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The End.

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Like facial age lines, silently they creep into you, causing no big commotion yet surely they leave their marks. Perhaps the comfort of routine, weekend after weekend, pass without us keeping track or making any effort to justify the relationship, allowed it. Perhaps the distractions of work and the need for life to be more exciting excused it. And we find ourselves familiar with each other

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Changing into my gym gear, I stole a glance at the only other person in the men's changing room. He was quite a big guy, resembling the bodybuilder in the I-selling-my-house-at-Mocca.com advertisement, except that he allowed his thinning hair to dangle sparsely above his shoulders.Another one entered. Mocca's face lit up with recognition, smiled and nodded a greeting. The other nodded in return.

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Finally! You have an off day tomorrow! This is what we will do:Sleep till 10 AM.Drive to Tanjong Pagar where we will have brunch. I really miss the Nasi Lemak at the Tanjong Pagar hawker centre.You need to buy some computer parts to repair your nephew's computer so we will need to make a trip to Sim Lim Square.Come home and bathe the dogs.Rest a bit before making our way to the gym.Meet mother

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I had just attended a colleague's wedding."How was the wedding?" the boy's sms said."Charming," I replied, "Almost makes you want to get married yourself.""LOL," the boy responded.----------------------------------------My grandmother is in her late eighties. In a subtle way, she always tried to find out about my relationship status. And I always tried to tell her the truth, albeit in a subtle

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“乌金石，十元一串。”The price was the same thirteen years ago during my first trip to China. Based on a crush I had on Danny, I had bought the black stone wristband for him and he had reciprocated by treating me to dinner and a movie.He took me to a Japanese restaurant at Takashimaya where I remembered having Zarusoba. It was my first time having it and I was unsure about how it should be eaten.“I think

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"She has left," you said.

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"Are you ok?" I thumbed the sms on my handphone. I had sent an sms this morning but did not get a response from you. Our tour agency also called me earlier to confirm the hotel we would be staying in in Penang. We had given both our contact numbers to the agency, so they must have called me because they couldn't get through to you.There were a few occasions when you became totally unreachable

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You called on the way to the hospital. Your sister had suffered a stroke the night before."I was up till 2 am last night," you said."How is she?" I asked."Not too good, but doctors have not confirmed anything," you whispered."Should I go? Are you okay?" I asked."No, don't come. I'm fine."

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There are two fishhead steamboat places along Jalan Sultan, one at the junction with North Bridge Road and another at the junction with Victoria Street. Both have the name of "Nan Hua Chang" on their signboards, but the former has the words "Ah Qiu" added behind its name (in brackets)."Are they the same?" queried my bewildered sister."No," I answered."Are they different branches?""Not really," I

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We were having breakfast at Da Lian again.Again the tissue lady came. We rejected her offer to buy her tissues by pointing to a packet of O'Darling 3-ply on your side of the table and she left."How did you manage to find this old brand? I haven't seen it for a while," I said, picking up the packet and studying it for a while. There was a starkness in the anime girl's face that I don't remember

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It was your first birthday present to me. It came with its sister in a little cage. When I opened the cage door, its sister immediately jumped out to greet me. It, however, was smaller than its sister and was hesitant of leaping the 3 inches from the cage to the kitchen floor. I wrapped my hands around its little tummy and carried it out from the cage.Once out, it was more curious than its

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It was 7:00 PM at McDonalds. I secured the table nearest to the toilet and sat down. The table allowed me a direct view of the queue of customers waiting to order. "Here is good," I thought. "I'll just do my marking here while keeping an eye on the queue. Then when the queue is shorter, I'll walk over and buy a drink." I took out the stack of essays and began to read intently.It was 7:30 PM

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Mom said she had a nightmare the other night that it was on the news that all singles were to be given the death sentence. When the police came to arrest me for being unmarried, she ran in desperation after the police van, but as in most nightmares, she was unable to catch up with the vehicle.Openly, we laughed at the absurdity of the nightmare.Yet, I can only wonder to myself the subconscious

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"Pang-Hae Ka Woo Cuk Ke Tik-Tor?" Grandma asked in Teochew.[Translation: "Did you go anywhere this school holiday?"]I replied, "Woo."["Yes."]"Ke Dee Kor?"["Where did you go?"]"Macau," I told her."Cek Gai Nang Ke?" she interrogated.["You went alone?"]"Ga Peng-You."["With a friend."]"Zha-Bow Peng-You Ah See Da-Bou Peng-You?" she pressed.["Girlfriend or guy-friend?"]"Da-Bou Peng-You."["Boyfriend."]

