before realising our friends hadn't called or checked to see if we made in on board. someone (we suspect it was me) then suggested we tell them we were still stuck at City Hall, hoping to at least make them feel slightly guilty. so I SMS-ed Nab. a few minutes later we received a phonecall from them, saying they will wait for us at Lavender while we board the next train from City Hall. at this point in the story, Nab, Jinli and Torek were already at Lavender, while we were making our way to Kallang. so we got off at Kallang and waited for them instead. it was 10p.m.
at around 10.03 p.m their train arrived and I saw Jinli's face plastered on the glass window. shit, she is so funny. so finally all 6 were reunited and we made our way home. or so we thought.
I have no idea what happened between Kallang and Eunos, but somehow from somewhere a beetle/bug (?) made its way into our train and flew all around. Nad being Nad screamed and sort of flicked her hair every few minutes eventhough we had no idea where the beetle/bug landed. I occasionally ducked my head, I think the others did too. anyway Jinli dropped off at Eunos, and then there were 5.
right after the train left Eunos we saw the beetle/bug again, after Nad had spotted it from miles away. so it flew on some of the passengers while we added the much needed sound effects. when it hovered nearer to us (you can tell because the strength of Nad's screams are proportionate to the beetle/bug's proximity to us) I really, really thought it would never land on my own head.
but it did.
so I did what any regular person would do- I head-banged. with my hair flying in all directions and my fingers lightly beating the top of my head. I couldn't really see much amidst all the frenzied hair, but I had a feeling people were either a)laughing b)screaming or c)avoiding me like the plague. I was pretty much doing a) and b). I think my friends were also doing a) and b).
and dammit the insect only managed to get out of my hair about a minute later, I shit you not. by that time we were all too embarrassed to remain in that train, so we exited at Kembangan, laughed for about 7 minutes before our third train came. third train you know? THIRD TRAIN.
so anyway, moral of the story: always mean what you say, don't lie to your friends, karma is real, and don't think something won't happen to you because it can
always. happen to you.