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Treat Your Date With Respect & Care
Dr Sing Kong Yuen, BVMS (Glasgow), MRCVS
Date:
14 May, 2010 |
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Veterinary Education
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 I
was at the famous Takashimaya Shopping Centre on
May 1, 2010, a public holiday. It was a Saturday
which was my day off from work. It had been almost
a year I had not been to Takashimaya and so I
wanted to see how this old lady is competing with
the younger malls. How did she reinvent herself?
How busy were its food stalls which used to be
packed like sardines some years ago? Now we have
the Marina Bay Sands with all the top fashion
shops.
I found a seat to order ice kachang and the oily
carrot cake to eat. There was this young tall and
slim girl with long hair writing answers to
mathematical problems and using her electronic
calculator. She kept thumbing her mobile phone and
part of her left side of her forehead was frowned
with wavy lines. Her left eyebrow arched. I was
sitting to her left and so could see only her left
profile. She thumbed many times on her cell phone.
No response from the other party. She thumbed
again.
Why would a young girl be doing homework on a
public holiday in Takashimaya Shopping Centre's
food mall? There was a public library at
Takashimaya Shopping Centre but it had
closed down some years ago. In any case, the
public libraries close on public holidays and this
girl had no choice but to wait for her late date
at this downtown shopping centre.
 Who
was she waiting for? Dressed up in modern fashion
with zebra-striped T-shirt and coloured rectangles
long pants. This combination suited her as she was
tall. A touch of facial make up gave her a
natural look although I could not see her from the
front.
I could only see her profile as I sat to her left
and scooped the too sweet monstrous ice kachang
that could cause a diabetic man to die and the
extremely oily carrot cake which would up my blood
cholesterol levels in a few seconds to suffer a
stroke.
I guessed her date was late. Instead of wasting
time, she was doing her homework on this public
holiday at a public place. I was impressed with
young adults who don't have time to waste and who
are diligent to study for a bright future.
I was sitting to the left of the girl and she had
focused on solving her 3rd maths problem. I peeked
and saw words like "real numbers" in her maths
worksheet. What is the meaning of "real numbers?".
Are there false numbers? And numbers that are
neither real nor false? Fortunately for me,
I did not have to do these maths problems during
my A-levels in Medicine Class in junior college
some 40 years ago. There is no more "Medicine
Class" nowadays in Singapore's junior colleges but
there was this rare breed in the late 1960s.
The girl with long hair finally cooled down as she
resigned to her fate. The date was late. She
should dump him and walk away.
But she stopped messaging and started on solving
her maths problem. I sat down and started eating
my carrot cake. Peace amongst the thin crowd in
the downtown food court reigned.
"Hi, I am here!", a bespectacled young
boy-next-door with cropped hair suddenly banged
his back-pack on the table in front of her. He
appeared from nowhere and his surprised greeting
attracted everyone to look at him. And at the girl
with the long hair who wished she was now a
million miles away.
"Ah, you are very late!" I scolded him in a tone
of a school master, on behalf of the fidgety girl
with long hair whose date was not punctual. "You
must buy her drinks!"
The girl did not say a word. She gathered her
worksheets quickly, put them in her handbag and
stood up. I looked at her from the side as her
date helped her with her things. Was she mad? Was
she embarrassed by his loud banging of the table
in a public place? I don't know.
Her profile showed a reddish brown face. More like
crimson brown. In a few seconds she got away with
her date. The young man waved and said goodbye to
me.
P.S. Young men who have no problem getting
dates: Please let your date know if you are going
to be late. There are many fishes in the ocean but
treat each fish with respect and care.
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