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From amidst the vast expanse of silvery clouds, a light drizzle formed and began to fall. Its threads swayed gently by the mild autumnal breeze, descended onto Avenida de Almeida Ribeiro where we stood. I held an umbrella between us and you held me by my shoulders to get closer under our small shelter. It is thus that we shared a discreet yet cosy embrace.Public displays of male intimacies are

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All the display windows featured dazzling arrays of branded watches. I grimaced at a diamond-studded gold Rolex with disgust but turned to see you browsing with interest."Are they expensive?" I asked, hiding my disinterest."I'm not sure. Let me search for a model I'm familiar with," you replied. "How much is 6000 Macau money in Singapore dollars?""About $1200.""It's cheap then. That watch has

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I picked up a pencil and started marking a little "FF" on each of the hundred RMB notes."The usual tactic taxi drivers may employ is simple," you explained. "When you hand them a hundred RMB note for payment, they will pretend to study it. After a while, they will claim that you have given them a counterfeit. However, in the process of returning your note to you, they will switch your real note

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Coming through the entrance of the gym, I caught sight of TJ on the decline bench doing crunches. I nudged you and pointed TJ out; we haven't bumped into TJ for a while.TJ came into the changing room in a while."Finished your workout?" I asked casually."Ya," he replied smilingly.As usual, I changed into my gym gear and headed to do my warm-up run while you made a detour to the toilet before

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For months and months, you've been working 7 days a week. Finally, you decided you needed a break. So on Thursday, we woke up at ten and lazed around till noon before making our way downstairs for brunch."What do you want to do today?" you asked."We could catch a movie with my Citibank rewards movie voucher, go shopping at Sim Lim Square or we could even go over to Johore," I suggested. Then

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Mom was elated because she had just found a new brand of sai-pia selling in the market."See," she said, pushing a carton to me. "They have not been sun-dried so they are very moist and succulent."Mom wanted me to take some to you because she said you loved sai-pia too. I eyed the dried cakes of dark brown sweets with some disgust and replied reluctantly, "Okay, I'll take some over this weekend."

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For the want of something to talk about, I told you about the marriage proposal I received on Fridae.Original Message----------------hi,nice to meet u.something need u help?im lesbian,29 yrs old ,not pr here,from china need marriage cause my parent wish.will u/gay freind can help me solve it?im seeking seriously & hope somebody can solution with me.any news/discssion pls reply me asap& leave any

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Sis and her colleague had just decided not to attend a speed dating event."I'm too shy and my colleague doesn't want to put her handphone number on the form," she explained."I think it's very stressful. You are given a limited time to introduce yourself and chat briefly and then you have to swap partners." I had seen it being done in one episode of Sex And The City."Really? Sounds robotic, like

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The torrential rain flooded the pedestrian walkway threatening to seep into my shoes. I stepped carefully over the grating trying to avoid the streams of rain water as they drained off the path. In front, a boy alighted from his mother's vehicle and rushed into the shelter of the covered walkway, the school bag on his shoulders bobbing up and down. I quickened my steps and finally caught up with

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We woke up to another hazy morning. From our window, a thick blanket lay over the shophouses and the commercial buildings, smothering the usual fresh morning air with a choking stench."The PSI must be over a hundred again," you said, standing by the window.I flicked the TV remote on and read the news ticker at the bottom of the screen, "CNA says PSI reading is only 78.""This doesn't look like 78

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We were crossing the road when a man cycled past carrying numerous empty plastic containers on his bike."I see him frequently. I think he goes out every night to collect water to bring home," you remarked.Sure enough, I bumped into the water man last night as I was going down the stairs to meet you for dinner. There on the fifth floor corridor, his bike was loaded with the plastic containers

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The haze is back. This time much worse than previous years and we can actually see a significant loss of visiblity."I don't smell the usual burning stench of the haze," you said."It's there. We can't smell it now because of the air conditioning in your car." After some thought, "Do you set your air conditioning to renew the air from the outside?""No, the air is recycled within the vehicle," you

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rezipping: hi dear.you: hi dear, so u just finish showerrezipping: ya, just came outyou: ok, have u finish with those marking and paper settingrezipping: finish paper setting but still got markingyou: okrezipping: so are you free to take leave in dec?you: dun know yet... any planrezipping: jetstar to hk is about 98 each wayyou: oh... that

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We met on his birthday 6 years ago.I agreed to turn up at his birthday party even though I had already decided that he was not the one for me 6 months before. His lifestyle and attitude towards life were just too different from mine. For one thing, he smokes. But I guess one is blinded by such details when one is lonely. I was going through a difficult period in my life and he was convenient.He

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We:pulled off the bedsheet to uncover the mattressscrutinised the mattress especially at the edgeslifted and turned the mattress overscrutinised the other side of the mattressscrutinised the divanbut didn't find any bedbugs.

