The Curious Incident of the Bus in the Night Time

Tuesday Heartbreak - Stevie Wonder

When riding a bus, I see a lot of oddities . For example, I am never a big fan of televisions, but constantly being on buses with built-in TV's allows me to catch the news, and they aren’t always pleasant - more often, they’re not. Also, because of the TV, I often glimpse recent teledramas. In fact I have seen snippets of Meteor Garden, and can conclude that Dao Ming Su has a bad sense of fashion (men in tight sleeveless shirt = YUCK!) and is a prick (note to self: act pissed-ly to the girl you love. She'll dig that!).

The drama that I witnessed today, however, did not require being fixated on a TV. At that moment, all I wanted to do as I got planted on the window seat of a 3-seated chair was to doze off. What followed proved that my choice of seat was the dumbest decision I've ever made.

If I am to continue this story by saying that a couple took the remaining seats from my chair, you'll have a vague idea at what all this is about. Besides me was a girl who resemble Katrina Halili, and besides her (ergo, two seats next from me) was someone who I presume is her boyfriend. For some reasons, the girl kept looking at my direction, and anyone with Lex Luthor's ego will mistake this as being taken interest of. My ego, on the other hand, wasn't enormous. I found it weird how she kept turning away from her boy. And then I realized: they had been quarreling, and was on the verge of creating a scene.

I tried to ignore them. I tried hard to close my eyes and be taken by the Sandman, but he wouldn't come. I felt that she had an aura of wrath and acerbity; so intense was it that all ebullient thoughts were suffocated. Seeing her treatment to her boy elucidated that what I felt wasn't entirely made up. She shunned when her boy tried to hold her hand in an attempted reconciliation. And to use the cliché, the silence between them was deafening. Where this left me was awake in the middle of Awkward-ville.

Another ride in the bus, another weird incident. Can I have another?