The lights dim down
The people shuffle out
The doors close
How about a second bout?
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The last line doesn’t really fit, but i needed a rhyme. A sudden feeling of melancholy just washed over me, inspiring this ‘thought-filled’ passage that’s about to follow.
Used to have sort of a curfew, in times of no mobile phones or pagers. “Boy ah! Be home by 11!” was the usual cry whenever I headed out closer to the end of the day. Money was scarce then, and well, no one had a car yet. And as I grew older, the allowed time also shifted later, until the mobiles came in and maturity set in.
I must confess, I ain’t exactly your typical night owl. 1am, and my eyelids get droopy. 3am, and I’m already ga-ga. I function best in the evening hours till early midnight. But well, with age comes coffee cravings and supper outings. Still, I try not to go beyond 3. Cos I’ll just waste the next day half awake, half asleep.
Halfway through ‘A Clockwork Orange’, and I must say that I’m really quite glad that I can walk home at 3 in the morning and not worry.
Helps that buses run throughout the night nowadays, and $3 will get me to either of two stops around the neighbourhood. I remember I got stranded at Eunos once, after my ‘O’ levels (long enough ago), and thank goodness for one of these night buses (SN30 I think, run by SMRT then – before they merged with TIBS), I managed to get home cos KR wouldn’t let me sleep in his living room even.
Guess I won’t be facing such problems so often anymore come July. 
Here’s to peaceful nights.
The din dies down
Its 4 o’clock
Traffic is light
Silently open the lock
Home at last
Head for the shower
Curl under the sheets
Restoring power
A new day breaks
Its no longer morn
“Wake up, wake up!”
Dammit, whose horn?!
Heheheh.
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Cameo watch: A day for the voiths, as 7433P (SP), 7436G (72) and 7441R (SP) were on 21, and 7446C (SP/2) was on 12. Weird 3-way swap again, as 3608D (6) was on 354, 3610X (SP/354) was on 359 and 1711B (32) was on 6.
Daily rides: 7408M (12), 7446C (12), 3631K (359)
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