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I woke up with a string of red, itchy lumps down the back of my left hand, wrist and forearm. I don't know what could have possibly caused them and you don't remember seeing them the night before."Bedbugs!" you cried out over the phone some days later. "The bed is infested with bedbugs! I got up in the middle of the night to spray Baygon on the mattress.""Baygon? Is there a special spray for

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We were at Da Lian this morning. We both ordered mee kia dry and were waiting for our orders to come, you sipping your kopi-si-kosong and me my teh-si.I was wondering aloud why the tissue lady was nowhere in sight. You replied that perhaps it was because she was sleeping late. "I don't remember seeing her the last few times we were here," I said as our noodles were being served.As I was eating

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I met you for dinner at 10pm after you came back from the police station. One of your sales staff was involved in a money embezzlement case and you were tasked with the difficult job of reporting him.You were parked by the side of the road. I sat in your car and listened as you spoke to the perpetrator's distraught wife on your handphone. It was a most unpleasant conversation.I slipped my hands

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I guess we are very different people.I have a B.Sc. (Hon) while you stopped school after sec 2. But sometimes, I am able to help you draft letters, emails or documents when you need.Your network of friends and contacts is amazing while I hardly keep in touch with people from my previous jobs. But sometimes, you just need to pick up the phone and call a friend when I require services like air-con

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Mom about her one of her customers, “The first time I saw him, I couldn’t decide if he was a man or a woman. He was dressed a man, but he was gentle and soft-spoken and you aren’t really sure. You can tell he was the thrifty type, but he was a good customer and never haggled over the price of the things he bought.Then out of the blue, he informed us that he was getting married. He looked like

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I suggested that we have breakfast at the Da Lian bak chor mee stall beneath the Workers' Party headquarters at Syed Alwi Road*. The noodle isn't spectacular, but it's a nice change and it's good to break routines once in a while.Some habits are hard to break though. You had your usual kopi-si-kosong and I my teh-si.An old woman sat down at the next table and wondered aloud what she wanted to eat

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The typical consists of living apart for the entire work week. On friday nights, he picks me up together with all my marking load and we go to his place where I would stay for the weekend.His current job requires him to be at the office seven days a week. I don't have to go back to school during the weekend, but then, I bring work back so technically I'm working a seven day week too.Marking my

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Why is a HDB car park so full on a Friday night? Don't the residents go out?"Haven't seen a new bruise the whole week," you announced as you finally backed into the only available parking slot."You sound disappointed."Later at home, I could see that the old bruise on your right tricep has started to heal. The centre of the bruise has regained the usual healthy skin colour leaving a swirling ring

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I am worried.You woke up with 2 bruises the size of fifty cent coins, one on each arm. You don't remember what could have possibly caused them and I don't remember seeing them the night before.You said, "I know someone who had such mysterious bruises before. It could be caused by some blood-related disease.""Is it serious?""Fatal," you said."You should see a doctor tomorrow."You said, "Let's

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Sis and I took mom to Castro.Mom was noticably uncomfortable walking down Castro street after we told her that it was a gay district. She refused to acknowledged that same sex couples were holding hands freely. She grumbled when I bought souvenir rainbow flags with stands. She preferred to wait outside the boutiques while we shopped.I was noticably more impatient with mom for I felt sad that she

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Lunch and a movie?UOB gives special discount to card members who dine at selected restaurants on their birthdays. We should take advantage of it.Also, we have been planning to catch The Da Vinci Code since way before it was released but just never got around to doing it. Unfortunately, not many cinemas are still showing it. Good thing you are off tomorrow so we can catch it during one of the

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For months and months, you've been working 7 days a week. I stay by you and try to be as understanding as I can. Though I yearn to go on a holiday with you, just a short one, or go shopping, or even spend a day doing nothing except to watch a dvd, I make no requests.Then out of the blue, you tell me you are going on a fishing holiday with your buddy. You cannot imagine the disappointment I feel

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In an attempt to curb this new heart ache, I sought out the old photo albums. We haven't had many pictures taken together, but I thought they might suffice for the time being.The ache subsided.Mom doesn't want me displaying your photo by my bedside. I know she loves you but she's still in the closet, so I don't contradict her. The photo albums have to go back into the cupboard.

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It's your birthday tomorrow. Dinner reservations have been made, our guest has been invited; but we are not speaking to each other. Once more, we find ourselves in the familiar position we were in last September.Should I send you a birthday sms tonight at midnight as is our tradition? Or should I just strike off the dinner appointment tomorrow?Do I need to start rezipping my life all over again

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