Monday, November 06, 2006
meeting an old...
Went to People's Park Market for lunch after church. It is definitely more ventilated compared to the pre-innovation days. Brighter too. Saw this long long quque for yong dua foo! I think it is really crazy to wait s long for it. May be it is an option to pass a Sunday afternoon.
Met someone whom I did not expect. She was the aunty whom I used to order my Sunday-must-have breakfast - vegeterian bee hoon at Tanglin Halt Ten Storey. She knew me so well that I just need to signal to her and she would know what I wanted. It was from when I was single till after I was married. So that customer-waitress relationship was a long one.
Was surprise to see her working as I was told by the shop that she had retired.
Was was shocked to see me too! But was nice that she recognised me. She was telling us that it was too demanding and stressful working there, having to start work at earlier than 5 am to get things ready. The pay wasn't gfood too. She had started working there since she was 24 and her pay was at $1200 and no CPF! It was very generous of her, she bough Jolly bean's ice cream for my children and 2 cups of soya drink for us. Real pai sei.. Appreciate her generosity.
I think this what Chinese says 'Ren jin wei'..
tse horng blogged at 2:28 AM