Encounter after Driving...

Though blurry-eyed, I made my way for my driving lesson after work on monday. I learnt vertical parking that day, so cool! I'm indeed on my way to having a license on Jan 08! =)

But the main thing I wanna write about was what happened after driving. I was waiting for the train as I resumed my usual train-waiting position: leaning on the railling looking into nothingness across the station. Suddenly I saw this "hand-wave" movement across the platform and so I looked up. And standing directly opposite me was this Indian guy that I've no idea who waving at me and he shouted 'Hi' right across the platform. Still not yet awake from my "stoning", I only managed to muster up a faint smile before I looked away again. Having seen my "lack-of-enthusiasm" look, he kinda sheepishly quickly walked away.

Within the next second, lots of things ran through my mind... Who in the world was he? Why was he smiling at me? (I was dressed in a lousy red t-shirt with my worst pair of jeans from home so I wasn't in my best form...) Why is he so friendly to me? What was it that he wanted? Was my respond unfriendly? But I didn't know him anyway so why should I bother to smile and respond in too friendly a manner?

And then the next thought... Why am I so unfriendly to strangers? And I remembered years back when I just came back from a vacation from Australia. I experienced cultural shock the moment I touched down onto Singapore and thought to myself, why are Singaporeans so rude and unfriendly...

Lo and behold several years later, I've turned into the exact person that I once couldn't stand... Sigh...