Sorry sorry sorry but this is gonna be loooong lol.

Tuesdays = gelare ice-cream waffle days!! Cos half price haha. YUM =D so last night met wingwing at causeway for waffles before going her house cos i need to use her scanner haha. The yong tau foo soup her mom made was very nice also. Thanks wingwing =) i know you'll do well for your exams de!

So she sent me to the bus stop at 10pm and off to home i go. And as i was saying in my last post...omg! 我昨晚从楼下捡回一条烂命。=S perhaps it's cos i sleep after 3am everyday, but somehow i thought 10+pm was still very early. I must've been crazy. GOSH I MUST HAVE BEEN SIAO. Cos i was already taking the ulu way home, then i detour somemore. A part of my jog-craving mind thought it seemed like a dark early morning (?!) and wanted a stroll through the park to get some fresh oxygen (?!). Tsk tsk tsk. 早上，晚上，傻傻分不清楚。

So much for feeling adventurous. According to G.K. Chesterton, "An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered." Though i dont know who that guy is, but he was right. I should've came across that quote earlier.

Jingxian says:

++~~Bored people have a strange tendency to attract stupidity. Like moths to lamps.~~++

(bored people = lamps; stupidity = moths.)

And so i detoured. And quickly regretted. Cos unlike mornings, it's super dark and eerie and deserted (DUH). It's not the weekends and there's nobody there at night. When i reached the park, i counted 2 heads in a far dark corner. Actually i only counted 1...but i assumed it's TWO cos there was a shadowy figure near that person and i bet/hoped there's someone in the shadows...should be human =X

I kept looking behind me...got this very eerie and uncomfy feeling. Halfway through, a couple passed by me. This time confirm (with chop!) that they're human. But i never knew it was such a long walk before i could reach the path leading off the main route. That sacred little path leads towards safety and i just wanna get out of that eerie forest asap. I felt like little red riding hood, only i was not wearing a red hoodie my hoodie was grey instead of red. NOW then i realised the similarity with the not-so-bright fictional character. Great.

Finally i reached the sloping path leading down and out of the park! Can see flats, but still a distance away. Saw this guy running after a girl down at the flats there, which made me slow down, just in case he wanna slap/beat/rob/kill her...i can be eye-witness. HAHA. But no, they were a couple and just playing =.= chey. Cant blame me, he looked abusive when he was chasing after her ma, i was worried. But i would soon thank their childishness and my lucky (or not-so-lucky) stars for saving my life. I looked at my phone. 10.30pm. If it weren't for my stubborness, i would've reached home liao. I started to pick up my pace down the slope.

Life, oh, meandering life; ever full of surprises at each bend. You never knew what was coming your way. Just when you thought you were safe, you could find yourself in mortal danger.

~~++And sometimes, you never knew fear until you stare at it right in the face.~~++

Or, in my case, right at its slim, elongated, scaley body.

It's fear itself, personified. YES OMG IT'S A FREAKING SNAKE. Black with bright yellow stripes running across its body. A little more than 2 metres away from my feet. I was frozen. On. The. Spot. I didnt dare to move. I could almost feel (i have a vivid imagination) it sinking its fangs happily into my right leg. Gosh. My first snake encounter outside the enclosures in the zoo. If it were not for the distraction by the childish couple, i would've stepped on that snake. Which would put me in a situation that's a hundred times more dangerous. Ouch.

One part of me wanted to run and jump over it, but common sense made me stay rooted to the ground. Okto documentaries had showned me that some snakes can jump higher, further and faster than me and i didnt wanna risk my life by making it feel threatened. It might not even be poisonous, but i really treasure my life, you know...so i just stood there waiting like an idiot (in fact, i think i really WAS an idiot for going there in the first place), staring at it with trepidation as it glided lazily from the grass on the left side of the path and into the heap of grass on the right. It's longer than the width of the path; its head had reached the grass on the right while its tail was still on the other side...those super bright, yellow stripes...eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

I waited till the end of its tail disappeared into the grass on the right and i quickly continued walking, breaking into a run after a few steps. Didnt wanna stand there for too long, later it appear beside my leg how?? Super scary.

Oh, and remember that childish couple? When i was 30m away from that snake place and felt safe enough, i turned back - and saw them making their way up that lonely path to the park. Only it might not be as lonely as it seemed...

I didnt stick around to find out. Haha. I'm officially scared of snakes. And i will never be in that park at 10.30pm at night ever again; apparently my eight characters super clash with the park's at that timing. Not unless i have ten other people forming a protective circle around me. Lol.