Impossibly possible.

The day got off to an impossible note with me finding myself stranded in the middle of tampines mall with an improbable meeting with dear. We were there confused and wondering what the hell we were supposed to do when we saw a familar figure walk past - the 170 cm height ( i think its lesser); the fairer than zhang ziyi complexion; the buldging tummy that is seemingly tearing itself out of his white tight Benq handphone promoter uniform. No it can't be. Wait it must be. Surely it's him! That's lao yang! Aka yueqi or 'ah fat' as i endearingly call him.

Haha speaking of yueqi, without him there wouldn't be me and evon. No and i'm not saying that he impregnated both our mothers. Rather, he would have a hand in my fateful meeting with her. You could also say that he, of all people, would play the role of cupid for both of us. Those who are curious to know can actually read on.

I was born on november 23rd 1982, and being raised in a land where PAP will always walkover the elections, i have a liability that all 'grown' men in this state have - national service. So on this fateful day, the 16th of april 2001, i went off to one sunny island off the coast of north east singapore for my summer vacation which will be taking 2 and a 1/2 years of my most virile years. All men some more.

Aiyah dunno what to type arleady so fast forward some more and me and yueqi ended up being platoon mates for roughly 1 and a 1/2 years. Fast forward some more to the year 2004 and you see a fast maturing tummy of yueqi rendering his services to samsung mobile as a handphone promoter. And it was during this period of time when he was assigned to the now-defunct orchard singtel Hello shop when he knew evon. Then he jio-ed her to jump ship to samsung, where the employees all have fun together under the sun every weekend. Being the innocent doe-eyed typical girl-next-door, she had no choice but to oblige.

Fast forward further to december 24th 2004, and you see another familar figure, this time albeit taller, leaner, darker skinned samsung promoter working at singtel tampines mall. Always the one with a never-diminishing appetite, he decided it was due for him to go to the foodcourt upstairs and have his meal. After entertaining what would be his last customer before he packed up and go for his meal, he went off to take the escalator and what followed was an unforgettable event that would blow all your minds away. The escalator was an important plot device, for without it, the following event would never had happened. If he had taken the lift, for example, or even worse, gone to century square for lunch, this particular scenario would never had taken place.

Going up the escalator, welcoming him at the exit of the escalator was...... the M1 shop. Spotting an unknown girl wearing the same uniform as him standing in front of the glass cabinet containing the displays of the latests nokias and samsungs, he waved and smiled at her. Unfamilar to him, but colleague nonetheless, so smiled he did.

As they say, the rest is history.

What are the odds of that happening to someone? Most possibly highly impossible.

Oh, to wrap it all up, we watched mission impossible at tampines mall after meeting yueqi and dear had to go for her friends' birthday parties at pasir ris after the show. meanwhile i returned to the fateful piece of cold equipment designed to transport truckloads of people up from one level to another. Just to reminisce the good old times.

By the way the movie was good!