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Meeting Bob

Friday, December 08, 2006

It's finally Friday but guess what? I HAVE NOWHERE TO GO!

Yes, I MUST go somewhere on a Friday, understand?

See, Friday is like, a nicely wrapped gift - you shop around for the gift, you choose your gift, you pay for the gift, buy wrapping paper for the gift and finally wrap it up nice-nice then give it to the intended recipient. So, Friday is like that. You start with Monday, slough through the week and when Friday finally arrives, Weeeeeeeee... Time to let your hair down and hooray-hooray.

(Ok analogy not exactly accurate but wot-e-va).

Tapi tidak eh ini Friday. Hrrmph~ Benci.

I'll just go home and watch Survivor: Cook Islands.

I went to watch Bob the Builder the other day. I went with Melor.

When we watched Hi-5 a few months ago, the most expensive ticket was about $60.00. And the duration of the show was about 1hr 40 mins, with a 20-min interval. I think that was value for money, considering the little girl had so much fun dancing and singing.

But this Bob the Builder's duration was only 60 minutes! I feel cheated of my money! Why can't it go for longer!

Macam tak shiok kan? Budak-budak tu baru nak tangkap feel joget-joget then the show ended.

So it started off with Melor sitting on her elevated stool and refusing to go to the front to dance because shy mah... All the kids are seated so she didn't want to feel left out.

Anyway, I should probably tell you a bit about these kids concert. They have the normal designated seats. And there's a mosh-pit at the front for 'em kids to get jiggy wit Bob. Kirakan these kids can dance and sing along closer to the stage lah.

So I placed Melor there and let her dance. I swear I felt like a very proud single mum. Hurhur. It's nice to see that she's not a wallflower and knows how to enjoy herself. I wanted to go to the mosh-pit too siak but please hor, tak hensem sey dah besar ganyut nak join budak-budak joget hurhur.

My neighbour, this woman who was seated next to me with her son, was pretty nice. Because she had the aisle seat, I had to constantly excuse myself to go to the mosh-pit to check on Melor.

The last instance where I excused myself, the lady warned me "Be careful. The woman in front there is very fierce", while pointing to the front.

"Okay."

I didn't bump into the 'fierce woman'. The show ended, I collected Melor from the mosh-pit and went back to my seats, thinking it was the interval. Then suddenly I heard screaming.

"YOU SHUT UP!! YOU SHUT UP I'M TELLING YOU!! I DON'T WANT TO HEAR WHAT YOU SAYING!!"

Turned out, the fierce woman my neighbour was telling me about was having a bitch-fest with my neighbour.

She later explained to me that, before that, the fierce woman had shouted at my neighbour because she said she paid 'very expensive tickets' and hence therefore THUS, orang lain tak boleh pergi depan. Kira-kira dia VIP seats ah tu. Eh please hor, ah moi, we paid the same priced tickets, can. So the neighbour couldn't let the fierce and siao-siao woman get away with it so she had to tell her off. I'd probably do the same too if it had happened to me.

But above all, I think she's mentally disturbed. Because I don't think any parent - or anyone for that matter - would be shouting over small things like that. Eh dia pekik takder limit-limit punya eh sila~ Betul. Bangsa sampai anak tekak dia macam nak terkeluar abeh urat-urat leher dia sampai tegang all. She was dressed in smart pants and shirt. Bespectacled. Rambut bangsa perm kat salon bawah block punya. Red lipstick all. Quite a nondescript character, really.

It was embarrassing because she was shouting in full presence of other parents and small children. Where's the social manners, you may ask.

Here's Melor saying peace! Have a good weekend, babes.

the enigma was spotted at 17:43