the toddler suddenly screamed

then started blabering(?) to himself

he was speaking English,

although i couldn't make out what he was saying

looking out from the pram

he was focused on his father

who tried to calm him down

by whispering and smiling to him

as if they child knew

he continued screaming

i laughed, and tried to control it

mus have looked quite retarded

because the man was no other than Mr Alan Tan

who was quite helpless in shh-ing his son

then there were his 3 daughters on the seats

a family of 6

initally

i wanted to tell Mr Tan

"your son naughty"

but on 2nd thoughts

i mus have been crazy

one station before Bakau

he finally spotted me

amidst the crowd

but i didn't hide from him intentionally

he said

"tuition?"

i said

"ya"

this 2 word conversation

if u think of it carefully

meant something

that

this is the 53409285034th time i've seen him

eh

at least 15 already

compare this to Mr Edward Wong(<--my sec3 maths tchr) who lives juz across the road

3 times in 4th years (since i've known him)

his wife was wearing the

rivervale pri camp polo tee

the one i went as odac

helped out as a faci

btw his wife is a tchr there

and this did

trigger some thoughts, memories

this did remind me of something that i wanted to say

about the degradation of the younger generation

that the process is accelerating

proof?

from the rivervale camp itself

i overheard

a P5 guy lashing out all forms of vulgarities at his classmate

compare this to me

i probably learnt the whole set of them

at Sec 2/3?

if this 'acceleration' is linear

you'll see p1 students scolding each other the F word in

say

4 years time

hmm

o.O