{"id":479,"date":"2005-11-14T10:54:17","date_gmt":"2005-11-14T10:54:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/?p=479"},"modified":"2005-11-14T10:54:17","modified_gmt":"2005-11-14T10:54:17","slug":"free-flowing-glory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/?p=479","title":{"rendered":"Free-flowing Glory"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here goes a free-flowing story. (To differentiate who is saying what, what I say will be italicized<\/i> while what anyone else said will be underlined<\/u>.)<\/p>\n

So it was a Friday night after Tracy<\/a>‘s gig. I had to pee, so I walked down from Plaza Damas to Desa Sri Hartamas, as Plaza Damas was closed and there were no other toilets around. I did not intend to flash anybody at the playground so I kept on walking.<\/p>\n

Since I had a good holding capacity, I reached Coffee Bean and bumped into two dudes I knew. Went to Breakers to pee. Came back out.<\/p>\n

“So how come you guys are hanging out here instead of there?<\/i>” *points to Hartamas Square*
\n“Oh it’s very crowded man. Plus this place is less noisy.<\/u>” (Cue thumping music blasting out the balcony of the infamous<\/a> Soda Club.)
\n“Hmmm, but the scenery there<\/b> is better. Here we get the Soda crowd… it doesn’t feel like the Hartamas of before, y’know what I mean?<\/i>”
\n“Yeah but here you pay a bit more for the quiet.<\/u>”
\n“Hmm yes, but I think I’ll head over to Hartamas Square and see if I bump into anybody. I almost always do!<\/b> There are always a few regulars there… plus, the international school chicks!<\/i>”
\n“Well fine then, leave us then. Don’t blame us if you don’t bump into anybody.<\/u>”<\/p>\n

And so, I walked to Hartamas Square, and sure enough, the first table I see had two familiar faces! (And a hot chick!)<\/p>\n

“HAYYY ALBERT!<\/u>”
\n“Dude! I see you every time! I saw you here yesterday, and here you are again…<\/i>” (I came the day before for Alda<\/a>‘s Low End Assasins gig.)<\/p>\n

I told him how my other friends said I wouldn’t bump into anybody, and he forced me to sit down instead of surveying how likely I was to bump into more people. I was introduced to the chick. YAY!<\/p>\n

They were smoking shisha, and I took the oppurtunity to sample<\/i> it, repeatedly. The shisha shop dude then came over, saying how he could blow shisha smoke into a bottle and change its color.<\/p>\n

I whipped out my digital camera to take a picture of the yellowed bottle.<\/p>\n

The guy to my right went, “Cool! A digital camera! Can I see it?<\/u>” I then passed it to him.<\/p>\n

The chick went, “Wow, you carry a digital camera around wherever you go?<\/u>” “Yeah I do!<\/i>” “Cool!<\/u>”<\/p>\n

The guy fiddled around with my camera and asked, “Dude, does this have shutter speed?<\/u>” I said yes, and showed him that it was the Tv<\/b> mode on the dial.<\/p>\n

He then took pictures of everybody smoking shisha, YAY!<\/p>\n

Now you may wonder why I would be overjoyed. Simple! He saved me the trouble of finding an excuse to make the chick do something photo-worthy with the shisha. (Of course, all I wanted was a picture of her, shisha or not.) Inside, I was thinking, “YAY thank you for taking pictures of her, with flash even!<\/i>” Since he knew her, it wouldn’t be so awkward.<\/p>\n

My friends from Coffee Bean passed by. I went, “Wassap! What did I tell you? What did I tell you, huh? You said I wouldn’t bump into anybody! Haha!<\/i>”<\/p>\n

She then looked at the pictures. All this while, I didn’t, playing it cool. We then played foosball at Breakers till they closed the coin change counter, and we all went home.<\/p>\n

It wasn’t until I reached home that I realized I should’ve checked the pictures.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Dammit! He set it to night scene, which meant a flash, followed by a show exposure. In normal mode with flash, it would be clear. Damn you, you half-white French-speaking shisha-smoking boy!<\/p>\n

That is all for the free flowing story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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