Our 1st Meet-up

There are moments where I'll think back of how we got to know each other and the sweet memories will bring a silly grin to my face... that moment came juz now and tat brought abt this post...

I still cannot believe that God is so kind to me. I still remember when I first got to know Eddie, I juz got discharged from hospital the day before. Was feeling all depressed and blue, trying to get a grip on life, learn from mistakes and pick myself up... That happened more than a year ago, 17 June 2005. It was a Friday.

I was supposed to meet up with my god-bro, Desmond in Orchard, partly to cheer me up - for a meal of my favorite - Japanese food buffet. We arrange to meet in Wheelock Place.

Then this guy, whom I got to know from WhoLivesNearYou.com the previous nite after I got discharge from AH, called me while I was in a frenzy rush to get ready coz I woke up late for my appt with Desmond. He offered to send me to Orchard and he can be downstairs in 15min.

Never being afraid of meeting net friends, I paused for one second, and said, "OK, see you downstairs in a while." Goodness~ others might say, never met him before and 1st time you meet up, you hop into his car... tsk tsk, beware of strangers!

But I was not afraid, I was never afraid of making new friends and meeting strangers. I was thinking more of the free ride to Orchard, so I won't be late for my appointment. And so, 15min later he called, I met him downstairs. That was the 1st time I met EDDIE (my precious darling now)... :)

There was the awkward moment when he saw me, I imagined him to feel disappointed. After all, on the net, all my photos are carefully chosen from a pile of perhaps a hundred others, plus all the photo editing skills I learnt from my poly education during my multimedia software engineering days proved to be very useful. But that day, my hair was still wet from shower, with flyaway hair all over my face, no makeup, super pale from all the medicine and lack of sleep.

But I dun care! I juz smile and start talking – non-stop. Just so that there won’t be awkward silence during the car ride. LoL! He muz have thot how can I be so noisy.

Both of us remembered this stupid question I asked him in the car, “Are you a good guy, or juz a plain stupid guy?” Because he was not “on the way” to Orchard, so gave me a ride. He purposely skipped work, came to my house, juz to send me to Orchard. That’s pretty dumb right? Afterall, he dun even knows me then… He din answer my question directly, he grinned and change the topic.

When we reached Wheelock Place, he juz dropped me and said he'll call me again. I din think he'll call again, I thought I've scare him with all my non-stop chatter and embarrassing question. I did keep thinking of him when I met up with Desmond. Afterall, he's really nice to send me all the way to town from Jurong without expecting anything. Haha!

And so, my first impression of him, NICE GUY... a little shy and quiet, with a sense of humor, smartly dressed with good color coordination, weird specs though (till now, he insist his that pair of weird specs is nice)...

Whenever I think of this incident, I never fail to grin like a silly girl... From then on, my life changed - for the better.